Deepest water found 1000km down, a third of way to Earth’s core

Priceless imperfection

Mederic Palot

By Andy Coghlan

JULES VERNE’s idea of an ocean deep below the surface in Journey to the Centre of the Earth may not have been too far off. Earth’s mantle may contain many oceans’ worth of water – with the deepest 1000 kilometres down.

“If it wasn’t down there, we would all be submerged,” says Steve Jacobsen at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, whose team made the discovery. “This implies a bigger reservoir of water on the planet than previously thought.”

This water is much deeper than any seen before, at a third of the way to the edge of Earth’s core. Its presence was indicated by a diamond spat out 90 million years ago by a volcano near the São Luíz river in Juina, Brazil.

Read more: Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core

The diamond has an imperfection – a sealed-off inclusion – that contains minerals that became trapped during the diamond’s formation. When the researchers took a closer look at it with infrared microscopy, they saw unmistakable evidence of the presence of hydroxyl ions, which normally come from water. They were everywhere, says Jacobsen.

To work out the depth the diamond formed at – and hence the origins of this water – the team again turned to the inclusion. It is made of a ferropericlase mineral, which is composed of iron and magnesium oxide, and can also absorb other metals such as chromium, aluminium and titanium at ultra-high temperatures and pressures typical of the lower mantle.

“This water is much deeper than ever found before, at a third of the way to the edge of Earth’s core”

Jacobsen found that these additional metals had separated from the ferropericlase – something that happens in the milder conditions a diamond experiences as it edges up through shallower depths. But for the metals to be present at all, the diamond must have originated in the intense conditions of the lower mantle (Lithos, doi.org/btcn). “Based on the composition of the trapped mineral, we speculate that the depth was around 1000 kilometres,” says Jacobsen.

The clincher is that as the inclusion was trapped in the diamond the whole time, the water signature can only have come from the diamond’s place of formation in the lower mantle. “This is the deepest evidence for water recycling on the planet,” he says. “The big take-home message is that the water cycle on Earth is bigger than we ever thought, extending into the deep mantle.”

Read more: Huge lake discovered 15 kilometres under a volcano

His team has previously found evidence of massive amounts of water some 600 kilometres down, mixed in with rock.

“Water clearly has a role in plate tectonics, and we didn’t know before how deep these effects could reach,” he says. “It has implications for the origin of water on the planet.” For example, it is possible that Earth had water from day one in the very dust and rocks that first formed it.

But it’s still not clear exactly how water got so far down. It may have arrived in the mantle even earlier than 90 million years ago, through sedimentary oceanic crust burrowing downwards as primitive tectonic plates thrust against and past each other.

The new study suggests cycling of subducted material, even at these depths, says Lydia Hallis at the University of Glasgow, UK. “Ultimately, this research will help us better understand the way our planet recycles itself.”

Jacobsen thinks that this water may help explain why Earth is the only planet we know to have plate tectonics. “Water mixes with ocean crust and gets subducted at convergent plate boundaries,” he says. “Introducing water into the mantle promotes melting and weakens rock, likely helping out the motions of plates like grease.”

The hope is that such research will yield insights into how our oceans and atmosphere formed in the first place.

This article appeared in print under the headline “Oceans of water in deep Earth go 1000 km down”

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Fast White UFO over Melbourne 20th of November 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of sighting: Nov 20, 2016

Location of sighting: Melbourne, Australia

Video recorded by: Peter Maxwell Slattery

 

Check out the speed on this UFO. The white reflective surface of it prevents us from getting a clear view of it, and allows it to blend into the clouds easily to hide. 

 

This UFO is over Australia, yet its the same type of ship that is seen by thousands over Denver, Colorado in the US. The alien species that uses this type of UFO probably have several bases located in the Australian outback. 

Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

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Alien influence in historic works of art of the Bible, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of painting: 1600s

Artist who made painting: Ventura Salimbeni

 

Aliens have influence our lives it more ways that most are aware. Here an artist painted the Sputnik satellite 450 years before it was created. It also closely resembles a lot of the UFOs seen around the world...especially the ones we call cloud orbs.  The artists must have hand some mental visions given to him from an alien...much like the famous french warrior Joan of Arc had in the 1400s. Aliens can, do and have mentally manipulated humans since the beginning of our existence. 

Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

 

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Alien influence in historic works of art of the Bible? Why are there UFO like objects in the Glorification of the Eucharist?

 

What is a machine resembling the Sputnik satellite doing in a painting from the year 1600?

 

Ventura Salimbeni of the 16th and 17th century was assigned to do three painting for a church in Tuscany, Italy. Out of the three, he did one very odd looking one.

 

The painting, which is quite large and still stands today. The top of the painting is said to be symbolic of God the Father and God the Son with scepters touching what was known as the universe.

 

The thing is...this just looks a little bit too uncanny for symbolic reference. 

 

If the sphere is said to represent the universe, why did the painter not include any stars or other celestial objects?...and why does the sphere seem to reflect light much like an actual shiny ball would?

The ball even appears to have seams that hold it together.

 

The strangest and most outlandish part of it all are the two quote "scepters" that stick out from the top of the object. 

 

These scepters bear absolutely no resemblance what one would have looked like at the time. 

 

In fact...they even look engineered to be antennaes. Look at the base of each of them and how they are slightly wider as they connect with the object. They even get thinner as they reach their end...perfectly resembling an antennae. 

 

They even look as if they have a "telescoping" like design...such as if they could shorten away when not needed and expand when needed.

 

Plus, there are two of them...two of them positioned in a way to maximize radio wave transmission.

 

What exactly was the vision the artist saw when he painted this work of art? What inspired him? This is truly odd.

 

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Did NASA Mars Rover Find a Signature of Past Life?

Home Plate opaline silica (left) occurs in nodular masses with digitate structures that resemble those at El Tatio (right).

Credit: ASU/Ruff & Farmer

During its wheeled treks on the Red Planet, NASA's Spirit rover may have encountered a potential signature of past life on Mars, report scientists at Arizona State University (ASU).

To help make their case, the researchers have contrasted Spirit's study of "Home Plate" — a plateau of layered rocks that the robot explored during the early part of its third year on Mars — with features found within active hot spring/geyser discharge channels at a site in northern Chile called El Tatio.

The work has resulted in a provocative paper: "Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]

Field work

As reported online last week in the journal Nature Communications, field work in Chile by the ASU team — Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer of the university's School of Earth and Space Exploration — shows that the nodular and digitate silica structures at El Tatio that most closely resemble those on Mars include complex sedimentary structures produced by a combination of biotic and abiotic processes.

"Although fully abiotic processes are not ruled out for the Martian silica structures, they satisfy an a priori definition of potential biosignatures," the researchers wrote in the study.

Ancient setting

Spiritlanded on Mars in January 2004, a few weeks before its twin, Opportunity, touched down in a different part of the Red Planet. Both golf-cart-size rovers were tasked with looking for signs of past water activity during their missions, which were originally planned to last three months.

Spirit encountered outcrops and regolith composed of opaline silica (amorphous SiO2nH2O) in an ancient volcanic hydrothermal setting in Gusev crater.

An origin via either fumarole-related acid-sulfate leaching or precipitation from hot spring fluids was considered possible. "However, the potential significance of the characteristic nodular and [millimeter]-scale digitate opaline silica structures was not recognized," Ruff and Farmer noted in the new study.

Spirit imagery shows opaline silica nodular outcrops adjacent to Home Plate showing typical stratiform expression. White outline highlights nodular silica outcrop. Rover wheel tracks are roughly 1 meter apart. Rolling wheels did not deform the roughly 6-inch-high high outcrop (lighter tracks) compared with the inoperative dragging wheel in a later traverse (darker track).

Credit: ASU/Ruff & Farmer

El Tatio: Mars-like conditions

The physical environment of El Tatio offers a rare combination of high elevation, low precipitation rate, high mean annual evaporation rate, common diurnal freeze-thaw and extremely high ultraviolet irradiance.

"Such conditions provide a better environmental analog for Mars than those of Yellowstone National Park (USA) and other well-known geothermal sites on Earth," suggested Ruff and Farmer. "Our results demonstrate that the more Mars-like conditions of El Tatio produce unique deposits, including biomediated silica structures, with characteristics that compare favorably with the Home Plate silica outcrops. The similarities raise the possibility that the Martian silica structures formed in a comparable manner."

Biosignature definition

Previously, a NASA science team defined a potential biosignature as "an object, substance and/or pattern that might have a biological origin and thus compels investigators to gather more data before reaching a conclusion as to the presence or absence of life."

"Because we can neither prove nor disprove a biological origin for the microstromatolite-like digitate silica structures at Home Plate, they constitute a potential biosignature according to this definition," Ruff and Farmer wrote.

Spirit of future exploration

Spirit bogged down on Mars in May 2009, becoming stuck in soft soil.

In late January 2010, after months of attempts to free the rover, NASA dubbed the wheeled robot a stationary research platform. The lack of mobility and the harsh climes of Mars conspired to seal Spirit's fate, with attempts to regain contact with the robot ending in May 2011. Subsequently, NASA announced the end of contact efforts and the completion of Spirit’s mission. (Opportunity is still going strong today.)

The ASU researchers suggested that a future and specially instrumented rover mission could perhaps provide a more definitive assessment of possible biogenicity of Home Plate silica structures.

"However, because of the challenges in obtaining unambiguous evidence in situ, coordinated microscopic and compositional analyses of samples returned to laboratories on Earth may be required to reach a robust conclusion as to the presence or absence of past Martian life in these rocks," Ruff and Farmer stated.

The new study can be viewed here: http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13554

Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet." The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series airing in November. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookor Google+. Story published on Space.com.

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Is there life on Mars? Evidence of aliens may have been found on the Red Planet – in 2007

Nasa's Spirit rover may have photographed evidence for life on Mars in 2007, but nobody noticed until now  CREDIT: NASA 

The Spirit rover which is currently stuck in soil on Mars 

El Tatio in Chile which is thought to resemble ancient Mars 

Mars on the left and Chile on the right 

The Gusev crater on Mars 

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Amazing footage: Fast UFO maneuvering over Melbourne, Australia 21-Nov-2016

Here’s a new footage of a so-called fastwalker maneuvering in the sky above Melbourne in Australia. This was filmed on 21st November 2016.

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Live Cam Captures A UFO Over A Ski Resort

An unnamed witness reportedly spotted a black UFO in a ski resort live cam. A still picture has been sent to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for further analysis. It is a screen grab from the camera monitoring the Winter Park ski resort in Colorado on Tuesday, November 22, 2016.

The witness was apparently watching the web camera covering the Winter Park ski resort. His primary work instruction is to perform operational cloud seeding for the resort. He noted that it is important to increase snowpack and use the cameras to keep track of the weather conditions.

To his knowledge, the frames update around every three minutes.

He said that there was nothing but the typical view in one frame, but in the next frame, a black disk-like object can be seen over the mountaintop. Nothing was found in the next frame.

He thought it was very close to the mountain for it to be a drone or plane. He further claimed to have confirmed with the resort that there were no helicopters in the area at that time.

He also ruled out a bug or bird because of the distance and the size of the object.

The witness added that they have been using the webcam for many years, but it was the first time he noticed a UFO on the live cam.

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The possible science of an Alien space craft

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UFO Photographs Taken In The Sky Over Himeji City Japan

A dark object was spotted and photographed in Himeji City, Japan in late August of 1976. The 11-year-old Hiroshi Tsutsui was with his two friends playing near his home when they saw the dark UFO heading towards them in the sky.

As it silently flew overhead, Hiroshi managed to get four color pictures of the object.

It wasn’t the first time the children saw such strange thing in the sky. They reportedly saw the object a month before, and they attempted to get pictures of it, but failed to get the correct exposure.

A photo shop employee shed light to the photos when he made a note to call the photographer after noticing the strange pictures while going through processing.

The employee also contacted a UFO research organization and told them the information of the photos and the photographer.

Photo experts who examined the pictures did not find any evidence of fraud. They found logical object progression in the series of images. The UFO grows as it approaches the photographer until a definite structured form becomes visible.

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UFO Over Zapopan Jalisco Mexico Glows Like Holy Cross, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: November 2016
Location of sighting: Zapopan Jalisco, Mexico

Here is a sighting fresh in from Mexico. A UFO that resembles a glowing holy cross was seen and could be a sign of good things to come on this planet. A sign of hope. This UFO is remarkably beautiful and is like nothing I have ever seen in reports before. 
Scott C. Waring

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A UFO captured in Zapopan Jalisco Mexico in November of this year, which remained static for a long time.

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Aliens Are Never the Answer

The SETI Institute used its Alien Telescope Array in California to confirm an intriguing radio signal coming from the star HD 164595, located about 94 light-years from Earth.

Credit: SETI Institute

Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center. Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman, RealSpace and COSI Science Now.

You may have heard in the news recently about weird or mysterious radio signals coming from outer space. It doesn't matter when you're reading this article — mysterious radio signals from outer space are almost always in the news. About every six months or so, a flash of excitement and discussion ripples around the world as reports come in from some telescope or probe and the unexplained nature of its observations.

An unusually strong signal from a sun-like star. A repeated pattern that seems too precise to be natural. Bleeps and bloops from unknown sources with head-scratching signatures. Sure, there's a ton of stuff in space that could potentially maybe kind-of-sort-of create those signals, but could this … be it? Could this be the key piece of evidence that answers one of the ultimate existential questions? Are we alone?

No serious astronomer ever wants to rush out and blurt, "Hey, everyone! I've found aliens!" But at the same time, there's a strong desire to get your name in the history books. So when these signals pop up, you get lots of shrugging and hemming and hawing and "Look, we're pretty sure it's natural, but we can't rule out aliens," kind of talk. [Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us]

Let me tell you a couple of stories.

Pulsars

In the late 1960s, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was working with her adviser, Antony Hewish, with his fancy new radio telescope near Cambridge, England. After scanning a particular spot in the sky, they recorded an unusual signal: A source in the sky was sending frequent, repeated bursts, separated by an eerily precise 1.33 seconds.

The signal was so regular, so exact. Not knowing what to think of it, they cheekily named their source "LGM" — for "little green men." They didn't think they had found an advanced E.T. civilization, but … well, you never know. Better safe than sorry. Just in case.

The LGM hypothesis started to weaken when they found another source, and another, and another. And many others. Finally, the theorists woke up, started paying attention and figured it out: The signals were not caused by little green men, but rather little white neutron stars, wrapped in incredibly strong magnetic fields, beaming jets of radiation into space like a lighthouse. Today, we call them pulsars.

Wow!

A scan of a color copy of the original computer printout bearing the Wow! signal, taken several years after the signal's 1977 arrival.

Credit: The Ohio State University Radio Observatory and the North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO)

In 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman was listening with his "Big Ear," a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University. Finished with its scientific mission, the telescope was dedicated to SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) observations. And one night, a huge, bright, continuous signal fell into the telescope's narrow field of view. For 72 seconds, the source shouted into the Big Ear at a peculiar frequency: 1,420 megaherz, the frequency that neutral hydrogen naturally emits via a spin-flip transition of its electron. It was a very unmistakable frequency, a cosmological calling card.

Ehman was so impressed by the signal that he wrote "Wow!" on the printed output of the telescope, but unfortunately, no other telescope saw the signal, and it was never seen again. [Learn more about mysterious radio signals in this video]

Perytons

In 1998, the Parkes radio telescope in Australia started picking up an odd signal: Little "chirps" would occasionally hop from one frequency to another, lasting just a few milliseconds and coming from seemingly nowhere. Chirp, chirp, chirp; the little signals — called "perytons" — befuddled the telescope operators and astronomers across the world for decades.

That is, until 2015, when graduate student Emily Petroff and collaborators nailed the culprit: the microwave in the visitor center. You ever get impatient and open the microwave door before it's done? Yeah, their particular model didn't shut down very quickly and would leak a little bit of microwave radiation that the telescope picked up.

Aliens are never the answer

In all of these cases, and many more, speculation can overrun evidence — not necessarily by the astronomers involved, but almost always in the discussions surrounding the detections. The public is primed for alien transmissions: We talk to each other with radio, and if the SETI Institute or other groups pick up a weird radio signal, maybe it's aliens talking to us, we surmise.

Here's the thing: The hypothesis that aliens are causing a mysterious radio signal is almost always useless, because intelligent creatures can create almost any signal they want. Hear a bleep-bleep-bloop? Maybe aliens did it. Whoops! I meant bloop-bloop-bleep. Well, aliens could have done that, too. There's no predictive power in the "aliens did it" hypothesis. We can't ever disprove it. [Watch: Paul Sutter discusses the alien hypothesis]

When a natural astrophysical explanation is weak or not very convincing, there's often a temptation to wonder if aliens are behind it. After all, we can't rule out aliens! Exactly. We can't ever rule out aliens, because intelligent actors are capable of pretty much anything. We can't rule them out, so it's a scientifically useless position.

It's a very, very, very big leap to go from "We don't know what's causing this signal," to "Maybe aliens are causing this signal."

Astronomers love their radio telescopes because they get useful science done, but there are always all sorts of unexplained phenomena in the universe. That's kind of the reason astronomers remain employed — there's lots of stuff we simply don't understand. Signals, features, observations, the works. It's a big universe out there.

I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's not aliens.

Learn more by listening to the episode "Where do 'weird' radio signals come from?" on the Ask A Spaceman podcast, available on iTunes and on the Web at http://www.askaspaceman.com. Thanks to Kelly M. for the question that led to this piece! Ask your own question on Twitter using #AskASpaceman or by following Paul @PaulMattSutter and facebook.com/PaulMattSutter.

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Science of 'Arrival': If Aliens Call, Does Humanity Have a Plan?

by TOM METCALFE, LIVE SCIENCE

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" movie from 1977 Colombia Pictures

The science fiction movie "Arrival," which opened in theaters this month, poses tantalizing questions about how humans might make contact — and eventually communicate — with intelligent aliens. The much-hyped film has renewed people's interest in the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. But what would happen if humans really did make contact with an intelligent alien civilization? If E.T. calls, is there a plan?

The answer is yes, and no, said astronomer Seth Shostak, who leads efforts to detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

"There are some protocols, but I think that's an unfortunate name, and it makes them sound more important than they are," Shostak told Live Science.

Related: Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us

In the 1990s, Shostak chaired a committee of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) that prepared a revised version of the "post-detection protocols" for researchers who watch for possible alien transmissions using radio telescopes, a field known as SETI (short for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).

The protocols were first drawn up in the 1980s to help scientists in the United States and the Soviet Union share information about any potential SETI signals. But, Shostak explained, the SETI post-detection protocols are guidelines for governments and scientists, rather than a global action plan for dealing with alien contact.

A still from the movie "Arrival" Paramount

"They say, 'If you pick up a signal, check it out ... tell everybody ... and don't broadcast any replies without international consultation,' whatever that means," he said. "But that's all that the protocols say, and they have no force of law. The United Nations took a copy of the early protocols and put them in a file drawer somewhere, and that's as official as they ever got.""

Men in Black

"In the movie "Arrival," spaceships land in several cities around the world, and a linguist (portrayed by actress Amy Adams) and a physicist (played by actor Jeremy Renner) are recruited as part of an international effort to try to communicate with the aliens and find out why they are here.

In real life, apart from the protocol dictating that researchers should share news about SETI signals with other astronomers around the world, Shostak said he is not aware of any government-level plans or established procedures in case of an alien contact, whatever form it might take.

And it seems there really are no "Men in Black," shadowy government investigators of UFO-lore, depicted in the comedy sci-fi movie series starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

"If [the government] could afford the 'Men in Black,' then they could afford to support SETI," Shostak joked.

Related: 7 Huge Misconceptions about Aliens

But the U.S. government has shown no interest in SETI research so far, he said. "It's not a government program, so they have nothing to do with it. I would love to see some interest from them, but I never have," he added.

Worlds largest single-dish radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico.  UniversalImagesGroup / UIG via Getty Images

After one early SETI "false alarm,"which eventually turned out to be a signal from a European research satellite, the only response was from journalists.

"In 1997, we got a signal that looked pretty promising for most of the day. We thought it was possibly the real deal," Shostak said. "I kept waiting for the 'Men in Black' to show up — they didn't. I kept waiting for the Pentagon to call. I kept waiting for the White House to call. They didn't call. But The New York Times called."

Close encounters

In a review of the science and speculations about extraterrestrials, published as "Xenology: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence and Civilization" in 1979, the author and scientist Robert Freitas described a purported military briefing in Washington, D.C., in 1950 that outlined potential U.S. military responses to alien contact.

The supposed military plan, which became known as "Seven Phases to Contact," was first reported in a 1967 book on UFOs by the American broadcaster and UFOresearcher Frank Edwards.

But Shostak said he has seen no sign of any extraterrestrial action plan for U.S. government agencies or the military. "As far as I know, there's nothing, and I think I would have heard something because of the [SETI] false alarms," he said.

While detecting an alien radio signal would be different from encountering spaceships that landed on Earth, Shostak doesn't think protocols will play a big part in how we respond.

"Some people asked me at a conference last week, 'What plan does the military have to deal with aliens should they land?' And I said, 'I don't know … but to the best of my knowledge, they don't have a plan.

'"Shostak noted that any aliens who could travel here in a spacecraft would need to be centuries or thousands of years more technologically advanced than humans are now, so it's almost impossible to imagine the consequences of contact between the species, let alone the thought of developing a plan to deal with them.

Related: 13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens

"It would be like the Neanderthals having a plan in case the U.S. Air Force showed up," he said.

Calling planet Earth

Although the aliens in "Arrival"helpfully travel to Earth in faster-than-light spaceships, willing and ready to talk, Shostak said a more likely "first contact" scenario would be the detection of a SETI radio signal, perhaps from a source hundreds or thousands of light-years away.

That means it could take centuries for the aliens to receive any reply transmitted from Earth in an effort to communicate with them, he said. As such, there might not be any real hurry to decide what to say.

File - A car moves along the Extraterrestrial Highway near Rachel, Nevada, in this Wednesday, April 10, 2002 file photo. The ET highway was established by the Nevada Legislature in 1996 and runs along the eastern border of Area 51, a military base on the Nevada Test Site. George Washington University's National Security Archive obtained a CIA history of the U-2 spy plane program through a public records request and released it Thursday Aug. 15, 2013. LAURA RAUCH / ASSOCIATED PRESS

And if E.T. does call, what should humans say in response? Some scientists, including British physicist Stephen Hawking, have expressed concern about "Active SETI" programs designed to transmit messages from Earth to any aliens that might be listening. Hawking warned of the potential threat posed by unknown extraterrestrials and their alien motivations.

There's also the difficult matter of making the right first impression in any extraterrestrial chat, Shostak said.

"I've been to several conferences where people discuss whether we should tell [aliens] all the bad things about humanity, or just the good things, and that sort of thing," he said. "But I think that is terribly overdrawn. To me, that would be like the indigenous people of Australia seeing Capt. Cook coming over the horizon in his ship, then saying, 'We're going to have a couple of conferences to discuss what we're going to talk to these guys about, and what language we'll use' — [but] it doesn't matter."

Shostak pointed out that humans have already been broadcasting newsinto space for decades, in the form of television and radio signals, and so it's probably too late to keep quiet.

"Those signals have been going out into space since the Second World War, so we've already told them we're here," he said.

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Rekenfout bij hoogteberekening werd Marslander fataal - HLN.be

Bron: ANP

Een rekenfout is de Europese Marslander Schiaparelli vorige maand fataal geworden. De computer aan boord kreeg foute metingen door. Het systeem kwam daardoor tot de conclusie dat de lander onder het oppervlak van de planeet zat. In werkelijkheid zat hij in volle vlucht op 3,7 kilometer hoogte.

Dat blijkt uit onderzoek dat de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA vandaag naar buiten heeft gebracht. De organisatie spreekt van een ,,negatieve hoogteschatting''.

Parachute
Door die foute meting gooide de lander zijn parachute weg en gingen de remmotoren even aan. Dat had pas moeten gebeuren in de laatste seconden voor de landing. Zonder de remming sloeg hij van kilometers hoogte te pletter en ontplofte hij.

De landing van het Schiaparelli-laboratorium was een experiment, bedoeld om de technologie voor een landing op Mars te testen. Europa wil rond 2020 namelijk een onbemande rijdende verkenner naar de rode planeet sturen.

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Stad en begraafplaats van 7.000 jaar oud ontdekt in Egypte - HLN.be

 Bron: Belga

EGYPTE - Archeologen hebben in Egypte een stad en een begraafplaats uit 5.300 voor Christus ontdekt, zo kondigde het ministerie van de Oudheid aan.

De stad en de necropolis werden in Hoog-Egypte ontdekt, op zo'n 400 meter van de Séti I-tempel in Abydos, zo bevestigde minister Mahmoud Afifi. Ze dateren van 5.316 voor Christus.

De archeologen troffen volgens Afifi hutten, aardewerk en stenen werktuigen aan. Daarnaast werden er ook 15 grote graftombes ontdekt, die suggereren dat er belangrijke mensen in begraven werden. "Deze ontdekking kan ons veel informatie opleveren over de geschiedenis van Abydos", aldus Afifi in een verklaring verspreid door zijn ministerie. 

Egypte heeft tal van archeologische sites die veel toeristen aantrekken, maar de laatste jaren zijn dat er fors minder door de politieke instabiliteit en de aanslagen in het land.

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• Fascinerend: graftombe van Jezus voor het eerst blootgelegd

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UFO Photographs From Himeji City Japan - Aug 1976, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting:  Aug 1976
Location of sighting:  Himeji, Japan

Here is a very interesting report from back in 1976 in Japan. This UFO is 100% identical to the one seen here in Taiwan about 10 years ago. Slow speed, dark, small. Click here to see that old 2010 sighting. Its the same UFO but more light so you can see its metallic surface. 
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

Report states:

In late August of 1976, 11-year-old Hiroshi Tsutsui of Himeji City, Japan, and two of his friends were playing near his home when they spotted a dark object moving towards them in the sky.

Hiroshi captured four color photos of the object as it silently flew overhead. 

This was the not the first time they witnessed this object. A month prior it was seen and photos were attempted, but they were unable to get the exposure correct.

The photos came to light when an employee in a photo shop noticed the strange pictures while going through processing and made a note to call the photographer. 

He also contacted a UFO research organization and advised them of the photos and the photographer. 

An examination of the photographs by photo experts failed to show any evidence of fraud. The object progression in the series of images is consistent and it grows in size as it approaches until a definite structured form is visible.

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UFO Moves Over Village In Peru On Nov 22, 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting:  Nov 22, 2016
Location of sighting: Alonso de Alvarado-Roque District, Peru
News source: http://inexplicata.blogspot.tw

This is a great sighting in an area with very few people and yet this was recorded in the lower level of the clouds. A UFO that is trying to match the color of the clouds so that it blends it. 
Scott C. Waring

News states: 

A UFO sighting was a cause for commotion among residents of the Alonso de Alvarado-Roque district, Provicne of Lamas. The object remained visible in the skies over this locality for several minutes, visible to a considerable number of townsfolk who had no idea what they were looking at.

The event took place around 5:30 in the afternoon. At times the object resembled a satellite; at others, it resembled a triangular object that generated a radiant light from within.

The UFO's manifestation became a source of diverse opinions in the community, even causing some citizens to say that the coming of Christ was at hand, while others stated that the object was part of the modern technology used by developed countries to monitor Peruvians.

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Did NASA Mars Rover Find a Signature of Past Life?

Home Plate opaline silica (left) occurs in nodular masses with digitate structures that resemble those at El Tatio (right).

Credit: ASU/Ruff & Farmer

During its wheeled treks on the Red Planet, NASA's Spirit rover may have encountered a potential signature of past life on Mars, report scientists at Arizona State University (ASU).

To help make their case, the researchers have contrasted Spirit's study of "Home Plate" — a plateau of layered rocks that the robot explored during the early part of its third year on Mars — with features found within active hot spring/geyser discharge channels at a site in northern Chile called El Tatio.

The work has resulted in a provocative paper: "Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]

Field work

As reported online last week in the journal Nature Communications, field work in Chile by the ASU team — Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer of the university's School of Earth and Space Exploration — shows that the nodular and digitate silica structures at El Tatio that most closely resemble those on Mars include complex sedimentary structures produced by a combination of biotic and abiotic processes.

"Although fully abiotic processes are not ruled out for the Martian silica structures, they satisfy an a priori definition of potential biosignatures," the researchers wrote in the study.

Ancient setting

Spiritlanded on Mars in January 2004, a few weeks before its twin, Opportunity, touched down in a different part of the Red Planet. Both golf-cart-size rovers were tasked with looking for signs of past water activity during their missions, which were originally planned to last three months.

Spirit encountered outcrops and regolith composed of opaline silica (amorphous SiO2nH2O) in an ancient volcanic hydrothermal setting in Gusev crater.

An origin via either fumarole-related acid-sulfate leaching or precipitation from hot spring fluids was considered possible. "However, the potential significance of the characteristic nodular and [millimeter]-scale digitate opaline silica structures was not recognized," Ruff and Farmer noted in the new study.

Spirit imagery shows opaline silica nodular outcrops adjacent to Home Plate showing typical stratiform expression. White outline highlights nodular silica outcrop. Rover wheel tracks are roughly 1 meter apart. Rolling wheels did not deform the roughly 6-inch-high high outcrop (lighter tracks) compared with the inoperative dragging wheel in a later traverse (darker track).

Credit: ASU/Ruff & Farmer

El Tatio: Mars-like conditions

The physical environment of El Tatio offers a rare combination of high elevation, low precipitation rate, high mean annual evaporation rate, common diurnal freeze-thaw and extremely high ultraviolet irradiance.

"Such conditions provide a better environmental analog for Mars than those of Yellowstone National Park (USA) and other well-known geothermal sites on Earth," suggested Ruff and Farmer. "Our results demonstrate that the more Mars-like conditions of El Tatio produce unique deposits, including biomediated silica structures, with characteristics that compare favorably with the Home Plate silica outcrops. The similarities raise the possibility that the Martian silica structures formed in a comparable manner."

Biosignature definition

Previously, a NASA science team defined a potential biosignature as "an object, substance and/or pattern that might have a biological origin and thus compels investigators to gather more data before reaching a conclusion as to the presence or absence of life."

"Because we can neither prove nor disprove a biological origin for the microstromatolite-like digitate silica structures at Home Plate, they constitute a potential biosignature according to this definition," Ruff and Farmer wrote.

Spirit of future exploration

Spirit bogged down on Mars in May 2009, becoming stuck in soft soil.

In late January 2010, after months of attempts to free the rover, NASA dubbed the wheeled robot a stationary research platform. The lack of mobility and the harsh climes of Mars conspired to seal Spirit's fate, with attempts to regain contact with the robot ending in May 2011. Subsequently, NASA announced the end of contact efforts and the completion of Spirit’s mission. (Opportunity is still going strong today.)

The ASU researchers suggested that a future and specially instrumented rover mission could perhaps provide a more definitive assessment of possible biogenicity of Home Plate silica structures.

"However, because of the challenges in obtaining unambiguous evidence in situ, coordinated microscopic and compositional analyses of samples returned to laboratories on Earth may be required to reach a robust conclusion as to the presence or absence of past Martian life in these rocks," Ruff and Farmer stated.

The new study can be viewed here: http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13554

Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet." The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series airing in November. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookor Google+. Story published on Space.com.

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Not Super, But Still Brilliant: What Causes Regular Novas?

The first lithium ever found in a star explosion was pinpointed in this bright nova (center). Nova Centauri 2013, the exploding star, was captured in July 2015 by the New Technology Telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory.

Credit: ESO

Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center. Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman, RealSpace and COSI Science Now. 

Imagine how surprised Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe would have been when he examined a "new star" that appeared in the sky in November 1572. Actually, you don't have to imagine it, because I'm about to describe it.

Of course, "new stars" had appeared and been noticed all throughout history, and their origins were always a source of wonder, confusion and argument. Comets were generally thought to be some sort of atmospheric phenomenon (perhaps the premodern equivalent of UFOs explained by "swamp gas and weather balloons"). And an occasional new star? Uh, how about a comet … without a tail? Sure, that works. 

Either way, it was important to early European thinkers that messy stuff in the sky stayed in the sky, and not in the stars. In their worldview, the imperfect, dirty, messy, sloppy, Earthly realm stood in stark contrast to the mechanical clockwork perfection of the heavens. If something weird happened in the sky, they thought, it should be a part of Earth and not the celestial. [Know Your Novas: Star Explosions Explained (Infographic)]

So now we get to Brahe's surprise. Just before the dawn of the telescope age, his observatories provided the most precise measurements of the heavens possible with the unaided eye. One technique available to him for measuring heavenly distances was parallax — when nearby objects appear to move back and forth as a watcher switches viewpoints, while more distant objects hardly seem to move at all. Measure the back-and-forth, do a little trigonometry and voilà — you have a distance.

If the "new star" of 1572 was truly an atmospheric object, Brahe's observatory should have been able to measure its parallax. But it couldn't — the object was too distant — and Brahe was surprised. The new star was seated firmly in the heavens, embedded in the supposedly perfect and unchanging celestial realm.

A star is born

Brahe described his observations in a manuscript with a sufficiently braggadocio title: "Concerning the star, new and never before seen in the life or memory of anyone." This work set off a revolution as astronomers grew to realize that stuff in space is not at all perfect and is actually kind of messy. 

We now know that Brahe's "stella nova" ("new star") was actually a supernova, but for centuries, the Latin word "nova" was attached to anything new in the sky. It wasn't until the 1930s that stricter definitions were sorted out: If a star completely blew up, it was a supernova; if it didn't, it was a regular nova.

But even that wasn't enough, as modern observers discovered different classes of objects, mechanisms and processes that led to outbursts in the sky. "Supernova" got to stay "supernova," with newly labeled subtypes to indicate the specific astrophysical process, but "nova" was switched to "cataclysmic variable star," because… well, I don’t really know, but that's the world we live in.

When stars get fat

That longer name does serve at least one useful purpose, though: It indicates that something violent is happening to some stars to make them dramatically change their brightness. There are a few mechanisms that can cause the change, including the always-popular stars ramming into each other. But the most common scenario — and the situation that astronomers typically depict when the old term "nova" gets casually tossed around in hallway conversations — happens when two stars live together.

When stars are born together, one is more massive than the other. It could be by a little; it could be by a lot. But either way, the more massive of the duo will churn through its supply of hydrogen faster, as its increased gravitational pressure drives the fusion rate in its core to a frenetic pace. Meanwhile, the lower-mass sibling carefully sips at its fuel reserves, burning slowly and steadily.

With enough time, the larger star will run out of hydrogen, evolve into a red giant and briefly ignite helium. After violently spewing its layers of atmosphere into the surrounding system, it will finally settle down into a comfortable white-dwarf retirement.

The white dwarf — an unassuming ball of unfused and inert carbon and oxygen — can remain stable for trillions of years. That is, until its companion begins to undergo its own violent paroxysms. 

Eventually, the smaller companion will run out of fusible hydrogen and enter its own end-of-life red-giant stage. If it were all alone in space, it would simply get larger. (Our own sun will likely engulf the Earth at this stage, but that's a different article.) But tied to its white-dwarf sibling in the binary system, the loosely connected outermost layers of the red giant's atmosphere can work their way onto the surface of the companion.

This slipping of gas from one star to another occurs via a so-called Roche lobe, a funnel-like extension of the red giant where the white dwarf's gravity starts to exert its influence. [Watch this video for more about Roche lobes.]

100,000 suns

At first, this process is rather benign: The red giant's atmosphere of hydrogen simply accumulates on the white dwarf. Because the dwarf itself is made of heavy carbon and oxygen, the new supply of hydrogen doesn't really go anywhere, instead building up a thick blanket of material.

If the process stopped there, nothing interesting would really happen. But the process doesn't stop there. 

At some point, the pressures on the bottom layer of hydrogen reach a critical point, and boom — the whole thing goes up in a single nuclear flash. If the detonation is sufficiently powerful to ignite carbon fusion, the whole white dwarf is consumed in a supernova, but if only the hydrogen layer goes off, it's a good old-fashioned regular nova.

Most of the time, such an explosion just happens once, with the white dwarf temporarily increasing in brightness by 50,000 to 100,000 times. But there are a few known cases of repeated events that we don't fully understand. 

No matter what, the universe is a messy place.

Learn more by listening to the episode "How do (regular) novas work?" on the Ask A Spaceman podcast, available on iTunes and on the Web at http://www.askaspaceman.com. Thanks to @DesRon94 and Tim R. for the questions that led to this piece! Ask your own question on Twitter using #AskASpaceman or by following Paul @PaulMattSutter and facebook.com/PaulMattSutter.

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Astronomers have discovered one of the most massive objects in the universe

It was hiding behind the Milky Way.

DAVE MOSHER, BUSINESS INSIDER

Through the thick fog of our own galaxy, astronomers have spotted an ultimate prize: one of the largest-known structures in the Universe.

Called the Vela supercluster, the newly discovered object is a massive group of several galaxy clusters, each one containing hundreds or thousands of galaxies.

"I could not believe such a major structure would pop up so prominently" after an observation of that region of space, said Renée Kraan-Korteweg, an astrophysicist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, in a press release.

Kraan-Korteweg and her team published their discovery of the supercluster, named after the constellation Vela where it was found, in the Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society.

A giant hiding behind the Milky Way

Thomas Jarrett/University of Cape Town

It may be hard to believe that such a huge object could go unnoticed, but it makes more sense when you consider where we all live.

The Milky Way is our expansive galactic home. It hosts more than 100 billion stars, trillions of planets, and colourful clouds of gas and dust.

This makes for a brilliant playground to study individual objects, like black holes, the formation of alien solar systems, or potentially habitable extrasolar planets.

But if you’re an astronomer trying to peer beyond the Milky Way and into the deeper Universe, all of this stuff is in your way:

You are here.

Image: NASA; Business Insider

This is especially true of objects behind the galactic plane, which is us looking through the 100,000-light-year-wide disk of the Milky Way from the inside-out. 

That cross-section of the Milky Way’s disk of stars, gas, and dust is actually what we see when we look up in the sky in a very dark place:

Flickr/Abdul Rahman

To peer through it, Kraan-Korteweg and her colleagues combined the observations of several telescopes: the newly refurbished South African Large Telescope (SALT) near Cape Town, the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) near Sydney, and X-ray surveys of the galactic plane.

Using that data, they calculated how fast each galaxy they saw above and below the galactic plane was moving away from Earth. Their number-crunching soon revealed that they all seemed to be moving together - indicating a lot of galaxies couldn’t be seen.

"[I]t became obvious we were uncovering a massive network of galaxies, extending much further than we had ever expected," Michelle Cluver, an astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, said in the release.

The researchers estimate that the Vela supercluster is about the same mass of the Shapley Supercluster of roughly 8,600 galaxies, which is located about 650 million light-years away. Given that the typical galaxy has about 100 billion stars, researchers estimate that Vela could contain somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 trillion stars.

Their calculations also show Vela is about 800 million light-years distant and zooming farther and farther away from us at a speed of about 40 million mph (18,000 kilometers per second).

Despite that extra and rapidly increasing distance, however, Vela’s influence can’t be denied. The researchers estimate that Vela’s gravitational tug on the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, has sped them up by about 110,000 mph (50 kilometers per second).

That’s quite a pull, and could help tell the incredible story of how our Milky Way galaxy - and we - got here.

Image Credit: Stars and galaxies in the constellation Vela. Image: European Southern Observatory

This article was originally published by Business Insider.

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Astronomers have discovered one of the most massive objects in the universe

It was hiding behind the Milky Way.

DAVE MOSHER, BUSINESS INSIDER

Through the thick fog of our own galaxy, astronomers have spotted an ultimate prize: one of the largest-known structures in the Universe.

Called the Vela supercluster, the newly discovered object is a massive group of several galaxy clusters, each one containing hundreds or thousands of galaxies.

"I could not believe such a major structure would pop up so prominently" after an observation of that region of space, said Renée Kraan-Korteweg, an astrophysicist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, in a press release.

Kraan-Korteweg and her team published their discovery of the supercluster, named after the constellation Vela where it was found, in the Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society.

A giant hiding behind the Milky Way

Thomas Jarrett/University of Cape Town

It may be hard to believe that such a huge object could go unnoticed, but it makes more sense when you consider where we all live.

The Milky Way is our expansive galactic home. It hosts more than 100 billion stars, trillions of planets, and colourful clouds of gas and dust.

This makes for a brilliant playground to study individual objects, like black holes, the formation of alien solar systems, or potentially habitable extrasolar planets.

But if you’re an astronomer trying to peer beyond the Milky Way and into the deeper Universe, all of this stuff is in your way:

You are here.

Image: NASA; Business Insider

This is especially true of objects behind the galactic plane, which is us looking through the 100,000-light-year-wide disk of the Milky Way from the inside-out. 

That cross-section of the Milky Way’s disk of stars, gas, and dust is actually what we see when we look up in the sky in a very dark place:

Flickr/Abdul Rahman

To peer through it, Kraan-Korteweg and her colleagues combined the observations of several telescopes: the newly refurbished South African Large Telescope (SALT) near Cape Town, the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) near Sydney, and X-ray surveys of the galactic plane.

Using that data, they calculated how fast each galaxy they saw above and below the galactic plane was moving away from Earth. Their number-crunching soon revealed that they all seemed to be moving together - indicating a lot of galaxies couldn’t be seen.

"[I]t became obvious we were uncovering a massive network of galaxies, extending much further than we had ever expected," Michelle Cluver, an astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, said in the release.

The researchers estimate that the Vela supercluster is about the same mass of the Shapley Supercluster of roughly 8,600 galaxies, which is located about 650 million light-years away. Given that the typical galaxy has about 100 billion stars, researchers estimate that Vela could contain somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 trillion stars.

Their calculations also show Vela is about 800 million light-years distant and zooming farther and farther away from us at a speed of about 40 million mph (18,000 kilometers per second).

Despite that extra and rapidly increasing distance, however, Vela’s influence can’t be denied. The researchers estimate that Vela’s gravitational tug on the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, has sped them up by about 110,000 mph (50 kilometers per second).

That’s quite a pull, and could help tell the incredible story of how our Milky Way galaxy - and we - got here.

Image Credit: Stars and galaxies in the constellation Vela. Image: European Southern Observatory

This article was originally published by Business Insider.

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10 fascinating accounts of ancient gods and their FLYING Machines

Is there a PYRAMID in the Antarctic? Bizarre theory claims an alien base is hidden in a huge triangular structure

• A YouTube video claims that a pyramid has been spotted on Google Earth
• A label on the image is spelled wrong suggesting the picture could be fake
• The image could instead show a nunatak – a natural mountain peak that juts up above glaciers 

By SHIVALI BEST FOR MAILONLINE

A strange theory claiming that there is a mysterious pyramid in the Antarctic has emerged.

Conspiracy theorists have posted a video on YouTube, in which they claim that US Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Antarctica last week to visit an 'alien base' within the pyramid.

The video suggests that the images have been taken from Google Earth, but it is unclear whether they have been edited.

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A strange theory claiming that there is a mysterious pyramid in the Antarctic has emerged. Conspiracy theorists have posted a video on YouTube, in which they claim that US Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Antarctica last week to visit an 'alien base' within the pyramid

The video was posted by Third Phase of the Moon, a YouTube channel that regularly posts conspiracy theories on aliens.

It shows a pyramid-like structure in the snow, with a Google Earth-type label and pin.

The label reads 'Antartica Pyramid' – a misspelling of Antarctica, which suggests that image might have been doctored.

Responses to the video have varied, with some users backing-up the claims, such as James Jason, who commented: 'Excellent report Third Phase, I also believe things are about to get very dramatic, and that is for everyone on our planet.'

But others have dismissed it, such as Gordon Anderson, who said: 'I have spent a LOT of time on snow covered mountains- skiing down, and this looks natural to me - not man made anyway!'

Others have joked that John Kerry was there for other reasons, such as Daniel Schultz, who commented: '#27 on his bucket list, fly to Antarctica and make "snow angels" where no man has gone before.'

It is unclear what the structure could be, but it looks similar to a nunatak – a natural mountain peak that juts up above glaciers.

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'Pictures of the pyramid structures are either photoshopped, cropped pictures to make the mountains look more like pyramids or simply pictures of natural formations called nunataks. 

'They are mountainous formations created by shifting glaciers and erosion, not by laser zapping aliens.' 

Pyramids are often an area of interest for conspiracy theorists. 

It is unclear what the structure could be, but it looks similar to a nunatak – a natural mountain peak that juts up above glaciers

In October, a video posted on YouTube claimed that there was a crystal pyramid beneath the Bermuda Triangle, which was to blame for the disappearance of several planes and ships in the area. 

Mr Watson added: 'There is always a mystique about pyramid structures.

'Back in the 1970s there were many claims that such objects could preserve food, generate health benefits and even keep razors sharp.' 

It shows a pyramid-like structure in the snow, with a Google Maps-type label and pin. The label reads 'Antartica Pyramid' – a misspelling of Antarctica, which suggests that image might have been doctored

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Giant UFO Passes Venus And Sun, Caught On SOHO Images, Nov 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 18, 2016
Location of sighting: Earths Sun

A very long UFO passed by the SOHO/NASA satellite on the 18th of Nov. It was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube and is clearly long rectangular shape. 

Certainly a ship like this looks boring, but anti gravity tech could make an elephant fly, so some alien species will focus on efficiency over aesthetic beauty. You could understand how one would be more useful than the other. 
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

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Wheel UFO Over India Lights Up Neighborhood, Nov 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 4, 2016
Location of sighting: India

This UFO is unique in that its a disk that moves upright like a wheel. This glowing wheel has opening in its center, which looks like it could be the pilots viewing area. 

I wonder if this is the legendary Biblical Ezekiels Wheel from 593BC? One of the Ezekiel passages reads: "This was the appearance and structure of the wheels (UFO): They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel." (Ezekiel 1:16) 
Tell me your thoughts in the comments below. 
Scott C. Waring

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Did the Smithsonian cover up an Ancient Egyptian Colony in the Grand Canyon?

Did the Smithsonian Institute cover up the mind-boggling discovery of an ancient Egyptian Colony in the Grand Canyon? According to a news article from 1909, the answer is YES.

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Is it possible that the ancient Egyptian civilization developed technology to travel across the planet? I’m not talking spaceships, but transoceanic voyages made possible with their grandiose vessels?

In recent years, more evidence has emerged which supports the idea that ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, the Chinese and even possibly the Olmec achieved trans-oceanic voyages before written history suggests.

While scientific responses to pre-Colombian trans-oceanic contact vary over time, most ideas which support this possibility have been treated with skepticism since such an idea radically opposes what we are told about history.

The idea that there is, or was an ancient colony in North America belonging to the ancient Egyptian civilization is something that according to many only occurs in Hollywood movies.

However, according to the front page of the April 5, 1909, edition of the Arizona Gazette, a bizarre discovery was made in the Marble region of the Grand Canyon that points towards an ancient Egyptian presence in North America thousands of years ago.

According to the newspaper, two alleged Smithsonian-funded archaeologists Prof. S. A. Jordan and G.E. Kinkaid made the fascinating discovery that according to many proves history is inaccurate.

The report -shrouded in mystery reads:

(D)iscoveries which almost conclusively prove that the race which inhabited this mysterious cavern, hewn in solid rock by human hands, was of oriental origin, possibly from Egypt, tracing back to Ramses. If their theories are borne out by the translation of the tablets engraved with hieroglyphics, the mystery of the prehistoric peoples of North America, their ancient arts, who they were and whence they came, will be solved. Egypt and the Nile, and Arizona and the Colorado will be linked by a historical chain running back to ages which staggers the wildest fancy of the fictionist.

The article notes that the mysterious set of caverns was located in an extremely remote part of the Grand Canyon, dangerous and nearly inaccessible. The alleged site is reportedly located 2 miles away from El Tovar Crystal Canyon.

According to the Arizona Gazette, the entrance to the main cavern was located some 1500 feet below an abrupt cliff.

However, people believe all of this is part of an elaborate hoax and that the discovery was never made.

Furthermore, the Smithsonian Institute denied all claims indicating that no record of a so-called Kincaid or Professor Jordan exists in the Smithsonian’s Department of Anthropology.

Moreover, the Smithsonian denies there is any evidence of artifacts gathered.

In the book, Suppressed Inventions by Jonathan Eisen, a spokesperson from the Smithsonian Institute denies any ancient Egyptian artifacts were found in the Grand Canyon.  

Well, the first thing I can tell you, before we go any further, is that no Egyptian artifacts of any kind have ever been found in North or South America. Therefore, I can tell you that the Smithsonian Institute has never been involved in any such excavations.

Was this just another hoax? Can we conclude that the entire story is just an elaborate newspaper hoax as many indicate? Or is it possible that the Smithsonian Institute -which has been called out in the past for covering up history changing discoveries- covered up the mind-boggling discovery?

Reading through the book Suppressed Inventions, we have found out fascinating details that give the story of an ancient Egyptian colony in North America an entirely new level.

“…Historian and linguist Carl Hart, editor of World Explorer, obtained a hiker’s map of the Grand Canyon from a bookstore in Chicago. Poring over the map, we were amazed to see that much of the area of the north side of the canyon had Egyptian names. For example, the area around Ninety-Four Mile Creek and Trinity Creek had areas with names like Tower of Set, Tower of Ra, Horus Temple, Osiris Temple and Isis Temple.  In the Haunted Canyon area are such names as the Cheops Pyramid, the Buddha Cloister, Buddha Temple, Manu Temple and Shiva Temple…”

Is this just a small worthless coincidence? Or is there more to the story than meets the eye?

Interestingly, the area of the canyon where the Egyptian names are located is an area off limits. It’s a forbidden zone. No one is allowed to enter it and explore it. The great question is why? Why is it off limits? Is it because the mysterious vaults and ancient Egyptian artifacts are real? And they are located there? Even today, the mysterious area of the canyon is a restricted zone, off limits for hikers, explorers and even park personnel.

The story of the mysterious ‘lost ancient Egyptian colony‘ in the Grand Canyon is filled with mystery.

What if professor Kincaid and his colleague professor Jordan did exist and worked for the Smithsonian Institute but under another name?

Or is it possible that the story printed by the Arizona Gazette is an elaborate hoax, an attempt to increase sales for an ‘unknown’ local newspaper? after all, only the Arizona Gazette wrote about the alleged discovery.

If something of this magnitude was real, wouldn’t other newspapers have rushed and printed the magnificent story?

While it is impossible to say for certain whether or not the caves exist, and ‘someone’ actually recovered ancient Egyptian artifacts fro the caves, we know that the Ancient Egyptians were capable of alot of things, and they could have had the ability to travel to the Americas.

Evidence of that an intriguing set of glyphs located in Australia (another finding highly debated).

While the mysterious glyphs, known as the Gosford Glyphs, are considered as a hoax by mainstream scholars, many people believe that the Gosford Glyphs are just one of the many pieces which point towards Ancient Egyptian large-scale oceanic voyages.

But in addition to the above, there are quite a few indicators which suggest the ancient Egyptians sailed around the planet and had the ability to perform large-scale oceanic voyages thousands of years ago.

Another intriguing fact that points towards ancient Egyptians traveling to the Americas or vice-versa are the mummified remains of Lady Henut Taui. The mummy, analyzed by German scientists Svetla Balabanova, contained traces of cocaine and nicotine, something that had never before been found.

But why was the discovery a groundbreaking one? Well, cocaine and tobacco were only found in the Americas in the distant past. These plants were not exported until the 19th century, a fact that suggests that somehow, ancient Egyptians could have traveled in the Americas 3,000 years ago.

Reference:

Did Ancient Egyptians Trade Nicotine and Cocaine With the New World?

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There was excitement in the city of Geneva in Switzerland last Wednesday after hundreds of people took to social media to report sighting a mysterious UFO that hovered in the dark skies over the La Praille area of the city near the stadium.

Scores of excited witnesses took to Facebook moments after the sighting to upload photographs and videos of the mysterious object.

The UFO hovered over the Geneva stadium area for about 20 seconds at about 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12, before speeding away. Witnesses said they saw the shape and form of a solid object hovering in the sky very clearly. It was a dark-colored circular object that glowed brightly in the night sky as it took off and sped away after hovering for several seconds.

Others described it as oval-shaped and flat-topped.

Matías Vitkieviez, a Servette FC footballer, took to Facebook to report his experience, according to RT.

“Everyone sees the same thing as me? It’s completely crazy! UFO above the industrial area behind the stage of la praille #ufogva.”

A witness told Tribune de Genève that he saw the circular shape of an enormous UFO in the sky and that it was “as big as a plane.”

As it hovered over the stadium area it emitted a strange shrill noise, the witness added.

“It was about 8:30 p.m.,” he continued. “The phenomenon lasted about 20 seconds and the object departed at once, as if it was burning.”

“We can hardly see anything on the photo, but we clearly distinguished an oval and flatted-shaped object with three lights; then it quickly disappeared,” another witness, identified as Sacha, reported on Facebook.

The website 20 Minutes reports that Sacha said he had always been skeptical about UFOs but the sighting on Wednesday evening over the stadium changed his attitude.

“It changed my way of thinking. Let’s say that before I believed 30 percent in UFOs, now I believe 70 percent.”

The mystery of the strange craft over the Geneva stadium was compounded when the control tower at the Geneva International Airport responded to inquiries, saying that surveillance radar did not detect any unusual activity over the La Praille area between 8 p.m. and midnight.

The response by the control tower sparked a furious debate on social media, with hundreds of people confirming to skeptics that they saw a massive saucer-shaped UFO hovering over the Geneva stadium for several seconds before it sped away.

But some skeptics suggested that witnesses may have seen a drone equipped with LED lights.

However, an expert who analyzed images taken by witnesses concluded that the object was unlike any drone he had ever seen. According to Fabio Chironi, an aerial photography expert, the craft was simply too big to be explained away as a drone. He also argued that analysis of the footage did not reveal an aerial object resembling any known model of a drone

“Usually [drone] lights are arranged under the arms and not the ends,” Chironi told Tribune de Genève. “Moreover, they are of different colors to distinguish the front from the back. Finally, the object appears to be too big to be a drone.”

And although Chironi had no idea what the flying object might have been, popular UFO blogger Scott C. Waring was convinced, as usual, that he knew exactly what it was.

Waring claimed that the UFO was almost certainly a TR3B UFO.

“In the two videos posted to Facebook, I notice that there are three lights in the sky which make it look like a TR3B (alien tech in USAF hands), which could be USAF or it could be actual aliens,” he argued in an October 15 post to his UFO Sightings Daily blog.

According conspiracy theorists, TR3B crafts, also known as “black triangle UFOs,” are a new generation of advanced stealth reconnaissance aircraft developed by the USAF under decades-long Pentagon black projects.

The technology on which the alleged crafts are based was inspired by decades of reverse-engineering research conducted by teams of U.S. government scientists working in secret with alien UFOs recovered from several UFO crash sites, including Roswell in New Mexico.

The USAF TR-3 series includes prototypes, such as the TR-3A Black Manta, and the more advanced TR-3B prototypes that allegedly include the Aurora and the Astra.

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UFO flying saucer hovers over a city [Image by Andrea Crisante/Shutterstock]

Although the U.S. government has never acknowledged the existence of the alleged TR-3 crafts, alien hunters claim there have been hundreds of authenticated sightings following the first reported sightings in the 1980s over the Antelope Valley in southern California.

However, Waring argued that the craft that appeared over Geneva was possibly not a reverse-engineered USAF TR3B craft, but one of the original alien crafts that inspired the design of the USAF TR3Bs. And one reason why he thinks it may have been an alien craft was the observation that it released a “dozen tiny glowing white drones” while hovering overhead (see video above).

“I think it is a real alien craft because I see there are a dozen tiny glowing white drones that leave the UFO and fly about just over the houses,” Waring commented.

Another reason why he thinks it may have been an alien craft was that it appeared the UFO “cloaked” itself while hovering but began glowing brightly after it powered up and sped away

“Although an alien ship can cloak itself, when it powers up its propulsion to shoot away, it will glow and be visible at night,” he wrote.

UFO hunters believe that after many decades the U.S. government is still keeping the original alien crafts recovered from the UFO crash sites, including one recovered from a site near Roswell in 1947, and another recovered from a sight near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in the 1960s.

Thus, the UFO that appeared over the Geneva stadium may have been an alien craft manned by a human pilot or a UFO manned by ETs visiting Earth from space.

It is believed that government scientists and engineers were able to repair the crashed UFO crafts and human pilots learned through trial and error, during decades of reverse engineering efforts, to fly them.

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ET Beings Plan To Remove All Governments And The Elite By 2029?

The word on the street is that by 2029 the world could possibly be invaded by Extraterrestrial Beings and all Governments and the Elite are to be removed – something which has been confirmed by certain government ex-employees who worked in secret bases.

This intriguing announcement has been confirmed by Phil Schneider, who claimed to be an ex-government structural engineer who was involved in building underground military bases around America, and to be one of only three people to survive the 1979 incident between the alien Grays and U.S. military forces at the Dulce underground base.

Strangely Schneider was found dead in his apartment, apparently his death was caused by a stroke, but MANY have suggested that he was murdered – possibly by the US Government. (please click HERE to learn more about Schneider).

Phil Schneider – A man in the know who paid the ULTIMATE price?

Phil Schneider was very loud and clear about what he says that he learned about the extraterrestrials whilst working under a top-secret ‘high security’ clearance for the American Government.

Phil was mocked heavily by the media when he came out with such controversial statement.  Although many people around the world, including Veterans Today senior editor Gordon Duff, had a lot of faith and belief in Schneider and even declared him in public as a “UFO whistleblower.”

Please see below a video of Phil’s controversial statements caught on camera:

When Phil was found dead in his apartment it was first indicated that he could have committed suicide, however many truth seekers around the world now believe that he was actually murdered, possibly for the things that he knew about.  Schneider was found dead in his apartment in 1996.

Schneider strongly reinforced the case that back in 1954, then-President Dwight Eisenhower supposedly made a pact with three different species of aliens! This is something that Phil confirmed to a rather intrigued group of students at a lecture at the 1995 Preparedness Expo.

Phil also confirmed at the lecture that the then President did this for an exchange for ‘alien technology’

Was greed for Alien Technology, the downfall of the Human Race!?

Phil Schneider and many other UFO researches strongly (and MANY still do) believed that President Dwight Eisenhower gave the ET’s his very own permission to abduct some cattle and a very limited number of human beings.

Cattle were found in their tens of thousands across the US, inexplicably mutilated!  It has been recorded that many of these brutal killings of cattle had their organs had carefully been removed, as if done by some kind of surgeon.  Some said at the time that these cattle killings were done by predatory animals – but have any of you EVER seen a wolf etc with a surgeon’s knife chasing after cattle!??

Did President Eisenhower have a dark secret pact with Alien Beings!?

Phil Schneider then went on to state that the Human Abductees, which could have been in the “thousands” could very well of been ‘eaten’ by the Alien Beings – Phil confirmed that at least nine races of aliens see us human beings as merely as a “a bag of food” and nothing else! Would a President of allowed his people to end up like this? Did he have a choice, if he was that desperate to get hold of ‘their’ technology.

“Humans are seen as a BAG OF FOOD to some Alien species” – Paul Schneider

Later at the same event ( the lecture at the 1995 Preparedness Expo) Phil presented to the audience a very unusual piece of Metal.  He explained that this piece of metal was in fact part of the technology that the Alien Beings were offering to the human beings as an exchange…with the key benefit of being completely INDESTRUCTIBLE!

Apparently this very special type of metal is made of niobium, an element we have on the periodic table, and marinate, which is in fact an alien element you won’t find mentioned ANYWHERE in Earth’s textbooks or science books!

Another piece of Alien technology the Human race gained off certain Extraterrestrial Beings was a spy satellite that could spot a coin on your kitchen floor.  This technology apparently infrared technology and had a resolution factor of 99.99961.  Paul confirmed that it was only the military that had ideas for this level of technology and it is all something that is now put into use in todays modern military equipment.

BUT according to Schneider the Aliens “violated the pact” and took more humans than what they should have done.  This is when an undercover war with the Aliens was declared.  Phil confirmed that the Aliens plan to rid the world of the worlds governments and the Elite, and that they plan to take over in 2029.

Phil gave a stark warning before his death –  “We don’t have a whole heap of time left.” and urged the Governments to tell the people of this planet what they have done and what is coming in 2029!

Sadly Phil Schneider died not long after making these brave statements to the world.  He never did quite fully explain whether it was just the world leaders that the Aliens want to rid this planet of in 2029, or was it the Human Race as a whole?!

The Extra-terrestrials ‘removal of the Elite’ coming in 2029?

U.I.P SUMMARY – much as this story may appear a little ‘over the top’, it is important to remember that there are a lot of odd goings on around the world at the moment, that could be possibly deemed as a build up to ‘something’, but a war?? Could you actually declare war on a species that has the technology to travel between the stars!

Take for instance the sheer amount of ‘Drip feeding’ of Disclosure by NASA and the Government controlled Media (please click HERE for more) which has been going on over the last few years! We have had NASA admit that by 2025 we will discover other Alien Civilisations (not too far off the 2029 date as mentioned in this article).

Dr. Ellen Stofan of NASA recently announced that NASA will discover ‘Alien civilizations’ by 2025.

What with NASA confirming that they have discovered potential ‘habitable planets’ with similar living conditions to planet earth, Kepler 452b being one of their more recent finds, which is about 60% larger than planet earth and up to 1.5 Billion years older (just imagine the potential advancement of any beings on that planet!?).  We also have leading professors such as Stephen Hawking helping to fund Alien hunting projects, something he has usually dismissed as too dangerous!?

And on top of all this ‘apparent’ influx of drip-feeding, we now even have the Catholic church ADMITTING to the world that Extra-terrestrials exist! Something which has caused a few raised eyebrows around the world – something that most religions has DISMISSED until recently.

The Vatican’s acceptance of Alien Beings has raised quite a few eyebrows around the world.

The Facts….

We ARE being drip fed disclosure from every corner of the world, and on top of this UFO sightings have recently DOUBLED (please click HERE to read more on this) and more and more people are witnessing the Extra-terrestrials in their masses in the skies above us – even the International Space Station cannot look ANYWHERE with their HD cameras without capturing a UFO near them – Even TV shows and adverts are focusing in on ‘Aliens’ more and more nowadays….all designed to waken up the masses of this world!?

This is NO coincidence as I’m sure the majority of you will all agree, BUT the question is, is this a build up to war being stirred by the world leaders and the Elite, against a potential ET race that has an ongoing dispute with specific governments around the world? It’s a good question and our personal thoughts on this is that IF we are heading towards an Alien conflict, then surely we could not compete against a far more technologically advanced race (or race’s) UNLESS as Phil Schneider has stated before, perhaps we are already using their own weapons against them!? (please see video below which opens up on this intriguing subject!).

Who knows, perhaps there are ET Beings out there who have OUR ‘best interests at heart’ and are willing to defend us against TWO possible fronts – The ‘Disgruntled ET Beings AND our very own world leaders and the Elite on Planet earth’.

Like many have stated before, there is good and bad in every walks of life and perhaps the GOOD out there is willing to fight for us against the ‘evil within’ and those that wish to remove us from the very planet that we call home.  Don’t forget there have been reports of Alien Wars in the sky before (please click HERE)….perhaps leaders of the past (and present) have meddled into something which needs ‘outside support’

Nobody knows the TRUTH apart from those that are ‘lying to us all’ but TWO things are very much for sure, we are NOT alone, and they are VERY MUCH HERE!

MWV – U.I.P

‘Battle’ Over Nuremberg, Germany. ‘The Great 1561 UFO Battle In The Sky’

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‘Aliens Are All Around Us’ – Confirms The Elites Puppet Professor!

Alien life is behind the mysteries of the universe, according to a radical new theory, which many believe is part of the ‘drip-feeding’ of Disclosure!!

Ancient non-human life forms morphed into the physical world and are the driving force behind mind-boggling quantum physics and phenomena like dark matter, according to a senior Columbia University Astrophysicist!

The expert says our universe is the remains of intelligent alien life that controls all aspects of the physical world — from gravity to the speed of light and possibly beyond!

Its infested with LIFE out there! – Art by Raphael Terra

This intriguing yet very obvious theory helps to explain the great mysteries of the cosmos and also answers why we have yet to find intelligent life beyond our planet, Professor Caleb Scharf says.

In a recent article for Science Journal Nautilus, the radical thinker wrote that alien life could exist in the behavior of subatomic particles and the expansion of the universe.

“Perhaps hyper-advanced life isn’t just external. Perhaps it’s already all around,” he said.

“It is embedded in what we perceive to be physics itself.

“In other words, life might not just be in the equations. It might be the equations.”

He points to a theory that suggests alien life forms intelligent enough to reach us will have already turned themselves into living machines.

Humanity too faces this prospect when our creations overtake our own intelligence — a point dubbed “singularity.”

Taking this a step further, Scharf says hyper-advanced aliens may have gone beyond turning themselves into machine creatures and gone as far as becoming a complex physical system.

“If you’re a civilization that has learned how to encode living systems into different [materials], all you need to do is build a normal-matter-to-dark-matter data-transfer system: a dark matter 3D printer,” Scharf explained.

His theory centers around the idea that we have not seen complex life apart from our own because it already exists around us.

“We don’t recognize advanced life because it forms an integral and unsuspicious part of what we’ve considered to be the natural world,” he wrote.

Caleb Scharf – The Elites front man for Disclosure??

U.I.P SUMMARY

One thing is for sure U.I.P followers, we are in for a pretty important 2017 it seems!

The elite appear to be getting incredibly ‘twitchy’ hence more and more ‘ET/UFO’ stories hitting the media and news, and now major professors like Caleb Scharf announcing to the world that we are all ‘surrounded by Aliens’ – Obvious YES, but a build up to something so much bigger? Most definitely YES!

We are being drip fed disclosure on a weekly basis, because the Elite can NO longer contain the TRUTH and the truth is coming no matter what! But, they don’t want hitting us all too soon, because those who want to control us and divide us know that their power will be nothing but a distant grey memory! Remember what is happening to those who are already in the know – please check our article out on those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice – 

http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/latest-news/another-dead-nasa-scientist-seventy-four-scientists-dead-in-2-years/

The truth is coming people…

MWV

Paying the ultimate sacrifice to the Elite – NASA engineer and expert pilot Alberto Behar crashed his small plane in the streets of L.A. on a clear day, the plane just lost altitude.

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UFO Tails A Helicopter With Top Turkish General On Board

News crews covering a rescue operation of a general after a failed military coup in Turkey has videotaped a strange UFO. The July 16 news footage shows an unknown object in the sky in the background of the rescue operation from the pro-coup military of the Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar. It was recorded a day after the failed takeover.

He was flown to Cankaya Lodge in a helicopter when the unidentified flying object registered in the distance for approximately three seconds.

A conspiracy theory has emerged claiming that aliens monitor major activities in the world and watch the failed coup attempt closely.

UFO bloggers said a UFO was filmed following a military helicopter carrying the four-star Turkish General Hulusi Akar, the highest ranking military officer in the country’s military.

News agencies noticed the UFO and got into the discussion about the UFO’s identity. Some were wondering if the thing was an alien UFO, the reasons why they followed the most powerful military official in Turkey.

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NASA Cameras Capture Massive Blue Sphere Near The Sun

A blue sphere, believed to be massive, was noticed in front of the Sun through NASA cameras. The find captivated the imagination of UFO enthusiasts.

The mysterious images from the website of the space agency made the rounds on Facebook after Pamela Johnson uploaded it on November 15. Pamela claimed that the Sun reacted to the giant UFO.

NASA’s STEREO H1 satellites, which orbit the Sun, reportedly captured the picture. Pamela noticed several missing frames from the feed in the days after the unusual sight had surfaced.

She said the sun is casting the light from the left side of the frame. He added that the satellite’s archives showed the sun started reacting to the mystery object on November 15 and several frames are missing on the 15th and 16th.

The YouTube video that features the images has garnered nearly a hundred thousand views as of this writing. It has been met with enthusiasm and skepticism.

Mike Sovereign said that NASA would not be careless to allow something similar to it to reach the public. He speculated that something might be projecting the image in space, a project blue beam or holographic.

Youtube user mrfaithandphysics said the surface patterns are not the same to any spectrum or details of the Sun, suggesting it isn’t the sun. He added that it appears and disappears out of nowhere and doesn’t move through the frames.

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Porter plane nearly collided with ‘unidentified airborne object’: TSB

A Porter Airlines plane flies over Toronto in this file photo. (The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld)

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Description of mystery object far from shore doesn't match any known drone, TSB says

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A Porter airlines flight nearly collided with a flying object as it descended into Toronto on Nov. 14. The Transportation Safety Board says it can't figure out what that object was. (Bruce  /CBC)

Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) said Tuesday that it can't identify the mysterious flying object that nearly collided with a Porter flight descending into Bill Bishop Toronto City Airport last week.

A TSB spokesperson said investigators, who initially believed the flying object may have been a drone, have done as much as they can to figure out what it was. It's unlikely the object was an unmanned aerial vehicle, the TSB said, as it was flying higher and farther out from shore than most drones can go.

• Rigorous rules proposed for recreational drone flyers

Pilots thought the object flying at around 9,000 feet may have been a balloon, but didn't take any chances and took evasive action to dodge it. Two flight attendants suffered minor injuries as the Ottawa-Toronto flight zig-zagged over Lake Ontario near Pickering.

None of the passengers on board were injured.

The TSB spokesperson said the incident will be added to a database, but no formal report will be filed about the incident.

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Description of mystery object far from shore doesn't match any known drone, TSB says

CBC News

A Porter airlines flight nearly collided with a flying object as it descended into Toronto on Nov. 14. The Transportation Safety Board says it can't figure out what that object was. (Bruce  /CBC)

Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) said Tuesday that it can't identify the mysterious flying object that nearly collided with a Porter flight descending into Bill Bishop Toronto City Airport last week.

A TSB spokesperson said investigators, who initially believed the flying object may have been a drone, have done as much as they can to figure out what it was. It's unlikely the object was an unmanned aerial vehicle, the TSB said, as it was flying higher and farther out from shore than most drones can go.

• Rigorous rules proposed for recreational drone flyers

Pilots thought the object flying at around 9,000 feet may have been a balloon, but didn't take any chances and took evasive action to dodge it. Two flight attendants suffered minor injuries as the Ottawa-Toronto flight zig-zagged over Lake Ontario near Pickering.

None of the passengers on board were injured.

The TSB spokesperson said the incident will be added to a database, but no formal report will be filed about the incident.

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