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Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie! Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek! België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch. Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen! Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie. Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen. Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek! Blijf Op De Hoogte! Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren! Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.

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John Lennon 'killed for discovering truth about UFOs and aliens' – shock claim

John Lennon 'killed for discovering truth about UFOs and aliens' – shock claim

BEATLES star man John Lennon was tragically killed 36 years ago today – but there are areas of his life that still baffle fans to this day.

On December 8, 1980 the British musician was shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside his residence in New York City, US.

Conspiracists have long claimed Chapman was in fact working for the US government – FBI documents released in 2010 suggested they tried to deport Lennon on a number of occasions for his music and influence.

But one element of his life continues to confuse the most scientific of supporters.

Six years before his death – on August 23, 1974 – Lennon claimed to have come face-to-face with a UFO.

Describing it from the rooftop of his New York apartment just after the incident, the 34-year-old said: “I saw a UFO and it went down the river, turned right at the United Nations, turned left and then down the river.

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MYSTERY: John Lennon claimed to have spotted a UFO flying past his New York apartment

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FRIENDS: May Pang was John Lennon's secretary when the incident occurred

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“It wasn’t a helicopter and it wasn’t a balloon. It was silent, it looked dark and had white lights.”

His secretary and lover at the time May Pang corroborated his story in her book Loving John, where she went on to explain it as a “large, circular object coming towards us.”

And – according to Pang – it wasn’t the first time the singer encountered extra-terrestrial beings.

In an interview with Larry Warren – from the Merseyside Anomalies Research Association – she said: “He [Lennon] told me that more than once he suspected he had been abducted as a child back in Liverpool.

“And he felt that experience was responsible for making him feel different from other people for the rest of his life.”

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STRANGE: Lennon's Walls and Bridges album depicts a UFO

The star’s obsession with UFOs continued after his experience and in his design for the Walls and Bridges album cover, an alien spacecraft is the focal point.

Soon after his completion of the album, Lennon reunited with former lover Yoko Ono and retired from the music business for more than five years.

And it is this that has captivated the minds of so many.

Almost as soon as Lennon returned from his hiatus – with new ideas and an album – he was killed.

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Did a UFO just leave earth through a wormhole? Shocking verdict on exploding fireball

Did a UFO just leave earth through a wormhole? Shocking verdict on exploding fireball

A MONSTER fireball that exploded over the Earth, turning night into day, was a "wormhole opening so an alien spacecraft could depart for another dimension"

Well, that is if you are inclined to believe an alien conspiracy theorist's verdict on the event seen over Norway and Siberia.

Amazing images of the huge fireball - said to have been a meteorite burning up in Earth's atmosphere - were taken in Norway and Siberia and posted online as pictures and videos.

But, Scott C Waring, editor of ufosightingsdaily.com, has come up with another explanation.

In a blog entitled "UFO Forms Giant Worm Hole Over Norway Turning Night Into Day", he wrote: "The UFO is forming a black hole around it...do you see? 

"It's not exploding, it's creating the hole first...then it will enter with a flash of light and the hole is gone. 

"What you see here is a UFO opening up a wormhole to just disappear."

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The fireball was said to turn night into day over Norway.

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Mr Waring admitted he had digitally manipulated the images that accompanied his blog.

He added: "I added light and all around the UFO, you see blackness. 

"It's not natural...it's a black hole being formed by the UFO to shoot through time and space. 

"Some alien was too lazy to leave Earths orbit and just took off in one hell of a hurry." 

Mr Waring is known for taking great leaps to reach conclusions when speculating about mysterious images, using his imagination, rather than science to fill in the blanks.

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SCott C Waring captioned the fireball as being an alien wormhole.

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What you see here is a UFO opening up a wormhole to just disappear.

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Other websites that have reported the event have used more conventional explanations.

Spaceweathergallery.com said: "On December 6 2016 a huge Meteor came hurtling down the west coast of Norway.

"Here are frames from my video camera, brightness is best compared to the sun and I have seen estimates of a size of at least 1,000 Kilos.

"It created daylight on the ground miles away when it exploded."

And a blurb for a video filmed over Siberia on the RT YouTube channel said: "In the sky over Хакасией December 6 flew a meteorite. 

"Loccally Emercom stated that the meteorite does not reach the land and burned in the atmosphere."

But, Dave Wilkinson, a follower of Mr Waring commented on his blog: "It's definitely not a meteorite in my opinion. 

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"I've seen something similar while I was driving down I-10 in 1987 at about 3am in the Florida panhandle. 

"There were 4 other cars on the highway. We all pulled over. Everyone agreed it was not a meteor. 

"It lit up the woods around us like daylight. 

"Then a large object flew across the sky. It was glowing bright blue. It got halfway across the sky, then disappeared in another bright blue flash almost as bright as the first. 

"I personally believe these wormholes with objects flying out of them are alien spacecraft exiting, then entering warp speed."

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Golden Cigar UFO Seen Flashing Red and Blue While Flying Past The International Space Station

Golden Cigar UFO Seen Flashing Red and Blue While Flying Past The International Space Station

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News about UFOs observed in space that were described as brightly colored orbs is not something new, but recent sighting could change the trend of alien craft in space if some UFO hunters are to be believed.

A golden cigar-shaped UFO was spotted moving alongside the International Space Station in a NASA live web feed. Some conspiracy theorists are entertaining the thoughts of alien astronauts on the ship.

The short video shows the strange object in the distance flashing bright red and blue lights before vanishing without a trace.

The sighting reportedly took place on December 5 as what the video publisher indicated on YouTube.

The nearly 4-minute video shows the outside of the station, but something unusual appears to the right of the screen. It shows an apparent object moving at the same speed.

The video publisher said that it is an unidentified flying object close to the ISS. Some very fast red flashes can be seen in the video.

At around 2:06 of the video, a small red light makes an appearance. The light eventually gets bigger, but also slowly starts to disappear. Seconds before it disappears, at 3:22, a bright blue light suddenly flashes on the screen.

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Another Former Air Force Officer Shares Their UFO Encounter In A British Forest

Another Former Air Force Officer Shares Their UFO Encounter In A British Forest

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Nearly forty years ago, a U.S. Air Force officer had a close encounter in a British forest. Steve Longero revealed recently that he witnessed the infamous Rendlesham Forest incident in Suffolk, England in 1980, which eventually dubbed as Britain’s Roswell. Many military officers have come forward claiming they saw a UFO during a stretch of mysterious December nights.

Longero thinks it was something out of this world.

On the first night, extraterrestrials were reported on December 26, 1980, the former Air Force officer was on duty.

He recalled that they had a very sophisticated alarm system, but it just went off.

He claimed that it was kind of quite when a UFO hovered over the trees, and they just could not identify it. The unidentified flying object appeared to follow or watch them, according to Longero.
The alleged UFO reportedly had fluorescent lights flickering red and green.

One of Longero’s fellow officers, Col. Charles Halt, recently published the book “The Halt Perspective,”  detailing their close encounter in the British forest.

Longero said that Col. Halt came afterward, gathered everyone and gave instructions on what they were going to do.

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

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Poolwervel op drift maakt winter extra lang en koud

Poolwervel op drift maakt winter extra lang en koud

KLIMAATVERANDERING: Een grote wervelstorm boven het noordpoolgebied is op weg naar Europa. Daardoor kunnen we een uitzonderlijk koude winter verwachten, die mogelijk tot in maart duurt.
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De schaal rechts geeft de temperatuur op 1 kilometer boven zee in 2013 aan. Het paarse gebied is de poolwervel.

 Door Karine Kirkebæk

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BRAUN REVEALED NASA'S PLAN TO WEAPONIZE SPACE

THE HOAX ALIEN INVASION: HOW WERNHER VON BRAUN REVEALED NASA'S PLAN TO WEAPONIZE SPACE

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THE HOAX ALIEN INVASION:

HOW WERNHER VON BRAUN REVEALED NASA'S PLAN TO WEAPONIZE SPACE 

By Dr. Carol Rosin

(Copyright 2016, Carol Rosin - All Rights Reserved)

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A personal account of How Wernher Von Braun revealed to Dr. Carol Rosin NASA's plan to justify weapons in space based on hoaxing an extraterrestrial threat

Dr. Carol Rosin was the first woman corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and was spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun in the last years of his life. She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in Washington DC and has testified before Congress on many occasions about space based weapons. Von Braun revealed to Dr. Rosin a plan to justify weapons in spaced based on hoaxing an extraterrestrial threat. She was also present at meetings in the ‘70s when the scenario for the Gulf War of the ‘90s was planned.  

Editor's note: -> In the transcript of their interview cited below, CR  represents commentary by  Dr. Carol Rosin  and SG designates questions from Dr. Steven Greer

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Click the link below to hear Dr. Carol Rosin and Dr. Steven Greer discuss the false threat posed by

THE HOAX ALIEN INVASION

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CR: My name is Carol Rosin.  I am an educator who became the first woman corporate manager of an AerospaceCompany, Fairchild Industries. I am a Space and Missile Defense Consultant and have consulted to a number of companies, organizations, and government departments, even the intelligence community. I was a consultant to TRW working on the MX missile, so I was part of that strategy, which turned out to be a role model for how to sell space-based weapons to the public. The MX missile is yet another weapon system that we didn’t need.
I founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space, a Washington DC based think tank. I am an author and have testified before Congress and the President’s Commission on Space.

When I was a Corporate Manager of Fairchild Industries from 1974 through 1977, I met the late Dr. Wernher Von Braun.   We first met in early 1974.  At that time, Von Braun was dying of cancer but he assured me that he would live a few more years to tell me about the game that was being played- that game being the effort to weaponize space, to control the Earth from space and space itself. Von Braun had a history of working with weapons systems.  He had escaped from Germany to come to this country and had become a Vice President of Fairchild Industries when I  met him. Von Braun’s purpose during the last years of his life, his dying years, was to educate the public and decision-makers about why space-based weapons are dumb, dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, unworkable, and an undesirable idea, and about the alternatives that are available.

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 As practically a deathbed speech, he educated me about those concepts and who the players were in this game.  He gave me the responsibility, since he was dying, of continuing this effort to prevent the weaponization of outer space.  When Wernher Von Braun was dying of cancer, he asked me to be his spokesperson, to appear on occasions when he was too ill to speak.  And so, I did this.

What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again during the approximately four years that I had the opportunity to work with him.  He said the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision makers was to use scare tactics … That was how we identify an enemy.

The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy.  In fact, in 1974, they were the enemy, the identified enemy.  We were told that they Russians had “killer satellites.”  We were told that they were "coming to get us" and control us – that they were “Commies.”

Then, after the Russian threat passed (with the "fall of Communism"),  terrorists would be identified as the next threat, and that was soon to follow.  Throughout the media for the next decade, we heard a lot about terrorism.  Then we were going to identify third-world country “crazies.” We now call them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would build space-based weapons.

The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it. Asteroids- against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons.  And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. That would be the final scare. And over and over and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving speeches for him, he would bring up that last card. “And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie.”

 I think I was too naïve at that time to know the seriousness of the nature of the spin that was being put on the system. And now, the pieces are starting to fall into place. We are building a space-based weapons system on a premise that is a lie, a spin. Wernher Von Braun was trying to hint that to me back in the early 70’s and right up until the moment when he died in 1977.

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 What he told me was that there is an accelerated effort in place. He didn’t mention a timeline but he said that it was going to be speeding up faster than anybody could possibly imagine. That the effort to put weapons into space was not only based on a lie but would accelerate past the point of people even understanding it until it was already up there and too late.

 When Von Braun was dying in front of me, the very first day that I met him, he had tubes draining out of his side. He was tapping on the desk telling me, “You will come to Fairchild.” I was a schoolteacher. He said, “You will come to Fairchild and you will be responsible for keeping weapons out of space.” The way he said it with this intenseness in his eyes, and added that very first day, the first time I met him, that space-based weapons were a dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, untestable, unworkable idea.

The last card that was being held was the extraterrestrial enemy card. The intensity with which he said that, made me realize that he knew something that he was too afraid to mention.  He was too afraid to talk about it.  He would not tell me the details.  I am not sure that I would have absorbed them if he had told me the details or even believed him in 1974.  But there was no question that this man knew and had a need to know, I found out later.

There is no doubt in my mind that Wernher Von Braun knew about the extraterrestrial issue.  He explained to me the reasons why weapons were going to be put into space, the enemies against whom we were going to build these weapons, and that all of that was a lie.  He mentioned that extraterrestrials were going to be identified as the final enemy against whom we were going to build space-based weapon systems back in 1974.  The way he said it to me, there was no doubt in my mind that he knew something that he was too afraid to talk about.

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Wernher Von Braun never spoke to me about any of the details that he knew related to extraterrestrials except that one day extraterrestrials were going to be identified as an enemy against whom we are going to build an enormous space-based weapons system. Wernher Von Braun actually told me that the spin was a lie – that the premise for space-based weaponry, the reasons that were going to be given, the enemies that we were going to identify – were all based on a lie.
 

I have been tracking the space-based weapons issue for about 26 years.  I have debated Generals and Congressional Representatives.  I have testified before the Congress and the Senate.  I have met with people in over 100 countries.  But I have not been able to identify who the people are who are who are making this space-based weapons system happen.  I see the news.  I see the administrative decisions being made, (regardless of who is President, or what party controls the Congress) and I know that they are all based on lies and greed.  But I have yet to be able to identify who the people are beind theplan to weaponize outer space.  And that is after tracking this issue for 26 years.

I know that there are big secrets being kept and I know that it is time the public and decision-makers pay attention to the people who are now going to be disclosing the truth.  Instead of weaponizing outer space, we need to make some definite changes and build a system in space that will benefit every single person, and all of the animals, and the environment of this planet.  The technology is there.  The solutions to Earth’s urgent and long-term potential problems are there.  I have a feeling that once we start studying this extraterrestrial issue, all of the questions  that I have had for 26 years are going to be answered.

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However, I have concluded that the plan to weaponize outer space  is based on a few people, who are intent making a lot of money and gaining global power.  In large part, it is also about ego. 

It is not about our essence and who we really are on this planet and loving each other and being at peace and cooperating.  The plan isn’t about using technology to solve problems and heal people on this planet.  It isn’t about that at all.  It is about a few people who really are playing an old, dangerous, costly game to pad their own pocketbooks and engaged in a global power struggle.  That is all it is.

I believe that this entire space-based weapons game is initiated right here in the United States of America.  What I hope for is that with this information that is being disclosed, the new administration will to do what is right.  That is to transform the war game into a space game so that we use the technologies that are available not just as spin-offs of war technology, but as direct technological applications to build a cooperative space system that will benefit the entire world and that will allow us to communicate with the extraterrestrial cultures that are obviously "out there."

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Who would benefit from these space-based weapons?  

They are the people who work in that arena, people in the military, in industries, in universities and labs, in the intelligence community.  This is not just in the United States, but it is worldwide.  This is a worldwide cooperative system.  Wars are cooperative.

Just as peace will be when it breaks out.  But right now there are a lot of people benefiting from destruction.  This is what our economy has been based on in this country for decades and it is now spreading around the world. Wars ae being conducted for profit not only political policies.  Untold millions of  people are suffering as a result.

It is not fair.  It never has been.  Prophts have foreold and people have screamed: “out of swords let us build plow shares, let’s have peace and hold hands around the world,” but it hasn’t worked because too many people are benefiting from the mass destruction ,which every war brings.  Not only are they benefiting financially, but from what my experience is, there are people who actually believe that Armageddon should happen precisely so that we have to have these wars.

So, the propaganda for the weeaponization of space is going from the plans an pocketbook of a military-industrial complex, to the religious right: some people actually believe that we have to have wars for these religious reasons (claiming that "It's in the Bible").

There are people who just love war. 

I have met warriors who just love to go to war.  Then there are the good people, the soldiers, who just take orders.  They have to feed their children and send them to college so they want to keep their jobs.  People in laboratories have told me that they don’t want to work on these technologies for war, but if they don’t they won’t get a paycheck.  Who is going to pay them?  But what I see is that there are not only dual uses for these technologies but there are many uses for the same technologies.

We can build space hospitals, schools, hotels, laboratories, farms, industries.  It may sound far-out but if we don’t do that, we are going to build battle stations and weapons pointed down on all of our heads and  back out into space.  Apparently we have been doing some of that already.  

We have a choice now that can be made.  We can all benefit – all of the people in the military industrial complex, in the intelligence community, in universities and labs, in the United States and all over the world – we can all benefit.  We can just transform that industry so easily with a change of course, a change oattitude, a decision based on our highest consciousness, our spirituality, and on the fact that we have no choice unless we all want to die.  And clearly, we don’t.  So we can all benefit financially, spiritually, socially, psychologically by dewaponizing outer space.  This is technologically and politically feasible.  It is possible to transform this game now and everyone on Earth will benefit.

In 1977 I was at a meeting in Fairchild Industries in a conference room called "The War Room."   In that room were a lot of charts on the walls with enemies, identified enemies.  There were other more obscure names, names like Saddam Hussein and Khadafi.  But we were talking then about terrorists, the potential terrorists.  No one had ever talked about this before, but this was the next stage after the Russians against whom we were going to build these space-based weapons.  I stood up in this meeting and I said:

 “Excuse me, why are we talking about these potential enemies against whom we are going to build space-based weapons ... if, in fact, we know that they are not the enemy at this time?”

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Well, they continued the conversation about how they were going to antagonize these enemies and that at some point, there was going to be a war in the Gulf, a Gulf War!  Now this was in 1977, 1977!

Andeven then, they were talking about creating a war in the Gulf Region when there was still 25 billion dollars in the space-based weapons program that had yet to be identified.   At least it wasn’t called the Strategic Defense Initiative,.   That was not until 1983.

This weapons system, then, had obviously been going on for some time and I didn’t know anything about it.  So I stood up in this meeting in 1977 and said:

 “I would like to know why we are talking about space-based weapons against these enemies.

I would like to know more about this. Would someone please tell me what this is about?”

Nobody answered. They just went on with this meeting as though I hadn’t said anything.   Suddenly I stood up in the room and said,:

“If nobody can tell me why you are planning a war in the Gulf when there is a certain amount of money in a budget so that you can create the next set of weapons systems that will be the beginning of the sell to the public about why we need space-based weapons, then consider this: my resignation.  And you will not hear from me again!”

And nobody said a word, because they were planning a war in the Gulf and it happened exactly as they planned it, and onschedule!

SG: Who was at this meeting? 

CR:  The room was filled with people in the revolving door game.  There were people that I had seen once in a military uniform and other times in a gray suit and an industry outfit.  These people play a revolving door game.  They work as consultants, industry people, and/or military and intelligence people.  They work in the industries and they revolve themselves through these doors and right into government positions.
 

I stood up in this meeting and asked if I was hearing correctly, namely, that when there was 25 billion dollars aleady expended in the space-based weapons budget, that there was going to be a war in the Gulf,  stimulated,  created,  so that they could then sell the next phase of weapons to the public and the decision-makers? 

This war was going to be created so that they could dump the old weapons and create a whole new set of weapons.  So I had to resign from that position.  I could no longer work in that industry.

One day in 1990, I was sitting in my living room looking at the money that had been spent on space-based weapons research and development programs and I realized that it had come to that number, about 25 billion dollars, and I said to my husband::

 “I am now going to stop everything.  I am now going to stop and sit and watch CNN television and I am going to wait for the war to happen.”

My husband said, “Well, you have finally gone over the edge. You have flipped out.” Friends said, “You have really gone too far this time. There is not going to be a war in the Gulf, nobody is talking about a war in the Gulf.”

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I replied:  “There is going to be a war in the Gulf. I am going to sit here and wait for the war in the Gulf.”

And it happened right on schedule.

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As part of the "war game" in the Gulf, we in the public were told that the United States was successful in shooting down Russian Scud Missiles.  We were rationalizing new budgets based on that success.  In fact, we found out later, after the budgets were approved for the next phase of weapons, that it was a lie.

We did not have successful shoot-downs the way we were told. It was all a lie, just to get more money put in the budget to make more weapons.  I was one of the first people to go independently to Russia when I heard that they had “killer satellites.”

[See the testimony of Dr. Paul Czysz. SG]

When I went to Russia in the early 70’s, I found out that they didn’t have killer satellites, that it was all a lie.  In fact, the Russian leaders and people wanted peace.  They wanted to cooperate with the United States and with the people of the world.

Another time, I called Saddam Hussein when he was lighting his oil fields on fire.  My husband was in the kitchen while I was making this phone call.  I got a call back from his First Attaché with Saddam Hussein nearby and he asked:

 “Are you a reporter? Are you an agent?  Why do you want to know?”

I said, 

“No. I am just a citizen who helped to start the movement to prevent the weaponization of outer space and I have found that a lot of stories that I have been told about weapons systems and the enemies are not true. I wanted to find out what would satisfy Saddam Hussein so he would stop making these oil fields catch fire and stop antagonizing people.” 

The Fist Attache to Saddam Hussein replied: 

“Well, nobody has ever asked him that question, what he wants.” …

So when I hear that there is a possible "threat of extraterrestrials" – and I look at the history of thousands of years of possible ET visitations, and hear the disclosures of honest military-intelligence-industry people who have had experiences with UFO’s, with crashes and landings, with live and dead bodies of extraterrestrial beings –  I know it is a lie.

And if I am ever told that these are enemies against whom we have to build space-based weapons systems, based on my own personal experience of having worked in the military industrial complex on weapons systems and military strategy, I am going to know it is a lie. It is a lie.

Not only will I not believe it, but I am going to go out as loudly as I can and tell everyone to take a look.  They [the ET’s] have not taken us away yet.  We are still here after thousands of years of visits from "Them.."   If in fact they are still visiting us now, and we have not been harmed by hem, then we have to look at these visits as something that is not a hostile occurrence.

It would be my hope and my intention to do everything I could to work with people who are working to communicate with and cooperate with these extraterrestrial beings.  They are clearly not hostile.  We are here.  That is enough proof for me.

There is no limit to how people can choose to live on this planet.  We have a chance to do that and I think that the window is closing rapidly.  I don’t think that we have much time in which to make and implement that decision.  We are too close in too many ways to having some horrible disaster happen, or having some sort of "worst war" take place, whether it is from high technology or an exotic weapons system.

We need leadership, and it has to start with the United States President and that is who we all have to reach.  If you are international, if you are around the world, if you are in the United States of America, whether you are from any party, any belief system or religion -  the United States Commander in Chief, the President of the United States is the person that needs to be reached.  We need to say that we want an ultimate, comprehensive, verifiable ban on all space-based weapons

 

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Dr. Carol Rosin

The Disclosure Project

July 7th, 2016

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OUR STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SUBJECT OF UFOs

OUR STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SUBJECT OF UFOs

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OUR STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SUBJECT OF UFOs

By Chris Holly 

(Copuyright 2016, Chris Holly - All Rights Reserved)

<Edited by Robert D. Morningstar>

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Over the last few months, I have been sent a steady stream of emails from people all over the United States telling me that they have had a UFO sighting. I have had reports of silver oval craft, groups of bright lights moving at incredible speeds and Orbs, mostly red Orbs.

People continue to see strange things in our sky daily all over this planet.  You would think by now we would know what they are seeing and from where these things originate.  The truth is we are exactly where we are now as where we were years ago when I first started to write and interview people about this subject.

The people who contact me when they have seen something that they realized was not like anything they had ever seen before all hold one thing in common.  Every single person is stunned and wants me to have an OMG reaction to the fact they saw something considered unknown or unexplained.

They also think that now that they saw something that it should be front page news.  The fact that people have been reporting UFO's, and having encounters with these unknowns from the start of time seems to be completely lost on people who have a sighting with their own eyes.  It is clear to me that our society is so backwards and lacking in basic knowledge about this subject that they are stunned when they see one with their very own eyes .

They learn very quickly what it is like to be on "the other side of the coin" and now they are the ones looking for acknowledgement that they did see something that was strange and unexplained,  They also know what it is like to look for protection and understanding instead of being laughed at and told that it was a plane and seeing friends turn away from them when they know they had just seen a damn UFO.  

Funny how we act towards one another with this subject.

When they contact me I tell them that they are now part of "the club" of millions worldwide who also have seen a UFO and that they now have the knowledge that they Do exist.

I often get back emails wanting me to be more stunned or shocked or shout in a hysteria that they actually did see a real object in the sky and do not understand why I do not "do something."

I explain that I have seen UFO's and I know that they exist and have spoken to many people who also have seen UFO's.  It is not earth-shattering news to me that yet another human looked up to find something they did not recognise looking back down at them.

I ask the people that have this type of reaction why they are so shocked that they finally saw something?

The answer always is that they really did not think they existed.

So, I have to wonder how so many can still be walking around this planet when the internet, TV and media, in general, is covered with videos, stories and photos of UFO's from all over the world?  The fact we still are so reluctant to understand this is part of our reality on Earth for me is actually frightening.

How is it we are so blinded and kept controlled by something so huge and seen by so many?

How is it that the people do not demand answers and are far happier to stay on a UFO gerbil-wheel of ignorance never wanting any real answers as they run, blindly competing in a "global rat race"?  We have  millions reporting seeing a strange object. Our reaction is to say wow, maybe look at the photo or video and then just  yawn and walk away.

Is it just me? Or are we a bit insane not want to know more?   Honestly, what the hell is wrong with us?

I often have people ask me where is the official place to report a UFO sighting.  They seem to think there is some government agency or organisation that is seriously dealing with this issue.  I think at times that society thinks that somewhere someone who knows what they are doing is taking care of all of this UFO stuff so they do not have to worry about it.  

Well gang, sorry to be the one to tell you...

 but when it comes to UFO's it is everyone for themselves as you are on your own with this issue.

Other nations have department's or government agencies that do collect and keep data on the UFO issue in their country but we here in America are NOT one of them.  If you call the police, you do not get anywhere.  If you call the military you get nothing.  We are set up to shut up and shut down people who try to discuss what they are seeing.  Using ridicule and laughter has worked for years to silence the public on this subject and obviously continues to work as we are still locked on this rat-wheel of stupidity with this ever growing issue of UFO's flying all over our country and nothing being done or explained or addressing the problem at all.

I had a man complain to me that he placed his sighting on MUFON but nothing happened.  I asked him what he wanted to happen?  He thought a big truck with white lab coat researchers would show up at his location to investigate his encounter.

I hated to be the one to tell him MUFON is a privately owned website, no hangers or buildings involved and the guy who owns it? ...Well who knows what he does with the reports?  It is not connected to any agency or government or military in any way so hs should stop waiting for any official reaction from them.

It is not the guy who owns MUFON or the TV shows making a fast buck off of our curiosity or the media or the thousands of internet pages that talk about this subject, IT IS US! ...

It is us, you and me, to blame for our ragged approach to this serious issue that needs to be addressed.

Why do we want to look at the subject as we do?  Why do we treat is as  a scary movie but not want to digest the fact that these things are real and flying over our heads often?  We may be in deep trouble and real danger yet we refuse to look up or ask why these objects are watching us.  I fear them and I know you should too.  Why are they here?  What do they want?  Who are they?  Are they ours? Good God I think we need to know.

Why is it we will see a UFO and still just go about our business as usual? Why do we just want to NOT KNOWN what the hell these things are and why do they fly around watching us?  I will not even address the fact that they take some of us. The question has to be what is wrong with all of us. We can sit and listen to an hour-long radio show on this subject, yawn and go to bed and give no thought at all to the fact that maybe we all need to know what is going on with these things. It is almost insane in my thinking that we are content to do nothing at all about asking questions of those who should have the answers for us. We should in mass be demanding our government and military tell us what these objects are and if we need to fear them.

I want to know.  I really am fearful and want to know, don't you?

For now, I will watch as we run round and round on a large UFO rat-wheel of blissful ignorance, refusing to get past the point of chatting about the issue and staying locked in the dangerous dark ages of  looking away, ignoring or denying  what and who it is that is flying our skies and watching us as we ignore it all in ignorance and a mindless bliss.  Maybe we are hypnotized or brainwashed or drugged to be so complacent about this serious subject, I just do not know ...

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THE BIGGEST CONSPIRACIES AROUND THE WORLD

THE BIGGEST CONSPIRACIES AROUND THE WORLD

There will always be conspiracy theories found in everything that happens. Whether true or not, they manage to convince enough people. From how subliminal advertising controls our behavior at Roswell aliens, secret organizations that control the world theories on the terrorist attacks, these theories are true? This remains to be judged by each individual separately. Among these are the following theories: 
 Vril and Thule secret societies - To understand the connection between esoteric societies, more or less secret, and the phenomenon called "UFO" in the middle of the last century, should we review some notions that seemingly unrelated topic but are closely linked. In 1871 Edward Bulwer-Lytton coined the notion of the novel Vril S.F. - The Coming Race. Vril is a Tibetan word which can be translated as life force, life force or vital energy, however, that vibration.
 
 Helena Blavatsky took this concept, and it has used in its occult and theosophical theories. Vril ancient civilizations considered as the highest form of energy in the universe, all other types of energy is only secondary manifestations of this supreme force. In 1919, members of the Knights Templar follower groups had established Vril organization (German: Vril Gesellschaft) based in Ramsau in Germany (near the border with Austria). The Vril Society had come into contact with the Thule Society (Thule-Gesellschaft) who was the origin of the Nazi party. Some members of the Thule organization later became important figures in the Nazi party.
 
 Bermuda Triangle - mysterious, wordless, sometimes fatal. Intrepid researchers dug decades mysteries hidden deep in the labyrinth of the most enigmatic place on earth. 
 
Some speculate that the strange anomalies in time, disappearances and strange phenomena can be explained by natural circumstances. Others insist that the remains of an unknown culture advanced technologies left behind ... fantastic energy based devices that effectively beyond space and time and open the gates to other realities. 
 
Currently, Americans and French explorers made a monumental discovery: a pyramid-shaped crystal, partially translucent surfaced from the seabed Caribbean origin, age, and purpose completely unknown. 
 
There are secret bases on the Moon? - The Moon has always fascinated mankind, and it was the biggest challenge for scientists. Increasingly more specialists confirm the existence of extraterrestrial bases on the moon. 
 
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UFO-expert Max Spiers stond op het punt elites te ‘ontmaskeren’ die zwarte magie beoefenen

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UFO-expert Max Spiers stond op het punt elites te ‘ontmaskeren’ die zwarte magie beoefenen

Een UFO-expert die afgelopen zomer dood werd gevonden in Polen, stond op het punt een netwerk van politici en beroemdheden te ontmaskeren dat zwarte magie beoefent. Dat zegt althans zijn verloofde.

Max Spiers, bij wie ‘zwarte vloeistof’ uit de mond liep toen hij werd gevonden, hield zich in de maanden voor zijn dood bezig met zwarte magie.

“Hij stond op het punt om zwarte magie te ontmaskeren,” zei zijn 31-jarige vriendin Sarah Adams. “Hij wilde wat dingen naar buiten brengen over politieke leiders en beroemdheden.”

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UFO-expert stond op het punt elites te 'ontmaskeren' die zwarte magie beoefenen

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Spiers zou haar al meerdere keren hebben gezegd dat hij bang was om te worden vermoord.

“We waren doodsbedreigingen wel gewend, maar dit keer leek het serieus te zijn,” zei ze. “Hij kreeg doodsbedreigingen waarin stond dat wij allebei zouden sterven.”

“Hij stuurde me uren voor zijn dood nog berichten,” vertelde ze aan Yahoo. “Hij heeft zeker geen zelfmoord gepleegd.”

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Spiers was afgelopen zomer in Polen om een lezing te geven over complottheorieën en UFO’s, iets waar hij veel over wist te vertellen aangezien hij naar eigen zeggen deel had uitgemaakt van een overheidsprogramma rond ‘supersoldaten’.

Sommige van zijn trouwe volgelingen merkten op dat de zwarte vloeistof die uit zijn mond liep veel gelijkenissen vertoont met het buitenaardse virus Purity uit de serie X-Files.

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De ziekte zorgt er in de serie voor dat er een zwarte vloeistof uit de ogen en mond van mensen komt.

“Als het niet waar was wat hij zei, waarom zouden ze hem dan vermoorden?” schreef Craig Hewlett op de site Project Camelot. “Gezonde mensen sterven niet zomaar, zij worden vergiftigd.”

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Is a U.S. Air Force general from Wright-Patterson helping Tom DeLonge obtain official UFO disclosure?

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Is a U.S. Air Force general from Wright-Patterson helping Tom DeLonge obtain official UFO disclosure?

Now that the election is over, so is the leak of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta, by WikiLeaks. Many of his emails discussed UFOs, a topic Podesta has shown interest in, and one of the most intriguing, and revealing, strings of UFO emails was regarding a Google Hangouts meeting Podesta set up with rockstar Tom DeLonge, two USAF generals, and a VP from Lockheed Skunk Works – the guys in charge of Area 51.

Warning signs at the Area 51 back entrance. (Credit: Alejandro Rojas)

Warning signs at the Area 51 back entrance.

(Credit: Alejandro Rojas)

However, now that the leaks are done, and looking more closely at the UFO emails, it is not just shocking that these men attended a meeting about UFOs, but, apparently, one of the USAF generals has been advising DeLonge on his project to reveal the government has back engineered alien technology. DeLonge has even implied that the general told him the U.S. had found an alien body.

DeLonge has not made it a secret what his recent focus has been. He was the front man for the popular rock band Blink 182, until he left, presumably, to pursue his investigation of UFO secrecy. DeLonge told the Rolling Stone of the breakup, “I couldn’t tell the band I was working with people in the government.”

DeLonge explained, “I have 10 people that I’m working with that are at the highest levels of the Department of Defense and NASA and the military.”

The Air Force Materiel Command is headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

The Air Force Materiel Command is headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

It is surprising enough people in the government would be working with DeLonge on a UFO project, but it is even more surprising what he says they have told him. DeLonge says he based his recent fiction book, Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows, on the information they fed him. The book is about the government’s decades long project to back engineer alien technology and hide it from the public.

According to Rolling Stone, DeLonge claims he was approved to say he used  “sources within the aerospace industry and the Department of Defense and NASA.”

Who approved him to say this, and who are his sources? Until the Podesta UFO WikiLeaks, we had no idea who these people were, if they were really with the government, or if they existed at all. What we found in the WikiLeak emails is – well, I have used the word a couple times already, but it fits – shocking.

William Neil McCasland (Credit: USAF)

William Neil McCasland (Credit: USAF)

It turns out DeLonge was having conversations with insiders. As we wrote about in the article on the Google Hangout UFO meeting, and mentioned earlier, but of particular interest for this article is the general from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Major General William N. McCasland, who we know from the WikiLeaks emails, goes by Neil. McCasland’s USAF bio says he is the Commander of the Wright-Patterson Research Laboratories.

His bio continues: “He is responsible for managing the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program as well as additional customer funded research and development of $2.2 billion. He is also responsible for a global workforce of approximately 10,800 people in the laboratory’s component technology directorates, 711th Human Performance Wing and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.”

One could just shrug McCasland’s participation in the meeting aside, and speculate that he may have attended to humor DeLonge and Podesta. This point of view could be supported by a follow-up email from DeLonge to Podesta, in which DeLonge seemed disappointed by McCasland’s participation.

The meeting took place on January 25, 2016 at 10:30 am. In an email from DeLonge to Podesta sent that afternoon, DeLonge writes:

He mentioned he’s a “skeptic”, he’s not. I’ve been working with him for four months. I just got done giving him a four hour presentation on the entire project a few weeks ago.

Trust me, the advice is already been happening on how to do all this. He just has to say that out loud, but he is very, very aware- as he was in charge of all of the stuff. When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago.

He not only knows what I’m trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man.

While it seems McCasland was reticent to share what he had previously told Delonge, this email is not the extent of DeLonge’s shocking claims regarding a previously unidentified general who DeLonge claims helped him assemble his team of insiders. On July 5, 2016, DeLonge posted this statement on Facebook with a picture of the gates at Area 51:

I landed on the Tarmac, walked off the plane, and met a smart and fit man in his 60’s. Never seen a Multi-Star General before.. Let alone talked to one. He led me to a table in the back of a large room. He leaned across the table and said “It was the Cold War, and we lived under the very real threat of Nuclear War every day… And somewhere in those years…We found a life-form.” I said, “Sir, I need help telling young adults this story…” He said, “What do you need?”….”Advisors”, I responded. “I need high-ranking Advisors in the Military, Intelligence and DOD to help guide me.” So- I was given 10 Advisors, each with knowledge in different areas that pertain to UFOs and the very real National Security issues associated with them. I do wish the press would ask me about this, rather than write stupid headlines about Aliens… I have been given a gift, the ability to tell you all our biggest secret. It will come in books, feature films and documentaries. It’s called SEKRET MACHINES

This statement is similar to statements he has made in interviews, including on the popular late-night paranormal radio show Coast to Coast AM.

It is not a leap to see DeLonge is suggesting McCasland was the guy who told him “We found a life-form.”

There is another email suggesting a general had given DeLonge and Podesta advice on what to add to a potential White House memo, presumably, on UFOs. This email was sent from DeLonge to Podesta in September, 2015. He wrote:

General’s thoughts:

“I was thinking a bit more about what a White House memo should say. Something like these points to all Federal Agencies:

– In light of the President’s policy on STEM (citing official policy encouraging the study of science, technology, engineering and math)

– some back ground on your project

– the Administration encourages a favorable Public Affairs position by all Agencies

– appointes NASA to lead (this kind of public outreach is in NASA’s job jar, and if no Agency is appointed all will simply note and file the memo and likely do nothing)

– and to coordinate with DoD, DNI and NOAA (the other major space actors, putting a bit of light on them)”

Michael Carey (Credit: USAF)

Michael Carey (Credit: USAF)

However, there was another general in that Google Hangout meeting, who appears to have been working with DeLonge for awhile. That is retired USAF Major General Michael Carey. According to his USAF bio, Carey was the Special Assistant to the Commander, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, which is also the home of NORAD. Petersen is at the base of the famous Cheyenne Mountain.

In this later email, DeLonge mentions he is going to meet with officials from Air Force Space Command. That makes it likely Carey was the one who sent the pointers regarding the memo. Carey also seems to have an interest in the topic, he even submitted a book review for Sekret Machines, that can be seen on the book’s webpage on Amazon.com.

I should also note that the other VIP attendee of the Google Hangout meeting, Executive Vice President & General Manager Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works) at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Rob Weiss, also showed a bit of follow-up interest in the meeting. In an email from DeLonge to Podesta dated February 22, 2016, DeLonge says he received an email from Weiss asking if there were any updates.

So what is going on here? DeLonge is not just blowing smoke, he has had high-level meetings. But can we believe that McCasland has told him the USAF recovered an alien body and is back engineering alien technology and is helping him assemble a team to reveal this information to the public?

Grant Cameron of PresidentialUFO.com says yes. Although he is a Canadian, Cameron has been looking into the history of U.S. Presidents and the UFO topic for decades. He believes the U.S. is holding UFO and alien secrets and that the U.S. Presidents are briefed on the situation. Further, he believes there has been an ongoing project to slowly feed this information to the public and DeLonge must be a big part of a phase to this project that is coming to fruition. Cameron says as soon as January we may receive a big piece of information. Cameron and I debated his perspective on a recent episode of Open Minds UFO Radio.

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Grant Cameron

Another perspective is that DeLonge is falling prey to a USAF program to disperse disinformation. This may seem farfetched, but there have been other credible claims of this happening. In at least a couple other occasions the USAF has approached the media telling them they will give them exclusive proof of alien visitation, and then backing out. Strange behavior, but it has been documented. At OpenMinds.tv, we have examined one of these cases very closely. You can see an investigation of that case below. In DeLonge’s case, perhaps they were not planning on WikiLeaks, and/or the Russians, outing them.

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Robbie Graham, author of a book titled Silver Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact from Fantasy in Hollywood’s UFO Movies, has been examining this later possibility in articles on the website Mysterious Universe.

Of course, the possibility I originally posited, that these men are humoring DeLonge, could be what is happening. Perhaps they are interested in the topic, they really don’t know much about UFOs, and they want to get people interested in the topic as well. But why? To generate interest in science? And if that is the case, then what about the claims that McCasland, or someone else, is telling DeLonge we have an alien body and back engineered alien technology? Is DeLonge lying?

This, to me, is a fascinating mystery. If DeLonge is right, we should know more soon. Or, if history repeats itself, the USAF will not go through with providing DeLonge anything of substance. Perhaps they will even use the email leaks as an excuse to stop working on his project altogether and either deny, or just refuse to speak about, their involvement thus far.

Either way, since the cessation of Podesta WikiLeak drops, the matter seems to be drifting off into obscurity, even among UFOers. However, it is a matter which likely is not finished. DeLonge appears to be forging ahead, as are Graham and Cameron. Normally we could say time will tell who was right, but in matters UFO, often, confusion, unanswered questions and enigma are all we are left with.

Special thanks to Elephant in the Room.

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UFO Over Derbyshire, UK Excites Snapchat Eyewitnesses On Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Over Derbyshire, UK Excites Snapchat Eyewitnesses On Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Dec 5, 2016
Location of sighting: Derbyshire, UK

Here is a unique video that starts with Ferraris and ends with a UFO over Derbyshire. The UFO is at 2:10 of the video and is only seen from the car for about 30 seconds, but it gives us a great view of it. The last view of the UFO we see that it glows...in a triangle, then disappears totally, as if it knows its being watched. It looks like it powered up to shoot away. 

Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

Diamond shaped ufos over derbyshire UK.. skip to about 2 mins.. sorry about beginning (snapchat 🙄🙄) tbh I don't know wat i saw they are really big in size diamond shaped silently traveling at some big speeds and colliding with each other at times!! as I was driving and kept on pulling over to get them on camera I travelled a radius of about 5 miles.. I said 20 mile radius on snapchat as I was kinda excited. 😊 some other vehicles must have seen them it was pretty busy any other footage or any ideas as to wat it is because at the moment they are unidentified flying objects.. if u can help clean up the video or anything to help show and zoom in on the diamond shape let me know... I deleted sound because was inappropriate words used sorry 😔. was really exciting wateva they were lol😂😂 so excited I didn't even realise the trucks speeding along the motorway 2ft away from me... was more interested in getting these things on camera🤕🤕 was also really scared to I wasn't about to be letting some little green men stick anything in my bum 🍢🍢😐😐😅 either way if these things are real and I know wat i saw they wernt planes or any kind of drones, helicopters lol that I've seen and I've watched a million videos on you tube about that stuff.. 🤓🤓 if it was any kind of prank I'll look stupid in a week or 2. BUT fair play.. good prank ya fooled me 🖒🖒 either way I better watch ma bak 👀👀 if they where some kinda ufos then that must mean the MIB are real 2😅😅😅 🕵🕵😐😐😑😞😞

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UFO Caught Between Sun And SOHO Satellite On Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Caught Between Sun And SOHO Satellite On Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Dec 6, 2016
Location of sighting: Between SOHO satellite and Sun
NASA Source: 
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This UFO was found by Streetcap1 of Youtube yesterday. Its large and its close to the SOHO satellite. In this photo, the sun is always covered up so it doesn't cause distortions with focusing on the surround orbital area of the sun. This UFO is thick and perfectly rounded on its end. Know that NASA never comments on UFOs found in SOHO images and never will, even though I have tweeted to them over 300 times of SOHO discoveries over the past few years. 

Streetcap1 states:
Stereo Ahead COR2 is at the other side of the Sun from Earth. This large object was caught by it's Camera on 6th December 2016. Streetcap1.

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UFO Forms Giant Worm Hole Over Norway Turning Night Into Day, Dec 2016, Three Videos, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Forms Giant Worm Hole Over Norway Turning Night Into Day, Dec 2016, Three Videos, UFO Sighting News.


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The UFO is forming a black hole around it...do you see? Its not exploding, its creating the hole first...the it will enter with a flash of light and the hole is gone. 
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Date of sighting: December 2016
Location of sighting: Phaethon, Norway
Photo source:
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What you see here is a UFO opening up a wormhole to just disappear. As proof I would like you to see the photo above. I added light and all around the UFO, you see blackness. Its not natural...its a black hole being formed by the UFO to shoot through time and space. Some alien was too lazy to leave Earths orbit and just took off in one hell of a hurry. 


This is not the only worm hole to form over Norway, back in Dec of 2009 when President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for things he had not done yet, just months after he became president. Aliens made the wormhole to come to the Nobel ceremony...a sign of their approval...since aliens controlled the Nobel Peace Prize judging board that year. 

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Alien Life Might Live in Subsurface Ocean Worlds

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Alien Life Might Live in Subsurface Ocean Worlds

If we found life on Mars, could it have been delivered from Earth? And could Earth’s water actually be from Mars? There’s the possibility of either scenario, explained researchers on Monday, during the first day of an alien-focused conference called “Searching For Life Across Space And Time: A Workshop,” at the Beckman Center of the National Academies in Irvine, California.

When we study water on other planets, we can analyze potential for life separate from the context of our own planet. In other words, we can look at the possibility there’s life with origins separate from our own. This allows us to better understand the biochemistry on its own terms, which might ultimately help us learn more about our own origins.

There are at least six moons (you could make a case for Pluto’s inclusion, too) that have or might have liquid water oceans beneath their icy exteriors — meaning, they might be able to sustain life. All the liquid water that might persist beneath the surface of these moons amounts to more than 30 times the total volume of water on Earth, which means a lot there are a lot of compelling places to search for life. Comparatively, the Earth with its relatively small amount of water, might have once been viewed — very long ago — as not a very promising place to search for life.

Arguably, Pluto should be up here also.

“When it comes to habitability,” said NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrobiologist Kevin Hand, “It really is not just about the liquid water. It’s also about the extent to which that water is interacting with rocks.”

We know of two standouts in that regard: Europa, which orbits Jupiter, and Enceladus, which orbits Saturn. We know Europa’s ocean has been there for a significant duration of its past, but we’re unclear on the history of water on Enceladus. Its global ocean could have potentially been maintained by tidal energy consistently through time, but the jury’s still out on that.

Life on Enceladus wouldn’t have the same “primordial soup” origins as life on Earth. Rather, it would by icy or hydrothermal. The more we learn about those pathways, the fuller a picture we can put together about how life arises across the solar system.

Saturn's moon Enceladus
This is the actual caption by NASA, which can't be improved upon: "A masterpiece of deep time and wrenching gravity, the tortured surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its fascinating ongoing geologic activity tell the story of the ancient and present struggles of one tiny world."

We’ve already seen evidence of ocean “plumes” — water being sprayed into space — on Enceladus via the Cassini spacecraft. And Europa’s seafloor could actually be even more active than our own.

In an attempt to prove that Europa’s oceans were actively interacting with its seafloor, Hand and his colleagues looked to surface discoloration. The phenomenon itself is divisive: some believe it indicates salt, while others believe it’s a sign of sulfuric acid. The JPL team ran a recent experiment on what it calls “Europa in a can” — simulated conditions at their lab — that involved putting sodium chloride (a flat, white, spectrally uninteresting substance) into the chamber in the form of a brine that evaporated out water.

The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.
The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.

Post-irradiation, the salt had turned a dirty, yellow-brown color — a sight recognizable from imagery of Europa’s surface. They think it means that on Europa, the discolored regions are geologically active, the result of irradiated salt coming up from the ocean below — and thus an active, dynamic body of water, the kind of place we might one day find life.

Photos via Kevin Hand / JPL,

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Finding Distant Alien Life Means Detecting Subtle Biosignatures

Finding Distant Alien Life Means Detecting Subtle Biosignatures

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Earth is a vibrant, lush planet that’s bustling with life, but if you’re far, far away — enough that the planet just looks like a tiny blue dot — would you be able to tell if there’s was life on Earth at all? Yes, it turns out, but identifying life on a distant planet outside of our solar system is tricky, and requires careful detection of some very subtle biosignatures.

“Life’s impact — for us to be able to see it over very long distances — is going to have to be on a global scale,” Victoria Meadows from the University of Washington and NASA Astrobiology Institute explained during a presentation on Monday.

Meadows, who was speaking at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s two-day workshop, “Searching for Life Across Space and Time,” explained that researchers could determine if there was life on a distant planet by looking for certain clues in the environment as a whole that were probably caused by organic life.

“Look for a ‘disturbance in the force,’” Meadows explained. “Something in the environment that indicates a disequilibrium, or an unknown or unexpected planetary process.”

Such “disturbances,” as Meadows called them in a subtle nod to Star Wars, can include an abundance of gas that seems more likely to have originated from organic life rather than a planetary or geologic source. Other possible biosignatures could include color abnormalities caused photosynthesis, seasonal temperature changes, and a large elemental disequilibrium suggesting an “active source” of the prolific element.

Meadows said that scientists have to be wary of false positives. Getting a Nobel Prize isn’t as simple as merely detecting oxygen in an exoplanet atmosphere, though Meadows said scientists used to think that was the case. “It’s a little more complicated than that,” she explained. “Environmental context is key.”

“How do we recognize the effects of life on an extrasolar planet, and how do we discriminate life processes from the rest of the environment?” she asked, noting that there are ways that a planet could have an eyebrow-raising amount of oxygen in its atmosphere that don’t involve life, like photochemical reactions caused by light from nearby stars.

An alien emits a gas into the atmosphere.
An alien emits a gas into the atmosphere.

A good biosignature — one that might reasonably provide evidence of life — has three requirements. The first is reliability. That’s essentially the main question: can life create this signature in the first place, and is it more likely to have originated from organic life than from a planetary or geologic source? The second is survivability — does the biosignature get a chance to linger, or is it destroyed or consumed by other planetary processes? Finally, there’s detectability — does the sign build up to the point where us far-off humans would be able to notice it?

As scientists identify more potential biosignatures they can be on the lookout for, the greater likelihood that they might find something. Oxygen is an excellent (but not foolproof) biosignature, but Meadows says researchers can look to Earth’s current environment or its past for other gasses that fit the bill.

There’s more to searching for biosignatures than just looking for life, Meadows added. If scientists aren’t taking the possibility of life into consideration when they study a planet, they might not be equipped to fully understand the environment.

“If we just suppose that the planet is sterile, we might not be able to interpret it correctly,” she said.

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A Planet Around Proxima Centauri Could Be Habitable, and It's Not Alone

A Planet Around Proxima Centauri Could Be Habitable, and It's Not Alone

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Proxima Centauri is a tiny little star that, in the grand scheme of the universe, wouldn’t seem that notable except for two things: The first is that at 4.5 light-years away, it’s the closest star to our solar system. The second is that a little planet around the star just might be habitable.

Even if the planet, Proxima Centauri b, isn’t habitable, it represents an entire class of planets commonly found throughout the universe that could be habitable, according to Matteo Brogi, a Hubble Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. While speaking at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s two-day workshop, “Searching for Life Across Space and Time,” Brogi explained that new methods will allow scientists to get a better sense of what’s happening on the planet’s surface.

“We’re not only talking about the closest star to the solar system,” Brogi said on Monday, “but this is a planet that is representative of an entire category.”

Could there be life on Proxima Centauri b?
Could there be life on Proxima Centauri b?

Small red dwarf stars are the most common type of star in the universe and they tend to have a couple small planets orbiting them. “There are about two and a half planets per star,” Brogi said. “Every three stars there should be a habitable planet.”

“Having a small planet around a small star is better than having it around the sun,” Brogi noted, explaining that bigger stars like our yellow dwarf sun can overshadow smaller planets, making them harder to spot and study.

Because stars like Proxima Centauri are smaller than our sun, “the classical habitable zone should be much, much, much closer to the star than in the case of a solar star,” Brogi said. “Proxima Centauri b sits exactly in the middle of the habitable zone.”

The problem with Proxima Centauri b, Brogi explained, is that it is non-transiting. This limits the amount scientists can learn about it — and it’s also the reason why we don’t have a better idea of its mass. All we know for sure, at the moment, is that it’s at least 1.27 times the mass of Earth. It could be much more.

Brogi says that high-definition spectroscopy — which studies planets by separating the planet from the star while observing the two bodies’ electromagnetic radiation — offers new prospects for ground-based characterization of the planet, which should, in turn, give us a better chance of how habitable it — or other planets like it — might be.

“Terrestrial planets around M-dwarf stars are our best short-term chance to characterize potentially habitable worlds,” Brogi said.

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Scientists Weigh in On the Possibility of Life in Pluto’s Oceans

Scientists Weigh in On the Possibility of Life in Pluto’s Oceans

 
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IN BRIEF
  • Thanks to data collected by the New Horizons flyby of Pluto, scientists are now taking a serious look into the possibility of oceans on the planet, and therefore the chance for life.
  • While water being present on a celestial body is a big boost for the chances of finding life, Pluto's moons are better candidates to be home to some form of organisms.

PLUTO’S WATERS

The existence of water on Pluto was first brought to our attention by the July 2015 flyby of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, when a supposed subsurface ocean was spotted on the icy dwarf planet. Since then, continuous study of the former ninth planet’s topographical structures have led to even more confirmation that there is, indeed, water on Pluto.

This subsurface ocean, which is said to exist underneath Pluto’s heart-shaped zone called the the Sputnik Planitia (or Planum), is part of the area known as the Tombaugh Regio. It’s a 1,000km (621-mile) wide frozen plane composed mostly of nitrogen ice, with some methane and carbon monoxide. Beneath it is the supposed ocean, which according to researcher William McKinnon, is laden with ammonia. McKinnon is professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and a co-author of the study published in Nature.

Credits: P.M. Schenk LPI/JHUAPL/SwRI/NASA Credits: P.M. Schenk LPI/JHUAPL/SwRI/NASA

LIFE’S TELLTALE SIGN

Where there is water, there’s a great possibility that life could also exist. In the Sputnik Planitia, despite the presence of ammonia, McKinnon believes it’s possible for life to exist in these frozen waters. “On Earth, microorganisms in the soil fix nitrogen to ammonia, which is important for making DNA and proteins and such,” he said.

“If you’re going to talk about life in an ocean that’s completely covered with an ice shell, it seems most likely that the best you could hope for is some extremely primitive kind of organism.”

Other formations that suggested water were found along the Virgil Fossa, just west of an area called the Elliot crater, and also in the Viking Terra and in the Baré Montes. These areas showed strong signatures of water ice occurrence, according to data from New Horizons’ Ralph instrument. These areas are part of a region in Pluto that stretches approximately 450 km (280 miles), which could also sustain water under the surface.

But perhaps if water is the basis of finding extraterrestrial life, there are better chances in two of Jupiter’s moons. Titan and Europa both are said to have bodies of water, a primordial ocean of methane for the former and a frozen one containing more water than on Earth for the latter.

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ESO Dark Matter Discovery Redefines Our Theoretical Models of the Universe

ESO Dark Matter Discovery Redefines Our Theoretical Models of the Universe

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IN BRIEF
  • A new study reveals that dark matter may not be as clustered as previously thought. In fact, it's very possible that dark matter is more evenly spread out in space.
  • For the study, astronomers observed an area of the sky covering a size about 2,200 times that of the full moon, and encompassing more than 15 million galaxies.

A CLOSER LOOK

Dark matter and dark energy are arguably the most elusive components of the universe. Dark matter in particular has remained undetected. Its existence is observed only through the gravitational effects it’s thought to produce — which exist, basically, to render the theories about it somewhat manageable. But, despite the numerous studies, we remain largely in the darkabout dark matter.

Perhaps because of it being mysterious and all, astronomers like Hendrik Hildebrandt from the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie in Bonn, Germany and Massimo Viola from the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, continue to study dark matter and ways to find it. Hildebrandt and Viola, together with a team from several international institutions, believe that dark matter may not be as clustered as previously thought. It’s very possible that dark matter is more evenly spread out in space.

According to the study published by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the astronomers studied images from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), taken by ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile, of an area of the sky covering a size about 2,200 times that of the full moon, and encompassing more than 15 million galaxies.

REFINING OUR UNDERSTANDING

Using an innovative computer to analyze the images, the team was able to study a phenomenon known as cosmic shear — when light from distant galaxies is slightly warped by the gravitational effects of large amounts of matter, usually large-scale structures in the universe or the hidden dark matter. It’s a more subtle variant of weak gravitational lensing.

“This latest result indicates that dark matter in the cosmic web, which accounts for about one-quarter of the content of the Universe, is less clumpy than we previously believed,” Viola explained. This, however, runs contrary to the results of deductions using the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Planck satellite.

The disagreements between the two sets of data are not really that surprising. In fact, they’re quite expected given how newer technology enables us to refine our understanding of things — and there isn’t a thing bigger than the universe, our understanding of which needs considerable improvement.

“Our findings will help to refine our theoretical models of how the universe has grown from its inception up to the present day,” said Hildebrandt.

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Vreemde blauwe wolken lichten hemel boven Zuidpool al enkele weken op. Wat heeft dit te betekenen?- HLN.be

Vreemde blauwe wolken lichten hemel boven Zuidpool al enkele weken op. Wat heeft dit te betekenen?- HLN.be

Bron: NASA, HuffingtonPost.de

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VIDEO Mysterieuze blauwe lichtgevende wolken zweven al enkele weken boven Antarctica, zo heeft een ruimtesonde van de NASA kunnen vaststellen. Het fenomeen is niet nieuw maar onderzoekers hebben het nog steeds niet volledig kunnen doorgronden. Bovendien duikt het omvangrijke blauwe deken veel vroeger op dan normaal en dat baart de wetenschap zorgen.

Het verschijnsel wordt door meteorologen noctilucentie genoemd. De wolken die daarbij lijken te gloeien als een gloeilamp verschijnen elk jaar. Meestal rond Kerstmis maar nu dus veel eerder dan verwacht. Al rond half november werden ze gespot door een ruimtesonde. 

Onderzoekers weten dat het raadselachtige fenomeen te maken heeft met het klimaat op beide polen want in mei zijn de lichtgevende wolken te zien boven de Noordpool. Maar het fijne weten ze er nog altijd niet van. 

Wat de wetenschap wel weet, is dat ze worden gevormd door meteorietenstof, dat op een hoogte van 83 kilometer een laagje in de atmosfeer vormt. Is er veel waterdamp in de atmosfeer, dan zullen ijskristallen het meteorietenstof bedekken en zo ontstaan er wolken die een elektrisch blauw licht lijken af te geven. Na 5 tot 10 dagen bereiken ze hun maximale intensiteit. Waarom dergelijke wolken enkel tijdens deze periode opduiken (wanneer de zomer aanbreekt op de polen), is vooralsnog een raadsel. Het feit dat ze dit jaar extreem vroeg te zien zijn, is een ontwikkeling die onderzoekers zorgen baart. 

Volgens hen hangt het samen met de klimaatopwarming die ervoor zorgt dat de seizoenen elkaar sneller opvolgen. Zo lijkt de zomer sneller dan ooit begonnen te zijn op de Zuidpool. De NASA wil het fenomeen nu grondiger onderzoeken om na te gaan welke gevolgen dit heeft voor onze planeet.

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Wetenschappers hebben nieuwe theorie over hoe oppervlak van Mars werd gevormd - HLN.be

Wetenschappers hebben nieuwe theorie over hoe oppervlak van Mars werd gevormd -  HLN.be

  Bron: Penn State

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De Galekrater op Mars zou ooit vol water hebben gestaan.

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Onderzoekers van de Amerikaanse Penn State University hebben een nieuwe theorie ontwikkeld die kan verklaren hoe de diepe valleien op de oppervlakte van Mars ontstaan zijn. Ze zien eruit als de valleien op aarde, maar die werden gevormd door water dat er duizenden jaren doorliep. En 3,8 miljoen jaar geleden, toen de oppervlakte van Mars zijn vorm kreeg, was de planeet helemaal bedekt met ijs. Of toch niet?

Volgens de wetenschappers van Penn State zouden op Mars ook warmere perioden zijn voorgekomen en die zouden zijn veroorzaakt door het broeikaseffect. De warmere periodes zouden tot 10 miljoen jaar per keer hebben geduurd, dankzij een dikke atmosfeer van koolstofdioxide en waterstof. En genoeg water geproduceerd hebben om de oppervlakte van de planeet zijn huidige vorm te geven.

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De resultaten van het onderzoek - dat gesponsord werd door de NASA - werden gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Earth and Planetary Science Letters. "Vroegere studies gingen ervan uit dat Mars opwarmde als gevolg van de impact van meteorieten. Die creëerden een atmosfeer die regen veroorzaakte. Maar die buien kunnen nooit lang genoeg geduurd hebben en genoeg water gecreëerd hebben om het oppervlak van de planeet uit te slijten", aldus onderzoekster Natasha Batalha.   

Haar collega Jim Kasting vult aan: "Mars moet miljoenen jaren warm geweest zijn en bij de theorie van de meteorietinslagen zou dat maar duizenden jaren geweest zijn. Voor het uitslijten van de valleien zijn miljoenen meters regenval nodig, niet een paar honderd."   

Grand Canyon
Ter vergelijking: de Grand Canyon - die lijkt op de valleien van Mars - werd gevormd nadat de Coloradorivier er 16 miljoen jaar doorheen stroomde. Met dank aan de sneeuw uit de Rocky Mountains, die elk jaar weer smolt.

De wetenschappers ontwikkelden klimaatmodellen die de lange warme perioden op Mars kunnen verklaren. Volgens hen zouden broeikasgassen zich opgestapeld hebben in de atmosfeer door de uitbarsting van vulkanen en afkoelend magma. Regen zou de koolstof gedeeltelijk hebben doen neerslaan op de bodem. Aanvankelijk beperkt omdat de planeet nog koud was, maar dat zou steeds sneller zijn gegaan.   

Bewijs
Het ultieme bewijs zit in de bodem van de planeet. "Hoge concentraties van koolstofdioxide in de atmosfeer doen zure regen ontstaan, die de koolstofhoudende rotsen op het oppervlak aangetast moeten hebben", aldus Batalha. "Dat moet sporen in de bodem achtergelaten hebben. Een volgende Marsmissie kan daar duidelijkheid over verschaffen."

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‘Niet van deze wereld’: Getuige ‘Britse Roswell’ verbreekt na 36 jaar de stilte

'Niet van deze wereld': Getuige 'Britse Roswell' verbreekt na 36 jaar de stilte

‘Niet van deze wereld’: Getuige ‘Britse Roswell’ verbreekt na 36 jaar de stilte

Een gepensioneerde Amerikaanse luchtmachtofficier claimt dat hij bijna vier decennia geleden in een Brits bos iets onverklaarbaars heeft meegemaakt.

Steve Longero onthulde maandag dat hij in 1980 getuige is geweest van het incident in Rendlesham Forest in het Engelse Suffolk, ook wel het ‘Britse Roswell’ geheten.

Militairen zagen daar naar eigen zeggen drie avonden achter elkaar een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object.

‘Het was alsof het ons bekeek’
'Niet van deze wereld': Getuige 'Britse Roswell' verbreekt na 36 jaar de stilte

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“Ik denk dat het niet van deze wereld was,” zei Longero over het object.

Hij hield op 26 december 1980, de eerste avond dat de UFO werd waargenomen, de wacht.

“We hadden een zeer geavanceerd alarmsysteem, dat ineens afging,” herinnerde hij zich.

“Het ding bleef boven de bomen hangen en wij vroegen ons af wat het was,” vervolgde hij. “Het was net alsof het ons volgde, alsof het ons bekeek. Het leek iets te zijn dat ons bekeek.”

Lichten

Hij zei dat de UFO fluorescerende rode en groene lichten had.

Eén van zijn collega’s, kolonel Charles Halt, schreef onlangs een boek over het incident getiteld ‘The Halt Perspective’.

“Kolonel Halt kwam later pas,” zei Longero. “Dat was toen ze iedereen bij elkaar riepen en ons vertelden wat we moesten doen.”

Koude Oorlog

“We konden niet geloven wat we hadden gezien,” voegde hij toe.

De UFO-waarneming werd gedaan toen de twee NAVO-bases in het gebied – Bentwaters en Woodbridge – in opperste staat van paraatheid waren vanwege de Koude Oorlog.

In 2005 trok de Britse bosbouwcommissie geld uit voor een ‘UFO Trail’ in Rendlesham Forest.

Het mysterie rond het incident is nog altijd onopgelost.

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The mystery of Queensland’s eerie Min Min lights

The mystery of Queensland’s eerie Min Min lights

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The Min Min lights have confounded the people of Western Queensland for a century.

“WE’VE heard about the lights all our lives,” says Genevieve Hammond, who lives in Boulia, an outback Queensland town, 1700 kms west of Brisbane.

Seeing the “eerie” light — often described as intensely bright floating balls — has been said to reduce grown men to tears.

It’s just one example of the folklore that has grown around them. Local kids were warned to behave or the glow would get them; Aboriginal people suspected them of being spirits while local legend decreed if the light ever caught up with you, you would surely perish.

Ms Hammond had heard the stories but she’d never seen the lights until she went camping with her husband John in the vast tree-starved flatness of western Queensland’s Channel Country.

The sky was clear, the night was cold and there was nothing and no one near. Yet the Hammonds weren’t alone.

“We were on a remote cattle station,” Ms Hammond, who runs Boulia’s Desert Sand motel, told news.com.au.

“We were camping out and we saw this greenish oval shaped blurry light bobbing up and down.

Boulia locals have become accustomed to the weird light that seems to follow people around.

Boulia locals have become accustomed to the weird light that seems to follow people around.

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“It was parallel to the horizon, about a kilometre away, and seemed to be a metre from the ground. It moved very slowly to the left and then came back on itself and it went on like this for about 15 minutes.

“It was silent and very eerie. We were trying to think, could it be a neighbour? A car?” she said. “But the nearest homestead in that direction was 120 kms away. The next day Johnno went over to where the light was and there was nothing.

“It couldn’t have been anything else, there’s no other explanation, it was the Min Min light.”

Shelley Norton is Boulia Shire Council’s Tourism Officer. In the last year four visitors had reported encounters with the light, she said. “They come in and they don’t know what they’ve seen but you can guarantee that it’s the Min Min light.”

Boulia is ground zero for the glowing Min Min light.

Boulia is ground zero for the glowing Min Min light.

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Many visitors come looking especially for the light with the last sighting in September off the Boulia to Winton road.

“A family were camping and the husband got up in the middle of the night and went out to look at what he thought was the moon. Then he turned around and saw the actual moon. It was like there were two moons. Then one disappeared.

“Sometimes it’s a lone object that stays the same distance away, other times it seem to follow people, then splits into two or three and dances above the tree tops,” Ms Norton said.

“It’s very spooky and no one knows what it is.”

Boulia Mayor Rick Britton said the mysterious lights were the town’s claim to fame.

“Everyone has their quirk; Julia Creek has Burke and Wills and Birdsville the races. Boulia is renowned as being the land of the Min Min lights.”

The lights were first reported to have been seen above the ruins of the Min Min Hotel, 100km west of Boulia, in 1918. Although, it’s likely to have been seen by local Aboriginal people long before that.

The Mayor of Boulia Shire, Rick Britton, said the Min Min lights were rare but had been seen by many locals. Picture: Steve Pohlner

The Mayor of Boulia Shire, Rick Britton, said the Min Min lights were rare but had been seen by many locals.

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Since then they have been reported in many parts of the outback but glow ground zero is the Channel Country near Boulia.

There are many theories as to what he Min Min lights are. Fluorescent gases released from the barren earth, clouds of bioluminescent insects, a flock of fireflies perhaps, maybe even UFOs.

But Jack Pettigrew, a neuroscientist at the University of Queensland, thinks he’s solved the riddle.

“I experienced the phenomenon myself as well as hearing about it from graziers.”

He stumbled across it quite by accident more than a decade ago when he was searching for a rare bird that appears only at night near the town.

He and his team saw what they thought were the eyes of a fox reflected in their headlights.

“We were surprised that the bright spot of light was still there when we turned off the headlights.”

In his research paper, Mr Pettigrew described the light as having “fuzzy edges in rapid motion like a swarm of bees”, differing colours and that it moved “with a mind of its own”.

Caught in the Min Min’s glow, grown men could cry, he said.

“They would never be identified but the fear was evident,” he told news.com.au, “It was very scary.”

They’re not spirits or UFOs, said Mr Pettigrew, but they are something very strange indeed.

He believes the lights are a nocturnal form of the rare Fata Morgana mirage, a phenomenon where ideal climactic conditions can see light travel over vast distances and even cross horizons.

An image of a standard mirage where, typically, hot surfaces appear to be water. Picture: Alamy

An image of a standard mirage where, typically, hot surfaces appear to be water.

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In a Fata Morgana mirage objects can appear far closer then they are in reality and can even seem to float above the horizon.

In a Fata Morgana mirage objects can appear far closer then they are in reality and can even seem to float above the horizon.

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The Fata Morgana is thought to be the cause of a range of strange sightings including startled sailors seeing the Irish cliffs appear in the middle of the ocean and beachgoers witnessing boats hovering above the sea.

Queensland is no stranger to odd meteorological phenomenon. Across the Gulf of Carpentaria the unique Morning Glory clouds, perfectly formed and hundreds of kilometres long, roll across the sky.

Mirages are fairly common, such as when hot road surfaces appear to reflect the sky.

But the Fata Morgana only occurs when, unusually, the air is colder on the ground than above. Called a temperature inversion (because air is usually warmer at ground level) under certain circumstances light can be bent across the atmosphere creating projections of images from hundreds of kilometres away that would be otherwise invisible.

Mr Pettigrew tested the theory by driving his car 10km into the desert and parked it behind a small hill to ensure it was completely obscured.

Outside of Boulia, Jack Pettigrew witnessed a classic Fata Morgana where a ridge of far away hills. above, appeared and then slowly melted away. Picture: Jack Pettigrew.

Outside of Boulia, Jack Pettigrew witnessed a classic Fata Morgana where a ridge of far away hills. above, appeared and then slowly melted away.

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“When I pointed the vehicle in the direction of the camp, observers saw a light floating above the horizon.” Sure enough the lights changed colour and trembled. When he switched off the headlights, the apparition vanished.

He concluded the mysterious Min Min he originally saw was likely to be the projected headlights from a road as much as 350km way. They later found at a road train had passed along that road at the same time.

The next morning, Mr Pettigrew saw an even more arresting sight. As dawn broke, in the distance, he saw a row of hills where none had existed before. When the ground warmed up the hills - which in reality were far further away - melted into the ground.

While this wasn’t a Min Min it supported his theory that the area was perfect for various forms of the Fata Morgana.

The flat surface and gullies of the Channel Country trapped cold air and threw up less obstacles to block the mirage.

Boulia markets itself has the heart of the land of the Min Min light. Notoriously difficult to predict, a museum in the town — the Min Min Encounter — tells the story of the lights.

Mr Pettigrew told news.com.au he wasn’t convinced the town wanted to find a reason behind the lights and preferred it to remain an unsolved mystery to attract tourists.

But Mayor Britton seemed to be warming to the mirage hypotheses. “The different temperatures in the atmosphere create something like a house of mirrors, like a submarine telescope,” he said.

Nevertheless, some townsfolk had other explanations for the light, Mr Britton said.

“There was an old character here and he said he’d thought a lot about. In his serious opinion it must be — an emu with a torch stuck up his backside.”

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Het mysterie van de vreemde Min Min-lichten in Australië

Het mysterie van de vreemde Min Min-lichten in Australië

Het mysterie van de vreemde Min Min-lichten in Australië

Kinderen werden ervoor gewaarschuwd. De Aboriginals dachten dat het geesten waren. Vreemde lichten in Australië, die vaak worden beschreven als intens felle zwevende bollen, zijn al heel lang een mysterie.

Genevieve Hammond hoorde al haar hele leven verhalen over de lichten, maar had ze nooit zelf gezien.

Vier keer

Toen ze met haar man John aan het kamperen was in Queensland zag ze plotseling een groen ovaalvormig licht dat op en neer bewoog.

“Het bevond zich op een kilometer afstand en leek een meter boven de grond te hangen,” zei Hammond. “Het bewoog 15 minuten lang heel langzaam naar links en weer terug.”

Ze is ervan overtuigd dat het een Min Min-licht was. De lichten zijn het afgelopen jaar vier keer gezien in het gebied.

Volgen

Een gezin dat er kampeerde zag de lichten ook. De vader werd midden in de nacht wakker en dacht buiten de maan te zien. Toen draaide hij zich om en zag hij daadwerkelijk de maan.

Het was alsof er twee manen waren. Plots verdween er één.

Soms gaat het om een enkel object dat zich op grote afstand bevindt, andere keren lijkt het mensen te volgen en splitst het zich in twee of drie andere objecten en danst het boven de boomtoppen.

Niemand weet wat het zijn.

UFO’s

De lichten werden in 1918 voor het eerst waargenomen boven de ruïnes van het Min Min Hotel. Waarschijnlijk werden ze lang daarvoor ook al gezien door de Aboriginals.

Mogelijke verklaringen voor de Min Min-lichten lopen uiteen van fluorescerende gassen en vuurvliegjes tot UFO’s.

Volgens Jack Pettigrew, een neurowetenschapper van de Universiteit van Queensland, zijn de lichten een soort fata morgana. Hij schreef er een paper over.

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Water was on Mars for hundreds of millions of years – sufficient time for ALIEN evolution

Water was on Mars for hundreds of millions of years – sufficient time for ALIEN evolution

WATER existed on Mars for hundreds of millions of years, researchers have found in what could be the biggest hint to date that life once existed on the Red Planet.

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An abundance of water would have allowed life to evolve on Mars

Data released from the European Space Agency (ESA) and Nasa proves that the dry Mars was once teeming with water in its early years.

Researchers have known for some time that water was once on the Red Planet, but they have struggled to conclude when this was.

However, space boffins believe that they have now solved the mystery and say that water was on the planet during its infancy, and that it was there for a long time – massively increasing the chances that life was once there.

It had been theorised that water on the Red Planet came in patches, appearing and disappearing as the climate changed, but the new research claims that it could have been there for hundreds of millions of years – sufficient time to allow for evolution.

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Water was on mars for hundreds of millions of years

Scientists from the the University D’Annunzio in Pescara and Chieti, Italy, analysed the data from the two space agencies which was specifically looking at the Hellas Basin – a huge 2,300 kilometre impact crater on Mars which is thought to have been created through an asteroid impact some four billion years ago.

The team found “large swathes” of sedimentary rocks which require water to form.

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Nasa has previously found evidence that water once flowed on Mars

Study author Francesco Salese said: "To create the kind of sedimentary plains we found at Hellas, we believe that a generally aqueous environment was present in the region some 3.8 billion years ago. 

"Importantly, it must have lasted for a long period of time – on the order of hundreds of millions of years."

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The experts can now use this information to study the Martian climate over the course of its 4.5 billion year history and crucially whether life once existed there.

Co-author Nicolas Mangold of CNRS-INSU, Nantes University, France, stated: "Understanding if Mars had a warmer and wetter climate for a long period of time is a key question in our search for past life on the Red Planet.

"If we can understand how the martian climate evolved, we'll have a better understanding of whether life could have ever flourished, and where to look for it if it did. 

“We can also learn much about rocky planets in general, which is especially exciting in this era of exoplanet science, and about our own planet – the same processes we think to have been important on a young Mars, such as sedimentary processes, volcanism, and impacts, have also been crucial on Earth."

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Astronomers reveal the best place to look for aliens is… in giant CLOUDS

Astronomers reveal the best place to look for aliens is… in giant CLOUDS

THE best place to find alien life might be in the dust clouds of failed stars, a new theory suggests.

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Aliens could exist in giant gas clouds

Aliens may be living in the clouds of failed brown dwarf stars, new research claims.

The massive clouds have enough energy to produce some form of life, but not enough mass to produce a nuclear reaction that would lead to the formation of a new star.

Experts believe that in the upper atmosphere of the clouds, which are between the size of a planet and a star and made up of swirling gasses, the temperatures would be almost as cool as Earth.

This, the researchers believe, could be the perfect environment for microbial life.

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Lead author of the study Jack Yates, planetary scientist at the University of Edinburgh, told Science: “You don’t necessarily need to have a terrestrial planet with a surface.”

The team studied a brown dwarf gas cloud known as WISE 0855-0714 which is just seven light years from Earth.

The astronomers based their study of Carl Sagan’s idea of floating beings that could potentially live on the gassy planet, Jupiter.

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Carl Sagan predicted floaters on Jupiter

US scientist Carl Sagan theorised life on Jupiter would take the form of enormous balloon-like lifeforms that float above the hot gasses on Jupiter’s surface.

The researchers said in their study: "We argue that an atmosphere sitting above a potentially uninhabitable planetary surface may be cool enough to sustain life. 

"By doing this, we define an atmospheric habitable zone (AHZ).”

Additionally, most of the clouds contain most of the vital ingredients for life here on Earth: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.

Duncan Forgan, an astrobiologist at the University of St Andrews, who was not involved in the study, also told Science: “It really opens up the field in terms of the number of objects that we might then think, well, these are habitable regions.”

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Are we in a BLACK HOLE? Astonishing claims entities could be portals to other universes

Are we in a BLACK HOLE? Astonishing claims entities could be portals to other universes

OUR UNIVERSE may be inside a black hole which may even contain OTHER universes, scientists have claimed.


While many accept the Big Bang theory as gospel, a group of physicists are challenging the norm and claim the maths of it does not quite add up.

Black holes are a complete mystery to scientists, but some are arguing each black hole may be a portal to another universe.

Nikodem Poplawski, a theoretical physicist from the University of New Haven, is one of the leading establishers of the theory and first came up with he idea when questioning the big bang theory.

Mr Poplawski wrote for InsideScience.org: “What started the big bang? What caused inflation to end? What is the source of the mysterious dark energy that is apparently causing the universe to speed up its expansion?”

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Black holes could birth universes

This is where his theory came from, claiming his black hole-universe theory removes the notion of “impossible” singularities.

At the beginning of time, 13.8 billion years ago, there was a dense and super-hot energetic point where the laws of physics did not apply – what is known as a singularity.

The only other time in the Universe where a singularity occurs and the laws of physics are thrown out of the window is at the event horizon of a black hole, which is unexplainable by current scientific methods.

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Something does not add up about the Big Bang for Nikodem Poplawski

Albert Einstein had theorised that something at the centre of the Big Bang was infinitely small and dense – but Mr Poplawski argues that infinity is impossible in nature.

He states that there was something small, but finite at the centre of the Big Bang.

Mr Poplawksi believes that the “seed” which birthed the big bang came from a finite point of matter which was extremely dense and is found at the bottom of a black hole.

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Black holes are an enigma

The scientist states that the “seed” could have the weight of a billion suns but be billions times smaller than any particle that has been discovered.

The Polish physicist describes black holes as a “kiln” of the universe. When this seed is at the bottom, and with the black hole twisting at almost the speed of light, the tiny seed becomes twisted and compressed, until it suddenly explodes, giving birth to everything that we know.

He adds: “Torsion therefore provides a theoretical foundation for a scenario in which the interior of every black hole becomes a new universe.”

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The "seed" could weigh as much a billion suns

Mr Poplawski states that black holes in our universe could also lead to another cosmos, and claims that if you were not completely shredded to particles at the point of entrance at a black hole, you would likely end up in another universe if you made it through.

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Kijken: Meteoor explodeert boven Siberische stad en verandert nacht in dag

Kijken: Meteoor explodeert boven Siberische stad en verandert nacht in dag

Kijken: Meteoor explodeert boven Siberische stad en verandert nacht in dag

Op sociale media delen Russen video’s van een meteoor die de nachtelijke hemel in delen van Siberië verlicht.

Volgens de lokale autoriteiten werd er geen schade aangericht. De meteoor was vooral goed te zien in de stad Sajanogorsk.

De vuurbal was drie tot vier seconden te zien. Een halve minuut later was er een luide knal te horen, waarna in grote delen van de stad autoalarmen afgingen.

Expeditie

De meteoor verbrandde hoog in de atmosfeer, zo liet het Russische ministerie van Noodsituaties weten.

Als fragmenten van de meteoor de reis hebben overleefd, zijn ze hoogstwaarschijnlijk neergekomen rond de Babikvallei, aldus de regionale autoriteiten tegenover persbureau TASS.

Ze voegden toe dat er een expeditie is georganiseerd naar het gebied.

Steen

“De meteoor was kleiner dan die boven Tsjeljabinsk [in 2013], maar mogelijk worden er toch fragmenten van gevonden,” zei professor Viktor Grokhovsky van de Federale Universiteit van de Oeral.

Natan Eysmont van het Russische ruimtevaartonderzoeksinstituut zei dat de meteoor waarschijnlijk een doorsnee had van 10 tot 15 meter en bestond uit steen, niet uit ijzer.

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Natuurkundige: “Elk zwart gat bevat een nieuw universum”

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Natuurkundige: “Elk zwart gat bevat een nieuw universum”

Volgens sommige wetenschappers zit ons hele universum in een enorm zwart gat, dat deel uitmaakt van een nog groter heelal.

Dat impliceert dat zwarte gaten eigenlijk een soort tunnels zijn die naar andere universa leiden.

Eén van de wetenschappers die deze theorie bestudeert, is dr. Nikodem Poplawski van de Universiteit van New Haven in Connecticut.

Moeite

Volgens hem zijn wormgaten mogelijke alternatieven voor de theorie van Albert Einstein, die stelt dat in het centrum van een zwart gat een singulariteit ontstaat wanneer de dichtheid van de materie te groot wordt.

Ondanks allerlei aanwijzingen hebben veel wetenschappers moeite om deze theorie te aanvaarden.

Poplawski gebruikt een aangepaste versie van de algemene relativiteitstheorie om zijn theorie te ondersteunen.

Bouwstenen

Deze versie neemt het draaien van atoomkernen mee, iets wat Einstein zelf niet deed.

Als Poplawski gelijk heeft, wordt de materie in een zwart gat niet samengeperst, maar afgestoten om vervolgens de bouwstenen te vormen voor nieuwe sterrenstelsels, sterren en planeten in een ander universum.

Gigantische proporties

Volgens deze theorie is ons heelal er maar één van vele. Het zou zich in een veel groter universum bevinden waarin elk zwart gat een ander heelal kan huisvesten.

Het universum dat we om ons heen zien uitdijen, zit volgens Poplawski gevangen in een zwart gat van gigantische proporties.

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COMPLETE OUDE STAD ONTDEKT OP MARS

COMPLETE OUDE STAD ONTDEKT OP MARS

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Stel dat er in het verleden een kernoorlog heeft gewoed op Mars, waarbij de bevolking is weggevaagd en alle leven wat er tot op dat moment was, dit alles niet heeft overleefd. 

Die gedachte is op zich niet zo gek en er zijn zelfs gerespecteerde wetenschappers die ervan overtuigd zijn dat die kernoorlog inderdaad ooit heeft plaatsgevonden. 



Zoals de natuurkundige Dr. John Brandenburg die ervan overtuigd is dat er ooit een beschaving was op Mars en die is vernietigd door een kernoorlog. Hij denkt dat de lokale bevolking ruzie kreeg met een ras van een andere planeet en dat de daaruit volgende oorlog fataal is geweest voor de bewoners van Mars. 

Zijn theorie is onder andere gebaseerd op het feit dat er op verschillende plekken trinitiet is gevonden. 

Trinitiet is een kunstmatig gevormde glasachtige substantie die op 16 juli 1945 is ontstaan tijdens de ontploffing van de eerste atoombom genaamd Trinity. 

Misschien is het volgende dan weer een bevestiging van de theorie van Dr. Brandenburg. 

Een Youtubegebruiker met de naam Luxor2012Ufo heeft iets ontdekt wat lijkt op de restanten van een oude, compleet verwoestte stad. 

Het lijkt alsof de huizen en andere gebouwen in de stad zijn bedekt door een lading zand en/of modder. Het is ook een grote stad waar minstens een half miljoen mensen zouden kunnen wonen. Vergelijkbaar met Den Haag dus.


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Volgens Scott Waring zijn de gebouwen groot en zijn sommige wel 300 tot 800 meter hoog. Een tweede ding dat hem opvalt, is dat de gebouwen nog volledig intact lijken te zijn en zo weer in gebruik lijken te kunnen worden genomen. 

Als de kernexplosies niet in de directe nabijheid van deze stad hebben plaatsgevonden en de bevolking is uiteindelijk bezweken aan de gevolgen van de radioactieve straling, dan zou dit kunnen verklaren waarom de gebouwen nog volledig intact zijn. 

Er zijn ondertussen teveel dingen en voorwerpen ontdekt die zelfs met de beste wil van de wereld niet meer verklaard kunnen worden als natuurlijke verschijnselen. 

De originele beschaving is of uitgeroeid of wie weet hebben ze tijdig een ander onderkomen kunnen zoeken. Zoals misschien de aarde? Zijn zij onze voorouders....?

 

Enkele maanden geleden werd er ook iets ontdekt op Mars dat veel lijkt op de restanten van een oude stad. 

Navolgend een stukje uit het eerdere artikel: 

Wederom een foto, vorig jaar gemaakt door de Curiosity Rover van NASA, waarop in de verte iets is te zien wat eigenlijk alleen kan worden omschreven als een ruïne van een oude stad.


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Wat dit beeld laat zien, is dat er, in ieder geval ooit, mensen of een buitenaards ras woonde op Mars. 

Ook lijkt het erop dat deze steden in ieder geval slachtoffer zijn geworden van iets zoals oorlogsgeweld of een grote natuurramp, waardoor het leven op die plekken is verdwenen. 

De locatie is ook interessant, want deze is wat hoger gelegen, net ver van de top van de berg. Ook steden op aarde in de oudheid werden op dit soort plaatsen gebouwd omdat ze daar veiliger waren voor overstromingen. 

Ook waren dat soort locaties minder kwetsbaar voor eventuele belagers die de stad wilden veroveren, omdat een stad die op een dergelijk punt is gebouwd er behoorlijk indrukwekkend uit. 

Al met al is bovenstaande een fascinerende ontdekking die het voor NASA nog weer een stukje moeilijker maakt om het bestaan van buitenaards leven op Mars te blijven ontkennen. 


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UFO Hunters Claim USAF Secretly Testing Night Vision Alien Technology In Nellis Air Force Base

UFO Hunters Claim USAF Secretly Testing Night Vision Alien Technology In Nellis Air Force Base

By Kalyan Kumar Tech Times

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Some UFO hunters have come up with video evidence that the U.S. Air Force is allegedly conducting night vision alien technology tests at the Nellis Air Force Base. This followed sighting of UFO’s at the training range of the high security area. 
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The U.S. Air Force is conducting late night tests of alien UFO technology in secret at the Nellis Air Force Base, according to UFO hunters who reported heavy UFO activity in the military area near Las Vegas in southern Nevada.

UFO hunter and eyewitness Steven Barone, who — in Nov. 16 — uploaded on YouTube a video that he shot from his backyard on the night of Nov. 15, said he saw alien UFOs circling in the night sky above the Nellis AFB.

Barone asserts it as a clear case of stealth UFO activity at the base and a trial of "night vision technology".

The highly secretive Area 51 base of the USAF is located at the Nellis AFB's Test and Training Range.

Eye Witness Claim Endorsed By Veteran

The claim of the eyewitness on UFO activity was corroborated by veteran UFO hunter Scott C. Waring. He said that the video was explicit and three alien UFO crafts were indeed flying over the Nellis base.

"These objects are flying over a USAF base in that area so no one can travel over there to take a look," Waring said in a blog post of UFO Sightings Daily on Dec. 4.

He also said that the USAF was testing alien technology procured from extraterrestrial allies.

"It looks like the USAF is testing some of the alien craft that was given to the USAF in good faith."

He also recalled the crash of a similar craft in 2008 at Needles, California and wondered why the USAF still has not gained the expertise in flying them.

The vast military area is spread over more than 5,000 square miles in the southern Nevada desert.

Reverse-Engineering Plan Of Propulsion Technology

Meanwhile, some UFO researchers said that Pentagon has been recovering UFOs from crash sites for reverse engineering. A case in point was the crash site outside Roswell in New Mexico, where an alien saucer crashed in the late 1940s.

Some UFO hunters also allege that the restricted area in the Nellis AFB houses a secret community of technologically advanced aliens called Tall Whites.

They say the Tall Whites are in a pact with the U.S. government for exchanging advanced aerospace technology in lieu of other resources.

They also allege Tall White Aliens are living in an underground base at the Nellis AFB and the alien scientists, engineers, and technicians are backing Pentagon's aerospace projects.

Warin said the alien UFOs were given by the Tall Whites who are now operating from a secret base at the Nellis AFB.

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RENDLESHAM MYSTERY: UFO key witness speaks for FIRST TIME and says object WAS alien

RENDLESHAM MYSTERY: UFO key witness speaks for FIRST TIME and says object WAS alien

A KEY witness in the UK's most baffling mass UFO sighting has gone on record for the first time about what he saw hovering over an air base 36 years ago.

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Steve Longero (pictured) has spoken publicly for the first time about the Rendlesham UFO.

The Rendlesham mystery has been dubbed Britain's Roswell after the mystery and infamous UFO crash that allegedly happened outside the town in New Mexico, USA in July 1947.

The UK alien sighting happened when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.

The case was later investigated by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), but it concluded there was no evidence of alien visitations or any national security risk, and the sightings were most likely the result of beams of light from a nearby coastal lighthouse.

Steve Longero, a former US Airforce military police officer based at the airbase at the time, has remained tight-lipped about what he saw in Rendlesham Forest ever since.

But, now in a magazine interview, he has revealed he believes what he saw came from outer space and could have been aliens.

He said: "I think it was something not from this world.”

Mr Longero was guarding the weapons storage area when the alarms started going off.

He said: "While on duty that night we had a very sophisticated alarm system and everything just went off.

“And then I could see these lights over the treetops, and I was thinking, what’s going on?

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“Then they started sending people out there and at first it was hard to believe, all these bright lights.

“It was hard to take in.”

When Mr Longero went into the forest it was swamped with other military personnel.

He described seeing UFOs looking like “fluorescent coloured lights, like red and green, glowing lights and that’s what they looked like”.

He told Outer Limits Magazine: “I could seem them hovering over the treetops like an eye that almost following everybody.”

Mr Longero says at a debriefing afterwards the witnesses were sworn to secrecy "as the base had nuclear weapons on site."

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I think it was something not from this world.

Steve Longero

He is the latest in a line of former military personnel to speak out over the case, including retired Colonel Charles Halt, 76, who was base deputy commander at the time and features in a newly-published book about the case.

Mr Halt claimed the officers who first saw the lights then a UFO "on the floor", could not account for a 40 minute period while searching in the woods when their communication systems went "off air".

The three officers - John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston, told the MoD of feeling "static" as they observed the object's flashing lights and hieroglyphic-like markings.

Mr Halt then said on the evening of December 27 1980 that officers had shouted "It's back, the UFO's back".

Mr Halt went to investigate with a team who found three 1.5inch "impact holes", damage to the canopies of trees and "higher radiation levels" in the "landing" area.

A plaster cast was later taken of one of the holes, but mysteriously disappeared from a box it was stored in.

Mr Halt said soon after they saw a mysterious object in a field between the woods and a farmhouse with "a red light moving."

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Charles Halt at a Rendlesham UFO conference in 2015.

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He said: "It came towards us into the forest, moving, bobbing up and down in the trees. It was oval, about 100 to 150 yards away, with a dark centre and red around it."

He claimed there were "sparks" coming from it and after a minute it "exploded and disappeared."

They then spotted objects in the sky, 3,000 to 4,000ft up.

In May, a documentary revealed the testimonies of two former military technicians who claimed a UFO WAS caught on radar and seen from the control tower of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge as well as in Rendlesham Forest, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, at the time of the sightings.

UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed, which is available to view online on Vimeo, revealed the accounts of Jim Carey and Ike Barker who were said to be manning the radars and control tower at the time.

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Gold UFO Comes Within 100 meters of the space station, Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Gold UFO Comes Within 100 meters of the space station, Dec 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: December 5, 2016
Location of sighting:  Earths orbit, at space station
 
Wow! This golden cigar UFO was seen on live space station cam yesterday. It was caught by the watchful eye of Streetcap1 of Youtube. As proof to this being a real object, the UFO is slightly touching the light...lighting up one end of the UFO (above photo). That is proof that this is a solid object and its shadows are due to the light from the sun. Awesome catch, and I wonder what aliens are doing up there...investigating the thoughts of the astronauts, or were they invited guests that came aboard the ISS?
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Streetcap1 states: 
This is an unidentified flying object near the ISS. It eventually just disappears. You may notice some very fast red flashes near it. I have uploaded it just as was broadcast so many people must have seen it too. Streetcap1.



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'IT WAS NOT FROM THIS WORLD' Witness to ‘Britain’s Roswell’ UFO incident at Rendlesham Forest breaks 36 year silence

'IT WAS NOT FROM THIS WORLD'

Witness to ‘Britain’s Roswell’ UFO incident at Rendlesham Forest breaks 36 year silence

Retired U.S. Airforce officer finally speaks out about unsolved 'alien' mystery

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NASA Just Ordered a Robot That Can Repair Satellites in Orbit

NASA Just Ordered a Robot That Can Repair Satellites in Orbit

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Written by BECKY FERREIRA

When your bike or car needs a tune-up, it’s easy enough to bring it down to a repair shop. But if your vehicle is hurtling through orbit, hundreds of kilometers above the planet, it’s a lot trickier to arrange a maintenance check or refueling operation.

NASA intends to tackle this challenge with its Restore-L spacecraft, which is designed to grasp, repair, gas up, and re-deploy its fellow orbiting robots. On Monday, the agency announced that it would award a $127 million contract to the private satellite company Space Systems/Loral of Palo Alto, California, to build this orbital helper bot in time for a projected launch in 2020. This maiden flight of the Restore-L will test out the spacecraft’s ability to rendezvous with and subsequently service a government asset in orbit.

READ MORE: To Clean Up Dangerous Orbital Trash, We May Need Space Harpoons and Satellite Claws

"Restore-L effectively breaks the paradigm of one-and-done spacecraft," said Frank Cepollina, the associate director of NASA Goddard’s Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO), in a statement.

"It introduces new ways to robotically manage, upgrade, and prolong the lifespans of our costly orbiting national assets. By doing so, Restore-L opens up expanded options for more resilient, efficient, and cost-effective operations in space," he added.

If successful, Restore-L could also lend its talents to other endeavors, like cleaning up space debris or testing out asteroid capture platforms. It’s also the latest example of NASA partnering with the private sector to reduce operation costs and diversify America’s spacefaring portfolio.

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An Astrolinguist Explains How to Talk to Alien

An Astrolinguist Explains How to Talk to Aliens

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Written by DANIEL OBERHAUS

Released in US theatres just a week ago, Arrival is quickly shaping up to be the science fiction movie of the year, a turn of events that almost no one—including the author himself—would’ve guessed based on its premise.

The story follows linguist Louise Banks (played by Amy Adams) and theoretical physicist Ian Donnelly (played by Jeremy Renner) as they attempt to communicate with a pair of extraterrestrials whose spacecraft has just landed in Montana. For most of us, Arrival was just another entertaining alien flick, but for a handful of Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researchers who are actually tasked with figuring out how to communicate with extraterrestrials, the film felt more like a documentary than a drama.

“I am so envious of Louise Banks because she gets to have a face to face with ET,” Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) International president Douglas Vakoch told Motherboard. “But in the scenarios that SETI and METI folks deal with there’s no possibility of that. Our idea of a snappy exchange with extraterrestrials is a decade—and that only works if the nearest star is populated.”

Prior to becoming the president of the recently founded METI International, which focuses on the controversial science of sending messages into space, Vakoch was the Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute in California. For a large part of his career, he has been trying to figure out how to communicate with an intelligent extraterrestrial species when you don’t even know the first thing about them and a message takes decades to reach its destination.

Although Amy Adams’ character makes it look easy in Arrival, the real art and science of talking to aliens—known as astrolinguistics or METI—is much more complicated, involving a healthy mix of linguistics, mathematics, physics, and imagination.

In Arrival, Renner’s character ribs Adams for her approach to communicating with the aliens, telling her that she does linguistics “like a mathematician.” Although this throwaway comment was made in jest, in real life that’s more or less how it’s done. As Vakoch pointed out, one of the luxuries enjoyed by Adams in the film is that she is able to communicate in real time with the aliens. But for the METI researchers sending messages into the cosmos, they are expecting decades—if not centuries—to elapse between sending a message and receiving a response, which fundamentally changes the way they think about constructing a message.

In the first place, it means that a message sent into the cosmos needs to be incredibly robust and ideally entirely self-referential. Unlike Arrival, Earthlings don’t have the ability to teach the recipients of their messages anything about it because the delay in communication is so long. So not only do METI researchers have to send the content of the message, but they also have to send instructions for how to read it, and these instructions must somehow be intelligible to the aliens as well.

What this means is that rather than trying to figure out how the structure of an alien’s language might uniquely shape their worldview (the theoretical basis of Arrival known as linguistic relativism) and basing a message off of that, METI researchers go in the opposite direction.

“We're looking for a cosmic Rosetta stone,” said Vakoch. “But the question is: What do us and the extraterrestrials both have in common?”

As you might expect, this question leads most METI researchers to languages rooted in mathematics and physics, which one would expect to be known to an alien civilization capable of mastering the technology to receive our message in the first place.

When a 20th century Dutch mathematician named Hans Freudenthal created LINCOS, the first language expressly designed for communicating with extraterrestrials, he used mathematical principles to discuss everything from the nature of time to what it means to love. In 2013, a Dutch mathematical astronomer named Alexander Ollongren created a second version of LINCOS, which communicates similar ideas couched in the language of symbolic logic and lambda calculus. In both of these instances, the lingua cosmica is self-contained and rooted in supposedly universal principles (mathematics and logic)—but it still might be unintelligible to an alien.

“Even if humans and extraterrestrials both have math and science, they're not necessarily interchangeable,” said Vakoch. “Maybe science starts out at different places depending on the biology or particular needs of the organism. There is a subtle truth that Arrival points toward, and that is the way we construct and talk about the world may reflect something idiosyncratic about our species.”

To illustrate his point, Vakoch cites the emergence of non-Euclidean geometry in the 19th century. For two millennia, Euclid’s view of a flat universe reigned supreme and pivoted on his fifth postulate, which states that two parallel lines will never intersect. But when a handful of European geometers in the 1800s replaced this axiom with its opposite—that two parallel lines actually can intersect—they fundamentally changed our view of reality by making space curved instead of flat.

The important point is that both geometries are internally consistent and have been used for innumerable scientific and mathematical discoveries. So just because we’re speaking the language of science or math to aliens doesn’t necessarily mean we’re talking about the same science and math.

With this in mind, Vakoch advocates for exploring dozens of different ways of trying to communicate with ET. He thinks that the idea of trying to create a self-contained message that can be delivered all at once is a product of the human desire to see a send and reply happen within one generation. If we abandon this idea and accept that interstellar communication is likely to happen over the course of centuries or millennia, it opens up radically new ways of attempting to establish communication with aliens.

The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico was used to send the first message into space.

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In the half a century that elapsed between the first and second versions of LINCOS, there have been no shortage of ideas for how to talk to extraterrestrials. Some have relied on aural or visual components, such as the Voyager spacecraft which contained sound and images on a record. Likewise the first radio communication intended for aliens, known as the Arecibo message, was also an image which depicted pixelated humans and the Arecibo telescope. Unfortunately, these types of messages are banking on the idea that aliens will have aural and visual systems like us—but given that sight has independently evolved dozens of times on Earth alone, this idea might not be as farfetched as it seems.

Other common ideas take the form of massive data dumps or sending out computer programs that will be capable of being run by the aliens once they’ve got a basic grip on human coding paradigms. This was the idea behind CosmicOS, a computer program that would essentially use a role-playing game to teach aliens about Earth and that one time the entirety of Craigslist was sent into the cosmos (more of a publicity stunt than anything, but maybe aliens need a new divan?). Other strategies go back to hard science, like the RuBisCo Stars message which sent the DNA sequence for the protein used in plants for photosynthesis.

Whether any of these signals will ever reach or be intelligible to extraterrestrials is impossible to say, which is why Vakoch and his colleagues at METI International are focusing on exploring as many different message constructions as possible in the meantime. They hope to begin transmitting messages into the cosmos by the end of 2018, but for now the important thing is to have an open mind and active imagination, which for Vakoch is one of the main takeaways from Arrival.

“The thing I most liked about Arrival is that it captures the sort of openness to a new way of understanding the nature of reality that we need to be capable of to understand another civilization,” said Vakoch. “That's what we hope for in SETI and METI: that over the course of decades or centuries we’ll be able to come to understand how another civilization understands and talks about its world.”

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Flying Robotic Ambulance Completes First Solo Test Flight

Flying Robotic Ambulance Completes First Solo Test Flight

Flying Robotic Ambulance Completes First Solo Test Flight
Urban Aeronautics' robotic flying vehicle is designed to carry people or equipment without a human pilot on board.
Credit: Urban Aeronautics

A new automated, flying ambulance completed its first solo flight, offering a potential solution for challenging search and rescue missions.

Completing such missions in rough terrain or combat zones can be tricky, with helicopters currently offering the best transportation option in most cases. But these vehicles need clear areas to land, and in the case of war zones, helicopters tend to attract enemy fire. Earlier this month, Israeli company Urban Aeronautics completed a test flight for a robotic flying vehicle that could one day go where helicopters can't.

On Nov. 14, the company flew its robotic flyer, dubbed the Cormorant, on the craft's first solo flight over real terrain. The autonomous vehicle is designed to eventually carry people or equipment (as reflected in its former name, the AirMule) without a human pilot on board. [9 Totally Cool Uses for Drones]

Urban Aeronautics said the test was "a significant achievement for a student pilot, human or nonhuman," and said the company is "proud" of the vehicle's performance.

The Cormorant uses ducted fans rather than propellers or rotors to fly. These fans are effectively shielded rotors, which means the aircraft doesn't need to worry about bumping into a wall and damaging the rotors. Another set of fans propels the vehicle forward, according to Urban Aeronautics.

The robotic flyer pilots itself entirely through laser altimeters, radar and sensors. The system is "smart" enough to self-correct when it makes mistakes, company officials said. In a video released by Urban Aeronautics, the Cormorant tries to land, stops itself and then corrects its landing position.

The vehicle is effectively a decision-making system that can figure out what to do if the inputs from the sensors are off in some way, the company said. If the Cormorant detects a potential issue, the drone's robotic brain can decide what to do: go home, land and wait for more instructions, or try a different flight path, Urban Aeronautics said.

Despite the completion of this month's flight test, Urban Aeronautics still needs to refine some parts of the technology, the company said. For one, the test flight wasn't very long, lasting only a minute or two. And though the terrain was irregular (as in, not completely flat), it was still an open field without any real obstacles on either side. Further tests will look to improve how smoothly the aircraft goes from takeoff to level flight, and to increase speed and maneuverability, the company said in a statement.  

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These Alien Planets Are the Stuff of Nightmares

These Alien Planets Are the Stuff of Nightmares

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Written by MADISON MARGOLIN

There are potentially thousands of exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. In the spirit of Halloween, scientific YouTube channel DNews lays out just a few alien exoplanets that sound "horrific" to us, Earthlings.

For starters, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is oozing with poisonous liquid. About 40 light years away, it's known as a "super Earth," about eight times larger the mass of our home planet and much hotter because it's so close to its star. In fact, the high heat of the planet has made it so that water and other liquids are unable to exist in their regular liquid state, pushing them to "supercritical" states under the pressure. The fluids become exotic, oozing non-liquids, also gleaming with the poisonous hydrogen cyanide, oozing below the surface of 55 Cancri e.

Similar to Jupiter, except larger and hotter, is exoplanet CoRoT-2a. The planet orbits very close to its star, so it’s now bloated due to extreme heating. Powerful ex-rays perpetually explode from the star, which cause five million tons of material to blast off the planet and into space every second.

Another exoplanet, Kepler-19b might have a ghost—okay, probably not, but the planet doesn't have a consistent orbit, which is anomalous. The planet will occasionally speed up and then slow down seemingly on its own, whereas it would seem that the planet would need some external force causing the abnormal orbit speeds. It could be, according to the video, that a "ghostly alien world" is tugging at Kepler-19b from afar.

The last of these scary, spooky exoplanets listed was Fomalhaut b, within the Fomalhaut star system. The planet resides in dusty debris 25 light years from Earth, making images of it look like the Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings.

While none of these exoplanets would be pleasant to Earthling senses, the way aliens react to them is a different story. It's not clear what kind of life exists on these planets, if any, but if they're out there, they're probably much tougher than we are.

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Behind the 'Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs'

Behind the 'Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs'

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Written by DANIEL OBERHAUS

Christo Roppolo was eight years old when he was contacted by aliens for the first time.

He was at home with his younger brother when a creature that looked like Bullwinkle emerged from a glowing ambulance and pressed itself against the window of his bedroom. When he regained consciousness, his parents were in the room arguing with one another and his younger brother had smeared soiled diapers all over the living room window, as if in attempt to keep something out.

“[The alien] told me it was going to give me a little bite on the nose, but when I woke up everything would be okay,” Roppolo told Motherboard. “For a long time after that, I didn’t even want to go to sleep, but as a kid I didn’t place too much significance on what had happened. As I got older, I started to realize that it wasn’t just a dream.”

Today, Roppolo is 57 years old and resides in Monterey, California, an idyllic coastal city about 6 hours north of Los Angeles. Although thousands of miles and five decades separate Roppolo from his childhood home in the suburbs of Cleveland, the extraterrestrial encounters never stopped. But instead of freaking out that the aliens were trying to contact him, Roppolo did what any filmmaker would do—he grabbed his video camera and started shooting his encounters.

When Roppolo reached out to Justin Gaar, a filmmaker newly arrived in Los Angeles, he had dozens of hours of UFO footage he had filmed around Monterey. Roppolo was trying to make a movie out of this footage, but was dissatisfied with the cut that had been given to him by his previous editor. He found Gaar through the friend of a friend who worked as a sales rep at the company from which Roppolo would order synthesizers to make his otherworldly electronica music.

“I honestly watched maybe an hour’s worth [of Roppolo’s footage] and was like what is this?” Garr told Motherboard. “It's really just hours and hours of him going 'what the fuck is that fucking shit?' and pointing at blinking dots in the sky. My mind wasn't entirely open to what it was.”

Garr told Roppolo he didn’t see anything in the footage and made some suggestions for how he could improve his filmmaking, but didn’t really anticipate getting involved in the project. Yet as Garr continued to received new footage from Roppolo, some of it featuring himself, he was eventually persuaded to meet with Roppolo in Los Angeles to discuss his UFO sightings.

It’s their experiences together that make up the footage of Gaar’s latest film, Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs, which was released on Tuesday.

Christo Roppolo in Monterey.

Image: Virgil Films

“We went to dinner and the whole time [Roppolo] is looking up at the sky for stuff,” said Garr. “He’d keep talking about UFOs and aliens as if they're right there with us in the room. The he told me about his family and I knew there was a narrative here.”

Roppolo’s troubled past really began when his dad was killed in a drunk driving accident while Roppolo was working his way through culinary school. His father was the only person Roppolo ever felt close to in his family and was the person who had originally sparked his passion for filmmaking when he took Roppolo to see the Godfather in theatres.

"He’d keep talking about UFOs and aliens as if they're right there with us in the room. The he told me about his family and I knew there was a narrative here."

After the accident, Roppolo and his brother came into a significant sum of money as a result of the settlement. His brother squandered it on land in the American south and soon went bankrupt. Roppolo spent a portion of his money on filmmaking equipment and with $10,000 produced his first major film, a remake of the classic 1964 gore film, The Flesh Eaters.

The film was decently well received, but shortly after its release Roppolo learned that his brother had stolen $129,000 from his bank account and disappeared. Amazingly, this would soon turn out to be just the tip of the iceberg on Roppolo’s downward slide.

After a series of increasingly tragic events, Roppolo’s life was a mere fragment of what it had been only a decade before—and that’s when the UFOs really started showing themselves to him.

“[The frequency of their appearances] depends on whether or not I’m signaling them,” Roppolo explained. “That’s something I just started doing after studying the footage I had on camera and saw [the UFOs] were blinking at each other. If you signal them with prime numbers and do it in sets of three, they’ll show up.”

Yet for Gaar, there seemed to be a different sort of connection between the sightings.

“Whenever [Roppolo] was having emotional trauma in his life, it was always reflected in his ability to find the UFOs,” Gaar said. “I sort of hypothesized that maybe some of this is psychological, but then also I don't know what the fuck that stuff is that he's videotaping. Some of it you can immediately write off and some of it is really hard to reason through.”

Although Gaar was only able to find breaks from work to visit Roppolo on occasion during the two years it took to film Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs, he was still treated to a few UFO sightings himself. The strangest sighting, which is detailed in the film, is still inexplicable to Gaar and he has little interest in trying to get to the bottom of it.

Christo Roppolo and one of his dogs.

Image: Virgil Films

“I didn't end up pursuing this, but I had a theory about a couple of the sightings,” said Gaar. “There are military installations near [Roppolo] and Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks—a pretty secret experimental aviation place—is located only so far south of Monterey. So I was going to get kind of scientific with it, but decided not to. The film was never about that.”

After everything is said and done, Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs is a documentary that is less about unidentified flying objects than the man who spends his nights looking up at the cosmos. Remarkable for the depth of its comedy and tragedy, it is one of the most poignant documentaries to be released this year. Although Gaar remains a skeptic about UFOs and leaves the legitimacy of the sightings up to the viewer to decide, for Roppolo there was never an option not to believe.

“Until the last breath of my life I will be making sure that people know this is no bullshit,” Roppolo said. “From the bottom of my heart: it’s all real.”

Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs is available on DVD and iTunes on Tuesday, December 6.

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Scientists Think the Speed of Light Has Slowed, and They're Trying to Prove It

Scientists Think the Speed of Light Has Slowed, and They're Trying to Prove It

WRITTEN BY DANIEL OBERHAUS

In 1905, a 26-year-old Albert Einstein changed physics forever when he outlined histheory of special relativity. This theory outlined the relationship between space and time and is founded on two fundamental assumptions: the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and the speed of light in a vacuum is always the same.

Over the last century, Einstein’s theories of relativity (both special and general) have withstood the trials of experimental verification and been used to explain a number of physical processes, including the origins of our universe. But in the late 1990s, a handful of physicists challenged one of the fundamental assumptions underlying Einstein’s theory of special relativity: Instead of the speed of light being constant, theyproposed that light was faster in the early universe than it is now.

This theory of the variable speed of light was—and still is—controversial. But according to a new paper published in November in the physics journal Physical Review D, it could be experimentally tested in the near future. If the experiments validate the theory, it means that the laws of nature weren’t always the same as what we experience today and would require a serious revision of Einstein’s theory of gravity.

“The whole of physics is predicated on the constancy of the speed of light,” Joao Magueijo, a cosmologist at Imperial College London and pioneer of the theory of variable light speed, told Motherboard. “So we had to find ways to change the speed of light without wrecking the whole thing too much.”

"The whole of physics is predicated on the constancy of the speed of light."

According to Magueijo, the variable speed of light (VSL) theory emerged as a solution to a longstanding inconsistency in cosmology known as "the horizon problem" which arises when the speed of light is considered to be a constant.

If light has an invariable speed limit, then that means that since the Big Bang it could only have traveled approximately 13.7 billion light years, because approximately 13.7 billion years have elapsed since the Big Bang. The distance that light is able to travel since the Big Bang creates the ‘horizon’ of the visible universe—this is about 47 billion light years (although light has only been traveling for 13.7 billion years, this number takes into account the expansion of space that is occurring as light is traveling).

So imagine sitting in the center of a sphere (the universe) with a diameter of 47 billion light years. The edge of this sphere, aka the horizon of the universe, is the cosmic microwave background (CMB)—radiation from about 400,000 years after the Big Bang and our earliest snapshot of the universe—and no matter where you are in the universe, when you observe the CMB today it is 13.7 billion light years distant.

Here’s where the problem arises: although any point in the universe is always 13.7 billion light years from the cosmic microwave background, the distance separating one side of the horizon of the cosmic microwave background from the other (let’s call this the "diameter" of the universe) is approximately 27.4 billion light years. In other words, the universe is too large to have allowed light to travel from one end of the other during its existence, which is necessary to account for the homogeneity observed in the CMB.

The horizon problem. Image: Taylor Lewis/VICE

When cosmologists observe the cosmic microwave background it is remarkably uniform: its temperature is approximately -270 C no matter where it is measured with minuscule variance (one part in 100,000). Yet if light, the fastest "thing" in the universe, isn’t able to travel from one side of the universe to the other over the course of the universe’s entire existence, this uniformity that is observed in the CMB would be impossible.

To understand why this is the case, imagine a bathtub with a faucet at either end, one spigot producing cold water, the other would produce hot water. If you turn both of these faucets off, eventually the water in the bathtub will reach a uniform temperature as the hot and cold water mix. But if while the faucets are running you stretch the tub out in every direction so fast that the hot and cold water will never meet, one side of the tub will always be way hotter than the other side instead of a single uniform temperature.

This is what happened during the Big Bang, except that rather than seeing parts of the early universe in the CMB that are way hotter or cooler than other parts, it’s perfectly uniform. So what gives?

The most widely accepted resolution to the horizon problem is called inflation, which basically states that the uniformity we observe in the CMB occurred while the universe was still incredibly small and dense, and it maintained this uniformity while it expanded. In this example, the hot and cold bath water reached a uniform temperature before the bathtub started its crazy fast expansion in every direction.

Although this inflationary theory preserves a constant speed of light, it also requires accepting the existence of an "inflation field," which only existed during a brief period of time in the early universe.

A timeline of the universe on the inflation model. Image:NASA/WMAP science team

According to proponents of variable light speed however, this problem can be solved without recourse to inflation if the speed of light was significantly higher in the early universe. This would allow the distant edges of the universe to remain "connected" as the universe expanded and would account for the observed uniformity in the CMB.

Yet for theoretical physicists who prescribe to the inflationary model of the universe, allowing for variable light speed instead of constant light speed is a way of “flipping the sign” of a fundamental term in the theory of special relativity.

“In most cases, flipping such a sign is a recipe for certain disaster as the resulting theory would cease to be physically and internally consistent,” David Marsh, a senior research fellow at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology who was not involved with the paper, told Motherboard. “Afshordi and Magueijo have addressed some of the challenges coming with this sign flip, but it appears that much work remains in establishing that the model is theoretically healthy. If that can be done, this model may have a host of far-reaching consequences also for the rest of physics beyond cosmology.”

So just how much faster was light speed just after the Big Bang? According to Magueijo and his colleague Niayesh Afshordi, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Waterloo, the answer is “infinitely” faster.

The duo cite light speed as being at least 32 orders of magnitude faster than its currently accepted speed of 300 million meters per second—this is merely the lower bounds of the faster light speed, however. As you get closer to the Big Bang, the speed of light approaches infinity.

On this view, the speed of light was faster because the universe was incredibly hot at the beginning. According to Afshordi, their theory requires that the early universe was at least a toasty 1028 degrees Celsius (to put this in perspective, the highest temperature we are capable of realizing on Earth is about 1016 degrees Celsius, a full 12 orders of magnitude cooler).

As the universe expanded and cooled below this temperature, light underwent a phase shift—much like liquid water changes into ice once the temperature reaches a certain threshold—and arrived at the speed we know today: 300 million meters per second. Just like ice won’t get more "icy" the colder the temperature gets, the speed of light has not been slowing down since it reached 300 million meters per second.

If Magueijo and Afshordi’s theory of variable light speed is correct, then the speed of light decreased in a predictable way—which means with sensitive enough instruments, this light speed decay can be measured. And that’s exactly what they did in their latest paper.

"Varying speed of light is going back to the foundations of physics and saying perhaps there are things beyond relativity."

According to Afshordi, galaxies and other structures in the universe were only possible due to fluctuations in the early universe’s density. These density fluctuations are recorded in the cosmic microwave background as a "spectral index," which might be imagined as the “color” of the early universe. The neutral baseline of the spectral index is a value of 1, which would be a universe with the same magnitude of gravitational fluctuations on all scales. Above this value the universe is "blue" (representing shorter wavelength fluctuations) and below this value and the universe is "red"(representing longer wavelength fluctuations).

Although the inflationary model of the universe also would have a "red" spectral index, it is unable to calculate a precise value of the index and as a result the exact gravity fluctuations in the early universe. In their new paper, Magueijo and Afshordi pegged the spectral index at a value of 0.96478, just slightly red, which is two orders of magnitude more precise than current measurements of the spectral index (about 0.968).

Now that they’ve used the variable light speed theory to put a hard number on the spectral index, all that remains to be seen is whether increasingly sensitive experiments probing the CMB and distribution of galaxies will verify or overturn their theory. Both Magueijo and Afshordi expect these results to be available at some point in the decade. But Marsh and other physicists aren't so sure.

“Compared to inflation, Afshordi and Magueijo’s model is at the present very complicated and poorly understood,” Marsh said. “However, the understanding of inflation has developed over 35 years and there are still important open theoretical questions to address in that framework. It is certainly possible that given more time and research, the theoretical setting of this model will be much better understood and its predictions may appear more elegant.”

If their theory is correct, it will overturn one of the main axiom’s underlying Einstein’s theory of special relativity and force physicists to reconsider the nature of gravity. According to Afshordi, however, it is more or less accepted in the physics community that Einstein’s theory of gravity cannot be the whole story, and that a quantum theory of gravity will come to replace it. There are a number of competing quantum gravity theories, but if the variable light speed theory outlined in this paper is proven to be correct, it will significantly narrow the range of plausible theories of quantum gravity.

“If you really want to open up quantum gravity to observation, you're better off without this idea of inflation,” said Magueijo. “Inflation leaves fundamental physics completely untouched [and] is a mechanism of insulating the observable universe from physics beyond relativity. Varying speed of light is going back to the foundations of physics and saying perhaps there are things beyond relativity. This is the best position to open up new ideas and new theories.”

Correction: This story originally stated that the "horizon" of the visible universe was 13.7 billion light years, when in fact it is 47 billion light years. We've updated the reference and regret the error.

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Gears Made of Metallic Glass Could Be Ideal for Space Missions

Gears Made of Metallic Glass Could Be Ideal for Space Missions

Gears Made of Metallic Glass Could Be Ideal for Space Missions
Bulk metallic glass, formed by melting and then rapidly cooling metal, doesn't get brittle in extreme cold. Two new research papers examine the effectiveness and cost of making gears for spacecraft from bulk metallic glass.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A material known as metallic glass, created by liquefying and then rapidly cooling metal, might be an ideal material for making gears for spacefaring robots, according to new research. 

The two new research papers focused on the use of bulk metallic glass (BMG) as a material for crafting gears for space-based missions. Metallic glass is called BMG when it is used to manufacture products larger than 0.04 inches (1 millimeter).

To make BMG, engineers first melt metal. Solid metals have a well-organized, crystalline atomic structure. But when the metal is melted, the atoms lose that structure and become randomly arranged, according to a statement from NASA. If the metal cools slowly, the atoms will go back to the crystalline arrangement. But if the liquid metal is cooled extremely rapidly — about 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius) per second — then the disorganized atomic structure remains. [Video: NASA Tests Robotic Refueling Tech]

These rapidly cooled metals are also known as amorphous metals, and "by virtue of being cooled so rapidly, the material is technically a glass. It can flow easily and be blow-molded when heated, just like windowpane glass," NASA scientists explained in the statement. 

Metallic glass was first developed at the California Institute of Technology in the 1960s, and "has been used to manufacture everything from cell phones to golf clubs," NASA said in the statement. 

To find out if BMG might be a good material for making gears for spacecraft, Douglas Hofmann, a technologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the lead author on the two new research papers, made gears from BMG and tested them at very low temperatures. One of the new papers, published in the journal Advanced Engineering Materials, shows that the gears demonstrate "strong torque" and smooth operation without lubricant at temperatures reaching minus 328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius).

An example of a strain wave gear, also known as a harmonic drive — one of the most expensive types of gears used in high-precision robotics. As the gear turns, the flexible ring inside it squeezes, becoming an oval shape.
An example of a strain wave gear, also known as a harmonic drive — one of the most expensive types of gears used in high-precision robotics. As the gear turns, the flexible ring inside it squeezes, becoming an oval shape.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The gears' ability to function at very low temperatures is important for two reasons. First, some materials (including some metals) become brittle at cold temperatures, but that isn't the case with metallic glass.. That means there's less risk that a gear tooth will break during operations, according to the statement. 

The second benefit has to do with power consumption. "Being able to operate gears at the low temperature of icy moons, like [Jupiter's] Europa, is a potential game changer for scientists," said R. Peter Dillon, a technologist and program manager in JPL's Materials Development and Manufacturing Technology Group. "Power no longer needs to be siphoned away from the science instruments for heating gearbox lubricant, which preserves precious battery power."

Other benefits of BMG gears may result from low cost and ease of manufacturing. Parts made from BMG can be cast using injection-molding technology, according to the NASA statement, which means the material is liquefied and injected into a mold. This technique is also used to manufacture plastic parts. 

The second paper by Hofmann and colleagues demonstrates that BMG gears might be more cost-effective than so-called strain wave gears, which are "ubiquitous in expensive robots," according to the statement. In particular, these gears include a flexible metal ring that is "tricky to mass-produce and ubiquitous in expensive robots," NASA officials said in the statement. BMG gears can be manufactured for less, according to the paper.

"Mass-producing strain wave gears using BMGs may have a major impact on the consumer robotics market," Hofmann said. "This is especially true for humanoid robots, where gears in the joints can be very expensive but are required to prevent shaking arms. The performance at low temperatures for JPL spacecraft and rovers seems to be a happy added benefit."

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Hunt for Life on Mars Could Target Nitrogen

Hunt for Life on Mars Could Target Nitrogen

Hunt for Life on Mars Could Target Nitrogen
Scientists in Greenland excavating rocks that may hold 3.8-billion-year-old evidence of life.
Credit: Laure Gauthiez

Nitrogen is one of the essential nutrients for life on Earth, and some organisms, such as the kinds of microbes found within the roots of legume plants, are capable of converting nitrogen gas into molecules that other species can use.

Nitrogen fixation, as the process is called, involves breaking the powerful chemical bonds that hold nitrogen atoms in pairs in the atmosphere and using the resulting single nitrogen atoms to help create molecules such as ammonia, which is a building block of many complex organic molecules, such as proteins, DNAand RNA.

With organisms playing such a crucial role in the chemistry of nitrogen on Earth, scientists are examining nitrogen in ancient rocks to decipher its potential as a biosignature of life on other planets. New findings in this area of research appeared recently in a paper titled "Nitrogen in Ancient Mud: A Biosignature?" which was published in the journal Astrobiology. [6 Most Likely Places for Alien Life in the Solar System]

This study identifies nitrogen abundances as a potential tool to detect remnants of life on Mars," said one of the study's authors, Eva Stüeken, an astrobiologist at the University of Washington at Seattle and the University of California at Riverside.

An illustration of nitrogen fixation.
An illustration of nitrogen fixation.
Credit: Julie McMahon

However, there are mechanisms other than life that can fix nitrogen. These abiotic nitrogen fixation processes include lightning, volcanism, shockwaves from cosmic impacts and chemical reactions inside hydrothermal vents. As such, it is uncertain whether high nitrogen levels seen in certain ancient rocks on Earth are indeed biogenic (biological) in origin.

Stüeken focused on 3.8 billion-year-old rocks from the Isua Supracrustal Belt in Greenland. Previous researchers interpreted organic carbon molecules in those rocks as biogenic, a controversial finding because the widely accepted scientific date for earliest life has been a younger 3.5 billion years.

"It is possible to make organic carbon even in the absence of life,” Stüeken said. “So those studies have been viewed with skepticism by some researchers, and an independent biosignature was needed."

Stüeken set out to see if nitrogen could serve as a biosignature instead, focusing on the relatively high nitrogen levels found in the mineral biotite, which is present in the Isua rocks.

"The nitrogen concentrations are close to what one would find in modern mud," Stüeken said. "So I asked myself if this amount of nitrogen could possibly result from abiotic sources."

In Earth's earliest history, abiotic processes may have been much more important to nitrogen fixation than biological ones, but nobody had tested the hypothesis, Stüeken said. "I was determined to find out when life began to dominate the global nitrogen cycle," she added.

Stüeken developed a model of abiotic nitrogen processes that could have played a role in early Earth. The results showed that such abiotic processes alone could not explain the nitrogen levels seen in the Isua rocks.

"Under abiotic conditions, it is impossible to accumulate so much nitrogen in sediments," Stüeken said. "Life, on the other hand, can easily accumulate so much nitrogen." As such, "the results provide more evidence of an early origin of life on Earth — before 3.8 billion years ago," Stüeken said.

This research suggests that analyzing nitrogen levels could help detect signs of life on Mars, Stüeken said. "Nitrogen abundances are relatively easy to measure by a rover, making this a useful tool for upcoming Mars missions."

Financial support was provided by the NASA postdoctoral fellowship program.

This story was provided by Astrobiology Magazine, a web-based publication sponsored by the NASA astrobiology program. Follow Space.com @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. 

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Mystery (Partially) Solved? 'Heat Bombs' Warm Sun's Outer Atmosphere

Mystery (Partially) Solved? 'Heat Bombs' Warm Sun's Outer Atmosphere

New observations from a NASA spacecraft could help solve a persistent mystery — why the sun's atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface. 

While the sun's visible surface is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,538 degrees Celsius), its upper atmosphere, known as the corona, has temperatures in the millions of degrees.

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft looks at the transition region between the sun's surface and the corona. The satellite recently saw evidence of "heat bombs," which occur when magnetic fields cross in the corona and realign, much like the process that causes solar flares.

"Because IRIS can resolve the transition region 10 times better than previous instruments, we were able to see hot material rushing up and down magnetic fields in the low corona," Paola Testa, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who led the research, said in a NASA statement. "This is compatible with models from the University of Oslo, in which magnetic reconnection sets off heat bombs in the corona."

This isn't the only way that the corona is heated, but it's one of the contributors. Another factor is when plasma waves from the sun smash into the corona, moving energy into the outer atmosphere.

IRIS, which launched in June 2013, could be a step toward understanding coronal heating, which has puzzled astronomers for decades, NASA officials said. One benefit of the observatory is that it looks continuously at the sun, allowing scientists to see quick-moving events such as the heat bombs.

"The problem of coronal heating was first discovered in the 1940s," Bart De Pontieu, a solar physicist at the Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory, said in the same statement. "The problem involves a variety of complex physical processes that are difficult to directly measure or capture in theoretical models."

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New Pyramid in Antarctica? Not Quite, Say Geologists

New Pyramid in Antarctica? Not Quite, Say Geologists

New Pyramid in Antarctica? Not Quite, Say Geologists
This Antarctic mountain bears a striking resemblance to a pyramid.
Credit: Google Maps

An Antarctic mountain with a unique, pyramid-like shape is suddenly internet-famous, with countless theorists contemplating its origin. Some are wondering whether an ancient civilization created the rocky, pyramidal structure, and others are pointing toward outer space, speculating about the involvement of aliens.

But Occam's razor — the idea that the simplest explanation is usually the right one — points to a far more mundane cause: Those steep, pyramid-like sides are likely the work of hundreds of millions of years of erosion, experts told Live Science.

"This is just a mountain that looks like a pyramid," Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, told Live Science in an email. "Pyramid shapes are not impossible — many peaks partially look like pyramids, but they only have one to two faces like that, rarely four." [Photos: The World's Weirdest Geological Formations]

The pyramidal mountain, which doesn't have a formal name, is one of the many peaks that make up Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains, which were discovered by the American aviator Lincoln Ellsworth during a flight on Nov. 23, 1935, according to a 2007 research paper that was published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More specifically, the unnamed mountain — located at 79°58’39.25"S 81°57’32.21"W — is in the southern part of the Ellsworth Mountains in an area called Heritage Range, which is known for its extraordinary fossils, including those of Cambrian-period trilobites from more than 500 million years ago, according to a 1972 USGS report.

The mountain isn't that tall by planetary standards — just 4,150 feet (1,265 meters) — or a little less than one-fifth the height of Denali, the tallest mountain in North America, according to Google Earth. The mountain may not have Denali's height, but its unique pyramidal shape sets it apart, said Mauri Pelto, a professor of environmental science at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts.

Freeze-thaw erosion likely led to its pyramid-like shape, Pelto said. This happens when snow or water fills up cracks within a mountain during the day. When night falls and temperatures drop, the snow freezes and expands, turning into ice. The expanding ice causes the cracks to grow, Pelto said.

This freeze-thaw erosion happens countless times, leading to the creation of larger cracks that can, eventually, cause entire rock sections to break off, he said. These forces likely also shaped other pyramidal mountains, including the Matterhorn in the Alps, he said.

A pyramid-shaped peak called Matterhorn in the Alps.
A pyramid-shaped peak called Matterhorn in the Alps.
Credit: Ekaterina Grivet, Shutterstock.com

Three of the mountain's four sides appear to have eroded at about the same rate. "It suggests, since it came out so evenly, that the rock type is fairly uniform," Pelto said. "You don't have any rock layers that are harder to erode."

In other words, the nameless mountain is likely "all in one rock layer," Pelto said. "It's not a very big mountain, so it's not that surprising." 

However, the eastern ridge of the mountain is decidedly the black sheep of the family. Instead of descending downward like the other ridges, that fourth side extends east, rising toward even higher terrain, Pelto said.

"The erosion probably wasn't as uniform [on the eastern side]," he said.

Pelto added that although some news outlets are saying that the mountain is newly discovered, that's very unlikely to be the case. There's a research base for climate scientists to the south of the mountain in an area known as the Patriot Hills.

"You can actually probably see this mountain from up there in the Patriot Hills," Pelto said.

As for the conspiracy theorists who are wondering about the mountain's pyramidal shape, "at least they're thinking about something," he said. "In the end, maybe they'll learn something in the process."

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'Mythical' Sea Blob Finally Spotted a Century After Its Discovery

'Mythical' Sea Blob Finally Spotted a Century After Its Discovery

'Mythical' Sea Blob Finally Spotted a Century After Its Discovery
A giant larvacean, Bathochordaeus charon, surrounded by its inner "house" (the rounded globular object in the middle of the photo) and it's outer "house (the large yellowish mucus net)
Credit: (c) 2013 MBARI

A mysterious sea blob that looks like a psychedelic Slinky has finally been spotted, more than a century after it was first described.

The translucent, sea-dwelling invertebrate, called Bathochordaeus charon, was identified recently off the coast of Monterey, California, by scientists using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). Though B. charon was first discovered a century ago, no one had managed to confirm its existence in all those years, Rob Sherlock, a scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who found the creature, told Live Science in an email. [See Photos of the Translucent Sea Blob]

B. charon belongs to a group of sea creatures known as larvaceans — normally teensy, millimeter-size creatures whose bodies resemble a tadpole's, with a large "head" (actually a trunk) and a tail, Sherlock said.

A giant larvacean, Bathochordaeus charon, that has discarded its mucus feeding filters and is swimming freely in the open ocean.
A giant larvacean, Bathochordaeus charon, that has discarded its mucus feeding filters and is swimming freely in the open ocean.
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Though the sea is teeming with tiny larvaceans, the larger versions, which can have bodies extending up to 3.9 inches (10 centimeters), are much less common. To eat, the sea blob filters food through its shimmering, parachute-like mucus "house" almost 3.3 feet (1 m) in length. By waving its tail, it stirs the water and pulls particles directly into its house. Large particles get trapped and form a fine dusting of marine "snow" on the house, while the smaller particles pass through, concentrating and then funneling into a feeding tube that goes into the mouth, Sherlock said. (The tiny larvaceans also don mucus homes, but they're smaller.)

If a passing squid or fish crashes through the house, or big particles clog the feeding tube, larvaceans simply move on and build another house. Without their houses, they cannot eat, Sherlock said.

The first report of B. charon's existence came in 1899, when professor Carl Chun of Leipzig University came across one in the south Atlantic Ocean while leading the Valdivia Expedition, a German mission aimed at exploring the deep sea. Chun believed the creature welled up from the deepest depths of the ocean, so he named the larvacean after Charon, who in Greek mythology ferries the souls of the dead across the river Styx, the researchers reported Aug. 16 in the journal Marine Biodiversity Records.

In the decades that followed, several other naturalists reported spotting giant larvaceans, though only a few were captured alive and described thoroughly. In 1936, for instance, British marine biologist Walter Garstang collected a set of giant larvaceans that differed from Chun's, and they were classified as a new species, Bathochordaeus stygius. [Marine Marvels: Spectacular Photos of Sea Creatures]

Because the two sets of specimens were similar and Chun's originals were lost to history, scientists eventually began to wonder whether Chun's originally described B. charon was actually the same species as B. stygius. One famous larvacean expert even suggested combining the two species names, Sherlock said. Part of the difficulty in capturing these creatures is that they don't fare well in the trawling nets typically used to collect specimens, Sherlock said.

Sherlock and his colleagues happened upon the new species when the team's ROV, called Doc Ricketts, was exploring the waters of Monterey Bay. As soon as they saw it, the crew carefully collected it in a sealed, thermally insulated container.

"Since the vehicle was recovered some tens of minutes later, the animal was alive, in fantastic shape, and we preserved it right away in order to send it to the Smithsonian," Sherlock said. "We had no idea, until we looked more closely at the specimen, that we had actually found B. charon, the species first described over a hundred years ago."

Genetics and analysis of physical features confirmed the find, Sherlock said. It was official: There really were two distinct species of giant larvacean — B. stygius and B. charon.

"It felt like Chun had finally been vindicated after years of doubt," Sherlock said.

When the team went back over videos from Monterey Bay from the past 25 years, they realized the creature had been spotted many times in the bay. Whether they dwell in places between Monterey Bay and the South Atlantic, however, remains to be seen.

Still, this mythical sea blob is fairly rare; over the course of the past few decades, biologists have seen hundreds of B. stygius, but captured footage of only a dozen B. charon individuals, Sherlock said.

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#SIBERIA | STUNNING FIREBALL EXPLOSION TURNS NIGHT INTO DAY (Video & Report)

#SIBERIA | STUNNING FIREBALL EXPLOSION TURNS NIGHT INTO DAY (Video & Report)

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A huge fireball in Siberia has turned night into day as comparisons with a scene from the apocalypse sweep the internet.

The spectacular night sky event was seen across regions of the Republic of Khakassia and South Siberia on Tuesday evening.

The meteor which burnt in the atmosphere before hitting the ground was witnessed by locals as it shook buildings and set of alarms.

One witness said: “We saw a flash, and in about two minutes our houses vibrated and we heard thunder, and car alarms went off”.

A local woman added: ‘I went for a walk with my friends. We stopped by the shop and my friend screamed when she saw a bright flash, and then there was an explosion.

‘All the car alarms immediately went off. We were so scared. My father said windows were vibrating. We think it was a meteor.’

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The Meteorite came as sky watchers worldwide were observing on a night billed as ‘Night of the Comet’ by BPEarthWatch who offered his explanation of  incoming activity over the coming days before the Siberian event took place.

BpEarthWatch is well renowned on YouTube with over 246.000 subscribers to his channel.

BpEarthWatch said: “Comet 45P/Honda (45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková) was discovered the year Israel was announced as a nation.

“There’s going to be a lot of things happening this year, there is something else about the Comet 45/p Honda.

“It’s coming in we start t see visibility again around new years, February 11th 2017 is the Comets closest approach to our planet but before that close approach it’s going to be between us and the Sun for a few weeks so we are going to have to watch it closely during that period of time”.

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People were skating on Ice as the night sky turned to day in Siberia at around 6.50pm local time and people were fast to react in disbelief.

A young witness said: ‘It was as bright as daytime. I did not understand at first what it was.

‘Then an explosion followed and the boom came from a long distance away.

‘I’ve seen shooting stars before, but nothing like this.

Could the event be tied to debris from incoming Comet 45P/Honda’s tail?

BpEarthWatch suggested we will so keep our eyes to the skies.

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Dr. Steven Greer : The Biggest Hoax in Human History and Trump Disclosure 2016 (Video)

Dr. Steven Greer : The Biggest Hoax in Human History and Trump Disclosure 2016 (Video)

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Summary: Dr. Greer is widely regarded as the world’s foremost authority on the subject of extraterrestrial intelligence and is the founder and international director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Dr. Greer, as director of CSETI, has led research teams throughout the world investigating the existence of ETI and on several occasions has successfully established preliminary contact and communication with extraterrestrial spacecraft at close range.


Dr. Greer is widely regarded as the world’s foremost authority on the subject of extraterrestrial intelligence and is the founder and international director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). A lifetime member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the nation’s most prestigious medical honor society, Dr. Greer is an emergency physician and former chairman of emergency medicine at Caldwell Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Greer, as director of CSETI, has led research teams throughout the world investigating the existence of ETI and on several occasions has successfully established preliminary contact and communication with extraterrestrial spacecraft at close range. He has met with and provided briefings for senior members of government, military and intelligence operations in the United States and around the world, including senior CIA officials, Joint Chiefs of Staff, White House staff, senior members of Congress and congressional committees, senior United Nations leadership and diplomats, senior military officials in the United Kingdom and Europe and cabinet-level members of the Japanese government, among others,

Dr. Greer has been seen and heard by millions world-wide on shows such as the Larry King Show, CBS, the BBC, NTV in Japan, “Sightings” and “Encounters” TV programs in the US , the Art Bell show, the Armstrong Williams radio show and dozens of other TV and Radio Programs.

He has addressed tens of thousands of people live at conferences and lectures around the world including the international convention of MENSA, the high IQ group, the Institute of Noetic Sciences Board of Directors, and the Sierra Club.

He brings a unique combination of scientific knowledge, credibility , vision, humor and inspiration to his lectures. Dr. Greer relies on first hand knowledge of extraterrestrial activity world wide and has direct sources for information regarding covert operations dealing with the subject.

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NASA All Sky Cameras: Cloaked Unknown Spacecraft? (Video)

NASA All Sky Cameras: Cloaked Unknown Spacecraft? (Video)

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NASA’s All-Sky Cameras caught a cloaked UFO which illuminates the night sky in New Mexico on December 2, 2016.
 

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The object’s luminous/shimmering appearance seemed to resemble a kind of spacecraft.

Whether the object is a secret man-made or an alien spacecraft remains unclear, but it seems to fly very smoothly gliding effortlessly through the air using a cloaking technique allegedly used by UFOs.

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Amateur Astronomers Amazing Alien Craft Photo

Amateur Astronomers Amazing Alien Craft Photo

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AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS AMAZING ALIEN CRAFT PHOTO
 
DECEMBER 11, 2016   ……. FISHKILL NEW YORK
 
I was in my backyard taping the moon. A shooting sound together with a swish pulled my attention but all I’ve seen was a trail of a shooting star. I first thought it was a meteor. When I went to watch the video I noticed a yellow red orange object with some symmetrical characteristics, and also it changed direction. I may be wrong, but my impression is that the object could be a kind of spaceship. Unfortunately the object was too fast for my to get a longer video, it was only a coincidence if I got at lest less then a second. I’m uploading also a short video and pics of anew lighting object that I thought it was an helicopter but the sound was different.
 
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REVEALED! THE 2017 NOSTRADAMUS PREDICTIONS AIM FOR TERRIFYING TIMES!

REVEALED! THE 2017 NOSTRADAMUS PREDICTIONS AIM FOR TERRIFYING TIMES!

For many years we have heard about people with the ability to predict future events. Some people are just lucky when it comes to predictions, but others seem to be the real deal. 
 
Some of the most fulfilled prophecies originated from a distant era, during 16th century, France. The extraordinary seer in question is the well known Michael Nostradamus, who has predicted many important and catastrophic events. He foresaw the rising of Adolf Hitler to power and the war he bought upon the world, he also foresaw the fall of the Twin Towers which became known as the "9/11". 
 
But his prophecies are far from over, he also predicted the recent outcome of the US elections with Donald Trump becoming current president of the US. 
 
He has more for the upcoming years! With 2017 at our doorstep, he has a new batch of predictions to tease us before next year. 
 
Watch the following videos to know more! 
 

 

 

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