Asteroid Mining: What Materials Will be Mined?

By: David Russell Schilling 

Asteroid Mining

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To landlubbers centuries ago, the prospect of getting on a ship and crossing an ocean was probably just as murky a concept as today’s belief that spaceships can be sent into outer space to build colonies and land on asteroids to extract minerals. New generations of swashbuckling spacemen will soon come back to earth with amazing stories about the new frontier.

Scientists believe they can get enough raw materials resources and minerals from asteroids that mining them will be economically viable. With a current cost of $10,000 to launch just 1 pound of material into space, advocates of asteroid mining believe profits are possible.

Raw materials would include metals, volatile compounds, water, and more. One of the risks and challenges in choosing an asteroid is determining if it has enough valuable materials to make the mining profitable. Another possible destination for mining is the hydrocarbon lakes that can be found on Saturn’s moon Titan.

According to asteroid mining experts such as Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, asteroids are most likely to be mined in orbit or after being redirected to the moon where mining can take place, natural resources extracted, and fuel and spare parts manufactured with the raw materials that have been obtained. Some scenarios will involve mining for natural resources as an asteroid is moving at thousands of miles an hour.

According to NASA, materials that are frozen in asteroids “can be used in developing the space structures and in generating the rocket fuel that will be required to explore and colonize our solar system in the 21st century.”

The first big asteroid mining event is set to occur in 2023 when NASA launches the OSIRIS-REx mission that will return a sample from the asteroid Bennu. This will give scientists their first opportunity to study materials that were created early in the life of our solar system.

The following video is an announcement of a $227 million investment from Luxembourg in asteroid mining.

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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Sergeant: “Ik werd naar plekken gestuurd waar UFO’s met aliens aan boord waren gecrasht”

Official NASA Video of “The Boomerang” UFO is One of the Best Evidence We Have of Alien Activity

New Mexico witness wonders if UFO responded to LED lights

A New Mexico witness near Roswell reported watching a light flash response in the sky after setting off an LED light sequence on the ground, according to testimony in Case 77936 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness and her brother were about 41 miles outside Roswell and stopped along Pine Lodge Road at 9:30 p.m. on July 3, 2016, when the incident occurred.

The witness was flashing LED lights and got a response from the night sky about 41 miles outside of Roswell, NM.

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“We were standing in front of Chuck’s pick-up truck facing southeast,” the witness stated. “Altair (brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky) was in our clear vision in front of us. I had tried to focus my mini cam on the area when we first arrived, but because there was no moon there wasn’t enough light for the camera. Chuck was sitting on the tailgate of his truck and noticed a single flash to the northwest. He thought it was a meteor coming straight in but never saw additional evidence of this. Chuck thought the flash could have been an iridium flare but never saw additional evidence of this either.”

The two began to star gaze.

“There was no moon, so the sky was dark with the Milky Way clearly visible overhead, but slightly to our front vision. After just a few minutes, Chuck said, ‘I’m going to try something,’ He took his remote for his truck grill LED lights out of his pocket and hit the button. The first sequence was an on-off, on-off, on-off. Chuck decided to try the next sequence which was four flashes, pause, one flash. We never expected to get a response.”

But the two did get a response.

“The response was flash, flash. Chuck looked at me and said, ‘Did you see that?’ I replied, ‘yes.’ We both laughed. I said, ‘hit it again’ and he did. We never expected it, but got a second response, flash, flash. Chuck said, ‘I can’t believe I’m seeing this’ as he looked at me in shock. Chuck said, ‘what do you think?’ I said, ‘hit the remote again!’ Chuck did and we got a double flash third response.”

Star map showing where the light source seemed to be coming from.

(Credit: MUFON)

The two tried to consider an explanation for the light response.

“Chuck kept saying, ‘It’s got to be a plane from behind the clouds.’ I said, ‘there are no clouds, that’s the Milky Way!’ Chuck decided to keep hitting the remote while I looked frantically in the area of the light for a plane, helicopter, satellite, iridium flare, anything. After the first three return double light flashes there were no more responses.”

The two continued to look for clues.

“I checked the star charts from my iPad app to best determine what area the flashes came from (Altair) and noted the time (9:30p.m.). At 10:30 p.m.: The cows in the field across the road began to moo and coyotes began to howl. Chuck had taken his night vision binoculars out a few minutes before to look at the Milky Way. He thought the flash we had seen had come from behind a cloud, but I assured him there were no clouds – just the Milky Way. The night vision binoculars proved that. We were looking at a section of the Milky Way, no clouds in our field of view. The night vision binoculars worked at first for just a few minutes, then quit. While Chuck was working on them discovering that the batteries were drained, his truck dash lights came on without any action from either of us. We were not in contact with the truck. EMF and animal reaction was now present.”

The two decided to move out of the area.

The witness was stopped along Pine Lodge Road (Route 246) about 41 miles outside of Roswell, pictured.

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“Time: 10:45p.m. (One and-a-half hours after light that flashed). With the EMF effects present we decided it was time to go back to Roswell. It had been one and-a-half hours since the light flashed. We were approximately 40 minutes from town and something was causing EMF and animal reaction. We were worried about the truck electronics going out and the two of us stuck all night on the side of the road. The locals had told us of a road they feared and wouldn’t drive at night because of ‘strange goings on.’ We weren’t sure if this was the road, but thought it was time to leave. Besides, if ET wanted to visit us they obviously from the flashing light response, knew where to find us. We both agreed that the EMF was most likely coming from an outside more local source that was monitoring us being watched. Note: A dark pick-up truck passed us heading towards Roswell just before the EMF effect. Chuck also saw a red SUV. It traveled down the road we were parked at the base of approximately a quarter-mile and stopped. We had only seen one vehicle prior. One was seen right after we arrived and then two more at approximately 10:30p.m. The area is very rural.”

New Mexico Field Investigator Matthew Loveland is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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Blimp-like UFO videotaped over Kansas

A Kansas witness at Abilene reported watching and videotaping a blimp-shaped UFO moving over a local park, according to testimony in Case 78235 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.

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The witness was outside on a walk in a local park when the object was first seen on August 4, 2016.

“I noticed an odd light in the sky moving over me,” the witness stated.“I was able to record the object for about minute.”

Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness saw three different objects.

“After the first object was out of sight two other objects appeared heading the same direction, but too far out of range for my camera to see them.”

Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.

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Kansas MUFON Field Investigator Becky Landwehr and Assistant State Director Larry Jordan are investigating. Abilene is a city in and the county seat of Dickinson County, Kansas, population 6,844. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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The Giant Pyramid Hidden Inside a Mountain Dwarfs the Great Pyramid In Giza

This temple at Cholula dwarfs the Great Pyramid at Giza, yet it went unnoticed by Spanish invaders. Why?

They arrived in their thousands. Hardened by months of war with ferocious natives, near-starvation and exotic diseases, Hernan Cortez and his Spanish army marched into the great city of Cholula expecting a fight.

But this was a sacred city. Instead of investing in weapons, its inhabitants built temples; it was said they had a holy pyramid for every day of the year. After such generosity, their gods would surely protect them.

This was a grave error indeed. As the army stormed its streets, religious treasures were looted and the precious pyramids went up in smoke. Within three hours they had murdered 3,000 people. October 12th 1519 was a bloodbath on an unprecedented scale, leaving 10% of the city’s population dead.

Eventually the Spaniards settled in Cholula (now part of Mexico), erecting enough of their own buildings that the city is now known for having a church for every day of the year. The final touch – a symbol of their Christian conquest – is the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remediosa, built on what they thought was a large hill.

But not all is as it seems. Beneath the tiny church, hiding under tufts of grass, trees and soil, is an ancient pyramid of truly gigantic proportions. Standing 450 metres wide and 66 metres tall, from end to end the Great Pyramid of Cholula is equivalent to nine Olympic sized swimming pools.

For an obscure temple no one’s heard of, Cholula holds an impressive array of records: it’s the largest pyramid on the planet, with a base four times larger than the Great Pyramid at Giza and nearly twice the volume.

Never mind the largest pyramid – it’s the largest monument ever constructed anywhere, by any civilisation, to this day. To locals it’s aptly known as Tlachihualtepetl (“man-made mountain”). Thanks to the church on top, it’s also the oldest continuously occupied building on the continent.

The story goes that until the locals began construction of an insane asylum in 1910, nobody knew it was a pyramid. Certainly, by the time Cortéz and his men arrived, it was already a thousand years old and entirely concealed by vegetation.

Early excavations revealed a series of gruesome findings, including the deformed skulls of decapitated children.

Where did it come from? And why did it stay hidden for so long?

Despite its enormous size, very little is known about the pyramid’s early history. It’s thought construction began around 300 BC; by who exactly remains a mystery. According to myth it was built by a giant. Most likely, the city’s inhabitants – known as the Choluteca – were a cosmopolitan mix. “It appears to have been multi-ethnic, with a great deal of migration,” says David Carballo, an archaeologist at Boston University, Massachusetts.

Whoever they were, they probably had a lot of money. Cholula is conveniently located in the Mexican highlands and was an important trading post for thousands of years, linking the Tolteca-Chichimeca kingdoms in the North with the Maya in the South.

Cortez called it “the most beautiful city outside Spain”. By the time he arrived, it was the second-largest city in the Aztec empire, though it had already exchanged hands numerous times.

And here there are even more surprises. In fact it’s not one pyramid at all, but a great Russian doll of a construction, consisting of no less than six, one on top of the other. It grew in stages, as successive civilisations improved on what had already been built.

“They made a conscious effort to maintain and in some cases display previous construction episodes.  This is pretty novel, and shows deliberate efforts to link to the past,” says Carballo.

According to legend, when they heard the conquistadors were coming, the locals covered the precious temple with soil themselves. In fact it may have happened by accident. That’s because, incredibly, the largest pyramid in the world is made of mud.

“Adobe” bricks are made by mixing mud with other materials such as sand or straw, and baking it hard in the sun. To make the pyramid, the outer bricks were smoothed with more earth to create a painting surface. In its prime, the temple was covered in red, black and yellow insects.

In dry climates, mud bricks are extremely durable – lasting thousands of years. In humid Mexico, the mud creation was a fertile platform for tropical jungle. “It was abandoned sometime in the 7th or 8th Century CE. The Choluteca had a newer pyramid-temple located nearby, which the Spaniards destroyed,” says Carballo.

The pyramid also had topography in its favour; the pyramid rests on a natural platform in an area which is almost completely mountainous.

Today the city has reclaimed their pyramid, which can be explored via over five miles of tunnels constructed in the early 20th Century. Nearly 500 years after the colonial conquest, the city must contend with a new invasion: tourists.  

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New Alien Planet Boasts Rare Triple Suns

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Eat your heart out, Tatooine: A newly discovered alien planet has not one, not two, but three suns in its sky.

While scientists know of many planets with two suns, a planet with three bright stars in its sky is much rarer. The newly found distant world, known as KELT-4Ab, orbits one star. That star in turn is orbited by a nearby pair of stars. The twin stars are close enough to the planet to appear about as bright as the full moon in the sky, new research has revealed.

In addition to providing an example of a solar system very different from Earth’s, the strange arrangement may help provide insight into how gas giants that lie close to their parent star — known as “hot Jupiters” — evolve.

A triple sunset

KELT-4Ab, which is about as massive as Jupiter, orbits the single star KELT-A once every three days. Nearby, the stars KELT-B and KELT-C orbit one another once every 30 years, and together they travel around KELT-A and its planet every 4,000 years or so.

Jason Eastman, a research associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is the lead author of a study that used the two robotic telescopes that make up the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT), located in Arizona and South Africa respectively, to identify the system that includes the single star KELT-A, the more distant pairing KELT-BC and the overheated planet.

While the composition of the planet’s atmosphere isn’t yet known, Eastman told Space.com that standing in the atmosphere above the planet (since you can’t stand on its surface), the single star would appear to be about 40 times as large as the sun appears in the sky on Earth. Each member of the binary star pair would be almost as bright as the full moon, though without a good telescope they would look like dots of light about a pinky-finger-width apart in the sky.

“Those two stars would orbit each other every about 30 years, and every 4,000 years they’d make one orbit around KELT-4A,” Eastman said.

Planets around triple stars are rare; KELT-4Ab is only the fourth known system to contain three stars. Of these, KELT-A is the brightest host star, not only because it is a hotter star than the ones in the other three systems, but also because it lies so close to Earth — only 680 light-years away.

The research was published in the Astronomical Journal.

Hot Jupiters

“Hot Jupiters aren’t supposed to exist. None of them,” Eastman said.

“Gaseous planets the size of Jupiter are supposed to form much farther out [from their parent star] and stay there, like our own Jupiter did,” he said. “Exactly how they got so close is an outstanding question, but one theory is that it migrates due to hot interactions with a third body — in this case, the third and fourth bodies KELT-BC.”

When astronomers developed the first theories of planet formation, all they had to work with was the solar system. When the first exoplanet discoveries were gas giants that orbited their stars in a handful of days, it turned the existing theory on its head and sent scientists scrambling to understand how the newly observed systems could exist. Most scientists seem to agree that the massive worlds traveled to their current position after they finished forming, driven by companion planets, stars or other processes, Eastman said.

“The binary system KELT-4BC may be what ultimately drove the planet KELT-4Ab so close to its star,” Eastman said.

Using a survey produced by KELT, the scientists identified the potential planet KELT-4Ab, then confirmed its existence with several other instruments. Like the more well-known NASA Kepler spacecraft, KELT relies on the transit method to detect exoplanets, observing how the amount of light from a star drops as the planet passes between it and Earth.

“KELT is different in several ways [from other transit surveys],” Eastman said. “It has a smaller telescope, a larger field of view and a larger pixel scale than other mature transit surveys.”

These features deliberately bias the instrument toward brighter stars, which Eastman said allows a broader range of observations and characterizations. Among those is the ability to determine if the planet’s orbital plane appears edge-on as seen from Earth, or whether the plane is tipped, and this process allows scientists to more precisely calculate the star’s mass.

Looking to the future

When the KELT-4 system was originally observed in 1973, it was thought to host only two stars. Not until Eastman observed the system almost 40 years later was one of the single stars resolved into two individuals.

“In all previous observations, KELT-4B and KELT-4C were blended together and looked just like one star,” Eastman said.

This is a recurring challenge for scientists observing binary systems — resolving close-orbiting stars into binary pairs. Eastman said that many known planets may live in unknown triple systems. One reason the twin stars in the KELT-4 system were so easily identified as two individual stars instead of one was because of the system’s close proximity to Earth.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, currently engaged in a five-year mission, will observe the triple system in the coming years. These observations will enable a more precise measurement of the distance to KELT-4A, providing more detailed measurements of its mass and radius, which will result in more precise measurements of the mass and radius of the planet.

“But more exciting, Gaia will be able to measure the motion of the KELT-4BC binary pair around KELT-4A,” Eastman said.

Measuring the path of the pair of stars will help improve models of how they could have affected the migration of the planet, shoving it closer to its parent star. In doing so, it will help scientists understand how hot Jupiters manage to form so close to their parent stars.

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'UFO' seen shooting across the MOON in eerie live stream footage captured by amateur astronomer

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Bizarre footage showing a dark spherical object hovering across the surface of the moon has emerged online.

The eerie clip, captured by an amateur astronomer, shows an object whizzing across the lunar surface very clearly.

At one point it even appears to spin out of control as it continues out into space.

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The shot was picked up on an online live-stream, set up by budding UFO enthusiasts.

Some online sceptics suggested the object could actually be a satellite-there are currently dozens of satellites orbiting the moon.

But other fanatics argued that the way the object moved didn't seem typical of an artificial satellite.

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The clip was uploaded to Youtube page SpaceImagingKeith and has already been viewed over 12,000 times.

The enthusiast commented on his discovery: "It's a UFO. Unidentified Flying Object. What it is, I have no idea but its not normal for us."

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Mystery over fleet of Boeing 737s seen flying in and out of secretive Area 51 base in Nevada

BY STEPHEN JONES

The isolated desert location - which has sent UFO and Alien conspiracy theorists' imaginations wild for 70yrs - is at the centre of a new mystery that would baffle even Fox Mulder

The mystery Janet Boeing 737-600 with the red stripe spotted over Area 51

Rumours are mounting over a fleet of Boeing 737s seen flying in and out of the US Air Force 's most secretive military base every day - Area 51.

The isolated location in the Nevada desert - which has sent UFO and Alienconspiracy theorists' imaginations wild for almost 70 years - is once again at the centre of a new mystery that would baffle even Fox Mulder.

Flight Club reports that a new 'airline' called Janet is operating a number of red-striped Boeings based at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport on a daily basis.

The name is the call sign being used when the planes travel in civilian airspace.

Others have speculated it is an acronym standing for 'Just Another Non-Existent Terminal'.

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The so called Extraterrestrial Highway near Area 51 in Nevada regularly attracts conspiracy theorists

But investigations have shown it's impossible to buy tickets to travel on Janet.

And there's no chatter about it online - so those who aren't sharing what they are up to.

But their destination - or departure from - always appears to be the Nevada National Security Site at Area 51, which is so secretive the US only admitted its existence in 2005.

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One of the Janet 737-200 spotted departing from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas

The conspiracy theorists have posited for decades that this is the US's secret location for testing UFO technology which has crashlanded.

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Nearby is the Nevada Test and Training Range at Groom Lake.

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A satellite image of Area 51 in Nevada shows the truth is out there

Flight Club claims Janet flights fly "multiple times daily during the work week".

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The Janet planes often fly to Tonopah Test Range Airport at another secret site - Area 52.

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Glowing Orange UFO Over Small town In UK In Aug 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: August 13, 2016
Location of sighting: Shrewsbury, UK

Here is an interesting video of an orb in the sky. The UFO is not a perfect orb, but seems to have a diamond-like shape to it. We know its not a star because of the immense cloud cover seen. Most the time, the mystery in the sky, remains a mystery. 
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states: 
Certainly not the drone I filmed later. There is some possibility it was a Chinese lantern , but it's interesting that it suddenly disappears from sight. There may be explanations for this, such as the lantern burning out, or it disappearing in cloud, but it didn't reappear once, so my feeling is that that explanation is unlikely. I usually capture one or two white orbs at the Shrewsbury Flower Show, but saw none this year.

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UFO Appears at Beach On Live Cam In Poland During Sunset! Aug 16, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: August 16, 2016
Location of sighting: Poland

Guys, live internet cams are an untapped tool that needs more focus by UFO researchers. Live cams let you be in thousands of places with just glimpse. This UFO was cloaked but seen during sunset on cam due to the suns angle of setting. Amazing catch. I enhanced the natural colors of the photo to make it stand out more. Most UFOs do originate from underwater bases...its just logic guys, since 75% of Earth is covered in water. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

Eyewitness states:
Hi All, Some more Huge Objects near the Sun at Sunrise in Europe.. Concentrated on thew weird UFO Disk Shaped objct in the Sopot, Poland Skyline Webcam & the Nea Roda Chalkidiki Skyline Webcams for this series of images & videos. A section of the videos has been sped up for time value.. Most of the h=Highlights are the single to a few multiple images between the Video Segments.

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Dark UFO Over Mexico Causes Traffic To Slow Down, Aug 17, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: August 17, 2016

Location of sighting: Mexico

 

This dark orb was seen over roads in Mexico this week and caused the cars to slow down to get a better view. There seems to be a lot of eyewitnesses to the event here, so I hope to see more videos of it and will update this post if they appear online. Till then, these two will have to due. First one has mind blowing detail. 

Scott C. Waring

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UFO Caught On Video Over Brownsville, Texas Increases Speculations Of Underwater Alien Base Nearby

A UFO was captured on video hovering over Brownsville, Texas, causing supposition that it could be from a nearby underwater base as it was reportedly floating over water, just off the Gulf of Mexico. The witness of the odd sighting reported it to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He described the mysterious aerial thing as bright, oval shape moving slowly from left to right. The sighting took place when the witness was on his way back from a fishing trip.

The witness also noted in his report that a small object was trailing the big oval object, but that particular scene wasn’t captured on the video. The quality of the video may be poor and shaky, but it seems that’s all needed to start the discussion among UFO enthusiasts as to what the object might be and where it possibly originated.

Some conspiracy theorists suggest that the UFO may come from an underwater base nearby since it was first seen over the ocean.

Many claims have surfaced about the underwater UFO base off the coast of Cuba at Guantanamo Bay, near to where the strange object was spotted and filmed. A retired Marine reported early in March about his various UFO encounters just off the Cuban coast when he was stationed at the U.S. base in Cuba from 1968 to 1969. He recalled that those UFOs would surface out of the water or vanish into the waves of the Caribbean.

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WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT UFOs ARE IMPORTANT? 

Joseph Burkes MD 

UFO historian Richard Dolan has described the initial reaction of many people to his passionate involvement with the subject. They express interest, might even describe something they saw on TV concerning the phenomenon and then after a few minutes of his well informed explanations, their eyes gloss over and they are clearly bored. 

THE ROLE OF AUTHORITY FIGURES 

Yes it’s true; opinion polls indicate the public is interested in UFOs. Advertising executives have long known this, but the fascination is for most part quite superficial. Why is this? I suspect partly because of the massive denial of authority figures that say, “There is nothing to it.” 

After all, the world is so complex; we rely on authorities to put to use vast amounts of data to make what we hope are reasonable decisions. Most people have little understanding of the technological “miracles” that science has achieved, but they are grateful and trust the devices, like planes, autos and computers to work reliably. 

Needing to trust leaders I suspect might be built into our biology. For a million years before civilization was established, hunter-gatherers worked in small groups to survive. Shamans that could use primitive psi abilities combined with careful observations of nature played a decisive role. Leadership was a question of life and death and those clans that had the best leaders, the “shamen” and “sha-women” that knew how best to kill the animals or find the healing herbs and deliver the babies, played a critical role in survival. So most of us have a strong tendency to “follow the leader” and when this becomes extreme “We the People “become ”we the sheeple.” 

LINKING UFOs TO SOLUTIONS FOR MAJOR PROBLEMS 

For the UFO question to have a truly major impact on the mass consciousness it will need to be transformed from an entertaining diversion and become a way of addressing the seemingly insurmountable problems our planet is facing. This is already being attempted by those within the UFO community that discuss the possibility of downloading into our technological culture the secrets of the energy propulsion systems of flying saucers. So-called “free energy” in one fell swoop might eliminate poverty and pollution, thus possibly reversing global warming and ending world hunger. 

Of course in order for the so-called ETs to give us such devices they might understandably insist on a peaceful transformation of our planet to replace what UFOlogist Stanton Friedman has called our perpetual state of “tribal warfare.” This is going to be a hard sell when the mass media and academia in service to their corporate masters repeatedly insist, “There is nothing to it.” 

HE WHO PAYS THE PIPER CALLS THE TUNE 

From the control groups’ point of view, those of the clandestine forces determined to keep a lid on the UFO issue, an important strategy would be to recruit authority figures to block any significant discussion of flying saucers. Opinion makers who step out of line would find that their access to funding has been cut off. This is all done behind the scenes and is quite effective in my opinion. 

In the USA the National Academy of Sciences has made it perfectly clear that UFO studies are not part of the “legitimate” agenda for professional science. Scientists that step out of line will find themselves unable to secure grants thus ending their careers. 

In broadcast journalism, talk show hosts that might attempt to inform the public in a detailed way would likely find themselves without corporate sponsors. The major newspapers are controlled through their editorial boards that in turn are dependent on corporate sponsors to continue publishing. 

This analysis is not a conspiracy theory. I describe the way power works. In the former Soviet Union it was the political dictatorship of the Communist Party that attempted to regulate almost every aspect of people’s lives. That social experiment failed miserably. In the West however social control is far more sophisticated, decentralized and uses the knowledge of social psychology called “public relations” to effectively manipulate the masses. 

RESISTANCE TO CHANGE ALSO COMES FROM WITHIN 

On the individual level our tendency to identify with our thoughts leads to a profound attachments to old ideas. This resistance to changing one’s point of view flows from the ego itself. People strive to defend their religion, political ideology, or moral customs to the point where some would even kill to maintain them. Just look at the present situation in Syria, or at the millions killed centuries ago during the Protestant Reformation in Europe. 

Something similar in my opinion applies to acknowledging the high probability that the ET explanation for the flying saucer phenomenon is true. Such a realization threatens to radically change the conceptual paradigm of our entire civilization. Since humans so strongly identify with their present beliefs it is understandable that many reject such a brave new worldview in which we might have to accept an ET presence. 

UFO INTELLIGENCE HAS A TIGER BY THE TAIL. 

What about the intelligence responsible for flying saucers? Could “they” (whoever they ultimately turn out to be) simply fill the sky with structured craft? Or stage the proverbial “landing on the White House Lawn?” Such actions would certainly convince the masses that flying saucers are of the greatest importance. In my judgment this scenario is the least likely to ever take place. Given the militaristic mindset of our civilization, a sudden realization of the reality of UFOs could be catastrophic. My guess is that careful gradual efforts to alert us of their importance is the game plan of the intelligence responsible for the phenomenon and possibly within some elements of the establishment as well. 

So what will it take to change mass public opinion on the flying saucer question? If the alleged ETs continue the present pattern of interactions, millions of individual sightings yearly, interspersed with occasional massive waves, I imagine that there will be opportunities to slowly build public awareness by a responsible program of education. 

RESPONSIBLE PROGRAM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION 

This will require UFO enthusiasts to discipline the crazies in our midst, think creatively and most importantly of all build stable, well-financed organizations to carry out the educational campaign. All this will need to be done in the face of powerful opposition by corporate groups that have great experience in controlling public opinion, the economy and their political operatives that run governments. 

“TURNING PAGES IN A PLAY BOOK 

Can we trust UFO intelligence to follow what we imagine is their existing “game plan?” I suppose not. UFO researcher Michael Lindemann once said that we should never assume that we can think like the so-called “aliens.” Nevertheless the ever-changing pattern of interactions, as pointed out by UFO researcher Grant Cameron, appear to be as if the aliens are turning the pages of a “play book.” This can be seen as “Men in Black” in the 1960s, so called “abductions” in the 70s, crop circles in the 80s and continuous past and present mental interactions with millions of experiencers. Many of which are instilled with a sense of mission and are striving to convince their fellow Earthlings that we should look up and accept what our “lying eyes” are seeing. 

My guess is that UFO intelligence will present us with infinitely creative new ways of waking us up from our collective stupor concerning their “wonders in the sky.” I am of the opinion that their presence is non-harmful and very likely to be beneficial to mankind. Bringing others to this hopeful perspective I imagine is a challenge that UFO activists will continue to face for some time. 

About the author: Dr Burkes volunteered as a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative from 1992 till 1998. He has continued to study the flying saucer phenomenon working with MUFON and the Peruvian contact network now called Rahma. Dr Burkes retired from the Southern California Pemanente Group after thirty years service in 2008. He is a board certified internal medicine physician and is licensed to practice in California.

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What’s hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives?

Some believe it houses evidence of extraterrestrial life. Others, ancient texts that disprove the existence of Jesus. Perhaps dark truths that would discredit and destroy the Church?

 

A mistranslated Latin word may be responsible for the conspiracy theories about the Vatican Secret Archives. In fact, the actual contents can stand on their own without delving into the absurd.

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The archives, or Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum, contains historical records chronicling intriguing historical events. Its contents, once plundered by Napoleon and moved to Paris, span 12 centuries.

 

There’s the document that began the Protestant reformations: Pope Leo X’s 1521 decree excommunicating Martin Luther.

 

 

A 1530 petition from 85 English clergymen and lords asks Pope Clement VII to annul King Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The seals of many of the signatories were affixed to the petition, each held in place by red ribbon. This is considered the source of the term “red tape.” Clement refused, of course, leading to the establishment of the Anglican Church.

 

Michelangelo penned a letter to the pope warning that Vatican guards hadn’t received paychecks in three months, and that they were threatening to walk off the job.

 

A year after Columbus landed in what became North America, Pope Alexander VI issued Inter Cetera, the 1493 papal bull that split the New World between Spain and Portugal.

 

There are letters from Abraham Lincoln as well as Jefferson Davis, who wrote to try to convince Pope Pius IX that the South was an innocent victim of Northern aggression. Neither man was Catholic.

 

 

The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, the notion that Mary was conceived without original sin, was articulated in 1854 on a piece of parchment that’s in the archives.

 

Famous Vatican trials were recorded with handwritten transcripts that are housed there, including cases against the Knights Templar in the early 14th century and astronomer Galileo Galilei in the 17th, who was tried by the Vatican for heresy and forced to spend the rest of his life under house arrest.

 

When Sweden’s Queen Christina abdicated in 1654, she converted to Catholicism from Lutheranism, moved to Rome, and today she is one of the few women buried in St. Peter’s Basilica. There’s a letter to the pope announcing her conversion.

 

 

Interesting, sure, but hardly the stuff of Dan Brown novels.

 

See photos of items in the Vatican’s archives here.

 

Secretum, the Vatican says, translates more accurately to “personal” than to “secret” and refers to the private letters and historical records of past popes. In fact, the archives haven’t been secret since 1881, when Pope Leo XIII opened them up to scholars.

 

Pope Paul V created the Secret Archives in 1612. Four hundred years later, the Vatican celebrated by making 100 items available for public viewing for the first time. The exhibit, Lux in Arcana, shed some light on the papal past and provided some color to events that shaped history.

 

David Kertzer spent years researching in the Secret Archives for his recent book, The Pope and Mussolini. He writes that Pope Pius XI, and his secretary of state, who became Pope Pius XII, made deals with Mussolini to protect the Church’s interest in exchange for silence on state-sponsored anti-Semitism, a conclusion at odds with the Church’s account.

 

“People talk, scholars talk. Are there things that aren’t being made available because they’re seen as unflattering from a Church point of view?” Kertzer, an anthropology professor at Brown University, said.

 

Still, Kertzer said, the Secret Archives are staffed by professionals, and “there’s an appreciation of serious historical scholarship.”

 

That’s not to say that the holdings are easily accessible.

 

Scholars enter through the Porta Sant’Anna, pass Swiss Guards, walk through the Cortile del Belvedere, and present credentials that must be renewed every 6 months. Journalists, students, and amateur historians aren’t welcome.

 

Once admitted, there’s no browsing. Instead, researchers request specific documents, using bulky catalogues, some handwritten in Italian or Latin. They can request up to three folders each day.

 

If in just a few minutes they realize that what they’re seeking isn’t in the requested folders, they’re forced to pack up for the day - a challenge for scholars on a deadline or those who have traveled long distances.

 

Computers are allowed, but photos aren’t, which means long sessions in the third-floor reading room typing notes.

 

What’s next?

 

The sitting pope decides when to expand the archives.

 

Pope Francis is considering when to open the full archives of Pope Pius XII, the man dubbed “Hitler’s Pope” by some, but whose cause for canonization is championed by Church traditionalists who say he hid Jews from the Nazis.

 

For the Vatican, mystery and palace intrigue come with the territory. But for a department whose official name includes the word secret, there is transparency around many items known to be housed there.

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Grondstation ESA ontvangt signaal van 1,44 miljard km ver uit de ruimte - HLN.be

 Bron: Belga

De grondantenne van het Europees Ruimtevaartbureau ESA in het Australische New Norcia ontving een ruimtesignaal van 1,44 miljard kilometer ver.

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Een grondantenne van het Europees Ruimtevaartbureau ESA heeft een signaal ontvangen van de Amerikaanse Saturnus-verkenner Cassini. Dat is vandaag bekendgemaakt.

Het volgstation van New Norcia in Australië kreeg het signaal van 1,44 miljard km ver, meteen een afstandsrecord voor een ESA-station. De aan lichtsnelheid bewegende radiosignalen deden er 80 minuten over om die afstand te overbruggen.

De ontvangst kaderde in een serie tests om meerdere grondstations van ESA voor te bereiden op radio-experimenten van de Cassini die later dit jaar starten.

Het station van New Norcia herbergt een antenne met een diameter van 35 meter en die 630 ton weegt.

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Wetenschappers vinden bewijs dat er leven mogelijk is op Titan - HLN.be

Bron: sciencechannel.com

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Wetenschappers hebben bewijs gevonden dat Titan - de grootste maan van Saturnus en de op één na grootste maan van ons zonnestelsel - de juiste samenstelling zou kunnen hebben om er leven mogelijk te maken.

Computermodellen tonen dat de waterstocyanide die bestaat op Titan de juiste chemische reacties zou kunnen uitlokken die nodig zijn om de warmte van de zon te absorberen. 

Titan heeft sowieso al een landschap dat sterk op dat van de aarde doet denken, compleet met meren en zeeën die bestaan uit water en ammoniak. Die worden bedekt door een laag ijs van koolwaterstof, een van de basiselementen van petroleum en aardgas. Ze zouden bewoonbaar kunnen zijn voor een heel nieuwe vorm van leven.  

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1. Planeet met drie zonnen ontdekt
2. Nieuw onderzoek wijst uit: "Zoek buitenaards leven nabij stervende ster"
3. Ruimtesonde Cassini vangt sterrenstof bij Saturnus

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Langste vliegtuig ter wereld, ofte 'De Vliegende Kont', overleeft testvlucht - HLN.be

Bron: Mirror, AFP

VIDEO 's Werelds langste vliegtuig, de Airlander 10 meet 92 meter, heeft gisterenavond zijn eerste testvlucht overleefd. Heel wat enthousiaste vliegtuigspotters konden de vlotte landing in het Engelse Bedfordshire aanschouwen.

De Airlander 10 is deels een vliegtuig, deels een helikopter en deels een zeppelin. Maar het toestel valt vooral op door de bijzondere vorm. Dankzij zijn ronde achterkant kreeg het de bijnaam 'De Vliegende Kont'. Het toestel werd origineel ontwikkeld als onderdeel van een project van het Amerikaans leger, maar na besnoeiingen in het budget moest de Airlander 10 beschikken. Het bedrijf Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) bracht het in 2013 naar Groot-Brittannië, waar het werd omgebouwd voor civiel gebruik. 


Voor de eerste testvlucht waren heel wat toeschouwers naar Bedfordshire getrokken. De menigte juichte als het toestel uit de hangar kwam. Topman bij HAV Stephen McGlennan zei dat het team moest wachten op de juiste weersomstandigheden voor het opstijgen. "Maar het toestel kan ook vliegen bij 80 knopen. Denk aan een grote helikopter, dit toestel heeft dezelfde mogelijkheden. De Airlander kan meer mensen en goederen vervoeren zonder dat er een landingsbaan nodig is. Het toestel is groener en goedkoper dan een helikopter. Het is een geweldige innovatie."

Lees ook

• Langste vliegtuig ter wereld, ofte 'De Vliegende Kont'
• FOTOSPECIAL Airlander maakt eerste testvlucht

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NASA geeft meer dan 1.000 nieuwe beelden van Mars vrij. En ze zijn wonderlijk - HLN.be

Bron: NASA, Time, Popular Science

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MARS IN BEELD De Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter cirkelt al sinds 2005 rond Mars en trekt geregeld kiekjes van de rode planeet. De lading foto's die NASA deze maand lostte, is extra groot en dat levert wonderlijke beelden op van onze buurplaneet. Een kleine selectie toont alvast het gevarieerde en wonderlijke reliëf van Mars.

Het gebeurt geregeld dat de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) foto's aflevert, maar de huidige lading van 1.035 foto's is uitzonderlijk groot. Alfred McEwen, directeur van het Planetary Image Research Laboratory, vertelde aan Popular Science dat daar twee redenen voor zijn: enerzijds is er elke 26 maanden een optimaal moment voor het verzenden van data tussen de Aarde en Mars, anderzijds beleefde Mars in juli zijn herfstequinox, waardoor de MRO het meest volledige en verlichte beeld van de planeet voor de lens kreeg. 

De beelden werden geregistreerd door HiRISE, een camera met hoge resolutie die wetenschappers toelaat om het oppervlak van Mars in detail te bestuderen. Die beelden kunnen bijvoorbeeld helpen om landingsplaatsen uit te zoeken voor toekomstige missies. 

U kan alle beelden terugvinden via deze database, maar hier hebt u alvast een kleine voorproefje van de enorme variatie aan wonderlijke foto's. 

Lees ook

• Wordt de vondst van een 'derde aarde' binnenkort aangekondigd?

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Disc UFO caught on Missouri camera

A Missouri witness at Lees Summit reported watching and photographing a disc-shaped UFO that made a rapid descent, according to testimony in Case 77979 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

In the image above, one sees the direction of the flight of the craft from frames 18:35 to 19:05. (Credit: MUFON)

The event occurred at 3:28 p.m. on July 21, 2016.

“I took a random video that lasted 39 seconds,” the witness stated. “At 15:28 DST – during the video a flat or possibly disc-shaped craft travelled from frame 18:35 to 19:05, or one-half of a second. The angle of rapid descent was at 14-degrees from the right side of the frame to the left. Nothing else was seen in the remainder of the video.”

The witness then analyzed the video.

“The angle of elevation when it entered the screen was 12-degrees, although it clearly came from much higher. The direction of initial view was 350-degrees or nearly north, and it disappeared from the camera view at 336-degrees or north-northwest– although it continued in a straight line ending at about 320-degrees or northwest where it likely ended its flight.”

From right to left, location of entry, departure from view in camera, and the final descent location.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness followed the object’s flight path.

“It disappeared on the west side of Blue Springs Lake, interestingly, into another much smaller lake. Analysis: In 16 frames, the craft covered a distance of .3 miles in one-half of a second, which converts to 2,160 mph. Most likely it entered the small body of water, although not actually seen doing so. The direction of the 14-degree descent, by projection, ended northwest at 320-degrees. This small lake is about 1,600 feet west of Blue Springs Lake. The size of the object appears to be close to 15 feet when compared with the spheroid craft from MUFON Case # 61730.”

Craft from frame 18:47.

(Credit: MUFON)

The case was investigated by Missouri Field Investigator Lawrence Tyree and closed as an Unknown.

“The video evidence shows a craft flying at an incredible speed of 2,160 mph heading straight to the Earth within three-tenths of a mile,” Tyree stated in his report.“The physics of such flying make it impossible to do with known technology if it were a human vehicle. This makes it to be of unknown origin, and not natural or human made.The description of the movements of the object, its speed on approach to the land, and the video evidence are descriptive of an Unknown UAV.”

Enhanced view of frame 18:47.

(Credit: MUFON)

Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

Editor’s note: The video was not uploaded to MUFON with the report, only the still images were included.

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UFOs abduct 1,500 sheep from a field in Lincolnshire, Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 2011, reported Aug 2016
Location of sighting: Lincolnshire, UK
News Source: 

http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/did-ufos-abduct-1-500-sheep-from-a-field-in-lincolnshire/story-29629392-detail/story.html

Animal abduction and mutilations are nothing new around the world, and are still commonly seen, especially in South America region, but here we have 1,500 sheep the disappear together which is very odd indeed. For a UFO to take them, it had to be huge, unless it had some kind of shrinking technology to transport things more easily. This should be of national importance to the UK and needs deeper investigation into it. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states: 
A documentary film maker has questioned whether the disappearance of 1,500 sheep from a field near Louth was the result of UFOs.

Footage, uploaded to YouTube by an account called dot luter, has investigated possible UFO sightings across the East Lindsey area with one witness claiming to have seen a huge spherical object hovering in the sky at Alford.

The 1,500 sheep mysteriously disappeared from the field at Stenigot overnight in September 2011. No one in the area claimed to see or hear anything.

Arrests were made at the time in connection with the disappearance but the documentary footage claims no one was ever charged or prosecuted.

In the documentary, UFO spotter Eric Goring from Brinkhill, told the video he had seen hundreds of sightings of what he called "the black triangle" not far from the area at the time.

He said: "I saw these white or orange or yellow balls of light which turned out to be the black triangle.

"They were out on the fields going round and round lit up bright and then when they got closer I could see the black triangle.

"I've seen the black triangle hundreds of times and up to 40 in one night."

Mr Goring said the triangular objects were around 30ft long on each side.

"I have seen them come down to the ground at thousands of miles an hour. They come straight to the ground, they loop out and then go up again.

"It floats and it makes no noise," he said.

"It was very dark, no luminosity, but it had legs and there were lights just above the legs."
Taxi driver Morag Taylor, from Alford, told the video maker she had once seen a similar triangular sighting on a drive from Skegness to Louth in the early hours of the morning.

She said: "There was a thing hovering in the sky with lights, it was too big to be a star.

"Then it just shot away at speed. I thought it was much faster than a Harrier jet.

"It was quite low - probably about three storeys high.

"It was quite big, probably the size of an articulated lorry.

"It was very dark, no luminosity, but it had legs and there were lights just above the legs. It was triangular."

Another witness who spoke on film, said he once saw a huge spherical object in the sky while he was driving between Alford and Mablethorpe.

He said: "I came round a corner and my little girl, who was in the back, screamed.

"The car in front stopped. There was a grey, egg shaped thing.

"I would say it was three times longer than the width of the road.

"It was stopped right above the road. It was absolutely huge, bigger than a plane.

"All of a sudden it shot back in the opposite direction it came from."

The documentary maker said he believed the alleged sightings could be linked to the disappearance of the huge number of sheep.

He said: "I don't think any open minded person would doubt there is something perculiar going on in the skies near this sparsely populated area."

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Glowing Orange UFO Over Small town In UK In Aug 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: August 13, 2016
Location of sighting: Shrewsbury, UK

Here is an interesting video of an orb in the sky. The UFO is not a perfect orb, but seems to have a diamond-like shape to it. We know its not a star because of the immense cloud cover seen. Most the time, the mystery in the sky, remains a mystery. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states: 
Certainly not the drone I filmed later. There is some possibility it was a Chinese lantern , but it's interesting that it suddenly disappears from sight. There may be explanations for this, such as the lantern burning out, or it disappearing in cloud, but it didn't reappear once, so my feeling is that that explanation is unlikely. I usually capture one or two white orbs at the Shrewsbury Flower Show, but saw none this year.

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Does an Earth-Like Alien Planet Orbit the Sun's Closest Neighbor?

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Mars-Like Environment Lies Deep Beneath Earth's Surface

Walls of the Boulby Mine boast salty honeycomb-like hexagonal patterns that are similar to those that rovers like Curiosity have observed on Mars.

Credit: Charles Cockell

While NASA discusses how to one day send humans to Mars, a group of scientists has delved more than a half-mile (1.1 kilometers) beneath the Earth's surface to study nearby environments that resemble those of the Red Planet. 

For the last four years, astrobiologists with Mars Analogues for Space Exploration (MASE), a program that is funded by the European Science Foundation, have been studying the underground environment of England's Boulby Mine — a place that appears to bear some similarities to Mars.

The new work, which includes analyzing salty features on the walls of the mine, will help scientists understand where to look for life on the Red Planet and how to explore the Martian environment when humans eventually get there, Charles Cockell, scientific coordinator of the MASE program, told Space.com. [Amazing Mars Photos by NASA's Curiosity Rover (Latest Images)]

Signs of an ancient sea

The Boulby Mine is a very large underground system that stretches for more than 621 miles (1,000 kilometers) out under the North Sea. The walls of the mine are coated in salty honeycomb-like hexagonal patterns that are believed to have formed 250 million years ago, after a giant inland sea (the Zechstein Sea) dried up. Similar evidence of a long-gone ocean has been found in other places on Earth, including Death Valley. 

The prominent hexagonal features found on the walls of the mine resemble those that rovers like Curiosity have observed on Mars. This is the first time that Cockell and his team have collected samples of the salty features. 

The MASE team collected multiple samples from deep inside the mine, which they will analyze for signatures of life over the course of the next two or three months.

Credit: Charles Cockell

"On Mars, areas of salt have also been observed and they have similar sorts of features," said Cockell, who is also a professor of astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh. "So, this is indicative of large salt deposits on Mars that have dried out."

When seawater dries up, it leaves behind an oxygen-deprived environment in which only microorganisms tolerant of high-salt conditions can live, Cockell explained. 

"We're interested in trying to isolate novel microbes from extreme environments and then use them to understand the limits of life in anaerobic, oxygen-free conditions," said Cockell. "Going into deep, subsurface [environments] is a good place to look for these kinds of deep-dwelling microbes."

The MASE researchers have collected multiple samples from deep inside the mine and will be analyzing the samples for signatures of life over the course of the next two or three months. The six-member team consisted of researchers from the Spanish Center for Astrobiology and the University of Edinburgh. While the MASE team was cultivating salty rock samples, a team of researchers from the University of Leicester was also in the mine developing new instruments for detecting minerals on Mars.

"The main thing is they [Mars and the Boulby Mine] are similar environments, and what we are really trying to do is understand as much as we can about Mars by looking at these types of environments on Earth," Cockell said. "[The Boulby Mine] is one of the best environments we have to do these kinds of comparisons."

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Saturn Goes Psychedelic in Crazy, Colorful Infrared Photo

This false-color view of Saturn's northern hemisphere shows details of the planet's cloudy atmosphere that are otherwise invisible to the human eye.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Kevin M. Gill

A new photo of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft depicts the planet's northern hemisphere as a swirling mess of green, blue and purple clouds. What looks like a colossal oil slick on the otherwise yellow-tinted planet is actually a matter of wavelength.

The funky-colored clouds in the Saturn photo are the result of the spectral filters on Cassini's camera. These filters can selectively reflect or transmit specific colors of light.

Kevin Gill, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and amateur space-imaging enthusiast, produced the false-color image by combining several photos captured by Cassini's wide-angle camera on July 20. [More Amazing Saturn Photos by Cassini]

Gill used a combination of spectral filters that are sensitive to infrared light at wavelengths of 750, 727 and 619 nanometers. The human eye can typically see light only in the range of 390 to 700 nanometers, so using the spectral filters allows people to view what is otherwise invisible to the naked eye. This type of infrared filter allows researchers to study how Saturn's atmospherereflects and absorbs specific wavelengths of sunlight.

The Cassini spacecraft has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004 to study the planet and its moons, and is expected to do so until the mission ends, in September 2017.

Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her@hannekescience. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us

Credit: NASA/NOAA/GOES Project

INTRO: Beyond Earth

From a few subtle radio signals to alien monsters bombing the White House, science fiction is replete with depictions of aliens making contact with mere mortals.

While some of those depictions are far-fetched, it turns out that scientists have spent countless hours thinking about just how extraterrestrial civilizations could contact humans. Some of their ideas are nearly as fantastical as Hollywood's wildest tales.

From alien megastructures to miniature robots, here are some of the more radical ways "little green men" are likely to contact humans. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens]

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

8. Mega construction

Of course, signs of intelligent life don't have to be tiny objects — they could also be really, really big ones. Some scientists have argued that alien megastructures could be like a giant "come here" sign pointing other civilizations to their presence, Grinspoon said. In fact, scientists recently kept their eye on the star KIC 8462852, which dimmed and brightened mysteriously over the past several years. Some have argued that the star is surrounded by an alien megastructure that is occasionally blocking light from the star — though other explanations include a swarm of exoplanets or a planet-forming disc.

In December 2015, scientists reported a complete lack of communication from the region.

"We found no evidence of an advanced civilization beaming intentional laser signals toward Earth," study co-author Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International in San Francisco, said in a statement.

Credit: LLNL/NIF/NASA/E. Kowaluk (LLE)

7. Laser pulses

Repetitive laser pulses could also be a sign of an alien race trying to get in contact with us, because, in theory, lasers could send signals or messages across vast distances, Grinspoon said. To find those laser pulses, researchers have zeroed in on extremely bright flashes of light, which are less likely to be caused by natural phenomena. 

So far, however, they've found no sign of alien signals.

Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech

6. Robot probes

Alien signals may not be traveling in electromagnetic waves at all. Instead,signs of intelligent life may be very small objects that advanced civilizations send out to explore the universe.

"Most of the solar system is still unexplored, so for all we know, there could be alien probes orbiting on the asteroid belt or somewhere on the surface of Mars," Grinspoon said. "They could be quite miniature. Who knows what alien technology is capable of — they could be the size of golf balls."

Finding these objects could rely on the same technology scientists could use to sample those regions, Grinspoon said.

Credit: SETI Institute

5. Radio waves

In a 1959 paper in the journal Nature, physicists Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi argued that scientists should scour radio waves for signs of extraterrestrial life. That's because radio waves travel relatively undisturbed through the universe, not being absorbed or re-emitted by celestial objects. Thus, the duo reasoned, any extraterrestrials hoping for their message to be relayed across long distances would logically resort to this medium, said David Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Planetary Science Institute.

For decades, that's been the predominant way to search for aliens. For instance, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has scoured telescope data for signal-like radio waves.

Of course, the whole search rests on the assumption that aliens are thinking just like us, which may not be the case.

"Aliens don't necessarily read Nature magazine," Grinspoon told Live Science.

Credit: Bibi Saint-Pol (Wikimedia)

4. Radiating away

Of course, not all aliens will be on a mission to find other creatures in the big, lonely universe. Some may be more like hermits, hoping to hide their existence. If that's the case, they'd make no attempts to broadcast their existence.

However, theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has argued that even celestial hermit kingdoms might develop technology to siphon energy from a nearby star using an orbiting object known as a Dyson sphere.

"It doesn't have to be a sphere at all," Dyson previously told Live Science, "just any place where aliens happen to be generating a lot of energy."

These Dyson spheres would then throw off waste heat, an inescapable byproduct of harnessing star power, in the form of infrared radiation. Already, researchers at the Allen Telescope Array and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer(WISE) space telescope are scouring the skies for signs of such waste radiation.

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

3. Star dance

Others have proposed that highly advanced civilizations could be advanced astro-engineers, moving stars into bizarre or highly geometric alignments that are unlikely to occur by chance, Grinspoon said.

"They could construct something that would be visible from a huge distance across the galaxy, or even from another galaxy, that would be obviously artificial," Grinspoon said. "Nobody's seen anything like that."

Others might actually harness star power to create messages. For instance, if aliens could spin small and extremely dense stars called neutron stars in just the right way, they could make these stars emit light as a kind of flashing beacon, Grinspoon said.

In fact, when neutron stars were discovered, scientists thought they might be messages from "little green men." (That discovery earned astronomer Antony Hewish the Nobel Prize in physics; his graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who first discovered the star, was passed up for the high honor.) [Nobel Would-Bes: 6 Scientists Who Were Passed Up for the Prize]

Credit: Mark Garlick/University of Warwick

2. Needle in a haystack

Even if aliens are trying to make contact, there's no guarantee we'd receive their messages. The universe is 91 billion light-years across, and messages could come from anywhere.

To narrow the search, some argue that aliens are likelier to send messages our way if they know we're here. A study published in February 2016 in thepreprint journal arXivfound that there are 82 stars we know of in Earth's transit zone, or an area of the sky that has a direct line of sight to Earth.

"Along this line, there is a very small band— a strip of less than a degree from where extrasolar observers would see the Earth transiting the sun," said study co-author René Heller, an astrobiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany.

Heller and his colleague Ralph Pudritz at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, predicted that there may be up to 100,000 stars within this zone of the sky — some of which could have planets teeming with life orbiting them.

One advantage of this approach is that the tiny slice of the sky is relatively easy to search.

"You could just skim or scan the whole Earth transit zone over the course of maybe a few dozen nights or so, depending on how large the field of view of your radio telescope is," Heller told Live Science.

If these hidden exoplanets harbor life, they'd also be in the same galactic neighborhood — just a few hundred light-years away at most.

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1. Part of space exploration

The search for intelligent life-forms may not need dedicated megaprojects, Grinspoon said.

"We're going to send spacecraft out to these places to explore," Grinspoon said, referring to spots like the asteroid belt. "So while we explore the solar system, we should at least be aware of the possibility of finding something really anomalous that would be artificial."

Either way, if there are smart creatures in the universe, odds are, they know exactly what to do to make contact.

"Mathematically, it's pretty easy to show, and logically, it makes sense that they would be much more advanced," Grinspoon said. "We're such babies as a civilization; anybody that is outside trying to contact us probably has a much longer relationship with science and technology."

So, if aliens are trying to contact us, it's probably our fault that we're missing their signals, Grinspoon said.

Lab-Grown Black Hole May Have Just Proven That Hawking Radiation Exists

 

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IN BRIEF

Physicist Jeff Steinhauer spent the last seven years perfecting a method to replicate black holes in a quest to find whether Hawking radiation exists. His laboratory simulation of a black hole showed entangled particles breaking apart as one falls back into the black hole and the other dissipates into "space," consistent with Hawking's theory.

LAB-GROWN ACOUSTIC BLACK HOLE

A few months ago, someone started working on building a black hole in a laboratory in a quest to find out whether Hawking radiation could really exist. It took physicist Jeff Steinhauer, of the Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa seven years to single-handedly perfect his method torecreate black holes. And now the results have been published in Nature Physics.

Jeff Steinhauer single-handedly imitates black holes in a lab. Credit: Nitzan Zohar, Office of the Spokesperson, Technion.

His lab-grown black hole implies that Hawking was right.

In 1974, Hawking theorized that, contrary to the belief that a black hole would continuously and infinitely suck in everything around it, energy could in fact, seep out of it in the form of radiation. This eventually became known as “Hawking radiation.” This causes a black hole’s eventual demise, as the energy seeps out and the black hole dissipates into nothing.

Recent findings did confirm that there are some things that could escape a black hole’s supposedly inescapable pull, such as light.

And this time, Steinhauer’s lab-grown black hole simulation showed what is the closest evidence we could find (as of now) of Hawking radiation, emanating from its event horizon.

4,600 TIMES TO BE SURE

Steinhauer cooled rubidium atoms to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero to cause them to enter a quantum state of matter, behaving like clones of each other and clumping together to form a “super particle” known as Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). This process of recreating black holes was proposed in the 1980s but nobody bothered to try building it until 2009.

Lasers are then used to force the atoms to move at supersonic speeds, causing sound waves to get trapped inside the quantum fluids.

Steinhauer ran his experiment a staggering 4,600 times, and as Hawking predicted, pairs ofphonons, or packets of sound energy, appeared spontaneously at the even horizon. One of them is then expelled away and the other falls back into the black hole. This separation of the pairs is consistent with Hawking radiation’s description of entangled particles annihilating each other unless they exist in either side of a black hole’s event horizon.

Credit: IOPscience.

While this is quite a remarkable achievement in demonstrating the feasibility of Hawking radiation, other physicists say that it’s not enough to win Hawking a Nobel prize. Some doubt that what Steinhauer generated were in fact, credible BECs, and that several replications must be made in order for this to stand strong. Physicists also say that only a direct observation from a real black hole could confirm his theory—something that would most probably not happen within Hawking’s lifetime, or possibly any of our’s.

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Giant Killed by US Soldiers in Kandahar Afghanistan? Via L.A. M-

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NASA Claims: Over 30 ADVANCED civilizations have COLLAPSED before us – Are we next?

Boek: Russische marine heeft geregeld aanvaringen met onderwateraliens en UFO’s

De commandanten van Russische onderzeeërs maken al sinds de Sovjettijd melding van onverklaarbare fenomenen onder het wateroppervlak. Het Kremlin bewaart de documenten over de ongeïdentificeerde objecten achter slot en grendel, meldt de Britse Daily Mirror.

Een aantal waarnemingen van de onverklaarbare objecten is echter uitgelekt. Experts Paul Stonehill en Philip Mantle schrijven er in hun nieuwe boek over. Zij menen dat de Russische overheid getuigen die in de openbaarheid treden doelbewust in diskrediet brengt en bewijs achterhoudt.

‘UFO’ in de Oostzee

De commandanten zeggen getuige te zijn geweest van onbekende levensvormen, mysterieuze duikboten en UFO’s die schepen in zee dumpen. De meest merkwaardige meldingen hebben betrekking op vreemde wezens die ook wel ‘De Zwemmers’ worden genoemd. Het gaat om drie meter lange mensachtige wezens die op 50 meter diepte in de ijskoude wateren rond Siberië zouden leven.

Enorme vuurbal

Stonehill en Mantle vertellen hoe de Russische generaal-majoor V. Demyanenko zijn bemanning waarschuwde voor de wezens na een aantal vreemde waarnemingen in 1982. Marineduikers probeerden één van de wezens te vangen, waarna ze door een mysterieuze kracht naar het oppervlak werden geduwd.

Vanaf de stoomboot Raduga werd in 1965 in de Rode Zee een enorme vuurbal gezien die opsteeg vanuit de oceaan. Het object bleef ongeveer 150 meter boven het wateroppervlak hangen voordat het weer in zee dook.

Moederschip

Admiraal V.A. Domislovsky, inlichtingenhoofd van de Russische Pacifische Vloot, zag een 900 meter lang object in de Grote Oceaan. Er kwamen kleinere objecten uit die onder water verdwenen om even later weer terug te keren naar het moederschip.

Schout-bij-nacht Yury Beketov claimt als commandant van een kernonderzeeër UFO’s te hebben gezien in de Bermudadriehoek. Op zijn radarscherm zag hij hoe de objecten zich met een snelheid van 400 kilometer per uur voortbewogen onder het wateroppervlak.

De waarnemingen zijn gebundeld in het boek Russia’s USO Secrets.

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Oud-militair: “Agenten van Area 51 gaven me mee aan aliens”

Bill Brooks ging in 1968 bij het Britse leger en claimt te zijn ontvoerd door aliens terwijl hij was gestationeerd op een nucleaire basis bij het Duitse Sennelager. Dat schrijft de Daily Star.

Pas op 44-jarige leeftijd kwamen de herinneringen naar boven borrelen. Na een optreden zag de man, die inmiddels muzikant was geworden, een UFO waarna de herinneringen terugkwamen.

Volgens Brooks werd de basis bij Sennelager gedeeld met een aantal Amerikaanse agenten van Area 51, de geheimzinnige basis in de Nevadawoestijn. Hij was er naar eigen zeggen getuige van hoe soldaten werden ontvoerd. Het leek alsof ze gehypnotiseerd waren, aldus de ex-militair.

Man in het zwart

Bill Brooks (ET Newsroom)

Brooks werd door een man in het zwart gedwongen achter zijn collega’s aan te lopen. Wat er daarna is gebeurd weet hij niet meer. Naderhand kreeg hij te horen dat hij er niet over mocht praten en ook moest hij een geheimhoudingsverklaring ondertekenen.

Hij claimde ook te zijn onderworpen aan een aantal experimenten met mind control. Die zouden zijn uitgevoerd op de militaire basis Porton Down bij Salisbury. Hij heeft zijn ervaringen opgeschreven in een nieuw boek getiteld ’44: Based on an Ex-Soldier’s True Story of Life-Long Encounters Involving Alien Abduction’.

Brooks weet niet in hoeverre aliens en overheden samenwerken, maar denkt dat ingewijden ‘bang zijn voor wat ze kunnen doen’. Hij denkt dat de geheime diensten op de hoogte zijn van zijn ervaringen met aliens.

Geheimzinnigheid

Op de vraag of buitenaardse rassen een bedreiging vormen voor de mensheid, antwoordde hij: “Ik heb geen flauw idee, maar vanwaar al die geheimzinnigheid?”

In 1960 werd Brooks naar eigen zeggen als 10-jarig jongetje benaderd door vier zogenoemde Nordics; lange, blonde mensachtige wezens. Ze zeiden tegen hem dat ‘de aarde in gevaar was’ voordat ze hem meenamen aan boord van hun vaartuig.

Hij kreeg eerst te zien hoe hij zijn gedachten kon gebruiken om kleine bollen te verplaatsen. Daarna probeerden ze hem uit te leggen hoe hun aandrijfsysteem werkte. Later zou Brooks ook contact hebben gehad met de zogeheten Greys.

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Las Vegas witness captures two cigar UFOs on video

A Nevada witness at Las Vegas reported watching and videotaping two cigar-shaped UFOs moving overhead, according to testimony in Case 78282 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness had just left his home and turned onto the nearest street heading south at 7:45 p.m. on August 7, 2016, when the incident occurred.

“Two highly reflective objects caught my eye moving rather slowly at first,” the witness stated.“I immediately identified them as something I have never seen before flying in the sky.”

The witness has past experience around military bases.

“I have much experience growing up on military bases for the first 20+ years of my life, including living on SAC alert bases. I have much experience witnessing all types of military aircraft and am familiar with their flight capabilities. What I saw yesterday on August 7, 2016, was not military and not civilian.”

Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness then thought to shoot video.

“I immediately thought, take out cell phone. I tried to first capture a picture, which I did, but the object was hard to focus on. I immediately switched from static pictures to video using my Samsung Note 5. I was inside my Jeep Wrangler with family. All four of us saw the object, including my retired Army father.”

The witness and family members continued to watch the object.

“We watched the object fly northand then switch to a northeast direction heading towards Nellis AFB. At first, there were two objects. However, once the objects moved towards the northeast, the second object disappeared and I could only see the first and larger object.”

Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.

(Credit: MUFON)

Nevada MUFON is investigating. The witness included one video clip with the report, which was filed on August 8, 2016. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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STEEDS VAKER BLOTE OOG WAARNEMINGEN VAN NIBIRU

Niet alleen wij krijgen steeds vaker meldingen van mensen die een planeet nabij de zon met het blote oog waarnemen; over ter wereld komen dit soort dingen nu steeds vaker voor. 

Waar voorheen vaak nog speciale filters nodig waren om de planeet Nibiru en haar metgezellen te ontdekken, zo is dat nu vaak niet meer nodig. 

Volgens de laatste nieuwsbrief van Nancy Lieder en de Zeta’s komt het mini zonnestelsel nu snel dichterbij en worden er steeds vaker waarnemingen gedaan met het blote oog. 

De volgende afbeeldingen van een tweede zon zijn afkomstig uit die nieuwsbrief. 

De eerste opname is genomen in Laval in Quebec, Canada, op 1 juni dit jaar tijdens zonsopkomst. Omdat op de foto de tweede zon gedeeltelijk is verborgen achter een lantaarnpaal weten we dat hier niet met een lensflare te maken hebben.

Iets dergelijks werd ook waargenomen boven Griekenland op 4 augustus jl. Op de foto zijn duidelijk twee verschillende lichtbronnen te zien tijdens zonsopkomst.

Wat er ook te zien is rondom de zon als heldere bollen zijn wat men bij de Zeta’s maankolken noemt. Ze worden vaak in verwarring gebracht met Nibiru zelf, maar het is een apart fenomeen. Nibiru heeft een hele serie manen en ruimtepuin op sleeptouw. Deze manen draaien niet om de planeet, maar komen er als een soort sliert achteraan zweven, waardoor een soort draaikolken ontstaan. Doordat zonlicht door de lange buis schijnt die wordt gevormd door de kolk, wordt het licht geïntensiveerd en komt aan het eind van die tunnel tevoorschijn als bij een zaklantaarn. Deze maankolken en de lichtbollen die ze vormen zijn veel feller dan het licht van Nibiru zelf. 

Om dit soort dingen goed te zien, wordt meestal wel een filter gebruikt, zoals te zien is in de volgende opnames die met een zogenaamd Mylar filter zijn genomen in april dit jaar.

Volgens Nancy Lieder is de planeet Nibiru sinds 2003 in ons zonnestelsel en zijn sinds die tijd ook opnames gemaakt van de planeet en omringende manen. Waarnemingen met het blote oog echter, is iets dat eigenlijk nog maar sinds vrij kort plaatsvindt. 

Navolgend een aantal opnames die voornamelijk tot stand zijn gekomen via webcams, zoals de volgende in Italië:

Een gebied waar nu ook meer en meer waarnemingen worden gedaan met de webcams die de FAA daar geplaatst heeft voor piloten, is Alaska. 

Eerder waren er al opnames gemaakt via de Selawik webcam, maar ze verschijnen nu ook via de Kivalina webcam, waarvan de volgende twee opnames voorbeelden zijn.

Een fotograaf die bij de Zeta’s vaak wordt gepubliceerd, heet Alberto en hij fotografeert dit mini zonnestelsel al jaren met speciale filters. 

Op de onderstaande opname zie je Niburu op de rechterafbeelding op de zogenaamde "vijf uur" positie.

Ook wij krijgen regelmatig foto’s opgestuurd van lezers en vaak zitten daar helaas ook lensflares tussen. Blijft ze in ieder geval opsturen ook al weet je het niet zeker. We zijn altijd geïnteresseerd in iedere waarneming die is gedaan met het blote oog. 

Want, als de Zeta’s gelijk hebben, zullen er ook binnenkort blote oogwaarnemingen in onze streken moeten plaatsvinden.

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Tabby's Star The Alien Dyson Sphere - Shocking NASA Scientists KIC8462852, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Aug 2016
Location of discovery: KIC8462852

Conspiracy Files of Youtube reports that a Dyson Sphere called KIC8462852 has been found. This is 100% proof that aliens are advanced enough to harness the power of the sun. Sadly, this fact may be of interest to the public, but soon ignored as people lose attention on other more immediate needs. This is an incredible historical discovery that has only one solution...its a Dyson Sphere. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com  

Conspiracy Files states: 
Tabby's star shows evidence that there is an alien civilization building a Dyson Sphere aroundit. KIC8462852 truth of the Alien conspiracy .Has an alien civilization much more advanced than our own, built giant structures to orbit its own sun? After exhausting the energy supply of its home planet, did an alien race build a structure to capture more of its energy? These structures are known as Dyson spheres. A Dyson Sphere is a giant hypothetical structure built to surround a star and reflect back its energy. They were named after the physicist Freeman Dyson. If these aliens needed to harness the energy of their home star, they might construct enormous solar panels by the millions. Send them into orbit to beam starlight down to their planet’s surface. From earth NASA's Kepler telescope might see the star flicker in irregular ways as the giant panels circled around it. It’s very hard to describe how massive something like this would have to be.

Think of it this way. Science fiction of course right? Complete fantasy? Not so fast. Consider this.. KIC8462852. It has recently become the primary subject of much ongoing research. Also known as the The strange fluctuations in this star’s light are what caused Yale astronomer Tabetha (Tabby) Boyajian, who first discovered the star to describe it as… “The most mysterious star in the universe. We’d never seen anything like this star. It was really weird. Astronomer Bradley E. Schaefer from Louisiana State University's findings had suggested a long-term dimming of the Tabby star. A brightness decrease by 20 percent over the last century. That is highly difficult to explain by natural means. But it is consistent with the idea that aliens were gradually converting the material in the star’s planetary system into giant megastructures. Schaefer’s study has now been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Astrophysical Journal. Schaefer said that independent measures by astronomers show that Tabby’s star has indeed faded. The dips found by Kepler are real. Something seems to be transiting in front of this star, and we still have no idea what it is!”

Schaefer took a hard look at this mysterious star not only using the Kepler telescope data, but using a collection of roughly 500,000 sky photographs in the archives of Harvard College Observatory. Two independent sources now show Tabby Star is displaying unique and inexplicable photometric variations. These findings have scientists scratching their headOf course none have wanted to say that it is solid evidence of intelligent aliens. That's how you lose research grants. Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University has stated "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider. But this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build, We need to consider that perhaps we’ve caught an advanced alien civilization in the process of building something massive near KIC8462852.”

Could this be some sort of Dyson Sphere type mega-structure built by a highly advanced civilization? How likely is it for 648,000 giant-comets to exist around one star? And to have their orbits orchestrated so as to all pass in front of the star within the last century? This century-long dimming is a strong argument against the comet hypothesis to explain the Kepler dips. It has been going on for as long as we’ve had telescopes to point at the sky. The comets would have to be the size of a separate solarm system to explain it. Dr. Schaefer says that is “completely implausible.” As observed by the Kepler spacecraft, everyone agrees that Tabby Star's light can appear strongly and weirdly irregular. Anywhere from a fraction-of- a-percent to around 20 percent of the star’s light sometimes is apparently blocked. That’s why astronomers began talking about alien megastructures, the Dyson spheres. These vast structures are the best explanation for what might be periodically blocking the star’s light.

The SETI Institute is seriously researching the possibility that this stellar system might be home to an advanced civilization!!! To investigate this idea, scientists have been using the Allen Telescope Array to search for non-naturalm radio signals from the direction of the mystery star. This effort is looking for both narrow-band signals as well as somewhat broader transmissions that might be produced, for example, by powerful spacecraft. The world’s top astronomers of the SETI program have refused to rule out the possibility of an extraterrestrial mega structure orbiting the Tabby star. They have stated that they were unable to mdisprove the theory that a massive artificial structure is causing the mysterious light patterns spotted around the distant star. Here is Tabby's TED Talk, it's awesome!

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2 Mile UFO Seen Over Volcano In Mexico On Aug 16, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: August 16, 2016
Location of sighting: Popocatepetl, Mexico
Live cam: http://www.webcamsdemexico.com/webcam-popocatepetl

I caught this UFO sitting over the mouth of the volcano last night. Its shape is perfect and its size is 1.5-2 miles across. UFOs are often seen near this particular volcano in Mexico. The UFO is making its own cloud cloak, so as not to frighting anyone that sees it. 
Scott C. Waring
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UFO Caught On Video Over Brownsville, Texas Increases Speculations Of Underwater Alien Base Nearby

A UFO was captured on video hovering over Brownsville, Texas, causing supposition that it could be from a nearby underwater base as it was reportedly floating over water, just off the Gulf of Mexico. The witness of the odd sighting reported it to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He described the mysterious aerial thing as bright, oval shape moving slowly from left to right. The sighting took place when the witness was on his way back from a fishing trip.

The witness also noted in his report that a small object was trailing the big oval object, but that particular scene wasn’t captured on the video. The quality of the video may be poor and shaky, but it seems that’s all needed to start the discussion among UFO enthusiasts as to what the object might be and where it possibly originated.

Some conspiracy theorists suggest that the UFO may come from an underwater base nearby since it was first seen over the ocean.

Many claims have surfaced about the underwater UFO base off the coast of Cuba at Guantanamo Bay, near to where the strange object was spotted and filmed. A retired Marine reported early in March about his various UFO encounters just off the Cuban coast when he was stationed at the U.S. base in Cuba from 1968 to 1969. He recalled that those UFOs would surface out of the water or vanish into the waves of the Caribbean.

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Daytime flying saucer in the sky above Knoxville, Tennessee 16-Jun-2016

Here’s one new daytime photo of a disc-shaped object hovering in the sky above Knoxville in Tennessee. This was taken on 16th June 2016.

Witness report: 

High altitude White roundish non moving object.
On June 16, 2016 I was taking a break from mowing and sat in a chair in my driveway (which faces approx. 250 degrees SW) when I observer a white round object at about 240 degrees SW and about 70-75 degrees elevation ( I have a compass ap on my cell phone)What caught my attention was that it was not moving at all. At first I thought it was a weather ballon but I did not see any kind of trailing material. There were high thin clouds ( see photos ) out that day but the object was plainly visible I watch for about 15 minutes and it still did not appear to move. I keep a pair of binoculars in my PU truck so I got them and tried to seethe object more clearly. I was not able to steady these binoculars so I went into the house and got another pair (I like to bird watch so I have lots of binoculars) This did not work to my satisfaction (again not able to hold steady enough to improve my visibility) I then got out my Sony a77 digital camera that is fitted with a Sony 2.8/16-50 ssm lens. I also used a Sony 4.5-5.6/75-300 telephoto lens. I took a few pictures with the 2.8 lens and then installed the telephoto lens and a Quantaray 2X teleconverter. I then took more photos but was having difficulty focusing the lens I then tried to focus on trees and other objects closer by to see if I could the maximum distance focus function to work I took 4 or five pictures and did not realize that when I used the zoom in feature on the camera I had a reasonably clear picture of the object hat appeared to be the shape of a blood cell in white and it appeared to have numerous windows around the periphery of the disc. I attempted to repeat the focus adjustment. At this point Around 10:30 am the clouds increased (although not significantly)and I was no longer able to see the object. I thought about getting my tripod to help steady the camera, but after waiting another 15 minutes or so the object was no longer visible even though the clouds had dissipated. So that is what happened. I watch the local news and scanned the newspaper for a couple of days afterwards but saw no mention of anyone seeing this object.

Author (source: MUFON)

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Are we ready for contact with extraterrestrial intelligence?

The SETI project scientists are known for tracking possible extraterrestrial signals, but now they are also considering sending messages from Earth telling of our position. A researcher from the University of Cádiz (Spain) questions this idea in view of the results from a survey taken by students, revealing the general level of ignorance about the cosmos and the influence of religion when tackling these matters.

The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project is an initiative that began in the 70s with funding from NASA, but that has evolved towards the collaboration of millions of Internet users for the processing of data from the Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico), where space tracking is carried out.

Now the members of this controversial project are trying to go further and not only search for extraterrestrial signs, but also actively send messages from Earth (Active SETI) to detect possible extraterrestrial civilisations. Astrophysicists, such as Stephen Hawking, have already warned of the risk that this implies for humanity, since it could favour the arrival of beings with more advanced technology and dubious intentions.

The ethical and sociological implications of this proposal have been analysed by the neuro-psychologist Gabriel G. de la Torre, professor at the University of Cádiz and participant in previous projects such as Mars 500 or space psychology topical team project financed by the European Space Agency, who wonders: “Can such a decision be taken on behalf of the whole planet? What would happen if it was successful and ‘someone’ received our signal? Are we prepared for this type of contact?”

To answer these questions, the professor sent a questionnaire to 116 American, Italian and Spanish university students. The survey assessed their knowledge of astronomy, their level of perception of the physical environment, their opinion on the place that things occupy in the cosmos, as well as religious questions – for example, “do you believe that God created the universe?” – or on the likelihood of contact with extraterrestrials.

The results, published in the journal ‘Acta Astronautica’, indicate that, as a species, humanity is still not ready for trying to actively contact a supposed extraterrestrial civilisation, since people lack knowledge and preparation. For this reason, SETI researchers are recommended in this study to look for alternative strategies.

“This pilot study demonstrates that the knowledge of the general public of a certain education level about the cosmos and our place within it is still poor. Therefore, a cosmic awareness must be further promoted – where our mind is increasingly conscious of the global reality that surrounds us – using the best tool available to us: education,” De la Torre emphasised. ”In this respect, we need a new Galileo to lead this journey”.

It was deduced from the questionnaires, which will soon be available to everyone on line, that university students and the rest of society lack awareness on many astronomical aspects, despite the enormous progress of science and technology. It also revealed that the majority of people consider these subjects according to their religious belief and that they would rely on politicians in the event of a huge global-scale crisis having to be resolved.

“Regarding our relation with a possible intelligent extraterrestrial life, we should not rely on moral reference points of thought, since they are heavily influenced by religion. Why should some more intelligent beings be ‘good’?,” added the researcher, who believes that this matter should not be monopolized by a handful of scientists: “In fact, it is a global matter with a strong ethical component in which we must all participate”.

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Video – Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

https://youtu.be/0_YTil4R83E

It’s a cosmic game of hide-and-seek. A team of astronomers say that the next search for advanced extraterrestrial civilisations should look for stars – or even galaxies – that have vanished without a trace, as anything so unexplainable could only be due to life far more intelligent than us.

Beatriz Villarroel at Uppsala University in Sweden says this crazy idea has been gnawing at her since her first year of graduate studies. Now she and two undergraduates have finally taken the plunge. They scoured multiple surveys of the night’s sky by eye in order to see if any of nearly 300,000 light sources disappeared from one survey to the next.

So far the results are mixed. The team found one interesting artefact that looks like it might have vanished, but they can’t be sure. “It was a depressing case in the sense that we neither could reject it and neither could we say that it was a real candidate,” says Villarroel. Although the team checked for so-called false positives, throwing out hundreds of similar disappearing objects, this one withstood all tests – but only just.

Even if the disappearance is real, there could still be an astrophysical explanation. Quasars – the bright centres of galaxies powered by supermassive black holes – can shut down in less than a decade and drop drastically in brightness. Stars, too, can be highly variable.

Video – Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

That’s why Villarroel and her colleagues plan to search for this missing object (and any others found in the future), on the largest telescopes. If it is still not visible, then they will be able to rule out most astrophysical phenomena and say with more likelihood that it has vanished. Only then will they begin speculating about extraterrestrial causes

“I think it’s a very reasonable thing to do,” says Jay Olson at Boise State University, Idaho. “It’s a deliberate search for something very unusual, which could be hiding in existing data across time. At this stage of the game, it’s a very limited search, but it illustrates well what can be accomplished.”

Unlike Tabby’s Star, a baffling star that dips in brightness and made headlines last year when astronomers suggested that “alien megastructures” could be the culprit, these objects would have no physical culprit behind their sudden disappearance – it’s just not possible for something to suddenly vanish from the universe without a trace. Instead, Villarroel and her colleagues invoke Arthur C. Clarke’s third law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

So while other teams search for possible signatures of astro-engineering like the one suspected around Tabby’s star, Villarroel and her colleagues are searching for things that seem impossible. If they confirm a star that has vanished without an accompanying supernova explosion or a galaxy that has disappeared from view, there’s simply no physical explanation – save for aliens. 

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If we ever came across aliens, would we be able to understand them?

If we ever came across aliens, would we be able to understand them?

Many scientists believe that alien civilisations exist. For them, the question is now whether we will encounter them in the near future or a very long time from now, rather than if at all. So let’s imagine that we suddenly stand face-to-face with members of an alien species. What would we do first? Surely communicating that we come in peace would be a priority. But would we ever be able to understand each other?

The one thing we can be confident about exchanging with aliens is scientific information. If the laws of the universe are the same everywhere, then different descriptions of these laws should, in principle, be equivalent. This is the rationale behind initiatives like The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI).

Matters are more complicated when it comes to language, which is the single most important factor in human cooperation. It is by communicating our intentions that we are able to work together in surprisingly large groups. For this reason, it is plausible that any technologically versatile alien civilisation would have something like language. Can we expect to learn such an alien language?

The first hurdle would be its medium. Humans communicate in a 85-255Hz frequency range of sound and in the 430-770 THz frequency range of light. This is unlikely to be true of aliens, who will have evolved differently. Nevertheless, the problem is largely a technical one. Speeded up whale songs that are otherwise inaudible to humans, for instance, show that it is relatively easy to map “alien” stimuli into forms that humans can perceive.
The more difficult question is whether we would ever be able to learn the internal structure of an alien language. Existing perspectives in the psychology of language give two very different answers.

The generativist approach, which holds that the structure of language is hardwired into the brain, suggests this wouldn’t be possible. It argues that humans come with an inbuilt universal grammar that has a specific number of settings – each corresponding to the acceptable order in which words and parts of words can be arranged in a given language system. The language we hear in early life activates one of these settings, which then allows us to distinguish between valid and invalid ways of combining words.

The key point is that the number of grammars is very limited. Though the rules of human languages can and do vary, proponents of the generativist model argue they can only do so within strict parameters. For example, the “head directionality” parameter determines whether the verbs in a language precede or follow their complements, with English being head-initial (“Bob gave a cake to Alice”) and Japanese being head-final (“Bob to Alice a cake gave”).

For generativists, it is extremely unlikely that an alien species would happen to have the same parameters as human beings. In the words of Noam Chomsky, the leading proponent of this view:
If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili … We’re designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language. But we’re not designed to learn perfectly usable languages that violate universal grammar.

The cognitive view, on the other hand, sees semantics (structures of meaning) as being more important than syntax (structures of grammar). According to this view, sentences like “quadruplicity drinks procrastination” are syntactically well-formed but semantically meaningless. For this reason, proponents of the cognitive view argue that grammar alone is not enough to understand language. Instead, it needs to be partnered with knowledge of the concepts that structure how language users think.

We can also look at our own world to see how organisms can have striking similarities, even if they have developed in very different ways and in contrasting environments. This is known as “convergent evolution”. In physical terms, for example, wings and eyes have independently emerged among animals through evolution at several different times over, and birds in ecologically isolated New Zealand have evolved behaviours typically seen in mammals elsewhere. The cognitive view offers hope that human and alien languages might be mutually intelligible.

Some argue that even the most advanced human concepts are built up from basic building blocks that are shared across species, such as notions of past and future; similarity and difference; and agent and object. If an alien species manipulates objects, interacts with its peers and combines concepts, the cognitive approach therefore predicts there might be enough mental architecture in common to make its language accessible to humans. It is implausible, for instance, that an alien species that reproduced biologically would lack concepts for distinguishing between genetically related and unrelated groups.

But is the cognitive view correct? Research on neural networks shows that languages could be learned without specialised structures in the brain. This is important because it means there may be no need to postulate an innate universal grammar to explain language acquisition. Also, it seems there may be human languages that don’t fit in the universal grammar framework. Though these results are far from conclusive (for instance, they can’t explain why humans alone seem to have language), the evidence leans towards the cognitive account.

So, it might be reasonable to assume that humans could learn alien languages. Clearly, there would probably always be aspects of an alien language (like our poetry) that are inaccessible. Equally, some species may occupy such a different mental universe that it is only broadly equivalent to that of humans. Nevertheless, I think we can be cautiously optimistic that universal structures in the physical, biological and social worlds would be enough to anchor human and alien languages in a common semantic framework. 

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‘Sensationele vondst': Eerste piramide ontdekt in Kazachstan

In een afgelegen gebied op de steppe van Kazachstan is een nog onbekende piramide ontdekt. Het bouwwerk moet ooit sterk hebben geleken op de Egyptische piramides. De piramide die in Kazachstan is gevonden, is alleen een stuk ouder.

Archeologen hebben de piramide vorig jaar ontdekt, maar hielden hun ‘sensationele vondst’ stil. Wetenschappers gaan de komende dagen een nog ongeopende grafkamer van het piramidecomplex verkennen.

Machtige stam

De piramide is meer dan 3000 jaar geleden jaar geleden gebouwd in Saryarka voor een leider van een machtige lokale stam, aldus archeoloog Viktor Novozhenov. Alles wat de onderzoekers gaan aantreffen wordt overgebracht naar het archeologiemuseum van de Staatsuniversiteit van Karaganda.

Piramide van Djoser (Wikicommons)

“De vorm van dit schitterende bouwwerk doet ons denken aan de beroemde Piramide van Djoser in Egypte,” zei Novozhenov. In de Sovjettijd werden politieke ballingen verscheept naar Karaganda.

Eerste

Er zijn in de regio inmiddels 27 constructies gevonden die dateren van verschillende tijdperken. Het grootste gebouw bestaat uit vijf stenen trappen. De grafkamer is ruim zeven meter breed. Hoewel er eerder al piramides zijn aangetroffen in Egypte, Mexico en China, is dit de eerste die in Kazachstan is gevonden.

De Britse egyptoloog Toby Wilkinson beargumenteerde in The Guardian dat piramides altijd gericht zijn naar de Poolster en op basis van hun vorm kunnen worden gezien als lanceerplatform voor de reis van de farao naar het hiernamaals tussen de sterren. Hij voegde toe dat de oude Egyptenaren hun inspiratie voor de piramides mogelijk uit de ruimte haalden.

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‘Platform-like’ UFO spotted hovering near Arkansas nuclear plant

An Arkansas witness at Dover reported watching a “bright, flashy, platform-like object” hovering near the nuclear plant in Russellvillle, according to testimony in Case 61651 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The object was noticed beginning about 1 a.m. on November 8, 2014, which was about 20 miles from the witnesses’ home.

“It emitted multi-colored lights as it stay stationary in the sky,” the witness stated. “For the next following two hours I would check on it periodically.”

The object moved at about 3 a.m.

The witness saw the object hovering near the nuclear power plant near Russellville, AR.

(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

“It ascended a flight path over my house and was completely out of view within three minutes. Object had no sound and had a strange electromagnetic-like feeling pulsate through my body as it flew over me.”

The witness has tracked other objects in the area and has experience flying aircraft.

Russellville is about 75 miles northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas. (Credit: Google)

Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO) is a two-unit pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant located on Lake Dardanelle just outside Russellville, Arkansas. It is the only nuclear power plant in Arkansas. It is owned by Entergy Arkansas and operated by Entergy Nuclear.

Please remember that most UFO sighting can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

Source www.openminds.tv

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Une «seconde Terre» découverte, l'exoplanète la plus proche connue à ce jour

ESPACE Elle se trouverait dans la zone « d’habitabilité », où de l’eau à l’état liquide peut exister...

Proxima du Centaure photographiée par Huble en 2013. C'est autour de cette étoile que la nouvelle exoplanète observée serait en orbite.

 ESA/Hubble & NASA

Elle n’a pas de nom, et sa découverte n’a même pas encore été officialisée, mais l’exoplanète apparue récemment dans le viseur des astrophysiciens agite déjà la communauté scientifique. Cette « seconde Terre », comme elle est déjà surnommée, à cause de ses caractéristiques voisines de notre planète, se trouve en effet tout près de nous, à « seulement » 4,24 années-lumière, soit la bagatelle de 40 milliards de kilomètres.

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« Jamais les scientifiques n’avaient découvert une "seconde Terre" si proche », s’enthousiasme le magazine allemand Der Spiegel, selon lequel les astrophysiciens de l’Observatoire européen austral (ESO) doivent annoncer fin août la trouvaille. Pour mettre cette proximité en perspective, rappelons que Kepler 452b, dont la découverte a été annoncée l’été dernier, et considérée jusque-là comme l’exoplanète « la plus semblable à la Terre », se trouve à environ 1.400 années-lumière de chez nous.

« Nous étions aux limites de ce qui est techniquement possible de mesurer »

La nouvelle planète, qui orbite autour de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du système solaire, se trouverait, selon l’hebdomadaire, dans la zone « d’habitabilité » où de l’eau à l’état liquide peut exister, ce qui constitue une condition importante à l’existence de la vie.

Mais ses découvreurs se montrent pour l’instant extrêmement peu diserts. Un porte-parole de l’ESO, Richard Hook, a indiqué avoir pris connaissance de l’article, mais s’est refusé à confirmer ou démentir. « Nous ne faisons pas de commentaires », a-t-il simplement déclaré à l’Agence France Presse. « Trouver ce corps spatial était un travail très difficile, a confié un astrophysicien à Der Spiegel, sous couvert d’anonymat. Nous étions aux limites de ce qui est techniquement possible de mesurer. »

MOTS-CLÉS :

• Espace, 
• exoplanètes, 
• astronomie

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