How Would Alien Life Forms Look And Behave On A Habitable Planet Around A Red Dwarf Star?

The largest population of stars in the galaxy hide in the shadows, too dim to be seen with the naked eye from Earth. Their limited radiance helps to extend their lifetimes, which are far greater than that of the sun. Scientists think that 20 out of the 30 stars nearest to Earth are red dwarfs; however, none of them can be seen with the naked eye. The closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri, is a red dwarf.

Take the example of the recently discovered planet called Kepler 186f. It orbits a red dwarf star that has only 4% of the sun’s luminosity. It appears to have liquid water and to be habitable and it seems to have gravity similar to Earth. Due to their low luminosity, how do you think lifeforms would look like on a planet like this? There are a lot of factors that need to be considered, and most exoplanets are too far for those factors to be observed directly with current instruments.

Let’s first ponder the possible environments of a planet circling a red dwarf.

What would the sky looks like?

For a blue sky: A planet needs to have a thick atmosphere with an abundance of oxygen, and preferably a clear ocean of water or methane. To have a thick atmosphere the planet will need to have a strong magnetosphere. To have a strong magnetosphere the planet will need to have a large, solid iron inner core rotating quickly within a fluid iron outer core. To have such a core, the planet must be larger than a certain size, and must have been born after a certain amount of time after the big bang, and in a region of space relatively populated by iron dust created largely through supernovae and nucleosynthesis.

For a red sky: consider Mars. Its atmosphere is 1% of Earth’s, and appears red because the ground is red. It’s literally rust. To have such a minimal atmosphere, Mars or any planet would likely have lost its magnetosphere. For that to be the case geological activity and core motion would need to have been dropped nearly to nothing (Mars in fact has some magnetism in the southern hemisphere). To be rust the planet must have a considerable amount of iron, so it needs to have accreted during a period when iron has been nucleosynthesized in abundance, and it needs to have formed in a region of space in which that is the case.

Let’s assume the planet has the same mass as Earth and is in the circumstellar habitable zone which, around Red Dwarfs, would be very close to the star. Tidal-locking would be inevitable, but models predict that atmospheric equilibration is potentially possible between the starward side and its opposite if CO2 and H20 are present. Still, the climate might be pretty turbulent, so expect the need for sturdy shelters capable of thermo-regulation.

The luminosity of a Red Dwarf is no more than 10% of our sun’s, so it will be like living in perpetual twilight. Plants will need to photosynthesize much more efficiently, perhaps via black analogues of chlorophyll.

Life forms could have a very similar metabolisms to earthly organisms. But who knows they might not even be a carbon based lifeforms. Metabolisms are a function of the chemical environment they evolve in. Life that evolve in an ammonia rich atmosphere would be very different than on that evolved in a sulfur rich atmosphere.

I would think that they would evolve big, big eyes or light sensors.  It is logical to assume that their visual system would extend into the infrared end of the electromagnetic spectrum, since a red dwarf’s visible light emission peaks in the red portion of the spectrum.

They would not see colors like we do. They could see inside thick dust clouds, obscured galacticcores, and other hidden regions of the cosmos. These unique abilities are thanks to infrared light, a wavelength invisible to the human eye.

Space would look like this to them:

This is how they would see us humans:

How might they observe us?

In infrared our petty reasons for racism and xenophobic behavior completely vanishes.

Looking at us humans in the infrared like these aliens could, it would be impossible for them to understand our human failing of unenlightened racism. They would not see the superficial characteristic of white, black, red or yellow skin. In infrared we would all appear to be the same.

We are all the SAME even when not viewed in infrared but many people still do not understand that.

Their physical size and bodily configuration depends on the gravity of the planet.  Massive planet, massive life forms. Smaller planet, thinner lighter life forms. If there are aquatic life forms, they are probably on the level of algae and flagellates. Colors of organisms will be in the white to pale region.

Red Dwarfs are thought to have frequent stellar flares. If you’re caught outside at the start of one, you better have a radiation-resistant coat that will envelop you rapidly.

Check out the free-access special issue on “M star planet habitability” in the journal Astrobiology, http://www.liebertonline.com/toc…, in particular the paper by Tarter et al. NASA and NSF broadly agree, and are funding searches for planets in the M-dwarf habitable zone – have a look at the presentation by Bean at this year’s Exploring Strange New Worlds exoplanet conference – http://nexsci.caltech.edu/confer…

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Extraterrestrial Life Does Exist. Why Should They Be Hostile Towards Us?

When legendary broadcaster Orson Welles gave his suspenseful 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, it caused a perhaps overblown but nonetheless real panic among Americans who mistook it for news reportage. And while “invaders from Mars” laying waste to the world now seems unlikely, scientists are worried that a similar broadcast in the future could be relating a real alien invasion — and not just one from across our porous southern border.

Astronomers have listened for signals from alien civilizations since 1960, when the Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake co-opted the national observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia, to launch Project Ozma. S.E.T.I Advocates are perhaps driven by frustration after 60 years of listening to the Cosmos and hearing nothing but cosmic crickets. But might our messages serve as a homing beacon for beings less like the cute E.T. and more akin to the rampaging aliens in Independence Day or Darth Vader and his Death Star? That’s the worry.

But is it a worry that is grounded in reality, no matter what Stephen Hawking might proclaim? It makes sense on some levels and then not on others. The only verifiable source of life which we have is our own bubble on Earth. So when reasoning by our own example…be afraid ….be very afraid.

Reason being is that life is very often hostile to other life. Look at the trials of life in nature and the trials of life in the newspapers. Mans inhumanity to man …. All Lives clearly do not matter.

Predators kill their prey. Many herbivores are highly aggressive and will attack and sometimes kill other animals (e.g. boars, hippopotamuses). Many animals fight, injure and potentially kill members of their own species (e.g. males fighting for mating rights). Chimpanzees go to war with other groups of chimpanzees. Anthills to go war with other anthills.

Look at humans. We are pretty damn hostile to other life – we’ve exterminated countless species, and other species we keep enslaved in conditions of horrendous suffering so that we can eat them (e.g. chickens, pigs).

This is not done out of deliberate malice. No one said: “Let’s go wipe out those damned dodos!” It is done out of convenience – an aggregate of small actions and in actions that each serves to make someone’s life nicer in the long or short run.

I saw a chart comparing species by the number of human deaths they’re responsible for in an average year. Sharks weighed in at the bottom of the list, with only 10 human casualties a year. Humans were about tied for first place with mosquitoes, each of them weighing in at close to a million. If you scoped a species like this flying around in the boundless expanse of the universe, wouldn’t your first impulse be to grab a can of Raid and let them have it?

But does it have to be that way?

What about the nature of any (hypothetical) extraterrestrial life? Does brawn win over brains? Does life take life all over the Universe?

Here are a few points to ponder:

1) One hypothesis points out that the incredible level of technology any space-faring species must have achieved indicates that it has successfully navigated its innate tendencies (if any) toward violence, evolving wisdom and social skills. A species like this would welcome with joy a new species — not kill it.

2) Another hypothesis points out that any extraterrestrial species is bound to be so different from us that we could never be able to achieve mutual understanding or even recognition. A species like this might be inimical to our interests — or even our survival — not because of hostility, but because of indifference or unawareness. They might exterminate us the way we blindly make other species extinct when they are under our radar. According to this theory, there is no special reason that they would consider humans (or any other earth species) as interesting — or even visible. In that case, they might bump us off accidentally while they used our atmosphere, for example, for some strange actions only they understand.

3) A third hypothesis suggests that the motives of an extraterrestrial species may be as alien to us as the motives of insects. They might ferociously pursue their horrifying goals of killing us for food or egg chambers or whatever. They may need all our organics, or all our females, or all our air or water. Or they may have inscrutable goals, but instantly fly into a screaming death attack — stopping at nothing, including machine gun fire — if, for example, we try to control the neat stacks of geometric prisms (which exude a deadly toxin) they are placing everywhere.

So extraterrestrial creatures may be benevolent, indifferent, or malevolent. On what basis can we make a prediction? On what evidence would we rely to assert a conclusion?

I can not provide any evidence but what I can provide is a point of view.

I am a firm believer that the more intelligent something is the more avenues, aspects, possibilities one can go through or mull over in any given situation. The smarter one is, the Universe becomes less and less black and white. Infinite shades of probability grey exist which are not available to creatures without advanced perceptions, advanced intelligence. The choice of violence and destruction is just one option in a ever increasing venue of options which is available for the advanced intellect. In that perspective I believe it will always be moreadvantageous to create then destroy. Advanced life will respect life in all its forms and handily work out any conflicts that may arise to create win-win scenarios. In the light of ever increasing accounts of UAP’s. This may be why we are still here and pondering such a question.

YOU must note that I am NOT referring to Humans, I am referring to INTELLIGENT life in the Universe.

We are not it. We have only been out of the proverbial caves for the most fleeting instant of cosmic deep time.

But who knows, I always reserve the right to be wrong…

If an alien species invades Earth and destroys or enslaves humanity, it will most likely not be out of malice but out of convenience. Grand Admiral Gorignax does not hate humans, but he reallywants that third conquest medal. His brother-in-law already has three conquest medals, and Mrs. Gorignax has been nagging him about it to no end. You don’t want little Gorignax Junior to go through the horrors of a divorce and custody battle, do you? I’m sorry, but in order to preserve this family, those humans will have to go.

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Assuming E.T. Can Control Gravity What Other Capabilities Can We Expect Them To Have?

The actual way that the universe works is the same everywhere, however, every intelligent life form will have a different understanding of it. Not only have our laws of physics changed over time, even today, different people have different interpretations of how things work. The more advanced a civilization becomes the closer their model of reality will match the actual universe.

While eventually any two independently developed set of laws of physics should converge, Their current similarity will depend both on how different they were to start with and how much progress has been made.

We don’t understand how gravity works. We understand the effects. It is an attractive force in three dimensions. The ‘fabric’ analogy is a tool to help us visualize what is happening. Space-Time is not real. It is a tool to help us figure out reality. We say gravity bends space time because we can understand that. In reality, nothing is bent, there is no ‘fabric’, and so far as we have discovered, there is no actual entity that we call ‘time.’ Time is another tool we use to help us figure out our reality and what is happening in our reality. Neither the time particle/wave nor the gravity particle/wave has been confirmed. It has been recently glimpsed but that is notconfirmation. Only the effects have been seen or discovered. Like a shadow, when we see it, we know that there is something blocking the light, but in the cases of time and gravity, when we look, we can not find the actual entity that is causing the effect.

Gravity control and inertia suggest that they might posses some form of reactionless drive. A reactionless drive is a device to generate motion without a propellant, presumably incontradiction to the law of conservation of momentum. The name comes from Newton’s third law, which is usually expressed as, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” A large number of infeasible devices, such as the “Dean drive”, are a staple of science fiction, particularly for space propulsion. To date, no reactionless drive has ever been validated under properly controlled conditions. Since we do not have theory of quantum gravity it might be possible to construct such drive by an advanced intergalactic intelligence.

Since such feats would require lot of understanding of basic physical laws we can assume that any race with such capability have quantum theory of gravity and can exploit it to practical gains.

Having control over gravity permits interesting industrial processes to become possible. Assuming that one have not limitation over it one can imagine that the aliens could create what is essentially a “matter furnace” using gravity to create something like accretion disk allowing conversion matter to energy – far safer than antimatter power.

To be a master of gravity means you are a master of time as well. Times fiery arrow relentless chugging forward can be stopped in it’s tracks. Time would be putty in the hands of these advanced intelligence’s. They could stop time, stretch it and make it their plaything. They may not age and they may be timeless.

To control gravity is to control the Universe at a level at this time we can only dream of. It brings sources of propulsion and energy that would appear as magic to us hairless apes.

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Simple Solution To The Fermi Paradox

The Fermi paradox asks “if there are other advanced alien species, why haven’t we detected them?”. If you delve into this topic you will find a whole lot of utter nonsense written about Kardashev scales, Von Neumann probes and Dyson spheres as if those were even a thing.

Here’s the deal … Space is a really big place. Really really gi-friggin-normously big! One Light-year is $9.46\times {\mathrm{10^}}^{15}m$. Let’s call it 10,000,000,000,000 (10 trillion) km give or take.

The first part of the paradox is “why haven’t we heard from them?”

We can only observe objects at interstellar distances by measuring their light and radio emissions, i.e. electromagnetic radiation. EM radiation spreads out in spherically expanding waves, so the Inverse-square law predicts that EM intensity declines with the square of the distance from the source.

If we plug in some numbers we can see that in standard MKS units, if our hypothetical alienbuddies orbiting Proxima broadcast a signal of $1w/m^2$ toward us here on Earth it would decline to only $0.5\times {\mathrm{10^-}}^{34}w/m^2$ by the time it got here. We can multiply that by any output level we like to get the potential intensity of EM at that distance. For reference, the intensity of theCosmic microwave background radiation is about $3.7\times {\mathrm{10^}}^{-18}w/m^2$.

There are clever tricks that radio astronomers can use with arrays of receivers and by focusing on areas of the radio frequency spectrum that aren’t “naturally occurring”, but even so our alien civilization’s total output would be roughly 13-16 orders of magnitude below the cosmic microwave background. It’s likely none of their signal would be recoverable with our current technology. It is argued that ETs would be blasting a much more powerful signal our way. Perhaps they are, but even if they are shooting megawatts our way, it’s still going to be many orders below the cosmic microwave background when it gets here.

And why would they want to shout at us like that anyway? Here on Earth, there is no need to “shout”. Most of our terrestrial communicationsis broadcast within the atmosphere at signal strengths in the single digit integer watt range (there are spectacular exceptions like the Taldom transmitter in Russia). Very little of our radio noise leaks to space because it is intended for communication on Earth. It’s a safe bet the aliens would also use moderate to low power communications as well – if they even use EM at all. So even if they are “close” we probably wouldn’t notice.

The second part of the paradox is “why haven’t they visited us yet?”

Everywhere looks just like everywhere else in space. We have a hard time even detecting the existence of (Earth-sized) planets in the Goldilocks zone about nearby stars. Our smarter cousins may be better at it than us, but they suffer from the same tyranny of distance. Relativity dictates that nothing physical can travel at (or realistically, even close to) the speed of light. There may not be any aliens zipping along in starships.

At the kinds of speeds we can reach now (0.00023c) any star is more than ten thousand years away from us. If we could go a hundred times faster (say 0.01c), a trip to the Alpha Centauri group is 400-800 years (optimistically) because we have to accelerate and decelerate at the other end. Our ETs have the same physics we do and have to overcome the same limits. They might travel at higher speeds, but unless they are vastly more long lived than we are, they simply won’t survive the trip. But at 0.1c they might be in the ballpark.

Here is another take on this apparent paradox… 

Lets imagine that the chance of self-destruction for an advanced civilization is ~100% before they become capable of roaming the universe.

Here are some of the common musings which I think are wrong.

1) The Universe Is A Big Place

That doesn’t work. Whatever method we apply to compute how many life-friendly planets are out there, we always arrive at ridiculously large numbers. Considering time + statistics, that means many alien civilizations should exist right now that are highly evolved. If we take the human progress trajectory into the next 1000 years, it’s obvious that we will find ways to bridge very large distances quickly (much faster than light).

There would be tremendously powerful technology, and the first thing you do with this technology is to search for life. Even we with super-primitive tech know how to search for life (but we are lacking the hardware for expeditions).

2) Advanced Cultures Will Turn Inside, Not Outside

Unlikely. Whatever species wins the millions of years of selection will be expansive and aggressive by nature. This is not going away, ever, because that’s who we (and they) are – because if we wouldn’t, we wouldn’t exist.

The assumptions that advanced civilizations will remove the very core that defines who they are is flawed, people (and aliens) don’t do this. In fact, a conscious mind is very likely to be incapable of removing itself. Statistics and tech trajectories simply can’t explain why the universe isn’t humming with high tech aliens.

Unless we turn our attention to certain inevitable dynamics inside these civilizations. The chance an advanced civilization self-destructs before it reaches universe roaming capability approximates 100%.  I call it the self-destruction paradigm.

Here is my reasoning and some number games:

Let’s safely assume that every alien high tech civilization reaches a point where it can easily self-destruct. Humanity reached that point in the 20th century. And it’s getting exponentially worse with every day.

Let’s define self-destruction as a civilizational regression back to a point where high tech space travel becomes difficult – a major set back in terms of science, culture and technology. Like a nuclear war, artificial intelligence nightmare or disintegration of the planetary ecosystem.

Let’s also assume that with increasing technology, the number of people needed to initiate self-destruction becomes exponentially smaller: in 1950, you needed one of 2 major countries to initiate human self destruction. Today, you need not more than a network of 100, maybe 1000 bad guys who hack their way towards a few dozen nukes. In the close future, one hacker who creates a self-conscious, evil artificial intelligence. In his basement might be enough.

Now, let’s consider the time between the point at that a civilization reaches self-destructioncapability, and the point at that it could freely roam and screen the universe for alien life.

It’s very hard to exactly estimate this timeline, but it will be quite significant. Let’s say 10,000 years, assuming truly exponential technology growth.

Now, what are the odds that the civilization will self-destruct within this timeline?

Pretty quickly (given exponential scales), a very small number of people – maybe every single member – of the civilization will have the power to destroy the civilization. To make things easier to compute, let’s assume it’s in average 100 hundred people who have to collude to self-destruct. We can also safely assume perfect connectivity between all members, except for the very first decades.

Let’s also assume, based on humanity, an average population of 100 billion people (we are already at 7 billion, so 100 billion average over the next 10,000 years is quite low).

This means all it takes is 100 people out of 100 billion to collude to self-destruct the civilization – and it only has to happen once during these 10,000 years. Let’s assume it takes one month for the evil group to plot and execute the self-destruction (also very lenient given that most of the time they will have super-artificial intelligence at their disposal).

That’s right: you have to make sure continuously over 10,000 x 12 months = 120,000 months that no group of 100 out of 100 billion people decides to go wild, ever.

It’s also pretty safe to assume that there is no security system in the world to prevent them from doing it, since this level of control is hard to imagine. Maybe there are some safety measures in place to screen for deviants, but at this scale, it’s a problem.

So basically this civilization must reach a level of wisdom, foresight and absolutely flawless caring-for-each-other system that out of 100 billion, there will never be 100 people who are pissed or crazy enough to destroy the civilization.

It might be possible to build a wisdom infrastructure like this, but it’s a herculean task.

And I think that all advanced alien civilizations so far have failed to achieve it.

Humanity is utterly unprepared to live up to this task. Fortunately, it will take another 100 or so years before we reach levels of easy universally accessible self-destruction capability. Unfortunately, 100 years is not a lot of time to invent a new wisdom infrastructure that ensures not a single member of the human race has a reason to go crazy.

You can think about the self-destruction paradigm both theoretically / mathematically and from a concrete threat assessment perspective. Combine exponential biotech, physics engineering, AI and software with terrorism and plot it on a 30 year trajectory from today, and you already get a feeling of the problem. Now do it over the next 100 years, and the problem becomes an existential, high-probability threat.

As I eluded to before – self-destruction doesn’t always mean total annihilation.

But if you get set back 10% of the total every 100 years, you can’t go beyond 1000 years of advancement. And you will never roam the universe freely and scan for aliens everywhere, even though it’s so close on your tech trajectory.

I don’t think the “paradox” is a paradox at all. It is based on wildly optimistic assumptions about the ease of detection of alien signals. SETI has been processing radio-telescope data for decades without a single result. We have reasonable lower bounds for the distance to possible civilizations that are most likely 2-10 times as far as Proxima. There’s no reason at all to believe alien civilizations are just dying to get here and meet us.

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NASA WARNS: Asteroid Could Hit Earth causing ‘Immense Suffering And Death’

No, it’s not YET ANOTHER conspiracy theory, Armageddon propaganda or end-of-the-world story, but it seems that NASA is worried about the 500-meter Asteroid which is why the Space Agency will send a probe to visit the potential Armageddon asteroid and study it in detail.

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If the Asteroid impacts Earth, it would be similar to setting off 3 BILLION tons of explosive.

 

An asteroid named Bennu which can be seen from Earth as it crosses our orbit every six years could potentially cause ‘Immense Suffering And Death’, and NASA is planning to build a space probe in order to collect rock samples from the Asteroid in fears it may collide with our planet.

 

The asteroid which is around 500 meters in diameters and traveling around the sun at 63,000 miles-per-hor will pass between the Earth and the moon in the year 2135.

 

• “That 2135 fly-by is going to tweak Bennu’s orbit, potentially putting it on course for the Earth later that century,” Dante Lauretta, professor of planetary science at Arizona University, told The Sunday Times

 

“It may be destined to cause immense suffering and death,” he added.

 

While researchers will have a hard time prediction how close the approach of the asteroid between the Earth and the moon will be and how much its orbit will be affected by the fly-by near Earth, Lauretta estimates that it COULD SHIFT the asteroid onto a COLLISION course with Earth.

 

‘We estimate the chance of impact at about one in 2,700 between 2175 and 2196,’ said Dante Lauretta.

 

The OSRIS-Rex space probe is set to launch in September and land on the asteroid in 2018. According to researchers, it will spend one year on the surface of Bennu, and it will collect samples of rock before heading back to Earth in 2023.

 

 

If the Asteroid impacts Earth, it would be similar to setting off 3 BILLION tons of explosive.

 

If the mission goes through successfully, it will be the FIRST to visit an asteroid and return with samples to Earth.

 

According to Lauretta, samples from the asteroid could provide ‘vital data for future generations’.

 

In order to pick up a sample and head back to Earth, the spacecraft will ‘hover’ over a targeted area where it will lower itself at 10 centimeters per second and will remain in touch with the surface for only five seconds, while it vacuums the target area collecting samples from the asteroid.

 

Scientists will take advantage of the asteroid-visiting mission and study the building blocks of life by researching the minerals located beneath the surface of Bennu.

 

Hopefully, this isn’t anywhere similar to the story of the movie Armageddon, but if it is, will someone please gather the boys and girls from the film and give Bruce Willis a call?

 

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Fear and Loathing Regarding UFOs

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UFO over St. Louis! Strange light over Famous Gateway Arch sparks debate, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

 

The UFO is actually a grey metallic orb. 

Date of sighting: August 2016
Location of sighting: St. Louis Arch, Missouri
News source: 

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/08/05/ufo-over-st-louis-strange-light-over-gateway-arch-sparks-debate.html


This UFO is a metallic grey orb. The UFO is very big, car size when compared to the arch under it. The UFO does not look like its flashing light, but I believe one surface of the UFO is dull grey metallic  in nature from what I see in the close ups I made. Its shape is perfectly round. Excellent catch by Chase Rhoads of Youtube. 
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News states:
A strange light that hovered over the St. Louis Gateway Arch this week is sparking plenty of debate on the internet.

Surveillance footage recorded at Malcolm W Martin Memorial Park on Tuesday and posted to Facebook shows the mysterious object hovering over the famous arch. “We guarantee you will be perplexed if you watch all 5 minutes of this surveillance footage!” explained the Park, in a post on its Facebook page. The video has been viewed 615,000 times.

Possible explanations for the light suggested by commenters on Facebook include a drone with a unidirectional light or a Chinese lantern.

Fox 2 News also received video footage of the odd light from Chase Rhoads, who said that he saw something strange over the arch early Tuesday morning. Scott Air Force Base said there was nothing out of the ordinary to report when contacted by Fox 2 News, and a spokesman for the National Park Service said there were no reports of anything strange on Tuesday.

This is not the first time that a mysterious object has been spotted near the St. Louis landmark. Video from the same camera at Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park also captured an unexplained object that appeared in broad daylight on July 14 2016.

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UFO OVNI over Coahuila Mexico July 15, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 15, 2016
Location of sighting: Choahuila, Mexico

This is a dark UFO thats moving across a overcast sky. The UFO is dark, barrel shape, and has a slight thin dome over its top. Mexico is notorious for its UFO sightings, maybe because they are so close to the ocean where underwater bases existed for thousands of years, or maybe because of all the bases below the volcanos for thousands of years. I believe the ancient Mayans and Aztecs are descendants of one of these alien species that lives in this region. 
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Pair of UFOs Fly Over Neighborhood In New York on July 31, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 31, 2016
Location of sighting:  Peekskill, New York, USA

This UFO has a wingman. There are two UFOs here that fly one over the other at the same speed. These UFOs were over Peekskill, New York just last week and moving silently over a small neighborhood. Great video, by Latest UFO UFOvni of Youtube.
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Men In Black Are Suspects of Murdering UFO Researchers

Conspiracy theory on the death of UFO researchers has surfaced after a second person of their field died this month. Paranormal investigator Max Spiers, who had claimed he once took part of a secret government project called supersoldier, was found dead this month in Poland.

Some believe that the investigator was murdered, but the official cause of death has yet to be released.

On Wednesday, news of the passing of fellow UFO researcher Gaurav Tiwari made headlines on several websites. Tiwari was discovered without life in India under an alleged mysterious circumstances. However, in a statement by the authorities, he committed suicide.

Conspiracy theorists have long been suggested that secret services or known as men in black block off UFO chasers who nearly get close to the truth.

Men in Black is allegedly a group of undercover agents in dark glasses and black suits, working under the directive of FBI and CIA. One of their missions is apparently to force witnesses of UFO and alien phenomena not to say something to prevent the truth about space alien visitations to Earth from getting out to the public.

Governments, according to the conspiracy theory, are worried of the truth to be made known to the masses that we are not alone because of the negative impact it may bring to religion and the rule of law.

Last month, there were speculations that a NASA scientist may have been silenced after she was found dead at the back of a shopping mall.

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Bright UFO Travels Low Over A Siberian Field In Russia

Massive, luminous UFO was seen traveling above Russia and gliding low over a Siberian field. The ball of light amazed and at the same time scared locals who witnessed the rare phenomenon.

The shaky footage of the apparent UFO seems to show a glowing object going towards the camera, before turning off into trees close to Siberia’s largest city, Novosibirsk.

However, Russian experts believe it could be ball lightning, which usually associated with thunderstorms. Ball lightning could last longer than the usual split-second flash. It has been reported to appear as a glow during thunderstorms, ranging from a golf ball size to several meters across. Nevertheless, scientists admitted that they still did not fully understood the atmospheric electrical phenomenon.

There have been reports that a ball lightning injured or even killed people and destroyed buildings. It was only widely known to exist in the 1960s, but until today, researchers could not be sure of the cause of the phenomena.

In August 2013, U.S. Air Force Academy researchers in Colorado tried to make and photograph bright white plasmoid balls in their lab to understand ball lightning better. Generated from high-power electric sparks and discharged by electrodes, the balls were submerged in electrolyte solutions. The researchers found elements in the local soil from the balls, including silicon, iron, and calcium. But the researchers were not certain if they had created the ball lightning in their study.

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5 Most Mysterious Photos Caught By NASA On The Moon

Here’s the compilation of the best UFO photos that were filmed by NASA on our Moon.

Churchill Covering Up A RAF Close UFO Encounter Over Britain, Personal Bodyguard Confessed

Great wartime prime minister of Britain ordered a special team of Whitehall mandarins known as the Flying Saucer Working Party to know the truth of the increasing number of UFO sightings.
The personal bodyguard of Sir Winston Churchill had made a deathbed confession that his boss covered-up a close encounter over Britain with RAF itself.

RAF pilots began reported encounters with an unknown aerial object called foo fighters towards the end of World War 2. Officials thought they were German secret weapons, but the number of sightings even increased after the end of the war.

In July 1952, US Air Force radar detected various unidentified objects flying in a restricted zone above the White House and fighter jets had to be scrambled on two consecutive weekends, causing public panic.

Churchill then sent a memo to his Secretary of State for Air Lord Cherwell requesting an immediate investigation.

A confidante and close friend of the PM, Lord Cherwell, assigned the probe to the Flying Saucer Working Party.

The top secret group was formed two years earlier to investigate UFO sightings. Investigators concluded that though it was impossible to rule out the extraterrestrial involvement of sightings of the unknown aerial object, it was more likely down to terrestrial aircraft, birds, balloons, or other natural phenomena. The group also said that it could even be just optical illusions, psychological delusions, or deliberate hoaxes. That seemed to lay down the subject of extraterrestrial UFO to rest.

However, in 1999, the MoD received a letter from the grandson of a retired RAF officer inquiring on an incident wherein Churchill allegedly prevented the reporting of an unidentified flying object encounter off the east coast of England.

The unnamed officer was the personal bodyguard of Churchill. He claimed that a metallic UFO shadowed a RAF reconnaissance plane off Cumbria from a mission over occupied Europe.

The crew allegedly captured pictures of the mysterious aerial object, which they claimed hovered without noise close to the plane. When Churchill knew about the close encounter, he apparently ordered the incident to stay classified for at least 50 years and should only be released after being reviewed by a future PM. Churchill was allegedly concerned about a mass panic and impact of faith in God.

Mysteriously, all records of the incident, including the cover-up order by Churchill, apparently disappeared. MoD has claimed that all UFO files before 1967 have been destroyed.
However, UFO hunters and conspiracy theorists suggest the British Establishment has been hiding proof of alien visits to Earth.

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Filer’s Files #32 -2016 Invisible Residents - PART II

Kap Dwa, the Twelve-Foot-Tall, Two-Headed Giant from Patagonia

Stories about giants aren’t exactly rare, but this is one of the few ones where the giant had two heads.

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The Fortean world is the epicenter of the world’s the strangest stories, most of them starting out as side show attractions. The notorious politician and showman P.T. Barnum contributed much to this charade, since he was renowned for his skills in taxidermy.

 

His famous creations were known as gaffs, (the result of rogue taxidermy), offering the world creatures straight out of legends and fiction, shaped by patching together the preserved corpses of various animals emerging into what he would name as the jackalope, dragons, chimeras, or even unicorns.

 

But from the hands of gaff collectors around the world came to be what we consider as probably the only real and also most intriguing attractions of all fakes, Kap Dwa, the two-headed Patagonian giant.

 

 

Although he was over 12 feet tall and had two heads, Kap Dwa was captured in 1673 by Spanish sailors and kept captive in the bowels of their ship. The Spaniards’ constant whipping and pummeling determined him to attempt an escape, but during the battle ensued, he was killed with a pike through his chest.

 

The following events are not clear, but his mummified remains were finally brought to England in the 19th century, where they passed from the Edwardian Horror Circuit to various freak show attractions, ending up at Weston’s Birnbeck Pier in 1914.

 

After being displayed the next 45 years in North Somerset, England, old Kap Dwa was acquired by Thomas Howard in 1959, and following a few more hand-offs he ultimately ended up in Baltimore. Nowadays, he can still be found among the collection of oddities at Bob’s Side Show at The Antique Man Ltd. in Baltimore, owned by Robert Gerber and his wife.

 

Gerber provides a somewhat different past of the giant, although the ending is still the same tragic event.  The corpse of the unique Homo giganticus was found on a beach, with a spear protruding from his chest and nothing is certain about his assailant. His body was later mummified and even worshiped by some locals in Paraguay that formed some kind of religion based on his remnants.

 

The unbelievable rumors about Kap Dwa reached Capt. George Bickle of the English clipper Olive Branch out of Plymouth, leading to Bickle claiming the giant’s remains, but that was no easy task.  According to Gerber, Kap Dwa was then taken to England, ending up in the Blackpool museum where he remained for the next several years. Only then was his body eventually embarked on the journey back to Baltimore, Maryland.

 

 

The tallest man officially recorded was Robert Wadlow (1918-1940), measuring 8 feet 11 inches tall, and skeptics consider it highly unlikely for Kap Dwa to be real, although it is physically possible for a man to reach the legendary giant’s size. As for his two heads, if he really did have two heads originally, conjoined twins are not exactly uncommon, especially in those days.

 

Those who have seen the encased giant up-close claim that no seams or stitching are visible and the only piece of string was that of his loin cloth, concluding that no rogue taxidermy had been performed on the unusual exhibit.

 

The conflicting stories may simply be the product of the natural promotion of such an oddity over so many years of sideshow display.

 

However unusual, Kap Dwa wasn’t the only giant to come up in anecdotes from the 17th century. Dutch captain Sebalt de Weert (1567-1603) described an incident where he and his crew witnessed members belonging to a race of giants. While passing through the Magellan Strait, de Weert saw seven unusually large rowboats menacingly approaching their ships. The boats were allegedly manned by naked giants with reddish-brown skin and long, red hair. Their stance and demeanor were aggressive, determining de Weert to steer clear of them.

 

 

There are also several documents from the same time period attesting the existence of giants. One such writing is the Codex Rios, also known as Codex Vatican A. This manuscript is the 16th century Italian translation of an older document written during the Spanish colonial era. The script features a intriguing full-page illustration of several Aztec warriors overcoming and executing a gigantic man. Annotations provide the giant’s name – Quinametzin, which translates to One of the Old Ones.

 

This account and many others support the theory that the American continents were once home to an ancient race of red-haired giants. Legend has it that the giants came from a distant island by crossing the ocean on rafts when a cataclysm destroyed their homeland.

 

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If Aliens Landed Tomorrow, How Would We Understand Each Other?

As scary as it may seem for some, the prospect of an extraterrestrial civilization making contact with us on our home turf is something mankind needs to consider. Because even if the aliens’ intentions are good, we’re still going to have some problems.

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The scientific world is divided. Some dismiss the existence of aliens until irrefutable evidence is presented. The others are again divided into two groups: those who believe contact with an extraterrestrial race will occur soon and the others, who surmise the alien connection will only happen in the far future.

 

 

It’s obvious mankind could really use some contingency plans just in case aliens decide to drop by. Those plans are certain to exist but civilian access to them is forbidden. So let us construct our own hypotheses and debate what would happen—in terms of communication—if a great big UFO landed where we could all see it.

 

 

“Remember where we parked, Zorg!”

 

For the sake of our argument, let’s assume the alien species would communicate in a manner we could comprehend, either through vocalizations or imagery. If their language consisted of a series of harmonic emissions of ionized gasses, we might not have the organs to detect their ‘spoken words.’ So the first prerequisite for a chat with aliens would be that they developed a form of comprehensible language that could be translated into concepts we could understand. American linguist Noam Chomsky believes it could be possible, although it most certainly wouldn’t be easy:

 

• “The same structures that make it possible to learn a human language make it impossible for us to learn a language that violates the principles of universal grammar,” Chomsky told NY Times reporter John Gliedman. “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.”

 

He is convinced the endeavor would require a different plan of attack, one that would require more brains than an army of hungry sapiosexual zombies.

 

• “We should have to approach the alien’s language slowly and laboriously — the way that scientists study physics, where it takes generation after generation of labor to gain new understanding and to make significant progress. 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. These languages would simply not be within the range of our abilities.”

 

Be my friend!

 

The second condition for any meaningful communication to arise would be the existence of reference points both parties would understand. In reality, this wouldn’t be that hard. A civilization that has traveled the vast distances of outer space would most likely share some common grounds with humanity. We’ve heard it time and again: mathematics is the universal language and this holds true, especially when considering the hurdles a space-faring species would have had to overcome. Without an understanding of physics and natural phenomena, they wouldn’t have survived their own stone age, let alone land on an alien (to them) planet.

 

A species that successfully manipulates the matter around itself would definitely make use of concepts like size, time, similarity and difference, dead or alive. Even though they would be different from us, we could find some common grounds.

 

But then again, there are multiple instances in the history of mankind where communication channels simply couldn’t be opened. In their conquest for land and riches, humanity’s explorers mercilessly slaughtered entire tribes because of the language barrier. You don’t even have to look back in history to see examples of humans not being able to get a hold of each other.

 

In the Indian Ocean’s Bay of Bengal lays one of the most isolated places on Earth: North Sentinel Island. The size of Manhattan, this undisturbed island is home to a tribe that has never been contacted by modern man. Although technically in the Stone Age, the Sentinelese tribe inhabiting the island ferociously guard it against any trespassers, even if it means attacking helicopters with wooden spears. So, even among members of the same species, communication can prove impossible if an area of agreement is not demarcated.

 

 

 

A similar thing could happen to us if advanced extraterrestrials decided to make a public appearance. Although you and I and all the rest of the well-meant world would probably militate for a friendly handshake, we are still the minority. Don’t believe me? Watch the reactions of the witnesses of a recent UFO sighting. Although it wasn’t determined the flying lights were indeed extraterrestrial and, even if they were, they exhibited no dangerous intentions, but the crowd still wanted to resort to violence. No matter the issue, mob mentality frequently and quickly makes use of the tar and feather argument.

 

But in the case of an alien visitation that the populace would mistake for an invasion, we can only hope the aliens themselves are wise and quick enough to quell the masses’ fears. They could only do so if they spoke out loud and clear for everyone to hear. They alone could mitigate the situation they created. The world governments, much like the Sentinelese, would indubitably brandish nukes and other WMDs, even though, in the eyes of advanced aliens, they would look just like stone spears and wooden arrows.

 

So, if the aliens do come, they better come prepared, because we aren’t.

 

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Scientists BAFFLED! Strange Sounds Over Cali, New Moon Mysteries & More! 8/4/16, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sounds: Aug 
Location of sounds: Alhambra, California, USA

Secureteam10 states that in Alhambra, CA this week, strange noises are worrying the locals. This is the western side of Los Angeles and its not too far from the ocean. Its very possible that underground bases are being secretly built by the US military 2-3 miles below the surface that may cause cracking or even the use of explosives underground to make the tunnels. Do you remember that in Malibu, CA that an underwater alien base was discovered a few years ago? This might be the work of aliens making an enlarge base. 
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Earth Size Borg Cube UFO Sucks Solar Material From Our Sun On NASA photo! Aug 4, 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 4, 2016 01:06

Location of sighting: Earths Sun Surface

SOHO camera: EIT 284

 

I found the cube near our sun again yesterday. It was not just near the sun, but actually pulling part of the sun out to it...sucking the surface into the cube. This may not be a occupied ship, but actually an massive drone that is the size of Earth itself. I have been carefully monitoring this cube for over 5 years, and was the first to report on it. Its till coming, about ever 2-3 months, like its following a cycle or rotation, but then again, there may be thousands of these in our solar system and they may use the solar material to recharge the ship. Also its possible the cube is a space battery of sorts...that recharges with the sun and carries it off to the alien civilization that created it. 

Scott C. Waring

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Police car in hot pursuit of UFO in Gorey, Ireland On Aug 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: Aug 4, 2016
Location of sighting: Gorey, Ireland
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Here is something extremely cute and out of this world. A hot pursuit right out of Fast And Furious, of a UFO being chased by a police car in the small town of Gorey, Ireland. Sure its only for fun, and not at all a real UFO, but sometimes you need to kick back, smile and laugh a bit, and this does the trick. 
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News states:
A video has emerged online appearing to show a low-speed pursuit between a Garda car and a flying saucer on the streets of Gorey, Co Wexford.

In the video posted over the weekend on Facebook, a UFO proceeds down the street, closely followed by a squad car with its lights flashing.

However, a Garda spokesman told The Irish Times that it was less of a “pursuit” and more of a friendly escort.

The “UFO” in this case is actually an installation for a space-themed art show created by local artist Ali Kemal Ali.

“The gardaí gave (Ali) a little escort around the town to show the UFO off,” said the Garda spokesman, quelling rumours of an intergalactic invasion. “It was all in good faith,” he said.

No aliens have been arrested at this time.

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Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io Has a Collapsible Atmosphere

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io boasts an atmosphere made from sulfur dioxide gas — when the satellite is in sunlight. For the first time, researchers have observed the atmosphere during the moon's daily pass through Jupiter's shadow, watching that atmosphere temporarily freeze and collapse.

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Jupiter's active moon Io has a collapsible atmosphere: New views show the satellite's shroud of sulfur dioxide freezing when Io enters its planet's shadow each day and converting back to gas when the moon emerges.

Io, Jupiter's fifth moon, is the solar system's most volcanically active body; plumes of the sulfur dioxide gas bursts from multiple active volcanoes, reaching up to 300 miles (480 kilometers) above the moon's surface at a scalding 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius). The Jupiter moon's surface, on the other hand, is frigidly cold, and gets even colder when Jupiter blocks out the sun — which prompts the atmospheric collapse. 

"This confirms that Io's atmosphere is in a constant state of collapse and repair, and shows that a large fraction of the atmosphere is supported by sublimation of sulfur dioxide ice [when it turns to gas]," John Spencer, a researcher at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado and co-author on the new work, said in a statement. "Though Io's hyperactive volcanoes are the ultimate source of the sulfur dioxide, sunlight controls the atmospheric pressure on a daily basis by controlling the temperature of the ice on the surface." [Amazing Photos: Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io]

"We've long suspected this, but can finally watch it happen," Spencer added in the same statement.

The researchers used the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii and the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES) to watch Io cross into and out of Jupiter's shadow on two different nights. At the time, Io was more than 420 million miles (675 million km) from Earth. Previous studies were unable to make out Io's atmosphere in the dark, but this new work relied on detecting the atmosphere radiating heat, researchers said in the statement.

In sunlight, Io's surface averages out to minus 235 degrees F (minus 150 degrees C), but once the moon passes into Jupiter's shadow, that temperature drops to minus 270 degrees F (minus168 degrees C). No longer warmed by the sun, the atmosphere of sulfur dioxide gas freezes and turns to frost on the moon's surface.

Io's atmosphere collapses in the dark of Jupiter's shadow, and then re-emerges once the moon returns to sunlight. While the atmosphere is fed by volcanic plumes of sulfur dioxide, its re-emergence comes largely from the previously frozen sulfur dioxide warming and returning to a gas state.

Credit: Southwest Research Institute

Io leaves Jupiter's shadow after 1.7 Earth days, which is 2 hours of Io's day, and the sulfur dioxide sublimates — goes straight from solid to gas — and pumps up the atmosphere once again when the moon re-enters sunlight. 

Understanding the volcanic, lava-covered Io is key to understanding the environment around Jupiter, where NASA's Juno spacecraft arrived July 4, researchers said in the statement. "Io spews out gases that eventually fill the Jupiter system, ultimately seeding some of the auroral features seen at Jupiter's poles," said Constantine Tsang, the study's lead author (also at SwRI). "Understanding how these emissions from Io are controlled will help paint a better picture of the Jupiter system."

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Moon Express Approved for Private Lunar Landing in 2017, a Space First

Naveen jain first to Land space craft on Moon

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The US Government May Soon Approve The First Private Moon Mission

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Moon Express 2017 - A Private Lunar Mission Enabling Science & Commerce - Bob Richards (SETI Talks)

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For the first time ever, a private company has permission to land on the moon.

The U.S. government has officially approved the planned 2017 robotic lunar landing of Florida-based Moon Express, which aims to fly commercial missions to Earth's nearest neighbor and help exploit its resources, company representatives announced today (Aug. 3).

"This is not only a milestone, but really a threshold for the entire commercial space industry," Moon Express co-founder and CEO Bob Richards told Space.com. [Images: Moon Express' Private Lunar Lander]

Previously, companies had been able to operate only on or around Earth. The new approval, while exclusive to Moon Express, could therefore serve as an important regulatory guide for deep-space commercial activity in general, Richards said.

Artist's concept of Moon Express' MX-1 lunar lander on its way to the moon.

Credit: Moon Express

"Nobody's had a deep-sea voyage yet. We're still charting those waters," he said. "Somebody had to be first."

Moon Express submitted an application to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on April 8. The document then made its way through the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Federal Communications Commission, Richards said.

The interagency approval process "took some time, not because anybody was against or averse to this," he said. "It's just that we asked questions that had never been asked before, and that had to be addressed and worked out."

Moon Express can now focus exclusively on the financial and technical challenges of the 2017 moon mission, which will begin with the launch of the company's MX-1 lander atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster. (Moon Express signed a multilaunch deal with Rocket Lab last year.)

The main goal of the maiden launch is to test out the MX-1's performance and capability on the lunar surface. Moon Express representatives also hope to win the Google Lunar X-Prize, a $30 million competition to land a privately funded robotic vehicle on the moon by the end of 2017.

The first team to pull off this landing — and get the vehicle to move at least 1,640 feet (500 meters) on the lunar surface, and beam high-definition video and photos back to Earth — will win the $20 million grand prize. (The second team to achieve all of this gets $5 million, and another $5 million is available for meeting other milestones. At the moment, 16 teams remain in the running.)

"We're still shooting for the end of 2017," Richards said of the maiden MX-1 moon mission. "A lot has to go right, but at least we have a shot at our moon shot, given this regulatory approval."

If all goes according to plan, future Moon Express missions will help assess, extract and exploit lunar resources such as water ice, helping to launch a new era in space exploration, company representatives have said.

"Space travel is our only path forward to ensure our survival and create a limitless future for our children," Moon Express co-founder and Chairman Naveen Jain said in a statement today. "In the immediate future, we envision bringing precious resources, metals and moon rocks back to Earth. In 15 years, the moon will be an important part of Earth’s economy, and potentially our second home."

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This may be the reason we haven't found alien life

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Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have come up with what they see as the best explanation for why we have yet to find alien lifethat equals our own. They say it's because, compared to the rest of the universe, Earthly life is relatively premature.

Our 4.5 billion-year-old planet is relatively young, floating in a universe that is about 13.8 billion years old. The research team, whose study will be published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, believes that life onEarth formed significantly earlier than comparable life would normally emerge on other planets."If you ask, 'When is life most likely to emerge?' you might naively say, 'Now,'" lead author Avi Loeb said in a press release. "But we find that the chance of life grows much higher in the distant future."

Scientists largely agree that the possibility for life emerged about 30 million years ago following the Big Bang, and it's predicted that life in the universe will come to an end in 10 trillion years, once the remaining stars fade away.

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Between these two points of reference -- the Big Bang and the extinguishing of the last stars -- Loeb and his team tried to determine the likelihood of when life would form. Key to this is star size. Stars that are larger than about three times our sun's mass will burn out before any kind of life has the chance to develop. The best bet is with small stars, apparently. The smallest stars weigh less than 10 percent of the sun's mass, and they're likely to thrive for 10 trillion years -- which is plenty of time for life to slowly evolve on their planets.

Loeb and his team hypothesized that the chance for life to develop is 1,000 times higher in the far distant future -- since these small stars slowly burn for trillions of years -- than it is right now.

"So then you may ask, why aren't we living in the future next to a low-mass star?" Loeb asked. "One possibility is we're premature. Another possibility is that the environment around a low-mass star is hazardous to life."

Small stars aren't a guarantee that life will safely evolve on their planets over time. The researchers emphasize that, in their early years, low-mass red dwarf stars live for a long time but unfortunately shoot out powerful solar flares and ultraviolet radiation that could burn away the potentially life-giving atmosphere of nearby rocky planets.

The researchers emphasize that it's important to study these red dwarf stars to better understand their relationship to their orbiting planets.

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Elon Musk: The chance we are not living in a computer simulation is ‘one in billions’

Humanity will eventually produce video games ‘indistinguishable from reality’

Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation.

Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California.

Mr Musk, who has donated huge amounts of money to research into the dangers of artificial intelligence, said that he hopes his prediction is true because otherwise it means the world will end.

“The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation I think is the following,” he told the Code Conference. “40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot. That’s where we were.

“Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. And soon we’ll have virtual reality, we’ll have augmented reality.

“If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, just indistinguishable.”

He said that even if the speed of those advancements dropped by 1000, we would still be moving forward at an intense speed relative to the age of life.

Since that would lead to games that would be indistinguishable from reality that could be played anywhere, “it would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in ‘base reality’ is one in billions”, Mr Musk said.

Asked whether he was saying that the answer to the question of whether we are in a simulated computer game was “yes”, he said the answer is “probably”.

He said that arguably we should hope that it’s true that we live in a simulation. “Otherwise, if civilisation stops advancing, then that may be due to some calamitous event that stops civilisation.”

He said that either we will make simulations that we can’t tell apart from the real world, “or civilisation will cease to exist”.

Mr Musk said that he has had “so many simulation discussions it’s crazy”, and that it got to the point where “every conversation [he had] was the AI/simulation conversation”.

The question of whether what we see is real or simulated has perplexed humans since at least the Ancient philosophers. But it has been given a new and different edge in recent years with the development of powerful computers and artificial intelligence, which some have argued shows how easily such a simulation could be created.

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Alien Civilizations May Number In The Trillions, New Study Says

The possibility that we earthlings are not truly alone in the universe has gained some added credibility, thanks to a new study that coincides with NASA’s recent planetary discoveries. The research, published in the journal Astrobiology last week, suggests that more planets in the Milky Way galaxy may harbor advanced civilizations than we previously imagined.

Study co-authors Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan looked at recent discoveries of potentially habitable exoplanets andconsidered the odds of whether sophisticated civilizations existed on them in the past or present.

In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake — founder of the SETI Institute (SETI stands for “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”) —devised what is now known as the “Drake equation” to estimate the number of planets that may be home to civilizations with the ability to communicate beyond their world.

Frank and Sullivan created a new equation, which appears at the bottom of the illustration below. While the Drake equation calculates the number of advanced alien civilizations that could exist in the Milky Way galaxy, Frank and Sullivan’s equation expands the question to calculate the number of advanced civilizations that have existed in our galaxy throughout the whole history of the universe. 

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Two equations consider the possibilities of technological alien civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy: At top, the 1961 Drake equation and, at bottom, a more recent equation by Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan.

With all the suitable real estate that’s out there, if we’re the only place with intelligent life, then we’ve really won the mother of all lotteries.”Seth Shostak, SETI Institute senior astronomer

Scientists searching for extraterrestrial beings — and, yes, to those beings, we would be aliens — are like archaeologists combing a vast space for treasures and information to learn more about the history of our species.

NASA / REUTERS This colorful deep space image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope was released by NASA in 2014. What’s astonishing about the image is that it depicts a very small portion of the sky but shows approximately 10,000 galaxies, each made up of billions of stars.

“I love the notion of a cosmic archaeological question. I think this puts an important new spin on the question about the rise of technological communicating intelligence,” Penelope J. Boston, incoming director of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute at Ames Research Center, told HuffPost.

“We have only been looking for other intelligences for a few decades in a galaxy of unfathomable proportions,” Boston said. “Of course we haven’t found anybody yet. I think it is childish to imagine that we should somehow have started looking, and bingo, there they are! I have trouble finding my dropped contact lens in the grass. Should I then disbelieve in the reality of my contact lens?”

While scientists had long wondered if there were other planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way galaxy and elsewhere, it wasn’t until the early 1990s that the first extrasolar world was confirmed.

“The existence of planets orbiting stars other than the sun is a 2,500-year-old question that has been entirely answered over the last 20 years,” said Frank. “We now know that every star in the night sky has at least one planet orbiting it, and many of those are in the right place for life to form.

“Ten thousand years from now, no one will remember anything about our era except it was when we discovered this single profound fact: We live in a cosmos of planets.”

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10 Historical Treasures That the World Lost in the Past 100 Years

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INTRO: Lost Treasures

From the Ténéré Tree, hit by a driver in 1973; to the priceless artifacts destroyed by ISIS; to a bulldozed Mayan pyramid, here are 10 treasures the world has recently lost.

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10. Nimrud

An ancient city in Iraq, Nimrud became the capital of the Assyrian Empireduring the reign of King Ashurnasirpal II (reign 883 B.C. to 859 B.C.). The Assyrian Empire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea; Ashurnasirpal II's palace was adorned with ivory and stone reliefs, which showed the king hunting, fighting and taking part in religious rituals.

In 2015, the terrorist group ISIS destroyed the city using a combination of explosives and bulldozers. Only a small part of the city— mainly the area containing palaces — had been excavated by archaeologists. One of the explorers who excavated at Nimrud in the 19th century was the British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard. Artifacts found during his expedition can be seen in the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. But any other artifacts and historical objects with stories to tell will remain unknown.

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9. Temples in Palmyra

In May 2015, the terrorist group ISIS captured Palmyra, an ancient city in Syria that holds many archaeological ruins. Over the next eight months, ISIS plundered and destroyed a number of archaeological sites, including ancient temples dedicated to the gods Baalshamin and Bel.

The temples date back around 2,000 years and featured several massive, finely decorated columns. At the time the temples were in use, Palmyra was under Roman control. The city was becoming a hub for trade, bringing the city great wealth.   

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8. Peking Man

A series of fossils from a hominid species named Homo erectus pekinensis(more popularly known as Peking Man) were excavated in the 1920s and 1930s at Zhoukoudian cave in China. They dated back about half a million years. In 1937, Japanese troops invaded China; in 1941, the fossils were packed into crates in an attempt to ship them to safety in the United States. What happened afterward is unclear, but many scholars believe that the fossils were lost en route to America.  

Despite the loss of the fossils, research into Peking Man is ongoing. A new series of excavations was conducted recently at Zhoukoudian cave, revealing that Peking Man was able to use fire, haft spears, work wood and design clothesthat provided protection during cold weather. The clothing and fire skills would have been particularly important, as research also indicates that Peking Man may have arrived in China as early as 780,000 years ago, when China's climate was colder. 

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7. Tenere Tree

Before it was destroyed, the Tree of Ténéré was an isolated acacia tree located in the Ténéré region of the Sahara Desert in modern-day Niger. The tree was supposedly the only tree growing for hundreds of miles and was arguably the most isolated tree on Earth. The uniqueness of the tree made it a landmark for people navigating the barren landscape.

The tree's roots ran down to the water table, and although the tree's age is not known, researchers presume that it started growing at a time when the Ténéré region was wetter. [What's the World's Oldest Tree?]

The tree met its end in 1973 when a vehicle collided into it. Reports suggest that the driver was drunk, although this claim is unconfirmed. Today, a metal sculpture of the tree stands where the tree once grew. 

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6. Buddhas of Bamiyan

Two giant Buddha statues stood in niches that were 180 feet (55 meters) and 125 feet (38 m) high at the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan. Dating back more than 1,500 years, they were part of "a large ensemble of Buddhist monasteries, chapels and sanctuaries along the foothills of the valley dating from the 3rd to the 5th century," the UNESCO World Heritage Site listingsays. [Photos of UNESCO World Heritage Sites]

In March 2001, the Buddhas were dynamited and destroyed by the Taliban, which, at the time, controlled most of Afghanistan. The Taliban were pushed out of the region at the end of 2001, and archaeological teams were able to excavate parts of the site that had not been destroyed. A light projection system has been used to recreate the image of the statues in the niches.

The image shows the taller Buddha of Bamiyan before (left) and after destruction (right).

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5. Mar Behnam Monastery

The Mar Behnam Monasteryis located in Iraq near the city of Mosul and dates back to the sixth century A.D. Destroyed by ISIS in 2014, the Christian monastery contained architecture and inscriptions that stretched back over 1,500 years of history.

In the years before ISIS destroyed the monastery, Amir Harrak documented Mar Behnam's inscriptions and architecture. Harrak, a professor of Near and Middle Eastern civilizations at the University of Toronto, is now working with the Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documentsto digitize the photographs and records of his research. 

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4. Pyramid at Nohmul complex

In 2013, a 100-foot-tall (30 meters) pyramid mound was bulldozed at the Nohmul complex, a ceremonial Maya site in Belize that dates back more than 2,000 years. The Associated Pressreported that it was bulldozed to extract crushed rock for a road-building project. The pyramid stood on private land and was protected by Belize laws that prohibit the destruction of ancient sites.

"They were using this for road fill," Jaime Awe, the head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, told the Associated Press. "These guys knew that this was an ancient structure. It's just bloody laziness."

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3. The Mantle Site

In both Canada and the United States, pressure to build housing and commercial space have led to the destruction of Native American archaeological sites that date back centuries. The Mantle Site— a 500-year-old Native American site in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, that held almost 100 longhouses — was excavated between 2003 and 2005. Then, the site was paved over to make way for a subdivision.

While the wooden structures of the longhouses were mostly decayed, theartifactsremained, and archaeologists were able to remove them from the site before it was destroyed. The site was located in Ontario, a jurisdiction that has been criticized for having lax heritage protection laws. Those laws were recently changed; if the new laws had been around in 2003, the site might have been saved, according to the archaeologists who excavated there. 

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2. Frauenkirche Dresden

A fantastic cathedral was constructed in the Baroque style during the 18th century in Dresden, in what is now Germany. Designed by architect George Bähr, the dome of the cathedral weighed 12,000 tons. Work began on the cathedral in 1722, and it took decades to complete; the sheer weight of the dome proved difficult to stabilize. 

On the night of Feb. 13-14, 1945, the city of Dresden was subjected to a firebombing campaign by allied bombers meant to destroy German military units, installations, factories and workers' homes. The cathedral's wooden pews and galleries burned in the blaze, and the cathedral was subjected to extreme heat. Within two days, the cathedral had collapsed.

Historians have since argued over whether the bombing of Dresden was necessary. A new cathedral has been constructed, and its parishioners conduct extensive peace and reconciliation work. 

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1. Amber Room

The amber room was located in Catherine Palace(named for the wife of Peter the Great) in Tsarskoe Selo, near St. Petersburg, Russia. Constructed in the 18th century, the room contained mosaics, gemstones, mirrors, carvings gilded with gold, and panels constructed out of almost 1,000 lbs. (450 kilograms) of amber. The room's ornate decoration and beauty are difficult to describe in words.

Tsarskoe Selo was captured by Germany in 1941 during the invasion of Russia. The amber room was disassembled by German forces and transported westward toward Germany. Although archaeologists and historians have proposed many theories as to its whereabouts, the location of the disassembled amber room is still unknown. Today, a recreation of the amber room is located at Catherine Palace. 

Mysterious Purple Sea Orb Stymies Scientists

A mysterious purple orb found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean stumped NOAA scientists onboard the Nautilus research vessel.

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"Have a look at that dark purple blob on the left, there."

With those words, scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus uncovered a marine mystery: a small purple orb tucked halfway under a rock off the coast of California.

Researchers are so far stumped as to what the colorful, bumpy little ball might be. Their best guess is that it might be a gastropod (a mollusk such as a snail or slug that belongs to the class Gastropoda) called a pleurobranch — and possibly a new species.

"None of the known species of California pleurobranch are purple," said Susan Poulton, a spokeswoman for the E/V Nautilus expeditions. [Gallery: See Images of the Mysterious Purple Orb]

Oddball creature

The odd little creature, which unfurled into two lobes once it was brought onboard the ship, is about 2 inches (5 centimeters) across. It was found on July 18, during an E/V Nautilusexploration of Arguello Canyon, west of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

A live video feed captured by cameras on the remotely operated vehicle Hercules shows the muddy ocean floor 5,301 feet (1,616 meters) down, as watching researchers remark on clams and crabs. Suddenly, the purple blob catches the scientists' attention.

"What isthat?" one asks.

"I'm stumped," says another.

The researchers decided to collect the creature with the ROV's suction, briefly fending off a nearby crab. They've since sent the organism to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for analysis. They also took samples for RNA analysis and plan to conduct a DNA analysis as well.

"Confirming it's a new species will take considerable months," Poulton said.

Expedition, live

It's relatively unusual for the E/V Nautilusteam to discover a completely new species, Poulton said, though they have found organisms that they suspect are unknown to science; it just takes time to confirm that fact. More often, she said, the Nautilus researchers find organisms in areas where no one previously knew the animals lived. It may be that the purple orb is a known gastropod that simply had never been seen in California waters before, Poulton said.

The E/V Nautilus is operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust, a nonprofit organization that was founded by oceanographer Robert Ballard. Since May, the vessel has been exploring the eastern Pacific Ocean, starting off Canada's Vancouver Island and working southward. Currently, the vessel is off the coast of Los Angeles investigating the Southern California continental margin. The research team broadcasts its activities athttp://www.nautiluslive.org/ and issues dive alerts on Twitter.

The live video feeds are a boon to the researchers on board, Poulton said, because scientists around the country tune in and often call their colleagues on the ship, asking them to go back to collect interesting specimens.

"We sort of sail with a science team of hundreds," Poulton said.

Original article on Live Science.

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Death Spiral: 4th Phase of Life May Signal the End Is Near

There may be common signs in organisms that signal a spiral toward death.

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Biologists separate life into three phases: development, aging and late life. But a growing body of research now suggests that there is a fourth phase immediately preceding death that scientists have dubbed the "death spiral."

Although most of the "death spiral" research has focused on fruit flies, scientists think these studies can offer valuable insight into the last stage of human life as well.

"We believe this is part of the process of, basically, genetically programmed death," Laurence Mueller, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine, said in an interview with Live Science. [What Are Your Odds of Dying From …]

Expiring fruit flies

Over the past decade, several studies of fruit flies have suggested this spiral toward death can be seen in the drop in reproductive rate (fecundity), according to a review of this research by Mueller and his colleagues, published earlier this year in the journal Biogerontology. For instance, researchers reporting in 2015 in The Journals of Gerontologyfound that the first day a female fly laid zero eggs was a significant predictor of death: Indicators of fecundity started to decline about 10 days before young female fruit flies laid zero eggs. The researchers think that whatever leads to the flies' deaths also affects their ability to reproduce in their final days.

In the new review, Mueller said that the timing of this decline matchesanother previous estimate of the death spiral's duration. Relative to the average life span of a fruit fly, 10 days could be as much as a third of a fly's life, Mueller said. Research from 2002 on Mediterranean fruit flies, called medflies, found that 97 percent of males began lying upside down about 16 days prior to death. In relative terms, this potential indicator of a death spiral is also approximately equal to the timing of the fecundity decline in the fruit flies. [The Science of Death: 10 Tales from the Crypt & Beyond]

In another study, scientists observed fruit flies, nematodes and zebrafish, to see if their intestines exhibited increased leakiness before death. The researchers tested this leakiness, called permeability, by feeding food dye to each animal. If permeability increased, that dye would leak out into the animal's body, and its body would change color — blue in the flies and fish, and fluorescent green in the nematodes. The research, published online March 22 in the journal Scientific Reports, concluded that this intestinal leakiness was a marker of death in all three species.

A human death spiral?

The hope is that death-spiral research in fruit flies and other organisms could someday tell scientists more about the decline of humans prior to death. [8 Tips for Healthy Aging]

In their review paper, Mueller and his colleagues cited a study from 2008 published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesas evidence that people may experience the death spiral as well. In that study, researchers analyzed data collected on the physical and cognitive abilities of 2,262 Danish people, ages 92 to 100, from 1998 to 2005. They found that the physical and cognitive scores of individuals who died within the first two years of the study were significantly lower than the scores of those who were still alive in 2005. The assessments included measures of grip strength, ability to complete daily activities (such as using the toilet and eating) and exams that helped evaluate cognitive impairment.

Basically, Mueller said, a death spiral in people could be the reason we often see a distinct increase in disability just before a person dies. Humans are challenging study subjects for both ethical and biological reasons, but looking at the death spiral in other organisms could give scientists a window into how this works in humans, the researchers said.

According to Mueller, the next step in this research might be to selectively breed the flies to create groups that experience death spirals of different durations.

"Once you create populations that are genetically different in that way, you can ask, 'What genes were changed in order to reduce the length of the death spiral?'" Mueller said. Using that knowledge, researchers could look at the human genome for similar genetic markers; humans are genetically similar to fruit flies, Mueller noted. According toyourgenome.com, a website of the Wellcome Genome Campus, 75 percent of disease-causing genes in humans are also present in fruit flies.

Mueller said the research isn't about stopping or even delaying death. Rather, he sees it as a way to improve people's quality of life when they are reaching the end and potentially save immense amounts of money in end-of-life health care.

"Even if we don't affect when you die, we'd like to make you fully functional up to the day you die," he said.

Original article on Live Science.

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New Tech Lets You Watch 3D Movies Without the Funky Glasses

A new prototype display could enable people to watch 3D movies from any seat in the theater, without having to wear 3D glasses.

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Someday, moviegoers may be able to watch 3D films from any seat in a theater without having to wear 3D glasses, thanks to a new kind of movie screen.

The new technology, named Cinema 3D, overcomes some of the barriers to implementingglasses-free 3D viewing on a larger scale, but it's not commercially viable yet, the researchers said when describing their findings.

Although 3D movies can offer unique perspectives and experiences, one major drawback is the cumbersome eyewear that moviegoers typically have to wear. Although glasses-free 3D strategies already exist, these technologies currently cannot be scaled up to movie theaters. [10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life]

For example, glasses-free 3D methods for TV sets often use a series of slits known as a parallax barrier that is placed in front of the screen. These slits allow each eye to see a different set of pixels, creating the illusion of depth.

However, for parallax barriers to work, they must be placed at a set distance from viewers. This makes parallax barriers difficult to implement in larger spaces such as theaters, where people can sit at a variety of distances and angles from the screen.

In addition, glasses-free 3D displays have to account for the different positions from which people are watching. This means that they have to divide up the limited number of pixels they project so that each viewer sees an image from wherever he or she is located, the researchers said.

"Existing approaches to glasses-free 3D require screens whose resolution requirements are so enormous that they are completely impractical," study co-author Wojciech Matusik, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, said in a statement.

But in the new method, the researchers used a series of mirrors and lenses to essentially give viewers a parallax barrier tailored to each of their positions.

"By careful design of optical elements, we can achieve very-good-quality 3D content without using glasses," study co-author Piotr Didyk, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University, both in Germany, told Live Science.

"This is the first technical approach that allows for glasses-free 3D on a large scale," Matusik said in a statement.

In addition, the scientists reasoned that instead of displaying images to every position in a theater, they would need to display images only to a relatively tiny set of viewing positions at each theater seat.

"In our solution, we exploit the layout of the audience in a cinema," Didyk said.

The scientists developed a simple Cinema 3D prototype that could support a 200-pixel image. In experiments, volunteers could see 3D versions of pixelated figures from a number of different seats in a small theater.

The scientists cautioned that Cinema 3D is currently impractical to implement commercially. For instance, their prototype requires 50 sets ofmirrors and lenses, but the screen is just barely larger than a pad of paper. The researchers hope to build a larger version of their display and further boost the image resolution.

"It remains to be seen whether the approach is financially feasible enough to scale up to a full-blown theater," Matusik said in a statement. "But we are optimistic that this is an important next step in developing glasses-free 3D for large spaces like movie theaters and auditoriums."

The scientists detailed their findings July 26 at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Anaheim, California.

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NASA WARNS: NIBIRU IS HEADED STRAIGHT FOR EARTH?! (video)

Giant fireball in Novosibirsk region: spectacular video of rare phenomenon

'This is fireball lightening, it's the first time I see one in my life.'

Picture here and below: Roman Tregubov

A local caught on camera this unusual example of ball lightning near his dacha (country house) outside Novosibirsk, Siberia's largest city. His grasp of his cell phone was shaky but his analysis of the phenomenon - as heard on the commentary - was accurate, say experts. 

'What is it there?' a female voice asks from a distance. 

'Fireball lightening,' answered the man with the mobile phone camera, Roman Tregubov, a graduate of the Novosibirsk State Technical University.

'Look, look, what is it?' another man asks. 

'Argh it's moving away,' the cameraman says. 'This is fireball lightening, it's the first time I see one in my life. It's going to move away. Lost it. Where it is? There is it. I wonder if it'll blow off soon. Yep, it blew off.'

'The physics of fireball lightening isn't clearly explained yet, but either way I was astonished to see the fireball lightening of such size.'

With huge pride he repeats: 'This is the first time in my life.'

But a woman says: 'Horror, hide away from it.'

Roman explained he had to stand on bricks to get a view of the ball over a fence and bushes, which is why the footage was shaky. 

'Fireball lightening is very rare, yet they can appear anywhere at all,' he said. 'The physics of fireball lightening isn't clearly explained yet, but either way I was astonished to see the fireball lightening of such size - and not just that, but to catch the whole process from the beginning when it appeared until the end.'

Usually associated with thunderstorms, ball lightning lasts considerably longer than the familiar split-second flash. 

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Florida witness catches boomerang UFO on video

A Florida witness at Dunedin reported watching and videotaping a boomerang-shaped UFO 200 to 300 feet across with three other objects close by, according to testimony in Case 41685 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness first noticed four objects coming toward him. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.

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The witness and two others were southbound along Keene Road just north of Sunset Blvd. about 8:40 p.m. on August 11, 2012, when the incident occurred. The case was reported to MUFON on August 12, 2012, and closed as an Unknown.

“We noticed a large group of lights heading toward us,” the reporting witness stated.“There appeared to be four objects. The largest was at least 200 – 300 feet across the front and shaped like a boomerang with three or four lights that blinked and constant lights as well.”

Pictured: Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.

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The witness described the other objects.

“The second object appeared to be in a very tight wingman position of the left wing of the first object maybe 20 feet apart. The third object looked like the second object with a bright silver strobe, red and green lights, but not in the normal aviation layout as you could see both red and green from the port side. The third object appeared to be tethered to the first object and trailing by a half mile with a single bright white/silver strobe on the tether located about a third of the way from the first object back to the third object in tow.”

The witness pulled over and watched the objects and filmed from a cell phone.

“The first object released orbs from the bottom and they shot west. These objects appeared to be orbs, but were very hard to see as they were a very dim white color and disappeared within 1-2 seconds of being launched. The objects passed us to the west and headed north until approximately Klosterman Road where it banked right or east and headed toward an extremely large thunder storm. This is my second report, but have witnessed dozens of UFOs in the last four years.”

The case was investigated by Florida Field Investigator Bobby Hewitson and Assistant State Director Teri Lynge. Hewitson and Lynge noted several related cases in a 24-hour period: Cases 41677, 41650, 41657, and 41699. No reports from this date in the MUFON CMS for surrounding states (Alabama and Georgia, plus or minus a 24-hour period).  Reported to NUFORC: “8/11/12 21:00, Orlando (Near Seaworld/Disney World)      FL, Triangle, Unknown, possibly about five. I saw three very red lights hovering in a triangle shape near Sea World, Orlando, Florida, and they disappeared about five minutes later.”

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NASA Says No More Live Feed From ISS To Hide UFOs For The Public! Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of announcement: July 30, 2016
Source of news: 

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-changes-to-international-space-station-coverage

I can see why NASA would want to shut the live feed down. It is teaching the public that aliens exist, and if the public learns that, then NASA is no longer needed. They want the jobs, they want the billions of dollars they are given each year and guess what? You learning about aliens is not what they want to happen. So, they are shutting down the live cams again. Last time was two years ago, and I organised a group of readers heard to tweet to @NASA until they decided to leave the cams up. It worked, but now they are doing it again. I guess the $20 monthly internet charge is to high for them? Or perhaps those two 7 million dollar HD cameras on the space station are really for spying on other countries instead of searching for life? NASA = Never A Straight Answer.
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SonofMabarker states:
Looks like NASA has seen enough from us down here on Earth! They have decided to end the live feed from the International Space Station. Many people monitor that feed and then post videos and photos of what they have found. The ending of this live feed is yet another example of why NASA is not to be trusted in telling us the truth. There is really no other reason to do this. 

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Learn Why UFOs Are Seen Near Volcanos Around The World, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of video: July 29, 2016
Maker of video: Tercer Milenio TV

UFOs are often sighted and documented in the vicinity of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world? Since the early 90s were observed and recorded many many objects of different sizes and different shapes, near or over the volcanoes. The video that we show below, is a television report presented by the Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan through Tercermilenio TV and talks about the UFO sightings of mysterious lights, spherical and cigar-shaped objects observed in the vicinity of the Mexican volcanoes, such as the famous Popocatepetl.

Everyone will remember the famous cigar-shaped UFO, immortalized by the CENAPRED surveillance camera, as it entered the volcanic mouth of Popocatepetl. There are many theories of UFO researchers and experts, advancing svarate assumptions, such as the one that sees a kind of monitoring of volcanic and geothermal by aliens. While other experts put forth the hypothesis that UFOs would underground extraterrestrial bases in the vicinity of volcanoes.

Awesome video, and I hope it answers a lot of peoples questions about why UFOs are seen near volcanos so often. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

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Huge UFO Over Cleveland Lake Erie Awaits Humans To Respond, Aug 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: August 3, 2016

Location of sighting: Cleveland, Ohio, Lake Erie, USA

Orlando Bosca states: 

The UFO, after making a presentation flight exhibiting from all angles, parked waiting for human response.

 

This UFO was discovered over Cleveland yesterday on live cam by Orlando Bosca of Youtube. The UFO has a tail area and seems to have slight wings on the edges, but its difficult to say since the focus of the cam is a bit blurry. This is not a blimp. This doesn't have the normal upper and lower back tails that blimps usually have. Also this object does not have the 3 tail wings that the Good Year Blimp has. This UFO is thinner and longer than the Good Year blimp. Also the front section is much thinner and seems to be a separate section than its bottom area. Quite remarkable catch. 

Scott C. Waring

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