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.
On Monday, an asteroid zoomed past the Earth, coming closer to our home planet than the moon orbits around it. The asteroid, which was about the size of a 10-story building, didn’t hit the Earth — which is a pretty good thing since astronomers didn’t even know it existed until Saturday — just two days earlier.
The asteroid, 2017 AG13, is between 36 and 111 feet long. It flew by the Earth at 7:47 a.m. EST, coming within about half of the distance from the Earth to the moon (around 100,000 miles) at its nearest point. The asteroid was traveling pretty fast too, zipping through the solar system at a spritely 9.9 miles per second.
The University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey only discovered 2017 AG13 on Saturday. This asteroid travels around the sun in an elliptical orbit, according to scientists, and on this pass, it crossed the orbits of both Earth and Venus. Experts could be forgiven for not spotting this one until the last minute, though. there are millions of asteroids out there, and we only have tabs on a few thousand of them — luckily, we’re tracking the biggest, most apocalyptic ones, and they’re not about to hit us. (Or at least we hope we’re tracking all of them).
Had 2017 AG13 hit Earth, we would’ve been fine. As Business Insider notes, Purdue University’s Impact Earth simulator predicts that an asteroid even on the larger side of 2017 AG13’s range would’ve exploded about ten miles above the surface, assuming it entered the atmosphere at a 45-degree angle. That would’ve released about 700 kilotons of energy, but at that height, all folks on the ground would have to deal with would be a loud, harmless boom.
Amateurarcheologen stuiten op ‘Siciliaans Stonehenge’
Een groep vrienden is op Sicilië op een vreemde verzameling stenen gestuit, die het ‘Siciliaanse Stonehenge’ is gedoopt.
Experts hebben ontdekt dat het gaat om een prehistorische zonnewijzer die dateert uit de bronstijd.
“Het doen van een archeologische ontdekking is op zichzelf al een belangrijke gebeurtenis, maar deel uitmaken van één van de meest sensationele vondsten in jaren vult me met trots,” zei Giuseppe La Spina, één van de groepsleden.
La Spina en zijn collega’s troffen de stenen aan terwijl ze bunkers uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog aan het onderzoeken waren.
Zonnewendes
De Italiaanse professor Alberto Scuderi, die regionale archeologische groepen aanstuurt, stelde voor om experts naar de stenen te laten kijken.
De professor, die gespecialiseerd is in archeoastronomie, heeft de vondst drie maanden bestudeerd. Hij legde zijn bevindingen voor aan het archeologisch museum van de stad Gela.
Op 21 december, de winterzonnewende, bevestigden deskundigen dat de zonnewijzer gebruikt werd om de seizoenen en zonnewendes te bepalen.
Stonehenge
Experts maakten gebruik van camera’s, een kompas en een drone met een camera om uit te vogelen hoe de zonnewijzer precies werkte.
Het ‘Siciliaanse Stonehenge’ dateert uit 6000 tot 3000 voor Christus en bevindt zich vlak bij de prehistorische necropolen van Grotticelle, Ponte Olivo en Dessueri.
Het spannende is volgens La Spina dat de vindplaats mogelijk nog meer archeologische schatten zal prijsgeven, die waarschijnlijk ‘nog spectaculairder zijn dan de zonnewijzer zelf’.
UFO Does 180 Degree Turn On Live GoPro Space Station Cam! Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 5, 2017
Location of sighting: Earths orbit at ISS
This amazing footage was shot from an astronauts GoPro while outside the space station this week. The GoPro was hooked up directly with the live Internet link for all to see.
How do I know this is a UFO? Watch and see how this does a perfect 180 degree turn in the sharpest possible way that even an F16 could not match. It knew that it was coming to close and might come into view, so it did a quick U turn by doing a upside-down 180 and returned to where it came from. No meteor or lost tools could do a 180 degree turn and accelerate while doing it!
Awesome live International Cam Footage caught by Youtuber Just Gaz...please click this link and give him the thumbs up for support. Excellent evidence that the space station is not only being visited, but is under 24/7 watchful eyes of aliens...as well as UFO researchers.
UFO Lights Up Sky Over Willis, Texas On Jan 11, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 11, 2017 Location of sighting: Willis, Texas, USA Source: MUFON #81488 This UFO looks really high up and is below the clouds cover. The UFOs that the person described are the same as the Denver, Colorado descriptions of UFO reports and the same as we saw in the many video of the Dome of Rock in the old city of Jerusalem. The exit...how the UFO left straight up, was exactly the same as the Dome of Rock UFO back in 2011. I will include a video of the event below. Some CIA operatives have tried to spread rumors that the Dome of Rock was faked...don't believe it. I will bet my life on it. Thats how confident I am about it. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Backyard, laying on lawn chair listening to wind in the trees, watching shadows race across the moon, lights appeared out of nowhere, bright almost lumescent. Object moved back and forth over mile radius in literally 2 seconds flat, then descended instantly, out of sight, reappeared 3 seconds later, then ascended straight up into sky and was gone. So fast.
Ovnis, rencontres paranormales... 40 ans de phénomènes inexpliqués en Occitanie
La Dépêche du Midi
@ladepechedumidi
Depuis 1977, le Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés (Geipan) du Cnes (Centre national d'études spatiales), basé à Toulouse, enquête sur les témoignages de phénomènes étranges dans le ciel qui lui sont envoyés de toute la France.
Carte des cas inexpliqués, histoires les plus mystérieuses, témoignages d'enlèvements, hauts-lieux de l'ufologie et canulars... À l'approche des 40 ans du Geipan et à l'occasion de la publication de ses données 2016, La Dépêche du Midivous propose un tour d'horizon des ovnis en Occitanie.
GEIPAN : LA BRIGADE D'ENQUÊTES DE L'UNIVERS
Installé dans trois petits bureaux sur l'immense campus toulousain du Centre national d'études spatiales (Cnes), le Geipan enquête sur les phénomènes spatiaux étranges observés dans toute la France. Chaque année, près de 500 témoignages sont envoyés et traités par la petite équipe d'enquêteurs affectée à cette tâche à temps plein. « Notre mission est de répondre aux gens comme vous et moi qui souhaitent avoir une explication après avoir fait une observation visuelle ou sonore insolite dans le ciel », explique Jean-Paul Aguttes, responsable de cette unité du Cnes.
Les témoignages sont directement déposés par les témoins sur le site du Geipan ou transmis par la gendarmerie, vers laquelle se tournent souvent les Français en demande de réponses. Sur les 500 témoignages recueillis chaque année, la moitié est écartée rapidement puisqu'ils ne correspondent pas aux attributions du Geipan (phénomènes paranormaux ou observations sur Terre).
Une fois ce premier écrémage effectué, l'équipe du Geipan mène une enquête approfondie sur chaque cas. Pour écarter les méprises les plus fréquentes, les équipes consultent d'abord les conditions atmosphériques, les relevés radars de l'armée ou encore les lancements d'appareils dans l'espace qui pourraient entraîner des retombées de pièces sur Terre au moment de l'observation. Si ces premières recherches n'ont pas pas permis de trouver une explication, les équipes du Geipan se déplacent sur le terrain.
Les témoins sont alors interrogés par l'un des nombreux enquêteurs bénévoles recrutés dans tous le pays selon un protocole très encadré. Les mêmes questions sont posées plusieurs fois et reformulées par l'enquêteur pour évaluer la fiabilité des témoignages. L'enquête sur le terrain permet aussi de faire des relevés et de prendre des photos. Dans certains cas, comme pour une investigation criminelle, des reconstitutions sont même organisées sur les lieux.
Si le phénomène ne peut toujours pas être expliqué, le Geipan réunit un collège d'experts constitué de spécialistes en sciences humaines, astronomie, météorologie, plasma, rayonnements ou aéronautique pour mobiliser toutes les connaissances actuelles qui pourraient lever une part du mystère.
10 % des cas non élucidés
Globalement, la plupart des cas sont rapidement expliqués, mais 10% d'entre eux ne sont pas élucidés. « Certains cas ne peuvent être éclaircis faute d'indices. D'autres seront peut-être élucidés grâce à de futures recherches scientifiques », espère Jean-Paul Aguttes. « Il nous arrive de temps en temps de rouvrir des cas anciens et de pouvoir les expliquer grâce à de nouvelles découvertes. C'est notamment le cas des avancées sur les éclairs en boule, qui peuvent entrer par les cheminées comme dans Tintin et les 7 boules de cristal, et qui nous ont permis de classer plusieurs dossiers anciens ».
Et l'hypothèse extraterrestre ? Jean-Paul Aguttes reste prudent, sans fermer tout à fait la porte aux petits hommes verts. « Nous devons rester ouverts sur ces sujets. C'est quelque chose qui fait partie des hypothèses, mais parmi beaucoup d'autres et avec une vraisemblance très faible ».
En raison de la prudence du Geipan sur ces questions et de son lien avec le Cnes, organisme public, beaucoup d'ufologues, nom donné aux passionnés d'ovnis, mettent en doute la crédibilité du groupe d'études et dénoncent « un écran de fumée » ou « une coquille vide » qui ne viserait qu'à « cacher la vérité à la population »...
Julie Guérineau
LES 32 CAS INEXPLIQUÉS EN OCCITANIE
Chaque année, le Geipan enquête sur près de 250 témoignages de phénomènes insolites observés dans le ciel de France. L'ensemble des documents qui s'y rapportent sont rendus publics sur le site Internet du Geipan après avoir été étudiés, classés et anonymisés. La classification des cas s'effectue en quatre catégories, la catégorie D recouvrant les 9% de « phénomènes spatiaux non identifiés »*.
Au 15 décembre dernier, 174 cas observés en ex-région Midi-Pyrénées étaient recensés sur le site du Geipan et 138 en ex-région Languedoc-Roussillon. Sur ces 312 cas déclarés en région Occitanie, 32 restent toujours non identifiés. Avec la carte compilée par La Dépêche du Midi, découvrez les phénomènes insolites qui restent aujourd'hui encore sans réponse dans notre région.
Mathilde Pujol, Anne-Charlotte Mariette et Julie Guérineau
Réalisation : ladepeche.fr
*Dans un document publié le 14 décembre dernier, le Geipan précise que le nombre de cas classés D est en forte baisse depuis dix ans : « Il est passé de 6,8 cas classés D par an en moyenne entre 1975 et 2004, à 2,5 cas D par an en moyenne depuis 2005 » grâce, entre autres, à des enquêtes plus approfondies.
Les cas les plus étranges recensés dans la région
Des extraterrestres./SIPA
AUX FRONTIÈRES DU RÉEL DANS L'AUDE
L'un des cas les plus étranges recensé dans la région remonte au 12 décembre 1987. C'est une journée pluvieuse. Dans la matinée, vers 10 h 45, Maurice*, comme il a l'habitude de le faire, se rend près de l'usine de raffinage de l'uranium, dans une vieille maison en ruines pour ramasser du bois. Alors qu'il rentre toujours directement dans la vieille bâtisse, il décide ce jour-là de continuer sur le petit sentier qui longe l'usine pour se protéger de la pluie. C'est à ce moment-là qu'il fait la rencontre de six êtres étranges, « petits de taille, de type asiatique et au teint terreux », selon les dires de l'homme. Ils s'abritaient de la pluie sous les buissons.
Maurice pense dans un premier temps que ce sont des joggeurs qui attendent que l'ondée soit passée. Intrigué par ces petites personnes qu'il n'avait jamais vues auparavant, il tente timidement de lancer la conversation. « Vous êtes du coin ? », questionne-t-il. Une femme lui répond d'une petite voix nasillarde « Planète Earth »...
Quelques secondes s'écoulent, lorsque cette même femme s'agenouille et commence à dessiner sur le sol : le signe « ciel » et l'autre « démon ». En continuant de converser avec eux, Maurice en apprend beaucoup sur leur mode de vie, notamment qu'ils « viennent d'une autre planète », sans toutefois savoir laquelle. Ils vivent très vieux, et de nombreux humains les ont déjà suivis sur leur planète. C'est d'ailleurs la raison pour laquelle ils connaissent notre langage. Pour se déplacer, ils utilisent des engins qui ressemblent à des scooters des neiges, sans moteur, sans roue, de couleur très claire.
Photo GEIPAN
La conversation prend brusquement fin lorsqu'un septième personnage sort de derrière les fourrés, visiblement en colère. Les sept petits êtres enfourchent alors leurs « motos », qui s'élèvent lentement dans les airs et disparaissent rapidement. Maurice, quant à lui, perd connaissance quelques secondes, du fait de l'onde qui s'est propagée à leur envol. Il a parlé de cette histoire à sa femme et ses enfants une semaine plus tard, un peu sonné par la rencontre insolite qu'il avait vécue.
Après avoir été auditionné par la gendarmerie, le cas étrange de Maurice a été classé D par le Geipan, c'est-à-dire en tant que phénomène non identifié, parmi les cas les plus rares recensés par le centre d'études. Il a été modifié quelques temps plus tard et passé en classe C, faute de preuves et d'informations fiables. Il s'avère en effet que la gendarmerie ne trouvera pas de traces de vaisseau au sol comme le leur avait indiqué le témoin, en plus d'un récit douteux : la planète d'origine des extraterrestres n'était qu'une traduction en anglais du mot « Terre », ils parlaient en français, en plus de nombreuses incohérences dans son discours. Alors, simple hallucination, ou réelle rencontre du 3ème type ? Le mystère ne sera probablement jamais résolu...
Extrait de l'article de l'Indépendant du 28/12/1987. Source : GEIPAN.
*le prénom a été modifié
Anne-Charlotte Mariette
UN OVNI A-T-IL SURVOLÉ LES PYRÉNÉES-ORIENTALES ?
Source : GEIPAN
Quel était cet étrange objet qu'a observé Marie* dans la nuit du mercredi 26 au jeudi 27 septembre 2001 ? Un ovni, un avion ou un simple phénomène météorologique ? En tout cas, Marie est certaine de ce qu'elle a vu cette nuit-là. « J'ai vu une forme triangulaire, bien découpée dans le ciel, de forme bombée, avec une source de lumière phosphorescente qui ne clignotait pas, à chaque extrémité. La forme triangulaire était assez sombre. Je n'ai pas pu en déterminer une couleur. Cette forme se trouvait à environ 600-700 mètres d'altitude. Selon moi, cet objet devait avoir une grandeur que j'évalue à plus de 5 fois la superficie d'un Boeing ». Ainsi, pendant environ 10 secondes, Marie a pu observer cet ovni, qui ne faisait aucun bruit, ne laissait aucune trace derrière lui. « Sa trajectoire était directe et d'une vitesse d'environ 2 à 3 fois plus rapide qu'un avion ».
«Je l'ai vu cet objet, je suis sûre de moi»
Cependant, Marie est le seule témoin de ce phénomène étrange, les gendarmes n'ayant recueilli aucun autre témoignage. De plus, le contrôle aérien de l'aéroport n'a rien signalé d'anormal cette nuit-là. Alors, était-ce juste une hallucination ? Un rêve éveillé ? « Non, pas du tout, j'étais parfaitement éveillée et j'ai même noté l'heure très précisément : deux heures et huit minutes », justifie Marie. « Je ne bois pas, ne fume pas, je pense être parfaitement équilibrée et je l'ai vu cet objet, je suis sûre de moi », affirme-t-elle.
Ce qui pourrait mettre sur une piste, c'est la forme triangulaire de cet objet, identique à la voilure de l'avion américain B2, qui aurait très bien pu voler discrètement jusqu'à cette base « ultra secrète » de la DGSE (Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure) qui se trouve non loin de là, au milieu d'un marais. Mais non, Marie est certaine de ce qu'elle a vu. « Non, ça n'était pas un avion, cela avait quelque chose de bizarre qui ne ressemblait à rien de ce que l'on voit couramment en matière aéronautique », assure-t-elle. Le lendemain matin, elle explique à son frère et à sa mère ce qu'elle a observé, et dès le vendredi, elle contacte un journal local pour faire part publiquement de son étrange observation, dans l'espoir de rencontrer quelqu'un qui aurait vu la même chose qu'elle cette nuit-là. « Cela me rassurerait de savoir que je n'ai pas été la seule », avait-elle confié au journaliste. « J'ai été témoin de phénomènes d'observation dans le ciel et d'autre nature que je ne souhaite pas préciser. Ces observations ont été effectuées au cours de ces dix dernières années dans la région. Concernant ces autres observations, j'en avais fait part à mon entourage, mais je n'avais encore jamais contacté les médias ou signalé cela à la gendarmerie ».
Aucune explication n'a pu être donnée par le Geipan, le cas a donc été classé D. Et 16 ans après, l'énigme reste entière ...
Extrait de l'article paru le 29 septembre 2001. Source : GEIPAN.
*le prénom a été modifié
Anne-Charlotte Mariette
RENCONTRE DU TROISIÈME TYPE DANS L'HÉRAULT
Dans la nuit du 27 au 28 juin 1998, Romain*, 20 ans, a vécu une bien étrange expérience. Vers 1 heure du matin, alors qu'il rentrait chez lui en voiture, son véhicule tombe en panne sèche. Il tente de repérer d'où vient le problème mais s'interrompt lorsqu'il aperçoit une lumière verte pâle, non loin de lui. Le jeune homme arrive face à l'objet. Il ne peut ni avancer ni faire demi-tour. « J'étais comme paralysé des jambes », expliquera-t-il aux gendarmes. Il a alors le temps d'observer attentivement ce qui se trouve face à lui : un objet en forme de cône, de dix mètres de long et deux de haut, qui flotte dans les airs à quelques centimètres du sol. « Je ne pensais à rien, je regardais juste cet objet », se souvient Romain.
« Devant moi, un être d'à peu près un mètre cinquante de haut se dirigeait vers l'intérieur de l'objet qui était ouvert. Une sorte de passerelle était sortie ». A l'intérieur de cet objet, il voit trois sièges, dont deux occupés. Celui qui s'apprête à s'engager sur la passerelle lui fait un signe de la main. Romain a le temps de noter qu'il ne possède que quatre doigts, dont un plus long que les autres. « Il avait deux bras, deux jambes, une tête un peu ovale. Tout son corps était blanc. La tête aussi, sans cheveux. Il mesurait un mètre cinquante à peu près. On aurait dit qu'il portait un vêtement mais il n'avait pas d'encolure, pas de poignet ».
Les dessins réalisés par Romain. Source : GEIPAN
Lorsque l'être est monté dans l'objet conique, la porte s'est refermée, les lumières se sont éteintes et « il est parti en 5 secondes ». Quand Romain arrive enfin à bouger et à remonter dans sa voiture (qui n'est plus en panne), il prend conscience de la rencontre du troisième type qu'il vient de faire. « Je tremblais tellement que je ne suis pas parti de suite. Une fois mon calme revenu, je suis reparti à bord de mon véhicule ». Le dimanche matin, lendemain de sa rencontre extraordinaire, Romain se rend compte qu'il a un trou de mémoire, il ne se souvenait plus de ce qu'il avait fait entre 21 heures et 1 heure du matin. Mais sa rencontre avec les extraterrestres, il s'en souvient parfaitement. Après avoir étudié son cas, le Geipan ne parviendra pas à donner une explication rationnelle à cette rencontre, et le classera D, parmi les cas inexplicables.
Samedi 25 mai 2013. Dans un quartier pavillonnaire de Colomiers, en banlieue toulousaine, Gérard, 53 ans, salarié dans une société d'aéronautique, profite de la douceur de la soirée pour préparer un barbecue sur sa terrasse. Les saucisses grillent tranquillement quand sa femme l'interpelle en ramassant le linge dans le jardin : « Tiens, y'a tes copains là-haut ! ». Aucun invité n'est attendu ce soir-là, et pour cause, les invités surprises viennent d'ailleurs.
« J'y suis allé et j'ai vu trois boules orangées alignées plus grosses que des étoiles », se souvient Gilles. « L'une était au-dessus de la cheminée et les deux autres au-dessus des arbres. Il n'y avait aucun bruit ». Tout en gardant un œil sur ses saucisses, Gérard observe le phénomène lumineux pendant une dizaine de minutes avant que les boules ne descendent une par une sous la ligne d'horizon. « Ma femme n'était pas plus impressionnée que ça, et mon fils a regardé un peu avant de partir ».
Le lendemain, Gilles a déjà tout oublié quand sa femme vient lui dire que le phénomène a réapparu à la même heure, au même endroit. Le surlendemain, rebelote. Cette fois, certaines des boules se déplacent à une vitesse fulgurante avant de disparaître. Mais surtout, le Columérin pense à aller chercher sa paire de jumelles pour observer le phénomène de plus près. Avec son fils, il voit devant la sphère lumineuse une barre horizontale parcourue de flashs colorés qui se déclenchent les uns après les autres. « C'était comme dans Rencontres du troisième type », décrit-il. Là où d'autres auraient commencé à s'inquiéter, Gilles reste très calme, mais à aucun moment il ne pense à prendre de photos.
Depuis trois ans, les boules lumineuses n'ont plus réapparu. « Je m'intéresse un peu aux ovnis depuis que je suis enfant. J'ai tout de suite su que c'en était un », assure Gilles. Signalé au Geipan, le cas n'a toujours pas été expliqué malgré plusieurs visites d'enquêteurs. « Vu la vitesse, ça ne peut pas être de chez nous. À moins que ce soit un projet de la CIA, mais je vois mal ce qu'ils viendraient faire là... », s'interroge Gilles. Celui qui n'aime pas être décrit comme un fanatique d'ovnis formule une autre hypothèse : « Ça pourrait aussi venir de la Terre. Vu la vitesse à laquelle la technologie évolue, pourquoi cela ne pourrait pas être des Terriens qui ont trouvé un moyen de revenir dans le passé ? ».
Julie Guérineau
Lanternes cosmiques
Des lanternes thaïlandaises./SIPA
C'est une belle nuit d'été. Dans le ciel, la Voie Lactée scintille et quelques étoiles filantes traversent l'horizon. Au loin, la musique d'un mariage résonne dans les rues du village. Quand soudain, venues de nulle part, des boules orangées scintillantes apparaissent sur la voûte étoilée. Pendant une dizaine de minutes, les objets se déplacent lentement en escadron avant de disparaître au loin dans une accélération fulgurante. Pour certains, ces boules lumineuses font partie d'un seul et même vaisseau amiral extraterrestre dont les signaux lumineux marquent les contours.
Vidéo : GEIPAN
Depuis 2007, le Geipan reçoit très régulièrement des signalements de ce type, à tel point qu'il a mis en ligne sur son site Internet un guide pour apprendre à identifier ce phénomène pas si étrange. Malheureusement pour les ufologues, dans une grande majorité de cas, ces boules lumineuses n'annoncent pas un contact prochain avec une population extraterrestre, mais plutôt un lâcher de lanternes thaïlandaises.
Depuis quelques années, ces lampions de papier qui s'envolent grâce à la chaleur d'un petit brûleur sont de toutes les fêtes. Tous les ans, le principal fournisseur en vend près de 60 000 en France. Ces lanternes sont aujourd'hui parmi les méprises les plus fréquentes signalées au Geipan et représentent plus de 300 signalements traités par le service du Cnes, sans compter les innombrable cas qui ne leurs sont pas déclarés, comme à Albi l'an dernier.
Généralement lâchés par dizaines, les lampions s'envolent ensemble puis se déplacent dans le ciel, poussés par des vents d'altitude que l'on ne perçoit pas au sol. L'extinction progressive de la flamme donne l'impression que la lumière s'éloigne à une vitesse supersonique. Quant à ceux qui ont l'impression de percevoir un gigantesque vaisseau, il ne s'agit que d'une manipulation de leur cerveau. « Comme pour les constellations, le cerveau relie naturellement les points lumineux entre eux et imagine une forme pleine. C'est une illusion très courante », explique Jean-Paul Aguttes, responsable du Geipan.
Pour savoir si vous avez affaire à des lanternes thaï ou à un phénomène plus inexplicable, suivez ces quelques conseils :
- Observez le phénomène aux jumelles pour voir si vous distinguez la structure du lampion. - Renseignez-vous pour savoir si un lâcher de lanternes n'a pas été organisé dans le cadre d'un mariage ou d'une fête locale. - Vérifiez le sens du vent dans votre commune sur un site de météo pour le comparer au sens de déplacement des objets que vous observez. Attention, certains vents soufflent en altitude mais sont imperceptibles au sol. Enfin, sachez que les lâchers sont plus fréquents dans la nuit du vendredi au samedi et du samedi au dimanche. Si vous avez toujours un doute, contactez le Geipan ou la gendarmerie pour leur faire part de votre observation.
Les méprises les plus fréquentes
Rentrées atmosphériques, ballons sondes, reflets dans une vitre, chute d'éléments de fusées... Si les lanternes thaïlandaises sont actuellement les méprises les plus fréquentes, d'autres erreurs d'interprétation sont régulièrement recensées par le Geipan.
Selon Jean-Paul Aguttes, responsable de ce groupe d'études, les phénomènes aéronautiques (avions, ballons, lanternes, drones, etc.) expliquent de 40 à 50 % des cas étudiés. D'autres cas sont fréquemment expliqués par des phénomènes astronomiques (étoiles, planètes) ou météorologiques.
Dans son bureau, Mary-Pierre Desvignes, documentaliste pour le Geipan, a confectionné un « mur des émotions » sur lequel elle a affiché les photos et croquis fournis par les témoins de phénomènes étranges. Ses souvenirs les plus amusants ? « Un jour, une famille affolée a vu voler au fond de son jardin une gigantesque araignée. Le lendemain, les gendarmes ont retrouvé un gigantesque ballon en forme de coccinelle dans les buissons », sourit-elle. « Une autre fois, c'est une habitante de Marseille qui découvre une étrange soucoupe volante sur une photo de sa ville sous la neige. Il s'est avéré que l'ovni en question n'était que le reflet de l'abat-jour de sa cuisine dans la baie vitrée... »
« J'ai subi quatre abductions depuis mon enfance. Mais je ne m’en suis rendue compte qu’en 2007. Je ne savais pas que ça existait ». À l’étage du Flunch de Jean-Jaurès en partie privatisé pour l’occasion, une soixantaine de passionnés d’ovnis écoute attentivement le témoignage troublant de l’intervenante du jour : Myriame Belmyr, présidente de l’association tarnaise Cero-France qui vient en aide aux victimes d’enlèvements extraterrestres.
Dans la salle tout juste débarrassée des plateaux-repas, des hauts-parleurs diffusent les derniers tubes à la mode, ce qui ne semble pas troubler la concentration des ufologues. Tous les deuxièmes mercredis du mois depuis près de 12 ans, les passionnés d’ovnis du département participent en nombre à ce repas ufologiquemis en place par la mystérieuse Isaure. « Les gens viennent parce qu’ils ont un réel intérêt pour le phénomène extraterrestre ou parce qu’ils ont vu ou vécu des choses et que ça les rassure d’être dans un groupe qui ne les juge pas », explique-t-elle.
Convaincue de l’existence des ovnis depuis sa plus tendre enfance, Isaure a créé ces repas ufologiques par curiosité après avoir découvert leur existence dans d’autres départements. « Je suis passionnée par ça depuis toute petite. Ma mère et ma marraine ont vu des ovnis au Maroc avant ma naissance et pour moi ça a toujours été quelque chose de naturel », raconte l'artiste. Isaure regrette de ne jamais avoir vu d'ovnis elle-même, mais se souvient d'avoir « vu des lumières roses dans la nuit. Je n'en fais pas toute une affaire, c'est un phénomène qui m'amuse et qui joue avec moi régulièrement ».
Aujourd’hui, un petit noyau dur d’une quarantaine de personne ne raterait les repas ufologiques mensuels pour rien au monde. « Je ne parle pas d’ovnis à mon entourage. Ici, je peux avoir des discussions profondes sans crainte d’être pris pour un fou », explique Marc*, un habitué depuis plus de dix ans.
Les repas ufologiques au Flunch de Jean Jaurès à Toulouse (Isaure au centre). Photo DDM, Michel Viala.
Ouvriers, étudiants, scientifiques...
Pour Pascal, Florence, Florian et Audrey, oncle, tante et cousins, c'est une grande première. A l'été 2015 d'abord puis l'été dernier, les membres de cette famille ont observé en pleine nuit des phénomènes lumineux sur les coteaux de Muret. « On est très ouverts dans la famille, donc ça ne nous a pas plus choqués que ça. Alors on vient ici par curiosité, pour en savoir plus, écouter ce que les autres ont à dire », explique Audrey, une jeune psychologue.
Seuls, en couple, entre amis, en famille, hommes et femmes de tous âges : à l'étage du Flunch ce soir-là, le public est très varié. « Ce qui est formidable, c’est que les participants représentent un échantillon très représentatif de la société : étudiants, retraités, cadres, enseignants, scientifiques, ouvriers... », explique Isaure, regardant avec fierté l’assistance qui écoute la suite du témoignage de Myriame Belmyr. La conférencière évoque comment, depuis sa plus tendre enfance, des Visiteurs ont régulièrement mené sur elle des examens médicaux poussés et des prélèvements.
« La déontologie des repas veut qu'on laisse parler sans interrompre, même si on n'est pas d'accord », précise Isaure. Les conférences des intervenants sont immanquablement suivies d'un échange avec les participants. Ce jour-là, l'intervention de Myriame Belmyr suscitera de nombreuses questions, toutes très documentées et très précises.
« Evidemment, parfois, on rencontre des farfelus qui disent être des élus après avoir vécu une expérience bouleversante avec des ovnis », reconnaît Isaure. « C'est vrai que ce genre d'expérience peut les faire se sentir spéciaux, mais je les oriente vers des gens qui ont vécu les mêmes choses pour les inciter à relativiser et revenir sur Terre».
But now, after a two-day investigation, one UFO hoax buster claims it is just a regular plane.
The UFO was filmed flying over the ocean for around nine minutes.
The video has just been made public by the Chilean Navy after being probed by the the Committee for Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA), a government body which investigates UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) under the control of the Chilean Air Force.
The amazing video shows a dark, disc-shaped object flying above the sea, which “in two instances discharged some type of gas or liquid with a high thermal track or signal,” according to a naval technicians who filmed it.
At about eight minutes in, there appears to be an ejection of a plume of material, which then trails behinds the UFO, before another one happened.
The footage was caught on camera by the technician and a naval captain who were pilots in a helicopter over the ocean off Chile, and despite the extensive inquiry, no expert was able to explain it away.
CEFAA General Ricardo Bermudez said: "We do not know what it was, but we do know what it was not.”
But, now Mick West, an administrator for the Metabunk.org website, based in Sacramento, California, claims to have solved the case.
In an extensive article on the website, he pointed to evidence suggesting it was just a plane leaving aerodynamic contrails.
Using online flight records, he even tracked down two likely flights which were in the area at the time.
These were LATAM airlines flight 330 from Santiago to La Serena, also in Chile and Iberia Flight 6830 from Santiago to Madrid in Spain.
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This UFO baffled UFO investigators for two yeras but the cse may now have been solved.
Mr West wrote: "This looks like a plane, flying away from the camera considerably higher than the helicopter (somewhere around 15,000 to 25,000 feet), that briefly creates an aerodynamic contrail.
"Based on analysis by @Trailblazer, @Trailspotter, myself, and others, there are likely TWO planes involved IB6830 and LA330.
"The plane that initially seems to fit best is LA330, a two engined A320, which was reported to be climbing through 20,000 feet at that exact visual position at 14:01:39.
"It was actually 65 miles away, not 35-50.
"This explains why it was not seen on radar - the actual plane was on radar, just not where they thought it was.
"The second plane is IB6830 which left earlier, and was climbing out more to the south, nearer to the helicopter.
This looks like a plane, flying away from the camera considerably higher than the helicopter (somewhere around 15,000 to 25,000 feet), that briefly creates an aerodynamic contrail.
Mick West
"At the time this was spotted the plane was actually around 35 miles away.
"However it would very quickly get further away."
The video was also looked at by IPACO.fr, a French-based UFO investigation group, which identifies hoaxes and misidentifications.
In a report, the group concluded: "The object observed in the video was most probably a medium-haul twin jet airliner in a landing phase, flying ahead of the helicopter at a higher velocity, with a low altitude and a low velocity, in view of landing."
The video had baffled number of experts.
Nigel Watson, a UK-based UFO investigator, who wrote The UFO Investigations Manual, told Express.co.uk on Friday: "This is a very unusual object and it is noteworthy that South America is a hotbed for UFO activity.
"This is certainly a UFO that is hard to explain."
The two witnesses had been convinced it was not a plane.
The video was filmed on November 11, 2014, from an Airbus Cougar AS-532 helicopter which was west of Santiago flying northwards at 4,500 feet and 152 mph.
A Naval technician was filming, when at 1.52 pm (local time) he spotted the UFO at about 40 miles away and zoomed in on it with infra-red.
METABUNK.ORG
Has metabunk.org solved the case of the Chilean UFO?
Radar on board the helicopter could not detect the object.
The pair then made contact with radar operators at two stations, but neither could pick up the object, although they tracked the chopper they were flying in easily.
Enquiries with air traffic controllers found no recorded traffic in the area, and no aircraft were authorised to be where the UFO was seen, it was said.
The CEFAA held eight meetings of experts to analyse the footage.
Mr Bermudez said: "This has been one of the most important cases in my career as director of CEFAA because our committee was at its best.
"I am extremely pleased as well with the conclusion reached which is logical and unpretentious.
“The great majority of committee members agreed to call the subject in question a UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) due to the number of highly researched reasons that it was unanimously agreed could not explain it.”
The CEFAA was created on October 3, 1997, by order of General Gonzalo Miranda, the General Director of Civil Aeronautics after several UFO sightings in March and April of that year.
A bizarre shadow cast on the disk of dust and gas surrounding the young star TW Hydrae is likely evidence of an unseen exoplanet orbiting within the disk, astronomers report in a new study.
The research team noticed the shadow after analyzing 18 years' worth of observations of TW Hydrae, which is about 8 million years old and lies 192 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Hydra. The images, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, showed that the shadow rotates around the 41-billion-mile-wide (66 billion kilometers) disk once every 16 years. [The Hubble Space Telescope: A 25th Anniversary Photo Celebration]
"This is the very first disk where we have so many images over such a long period of time, therefore allowing us to see this interesting effect," study lead author John Debes, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said in a statement. "That gives us hope that this shadow phenomenon may be fairly common in young stellar systems."
An unseen exoplanet is the best explanation for the shadow, Debes and his colleagues said. If they're right, the alien world itself isn't casting the shadow; rather, the planet's gravity has twisted and tilted the inner portion of the dust-and-gas disk, blocking starlight headed toward the outer reaches.
This diagram reveals the proposed structure of a gas-and-dust disk surrounding the nearby young star TW Hydrae
(NASA, ESA and A. Feild (STScl))
The team's calculations suggest that the planet lies about 100 million miles (160 million km) from TW Hydrae — about the distance from Earth to the sun. That's way too close to the star for Hubble or any other telescope now in operation to photograph it directly. (Planets that orbit so tightly are drowned out by their parent stars' overwhelming glare.)
The putative planet must be about five times more massive than Jupiter to sculpt the inner disk in this manner, the researchers added.
The results — which Debes presented Saturday (Jan. 7) at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Grapevine, Texas — map out a promising new way to hunt for infant planets in the inner portions of the disks surrounding young stars, study team members said.
"What is surprising is that we can learn something about an unseen part of the disk by studying the disk's outer region and by measuring the motion, location and behavior of a shadow," Debes said. "This study shows us that even these large disks, whose inner regions are unobservable, are still dynamic, or changing in detectable ways which we didn't imagine."
The Mutual UFO Network's 'Stalker' map shows an incredible trend in sightings since 2007 along the Katy Freeway corridor, heading east into downtown Houston.
See the top nine places to see a UFO in Houston below...
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The MUFON UFO stalker map shows a great trend in sightings along the Katy Freeway. (MUFON)
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Film clips from the early 60's show saucers, rockets and jet cars
But just like these unidentified flying objects themselves, things aren't always as they appear, says Texas MUFON Section 6 director and UFO field investigator Charles Stansburge.
"There are a lot of sightings in and around the Houston area," Stansburge said, adding, "And there are some along the I-10 Corridor, but there are a lot that aren't reported."
The investigator, who lives in Rosenberg, said for every two or three sightings that are reported, there are a great number that aren't.
This photo was taken by Alfonso Servin on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. He said he is convinced it is a UFO.
Right now, Texas MUFON gets about 53 or 54 sightings per month, but he said if everyone who saw something said something, the number would probably reach into the thousands.
"You may have a big flag of UFOs all of a sudden, and then you might have one or two over four or five months," he said. "But these things are happening multiple times a day."
Top 9 places to see UFOs in Houston While Stansburge didn't have any ideas as to why there were so many sightings of UFO along I-10, he has some ideas.
"Most sightings happen where it is pretty dark, where you can't see a lot of light specters around, city lights and such," Stansburge said. "But sightings could be anywhere."
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What to do if you see a UFO in Houston Stansburge said if you really want to see a UAV, your first step is to look up.
"A lot of people never see one, and then they come to the meetings we have and say they saw something," he said. "It really depends on what you do, but the main thing is you have to look around, actually look at the sky, or you're not going to see anything."
Next, he encourages you to submit a report if you do see something, even if you're not convinced these things exist.
"A lot of people, when they send a case to MUFON, say, 'I still am skeptical, but it was awesome to see something like that, I don't know if it's real,'" Stansburge said.
Photo: Eddy Hartenstein, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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A UFO is spotted over Seguin, Texas.
A woman in Seguin took this photo at 7:30 a.m. Sept. 23, 2015, and submitted it to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). She said she noticed a star to the east, which changed shape and flattened out to this disk shape.
This image made during a Houston thunderstorm Aug. 11, 2014, shows what some people say could be a UFO.
Photo: NDN
Website UFO Stalker offers a reporting platform for people who've seen UFOs in their neighborhood. For Houston, the Katy Freeway east of downtown, the Galleria area, downtown, Bellaire and among others are the highest reported locations for the city.
Continue clicking to see recent UFO sightings throughout Texas.
UFO enthusiasts have a website to congregate with each other to report the "alien spacecraft" that they see in their area.
Website UFO Stalker offers spacecraft spotters a place to report their sightings, which are then displayed on an interactive map that shows what type of craft was seen, where and what time of day.
The map, which uses Google Maps interface, covers the entire world and users are able to zoom in and out of different cities. For Houston, there are distinct hotspots throughout the metropolitan area.
The densest locations clearly lie in Katy near the Grand Parkway, downtown Houston, the Sugar Land area, Willowbrook area, near Space Center Houston off of I-45, Humble (near Bush Airport) and Pasadena.
You would think that sightings near Bush Airport would be written off as an airplane, yet there is a large concentration of reports right by the large airport.
Photo: UFO Stalker
Shockingly, Houstonians keep seeing "UFOs" near and around Houston's busy airports, like the George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
The postings detail what day the event occurred, the location, a summary of the sighting and the object that was seen. Spotters can choose from several categories for their report, including "alien encounter," "black triangle sighting" and a "UFO sighting." The UFO sightings are the most common in the Houston area, though there are several black triangle sightings.
Users are also able to upload photos and videos of their encounter to use as additional evidence to their experience. To see some of the recent UFO sightings in Texas, click through the gallery above.
And if you're wondering why you've never seen a UFO yourself, there's a simple way to increase your chances - just look up to the sky, especially if you're near an airport.
Amper twee dagen nadat wetenschappers een naderende planetoïde opmerkten, is de vliegende rots de Aarde gepasseerd aan een snelheid van 16 kilometer per seconde.
De planetoïde, die de naam 2017 AG13 kreeg, vloog op een afstand van ongeveer 190.000 kilometer voorbij onze planeet: dat is ongeveer halfweg de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan.
2017 AG13 werd zaterdag ontdekt door Catalina Sky Survey, dat gebaseerd is in de universiteit van Arizona. De rots is naar schatting tussen 11 en 34 meter groot, zeggen wetenschappers van het Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ter vergelijking: de planetoïde die in februari 2013 ontplofte boven de Russische stad Chelyabinsk en daarbij meer dan 1000 mensen verwondde, had een diameter van ongeveer 20 meter.
De passage van een planetoïde die pas zo laat wordt opgemerkt, is niet uniek. Per dag worden ongeveer vijf nieuwe planetoïden ontdekt.
Miljoenen planetoïden zweven door de ruimte in nabijheid van de Aarde. Ze verschillen onderling in omvang, helderheid en de baan die ze afleggen, waardoor ze vaak moeilijk te identificeren en traceren zijn. De planetoïden kunnen variëren van enkele meters tot verschillende kilometers in doorsnede. Sommigen bestaan uit ijs, anderen uit gesteente of zelfs puur metaal.
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Het goede nieuws is dat de overgrote meerderheid van de planetoïden die zware schade kunnen berokkenen als ze op de aarde zouden botsen, ontdekt zijn. Geen van hen stelt een gevaar in de nabijgelegen toekomst, zeggen wetenschappers van ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
Deze week maakte het Witte Huis bekend dat het in samenwerking met de NASA en het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie werkt aan een plan om de aarde voor te bereiden op een eventuele meteorietinslag. Hoewel een inslag beschouwd wordt als weinig waarschijnlijk, maar met een potentieel gigantische impact, werd er werk gemaakt van een uitgebreide strategie die de VS en bij uitbreiding de hele aarde moet beschermen mocht het ooit zo ver komen.
Zwarte gaten zijn erg moeilijk op te sporen: ze absorberen niet alleen licht, maar hun bestaan wordt vaak verdoezeld door stof en gassen, waardoor het voor wetenschappers moeilijk is om hun omvang in te schatten. Maar nu is een NASA-telescoop erin geslaagd om door de obstakels heen te kijken. De NuSTAR ontdekte twee gigantische zwarte gaten.
"Deze zwarte gaten bevinden zich dicht bij de Melkweg, maar tot nu toe bleven ze verborgen voor ons. Ze zijn zoals monsters die onder je bed liggen te bonken."
Ady Annuar, Durham University
NASA's ruimtetelescoop NuSTAR ziet geen zichtbaar licht, maar wel röntgenstralen, waardoor de telescoop door het stof heen kan kijken. Twee teams van wetenschappers gebruikten de NuSTAR om de sterrenstelsels IC 3639 en NGC 1448 te bestuderen. IC 3639 ligt op ongeveer 170 miljoen lichtjaren, terwijl NGC 1448, in kosmische termen, relatief dichtbij ligt: op ongeveer 38 miljoen lichtjaren.
Daarbij ontdekten ze twee bijzonder heldere gigantische zwarte gaten - met een massa die miljoenen keren groter is dan die van onze zon.
De ontdekking van deze zwarte gaten is niet nieuw, maar de omvang ervan wel. Aangezien gassen verhinderden dat de zwarte gaten volledig konden waargenomen worden, konden wetenschappers tot nu toe niet inschatten hoe groot ze precies waren.
"Deze zwarte gaten bevinden zich dicht bij de Melkweg, maar tot nu toe bleven ze verborgen voor ons. Ze zijn zoals monsters die onder je bed liggen te bonken", zegt Ady Annuar, een student van de Durham University in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, die de resultaten voorstelde op de American Astronomical Society conventie in Grapevine, Texas.
De zwarte gaten zijn "actieve sterrenstelsels": sterrenstelsels die zeer veel energie vrijgeven en erg helder zijn door de opwarming van deeltjes rondom het zwarte gat.
"Net zoals we de zon niet kunnen zien op een bewolkte dag, kunnen we niet direct zien hoe helder deze actieve sterrenstelsels echt zijn omwille van al het gas en stof nabij de kern," aldus Peter Boorman, een student van de universiteit van Southampton die de studie van IC 3639 leidde.
Nieuwe sterren
Behalve de zwarte gaten ontdekten de wetenschappers ook dat NGC 1448 een grote populatie jonge sterren telt, wat doet vermoeden dat het sterrenstelsel nieuwe sterren blijft creëren terwijl het zwarte gat sterren en andere materie opslorpt.
Mysterious spinning ice circle forms in Washingtonriver
ALEXANDRA LASKER, AOL.COM
Hikers in North Bend, Washington, were treated to an unusual natural phenomenon on Saturday morning -- a massive ice circle spinning in the Snoqualmie River.
"Calm winds this week combined with 6 mornings in a row in the low 20s made for perfect conditions to form the circles," commented KCPQ Chief Meteorologist Walter Kelley on the sight.
But unlike its cousin, the "crop circle," no alien activity is suspected in the making of this natural, albeit rare, pattern.
The thin, circular slab of ice, sometimes referred to as an ice disc, forms on the outer bends of rivers where accelerating water creates a slow rotation.
As the ice spins, it grinds against other surrounding ice, smoothing it into a circle.
Here's some footage of the hypnotizing phenomenon:
Ice discs have been most frequently observed in colder climates like Scandinavia and North America, but have also been recorded further south.
And although they're rare, when they do happen to form, they can grow to be quite massive.
In 2013, an ice circle was observed in North Dakota's Sheyenne River with a diameter measuring about 50 feet in diameter.
VIDEO: Mysterieuze draaiende ijscirkel ontdekt in Washington
Wandelaars in Washington werden afgelopen weekend getrakteerd op een bijzonder fenomeen: een enorme ijscirkel in de Snoqualmie River. Dat meldt AOL News.
Door de zachte wind en de lage temperaturen waren de omstandigheden voor ijscirkels ideaal, aldus meteoroloog Walter Kelley van zender KCPQ.
In tegenstelling tot graancirkels kwam er in dit geval geen buitenaardse activiteit bij kijken, hoewel zo’n patroon wel zeldzaam is.
Draaikolken
Als twee waterstromen tegen elkaar botsen ontstaan golven of draaikolken. Wanneer het erg koud is ontstaat er vervolgens een draaiende ijscirkel.
Hieronder kun je beelden zien van het hypnotiserende fenomeen:
Koud klimaat
Dergelijke schijven van ijs worden het vaakst gezien in gebieden met een koud klimaat, bijvoorbeeld in Scandinavië en Noord-Amerika, maar ze komen ook voor in Engeland.
Hoewel ze zeldzaam zijn, kunnen ze een enorme omvang bereiken als ze ontstaan.
Mijnwerkers in Siberië ontdekten in 1969 een vreemd uitziende zwarte kist op een diepte van 70 meter.
Toen de kist werd geopend bleek deze tot aan de rand gevuld met een roze/blauwe vloeistof, met daarin een mooie vrouw van rond de 30.
Soms komen de meest merkwaardige en interessante verhalen uit Rusland en de volgende is er daar één van.
Het betreft een vondst die is gedaan in een Russisch dorp, Rzhavchick Tisulskago. Ook wij moesten even nadenken waar dat ook alweer lag, maar dat bleek te zijn in de buurt van Kemerovo.
Kemerovo is een stad in Siberisch Rusland, hoofdstad van de gelijknamige oblast, gelegen bij de samenvloeiing van de rivieren Tom en Iskitim. Tot 1932 heette de stad Sjtsjeglovsk.
De stad ligt 3500 kilometer ten oosten van Moskou en heeft door haar ligging een landklimaat. De gemiddelde temperatuur varieert van -18°C (januari) tot +20°C (juli) en er is relatief weinig neerslag, zo'n 420 mm per jaar.
In het jaar 1969 toen het land nog een communistische bewind had, vond er daar een vreemde gebeurtenis plaats bij de plaatselijke kolenmijn.
De mijnwerker Karnaukhov was aan het werk op een diepte van 70 meter en ontdekte bij toeval een marmeren soort (doods)kist, die er uitzag alsof het met precisieapparatuur was gemaakt.
De baas van de mijnwerkers, Alexander Alexandrovich Masalygina, gaf opdracht om onmiddellijk daar alle werkzaamheden te staken en men bracht de kist naar de oppervlakte.
Men probeerde de kist te openen, maar dat ging niet zomaar, want er zat een soort versteende stopverf die de kist ferm gesloten hield, maar door het zonlicht begon dit weg te smelten en veranderde in een heldere vloeistof die wegstroomde, waardoor men de kist kon openen.
Iedereen schrok, want de kist was tot aan de rand gevuld met een roze/blauw kristalheldere vloeistof.
En daarin bevond zich een ongewoon mooie vrouw die eruit zal alsof ze rond de 30 was, met een fijnbesneden Europees uiterlijk en grote blauwe ogen die wijd open stonden.
Ze was bedekt met een soort bruin doek en was gekleed in een witte transparante jurk tot net boven de knie met korte mouwen die prachtig waren geborduurd met kleurige bloemen. Ze droeg geen ondergoed. Het leek alsof ze niet dood was, maar sliep.
Bij haar hoofd bevond zich een zwart rechthoekig metalen doosje, met aan één kant afgeronde hoeken. De afmetingen waren 10 bij 25 centimeter en het leek wel wat op een tegenwoordige mobiele telefoon.
De eerstvolgende 10 tot 15 uur was de kist open en kwam het hele dorp langs om dit mirakel te aanschouwen.
Echter, omdat de vondst ook was aangegeven bij de autoriteiten, kwamen deze met veel bombarie langs, inclusief brandweer, soldaten en politie. Ook zij zagen allemaal de kist met inhoud en tegen twee uur in de middag landde er een vuurrode helikopter en werd het gebied afgezet in verband met “besmettingsgevaar” en werd het publiek op afstand gehouden.
Iedereen die in de buurt van de kist was geweest of deze had aangeraakt werd in quarantaine geplaatst en het gebied werd hermetisch afgesloten.
Er wordt gezegd dat de vrouw 800 miljoen jaar geleden heeft geleefd en volgens de gangbare geschiedenisboeken is dat onmogelijk.
Als die ouderdom inderdaad klopt, dan kan zij onderdeel vormen van eerdere hoogwaardige menselijke beschavingen op aarde of zij kan natuurlijk ook van buitenaardse oorsprong zijn.
Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring hebben we hier te maken met een buitenaardse vrouw en gebruikten zij die vloeistof om in feite eeuwig jong te blijven. Hij denkt dat de Russische onderzoeker van destijds waarschijnlijk nog steeds leeft en misschien wel het geheim van de vloeistof heeft geanalyseerd en de resultaten voor zichzelf heeft gehouden.
Hieronder een tien minuten durende video in het Russisch die over dit onderwerp gaat. Wij kunnen dat niet verstaan, maar als er lezers zijn die dat wel kunnen en er komt interessante informatie in voor wat hierboven niet genoemd, dan horen wij dat graag.
Illinois UFO described as five orbs inside bright light
An Illinois witness at Lake County reported watching and photographing a bright light UFO that appeared to have five smaller orbs inside of it, according to testimony in Case 81037 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness noticed a bright light in the sky at 5:30 p.m. on December 18, 2016.
“Thought it was a star or planet, but then it started flashing and then started moving more to my right,” the witness stated. “Thought it was a satellite, but thought it was too large to be one.”
The witness then used a cell phone and zoomed in on the object.
Witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
“I saw a big orb with five little orbs inside. I tried to take a video, but it was too far out there to zoom in on for a video. I kept looking at it through a zoomed picture and it kept breaking up into five smaller orbs, then three, then two, and then reassembled itself into one big orb. I then noticed an orb by it detach itself and then sporadically went left of the orb and then vanished. The object was in my sight for about two hours and then slowly vanished behind the treeline of my house.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness uploaded five images with the MUFON report, which was filed on December 18, 2016. Illinois MUFON State Section Director James Wolford investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
“The complex structure and behavior of the object rules out natural phenomena,” Wolford stated in his report. “This was something artificial with technology that may be beyond man-made construction. My disposition for this case is Unknown – Other.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Artists of long ago incorporate their UFO Sightings & Abductions into their paintings, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Art is like the earliest forms of photography, recording the true history of mankind all the way back the those paintings on cave ceilings and walls. When an artists and a regular person stand side by side and observe a UFO sighting, many irregularities will come from their reports. The regular person will give one or two details, but the artist with his discriminating eye for beauty will describe twenty or more important details that the other person easily overlooked. So, looking at the paintings of historical artist is extremely important. I'm not saying an artist born in the 1300s or 1400s was transported to the birth of Jesus to witness and then paint it. What I am saying is that these artists had a more personal experience, one where they themselves witnessed a UFO or were abducted by aliens, and being unable to speak of it, instead they hid their experience in the painting, hoping that future generations may understand it better than his own towns people 600+ years ago who might label them as the town fool. Look in the above photo, you see something that doesn't belong there, an old man and looking upward at a UFO. He painted his personal experience into the important religious painting to preserve it forever. Many artists in the world used secret messages in their paintings. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Alien Drone With Face Of Alien Watching Over Quebec, Canada On Jan 10, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Can you see the face watching? Above screenshot has only added light, below is normal.
Date of sighting: January 10, 2017 Location of sighting: Quebec, Canada This is a video of a UFO drone that was flying over Quebec this week. These drones hold still for long amounts of time, then suddenly darken, and light up in an entirely different location. As you can see and even the eyewitness saw, there is a very large face in the sphere at 2:07 into the video. I believe that this is because an alien is sitting on a ship or at an alien base, in a chair controlling this drone that allows them to feel, smell, even tough everything the drones comes in contact with as if it were their own body. The face is the aliens face, because the orb is like a two way window...where it could see out, and we can see in. I am not guessing at this, but gathered it from the data about such drones I learned about when studying a UFO and alien interaction case that took place in Tipoztian, Mexico back in the 1985 and 1992-3 years. The aliens described in detail these drones and even showed it to a human firsthand. Eyewitness states: Bright balls watch us on the ground, watch the video and the photos. Attention to the photos, you will see faces and others. You can take breaks to see other unexplained images.
Dark Triangle UFO Over Neighbourhood In Louisville, Kentucky Following Google Map Car, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 2017 Location of sighting: Louisville, Kentucky, USA Source: MUFON #81433 This is a cool report, but was lacking the Google coordinates to confirm it. I luckily found the coordinates and yes, the triangle UFO is there. At the coordinates of 38° 6'23.28"N 85°51'20.04"W if you go into street view by dragging and dropping the orange person icon in this location, you will notice a dark UFO hanging over a white house. I look around the neighborhood on street view and found that the dark triangle was following the Google car for a little ways. The triangle was sometimes in front of the trees, meaning its size was only about 1 meter from corner to corner. It was probably cloaked, but the Google cameras digital eye caught it. Google has a program that blurs faces, license plates and apparently UFOs now. If you notice the blur over the window and the blur over the UFO appear to be made by the same cover up tool. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
My son was looking for his phone and realize it was on his bed, when he picked it up google satellite was some how pulled up on his phone, he was like what the heck .. so he started looking at what the satellite map was on.. he realized it was on our house, he was shocked to see a object hovering over our house.. the object appears to be triangle in shape and brown in color... he snapped shot from different angles ... I am not sure what this object is, it could be a leaf or something on the satellite lens... but looks to be a UFO.., would love for your team to look at pictures and let us know if this is a object on the lens or if a UFO was really over our house!
Below, notice the UFO is in front of the trees and is a perfect triangle.
UK: Residents Experience Power Cut As Mysterious UFO Shoot Over Houses
Stunned witnesses have claimed a UFO hovered above a park before shooting over houses. Some Buckingham Park residents claimed they observed a mysterious circular object hovering before flying into the distance in the night sky. They further reported power interruptions following the strange event.
One Buckingham Park resident, who requested not to be named, said that they were lying in bed when a dazzling light lit up their room. It was a clear night, so they assumed it was just a bright star. Then the thing that they thought a star slowly rose up and shot over the top of their house with an aircraft like noise but a speed toofast to be an airplane.
The concerned resident further reported that a sudden power interruption took place in his home. They said that as it passed over their house, the power dropped.
Approximately 45 minutes later, they heard the same sound and the power dropped for the second time briefly and came back.
They managed to take a photo of the UFO but did not have a chance to take a video since the UFO shot off suddenly.
Another resident claimed to have observed the same aerial thing. They were sitting watching television with blinds closed, but one of them was lit up as if someone was aiming a torch on it. They looked up and spotted a bright light that then shot across the top of the house. All the lights went down as the UFO passed over the house and came back on after the UFO shot off. They also said that the lights went down a few more times before they returned to normal.
Triangle UFO formation in the sky above Gosport, UK 9-Jan-2017
Here’s one new footage of a bright orbs in triangular formation in the sky above Gosport in South Hampshire, UK. This was filmed on Monday, 9th January 2017.
Witness report:
3 lights flying randomly side to side, up and down, forming triangles, seemed random flight paths. I work as a cleaner, I went outside at 22.50 to dispose of rubbish bags into a bin and noticed 3 green lights at around a 30 degree angle north-west of my position. Distance and height were too difficult to estimate from my position but after checking on google maps there are mostly only fields in that direction. The postcode I observed from was PO13 0HR. The lights were evenly spaced in a large triangle formation with one more forward than the others when I first noticed them. They then all turned purple and started to move. You can observe in the video how them moved. I had full zoom using a phone camera so quality isn’t great but they were all bright purple in colour and didn’t change again. They seemed to move in a random manor, moving side to side and up and down very quickly and turning very sharply. They would pass each other to swap sides, sometimes coming back to form triangles for a few seconds before moving again. Several times it looked as though one moved into another and became one light before breaking apart again. They disappeared below the houses several times so that I couldn’t see from my position what they were doing until the final time when I waited several minutes before giving up that they wouldn’t appear again so whatever it was possibly landed because they didn’t appear above the houses again. I went back inside the building onto the second level to view from a higher angle and could see one light again just above the house but it quickly disappeared downwards and that was the last I saw of them. They never went higher than the initial height I observed them at. There were no other aircraft I noticed in the area although there is a small airfield behind my position. The weather was dry (although rain earlier in the day), the sky seemed clear, stars were visible overhead but none visible at the angle/height of these lights, presumably because of light pollution. When I left where I was 30 minutes later, the sky around the area where the lights were was a hazy red colour. The rest of the sky in the surrounding area was black but this area specifically was a different colour. I thought this might be some kind of heavy light pollution in that direction but according to google maps there are mostly just fields there, nothing that would give off unusual light pollution.
UFOs caught on tape over Las Vegas, Nevada 8-Jan-2017
Here’s a new video of a bright objects hovering in the night sky above Las Vegas in Nevada. This was filmed on Sunday, 8th January 2017.
Witness report:
The end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 have been strange here in Las Vegas. I don’t remember a time where we had so much wind and rain. Between November of 2016 and now I have only had a few opportunities to get outside to do some skywatching and last night was one of them. I got video from Nellis, Henderson and a short night vision clip from the Blue Diamond Hills and the Southern Valley. This video is just Nellis. In parts of the video, you can see it hasn’t been very warm here because you can see heat waves from somebody’s home distorting the objects I am filming. I didn’t speed this video up at all so that you could witness these incredible objects just like I do. When one of my videos is really good the tabloids get hold of them and make up all kinds of stories to go along with them. To date, not one of the tabloids has ever tried contacting me to get the real facts and that really bugs me. All along I have said that I don’t know exactly what these are and I would never make an “as a matter of fact” claim that these are anything other than amazing technology that is being systematically withheld from us. My hope is that one day soon I will be able to tell you exactly what they are but until that happens they are just amazing aerial objects that defy plausible explanations.
‘Flaming UFO’ lights up skies over Devon for three hours
Above Image: Tyron Osborne snapped the rare sight shortly after 1pm on Wednesday (Picture: Tyron Osborne/Facebook)
A ‘flaming UFO’ has been spotted soaring above Exmouth in Devon.
At least that’s what this musician claims he saw shortly after 1pm on Wednesday.
According to Mark Emmins, the oval-shaped luminous object appeared in the sky and remained there for about three hours.
His friend, Tyron Osborne, snapped the rare sight as the pair looked on in amazement, convinced it was a UFO.
The rare object remained in the sky for three hours (Picture: Tyron Osborne/Facebook)
Posting pictures online, Mark wrote: ‘Today for the second time in my life I can honestly say that myself and my neighbour watched a UFO.
‘It was stood still in the sky for some hours and then decided to move and then vanish. We got photos too.’
The object, which is most likely not a UFO, was initially dismissed as a star, but Mark insists he later windows on it.
He said: ‘If you look closely you can see what appears to be windows. I have never seen anything like this.
His post led to dozens of people speculating at what it could be (Picture: Tyron Osborne/Facebook)
‘As for believing in aliens, I’ve always thought we are not alone in the universe and hoped to see something that would make me believe they would visit us.
‘I didn’t expect it to actually happen.’
Mark believes the object came from the US after he noticed it was traveling east from Dawlish.
His post led to dozens of people speculating at what it could be, with most people saying it was probably not a UFO.
Wendy Seaman wrote: ‘Looks like the Enterprise. Are you sure it wasn’t a satellite, one goes over about 4ish daily. When its a clear day you can see it clearly.’
Paul Oxenham said: ‘It could have been someone’s drone.’
But Steph Pommier wasn’t going to put it off that easily, writing: ‘UFOs have been spotted since the beginning of Man. Just accept it. We cannot know nor control everything.’
BRITISH COP WITNESSES TALL WHITE ALIENS INSPECTING FRESH CROP CIRCLE
According to a story circulating in the UFO and alien conspiracy theory blogosphere, a British Police Sergeant had an encounter with Tall White Aliens on July 6, 2009. The aliens were allegedly inspecting a freshly-made crop circle in a field in Wiltshire, England, when the police officer, who was off-duty at the time, encountered them.
The mystery of the incident was reportedly compounded by the refusal of Wiltshire Police to comment when contacted by local UFO and paranormal investigators. A police spokesperson reportedly said the authorities could not comment on the incident because it was a “personal matter,” according to the paranormal blog Tales from Out There.
“The police officer was apparently off duty when this happened so we have no comment to make because it is a personal not a police matter.”
The unnamed Wiltshire Police officer was driving past a field when he saw strange-looking men walking in the field. He had a “strange feeling” about the appearance of the “men” from afar, so he stopped his car to investigate, Express reports.
As he walked towards the field, he saw three tall men with long blond hair, all more than six feet tall. The men were walking slowly in the middle of the field as if they were searching for something or inspecting the crop. Because the men were dressed in white overalls, he thought they could be forensic officers investigating an incident in the field.
When he reached the side of the field, he heard a crackling sound similar to the “sound of static electricity.” The strange sound seemed to be running through the field and the crop moved in ripples with the crackling noise.
He raised his voice to draw the men’s attention, but they ignored him and refused to look up. But as soon as he entered the field, they looked up and appeared agitated.
And as he approached, they suddenly took to their heels.
The strange men, according to the officer, “ran faster than any man he had ever seen.”
“I’m no slouch but they were moving so fast. I looked away for a second and when I looked back they were gone.”
The crackling noise continued spreading around on the field as the strange-looking men ran away. The officer noticed they ran with an odd gait.
Unnerved by the strange encounter, he hurried back to his car and drove back to Marlborough in Wiltshire.
“I then got scared,” he said. “The noise was still around but I got an uneasy feeling and headed for the car.”
He reported the incident to his superiors but they did not take his story seriously. He continued to have an uneasy feeling all day, with a pounding headache.
“For the rest of the day I had a pounding headache I couldn’t shift,” he said.
The witness heard a sound like static electricity passing through the field [Image via Shutterstock]
Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, he contacted Andrew Russell, a local crop circle expert. Russell investigated the incident with the help of a colleague identified as Colin Andrews.
“At first he thought they were forensic officers as they were dressed in white coveralls,” Russell wrote in a report summarizing the officer’s experience. “He stopped his car and approached the field.”
“The figures seemed to be inspecting the crop,” he continued. “When he got to the edge of the field he heard what he believed to be a sound not dissimilar to static electricity.”
“This crackling noise seemed to be running through the field and the crop was moving gently, close to where the noise was,” he added.
“He shouted to the figures who, at first, ignored him… When he tried to enter the field they looked up and began running.”
The investigators said they were convinced the officer’s account was truthful.
“I am quite convinced the officer had an experience that day and one that we have not fully explored,” Russell wrote.
According to Russell, the witness’s description of the tall men matches the appearance of Tall White Aliens. The crop circle experts concluded after investigations that the aliens were inspecting crop circle created a few days before.
Who made the crop circle remains a mystery. Russell could only guess the crop circle carried a coded message that the Tall White Aliens were trying to decode at the time the police officer saw them.
When the investigators contacted the Wiltshire police, the authorities refused to comment. They insisted the incident was a “personal matter” and that the police authorities were not investigating the strange claims.
The incredible story sparked discussion on Scott C. Waring’s UFO Sightings Daily blog.
According to Waring, the police officer’s claim that the strange men moved oddly could be explained by the structure of the legs of Tall White Aliens. Tall White Alien legs below the knees have a shape similar to a dog’s, Waring claimed.
“The police officer says that they moved oddly, which they do, because the shape of their leg (from the knee down) actually goes opposite direction from ours,” the alien hunter commented.
But, according to Waring, Tall Whites are able to mingle with humans unnoticed because they use advanced technology to disguise their appearance.
“Some kind of holo-emitter makes [their feet] appear human like, but they still cannot mask their odd walk,” Waring wrote.
Alien conspiracy theorists claim that Tall White Aliens concluded a trade agreement with the U.S. government in the 1950s. The treaty required the U.S. government to provide certain mineral resources the aliens needed in exchange for access to advanced aerospace technology needed to run Pentagon black projects.
It is claimed that a community of Tall White Alien scientists, engineers, and technicians live in an underground base at the Nellis Air Force Base, a few miles outside Las Vegas.
Illinois UFO described as five orbs inside bright light
An Illinois witness at Lake County reported watching and photographing a bright light UFO that appeared to have five smaller orbs inside of it, according to testimony in Case 81037 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness noticed a bright light in the sky at 5:30 p.m. on December 18, 2016.
“Thought it was a star or planet, but then it started flashing and then started moving more to my right,” the witness stated. “Thought it was a satellite, but thought it was too large to be one.”
The witness then used a cell phone and zoomed in on the object.
Witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
“I saw a big orb with five little orbs inside. I tried to take a video, but it was too far out there to zoom in on for a video. I kept looking at it through a zoomed picture and it kept breaking up into five smaller orbs, then three, then two, and then reassembled itself into one big orb. I then noticed an orb by it detach itself and then sporadically went left of the orb and then vanished. The object was in my sight for about two hours and then slowly vanished behind the treeline of my house.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness uploaded five images with the MUFON report, which was filed on December 18, 2016. Illinois MUFON State Section Director James Wolford investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
“The complex structure and behavior of the object rules out natural phenomena,” Wolford stated in his report. “This was something artificial with technology that may be beyond man-made construction. My disposition for this case is Unknown – Other.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Some additional Rendlesham documentation from the US Air Force
Background
In the summer of 1984, the year after the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident first hit the headlines, the celebrated American broadcaster Chuck de Caro produced a documentary on the Rendlesham case for the US Cable News Network (CNN). At that time, Captain Victor Warzinski was the Public Affairs Officer for the twin bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge and as such was responsible for answering de Caro’s research inquiries. Warzinski’s written responses, obtained by researcher Peter Robbins and released publicly in 2014*, add interesting insight into official knowledge of the Rendlesham case on the twin bases.
Telexes from the Public Affairs Office at Bentwaters
Warzinski’s replies to de Caro’s inquiries consist of three telexes: one three pages long dated 21 August 1984 and headed “Interim feedback, CNN queries”; the second of five pages, dated three days later and headed “CNN queries”; and a third consisting of two pages dated 6 November 1984 and headed “CNN queries, RAF Bentwaters UFO incident”.
The questions were forwarded to Warzinski by the headquarters of the US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Warzinski replied to Ramstein, with copies to the USAF’s UK headquarters at Mildenhall, Suffolk. Hence these telexes amount to internal USAF correspondence between Bentwaters and Ramstein. Copies were kept in a file at the Public Affairs Office at Bentwaters along with other correspondence concerning the case. Copies of de Caro’s original questions were sent to the MoD by the British base commander, Squadron Leader Donald Moreland, and form part of the MoD Rendlesham file (DEFE 24/1948/1), but the MoD left the USAF to provide answers.
Even back in 1984, less than four years after the events in the forest, Warzinski was hard-pressed to find any documentation about the incident, but he did report as follows.
1. In Telex 2, pages 2 and 4, Warzinski says that the disaster preparedness branch, which deals with nuclear and biochemical incidents, had no reports or records of the event. [My comment: Sergeant Nevels, the geiger counter operator with Halt’s party, was a member of the disaster preparedness department but evidently never wrote up his findings for the record and the whole episode remained unofficial.]
2. In Telex 1, page 2, Warzinski tells us that a letter on file from the (unnamed) OSI commander at the time of the incident says that “OSI did not do any investigation”. In Telex 2, page 4, Warzinski further states “OSI informs they were not informed of the incident. Did not investigate or compile a report.” In Telex 3, page 1, Warzinski emphasizes the same point: “No one was later interviewed by OSI as they did not conduct any investigation.” [My comment: OSI is the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. This denial of any official investigation, of course, does not preclude some unofficial inquiries being made out of personal interest but there is certainly no evidence for the massive OSI interrogation of witnesses that some have claimed.]
3. In Telex 1, page 2, Warzinski quotes a letter from Col Cochran, the commander-in-chief of the base at the time of the incident, saying “no audiovisual documentation was done, nor was any report or investigation initiated by the USAF”. Elsewhere Warzinski acknowledges that he knows of Col Halt’s tape recording but says he regarded this as Halt’s personal property and did not ask for a copy of it.
4. The files also contain a letter dated 9 November 1984 to an inquirer addressed as Mr Bateman in which Warzinski explains: “Colonel Halt’s report makes specific mention of the type and strength of the radiation readings. However, it should be understood that these reported readings fall within the range of normal background radiation counts.” Hence it is clear that no one on the base at the time regarded the radiation readings obtained by Col Halt’s team as anything out of the ordinary.
5. In a letter to researcher Mark Birdsall dated 30 July 1985, Warzinski tartly notes: “We do not have any unknown vehicles stored underground at Bentwaters. Indeed, there are NO underground storage areas on either of the twinbases.”
Warzinski sums up the Rendlesham Forest Incident
Throughout the files, Warzinski’s bemusement at the public interest in what to him was evidently a non-event comes through clearly. Warzinski summarized the situation better than he knew when he wrote to Mark Birdsall in August 1984 wondering: “Was it simply an unexplained incident blown completely out of proportion, like the fisherman’s tale of the ‘one that got away’ that keeps getting bigger and bigger with each retelling?” He could scarcely have realized how big this tale would eventually get.
* Warzinski’s telexes and other correspondence from the Public Affairs file at Bentwaters are contained in Part 2 of Peter Robbins’s Special Report for Phenomena magazine. They can be seen on pages 109–116 and 121–122. The letters to Mark Birdsall are on pages 117 and 128. Congratulations and thanks to Peter Robbins and Stephen Mera of Phenomena magazine for making these valuable and little-known USAF documents publicly available, which helps us to form a more complete picture of the official response to the incident.
At 1:52 pm, while filming the terrain, the technician observed a strange object flying to the left over the ocean. Soon both men observed it with the naked eye. They noticed that the velocity and the altitude of the object appeared to be about the same as the helicopter, and estimated that the object was approximately 35 to 40 miles (55-65 km) away. It was traveling W/NW, according to the Captain. The technician aimed the camera at the object immediately and zoomed in with the infra red (IR) for better clarity.
This looks like a plane, flying away from the camera considerably higher than the helicopter (somewhere around 15,000 to 25,000 feet), that briefly creates an aerodynamic contrail.
Based on analysis by @Trailblazer, @Trailspotter, myself, and others, There are likely TWO planes involved IB6830 and LA330. The plane that initially seems to fit best is LA330, a two engined A320, which was reported to be climbing through 20,000 feet at that exact visual position at 14:01:39. It was actually 65 miles away, not 35-50. This explain why it was not seen on radar (the actual plane was on radar, just not where they thought it was)
The second plane is IB6830 which left earlier, and was climbing out more to the south, nearer to the helicopter. At the time this was spotted (the very first sighting on the video, at 13:52:34) the plane was actually around 35 miles away. However it would very quickly get further away. By 13:57 it would be 65 miles away.
Plane Finder misreports the altitude in the web browser, likely because of some zero altitude ADS-B report. Inspecting the actual data packets reveals the real reported altitude. Repairing the data by interpolating the missing altitudes allows us to recreate 3D tracks in Google Earth with correct timestamps (attached). (Update 1-10-2016: Added Flightaware track)
We can now geolocate the LA330 and the other candidate (plane IB6830) in the helicopter image. Their tracks intersect in the region viewed in IR, they have correct slope, and appear in that region at the same time as they appear in the video.
And it is not simply that the tracks intersect. The planes are in exactly the right position. We can position both the planes and the chopper precisely with the GPS data, match the camera direction from the wide shot, and the position of the plane then matches exactly.
The two large blobs are flared images from the heat of the engines (much smaller in reality). You can see this effect with some candles if you view them from a distance.
The flaring is more apparent if you look at it uninverted. The engines appear as two very bright lights
The aerodynamic contrail starts ands stop in a similar way to the trail in this video (not a "chemtrail" though, this just a regular aerodynamic contrail)
There are a few different relevant images from the video:
This is a close-up of the object early in the video:
This shows that the plane is banked at this point - i.e. it is turning to the right (remember it is flying away from the camera). This matches the earlier part of the track for both LA330 and IB6830 (and is likely IB6830, based on the time). Compare it with this video of a plane taking off. It is much closer, however at the end of the video you see the two engines tilted at about the same angle as the "UFO" while the plane turns right.
At one point (9:08) they switch between the IR camera and a regular (visible light) camera. you can see the trail qute distinctly. It looks very like a contrail.
Why is it showing up as warmer? Aerodynamic contrails can form in air is that is water saturated, but in which no clouds have yet formed. The drop in pressure increases the relative humidity enough for a water condensation cloud to form. This can also freeze if the temperature is cold enough.
There's a couple of possibilities. Possibly we are seeing a water cloud aerodynamic contrail that has absorbed heat from the exhaust, temporarily making it warmer than the surroundings.
But a more likely possibility is that the dense contrail is simply reflecting heat. FLIR measures the temperature of things by the heat they emit, so if they are reflective then they can give a misleading reading. Clouds reflect heat, in one shot in the video the clouds seem like the same color as the jet exhaust (black). That does not mean they are the same temperature:
A few seconds later
[Note: this top post will be updated with information from the discussion below, so some of what follows may seem repetitive]
[Note on change from just LA330 to mostly IB6830 - I had originally identified the entire sequence as LA330 when I was working with only the image of the planes tracks from Planefinder.net. After I was able to extract the actual 3D tracks and view them from the position of the Chopper in google earth, it became apparent that IB6830 was the better fit (pretty much a perfect fit). However it did not fit the last short sequence, which still was best explained by LA330]
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: If it was a plane then why did it not respond to hailing A: A pilot familiar with Santiago departure responds:
]The helicopter seems to have tried to call on 121.5. The are a couple of problems with that, Most aircraft don't set that frequency until some time after takeoff which can vary from airline to airline, and if they were listening, unless whoever was calling used their callsign, they wouldn't respond.
Q: Why did it not show up on radar? They were looking for a low flying object south of the airport about 35 miles away, by the time they looked it was at a high altitude and 65 miles away.
Q:How can it be a contrail cloud if it's as hot as the engine? A: It's not as hot as the engines, it's a similar color in the IR to other clouds in the images. It's just a denser cloud, and so reflects more radiation. Even if they were dumping boiling water it would have been atomized into a cloud cooled to ambient temperature in less than a minute. But this looks just like a contrail.
Q: Don't contrails only form above 30,000 feet? A: That's where exhaust contrails are most frequent. However this appear to be a semi persistent aerodynamic contrail which often form on climbing aircraft between 20,000 to 30,000 feet (and sometimes lower).
Q: Why should we trust your theory over the experts? A: I could argue I'm an expert too (at identifying planes and contrails), or that the CEFAA is really a UFOology group, or that even experts make mistakes. However let's drop that "Argument for authority", and look at facts you can verify yourself.
We have some very solid verifiable evidence in
The helicopter video with timestamps and GPS coordinates.
The IB6830 and LA330 ADS-B tracks with timestamps and GPS coordinates.
1 matches 2 in every way
The planes in the right place at the right place
They are going in the right direction
IB 6830 banks when the "UFO" banks,
The planes would create a visual thermal signature the same size as in the video.
The size of IB6830's thermal signature shrinks proportional to its distance, matching the video.
This is not my theory. These are verifiable facts that I (and others) simply discovered. Unless there was a UFO flying between the plane and the helicopter, mimicking the motion, the banking, the size and and the thermal signature of the plane, then it's a plane.
De Italiaanse muziekleraar Lucio Margiotta en zijn verloofde zagen maandag in de lucht boven Salento een fel licht in de nacht. Lucio nam er meteen zijn smartphone bij en filmde het bizarre fenomeen, dat een ringvormige UFO leek te zijn die na enkele minuten plots verdween.
In het filmpje zie je hoe de UFO van vorm verandert en zelfs lijkt te bewegen, al valt niet uit te sluiten dat de beweging te wijten is aan de manier van filmen. Het licht lijkt de vorm aan te nemen van een rookcirkel, voor het uiteindelijke in twee lijkt te splitsen en verdwijnt.
Margiotta zei dat het licht feller was dan de maan en uit het westen kwam. Dat zou overeen komen met verklaringen van mensen in het Turkse Gallipoli, ten westen van Salento, die het vliegende object ook gezien zouden hebben.
Op Facebook kwamen er al snel reacties op het filmpje van de man die zeiden dat de UFO in kwestie hoogstwaarschijnlijk de planeet Venus zou zijn, en dat de vervormingen het gevolg van de autofocus van zijn camera zouden kunnen zijn. Dat zorgt er wel vaker voor dat er een zwarte vlek verschijnt in het midden van het object waar op gefocust wordt.
The UFO sighting captured in the video occurred in 2014, when a Chilean naval helicopter captured 10 minutes of infrared footage of a mysterious craft from an estimated distance of 35 to 40 miles. But the blockbuster moment comes around minute eight of the footage, when the UFO releases a spurt of hot chemical vapor, projecting an immense black streak (indicating heat) across the frame.
Released by the Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (CEFAA), a Chilean government agency within the civil aeronautics directorate, the original report by independent journalist Leslie Kean (author of the excellent book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On The Record) noted a possible explanation for the UFO raised by UFO video analysts Antoine Cousyn, François Louange and Geoff Quick of Ipaco.fr:
“The French analysts proposed that the object was a ‘medium-haul aircraft’ coming in for a landing into the Santiago airport, and ‘the effluent trail observed on two occasions probably results from dumping some cabin waste water, forming a plume oriented along the local wind blowing from the west.’ They based this on their calculation that the distance between the two hot spots was ‘consistent with the standard distance between the two jet engines of a medium-haul aircraft.’”
The IPACO conclusion is portrayed as unlikely and refuted at length:
“Chilean experts knew that this would have been impossible, for a number of reasons: This plane would have been seen on primary radar; it would have had to be cleared for landing in Santiago or at another airport; it would likely have responded to radio communications. Airplanes do not throw out water when landing. In fact, in Chile a plane wishing to eject any material must request permission from the DGAC before doing so; that regulation is widely known and respected. And, it seems unlikely that this experienced pilot would not have recognized this as an airplane, or at least kept that option open afterwards if it were a possibility.”
But while the original article makes the dissenting report seem faintly ridiculous, even condescending to the work of CEFAA, additional analysis by independent researchers at Metabunk.org authoritatively backs up the report’s conclusion: the Chile UFO video is likely footage of flight LA330, flying approximately 800 miles north from Santiago to the Cerro Moreno Airport.
Since the original report (available as a PDF here) is primarily a video analysis, little work was done beyond offering a plausible explanation for what’s seen on the video. This leads to the several deficiencies noted by Kean, including their conjectures regarding the vapor released by the UFO. However, Metabunk.org members Mick West, Trailblazer and Trailspotter uncovered a number of corroborating details that strengthen their case considerably.
Using publicly available data at planefinder.net, West and other Metabunk users uncovered two flight paths (LA330 and IB6830) that perfectly intersected the footage frame. They hypothesized that IB6830 accounts for the craft originally spotted by the pilots, but it’s LA330 seen in close-up in the video. But what about the other problems with the plane hypothesis, such as lack of radar confirmation and radio response?
According to their analysis, the biggest perceptual mistake was made when CEFAA and the pilots misestimated the craft’s distance. The flights they determined were responsible did show up on radar, just 15-30 miles further in the distance.
As for the craft not responding to a hail, here’s Metabunk user TWCobra, who claims to be a pilot familiar with Santiago departure protocols:
The helicopter seems to have tried to call on 121.5. The are a couple of problems with that, Most aircraft don't set that frequency until some time after takeoff which can vary from airline to airline, and if they were listening, unless whoever was calling used their callsign, they wouldn't respond.
They even proposed a new explanation for the chemical cloud released from the UFO, one more satisfying than dumped cabin waste water. No, not chemtrails, but an aerodynamic contrail.
But while their specific answers to objections raised by CEFAA may or may not satisfy, the ultimate conclusion seems near inescapable. West concludes, “unless there was a UFO flying between the plane and the helicopter, mimicking the motion, the banking, the size and and the thermal signature of the plane, then it's a plane.” Since both the original UFO footage has timestamps and GPS coordinates that match the timestamps and GPS coordinates for flights LA330 and IB6830 there can be little doubt that this UFO has gone from unidentified to identified.
Een dubbelster zal in dat jaar fuseren en exploderen, waarna de ster ongeveer duizend keer helderder wordt en één van de helderste sterren aan de nachthemel is.
Tot die unieke voorspelling komen Amerikaanse onderzoekers. “De kans dat je een explosie kunt voorspellen is één op een miljoen. Het is nog nooit gedaan,” stelt onderzoeker Larry Molnar.
KIC 9832227 Het draait allemaal om de dubbelster KIC 9832227. “Twee sterren die een gezamenlijke atmosfeer hebben, net zoals twee pinda’s een dop delen,” legt Molnar uit. De twee sterren draaien om elkaar heen. En onderzoek wees eerder uit dat hun omlooptijd geleidelijk aan afneemt. Het wees er voorzichtig op dat de twee sterren naar elkaar toe aan het bewegen zijn, zo stelde Molnar begin 2015. Kortom: het leek erop dat deze twee sterren gingen fuseren.
Vervolgonderzoek Maar het was nog te vroeg om te stellen dat de twee sterren elkaar binnenkort tegen het lijf zouden lopen. Daarvoor was meer onderzoek nodig. En daar zijn Molnar en collega’s de afgelopen jaren mee bezig geweest. Zo kunnen ze nu aantonen dat de omlooptijd van de sterren de afgelopen twee jaar verder is afgenomen. “Conclusie is dat we echt denken dat onze fuserende sterren-hypothese nu serieus moet worden genomen en we de komende jaren moeten gebruiken om deze dubbelster intensief te bestuderen, zodat we – wanneer deze explodeert – weten wat tot deze explosie geleid heeft,” stelt Molnar.
Naar verwachting zullen de sterren in 2022 – of een jaartje eerder of later – fuseren en exploderen, zo voorspelt Molnar nu. Op dat moment zal de ster zo’n duizend keer helderder worden en één van de helderste sterren aan de nachthemel zijn. Matt Walhout, verbonden aan dezelfde universiteit als Molnar, maar niet betrokken bij het onderzoek: “Als de voorspelling klopt zullen ouders voor het eerst in de geschiedenis in staat zijn om te wijzen naar een donker plekje aan de hemel en te vertellen: “Kijk, kinderen daar verstopt zich een ster die binnenkort oplicht.”
ESO gaat op zoek naar exoplaneten rondom Alpha Centauri
Tim Kraaijvanger
We weten dat er een planeet draait om de nabij ster Proxima Centauri, maar geldt dit ook voor de ster Alpha Centauri? Dat gaan wetenschappers uitzoeken!
Het Alpha Centauri-stelsel bestaat uit drie sterren, waarvan Proxima Centauri de zwakste is. In 2016 ontdekten wetenschappers een exoplaneet bij de rode dwergster. De planeet Proxima b bevindt zich in de leefbare zone rondom Proxima Centauri, wat betekent dat het waarschijnlijk niet te warm en niet te koud is op het oppervlak van deze buitenaardse wereld. Vloeibaar water op het oppervlak is een mogelijkheid, wat de kans op de aanwezigheid van lezen aanzienlijk vergroot.
Breakthrough Starshot Filantroop Yuri Milner en de bekende wetenschapper Stephen Hawking willen in twintig jaar tijd een ruimtevaartuig naar het Alpha Centauri-stelsel sturen. Dit project wordt ook wel Breakthrough Starshot genoemd. Een reis van 4,37 lichtjaar, oftewel 40 biljoen kilometer. Hawking en Milner willen de omgeving rondom Alpha Centauri helemaal in kaart brengen, zodat hun ruimtevaartuig wellicht exoplaneten kan fotograferen.
Vandaar dat Hawking en Milner een overeenkomst hebben gesloten met de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht. Het VISAR-instrument van de Very Large Telescope wordt aangepast om planeten rondom de sterren van het Alpha Centauri-systeem te vinden. In 2019 zal het onderzoek beginnen.
Dichtbij, dus makkelijk? Nee hoor! Dit klinkt simpel, omdat de afstand tot Alpha Centauri maar vier lichtjaar is. Als een schoen vier meter bij je vandaan ligt, zie je die waarschijnlijk beter dan op een afstand van veertig meter. Hoewel een ster die dichterbij staat beter te zien is, geldt dit niet voor exoplaneten. Alpha Centauri staat namelijk zo dichtbij de aarde, dat de ster enorm helder is en dus het zwakke schijnsel van een eventuele exoplaneet overstraalt.
Mid-infrarood Gelukkig zijn er andere manieren om exoplaneten te vinden. Er kan uitgeweken worden naar de mid-infrarode golflengten, waar de thermische gloed van een planeet de helderheidskloof tussen hem en zijn moederster aanzienlijk verkleint. Maar ook dan is de moederster alsnog miljoenen keren helderder dan een eventuele exoplaneet.
Weg met het sterrenlicht Het mid-infraroodinstrument VISAR kan een trucje. Het instrument kan de beeldkwaliteit sterk vergroten, waarna het sterrenlicht deels wordt tegengehouden. Dit wordt coronagrafie genoemd. Dankzij deze techniek kunnen wellicht exoplaneten ontdekt worden, maar dan moeten ze er wel zijn. Hoe dan ook: Breaktrough Initiatives betaalt een groot deel van de ontwikkelingskosten van dit experiment, waar ESO uiteindelijk natuurlijk weer van profiteert voor andere onderzoeken. ESO zorgt ervoor dat het team van Hawking en Milner tijd krijgt om het instrument op locatie te gebruiken.
De ster passeert onze zon op veel kleinere afstand dan gedacht en zal tijdens zijn reis door de Oortwolk heel wat kometen in onze richting kaatsen.
De ster Gliese 710 haast zich richting ons zonnestelsel en zal over zo’n 1,35 miljoen jaar langs onze zon scheren. Grote vraag is natuurlijk: hoe dichtbij komt de ster precies? Daar is al veel onderzoek naar gedaan en uiteindelijk concludeerden wetenschappers dat deze op een minimale afstand van 59.817 AU (1 AU is de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon) langs de zon zou scheren.
Gaia Maar daar klopt niks van, zo schrijven onderzoekers nu in het blad Astronomy & Astrophysics. Ze baseren zich op nieuwe informatie, verzameld door ruimtetelescoop Gaia. Deze telescoop werd in 2013 gelanceerd en moet uiteindelijk de positie en snelheden van ongeveer 1 miljard sterren in onze Melkweg vaststellen. En Gaia heeft ook de positie en snelheid van Gliese 710 bestudeerd en op basis daarvan kunnen de onderzoekers de koers van de ster nauwkeuriger voorspellen. En wat blijkt? De ster komt véél dichterbij dan gedacht. De nieuwe data suggereert dat de ster onze zon op een minimale afstand van zo’n 13.365 AU (+/- 6250 AU) passeert. “Daarmee is het de ster die onze zon in een periode van 10 tot 20 miljoen jaar het dichtst nadert,” zo schrijven de onderzoekers.
Kometen En dat heeft gevolgen. “De ontmoeting met Gliese 710 zou geen significante invloed moeten hebben op de banen van de belangrijkste hemellichamen in het zonnestelsel, maar de ster zal een significante verstoorder van de kometen in de Oortwolk zijn,” zo voorspellen de onderzoekers. Ook dat is eigenlijk niets nieuws: wetenschappers hadden dat eerder ook al bedacht. Maar op basis van de nieuwe gegevens hebben onderzoekers ook de implicaties van het bezoek van Gliese 710 herzien. En hun verwachtingen liegen er niet om. “Gliese 710 zal een waarneembare kometenregen veroorzaken met een gemiddelde dichtheid van ongeveer 10 kometen per jaar en dat drie tot vier miljoen jaar lang.” De onderzoekers trekken die conclusie nadat ze ervan uit zijn gegaan dat de ster onze zon op zo’n 13365 AU passeert. “Maar we benadrukken dat de onzekerheid nog steeds zo’n 6250 AU is en krachtigere interacties dus mogelijk zijn.”
Het onderzoek laat de grote waarde van de Gaia-missie zien, zo stellen de onderzoekers. Dankzij de missie kunnen we veel accurater voorspellen waar sterren zich in de toekomst gaan begeven en welke invloed ze op onze omgeving gaan hebben. “Op minimale afstand (van de zon, red.) zal deze ster het helderste en snelste object dat buiten ons zonnestelsel gevormd is, aan de nachthemel zijn. De scheervlucht van Gliese 710 zal een enorme stroom van nieuwe kometen genereren en velen zullen in staat zijn om de binnenste delen van het zonnestelsel te bereiken.”
Hubble voorspelt wat de Voyager-sondes allemaal tegen gaan komen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Voyager 1 zal bijvoorbeeld over zo’n 40.000 jaar op zo’n 1,6 lichtjaar afstand langs ster Gliese 445 zoeven.
De ruimtesondes Voyager 1 en Voyager 2 werden in 1977 gelanceerd en haasten zich met meer dan 61.000 kilometer per uur door de ruimte. Voyager 1 is inmiddels bijna 21 miljard kilometer van de aarde verwijderd en zoeft door de interstellaire ruimte: het gebied tussen de sterren dat onder meer gevuld is met gas en stof. Voyager 2 is inmiddels bijna 17 miljard kilometer van ons verwijderd.
Hubble Terwijl de sondes zich van ons vandaan haasten, bestuderen ze het materiaal dat hen omringt. Maar wat gaan zij in de toekomst nog meer tegenkomen? Dankzij ruimtetelescoop Hubble hebben we daar nu een iets beter beeld van. De ruimtetelescoop bekeek het materiaal op en langs de route van de ruimtesondes.
Hubble ging na wat Voyager 1 en Voyager 2 te wachten staat.
Afbeelding: NASA / ESA / Z. Levay (STScl).
Context “De Voyagers bestuderen kleine gebieden terwijl ze zich met zo’n 61.000 kilometer per uur door de ruimte haasten,” vertelt onderzoeker Seth Redfield. “Maar we hebben geen idee of deze kleine gebieden heel gewoon of zeldzaam zijn. De Hubble-observaties geven ons een breder beeld, omdat de telescoop langs een langer en breder pad kijkt. Dus Hubble voorziet ons van context bij alles waar de Voyagers doorheen bewegen.”
De toekomst Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat Voyager 1 over zo’n 40.000 jaar – de sonde is dan natuurlijk allang niet meer operationeel – op zo’n 1,6 lichtjaar afstand langs de ster Gliese 445 glijdt. Voyager 2 zal zover zo’n 40.000 jaar op een afstand van zo’n 1,7 lichtjaar langs de ster Ross 248 glijden. Deze sonde zal over een paar duizend jaar bovendien de interstellaire wolk die ons zonnestelsel omringt, verlaten. Vervolgens zal deze zo’n 90.000 jaar op rij in een tweede interstellaire wolk vertoeven alvorens een derde interstellaire wolk binnen te gaan. De observaties van Hubble suggereren dat de elementen waaruit de interstellaire wolken zijn opgebouwd van wolk tot wolk ietsje verschillen “Deze variaties kunnen betekenen dat de wolken op verschillende manieren of op verschillende plekken zijn ontstaan en daarna samen zijn gekomen,” stelt Redfield.
De observaties van Hubble geven niet alleen context aan wat de Voyagers (gaan) zien, ze geven ook een beter beeld van wat onderzoeker Julia Zachary “de lokale interstellaire omgeving” noemt. Zeker wanneer we ze combineren met wat de Voyagers – die nog zo’n 10 jaar in staat zijn om gegevens te verzamelen en naar de aarde te sturen – allemaal ‘zien’.
Venus has some spooky looking clouds swirling around its atmosphere, and scientists think it might be the evil doing of extraterrestrial life. Certain dark streaks embedded in those clouds have been stumping scientists since the 1960s, prompting a new proposal to probe the second planet from the sun for potential alien life by 2025.
A team of American and Russian scientists will be submitting plans for a new mission, known as Venera-D, which will send an unmanned aerial vehicle into the heart of this mysterious occurrence. If accepted, Venera-D would be a joint endeavor between Roscosmos (Russia’s space agency) and NASA.
Their main goal is to determine if those dark streaks could be evidence of microbial life. For decades now, scientists have been dreaming up all kinds of hypotheses about the streaks: Some think it could be particulates, like iron or sulfur, that have mixed with the clouds. Others think it could actually be ice, though with a planet that’s nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface, that’s probably not the case.
“I cannot say that there is microbial life in Venus’ clouds,” Sanjay Limaye toldAstrobiology Magazine, an atmospheric scientist from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and member of the Venera-D science definition team. “But that doesn’t mean it’s not there either. The only way to learn is to go there and sample the atmosphere.”
As Limaye pointed out, scientists have very few clues as to what causes the streaks. But they do know that the streaks absorb ultraviolet light unlike the rest of the atmosphere. They also know that if the streaks did consist of microbial life, they might have a protective layer of ring-shaped polymers, which would stave off large quantities of sulfuric acid. Another factor to consider is the planet’s super rotation, a phenomenon that occurs when the atmosphere rotates at a faster pace than the surface.
There have been previous complications with exploring Venus in the past. Its high surface pressure and even higher temps make it a very challenging landscape for our technology. Mariner 5 was the first successful landing, but it only survived for 93 minutes. For Venera-D to be successful, it will have to be like nothing scientists have ever created before.
An artist’s impression of the VAMP UAV flying through Venus’ clouds.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
The proposed design calls for a solar-powered vehicle that would be able to propel through the clouds to collect data at night. During the day, it would have helium reserves that would allow it to stay buoyant without using power. It would also have large wings that would help it navigate the stormy conditions. These mechanisms would allow the craft to shift between different altitudes of the atmosphere.
Surprisingly, with this design, the team thinks the vehicle will be able to survive for a year or more, offering up enough information for scientists to potentially confirm whether we have other life in our solar system or not. Unfortunately, we won’t have a response from NASA or Roscomos until late this year.
Rogue planets just had their unfortunate introduction to the public consciousness via an especially silly conspiracy theory involving a collision and the subsequent end of the world. Let us not allow that to bury the actual new research coming forth about them, because that’s what’s really worth your time.
Researchers testing whether a much-mythologized object called Planet Ninemight indeed be a captured rogue planet found it certainly looks like one. They also performed simulations of various different kinds of rogue encounters with our solar system; they found that if the rogue had a mass equal to or greater than that of Jupiter, it could subsequently leave a physical impact on the configuration of the entire system. James Vesper of New Mexico State University presented the research Friday at the 229th American Astronomical Science meeting in Grapevine, Texas.
We can easily picture the stars that don’t have planets, but it’s a bit odd to imagine in inverse (sorry) — free-floating planets rolling around in space, not tethered by any kind of regular orbit, either because they’ve escaped their original host star or because they never formed around one to begin with. Those planets are rogue planets, and they’re often prone to being “captured” by a new star when they wander into its system.
Vesper said their data showed 60 percent of all rogue encounters being “slingshotted” into the galaxy — they come in close to the sun and then shoot right back out. About ten percent of these encounters take one or more planets out with them. If two or more planets are knocked out — but the rogue is captured — Vesper refers to the exchange as a “kick and stay.”
Suffice it to say rogue planets can mess things up in a variety of ways.
There are scores of rogue planets in our galaxy — possibly numbering in the billions — and a handful relatively close to our own solar system. There are enough to possibly provide an explanation for some of the dark matter in the Milky Way’s disc, and they actually outnumber stars.
Children return to school after Christmas break to discover a UFO has landed in the school grounds
A strange flying saucer-like craft has landed in the grounds of Sibford School near Banbury in Oxfordshire. Children returned after the Christmas break to discover that an unidentified flying object had crashed into their Forest School area
By the time the children arrived, the scene of the crash had been cordoned off with police tape and investigations are on-going as to how and why the space ship came to land at Sibford.
Junior School Head, Edward Rossiter said: “To say the children were surprised would be an understatement! We had received reports of strange sounds and flashes being seen in the sky overnight but the scene at the crash site and the size of the craft was incredible and really left the children in awe.”
Traditionally, Sibford Junior School marks the first half of the Spring Term with a creative curriculum where by all lessons are centred around a central theme.
In the past, topics have included Beneath the Waves and The Rainforest and, as luck would have it, the theme for 2017 is Out of this World!
Said Edward Rossiter: “I suspect it will take the children a good five weeks to really get to the bottom of what happened here!”
Mary Rodwell RN is the founder and principal of Australian Close Encounter Resource Network (ACERN). Since 1994 Mary has worked in private practice as a professional counsellor, hypnotherapist, metaphysical teacher, researcher, author, Reiki master, and international speaker. A thrice-published author in the field, Mary is recognised internationally as one of Australia’s leading researchers in the UFO and contact phenomenon.
She spoke with The Echo in the leadup to her keynote presentations at the Close Encounters Conference.
Mary, how did you come to be working in such a unique area?
I was working in private practice counselling when I was approached by a client who had heard I was open-minded and said that for this there are no support groups, for this they just think you are a loony. He proceeded to say that he and his family were having ‘visits from extraterrestrials’ and taken… he often woke up with marks and shaved areas on his body and his family were very frightened. He asked if I could help.
Fortunately I had read two books on this phenomenon. Abduction – Human Encounters with Aliens (former professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University) Dr John Mack, who believed those he worked with this experience, and Communion by author Whitely Streiber (who had extraterrestrial experiences throughout his life). This enabled me to be supportive and help the family. From that time I researched this phenomenon and now have worked with more than 3,000 cases globally.
When people ask you what do you do, what do you say?
I normally will just mention I am a counsellor and hypnotherapist. If they want me to share more I say I help people with their ‘anomalous’ paranormal experiences. If they ask for more information I say experiences where someone believes they have had contact or encounters with extraterrestrials
How do you deal with sceptics or people who are reticent to believe in alien abduction or contact experiences?
I suggest they become ‘informed’, as there is a huge amount of whistleblower evidence by credible military personnel, pilots, and even two presidents, Reagan and Carter, who have said they have seen UFOs. Every six minutes around the globe someone sees a UFO; they have been seen on footage taken by NASA. What it really says is that they are just uninformed.
As a therapist, did you ever consider that these experiences were delusions or some sort of projection?
No. As a counsellor one can easily tell when someone is being truthful and authentic. It is very obvious when someone is unstable or delusional. It can hardly be delusional when a whole family are having similar experiences even as young as four or five years. In some cases these people don’t even believe in aliens except their experiences leave little doubt that’s what they are experiencing. My clients range from MDs nurses, and social workers to psychologists (they know full well how this may sound) but they also know this is real.
What caused you to come to a point of view that these were ‘real’ experiences?
Video and photographic evidence (I will be showing images of craft at the Close Encounters conference). Marks on the body that appear after these experiences… these fluoresce under ultra-violet light. Implanted objects seen on X-ray and removed surgically and show magnetic anomalies. Ground EMF traces.
Missing time periods they cant explain. And major changes in the individual. For some it may create trauma such as PSTD; for others changes in lifestyle, focus on holistic lifestyles with heightened psi senses; they may write and draw unusual scripts and show healing abilities… this does not occur unless something very real has happened.
What are the commonalities in the stories that you have been told?
There are many patterns that evidence the experiences.
Sighting an anomalous bright light moving in a strange sequence in the sky, or a cigar- or saucer-shaped object etc.
waking up with a bright light/blue or white in the room at night and sensing beings/presences in the room
feel paralysed… aware of being taken somewhere…
aware of being in a room having medical procedures
waking up with marks, strange triangular dots, bruises and scars on the body
feeling very tired and exhausted the next day after the experience
wake up with nightclothes in strange places or outside with all the doors locked
find you are writing unusual scripts or drawings
become more psychic… may see people’s energy fields.
Is alien abduction and contact more common than we think… do some people just not tell because they’re worried someone will think they’re mad?
Correct. I believe there are probably thousands or even millions of people who are having contact/encounters but are too fearful of sharing their experiences because they will be judged as unwell, or attention seeking etc.
How can extraterrestrial contact transform your life?
In our latest in-depth surveys one and two (600 questions) with almost 3,000 surveyed and conducted by The Dr Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE) www.experiencer.org co chaired by Dr Bob Davis neuroscientist (another keynote speaker at Close Encounters Conference) and Dr Jon Klimo, former professor of psychology. Eighty-five per cent of those surveyed said their encounters had been positive, transformative and life changing. There are many reasons for this and I will explain why in my presentations at the conference. But simply these contacts expose people to information and experiences that change their understanding of themselves. They learn who they really are, why these beings are interacting with them, and how we are all connected.
In films I have seen, ET contact is generally negative and harmful, except of course for the gorgeous ET. Is this a common representation of life beyond the stars? Why is it presented like this? Can it be benevolent and positive?
Only 25–30 per cent of those surveyed said they had negative experiences; more than 75 per cent had loving and positive encounters. This is new information and I suspect it’s only the fear-based ones that catch public attention.
What do you believe ETs have to teach us?
I believe we are a hybrid species and intelligently designed with some DNA from the beings that are interacting with us. This DNA evidence of intelligent design I explore in my presentation. If they are our creators then of course they are still interacting and monitoring us. The children and adults speak of being taught a range of subjects on spacecraft and the origins of who we really are. Much of what we are taught as to our ancient history I believe is inaccurate; the ‘gods’ of old were extraterrestrials. The indigenous peoples know this as they also know our ancestors came from the stars.
What should we expect from your presentation at the Close Encounters Conference?
A panel that shares the FREE research data on what we have found on our surveys globally so far and how this information has changed how we understand contact with these intelligences.
I have been working on three Powerpoint presentations; one is for the Afterlife conference, which primarily shares stories from children and their encounters, which is in my second book The New Human that I am launching at the conference.
I have two presentations on Sunday and Monday; one is called Triggers of Consciousness and shows the many ways we are being awakened and activated by these non-human intelligences. Real footage of UFOs, whistleblower info, paranormal phenomena, orbs and strange artwork/scripts, languages etc that are expressed after contact with similar information coming from China…
Transformation:my final Powerpoint covers adults who have had such powerful ET contacts that have changed them forever. One is a molecular biologist; another a medical doctor. I show evidence in our DNA that we are intelligently designed and how this dormant DNA is being activated as we are evolving now.
Mary Rodwell is a guest speaker at the Close Encounters Conference at the Byron Theatre on Sunday and Monday. For program and ticket information go to closeencountersconference.com.au
Alien Surfaces at Infamous Santa Monica's UFO Wreckage?
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 01: Confetti falls throughout Times Square during the New Years Eve celebration on January 1, 2013 in New York City. An estimated one million revelers from around the world endured long hours of cold weather to have a front seat to this year's star studded celebration.
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It is always great and mysterious news when a UFO is seen or captured entering the realms of our world. They prove to be great experimental matter, and with every UFO that lands on earth, we gain more information on the extra-terrestrial world.
On New Year's day, a crashed UFO made its way to a Santa Monica alleyway where it lay broken near a couple of trash cans. Sources like SMObserved state that the alien occupant inside had left its broken down transport machine.
Not just that but a Christmas tree that was somewhere in the alley proved to be a great snack for the little fella'. Some say that the UFO must have been brought down by the incessant gun firing that took place over the skies of Texas.
And other reports state that it might be a 2-decade old NASA launch that faced malfunctioning and lost its way in space. Or maybe it was something awesome and new to start off 2017 right. And perhaps the latter could be true.
Tyron Osborne claimed to have witnessed a UFO lit aflame on the 28th of December, 2016 over the skies of Britain's Devon. Thankfully the 52 year old was aware this was a once in a lifetime discovery and he quickly grabbed his camera to record the moment. EastDevon24 has all the pictures.
That UFO which was seen over the port town, Exmouth in Devon was sighted by Tyron on Wednesday around 1 PM in the afternoon. Some say that the orbiting UFO may have been the same one that was seen over the UK. If not, then there is still one out there.
Although many people connect UFOs with aliens and ET life, that cannot yet be assured and certified. Because the evidence that is provided is so weak and of low quality, nothing can be assumed, calculated or even proven. Yet the hearts of many stay hopeful.
But that is not a hard and fast rule for many times out of this world evidence has come along with crashed UFOs. UrbanGhostsMedia has the truest and most shocking stories that have truly happened and there is no use denying it.
Do you think we are alone in the universe? If not, then have aliens visited earth? (Photo: Top5s/YouTube)
The good thing on reported 'UFO Landing Sites' is that these places became a hotspot for tourists because it is really a great place to travel to. UFO up to the present time still remains a mystery and total fantasy to everyone as there is no strong evidence to prove their existence most especially aliens.
Many places in the world have the advantage to their claim as 'UFO Landing Sight' as they relive the controversy in reality. Some places have even annual UFO-themed festivals and other adventures. Check out the list of place provided by CN Traveler:
Roswell, New Mexico- UFO landing site reported in the year 1947. The must-see ceremony in this place is the Roswell UFO Festival that is conducted during June 29- July 1. The festival features a 10k 'alien chase', light parade, UFO-themed art show, and a pet costume contest.
Elmwood, Wisconsin- UFO landing site in the late 70s. Extraterrestrial celebration in this place is conducted annually known as UFO days which features a parade, craft fair, and concerts. The region consists of less than 800 population and just outside the Twin Cities.
Area 51, Nevada- A military base wherein UFO sightings have been reported. Currently, the road leading to the base was declared as Extraterrestrial Highway. The place is actually remote but adventurers can and visit the town of Rachel, Nevada.
Kennedy Space Center, Canada- This is not a reported UFO landing site rather a place where questions regarding 'flying discs' are answered. NASA Headquarter provides footage of space lights wherein astronauts answers a person's curiosity about aliens. People who are fond of research for UFOs are recommended to go here.
Other sightings related to UFO landing which science- fiction lover wish to visit includes; Aurora (Texas), Mineral Lake (Washington), Kecksburg (Pennsylvania), and Gover's Mill (New Jersey). Many experts until the present time are subjecting their researchers to provide the existence of these UFO landing controversies.
A report from the Huffington Post talks about the bizarre giant symbols that are seen on Google maps near Roswell UFO Crash Site. The symbol is one prominent Buddhist symbol. Some believe that the symbol is a message from the aliens to humans regarding their entry in the territory. Meanwhile, some of Canada's beautiful places are endangered; dare to visit them before gone click here for full details.
Thinking about attending Stephen Hawking’s party for time travelers? Don’t bother. If you were going to go, the whole world would know by now. Unless he killed you when you arrived at the party he didn’t announce until the next day back in 2009. Six years later, on his 75th birthday, he still hasn’t announced that any guests showed up.
This stunt, which the famous physicist used to illustrate that time travel isn’t possible (though some people contest that notion) is just one example of Hawking’s extraordinary mind at work. For a man whose life has been defined by exploring and explaining unseen, unproven, and even untestable phenomena, the time traveler party incident, replete with his signature bombast, was par for the course.
Hawking was born in Oxford, England in 1942, but his family moved away when he was a child. He returned to his hometown for university — studying physics at the local institution known as University College, Oxford. From there, he went on to study cosmology at Cambridge, eventually holding the same professorship that Sir Isaac Newton once held.
In the decades since his college days, Hawking has turned his gaze towards space, ceaselessly adding to humanity’s body of knowledge. When he’s not publishing in academic journals — which he’s done over 100 times — he’s making bold proclamations about aliens or the fate of humanity.
It may take Stephen Hawking a few minutes to compose sentences with his voice synthesizer, but when he does, they're often sick burns or proclamations of alien annihilation.
In the year since his 74th birthday, he continues to weigh in on society’s woes, curtly replying, “I can’t,” when asked to explain Donald Trump’s rise to prominence. That being said, he continued, in characteristically Hawking fashion, to make some rather demeaning remarks about Trump appealing to the lowest common denominator.
But he hasn’t just talked about Earthly issues. With an ear to the skies, in 2016 Hawking’s research group shouldered the task of analyzing signals that scientists suspect may be alien civilizations attempting to communicate.
Dreaming of finding a future for humanity in space, the physicist purchased a ticket on Virgin’s future space flight. Have we mentioned that he thinks humanity is doomed on Earth? Well, apparently Hawking has put his money where his mouth is.
While he regularly talks about how humanity is doomed, he also speaks publicly about his own health from time to time. “I relish the rare opportunity I’ve been given to live the life of the mind,” said Hawking in the 2014 documentary Stem Cell Universe. “But I know I need my body and that it will not last forever.”
And though his body won’t last forever, it’s something of an anomaly that it’s lasted this long. Diagnosed with ALS when he was 21, Hawking has lived with the typically fatal disease for 54 years. In spite of the health complications that come with living in a wheelchair for over 40 years, he maintains a sense of humor. He’s even programmed the voice synthesizer through which he speaks to respond to encounters with fans, saying “No, but I’m often mistaken for that man.”
He was spotted celebrating his birthday as close to outer space as one can get on short notice: watching Rogue One in the cinema.
Lest we forget for one second that space is terrifying, there is now new data about what the black hole in the center of our galaxy does to any star that gets too close. Not content with rendering unfortunate celestial objects “spaghettified,” black holes also turn them into “spitballs”, essentially, ripping them to literal shreds. Those shreds — streamers of gas — can then coalesce into planet-sized balls and find themselves subsequently spewed across the galaxy. The research was presented last week at the American Astronomical Society’s annual winter meeting.
The initial shredding could take place in a single day (for comparison, actual gas planets like Jupiter need many millions of years to fully form), with the resulting spitball forming in less than a year. And they’re not a phenomenon unique to the Milky Way — black holes at the center of galaxies like Andromeda are spewing them out at a good clip as well.
“A single shredded star can form hundreds of these planet-mass objects. We wondered: Where do they end up? How close do they come to us? We developed a computer code to answer those questions,” said lead author Eden Girma at the meeting.
Artist's rendering of galactic spitballs.
To that end, some spitballs would be as light as Neptune and potentially as heavy as multiple Jupiters. They also glow — a symptom of the intense heat that went into their formation. They can still be hard to distinguish from rogue planets — only one in 1,000 of these similar-looking objects will end up being a spitball — but they could also be just a few hundred lightyears from Earth. Still, they won’t remain close for too long — about 95 percent are traveling at incredible enough speeds (20 million miles/hour) to soon clear the galaxy entirely.
Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, has an answer for why aliens probably don’t look like the way we usually illustrate them in pop culture (the skinny gray/green body beneath a bulging, vaguely triangular head and glassy bug eyes). Speaking to Neil deGrasse Tyson last week for a National Geographic Star Talk entitled, “The Science of Alien Sightings,” Shostak discussed common (supposed) misconceptions about how aliens are often portrayed in the media. Comedian Michael Ian Black was also present, if you were for any reason worried that Tyson wouldn’t bring sufficient personality.
Humor-wise, it’s still pretty watery stuff, but Shostak’s correction (if we can call it that) about our collective perception of aliens is worth noting. As he points out to Tyson, a third of the public believes in the “UFO phenomena”. Yet despite the massive number of people who have claimed alien sightings (and abductions), the description of their appearance usually falls along familiar lines.
Have u seen this alien
“Think what were gonna do in this century, which is invent thinking machines,” Shostak said. “The aliens have probably already done that, so the real aliens probably look like machines.”
At this juncture we do have questions, mostly revolving around the implied idea that machines all look alike and that alien machines would look like machines as we tend to picture them, but perhaps that is for another day. Shostak, who’s also the former Center for SETI Research director, has spoken before about how aliens are more likely to resemble something mechanical rather than something soft and tentacle-y.
You can watch the full clip below, though don’t say we didn’t warn you about the humor. It is bad.
If robots are destined to become our overlords, we might as well work to get a little perspective on that future — literally. NASA Ames Research Center’s Intelligent Robotics Group is creating robots with 3D user interfaces that let you (or at least, the lucky human operating them) see the world through their eyes. The Visual Environment for Remote Virtual Exploration (VERVE) has already been adapted to Nissan’s autonomous vehicle systems to give the operator the means to see Mars through their eyes. The Silicon Valley-based center released a new video detailing the technology and its applications.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have already been able to use the VERVE system to control the robots on the ground at Ames. Fluid communication between deep-space astronauts and the autonomous rovers they command will be a cornerstone of our missions to explore and eventually colonize Mars.
Much as the VERVE technology will allow autonomous rovers on the Red Planet to intelligently navigate its rocky surface, it’s facilitating Nissan vehicles’ ability to make the safest decisions about surrounding traffic in real time.
“This is not only a demonstration of the transfer of space technology to industry, but also the application of their research back to our space technology, with additional uses for our unmanned aircraft systems research. This is a perfect example of technology literally driving exploration and enabling future space missions,” said Ames Center Director Eugene Tu at the 2017 International CES.
The Intelligent Robotics Group specializes in developing technology to explore remote and extreme terrain — like Mars — and, in the case of VERVE, providing 3D views of that terrain.
We tend to associate NASA’s Mars-focused robotics efforts with the Curiosity rover, but there’s a fairly deep bench of fascinating missions — these diminutive bouncing robots for instance, or this recent effort to partner with private companies testing their robots on the moon as a means of proving their worthiness to progress to Mars.
Department of Homeland Security films UFO - Puerto Rico - 2013 - Official Government Footage
Published on Jan 10, 2017
On 26th of April 2013 the Department of homeland security filmed a UFO that was flying over Puerto Rico.
The object in the video was captured by a thermal imaging camera on a DHS aircraft, and according to the researchers, it exhibits characteristics that cannot be explained by any known aircraft or natural phenomenon.
The video is overlaid with the sort of telemetry one would expect from a military or law enforcement thermal image video. It shows an object apparently moving very quickly over land and then into the ocean. It seems to be tumbling or changing shape. It moves over buildings, through trees, and eventually over the ocean. Then things get weird. The object appears to go in and out of the ocean without slowing down, and at the end of the video is either joined by another object or breaks in two.
“The object was between three to five feet in length and its speed varied between approximately 40 mph to 120 mph. Its median speed was roughly 80 mph.”
An interesting characteristic at the end of the flight was when it apparently submerged into the ocean, traveled for over half a mile, and then flew back out. “Its speed through the water reached a high of 95 mph and average 82.8 mph.”
A group of independant, skeptical researchers with backgrounds in various fields of science and technology released a 161 page document detailing their findings: http://media.wix.com/ugd/299316_9a12b...
In March 2016, scientists detected 10 powerful bursts of radio signals coming from outer space. Recently, six more mysterious signals dubbed fast radio bursts (FRB) have been detected coming from the same location far beyond the Milky Way galaxy.
These mysterious FRBs are very powerful and short-lived signals, as they last only for a few milliseconds. But, they generate as much energy as the sun releases in an entire day. Although these signals are extremely powerful, scientists still aren’t sure about their source.
Scientists named the region from where the signals are coming as FRB 121102. That spot is about 3 billion light-years away from Earth.
As per the research team, “Our discovery of repeating bursts from FRB 121102 shows that for at least one source, the origin of the bursts cannot be cataclysmic, and further, must be able to repeat on short [less than 1 minute] timescales. Whether FRB 121102 is a unique object in the currently known sample of FRBs, or all FRBs are capable of repeating, its characterization is extremely important to understanding fast extragalactic radio transients.”
The researchers are working to find the reason behind these FRBs. The international team of researchers suspects that the source could be an exotic object, like a young neutron star or a supernova remnant. However, it is also possible that these FRBs are from different sources as well, perhaps even aliens.
NASA just explained why Moon dust is 'levitating' above the lunar surface
It's floating with no air.
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NASA scientists have figured out why dust particles on the Moon are floating several centimetres above the surface, despite the fact that there’s no wind or flowing water to propel them up there.
The discovery could not only explain how these dust particles are transported across vast distances on the Moon - they could also describe processes that are occurring in many airless environments, including the rings of Saturn.
"This new ... model resolved a fundamental mechanism of dust charging and transport, which has been puzzling scientists for decades," said one of the team, Xu Wang, from NASA’s Ames Research Centre in California.
Scientists have known about these levitating particles for over five decades now, and they’ve been used to explain the Moon’s strange 'horizon glow' - a phenomenon first observed by the Apollo astronauts and NASA’s Surveyor probes in the 1960s.
When the Apollo mission orbited the far side of the Moon, they saw an incredibly bright arc of light shining on the horizon just after sunset.
In 1994, NASA's Clementine spacecraft captured this amazing image of the phenomenon:
The Moon's horizon glow. Credit: NASA
The same thing that was first witnessed by the Apollo astronauts surrounding the Moon in the 1960s was later recorded over the rings of Saturn, and in craters on the asteroid Eros.
"These are all the examples of dust transporting across vast regions without winds or flowing water," says NASA.
"Scientists believed electrostatic dust processes could explain these space observations, but until now, there were no studies to support these explanations."
To figure out if these particles are actually being held in suspension above the lunar surface by electrostatic forces, Wang and his team performed an experiment in the lab to see what micron-sized dust particles would do when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation or electrically-charged gases known as plasmas.
In both cases, the dust particles would leap several centimetres above the surface, and the team says that on the Moon, light would scatter through these levitating particles to create the horizon glow.
"On Earth’s moon, these dust particles would have been lofted more than 4 inches (10 centimetres) above the lunar surface," NASA reports.
"[T]he Moon’s horizon glow - seen in images taken by Surveyor 5, 6, and 7 five decades ago - may have been caused in part by sunlight scattering in a cloud of electrostatically lofted dust particles."
You can see the results below:
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The study found that the strange properties of Moon dust combined with UV radiation or plasma from the Sun can loft single particles - or sometimes even large clusters of dust - up above the surface.
This is due to the reaction causing an emission and re-absorption of electrons inside 'micro-cavities' formed between neighbouring particles, which can generate unexpectedly large electrical charges and intense repulsive forces.
These forces cause the dust particles or clusters to lift off the surface, or 'levitate'.
And it's not just causing the 'horizon glow' effect - it's maintaining a frustratingly hostile environment on the Moon, because of how 'sharp' those floating particles actually are.
As the Soil Science Society of America explained back in 2008, the powdery dirt found on the lunar surface was formed by micrometeorite impacts that pounded local Moon rocks into fine particles.
The energy from these impacts actually melted the lunar dirt into a vapour, and once that vapour cooled and condensed on the soil particles, it covered them in a glassy shell.
"The dust was so abrasive that it actually wore through three layers of Kevlar-like material on Jack’s boot," Larry Taylor, director of the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee, said of Apollo 17 crewmember Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt's 1972 Moon walk.
The NASA team says that this phenomenon could theoretically occur in any airless environment, and could explain how dust particles can move across the rings of Saturn, or form 'dust ponds' on the Eros asteroid, without any winds to propel them.
"We expect dust particles to mobilise and transport electrostatically over the entire lunar surface, as well as the surface of any other airless planetary body," said Wang.
NASA Solves the Mystery of How Matter Moves on Exotic Worlds
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The mystery of how dust on the moon travels through an airless environment. Researchers discovered UV radiation and the sun's plasma can cause the particles to spring above the surface creating the "horizon glow."
Researchers noticed the same phenomena was also occurring on the rings of Saturn and the craters of Eros, which could help us learn more about how matter behaves in other airless environments.
MYSTERY SOLVED
How dust particles on the Moon’s surface levitate and transport themselves across vast distances have baffled scientists for more than 50 years now — and has been used to explain the Moon’s ‘horizon glow.’ But, it seems that a team of scientists from NASA solved the mystery.
“This new ‘patched charge model’ resolved a fundamental mechanism of dust charging and transport, which has been puzzling scientists for decades,” explained researcher Xu Wang, from NASA’s Ames Research Centre in California. The journal Geophysical Research Letterspublished the study.
The team wanted to figure out if these dust particles are suspended by an electrostatic force. Wang, together with Mihaly Horanyi at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and their team of researchers conducted lab experiments to see how micron-sized dust particles would behave when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation or electrically-charged gasses (or plasmas).
The team discovered, in both cases, the dust would actually leap by a few centimeters above the surface. On the Moon, the strange properties of its dust combined with UV radiation or plasma from the Sun can loft single particles and, sometimes, even large dust clusters up above the surface.
The NASA team’s lab tests. Credits: NASA
DUSTING YOUR BOULDERS OFF
On the Moon, these dust particles would scatter light reflected from the Sun, creating that famous ‘horizon glow’ that was first captured in the 1960s by the Apollo astronauts and NASA’s Surveyor probes.
“[T]hese dust particles would have been lofted more than ten centimeters (four inches) above the lunar surface, leading researchers to conclude that the moon’s “horizon glow” — seen in images taken by Surveyor 5, 6, and 7 five decades ago — may have been caused in part by sunlight scattering in a cloud of electrostatically lofted dust particles,” according to NASA.
The same phenomenon was observed later over Saturn’s rings and in the craters of the asteroid Eros — where dust is also transported across vast regions devoid of winds or flowing water. “We expect dust particles to mobilize and transport electrostatically over the entire lunar surface, as well as the surface of any other airless planetary body,” said Wang.
Unfortunately, the dust particles on the Moon actually create a rather harsh environment on its surface. The particles can be sharp and therefore dangerous to anything on the surface. These dusts are partly formed by meteorite impacts that pounded the Moon’s surface rocks into fine particles, which are actually sharp due to being covered by a glassy shell. The glassy shell comes from lunar dirt that’s melted into vapor, thanks to the energy from the meteorite impacts, which cooled and condensed on the dust particles.
“The dust was so abrasive that it actually wore through three layers of Kevlar-like material on [Harrison Schmitt’s] boot,” explained Larry Taylor, director at the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee, speaking of the Apollo 17 crewmember’s 1972 moon walk.
The cloud appeared to be reflective(Photo: YouTube/Anthony Sakowski)
Most viewers were convinced that Anthony had simply spotted a lenticular cloud , which are stationary lens-shaped clouds and have often been mistaken for UFO sightings.
But UFO hunter Scott Waring, of UFO Sightings Daily disagreed, saying: "The UFO was noticed when the sun lit it up and caused a disk reflection above it on the clouds.
"Only a metal reflective surface could do this, and, as you see, the dark area of the cloud is the actual UFO."
Its been almost three years since one pilot from the Chilean Navy caught footage of an unidentified flying object (UFO) in the country’s airspace, but the government body still could not put their finger around the situation.
The seemingly dubious craft—which was first sighted in November 2014 but was only shared to the public recently— was shot using an infrared camera during a routine coast patrol in broad daylight, according to The Huffington Post
The supposed UFO was hovering high in the clouds before emitting what seemed to be a type of gas as it cruised along.
After unsuccessfully trying to communicate with it multiple times, the pilot tracked the craft from around 40 miles and reported it to nearby radar stations.
Even more surprising was that neither of them were able to detect the ‘UFO’ on their screens, despite being completely visible to the nearby navy choppers.
More so, no other aircraft were authorized to fly in the area where the aircraft was sighted, the report said.
The UFO sighting incident has been the subject of a thorough investigation by the Chilean government agency, the CEFAA (Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos), for the past two years.
However, its officials remain clueless about the matter, even after questioning the pilots, air traffic controllers, and radar operators who witnessed the levitating object.
“We do not know what it was, but we do not know what it was not,” director of CEFAA, General Ricardo Bermúdez, described the complexity of the incident in the report.
The executive added that even their organization’s cream-of-the-crop could not identify nor give out possible suggestions regarding the obscure vehicle.
“I was very impressed by these witnesses. They were highly trained professionals with many years’ experience, and they were absolutely certain that they could not explain what they saw,” he said.
As of this writing, the CEFAA is still seeking help from expert groups to resolve the mystery. Khristian Ibarrola
The 1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident, also known as the Washington flap or the Washington National Airport Sightings, was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 12 to July 29, 1952, over Washington D.C. The most publicized sightings took place on consecutive weekends, July 19-20 and July 26-27.
Events of July 19-20
At 11:40 p.m. on Saturday, July 19, 1952, Edward Nugent, an air-traffic controller at Washington National Airport, spotted seven objects on his radar. The objects were located 15 miles south-southwest of the city; no known aircraft were in the area and the objects were not following any established flight paths. Nugent's superior, Harry Barnes, a senior air-traffic controller at the airport, watched the objects on Nugent's radarscope. He later wrote:
"We knew immediately that a very strange situation existed ... their movements were completely radical compared to those of ordinary aircraft". Barnes had two controllers check Nugent's radar; they found that it was working normally. Barnes then called National Airport's other radar center; the controller there, Howard Cocklin, told Barnes that he also had the objects on his radarscope. Furthermore, Cocklin said that by looking out of the control tower window he could see one of the objects: "a bright orange light. I can't tell what's behind it".
At this point, other objects appeared in all sectors of the radarscope; when they moved over the White House and the United States Capitol, Barnes called Andrews Air Force Base, located 10 miles from National Airport. Although Andrews reported that they had no unusual objects on their radar, an airman soon called the base's control tower to report the sighting of a strange object.
Airman William Brady, who was in the tower, then saw an "object which appeared to be like an orange ball of fire, trailing a tail ... it was unlike anything I had ever seen before." As Brady tried to alert the other personnel in the tower, the strange object "took off at an unbelievable speed." Meanwhile, another person in the National Airport control tower reported seeing "an orange disk about 3,000 feet altitude".
On one of the airport's runways, S.C. Pierman, a Capital Airlines pilot, was waiting in the cockpit of his DC-4 for permission to take off. After spotting what he believed to be a meteor, he was told that the control tower's radar had picked up unknown objects closing in on his position. Pierman observed six objects - "white, tailless, fast-moving lights" - over a 14-minute period. Pierman was in radio contact with Barnes during his sighting, and Barnes later related that "each sighting coincided with a pip we could see near his plane. When he reported that the light streaked off at a high speed, it disappeared on our scope."
At Andrews AFB, meanwhile, the control tower personnel were tracking on radar what some thought to be unknown objects, but others suspected, and in one instance were able to prove, were simply stars and meteors. However, Staff Sgt. Charles Davenport observed an orange-red light to the south; the light "would appear to stand still, then make an abrupt change in direction and altitude ... this happened several times".
At one point both radar centers at National Airport and the radar at Andrews AFB were tracking an object hovering over a radio beacon. The object vanished in all three radar centers at the same time. At 3 a.m., shortly before two jet fighters from Newcastle AFB in Delaware arrived over Washington, all of the objects vanished from the radar at National Airport. However, when the jets ran low on fuel and left, the objects returned, which convinced Barnes that "the UFOs were monitoring radio traffic and behaving accordingly". The objects were last detected by radar at 5:30 a.m. Around sunrise, E.W. Chambers, a civilian radio engineer in Washington's suburbs, observed "five huge disks circling in a loose formation. They tilted upward and left on a steep ascent."
Publicity and Air Force Reaction
The sightings of July 19-20, 1952, made front-page headlines in newspapers around the nation. A typical example was the headline from the Cedar Rapids Gazette in Iowa. It read "SAUCERS SWARM OVER CAPITAL" in large black type.
By coincidence, USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the supervisor of the Air Force's Project Blue Book investigation into the UFO mystery, was in Washington at the time. However, he did not learn about the sightings until Tuesday, July 22, when he read the headlines in a Washington-area newspaper.
After talking with intelligence officers at the Pentagon about the sightings, Ruppelt spent several hours trying to obtain a staff car to investigate the sightings, but was refused as only generals and senior colonels could use staff cars. He was told that he could rent a taxicab with his own money; by this point Ruppelt was so frustrated that he left Washington and flew back to Blue Book's headquarters at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Before leaving Washington, Ruppelt did speak with an Air Force radar specialist, Captain Roy James, who felt that unusual weather conditions could have caused the unknown radar targets.
Events of July 26-27
At 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 26, 1952, a pilot and stewardess on a National Airlines flight into Washington observed some strange objects above their plane. Within minutes, both radar centers at National Airport, and the radar at Andrews AFB, were tracking more unknown objects. A master sergeant at Andrews visually observed the objects; he later said that "these lights did not have the characteristics of shooting stars. There were no trails ... they traveled faster than any shooting star I have ever seen".
Meanwhile, Albert M. Chop, the press spokesman for Project Blue Book, arrived at National Airport and refused several reporters' requests to photograph the radar screens. He then joined the radar center personnel. By this time (9:30 p.m.) the radar center was picking up unknown objects in every sector. At times the objects traveled slowly; at other times they reversed direction and moved across the radarscope at speeds calculated at 7,000 mph.
At 11:30 p.m., two jet fighters from Newcastle AFB in Delaware arrived over Washington. Capt. John McHugo, the flight leader, was vectored towards the radar pips but saw nothing, despite repeated attempts. However, his wingman, Lt. William Patterson, did see four white "glows" and chased them. Suddenly, the "glows" turned and surrounded his fighter. Patterson asked the control tower at National Airport what he should do; according to Chop, the tower's answer was "stunned silence". The four objects then sped away from Patterson's jet and disappeared.
After midnight on July 27, Major Dewey Fournet, Project Blue Book's liaison at the Pentagon, and a Lt. Holcomb, an Air Force radar specialist, arrived at the radar center at National Airport. During the night, Lt. Holcomb received a call from the Washington National Weather Station. They told him that a slight temperature inversion was present over the city, but Holcomb felt that the inversion was not "nearly strong enough to explain the 'good and solid' returns" on the radarscopes.
Fournet relayed that all those present in the radar room were convinced that the targets were most likely caused by solid metallic objects. There had been weather targets on the scope too, he said, but this was a common occurrence and the controllers "were paying no attention to them." Two more jets from Newcastle AFB were scrambled during the night. One pilot saw nothing unusual; the other pilot moved towards a white light which "vanished" when he closed in. A Capital Airlines flight leaving Washington spotted "odd lights" which remained visible for about twelve minutes. As on July 20, the sightings and unknown radar returns ended at sunrise.
White House Concern and the "Shoot-down" Order
The sightings of July 26-27 also made front-page headlines, and even led President Harry Truman to personally call Capt. Ruppelt and ask for an explanation of the sightings. Ruppelt, remembering the conversation he had with Capt. James, told the President that the sightings might have been caused by temperature inversion, in which a layer of warm, moist air covers a layer of cool, dry air closer to the ground. This condition can cause radar signals to bend and give false returns. However, Ruppelt had not yet interviewed any of the witnesses or conducted a formal investigation.
CIA historian Gerald Haines, in his 1997 history of the CIA's involvement with UFOs, also mentions Truman's concern. "A massive buildup of sightings over the United States in 1952, especially in July, alarmed the Truman administration. On 19 and 20 July, radar scopes at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base tracked mysterious blips. On 27 July, the blips reappeared."
White House concern may possibly have resulted in an order to shoot down the UFOs, reported in various International News Service (INS) stories on July 29, 1952. E.g., one such story reported that "jet pilots have been placed on a 24-hour nationwide 'alert against the flying saucers' with orders to shoot them down if they ignore orders to land."
An Air Force public information officer, Lt. Col. Moncel Monte, confirmed the directive stating, "The jet pilots are, and have been, under orders to investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can't talk them down." It was further stated that no pilot had been able to get close enough to take a shot at a flying saucer, as the objects would disappear or speed away as soon as an interceptor approached, sometimes outflying their pilots by "as much as a thousand miles an hour."
However, in seeming contradiction to the admitted "shoot-down" order, Air Force headquarters also put out statements that the unidentified flying objects were no threat to the United States and not controlled by "a reasoning body."
Some public protests resulted, including telegrams and letters to the White House stating that the policy was dangerous if the UFOs were controlled by extraterrestrial beings, who would obviously be much more technologically advanced than humans.
The July 29 Air Force Press Conference and Air Force's Explanation
In response to the INS "shoot-down" stories, to calm rising public anxiety and answer the news media's questions about the sightings - and, hopefully, to slow down the numbers of UFO reports being sent to Blue Book, which were clogging normal intelligence channels - Air Force Major Generals John Samford, USAF Director of Intelligence, and Roger Ramey, USAF Director of Operations, held a well-attended press conference at the Pentagon on July 29, 1952. It was the largest Pentagon press conference since World War II. Press stories called Samford and Ramey the Air Force's two top UFO experts.
Samford was heavily influenced by Capt. Roy James, who had discussed the sightings with him earlier in the day and who also spoke at the conference. Samford declared that the visual sightings over Washington could be explained as misidentified aerial phenomena (such as stars or meteors). Samford also stated that the unknown radar targets could be explained by temperature inversion, which was present in the air over Washington on both nights the radar returns were reported.
In addition, Samford argued that the radar contacts were not caused by solid material targets, and therefore posed no threat to national security. In response to a question as to whether the Air Force had recorded similar UFO radar contacts prior to the Washington incident, Samford admitted that there had been "hundreds" of such contacts where Air Force fighter interceptions had taken place, but stated they were all "fruitless." The conference proved to be successful "in getting the press off our backs", Ruppelt later wrote.
Among the witnesses who supported Samford's explanation was the crew of a B-25 bomber, which had been flying over Washington during the sightings of July 26-27. The bomber was vectored several times by National Airport over unknown targets on the airport's radarscopes, yet the crew could see nothing unusual. Finally, as a crew member related, "the radar had a target which turned out to be the Wilson Lines steamboat trip to Mount Vernon...the radar was sure as hell picking up the steamboat".
Air Force Captain Harold May was in the radar center at Andrews AFB during the sightings of July 19-20. Upon hearing that National Airport's radar had picked up an unknown object heading in his direction, May stepped outside and saw "a light that was changing from red to orange to green to red again ... at times it dipped suddenly and appeared to lose altitude." However, May eventually concluded that he was simply seeing a star that was distorted by the atmosphere, and that its "movement" was an illusion.
At 3 a.m. on July 27, an Eastern Airlines flight over Washington was told that an unknown object was in its vicinity; the crew could see nothing unusual. When they were told that the object had moved directly behind their plane, they began a sharp turn to try to see the object, but were told by National Airport's radar center that the object had "disappeared" when they began their turn.
At the request of the Air Force, the CAA's Technical Development and Evaluation Center did an analysis of the radar sightings. Their conclusion was that "a temperature inversion had been indicated in almost every instance when the unidentified radar targets or visual objects had been reported".
Project Blue Book would eventually label the Washington radar objects as "mirage effects caused by double inversion" and the visual sightings as "meteors coupled with the normal excitement of witnesses". In later years two prominent UFO skeptics, Dr. Donald Menzel, an astronomer at Harvard University, and Philip Klass, a senior editor for Aviation Week magazine, would also argue in favor of the temperature inversion/mirage hypothesis.
Criticisms of the Air Force Explanation
Almost from the moment of General Samford's press conference, eyewitnesses, UFO researchers, and Air Force personnel came forward to criticize the temperature inversion/mirage explanation. Captain Ruppelt noted that Major Fournet and Lt. Holcomb, who disagreed with the Air Force's explanation, were not in attendance at Samford's press conference. Ruppelt himself discovered that "hardly a night passed in June, July, and August in 1952 that there wasn't a temperature inversion in Washington, yet the slow-moving, solid radar targets appeared on only a few nights".
According to a story printed by INS, the United States Weather Bureau also disagreed with the temperature inversion hypothesis, one official stating that "such an inversion ordinarily would appear on a radar screen as a steady line, rather than as single objects as were sighted on the airport radarscope."
Also, according to Ruppelt, when he was able to interview the radar and control tower personnel at Washington National Airport, not a single person agreed with the Air Force explanation. Michael Wertheimer, a researcher for the government-funded Condon Report, investigated the case in 1966. He found that the radar witnesses still disputed the Air Force explanation, but that did not stop the report from agreeing with the temperature inversion/mirage explanation.
Ruppelt related that on July 27 the control tower at Washington National had called the control tower at Andrews AFB and notified them that their radar had an unknown object just south of the Andrews control tower, directly over the Andrews AFB radio range station. According to Ruppelt, when the Andrews control tower personnel looked they all saw "a huge fiery-orange sphere" hovering over the range station.
When Ruppelt interviewed the tower personnel several days later, they insisted that they had been mistaken and had merely seen a bright star. However, when Ruppelt checked an astronomical chart he found that there were no bright stars over the station that night, and that he had "heard from a good source that the tower men had been 'persuaded' a bit" by superior officers to state that their sighting was merely a star.
There were also witnesses who claimed to see structured craft and not merely "glows" or bright lights. On July 19 an Army artillery officer, Joseph Gigandet, was sitting on the front porch of his home in Alexandria, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington.
At 9:30 p.m. he claimed to see "a red cigar-shaped object" which sailed slowly over his house. Gigandet estimated the object's size as comparable to a DC-7 airplane and at about 10,000 feet altitude; he also claimed that the object had a "series of lights very closely set together" on its sides. The object eventually flew back over his house a second time, which led Gigandet to assume that it was circling the area.
When the object flew away a second time, it turned a deeper red color and moved over the city of Washington itself; this occurred less than two hours before Edward Nugent first spotted the unknown objects on his radar at Washington National. Gigandet claimed that his neighbor, an FBI agent, also saw the object.
Dr. James E. McDonald, a physicist at the University of Arizona and a prominent ufologist in the 1960s, did his own analysis of the Washington sightings. After interviewing four pilot eyewitnesses and five radar personnel, McDonald argued that the Air Force explanation was "physically impossible". Harry Barnes told McDonald that the radar targets "were not shapeless blobs such as one gets from ground returns under anomalous propagation", and that he was certain the unknown radar blips were solid targets; Howard Cocklin agreed with Barnes.
Aftermath: The Robertson Panel
The extremely high numbers of UFO reports in 1952 disturbed both the Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Both groups felt that an enemy nation could deliberately flood the U.S. with false UFO reports, causing mass panic and allowing them to launch a sneak attack.
On September 24, 1952, the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) issued a memorandum to Walter B. Smith, the CIA's director. The memo stated that "the flying saucer situation ... have national security implications ... in the public concern with the phenomena ... lies the potential for the touching-off of mass hysteria and panic". The result of this memorandum was the creation in January 1953 of the Robertson Panel.
Physicist Howard Percy Robertson chaired the panel, which consisted of prominent scientists and which spent four days examining the "best" UFO cases collected by Project Blue Book. The panel dismissed nearly all of the UFO cases it examined as not representing anything unusual or threatening to national security.
In the panel's controversial estimate, the Air Force and Project Blue Book needed to spend less time analyzing and studying UFO reports and more time publicly debunking them. The panel recommended that the Air Force and Project Blue Book should take steps to "strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired".
Following the Panel's report, Project Blue Book would rarely publicize any UFO case that it had not labeled as "solved"; unsolved cases were rarely mentioned by the Air Force.
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Ruppelt, Edward J. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
The structure was discovered pyramids from space satellites. Images that do, can clearly see its form and shape. It is about 1.7 times larger than the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Orthodox scientists and skeptics, of course, argue that, in this structure, it is only natural, geological formation created, but satellite images and photographs of people who were in it, speak a different language.
From the perspective of classical science, which in harmony with religion does not admit the possibility that long before our civilization was built by someone on our planet unique technical monuments, it is understandable that something like a gigantic pyramid under the ice of Antarctica can not and must not exist.
Its undeniable existence but implies the issue, rather the fact that either was for some reason built an alien civilization, or – the other possibility – that in Antarctica, which was at times her of building not covered by ice, it has built a developed terrestrial civilization, which for some reason ( natural disasters, or self-destruction ….) ceased to exist.
However, the fact that Antarctica was ice-historic times, the meantime science already knows and accepts.
In Antarctica there under the ice even two other, smaller pyramid. It announced a group of eight scientists who do research there. Since this is a serious scientists who are very careful and do not want to premature closures, so their statements are restrained. In addition, also because while they want to remain anonymous – they are two Americans and six Europeans.
These scientists say that it is necessary to send a new big adventure, which will be equipped with all necessary devices and will be able to conclusively determine whether the artificially built pyramids.
The highest of the pyramid is located directly on the coast. Mentioned two smaller pyramids are close to each other and the distance from the coast 16 km.
Modern science is based on the fact that Antarctica looked like in ancient times completely different way than today. The analyzes showed that the Antarctic in those days were warm summers, with temperatures above twenty degrees. Rainwater was even covered with forests, similar to those now in New Zealand. It is inhabited by a large number of organisms. If at that time on the continent they were living human beings – which now admit more courageous scientists – so there would have been very appropriate and favorable conditions for life.
Cheops pyramid in Egypt has a length of one side of its base of 230 meters. The same party giant pyramid in Antarctica but has up to 400 meters.
I conclude that it allowed to-view that in recent years occurred in the Antarctic to the large amount of warming, glaciers and snow cover was melted, and thus from the eternal snow and ice liberated apex of the pyramid, while a substantial part of it is still hidden. From the pyramid stands
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A Surprise Asteroid Just Zipped Between the Earth and the Moon
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