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Dinsdag 10 januari 2017

Predicting 2017: The Rise of Synthetic Intelligence

Predicting 2017: The Rise of Synthetic Intelligence

by Todd Jaquith

Adobe

The transition from one year to the next is always a little uncertain – an uneasy blend of anxiety and optimism, it’s also a time of retrospection, introspection, and even a little tentative prognostication. And since the latter is our stock-in-trade at Futurism, we believe now is the perfect time to look ahead at what 2017 has in store for us.

When it came to artificial intelligence (AI), 2016 was a year of notable firsts: Tesla’s autopilot predicted a car crash, Alexa was subpoenaed, the White House took notice of the subject, and Google’s AlphaGo beat the reigning European Go champion. But 2016 is gone and buried and 2017 is promising even greater advances in AI as the technology further infiltrates our lives and colonizes new frontiers of endeavor.

Here’s some of what we can expect for artificial intelligence in the year ahead.

Personal AI

2016 saw the growth of more consumer-oriented AI. Alexa, Siri, and Cortana—among many others—now come standard in our handy personal devices, and Amazon even open-sourced Alexa for developers. Look for 2017 to be the year when AI begins to be a commonplace in some apps, and also expect the other major tech companies to follow Amazon’s lead in opening up their AI systems to outside development.

With this more collaborative approach to the evolution of AI, we may finally begin to see the personalization of artificial intelligence, and a great proliferation of new AI programs with idiosyncratic personalities, temperaments, and even intellectual outlooks.

Some of the artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms currently helping machines think. Credit: CIO Journal/Narrative Science

A Better Conversationalist

Trying to hold a conversation with Siri or Alexa is like watching two people in the same canoe paddling in opposite directions—it just ain’t goin’ anywhere. For one thing, neither have much a sense of humor; furthermore, these robotic ladies just lack that wonted je ne sais quoi we expect in our intellectual sparring partners—they’re dull, frankly, and haven’t really got much to say.

But in 2017, that’s all about to change.

“In 2017 there will be a chatbot that passes the Turing test, exhibiting responses so human-like that an average person wouldn’t be able to tell if it’s human or machine,” forecasts Jim McHugh, Vice President and General Manager at NVIDIA. Such extraordinary capabilities will be the natural sequel to the new advances in machine learning, natural language processing, and pattern recognition that will finally beget more empathic and intuitive AI programs.

“In the coming year, we will see advances that are used to endow systems with new human-centered qualities, including more natural, fluid conversation—that can address several topics or needs in one ongoing interaction, and deeper understanding of human values and intentions, such as recognizing the commitments we make to others in our email and text messaging,” observes Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Managing Director at Microsoft Research.

Very soon now, you’ll really be able to have that deep, meaningful conversation with Alexa that you always wanted.

Cognitive Machinery

According to the big brains at Ovum, “machine learning will be the biggest disruptor for big data analytics in 2017.” They’ve got a point, too—a damn good one. Deep learning and neural networks have shown remarkable promise, even holding out the hope that they might point the way toward achieving some sort of serviceable, human-like machine intelligence—not a terrible surprise, since their mechanism mimics the layered cognitive processing employed by the human brain.

And in 2017, we can expect even greater strides in machine learning, as massive upgrades to parallel processing power enable the networks to crunch ever-larger blocks of data. “Generative adversarial networks” (GANs) are the next big thing in machine learning—essentially dual networks, one that learns from datasets and another that distinguishes between real and fake data.

So look for our machines to become better learners in 2017, as AI approaches its “terrible twos” and begins to cognitively mature.

A Companion Mind

Harry Shrum, Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s AI and Research Group, is cheerfully optimistic about AI’s outlook in the coming year:

“In 2017 we’ll see increased acceleration in the democratization of AI for every person and every organization. With advances in technology, computers will gain even greater ability to see, hear and understand our world—to make us more productive, to have more fun and also enable greater strides towards solving some of society’s most pressing challenges like fighting disease, ignorance, and poverty.”

And that seems to be the general consensus about what the New Year holds for artificial intelligence. Not a mystical singularity; not the sudden “awakening” of an inchoate machine mind—inhuman, alien, perhaps even malevolent or at least antipathetic to all we hold dear. That’s a fantasy—the reality will be far more prosaic.

If AI is taken to mean the evolution of tools that act in concert with their makers, and are instilled with a limited, almost instinctual awareness, then we seem to be well on the way toward building a world in which our machines are active partners in the business of life. So don’t look for the coming of Skynet or HAL 9000 in 2017—nothing so dramatic as all that. For now, baby steps—incremental steps toward a world in which our very tools are endowed with the same sort of sensory and reactive faculties that are found throughout the living world.

Now, as for 2018… that’s a different story altogether.

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Dinsdag 10 januari 2017

L’alchimie : superscience ou vestige d’une ancienne civilisation ?

L’alchimie : superscience ou vestige d’une ancienne civilisation ?

JACQUES CARLES et MICHEL GRANGER

Il pourrait sembler paradoxal que la science moderne, après avoir acquis ses lettres de noblesse en accumulant des milliers de faits et en homologuant une multitude d’expériences, revienne aujourd’hui à des hypothèses formulées il y a plusieurs millénaires. C’est ainsi que l’on sait que Démocrate parlait déjà, bien avant l’ère chrétienne, d’atomes et qu’il envisageait que la Voie lactée était formée d’innombrables étoiles, ce qui conférait cette blancheur laiteuse à la région du ciel où on l’observe. Les Egyptiens, construisant le temple d’Edfou et installant de longs mâts en cuivre pour briser l’orage étaient à cent lieues de penser que Benjamin Franklin « inventerait » le paratonnerre trente siècles plus tard…

Il existe une foule d’exemples de ce genre dans tous les domaines scientifiques, mais d’autres faits plus troublants sont restés inexpliqués et même inexplicables à l’heure actuelle. Il semble donc naturel que les scientifiques armés de leur matériel ultramoderne s’attaquent à ces bastions de la connaissance.L’Île de Pâques, dans le Pacifique, est un cas typique. On peut y voir près de six cents statues gigantesques de plusieurs dizaines de tonnes dont il est impossible de formuler la provenance et la manière par laquelle elles furent érigées. Dans les Andes on a retrouvé des sculptures d’animaux de l’ère secondaire et des ports de mer à six mille pieds d’altitude ! Les Mayas utilisaient, en plus du calendrier basé sur l’année solaire, un calendrier basé sur l’année vénusienne de 584 jours…Plus on s’enfonce dans le temps et plus les faits fantastiques se multiplient. Cependant notre histoire est limitée : au-delà de 6000 ans on ne sait que des généralités, le plus souvent d’ordre géologique, et pourtant il est certain que l’homme existe depuis un nombre inconnu de siècles.

L’alchimie : une science ?

Il semble que sur terre les civilisations se font et se défont, qu'elles évoluent dans le temps et dans l'espace. Il est possible que des civilisations plus avancées nous ont précédé sur terre et qu'à notre tour nous tendons vers une supercivilisation. Malgré l'apocalypse d'une ancienne civilisation, certaines bribes, certains aphorismes, certaines conclusions auraient pu échapper au déluge universel et se perpétuer. Les Incas, les Egyptiens, les Chinois n'ont peut-être utilisé que des recettes ou des résultats d'une science passée qu'ils ne comprenaient pas mais qui leur était parvenue par tradition et s'était enrobée de considérations mystiques et religieuses.L'une de ces sciences ou doctrines, celle qui nous serait la mieux connue, retransmise depuis des siècles sans subir d'évolution et que l'on retrouve sous des formes très voisines dans les mondes orientaux, arabes ou européens, est l'alchimie.L'alchimie ne se développe pas, elle se transmet. Rien de nouveau n'est découvert. C'est l'« adepte », qui a appris son savoir d'un « maître », de chercher à réaliser le « grand œuvre », toujours pour un moyen immuable. Le grand œuvre c'est l'obtention de la pierre philosophale (ou poudre de projection) qui permet de transmuter les métaux vils en « or plus fin que celui de la minière ».Cependant le but essentiel de l'alchimie n'était pas la transmutation des métaux en or, mais bien la transmutation de l'alchimiste lui-même. Le véritable alchimiste méprisait et méprise encore (car il en existe toujours) celui qui œuvre dans un but intéressé.

Les adeptes modernes de l'« art sacré »

Le 20^ème siècle est sceptique mais il est aussi curieux. De nos jours, les rééditions et traductions de textes alchimiques connaissent des succès non négligeables. Les espoirs entrevus par la physique et la chimie d'aujourd'hui trouvent leur pendant dans l'alchimie. Mais cette curiosité ne peut demeurer passive devant cet inconnu surgi du néant. C'est pourquoi il existe encore de vrais alchimistes oeuvrant contre vents et marées, disséminés de par le monde et de plus en plus recherchés. Un pays comme l'URSS n'hésite pas à prospecter l'Europe afin de les localiser et à leur offrir des bonnes conditions de travail.Contrairement à ce que l'on pense, les alchimistes actuels sont des gens très sérieux qui, pour fuir le halo de charlatanisme qui les poursuit, évitent toute publicité et s'entourent du secret le plus complet. L'un des plus célèbres alchimistes du 20^ème siècle est aussi peu connu et auréolé de légende que l'était Paracelse ou Basile Valentin au Moyen-Âge. Il a écrit sous le nom de Fulcanelli et son ouvrage le plus célèbre « Le Mystère des Cathédrales » est toujours une énigme. Personne ne sait qui a été Fulcanelli, s'il est mort ou encore vivant. Il existe une société secrète « les frères d'Héliopolis » qui a été au second siècle après J.-C. à Alexandrie et dont Fulcanelli était un initié ; une telle société serait susceptible de détenir les traditions et les techniques les plus anciennes qui associent l'expérience scientifique et l'expérience spirituelle.Parmi les alchimistes prémodernes, on peut citer l'étrange personnage français qu'était Tiffeneau. Celui-ci, le 8 mais 1854, révéla devant l'Académie des Sciences de Paris certains résultats de ses expériences menées à Guadalajara, au Mexique, où il aurait préparé de l'or artificiel par une technique dérivée de l'alchimie. Selon lui, une explication rationnelle pourrait être l'action catalytique du rayonnement solaire au Mexique et la possibilité que certains rayons cosmiques traversant la terre possèdent une intensité et une énergie qui varient avec le temps et les sites géographiques, rendant impossible la répétition de l'expérience jusqu'à ce que ces conditions s'y prêtent de nouveau. Un phénomène qui apporte de l'eau au moulin de Tiffeneau est celui observé par le professeur Bruno Rossi, aux Etats Unis, en 1957. Des particules d'une énergie considérable, venant peut-être d'un autre monde, furent détectées dans un rayon de trois miles par des centaines d'appareils enregistreurs.

La croyance en l'unité de la matière

Bien que les « souffleurs » (alchimistes non initiés qui cherchent au hasard) aient permis de faire des découvertes valables, celles-ci ayant servi de base pour notre chimie moderne, l'obscurité des écrits « hermétiques » et la vague de rationalisme du siècle dernier, tout en ayant permis à l'ensemble des sciences de faire un bond gigantesque, ont malheureusement exagéré les contradictions et les aberrations des travaux alchimiques. Ceux-ci furent pendant longtemps complètement discrédités et considérés comme un assemblage d'absurdités et de folies. A présent, on se rend compte qu'une folie persistant avec tant de force pendant des siècles doit être étudiée avec sérieux, même si cela doit révéler jusqu'à quel point l'humanité peut déraisonner.De nos jours, des équipes de savants ont commencé l'étude critique et encyclopédique de l'alchimie ; certains faits se dégagent déjà tels que le chiffrage de certains textes alchimiques. Plusieurs grimoires ne sont que des cryptogrammes qu'il reste à traduire en langage clair, ceux-ci étant constitués d'une grande quantité de symboles qui n'étaient accessibles qu'à un petit nombre d'initiés. Depuis les débuts de la physique nucléaire, et plus récemment à la suite des observations du Français C. L. Kervran dans le domaine de la biologie, il est devenu évident que des transmutations sont possibles et que l'unité de la matière n'est plus une légende mais une réalité scientifique.Sur le même plan, les alchimistes décrivaient également la façon d'obtenir l'élixir de longue vie, ce procédé consistant en une série de distillations de l'eau et ensuite en une incorporation intime de certains sels métalliques. Aujourd'hui, on a mis en évidence le fait que le vieillissement pouvait provenir de l'accumulation de l'eau lourde dans les tissus. L'élixir de longue vie serait donc une substance capable d'éliminer l'eau lourde.Pourquoi alors notre science actuelle serait-elle la seule technique permettant la vérification des résultats déjà décrits par les alchimistes ? Des hommes (ou, devrait-on dire, des êtres humains ou non, terrestres ou pas) ont-ils déjà découvert les secrets de l'énergie et de la matière dans un passé sans fin ?Un passé ayant connu une brillante civilisation, aux techniques et philosophies très avancées mais différentes des nôtres, aurait-il réussi à nous transmettre un peu de son savoir malgré les cataclysmes géologiques, climatiques ou autres, par le biais d'une science traditionnelle et mystique ? Notre propre civilisation, au seuil de connaître un prodigieux épanouissement, se met à douter de son « exclusivité » et cherche à interroger le passé d'une façon scientifique afin de trouver peut-être un moyen de percer le mystère de son essence, et de nouveaux outils pour forger son avenir.
Ce texte, écrit en collaboration avec Jacques Carles, parut dans la page « sciences » du journal La Presse de Montréal, le samedi 13 septembre 1969.
Il constitue un préambule au livre que nous avions en projet comme coauteurs et qui, écrit en 1969-70 à Montréal alors que nous étions thésards, parut en août 1972 chez Albin Michel à Paris sous le titre :L’Alchimie, superscience extra-terrestre ? On y retrouve d’ailleurs la fin de l’article en dos de couverture.

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En espagnol 1974. En portugais 1973.

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En grec 1978. En espagnol (poche) 1977.

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Michel GRANGER - a French researcher ( Fr)

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Dinsdag 10 januari 2017

UFO cover up - Needles, California - Men in black - Documentary

UFO cover up - Needles, California - Men in black - Documentary

Published on Jan 9, 2017

In the early morning hours of May 14, 2008, witnesses in Needles, CA saw a turquoise glowing object in a rapid descent over the Colorado River. Soon after, military helicopters carried away an object that appeared to be glowing, and according to witnesses, military personnel canvassed the town, intimidating witnesses and townspeople.

From the investigative report of George Knapp:

"A large object with a turquoise hue plummeted out of the sky earlier this summer and plowed into the earth south of Las Vegas near Needles, California.

Eyewitnesses say this was no meteorite, especially since a bunch of helicopters came looking for it and then hauled it away.

The object was seen in the early morning hours of May 14. It appeared to crash into the ground just west of the Colorado River. And that's when things got interesting for residents of the area.

Somewhere in the rough terrain just west of the Colorado River and south of Needles is a point of impact, maybe some burn marks, created by something that fell from the sky. Frank Costigan saw it because he got up at 3 a.m. to let his cat out -- a fiery object that flashed across the sky, but it wasn't a meteor he says.

"It was bright, bright enough that it illuminated the ground," he said.

For seven years, Costigan worked as the chief of airport security at L.A.X. He says the mystery object flew out of the north east, heading southwest, traveling very fast, but at one point it slowed down, then sped up again.

"It went behind a hill, and I waited to see if I could hear it crash because as big as it was, it was bound to make noise," he said.

But he didn't hear a crash. Hours later, David Hayes, the owner of KTOX Radio in Needles, was coming to work when he spotted an odd formation of dark vehicles getting off the highway. He drew a picture of the lead vehicle, a large truck with a dome on top and a black structure that reminded him of a stealth fighter.

"It seemed like it was some kind of surveillance vehicle -- four-wheel drive. It had government plates, U.S. government plates and behind it were a couple of vans that looked like support vehicles," said Hayes.

The men inside had a military bearing, Hayes said, but weren't in uniform. He made eye contact with one of the drivers and the guy followed him. Later in the day, one of the vehicles was parked outside the station, seemingly conducting a surveillance of the place."

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‘Very quickly, very nearby’: Jumbo asteroid flashes by Earth in close-shave

‘Very quickly, very nearby’: Jumbo asteroid flashes by Earth in close-shave

According to the Slooh Observatory, the space rock, dubbed 2017 AG13, was moving at about 10 miles per second, making it hard to spot with a telescope.

“This is moving very quickly, very nearby to us,” Eric Edelman, an astronomer with Slooh, said during a live broadcast of the surprise flyby at 7:47am ET on January 9.

The near-Earth object, or NEO, has “a particularly elliptical orbit,” he noted, adding that “it actually crosses the orbits of two planets, Venus and Earth.”

The asteroid was initially spotted by the University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey as recently as Saturday.

If a “good size chunk of it made it through Earth’s upper atmosphere near a populated area, there might have been damage like we saw in 2013,” technology website CNET reported.

Earth appears to be utterly defenseless in the face of comets and asteroids that bring little warning, a NASA scientist warned in December. The researcher believes building an interceptor rocket and an observer spacecraft could avert catastrophe.

“The biggest problem, basically, is there’s not a hell of a lot we can do about it at the moment,” Dr. Joseph Nuth, a researcher with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco, as quoted by the Guardian.

In February 2013, Russia’s southern Urals Region was rocked by a meteorite explosion in the stratosphere. NASA said the shockwave force was equivalent to a 500-kiloton explosion. The 20-meter-wide (65 feet) meteor exploded over the town of Chelyabinsk. As windowpanes shattered throughout the city, around 1,500 people were injured, but luckily no one was killed. The impact wave damaged a number of buildings, blowing out thousands of windows amid the extremely cold weather.

The US space agency has spotted over 90% of near-Earth objects that are larger than a kilometer. This is thought to be the required size for causing devastation on Earth.

As of January, a total of 15,451 Near-Earth Objects have been discovered, according to NASA. An estimated 875 of these NEOs are asteroids with a diameter of approximately one kilometer or larger. Around 1,766 of these NEOs have been classified as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs).

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Dinsdag 10 januari 2017

Giant asteroid rocketing towards Earth just misses us – and NO ONE spotted the danger

Giant asteroid rocketing towards Earth just misses us – and NO ONE spotted the danger

AN ASTEROID the size of a tower block has whizzed just past Earth – and we had no idea it was coming.

By Harry Kemble

Asteroid misses Earth

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NEAR MISS: Asteroid 2017 AG13 jsut missed Earth by 120,000 miles

“This is moving very quickly, very nearby to us”
Astronomy expert Eric Feldman

The huge rock between 25 and 35 metres tall – around 10 storeys high – and was rocketing towards our planet at 16km every second.

In 2013 a similarly sized asteroid exploded in the sky just about Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.

That blast shattered windows and caused minor damage to buildings over a wide area.

More than a thousand people were injured by flying glass and debris.

The rock spotted yesterday has been designated as asteroid 2017 AG13.

After seeing the danger, astronomy expert Eric Feldman said in a live internet feed: "This is moving very quickly, very nearby to us."

Last month, the White House released a document outlining a Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy.

The document highlighted how early warning remains an issue when asteroids are hurtling towards earth.

In the case of 2017 AG13, the asteroid would likely have exploded high in the atmosphere with the force of 700 kilotons.

Around five asteroids are being discovered every day.

Asteroids vary in size, brightness and orbit – making many of them difficult to identify and track.

They can range from a few metres to several kilometres across.

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Dinsdag 10 januari 2017

Zijn donkere strepen in wolken op Venus bewijs voor buitenaards leven?

Zijn donkere strepen in wolken op Venus bewijs voor buitenaards leven?

In de atmosfeer van Venus zijn vreemde wolken ontdekt die volgens wetenschappers mogelijk verband houden met buitenaards leven.

Donkere strepen in die wolken stellen de wetenschap al sinds de jaren zestig voor een raadsel.

In 2025 wordt een sonde naar de tweede planeet van de zon gestuurd om te kijken of er leven is.

Mysterieuze wolken

Amerikaanse en Russische wetenschappers zijn van plan een onbemande sonde naar de mysterieuze wolken te sturen. Die gaat Venera-D heten.

Het belangrijkste doel van de missie is bepalen of de donkere strepen bewijs kunnen zijn van microbieel leven.

“Ik kan niet zeggen dat er microbieel leven is in de wolken van Venus,” zei Sanjay Limaye van de Universiteit van Madison tegenover Astrobiology Magazine.

Geen idee

“Maar dat betekent niet dat het er niet is. De enige manier om erachter te komen is ernaartoe te gaan en een monster te nemen,” voegde hij toe.

Wetenschappers hebben geen idee hoe de strepen ontstaan. Ze weten alleen dat ze in tegenstelling tot de rest van de atmosfeer ultraviolet licht absorberen.

Vanwege de extreme druk en temperaturen op Venus is het verkennen van de planeet erg lastig.

Grote uitdaging

Mariner 5 landde als eerste succesvol op de planeet, maar begaf het al na 93 minuten. Wetenschappers staan dus voor een grote uitdaging.

Het missieteam is van plan een op zonne-energie aangedreven vliegtuig ‘s nachts door de wolken te laten vliegen.

Een dergelijk vaartuig zal ongeveer een jaar kunnen overleven op Venus, zo denkt het team.

[Astrobiology Magazine]

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Dinsdag 10 januari 2017

‘Starfish’ disc UFO photographed over Tucson

‘Starfish’ disc UFO photographed over Tucson

An Arizona witness at Tucson reported watching and photographing a “starfish-like disc” hovering and rotating over his back backyard, according to testimony in Case 81033 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness was outside in his backyard about 11:30 a.m. on December 18, 2016, when the object was first noticed a reflection coming in from the west at about 5,000 to 10,000 feet.

“When I focused on it, I could see that there was something that was metallic and rotating clockwise in a slow, stable, and consistent manner,” the witness stated. “There was no noise at all. I had my phone and tried to take a picture, but the object was too high up for me to get a good shot.”

Cropped and enlarged portion of witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness then ran inside to retrieve an SLR camera and quickly changed lenses to a telephoto; then ran back outside.

“It was still there, so I started taking pictures.”

Cropped and enlarged portion of witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness uploaded nine images with his MUFON report, which was filed on December 18, 2016.

“The object appeared and then disappeared from my view based upon how it was reflecting the sunlight. Since it seemed to be several miles away, I had a hard time focusing my camera on it, but I was able to get several good shots.”

After around 15 minutes, the witness was no longer able to find it in his viewfinder or by simply looking in that direction.

Cropped and enlarged portion of witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

“I got the impression that it exited my view following a consistent northwest path until it left my field of vision. The only thing that was left in the sky was a jet heading from the west to east at approximately the same height. This is an estimate from my vantage point, and I am not an expert so couldn’t say for certain. I also took pictures of the jet for comparative reference.”

State Section Director Diane Gleason is investigating for Arizona 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.

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Dinsdag 10 januari 2017

Leslie Kean and Jose Lay – Chilean Navy UFO Video – January 9, 2017

Leslie Kean and Jose Lay – Chilean Navy UFO Video – January 9, 2017

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Journalist Leslie Kean recently posted an article in The Huffington Post about a two year investigation by the Chilean government’s official UFO investigation organization into a video captured by the Chilean Navy showing an object they cannot identify. The object was caught on an infrared camera, and according to the director of the UFO organization, “We do not know what it was, but we do know what it was not.”

The video was investigated by CEFAA, an organization in Chile’s equivalent of the FAA, which also falls under the jurisdiction of the Chilean Air Force. CEFAA has full cooperation with other branched of the Chilean government and also reaches out to other UFO research organization throughout the world.

In this interview, we discuss the case with Leslie and CEFAA Director of International Affairs Jose Lay.

To read more about this case, visit:

For more information about Leslie Kean, visit: www.ufosontherecord.com

For more information about CEFAA, visit: www.cefaa.gob.cl

Read more stories regarding CEFAA here.

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Dinsdag 10 januari 2017

MEGA-OCEAN ANOMALY NEAR UFO HOT-SPOT!! Google Earth Myrtle Beach, SC 1/9/17

MEGA-OCEAN ANOMALY NEAR UFO HOT-SPOT!! Google Earth Myrtle Beach, SC 1/9/17

Drew found an interesting ocean anomaly near a well-known UFO hot spot (Myrtle Beach, SC). Original Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64binWmZd8I MEGA-OCEAN ANOMALY NEAR UFO HOTSPOT!! Google Earth Myrtle Beach, SC 1/9/17

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Dinsdag 10 januari 2017

Dyson Sphere Found Near Aquarius Constellation Using Google Sky Map, Jan 2017, PHOTOs, UFO Sighting News.

Dyson Sphere Found Near Aquarius Constellation Using Google Sky Map, Jan 2017, PHOTOs, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of discovery: January 10, 2017

Location of discovery: Near Aquarius

Google Sky Coordinates: 22h35m54.80s -4 25'27.22"

Looking through Google sky is a lot of fun. Its a bit slower that Google Mars or Moon to find an alien structure, but when you do, its well worth the effort.

This is an alien megastructure...also known as a Dyson sphere. That is a megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures most or all of its energy output. It makes sense, since the more technologically advanced a species grows, the more dependent on energy that species becomes.You can see the light of the sun...which is a green light shining through the gaps in one side of the sphere. These gaps may be unfinished areas, since it take millions of years to construct, or it could have been made that way so ships can travel easily in and out. You see, the inside of the Dyson sphere would have the the inside area that is 600 million times that we have on Earth. That is a lot of room for a lot of people.

Sure it might take a long time to build such a large sphere, but if aliens constructed millions of robots, they could work 24/7 for a million years and probably finish it. They could even mine their own materials and construct their own materials. Then...the aliens just wait for the work to be finished, while they do something more important with their times.

Scott C. Waring

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Dinsdag 10 januari 2017

UFO Shoots Past Passenger Jet Over Mudgee, Australia On Jan 6, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Shoots Past Passenger Jet Over Mudgee, Australia On Jan 6, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: January 6, 2017

Location of sighting: Mudgee, Australia

This passenger jet had a really close flyby with a UFO in broad daylight over Australia this week. The UFO moves so fast that it almost makes the jet seem like its standing still. Aliens are always interested in the latest and greatest human technology. Aircraft often have this, so the drone UFOs will shoot by so fast the plane will not see them, and it will not be seen on radar. They scan the craft, the humans on board and the interesting tech it has...all in the span of a few seconds or less.

Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

The camera was using: CANON X A.25. Full H D camera.50 X optical zoom.

President Reagan’s Diary

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Filer’s Files #2 – 2017 Solar Warden Space Fleet - PART I

First unknown object of the New Year over Syracuse, New York on January 1, 2017

Filer’s Files #2 – 2017 Solar Warden Space Fleet - PART I

In special reports, this week’s files cover: General L.M. Chassin UFOs Are Real, Solar Warden – The Secret Space Program, President Reagan, TR-3B, and Jupiter.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Germany, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, England in the United Kingdom and Uruguay.

The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

George A. Filer III

New Jersey State Director

MUFON Eastern Region Director

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Special Projects

General L.M. Chassin UFOs Are Real

General L.M. Chassin, NATO coordinator of Allied Air Service, warning that “The number of thoughtful, intelligent, educated people in full possession of their faculties who have “seen something” and described it, grows every day. We can say categorically that mysterious objects have indeed appeared and continue to appear in the sky that surrounds us.”

“If we persist in refusing to recognize the existence of the UFOs, we will end up, one fine day, by mistaking them for the guided missiles of an enemy – and the worst will be upon us.”

These concerns were taken seriously enough to be incorporated into the 1971 US-Soviet “Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Outbreak of Nuclear War.” Note: Direct communication was set up from the Pentagon to the Soviet Command Headquarters to prevent nuclear war. US and Soviet aircraft jointly would track and chase UFOs.

Solar Warden – The Secret Space Program

US Naval Network and Space Operations Command photo

UK News Darren Perks reports since 1980, a secret space fleet code named ‘Solar Warden’ has been in operation unknown to the public that allegedly includes key world governments. While conducting an FOI (freedom of information) request with the DOD (department of defense) in 2010, I had a very unexpected response by email from them which read:

“About an hour ago I spoke to a NASA rep who confirmed this was their program and that it was terminated by the President Obama. He also informed me that it was not a joint program with the DOD. The NASA rep informed me that you should be directed to the Johnson Space Center FOIA Manager.
The program not only operates classified under the US Government but also under the United Nations authority. So you might be wondering, how do I know this information? Well there are a few people and many others that have tried hard to find out the truth, and have succeeded by leaked information or simply asking questions and have government departments slip up and give away information freely, just like what happened when Darren Perks asked the DOD. One notable contributor is Gary Mckinnon.

When Gary McKinnon hacked into U.S. Space Command computers several years ago and learned of the existence of “non-terrestrial officers” and “fleet-to-fleet transfers” and a secret program called “Solar Warden”, he was charged by the Bush Justice Department with having committed “the biggest military computer hack of all time”, and stood to face prison time of up to 70 years after extradition from UK. But trying earnest McKinnon in open court would involve his testifying to the above classified facts, and his attorney would be able to subpoena government officers to testify under oath about the Navy’s Space Fleet. McKinnon also found out about the ships or craft within Solar Warden. It is said that there are about eight cigar-shaped Motherships (each longer than two football fields end-to-end) and 43 small “scout ships. The Solar Warden Space Fleet operates under the US Naval Network and Space Operations Command (NNSOC) [formerly Naval Space Command]. There are approximately 300 personnel involved at that facility, with the figure rising.

On July 24, 2016, ·Theresa May became the new Conservative Party leader and second female prime minister, taking charge of the UK. So how did Theresa May become popular enough to become the Prime Minister of the UK?

The Obama Administration was forcing the UK to extradite Gary McKinnon to face trial in the US with a possible seventy years in prison.

“Mrs. May as the Home Secretary took the highly unusual step of blocking the extradition of Mr. McKinnon making her popular with the British people.

McKinnon claims Solar Warden is said to be made up from U.S. aerospace Black Projects contractors, but with some contributions of parts and systems by Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Austria, Russia, and Australia. It is also said that the program is tested and operated from secret military bases and includes personnel from many countries including Russia.

We have a space fleet, which is code named; ‘Solar Warden.’ There were, as of 2005, eight ships, an equivalent to aircraft carriers and forty-three ‘protectors,’ which are space planes. One was lost recently to an accident in Mars’ orbit while it was attempting to re-supply the multinational colony within Mars. This base was established in 1964 by American and Soviet teamwork. Not everything is, as it seems.”

The name “Solar Warden” is a term that generically refers to the ultra-secret space fleet. If the program does exist, it would require a tremendous amount of capital to construct its fleets. Last year, the United States’ black budget for secret programs spanning dozens of agencies was $52.6 billion, according to the Washington Post. However, if the government did decide to build a space fleet of exotic technology and design, the money could be utilized, especially if more than one nation is involved and funneling money into this program as postulated by some disclosure advocates.

Allegedly, “We have visited all the planets in our solar system, at a distance of course, except Mercury. We have landed on Pluto and a few moons. These ships contain personnel from many countries and have sworn an oath to the World Government. The technology came from back engineering alien-disc wreckage and at times with alien assistance.” William Tompkins and others claim this is true. So should we just write this off as utter nonsense?

No we shouldn’t and as time goes on the truth will slowly come out. Many people around the world are now witnessing craft moving around in the skies and sub space that completely defy gravity. Whether they are part of the Solar Warden secret program, military experimental aircraft or not, thousands of people know what they see. In my view is very real and a very strong possibility. Sensitive is an understatement. This program would change the world and our views on space exploration and travel, so no wonder that it would be kept a big ‘secret’. We should all keep it in the back of our minds… for now at least! Thanks to Darren Perk’s investigation work here: www.ufoshropshire.co.uk

President Reagan

It’s well known that President Ronald Reagan gave a speech at the United Nations in September 1987 calling for the world to unite in dealing with an alien threat. He said:

“In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us?”

Reagan then appeared to walk back his startling remarks by asking: “What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?” Earlier and subsequent comments reveal that what he really meant by “alien force” was an extraterrestrial threat, rather than a more mundane reference to the danger of global war.

In 1995, he had asked the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, whether he would pledge cooperation with the USA in responding to an extraterrestrial threat. In a 2009 interview, Gorbachev confirmed Reagan’s request during their 1995 Geneva Summit: President Reagan suddenly said to me, “What would you do if the United States were suddenly attacked by someone from outer space? Would you help us?”

I said, “No doubt about it.”

He said, “We too.”

Reagan’s views about extraterrestrial life were not dismissed by the Kremlin. Gorbachev did eventually respond in a serious way to Reagan’s scenario of an extraterrestrial invasion. In February 1997, Gorbachev responded to Reagan’s comments at their 1985 Geneva Summit.

At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, although I think it’s early yet to worry about such an intrusion.

In May 1990, shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union Gorbachev made a second more direct statement about UFOs he stated,.”The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.”

The Solar Warden Spacecraft indicates the US and the Soviet Union did join forces against and outside alien threat.

UFO attacks.

General Igor Malsev, Chief of the General Staff for Air Defense Forces (PVO), admitted that over a hundred observations of UFOs had been reported to him, mostly by pilots, on March 21, 1990. The Soviets were very concerned about the attacks and the new threats provided by UFOs.

According to filmmaker and Russian ufologist Dr. Vladimir Avinsky, on September 13, 1990, just after midnight a Soviet radar station near Samara was attacked by a black triangular shaped UFO. It was about 50 feet in length on each leg of the triangle. A fire stated and the radar antennae seemed to melt. These extraordinary events were reported in the Red Star Military Newspaper. Dr. Avinsky provided this drawing of the attack.

In 1989, the Cold War came to a rapid end with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and by December 1991, the Soviet Union was no more. President Yeltsin became the first President of the Russian Federation, while Vladimir Putin became the second and fourth President of the largest republic from the former Soviet Union. Putin claims to be a Christian and supports President Assad in Syria who has protected the Christians who are being killed by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

There appears to a strong link between the rapid collapse of communism in Europe, and Reagan’s efforts to get the world to unite in opposing an extraterrestrial threat. Key members of the United Nations did covertly come together to form a group of nations to fight an extraterrestrial threat usually described as reptilians.

The National Archive Records Administration made available almost 250,000 pages of documents from President Reagan’s administration that includes sight into a curious comment found in President Reagan’s Diary. The entry for Tuesday, June 11, 1985 (page 334) reads:

Lunch with 5 top space scientists.

“It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction, except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.”

The Space Shuttle grounded by President Obama held a maximum of eight people and only five were built for space flight. Even if all five took off fully loaded it would be impossible to place and maintain 300 astronauts in orbit. Apparently President Reagan revealed the existence of a highly classified space program that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit?

Apparently hidden within one of the ten unified combatant commands of the U.S. military, Strategic Command, is a highly classified fleet of aircraft carrier sized antigravity vehicles that operate in outer space.

The United States has organized its military forces into ten unified combatant commands respectively led by a single four star General or Admiral who reports directly to the Secretary of Defense. Only these commanders know of the existence of UFOs and appoint who has a need to know. From 1985 to 2002 Space Command was responsible for outer space operations by the U.S. military. In June 2002, Space Command merged with another of the functional commands the United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. which is responsible for a range of space, satellite, missile, nuclear and intelligence activities.

Rumors that the U.S. has a highly classified fleet of antigravity vehicles have circulated for years. On March 23, 1993, at an engineering conference in Los Angeles, Dr. Ben Rich former CEO of Lockheed’s Skunkworks, showed a slide with a black disk headed for space and said: “We now have the technology to take ET home”.

SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS COMMAND

Military emblems often tell secrets. A recent Navy ad stated:

Sailors Wanted on Spaceships – United States Navy

www.navy.mil/ah_online/ftrStory.asp?issue=3&id=92423

Sailors Wanted on Spaceships . NASA applications now being accepted. 14 December 2015 By Terrina Weatherspoon, Defense Media Activity.

As the Navy’s information warfare systems command, SPAWAR develops, delivers and sustains communications and information capabilities for warfighters.

Corporate and military whistleblowers have come forward to claim firsthand knowledge of classified space vehicles using antigravity technology. In his book, “The Hunt for Zero Point,” Jane’s Defense Weekly analyst Nick Cook writes about the Aurora: “there has been speculation since the late 1980s about the existence of a secret replacement for the Blackbird, a mythical plane called the Aurora that supposedly flew twice as fast and on the edges of space” (p. 14). Other whistleblowers such as Edgar Fouche, a former contractor with the Department of Defense, states, “The Aurora comprises the SR-75 capable of speeds above Mach 5, and acts as a mother ship for the SR-74 that can travel at speeds of Mach 18 or more into space to deliver satellites.”

TR-3B

More significant is the large black triangular vehicle, the TR-3B that Fouche claims generates an intense magnetic field that reduces its weight by 89 percent. He says that the TR-3B uses the Biefeld-Brown effect (created by large electrostatic charges) to reduce its weight so that more conventional propulsion systems such as scramjets can give it amazing speeds. This would be well above Mach 18 that he claims is the speed of the SR-74. Fouche claims the TR-3B is 600 feet across which would make it similar in size to an aircraft carrier.

Ted Twietmeyer writes that a Space Command photograph had the following citation: … highlights the team for its exceptional support in keeping the space shuttle, International Space Station and its crews safe from the dangers of orbital debris, spacecraft collisions and other inherent hazards of orbit operations.

Neither USAF Space Command nor Strategic Command is publicly known to have any kind of space vehicle that would assist the Space Shuttle or International Space Station from orbital dangers.

Normally, space vehicles would require gradual orbital corrections that would take much time and be insufficient to deal with an immediate threat. According to Ted Twietmeyer, the citation is circumstantial evidence for the existence of antigravity vehicles with advanced particle beam weapons that could remove orbital debris from the path of space vehicles. These triangles must be armed with particle beam or quantum weaponry, or lasers and other weaponry. These weapons could also be used to destroy objects in the path of the space station or space shuttle.

There is a massive anti-gravity energy field surrounding these vehicles which interferes with all electronic devices, making it unlikely anyone could ever get images of them. War has historically been the best proving ground for all new weapons. In the UK, the press and media are forbidden under the UK Secrets Act from covering or reporting on sightings of black triangles. That act speaks volumes about whether or not black triangles exist. The TR-3 has been in service since the mid-1990’s.

Michael E. Salla, PhD writes, The idea that a secret space fleet exists that can intervene to assist the Space Shuttle or International Space Station is also supported by the testimony of a former NASA employee Clark McClelland.

“On one occasion he claims to have witnessed delta winged antigravity vehicle nearby. The delta shaped vehicle may in fact have been part of a classified Space Fleet attached to U.S. Strategic Command.”

Important clues may emerge from the recently released Reagan records about Strategic Command’s classified space fleet. More significantly, the public may soon learn about the advanced antigravity technologies that have been secretly developed and used for decades to fly military astronauts into deep space.

Out of This World! The Most Amazing Space Discoveries of 2016

The JunoCam aboard NASA’s Juno probe instrument snapped this photo of Jupiter during a close flyby of the gas giant. The first science results from the mission are expected to appear in 2017.

Credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Public Domain

2016 has been a bountiful year for space science. Before the calendar runs out, here’s our list of the biggest space stories and events of the past 12 months.

There were monumental new discoveries, including the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves, which gives scientists access to a whole new realm of information about cosmic events. This year, scientists also discovered a potentially habitable planet orbiting the star nearest to Earth’s sun. Thanks to Space.com and NASA By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Filer’s Files #2 – 2017 Solar Warden Space Fleet - PART II

Filer’s Files #2 – 2017 Solar Warden Space Fleet - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

California Large light

Redwood City — Pre-arranged with occupants sighting of glowing orb.

Yes I knew they were coming on December 21, 2016.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Lights

Port Richey — About 12:15 I went to let my dog out on December 13, 2016. Looked up at the sky above the field of satellite, HAARP and cell phone towers and saw that there was a wall of blue plasma like lights. To the left the sky looked as if it was sunrise. In the middle of the blue wall was a black cloud like funnel. Next to the cloud like funnel were two orbs dancing around the funnel. Called my wife to see everything and for the next few hours we watched as the orbs danced around the funnel. The funnel then became more defined and looked more like a tower. One of the orbs went into the top of the tower and moved like a gyrosphere, the other orbed stayed stationary to the top and to the left of the tower. It was now about 4 am. The tower dissipated and we heard and felt very loud rumbles. The two orbs then merged and shot up. The wall of blue lights gradually fell just looming over the horizon until sun up around 7 am. It was like a movie, as the blue lights dissipated a fog rolled in instantly blanketing the entire region until about 10 am and the fog disappeared like it was turned off by a switch. Next day there was lots of air traffic. They seemed like they were spraying something by night the town was covered with mist falling from the sky. Our house smelled like chemicals and our infant became sick. We continue to see weird phenomenon by our house. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Hampshire Disc

Lincoln — I brought my grandson’s to see where to old man in the mountain was on July 29, 2016. I took a bunch of pictures with my phone about two weeks ago. I was looking at the pictures and noticed a little black dot over the mountain. I thought it was a speck of dirt and tried to clean the screen, and it didn’t go away. So I made the screen bigger, and found something I can’t exin. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Lights

Bordentown — This occurred in a small town in the eastern United States. I looked out my second floor window at 7:03 a.m. on December 25, 2016, and saw the sun rising to the right of the house next door. The sun always rises to the left of the house next door, and on this date, it was scheduled to rise at 7:19 a.m. I took three photos of the “false sunrise,” which looked like a sun-like egg shining through the forest behind a house on the next block. There are no towers, buildings, reflective objects behind that house. The object was stationary and did not pulse. After observing it for five minutes, I went to feed the cats, and when I returned around 7:13, it was entirely gone. I took a photo of this. Around 7:20 there was a glow to the left of the house next door to me and soon I saw and photographed the true sunrise (two photos). I later learned there is a phenomenon called the False Sunrise which could have accounted for the presence of the object I observed. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Camden — On the evening of December 18th (not sure the exact day, it was the 17, 18, or 19th of December 2016) I was driving home from a job that I had started in Collingswood, NJ. I was on a very busy 3 lane highway, route 130, stopped at a traffic light when I first noticed 3 red glowing objects which seemed to emerge from a strip of trees. The trees were right on the street line, and the objects were EXTREMELY LOW, no more than 10 ft off the ground. I thought it must be some kind of prank, lights attached to balloons by kids for fun, or some kind of toy drones. It wasn’t until I was stopped again, at another traffic light that I was able to get my phone out and record what was going on. I have a 2 minute clip I posted to my YouTube channel (but I unfortunately cannot figure out how to post to the media attachments below), but I will post a few screens hot from the video, and I am more than happy to give the URL link to my video upon request). What I recorded was 3 red orb/plasma light UFOs, they appeared to be pure energy, or light. The way they ascended into the sky showed intelligence-two of the orb UFOs touch one another and the 3rd, which was lagging behind sped up as the other 2 hovered, eventually passing the 2 that converged on one another. I have recorded many videos of UFOs, as I have been ufo/sky hunting for 4 years now. I have not turned anything into Mufon, as I was waiting for a video that had undeniable rock solid proof of ufos. I believe I have that proof with this video, as it has silenced every skeptic I’ve shown it to. One thing that I may add is a jet plane enters the frame towards the end of the video. This is a topic for another time, but I and many others have video proof that ufos are cloaking themselves somehow, appearing as jet airplanes/helicopters. So even the airplane in the clip very well may also be a cloaked ufo. Thanks to MUFON

New York Reflective Object

Syracuse — My wife and I were driving SW from State Route 690S in Syracuse onto State Route 5 (West Bound) when we observed an object in the sky at approximately 5:44 PM EST on January 1, 2017. The object looked like it was on fire and falling, and as we followed the object, we noticed it was stationary in the sky. Other airplanes were flying near the same airspace and were noticeably moving. This object, upon closer examination from different viewpoints, seemed to have two large tails that came off the main body. It appeared to be highly reflective. From the vantage point of our observation, as we traveled towards Skaneateles, NY, it would appear that it was hovering somewhere over the Finger Lakes region (Cayuga, Seneca Lakes?). It was much larger than any other identifiable airplanes in the sky, approximately 3-5 times the size to the visible eye. We tracked the object, unmoving in the sky, from 690S in Syracuse until Rt. 321 in Skaneateles for about 20 minutes where we lost sight of it.

We travelled SW of Skaneateles towards Owasco Lake, but the object had either disappeared or gone below the skyline that we could observe. We were able to take several pictures and a video, although they don’t truly present the significance of the color and reflective nature of the object.

Oklahoma White Flash

Pawhuska — I was practicing CE-5 meditation protocol and I seen a bright white flash in the sky, so then I used my laser pointer to circle around the flash, and this happened a couple times as you can see through the video.
I took the pictures with a modified dsl camera. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Oregon Orange Several Balls

Hillsboro –I had stepped out onto my deck to hear the neighborhood firecrackers going off as the clock struck midnight on New Years for January 1, 2017. I was listening to Louis Armstrong and opened the door to my deck and noticed a glowing ball of red light pop into view from the southwest. I’m on the third floor apt with an unobstructed view of skies over rooftops. The orb just moved very slowly and deliberately towards me. I noticed it was very round and quiet. I could clearly see a cluster of red and orange glowing lights inside it. Then it seemed to be pulsing within itself or spinning like a top. Then another popped into view and then another. I counted six all moving about 1 to 2 minutes apart from each other. I watched them pop up from southwest and move northeast. I counted up to 10 to 12 units and one was a “pair” in the center flight formation. This whole thing lasted about 18 to 20 minutes. About 12 were flying across sky at 1 to 2 minute intervals.

Note: The witness quite likely viewed Chinese lanterns. They are launched frequently to celebrate the New Year. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

Pennsylvania Red Light

Camp Hill, Carlisle — On November 11,/2016 at 8:03 PM, I was taking out my trash to the compactor when I looked up and saw a red solid light hovering over my work facility where behind the building is a football field is. Our bailer room is right behind me with only plastic flaps covering its entrance and it’s noisy so therefore I could not hear the observed object’s noise but I noticed that it may have been observing the football game. The object light seemed round mimicking a light off of a tower or a solid light from an aircraft. I did not hear a propeller sound from a helicopter as it would have easily over powered our bailer room’s sound. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Philadelphia –: I used my phone to zoom in to what I thought was the brightest star I have ever seen on January 1, 2017. When I zoomed in, this did not look like all the other stars sand was a glowing pulsating.orb with a small dark center. I continued to hold my camera zoomed in on this “star” and as it was pulsating I saw it expand to where it looked like it had double ring of lights. I keep watching through my zoomed lens and now I see 4 distinct lights and it seemed as if it was changing shape. It changed from a simple pulsating white orb with double ring of lights to an aircraft shaped object that is displaying blue lights which there had six lights. Smaller sets of orange lights flew away from this aircraft. Then it turned again to where it now looks like a white double ringed pulsating orb. To the naked it eye it looked noticing larger than what we call the north star and brighter. The news reported that it was Venus.

Note: The witness makes a good point that Venus is not a good explanation for he saw and photographed. Many reports this past month have been sightings of Venus. However, the photos suggest that the witness saw something else. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

Texas Object

Odessa — This is a object I reported in 2016 and filed by mufon in November. Visible from 5.40 to 8.30 PM, The phone pictures are zoomed at 4x when I zoom in the shots get wild. Now you can see daylight orbs that are visible. I have counted over a hundred.

When an object comes into view I have noticed three lights in a triangle. The three lights set up around Odessa stay all-night until daylight. I’m up late and get up before daylight and they’re visible as others have seen now. I hope you get mufon investigators here to properly document what is going on. In the same area chemtrails run nonstop over same direction. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Light

Neales Flat — We saw a bright light on January 1, 2017. We thought someone was spotlighting but it was way too far up in the air. It hovered and zipped around like a torch up in the sky without a beam. The light made it down to the ground then disappeared and another appeared later and much higher in the sky where it still is now. It is red and is getting harder to see. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Brazil Triangle

Santo Antônio Da Platina – On December 18, 2016, I was looking at the clouds and was wondering if UFOs can see us through the clouds.
That’s when I saw a star-like UFO passing through the clouds above me that came out of a circle. I ran into my house and told my parents. My dad asked me to get the camera and go to the front of the house and take pictures.

Canada Objects

Port Greville — We were 10-15 minutes from home in an area that provided a great view of the orange sunset and noticed fireballs on November 10, 2016. We assumed the fireballs were a meteor shower but something was out of place as three orange globes were traveling at different speeds leaving behind a trail which didn’t last long. It was more of a rocket type with greater speeds and longer tails length, There was three of these objects but I never saw the spidery object until I looked at the pictures to see if they were any good. It stayed with us above the power lines until we lost him when we arrived home.

We lost sight of the orbs but spidery went over us one final time and this is when it changed colour from grey to red, green and white. However my camera took too long to focus on the object and we missed the shot. My wife still doesn’t believe in ufos but I’m convinced now. We lost sight of the objects when they were 20 kms distance over Spencer’s Island.
Thanks to Mike Aris and Thanks to MUFON CMS

China Light

Wuhan — My wife and I were on our way back home when I saw a light at the west side of the sky on December 15, 2016. This light surprised me because once it arrived on a dome shaped building it changed the direction from south to north, to east then west! After awhile it flew out of my site, I was about to turn around to go to home when I saw the second exact one 10 seconds after the first one disappeared! I started to capture the light with my phone but it is low quality. In the video you can see the third one but that was the last one. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Columbia Two Objects

Two unknown objects were flying near our aircraft over Columbia on December 31, 2016, and were too high to be birds. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Germany No Film

Munich — During a rare clear sky in Munich I set my camera for shooting stars on December 29, 2016 taking one picture every 16 seconds with Shutter speed of 15seconds, ISO 1600, F 2.8, Focal length 25mm, The camera kept shooting for six hours for a total of 2260 pictures.
After enhancing the images and displaying them one frame at the time, you can clearly see airplanes in each frame as they fly straight or have slight turns. However, for the first time I saw a 15 second light which seems to come from an airplane in one frame as it was flying straight. In the next frame the direction changes 90 degrees. Also it hovers at the point of direction change. The next five frames are followed by hovering for about 15 seconds. This followed by one frame for a direction change by 90 degrees facing toward the original direction. Then increasing speed to original location. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mexico Cylinder

Mexico City – Today January 5, 2017 a tourist spotted a series of cylinder shaped craft flying above the city at high altitude. Photos are being sent. Thanks to Tom

Portugal Triangle

Azores — I had stepped out from my house at around 9pm to smoke a cigarette before bed on January 2, 2017, and looked up to observe Orion, who has appeared in the East at an elevation of about 20/25 degrees. I noticed an unusual star in the sky near where Sirius should be. I decided to move onto my terrace to take a better look. I rushed up to my terrace and continued to view the star and realized that it was in fact three lights very close together in the sky, marking the corners of an equilateral triangle. The lights seemed to be pulsating randomly and alternating color randomly between red, blue and green – there was no discernible pattern. Occasionally there were visible lines going from the lights in the corners to the centre of the triangle, always the same color as the lights. The lines never met in the centre, which was already dark.

They were fading in brilliance and then growing again in unison. The object was visible in the NEE, above the ocean (I live on Ilha das Flores, Azores). There was also a second object at a slightly lower elevation visible at NE.
I called my wife out, and she came up to the terrace and confirmed what I saw for roughly fifteen minutes, and then faded away. I was unaffected psychologically (apart from my obvious excitement at seeing an unidentifiable object in the night sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Romania Light

Cluj2 — I noticed later, this light on the photo taken on December 29, 2016.

Nothing is similar on the other photos taken before or after on the same trip.

, the light does not appear to be a reflection although I’m not being a specialist.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Light

Portadown — I was the age of 10 in April of 2010, and my dad had came out of the house to tell me and my two friends that it was time to go leave when I noticed a orange object in the sky I said “Look!, what’s that?” Everyone looked up and there was this stationary orb thing in the sky. It looked like there was a vibrating small white orb in the middle of the object and around it was yellow to light orange to red colors and it was just sitting stationary in the sky. It was a clear night and it suddenly disappeared and reappeared lower to the left. Then stationary and again disappeared and reappeared this time bottom to the right of where it originally was. It kept disappearing and reappearing this time forward from where the object originally was, Finally it disappeared again when I realized it was moving in a triangular formation: center of the triangle, bottom left of the triangle, bottom right of the triangle, the tip of the triangle and the returned back to the center of the triangle. My youngest friend just started crying because he was scared. Thanks to MUFON CMS

I was in Manchester town centre with my brother on June 9, 2012; we were driving through the ‘Northern Quarter’ when I saw a ball of different colored lights hovering at 30-50 feet away to my left. I said to my brother to stop the car and I got my phone out to take a photo. My brother only saw the object very briefly. There was a car behind beeping so I said for us to turn left and to drive down the road it was on. We turned left and accidentally passed the road we should have turned so I said to stop. We looked down the road the object was on and the object had disappeared. I looked at phone and we saw that I had captured the object quite clearly. I cannot explain it. The object was a hollow ball made up of round downturned discs with vivid colors on the outside. I could see through into the hollow. The object was between 3 and 8 foot in size and seemed to be hovering over a nearby car. If you can help to explain what I saw that would be great. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Uruguay Light

La Barra — I was waiting for the bus to go home after work on December 28, 2016 and noticed red lights in the sky. I thought were those of an airplane, but suddenly, the lights seemed to stop. And suddenly the lights went back very fast and again stood still.
That`s when I grabbed my phone and recorded the event.
I realized that under the red lights also blue lights were shining too. The object flew back and forth at tremendous speed and would suddenly stop. Another guy also noticed the strange behavior of the flying object and as I recorded it. After minutes, the object simply disappeared from sight. I was really happy that finally I had a recording of what I think is a UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Astronomers Think A Rare And Explosive 'Red Nova' Will Light Up The Night Sky In A Few Years

Astronomers Think A Rare And Explosive 'Red Nova' Will Light Up The Night Sky In A Few Years

The V838 monocerotis red supergiant which may have been two stars that collided as a red nova

NASA/ESA/ The Hubble Heritage Team ( STSCI/AURA)

Every once in awhile, the stars actually do align — then merge, catastrophically explode, and spray their guts all over space.

Or at least that's the suspected trigger of rare "red novas," so-named for their characteristic red color.

One of the best-studied red novas happened in 2008. The object, called V1309 Scorpii, was a double-star system (also called a binary) measured for over 6 years before it merged and erupted.

But astronomers are desperate to find more such binary systems before they detonate, since watching the cosmic collisions would not only reveal a lot about the evolution of stars and nebulas, but also how space gets seeded with elements necessary for life.

Part of that effort has been a thorough search for binary star systems that look ready to blow.

However, Larry Molnar, an astronomer at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has gone a big step further with a few colleagues: Over the past 2 years, he's claimed not only to have found such a system, but also predicted when it will blow up as a red nova.

"No one has ever seen a star go into this kind of explosion. No other situation has come up where any astronomer has ever been able to say, 'this is a star about to blow up,'" Molnar said in a preview for an upcoming documentary, called "Luminous."

His prognostication is specific enough to make any astrophysicist squirm: Molnar now says the whole thing will go down just 5 years from now.

In fact, according to Molnar's prediction, the stellar outburst should be visible in the night sky without any help from binoculars or a telescope.

"[I]n the lack of viable alternatives we must take seriously the unlikely hypothesis at hand," Molnar told Business Insider in an email.

A dance of death

KIC 9832227 binary star model peanut shape molnar et al

^{A computer model of the binary star system KIC 9832227.Calvin College/Cara Alexander, Daniel Van Noord, Chris Spedden, and Larry Molnar}

The stars in question are a system called KIC 9832227, and they're locked in a dance of death.

In fact, they're so close together that they share each other's million-degree-plasma atmospheres: an object called a "contact" binary.

If you could magically teleport to the system, which is located about 1,700 light years from us amid the constellation Cygnus, it might appear as a brilliantly glowing bowling pin.

But no one was certain that KIC 9832227 was actually a double-star system; all astronomers knew was that its brightness varied over the years. Many types of stars and star systems "pulsate" their brightness in this way, so Molnar and a Calvin College student had to first rule out any doubt that it was two stars.

What they found in 2015 is that it behaved much like V1309 Scorpii — one of the best-known binary systems to unpredictably merge — and that the stars' mutual orbits were closing in.

"Over the past ten years, the period of KIC 9832227 has been getting shorter at a faster and faster rate," Molnar and his team wrote in a research poster about their discovery. "This implies that the stars are orbiting faster and getting closer together."

The team has recently ruled out more "mundane" explanations for what they see, according to a January 7 press release by Calvin College.

Predicting a violent stellar outburst

Cygnus constellation red nova prediction.GIF

^{By using data from the few known examples, especially V1309 Scorpii, Molnar has calculated the approximate moment that the two stars of KIC 9832227 will collide: in the year 2022, "give or take a year," according to the release.}

Molnar said the explosion should increase the brightness of the star system 1,000-fold, to about magnitude 2 — roughly as bright as Polaris, the North Star.

If and when the two stars collide, they aftermath might look something like V838 Monocerotis, a star which suddenly flashed in 2002, temporarily becoming 600,000 times brighter than the sun — and the brightest star in the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers aren't certain V838 Monocerotis is actually a red nova, but ever since 2002, the Hubble Space Telescope has kept its wandering eye on the expanding gas and dust of the object.

Researchers in 2006 morphed eight of those Hubble photos to show off the red nova's evolution. This animation shows 4 years compressed into 6 seconds:

Should Molnar's prediction of the merger of KIC 9832227 prove correct, then astronomers will get one of the greatest heads-ups ever to a relatively rare and important event in the evolution of stars.

And being many times closer than a star like V838 Monocerotis, which is located some 20,000 light-years away, KIC 9832227 may also afford among the closest views of a stellar mega-eruption.

"If the star can completely merge, it can release as much energy as the sun would release in its entire lifetime," he said in the teaser video for "Luminous", adding that there's only "a one-in-a-million chance" to catch an event like this.

"Given the percentages of how many systems we have looked at and how unusual this event is," Molnar told Business Insider, "it seems unlikely that we should have found the next red nova so 'easily.'"

Now watch: NASA just released the most accurate map of where Americans can witness a spectacular total solar eclipse this year

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Chilean Government Releases An Unexplainable

Chilean Government Releases An Unexplainable "UFO Sighting" Video

I WANT TO BELIEVE. UFOSONTHERECORD'S CHANNEL/YOUTUBE

By Tom Hale

The Chilean government has declassified a video and released a report on an unidentified flying object sighting that occurred over two years ago.

The nine-minute video was picked up by a Chilean Navy helicopter at an altitude of 1,370 meters (4,500 feet) along the coast between the port of San Antonio and Quinteros on November 11, 2014. The helicopter’s infrared camera operator detected an unknown object in the distance, which appeared to be flying at a similar speed to the helicopter, at around 244 kilometers (152 miles) per hour.

Two experienced Navy officers on board also saw the object. According to the Huffington Post, one told the investigation that the object had a “flat, elongated structure” with “two thermal spotlights like discharges that did not coincide with the axle of motion.”

Most bizarre of all, the heat-sensitive infrared cameras show the object appearing to thrust out a plume of an unidentified hot material at least twice.

They contacted two radar stations in an attempt to identify the object, neither of which could find it. Before they knew it, the object vanished into the clouds.

After two years of investigation by a team composed of leading scientists and aviation technicians, the CEFAA – a wing of Chile’s aviation agency – appears to be no closer to solving the mystery than before.

In a statement, translated by Google, they said: “Some analysts have suggested the hypothesis that it is a medium-sized line aircraft and that the stelae of the detachable element may be the reserve water inside the apparatus, thrown by the crew. However, meteorology asserts that neither the altitude at which the object moved, nor the ambient temperature of that moment, allowed such a wake of condensation.”

For now, the object remains unidentified. You can see the video for yourself below.

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Chilean navy admits it can’t explain ‘UFO’

Chilean navy admits it can’t explain ‘UFO’

By Tom Michael, The Sun

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The Chilean navy has admitted it can’t explain a video filmed by its pilots showing a “UFO” in the country’s airspace.

A military helicopter captured the incredible footage in November 2014 during a routine coastal patrol.

The craft – spotted in broad daylight – was filmed using the chopper’s infrared camera.

The “UFO” can be seen hovering in the clouds before appearing to give off some sort of gas as it moves along.

The pilots tracked the craft from around 40 miles away and tried several times to communicate with it.

After receiving no response, they reported it to a pair of nearby radar stations.

But shockingly, neither of them were able to see it on their screens – despite being able to detect the navy choppers.

Air traffic controllers also confirmed that no aircraft had been authorized to fly in the area where the craft was sighted, according to the Huffington Post.

Chilean government agency the CEFAA, which investigates UFO sightings, has been probing the incident for two years.

But after examining the footage and quizzing the pilots, air traffic controllers, and radar operators, CEFAA are still stumped as to what the object is.

General Ricardo Bermúdez, Director of CEFAA during the investigation, said: “We do not know what it was, but we do not know what it was not.”

Speaking after interviewing the airmen, Bermúdez added: “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.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun.

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Proof of aliens or just a smooth rock? UFO hunters claim to have found a MARBLE on Mars, in latest bizarre claim

Proof of aliens or just a smooth rock? UFO hunters claim to have found a MARBLE on Mars, in latest bizarre claim

The spherical object was spotted on the surface of Mars by the Curiosity rover
Some claim it looks like a small marble, suggesting the presence of life
It is more likely to be a Martian spherule, round objects first discovered in 2004
The spheres may have formed when molten rock was sprayed into the air by a volcano or a meteor impact

By Abigail Beall For Mailonline

If there is life on Mars it could be playing games, according to conspiracy theorists who claim to have spotted a small marble in the Martian soil.

Captured by the Mars Rover Curiosity,an image taken on 1 January shows a small dark sphere looking out of place lying among the familiar red dust and craggy rocks.

Some suggest it is a marble, but a much more likely explanation is that it is an example of a Martian spherule, thought to be formed when volcanoes spray molten rock into air.

Captured by the Mars Rover Curiosity,an image taken on 1 January (pictured) shows a small dark sphere looking out of place lying among the familiar red dust and craggy rocks

WHAT ARE MARTIAN SPHERULES?

Also known as blueberries because of a blue hue given to the objects in false-colour images, Martian spherules were discovered by the Mars rover Opportunity in 2004.

One theory is that the spheres may have formed when molten rock was sprayed into the air by a volcano or a meteor impact.

Another suggests they formed when groundwater flowed through porous rocks creating chemical reactions that cause iron minerals to precipitate into layered balls.

A black and white picture taken on 20 December 2016 shows the same ball in the same place, although Martian dust appears to have covered surrounding rocks since then.

The pictures were taken by Nasa's Curiosity rover - which has been examining the surface of Mars since it landed in 2011 - using its right mast camera.

The images are most likely to show an example of a Martian spherule.

Also known as blueberries because of a blue hue given to the objects in false-colour images, Martian spherules were discovered by the Mars rover Opportunity in 2004.

One theory is the spheres may have formed when molten rock was sprayed into the air by a volcano or a meteor impact.

Another theory suggests they formed when groundwater flowed through porous rocks creating chemical reactions that cause iron minerals to precipitate into small, layered balls.

'A number of straightforward geological processes can yield round shapes,' says Dr Hap McSween, an Opportunity science team member from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

The marble is just the latest in a series of 'discoveries' of strange objects on Mars by conspiracy theorists.

The pictures are most likely to show an example of a Martian spherule. One theory is that the spheres may have formed when molten rock was sprayed into the air by a volcano or a meteor impact

The pictures were taken by Curiosity's rover (artist's impression pictured), which has been examining the surface of Mars since it landed in 2011

A black and white picture taken on 20 December 2016 shows the same ball in the same place, although Martian dust appears to have covered surrounding rocks since then

This mosaic image shows some Martian spherules partly embedded, spread over the (smaller) soil grains. Another theory suggests they formed when groundwater flowed through porous rocks creating chemical reactions that cause iron minerals to precipitate into layered balls

LINKS BETWEEN CONSPIRACY, NARCISSISM AND SELF-ESTEEM

Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and these psychological traits.

The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.

However, while low self-esteem, narcissism and belief in conspiracies are strongly linked, it is not clear that one - or a combination - causes the other.

But it hints at an interesting new angle to the world of conspiracy and those who reinforce belief.

Footage from a NASA rover appeared to show the large utensil on the Red Planet's sand-like surface.

It was the second 'spoon' to be found on Mars in recent years, with believers claiming it could be proof of developed life on the planet.

Other objects such as rings and gloves have also been found.

The video was first noticed properly when it was uploaded to YouTube by the UFO Hunter account, with the description: 'There is a giant spoon on Mars! This thing is amazing! Probably left over from a lost civilization'

And some users were amazed at the discovery - one said: 'Wow, it could'nt possibly be natural, could it.'

Another added: 'Considering this is the second spoon they have found, this could be a sign of intelligent life.'

However, others were more skeptical, suggesting it could be an optical illusion.

One user commented: 'We see what we want to see. Some folk see the face of Jesus in tea-leaves, others see the man in the moon.'

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

SETI astronomer says aliens 'probably look like machines'

UFO researcher Seth Shostak explains the fascination around aliens and what they probably look like with "Star Talk" host Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Do you have an idea of what aliens from outer space look like or are you basing your ideas on pop culture representations?

On Neil deGrasse Tyson's science show "Star Talk," guest SETI Astronomer Seth Shostak and comedian Michael Ian Black discussed alien sightings and the way aliens are portrayed in the media.

"Most people who are into the UFO phenomena -- by the way, that's not a small percentage, that's one-third of the public," Shostak said in a video clip from the show. "There are 10,000-20,000 sighting reported per year in the US, so that's a lot."

While Tyson seems unconvinced, Black thinks this search for aliens is a deeper need for humans to believe there's more life in the universe than just us.

There's also an interesting side note about the common perception of what aliens look like. Instead of the familiar "X-Files" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" images of an alien with the tiny gray body, big head and bulging dark eyes, Shostak thinks they could be more machine-like in appearance.

"Think what we're going to do in this century... invent thinking machines," Shostak said. "The aliens have probably already done that. So the real aliens probably look like machines."

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On November 25, 2016, John Mooner went to Dawlish Warren spotted what he says is a Ford Transit sized UFO landing in a field in Dawlish

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Chief UFO photographer 'flabbergasted' after spotting UFO flying across the sky over Dawlish

Chief UFO photographer 'flabbergasted' after spotting UFO flying across the sky over Dawlish

By HEDanielClark

The UFO above Dawlish (circled)

A SELF-PROCLAIMED UFO world expert returned to Dawlish Warren for more investigations after previously spotting a UFO landing in a field to abduct cows for genetic material - and was astonished to see the same UFO flying in the sky again.

He made a return visit on January 4, 2017, and to his amazement, he spotted the same or a similar UFO flying across the sky.

It comes just days after he spotted the first UFO of 2017 flying above Newton Abbot on Monday.

Mr Mooner, from Newton Abbot, who describes himself as chief photographer for World UFO Photos, said: "I made a return visit to Dawlish Warren to carry out further investigations into my sighting of a UFO that had landed in a farmer's field. I stood in the same position as last time to watch the field and surrounding area for Strange UFO activity. It was cold out but I did not let this deter me from my UFO watch.

"I was there for hours looking in the direction of the field, when to my amazement a similar or maybe the same UFO flew across the sky. I was flabbergasted.

"I started taking photographs as the UFO passed over the field and flew off into the distance.

"When I got back home I looked at the photographs on my computer and I was able to enlarge the photographs to see the object close up.

"This UFO definitely had no wings and appeared to be oval shaped. This was definitely not a commercial aircraft.

"I feel that this object was the same transit van sized UFO I spotted landing in the field last time.

"The photographs were taken on the 4th of January 2017 at 3:27 PM at Dawlish Warren."

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

PICTURE: Strange 'UFO' object seen over Buckingham Park last night

PICTURE: Strange 'UFO' object seen over Buckingham Park last night

by THOMAS BAMFORD

Did you see it too?

Did you see something strange in the air over Buckingham Park last night?

Reports of a strange circular object hovered across the night sky and flew off over the horizon, with power cuts following the mysterious appearance.

A Buckingham Park resident, who did not wish to be named, said: "We were lying in bed and this extremely bright light lit up the room. We assumed it was a star because it was a clear night but it was so bright.

"Then it slowly rose up and suddenly shot over the top of our house and you could hear an aircraft like noise but it was too fast to be a plane.

"As it passed over the power in our house dropped and came back. It really freaked us out. Then about 45 minutes later we heard the same sound and the power dropped again briefly and came back. We took a picture but didn't have time to do a video as it suddenly shot off."

Another resident also contacted The Bucks Herald this morning claiming to have seen the same thing at the same time on Watermead.

"I was sat watching telly with the blinds closed but one of them was sort of lit up, as if someone was shining a torch on it. I looked out and saw this really bright light and then it suddenly shot across the top of the house and as it did all the lights went down and came back on.

"The lights went down a few more times in the next hour too, I'm no conspiracy theorist but it was really bizarre."

Did you see anything mysterious? Get in touch @ Editorial@bucksherald.co.uk or thomas.bamford@jpress.co.uk

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Braintree UFO reports show no shortage of the bizarre

By Bradford Randall
brandall@wickedlocal.com

Records from the National UFO Reporting Center reveal more than half a dozen reports originating from Braintree in the past decade, ranging from black spheres hovering over Weymouth Landing's train station to metallic balls that appear - and disappear - in broad daylight over Skyline Apartments.

Braintree's most recent entry in the catalog of the bizarre was logged in December of 2015, while surrounding towns and cities, including Quincy with three reports in 2016 alone, also populate the database.

That December 2015 sighting, dubbed a "sighting report" by the UFO reporting center, allegedly involved more than five people who observed dark black spheres hovering above the Weymouth Landing commuter rail station shortly after 8 a.m., two days before Christmas.

"During most of the sighting it was difficult to tell how many spheres/shapes there were, but it was a tight group of multiple dark black spheres (they seemed to occasionally change shape) moving roughly east to west," the report, filed anonymously, read. "No way to tell how far away they were, but there was a solid cloud deck, so they were under that altitude whatever it was.

"I have held an FAA certification as a single engine pilot in the past and previously never witnessed anything I'd consider to be a UFO," the Dec. 23, 2015 sighting report concluded.

Here's a brief rundown of some other sighting reports filed from Braintree in recent years.

Triangular UFOs and black helicopters

In July of 2015 a report filed with the UFO reporting center claimed that a triangle shaped object had been observed moving over Quincy and East Braintree in the early morning hours of Sept. 2, 2012.

"I was sitting outside facing west when a triangle shaped object, about the size of a commercial airliner, approached from the north heading south," the report stated. "The object was flying at a much lower altitude than any aircraft of that size normally would."

"When the object was directly in front of me it turned east, moving straight towards me as it lowered its altitude and its speed. When it was less than a football field away from me it suddenly turned southeast, quickly accelerating its speed and moving out of my field of vision."

The report ends claiming that "several black helicopters were seen in the area for the remainder of the night and the following day."

First a light, then a 'bear hug'

The most unsettling sighting report from Braintree was filed in November of 2011 by a man who said he was driving his girlfriend home on the night of July 14, 2011.

When turning onto his girlfriend's street, not named in the report, the driver said he saw "lights that looked like a plane was landing or doing a very sharp turn."

The driver said he stopped his car to look at the object and watched it disappear and reappear over a nearby house.

"It got weird later that night," the sighting report stated, with the driver claiming the lights then followed his car home from Braintree.

"I could hear my name outside my window, weird noises, so I open up my window and something hit me right away like someone had a bear hug on me," the report said. "I could hear in my head 'your species will fall' and then saw a flash in front of the window."

That sighting report ends on a defiant note.

"I never wanted to tell anyone this because no one will ever believe this and I don't care because I'll never forget it till the day I die."

Metallic spheres over Skyline Apartments

A sighting report from August of 2012 is unique to this list in its specificity to the location it supposedly occurred in, at a wooded area behind Skyline Apartments on the afternoon of July 1, 2005.

The person who reported the incident, 15 at the time, said they were walking along railroad tracks from Quincy Point into Braintree when they noticed something strange behind the apartments.

"So we're walking along and notice a basketball-size metallic sphere suspended in mid-air, nothing holding it or propping it up, just still about 40 or so feet in the air, maybe 10 feet above the trees."

The sighting report continues, "it seemed like it knew we were watching it. Then I looked away and my brother looked down or something and it was just gone."

Read more UFO sighting reports from Braintree at the National UFO Reporting Center's website.

Follow Bradford Randall on Twitter @randalljourno.

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Dr Steven Greer Testifies about Extra-Terrestrial Technology

Dr Steven Greer Testifies about Extra-Terrestrial Technology

Published on Jan 9, 2017

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- Nonprofits & Activism
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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Deze unieke foto toont hoe de aarde en de maan eruitzien vanop Mars - HLN.be

Deze unieke foto toont hoe de aarde en de maan eruitzien vanop Mars - HLN.be

Bron: NASA, National Geographic

De aarde en de maan op één foto. Het bruine vlak in het midden is Australië.

© afp.

Een nieuw beeld dat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft vrijgegeven, toont de aarde en de maan op één foto. De foto werd samengesteld uit beelden van de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter van NASA, en toont ons hoe we er vanop 205 miljoen kilometer uitzien.

Het bruine continent dat zichtbaar is in het midden van de aardbol is Australië, daarboven ligt Azië. Het beeld werd samengesteld uit meerdere foto's van de camera High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE).

Foto's die de aarde en de maan samen tonen, vanuit verschillende perspectieven, kunnen helpen om onbekende details bloot te leggen. Zoals de samenstelling van de achterkant van de maan, die pas bekend is sinds het begin van het ruimtevaarttijdperk.

Lees ook

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Politieagent verbreekt na 70 jaar stilte over waarneming van vliegende schotel met 2 aliens aan boord

Politieagent verbreekt na 70 jaar stilte over waarneming van vliegende schotel met 2 aliens aan boord

Een oud-politieagent uit de Australische staat Victoria heeft na bijna 70 jaar zwijgen een boekje opengedaan over zijn waarneming van een vliegend object dat volgens hem niet van de aarde kwam.

Neil John McIntyre claimt dat hij op een avond in juni 1947 een buitenaards ruimteschip heeft gezien, schrijft de lokale krant Shepparton News.

“Het was op een zondag,” zei McIntyre. “Het was een koude avond.”

Niet bang

Op enkele meters afstand zag hij samen met zijn vriend Max Carlos een UFO boven de straat hangen.

Het object bleef volgens de oud-agent vijf minuten op dezelfde plek, terwijl de twee jongens verdwaasd toekeken.

“Ik was niet bang, maar wel verrast,” zei hij. “Het [object] leek op de klassieke vliegende schotel die overal ter wereld wordt gezien.”

Aliens

“Je kon in de cockpit van het vaartuig duidelijk twee personen zien zitten die we aliens noemden,” voegde hij toe.

Hij claimde dat de twee aliens geen haar hadden en er mensachtig uitzagen.

Na het voorval maakte zijn vriend Max tekeningen van het object. In dezelfde periode kwam bij Roswell in New Mexico een UFO neer.

Beloven

McIntyre moest zijn vriend beloven nooit over de waarneming te spreken. Nu Max is overleden, besloot hij de stilte te doorbreken.

“Het is het vreemdste wat ik ooit heb gezien,” zei de oud-politieagent.

[Shepparton News]

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Wat gebeurt er nadat we sterven? Bijna-doodervaringen schijnen licht op dit mysterie

Wat gebeurt er nadat we sterven? Bijna-doodervaringen schijnen licht op dit mysterie

Wat gebeurt er als we sterven? Sommige mensen zeggen een glimp van het leven na de dood te hebben opgevangen tijdens bijna-doodervaringen.

Er zijn artsen die onderzoek doen naar dit fenomeen. Eén van hen is dr. Sam Parnia van de State University of New York.

“Mensen die dicht bij de dood komen voelen zich vaak erg vredig en fijn,” zei hij in het Amerikaanse tv-programma Today. “Sommigen zien een tunnel en een fel licht.”

Fenomenaal

“Het meest interessante aspect is dat een kleine groep uit het lichaam treedt en toekijkt hoe artsen en zusters proberen hun leven te redden terwijl ze klinisch dood zijn,” voegde hij toe.

Parnia en zijn collega’s onderzochten 2000 patiënten die een hartstilstand hadden gekregen.

Bij veertig procent van de mensen werd bewustzijn gemeten terwijl het brein geen activiteit vertoonde. “Dat is een fenomenaal hoog percentage,” aldus dr. Parnia.

Overleden geliefden

Eén man kon zich gebeurtenissen herinneren tot vijf minuten na het moment waarop hij klinisch dood was verklaard.

Oncoloog Jeffrey Long, schrijver van het boek God and the Afterlife, heeft meer dan 4000 patiënten bestudeerd die een bijna-doodervaring hebben gehad.

“Sommigen zien hun hele leven of een deel van hun leven aan zich voorbij gaan,” zei hij. “Of ze komen overleden geliefden tegen.”

Minder bang

“De twee woorden die het vaakst worden gebruikt om een bijna-doodervaring te omschrijven zijn ‘vrede’ en ‘liefde’,” zei Long.

Na een dergelijke ervaring veranderen mensen volgens hem heel erg. Zo geloven ze sterk in het hiernamaals en zijn ze minder bang voor de dood.

Sommige mensen zeggen zelfs hun baan op om minder materialistisch te leven. Veel artsen kunnen leren van bijna-doodervaringen,” aldus Long.

Nieuw onderzoek

Parnia is nu bezig met een nieuw onderzoek, waarbij hij patiënten die een hartstilstand hebben gehad geluiden laat horen.

Ook plaatst hij afbeeldingen in ziekenhuiskamers die naar boven gericht zijn, zodat ze alleen kunnen worden gezien door iemand die omlaag kijkt, bijvoorbeeld een ziel die is afgescheiden van een fysiek lichaam.

[Today]

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

‘Buitenaardse klauw en schedel’ gevonden in tunnels onder Peruaanse stad

'Buitenaardse klauw en schedel' gevonden in tunnel onder Peruaanse stad

‘Buitenaardse klauw en schedel’ gevonden in tunnels onder Peruaanse stad

Een groep zelfverklaarde paranormale onderzoekers claimt een enorme klauw te hebben gevonden in een tunnelstelsel in Peru die toebehoorde aan een alien of een mensachtig wezen.

De groepsleden zeggen dat de hand met drie lange vingers is gevonden in tunnels vlak bij de oude stad Cuzco, meldt de Daily Mail.

De groep heeft tot dusver geweigerd de exacte locatie te onthullen waar de botten zijn ontdekt.

Schedel

De onderzoekers beweren ook een vreemd gevormde buitenaards aandoende schedel te hebben aangetroffen op de plek waar de hand is gevonden.

De beweringen zijn nog niet bevestigd door een wetenschapper of onderzoekers van een erkend instituut, schrijft de krant.

Tests

Brien Foerster, een bekende onderzoeker die actief is in Peru, kreeg het mysterieuze voorwerp naar eigen zeggen overhandigd van de groep.

Hij zei dat ‘experts’ na een aantal tests hebben geconcludeerd dat elke vinger zes botten bevat.

DNA-onderzoek

Het onderzoeksteam zou aan de hand van röntgenapparatuur hebben bepaald dat de hand en schedel echt zijn.

Het team is van plan om later dit jaar DNA-onderzoek te laten doen in de Verenigde Staten.

[MailOnline]

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

800 Million Year Old Woman Found And Looks Just decades Old, Sept 1969, Video, UFO Sighting News.

800 Million Year Old Woman Found And Looks Just decades Old, Sept 1969, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of discovery: Sept 1969
Location of discovery: Kemerovo Region, Russia

I imagine the Russian scientist that studied this woman is probably still alive. This was an alien woman, and she was preserved inside a stone-like capsule with a liquid inside, the liquid would have been studied, and eventually found to be regenerating. Although it didn't bring the woman back from death, it kept her looking young. Therefore the scientist probably found this out, hid the info about it, and kept it for himself. He is probably still alive and well today somewhere using this liquid every so often to become younger. Alien technology could keep us young forever.
Scott C. Waring

Video translation states:
TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN: In September 1969, at the village of Rzhavchik Tisulskago in the Kemerovo region, a very strange burial was discovered.

During the stripping work at a coal mine in the core coal seam which lies at a depth of over 70 metres, miner Karnaukhov discovered a marble casket of amazingly accurate mechanical manufacture.

At the command area Alexander Alexandrovich Masalygina ordered all work to be stopped immediately.

The casket was brought to the surface and workers began to open it by pecking on the edges of the fossilized putty. Not so much from the blows, but from the effects of solar heat, the putty melted into a clear liquid and flowed.

This was a shock to all who saw it. the coffin was filled to the brim with pink-blue crystal clear liquid.

In it lay a slim, unusually beautiful woman — who looked about thirty, with a fine European features and large, wide-open blue eyes. Her covering was dark brown

She was dressed in a white lace transparent dress length just below the knee. The short sleeves were embroidered with colorful flowers. Underwear was absent. It seemed that she was not dead, but sleeping.

At her head was a black, rectangular metal box, rounded at one end (something like a cell phone), of approximately 25 to 10 cm in size.

After about ten to fifteen hours, the coffin was open for all to see. The whole village came to see this wonder.

However, in less than 24 hours the mysterious finding was reported in the district centre.

The fire brigade, the military, and militia all confirmed the discovery. By 2 pm that day, a brick-red helicopter landed and the place was declared contagious and onlookers pushed away.

Then the authorities sealed off the place and quarantined all who touched the coffin, even those who had been standing near.

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

NEWPORT BEACH UFO Hunters DEFENDS ITS UFO RESEARCH AGAINST SKEPTICS, Jan 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

NEWPORT BEACH UFO Hunters DEFENDS ITS UFO RESEARCH AGAINST SKEPTICS, Jan 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of news: January 4, 2017
Location: New Port Beach, California, USA
Source of news:

http://abc7.com/science/newport-beach-nonprofit-focuses-on-ufo-research/1686671/

UFO and alien research are fast becoming a new science. Its make its place among other scientific areas like astronomy and astrophysics, yet it gets far more attention that both those science areas combined. UFOlogists are the new scientists of this era that will make the biggest difference in the world than any other area of science in the world. The discovery of alien will change the perceptual field of every human being on Earth, how they see themselves, their home, their community and their planet, at which point humans will begin to scrutinise every faucet of human history and contemplate how alien interaction and interference throughout our evolution has changed our history.
Scott C. Waring

News states:
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- For many, UFOs are the stuff of science fiction movies that belong in the same category of little green men and alien abductions - but one Orange County nonprofit begs to differ.

Jan Harzan, the executive director of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in Newport Beach, believes that we are definitely not alone in the universe.

"UFOs are real. These are structured, highly technological, structured devices flying in and about our planet under obvious intelligent control that's not us," Harzan said.

Harzan has spent most of his life researching UFOs along with field investigators and a research team.

MUFON looks into the reports that come in daily.

"Could it possibly have been an aircraft? A satellite? The space station?" Harzan said.

The organization has investigated more than 7,000 cases in the past year. It considers a small percentage of those cases hoaxes, and about 30 percent are classified as UFOs.

According to Harzan, a man who has worked as a contractor for the Department of Defense says he and his friends spotted a UFO in 2013 during a hunting trip in Canada.

"The very first thing that was intense was just how bright this thing was," said the man, whose identity was not revealed.

Harzan considers this case, which was reported in 2016, as one of the most compelling pieces of evidence.

Despite the many skeptics who believe UFOs only belong in Hollywood, Harzan believes his research can lead to huge advancements in technology.

"Number one, we can move instantaneously anywhere on the planet, we wouldn't need to be sitting on airplanes," he said. "What about moving off planet and going to the moon or going to Mars?"

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Giant “Alien” Claw Unearthed In Peruvian Desert

Giant “Alien” Claw Unearthed In Peruvian Desert

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Alien enthusiasts claim they discovered three large fingered hand that might belong to a giant humanoid or an alien buried deep in a desert in Peru.

Though any serious scientific bodies are yet to examine the discovery, the claw is quite the find. The team that unearthed the so-called giant alien claw called themselves as paranormal enthusiasts. Members of the team say they excavated the appendage in Cusco, Peru.

The team further claim that they also discovered an elongated human skull near the giant claw site, which they say in a desert in the South American country. The exact location is not yet revealed, but the team gave a hint that the finding was done in a system of underground caves.

The discovery was sent to alien investigator Brien Forester, a Peru-based paranormal researcher. Brien then allegedly let a team of unnamed experts examined the fingers, and they concluded that it had too many bones to be from a human.

The team also claimed the hand was verified to be a genuine biological object through an x-ray. The claw is scheduled for further testing in America.

The team revealed that radiocarbon and DNA testing would bring out the true origin of the strange hand.

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

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

UFOs making maneuvers over Melbourne, Australia 31-Dec-2016

UFOs making maneuvers over Melbourne, Australia 31-Dec-2016

melbourne-ufos

Here’s one new footage of a fast unidentified flying objects making maneuvers in the sky above Melbourne in Australia. This was filmed with a night vision camera on 31st December 2016.

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

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Very fast UFO caught on tape over Paris, France 30-Dec-2016

Very fast UFO caught on tape over Paris, France 30-Dec-2016

Paris-ufos

Check out this interesting footage of a so-called fastwalker flying across the sky above Paris in France. This was filmed on 30th December 2016.

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

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Is there a massive underwater UFO base in Guantanamo Bay? Conspiracy theorists claim Marine saw secret craft 'virtually every night'

Is there a massive underwater UFO base in Guantanamo Bay? Conspiracy theorists claim Marine saw secret craft 'virtually every night'

Testimony filed as Case 74794 in the archives of the Mutual UFO Network
UFOs were dull and about 50 to 100 ft across, with a red light behind it
One specific occasion he witnessed a 'big beautiful cloud with a blue and white pulsating light' quietly hovering over his and a fellow soldiers head

By Stacy Liberatore

UFOs were seen flying in and out of 'a major underwater alien base' near Guantanamo Bay almost 50 years ago, according to bizarre claims of a former US Marine.

The ex-Marine has come forward to reveal what he and his comrades experienced in 1968 to 1969 while station at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base.

Although the dates he put down 'are a shot in the dark', he recalls 'heavy UFO traffic over and around the base' that were '50 feet to 100 feet across'.

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An ex-Marine has come forward to reveal what he and his comrades experienced in 1968 to 1969 while station at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base (pictured). Although the dates he put down 'are a shot in the dark', he recalls 'heavy UFO traffic over and around the base' that were '50 feet to 100 feet across'

The interview was published by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which is said to be the 'largest UFO sightings documenting and investigation organization in the world', reports the Inquisitr.

The interview describes many nights of sightings that he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and although they talked about the activity on base they were forbidden to discuss it in public.

'All of us Marines were amazed at the amount of UFO activity over and around this base,' the witness said.

'Virtually every night UFOs were flying overhead with altitudes of less than 300 feet.'

The Marine, whose name remains anonymous, was given orders to monitor the fence line when he spotted the Martian vehicles.

The testimony was filed as Case 74794 in the archives of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON. The Marine remembers seeing a UFO that looked like a 'big beautiful cloud with a blue and white pulsating light' quietly hovering over their heads. Most of the sightings were near the fence line of the base

He described the UFOs being about 50 feet to 100 feet cross, but were not the flashy saucers shown in the movies.

'Most of these UFOs were approximately 50 to 100 feet across, but to the naked eye came off as a dull, hazy hull with a small red light trailing behind it,' he said.

UFOs were seen flying in and out of 'a major underwater alien base' near Guantanamo Bay, according to bizarre claims of a former US Marine.

'When I stood guard duty on the south side of the base, I witnessed on many, many nights UFOs landing and taking off out of the ocean.'

'There were large blue lights moving around after their landing in the ocean and then slowly dimming down as they obviously descended deeper.'

While monitoring his post, he witnessed several UFOs flying around the area night after night – 'landing and taking off out of the ocean', he explained to investigators.

WHAT HAPPENED DURING ONE OF THE MANY UFO SIGHTINGS?

The witness recalled one event that he said was 'most exciting', which he observed while standing guard at the main gate of the base. He remembers seeing the UFO that looked like a 'big beautiful cloud with a blue and white pulsating light' quietly hovering over their heads

'It was approximately 7p.m. (dark) when I stepped out of the guard shack and looked across the fence at the deserted Cuban guard house when something caught my eye,' the former Marine said.

'Behind the Cuban guard shack near the ground was a huge white cloud with a blue/white, baby blue pulsating light in the middle of it.'

Bewildered by the sighting, he asked of his comrades what they were seeing as it passed over the shack in their direction.

He remembers seeing the UFO that looked like a 'big beautiful cloud with a blue and white pulsating light' quietly hovering over their heads.

A few minutes later the silence was broken by someone yelling 'get the hell out of there'.

A sergeant was yelling from the observation tower, ordering them to vacate the area.

The Marine and other soldier walked towards the barracks just 200 feet away, which allowed them to observe the action from a safe distance.

They saw Intelligence officers pull up to the scene with what looked like a film crew that recorded the alien vehicle while it hovered for about three hours before shooting off into the west.

'The UFO traveled about quarter of a mile, stopped for a moment, then like a bullet, shot straight up in the air until it disappeared,' he said.

After watching the ships take off and land, he assumed there had to be a major underwater UFO base in the Guantanamo Bay.

The witness recalled one event that he said was 'most exciting', which he observed while standing guard at the main gate of the base, reports Open Minds.

Around 7 pm, the former Marine stepped out of the guardhouse, looked over the fence at an empty guardhouse on the other side of the base and saw an enormous white cloud with blue flashing lights near the ground.

U.S. Marines on guard at Guantanamo base in Cuba (pictured), the area where the former Marine witnessed countless UFOs landing on the bay and taking off. He described the UFOs being about 50 feet to 100 feet cross, dull and hazy with a single red light that trailed behind them and blue lights flashed as they landed on the ocean

'It was approximately 7p.m. (dark) when I stepped out of the guard shack and looked across the fence at the deserted Cuban guard house when something caught my eye,' the former Marine said.

'Behind the Cuban guard shack near the ground was a huge white cloud with a blue/white, baby blue pulsating light in the middle of it.'

Bewildered by the sighting, he asked of his comrades what they were seeing as it passed over the shack in their direction.

'ALIENS STOPPED NUCLEAR WAR ON EARTH' SAYS FORMER ASTRONAUT

Aliens came to Earth to stop a nuclear war between America and Russia, according the bizarre claim of a former astronaut.

Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking military officials witnessed alien ships during weapons tests throughout the 1940s.

The UFOs, he says, were spotted hovering over the world's first nuclear weapons test which took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico.

The Nasa veteran has regularly spoken about his belief in aliens ever since he landed on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

'White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons - and that's what the extra-terrestrials were interested in,' the 84-year-old Texan told Mirror Online.

'My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.'

Dr Mitchell says stories from people who manned missile bases during the 20th Century back up his claims.

'Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft,' he said.

He previously said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.

He claimed our technology is 'not nearly as sophisticated' as theirs and 'had they been hostile', he warned 'we would be been gone by now'.

He remembers seeing the UFO that looked like a 'big beautiful cloud with a blue and white pulsating light' quietly hovering over their heads.

A few minutes later the silence was broken by someone yelling 'get the hell out of there'.

A sergeant was yelling from the observation tower, ordering them to vacate the area.

The Marine and other soldier walked towards the barracks just 200 feet away, which allowed them to observe the action from a safe distance.

An air view of the Guantanamo US Naval base (pictured) during the 1960s, which is the same time when the ex-Marine swears that 'virtually every night UFOs were flying overhead with altitudes of less than 300 feet'. The Marine, whose remains anonymous, was given orders to monitor the fence line when he spotted the UFOs

They saw Intelligence officers pull up to the scene with what looked like a film crew that recorded the alien vehicle while it hovered for about three hours before shooting off into the west.

'The UFO traveled about quarter of a mile, stopped for a moment, then like a bullet, shot straight up in the air until it disappeared,' he said.

'I would love to go back there just to see if the UFOs are still showing up.'

THINK YOU'VE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS? IT MAY BE SLEEP PARALYSIS

Agents Mulder and Scully may have said 'the truth is out there' in the X Files, but it may instead be buried inside the brains of people who claim they have been abducted by aliens.

Those who believe they have had a close encounter of the so-called 'fourth kind' may suffer from false memories or sleep paralysis, a psychologist has claimed.

A rare form of the condition, which can involve hallucinations or the feeling of being dragged out of bed, may explain 'alien abductions' that people sincerely believe happened but can't remember.

Writing for The Psychologist, Christopher C French, of Goldsmiths, the University of London, who specialises in the psychology of paranormal belief and experiences, said there are plausible explanations for why people 'see' flying saucers and think they have been abducted.

He noted that most of the people making these claims are clinically sane, but their belief in life in outer space may influence what they see or feel in strange situations.

'The dates that I have put down is a shot in the dark because that was 50 years ago.'

Last year, a former Nasa employee came forward about the agency covering up a series of UFO sightings that they code named 'Santa Claus'.

Donna Hare claims she was told by numerous sources, which she does not name, about three UFOs that landed shortly after one of the moon landings and Nasa airbrushing UFOs out of satellite pictures, reportedExpress.

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

How NASA uses a common amateur astronomy technique to make huge discoveries

How NASA uses a common amateur astronomy technique to make huge discoveries

The Chandra deep field manages to look back to the edge of the visible universe using image stacking.

By John Wenz

The deepest X-ray image ever taken took more than 7 million seconds of observing time.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B.Luo et al.

Hubble has its iconic deep field filled to the brim with galaxies. The Chandra X-ray Observatory has one of its own. In an area just 60 percent the size of the full moon, it peered into an area of ancient galaxies and their massive black holes. Bright, energetic, explosive events hide in this area.

Over 81 days, Chandra looked at 1,055 black holes in this small region, able to see energetic events caused by black holes at the center of galaxies visible only in x-rays. It marks, to date, the best survey of active galactic nuclei in the universe, and creates an even bigger estimate: hiding behind city lights and small backyard telescopes, there are 1 billion active galaxies in the night sky somewhere (though many of those are out of view to even the best ground-based telescopes.)

“The density of these black holes is the deepest we’ve ever seen in the sky,” W. Niel Brandt, the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University, said in a press conference at the 229th gathering of the American Astronomical Society. A pre-print of the findings is available here.

But all of the information contained in this area would be nothing without a technique often utilized by backyard astronomers.

“We’ve had to use a bit of a trick to get there, and the trick we use is stacking,” Brandt said.

Stacking involves taking multiple exposures of an object and using these individual frames to build a better composite image. While one exposure may only show a certain amount of light from an energetic event, a progressive number of exposures can build a bigger and brighter pictures. Because events like this move on slow timescales (from a human observer point of view) stacking helps bring clarity to the data.

In addition to Chandra data, archival data from Hubble helped complete the pictures of these active galactic nuclei.

While the dataset, termed the Chandra Deep Field-South, has some of the best resolution of distant supermassive black holes ever, it only reaches a redshift of 10. The galaxies range in age from 3.5 billion to 12.5 billion years old, leaving a little over a billion years of galaxies yet uncharacterized in an area / time called the Epoch of Reionization because these early galaxies ignited neutral hydrogen in the universe and cleared away the opacity it caused, representing the first galaxies.

While the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to see some of these galaxies, a proposed mission called LYNX, a succesor to Chandra, would bring even more clarity to the early universe. It might help determine how supermassive black holes form and attract enough matter to form a galaxy. There are two competing schools of thought: that a small seed grows into a massive one, or that galaxies form from direct collapse black holes, where a massive cloud of gas creates a gravitational well before it can form into a star.

“It would give us real prospects of detecting these seeds individually,” Brandt said.

If LYNX is approved, one thing is certain: stacking will be the key to unlocking the discoveries.

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Astronomers discover two pulsars with an 'off' switch

Astronomers discover two pulsars with an 'off' switch

Now you see them, now you don’t

By Nicole Kiefert

The Crab Nebula is surrounded by synchrotron emission in the surrounding pulsar wind nebula.

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A recent study on intermittent pulsars at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico done by a team of radio astronomers at Jodrell Bank in the UK, led by Professor Andrew Lyne of the University of Manchester, discovered two pulsars putting on a “cosmic vanishing act.”

Pulsars are highly magnetized neutron stars that spin very quickly, emitting narrow beams of electromagnetic radiation. When these beams sweep across the Earth, like the light from a lighthouse, we detect a pulsar.

The intermittent pulsars, which are a type of pulsar not commonly observed, switch between emitting as they usually would and then not producing any radio waves at all.

“They switch instantaneously between the states,” said Lyne in a press release. “They’re ON and then they’re gone, disappearing without any apparent warning.”

The team used a 7-beam receiver in their study to do a usual pulsar search, which they called the Pulsar Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (PALFA) Survey.

Pulsar PSR J1929+1357 was discovered in September of 2012 due to its very bright pulse emissions, but wasn’t confirmed as a pulsar until February 2013 after follow-up observations at Jodrell Bank.

“During the next 9 months it was observed no fewer than 650 times – 100 hours,” said Professor Benjamin Stappers of the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysicas and co-author on the paper. “It was ON on only five occasions – just 0.8 percent of the time.”

During the study, the team also discovered that the pulsar’s rotational slow-down rate is about 80 percent slower when it’s in the OFF period. They believe this is due to a lack of charged particle emission (for a reason still unknown) during the OFF state that causes a decreased spin-down rate.

Dr. Victoria Kaspi of McGill University in Canada and the principal investigator on the PALFA project said there may be more of these disappearing pulsars than regular ones and they may “redefine what we think of as normal.”

Other researches are still unsure about the disappearing pulsars.

“The explanation of the ON-OFF behavior remains a puzzle,” says Dr. Andrew Seymore, a USRA postdoc at Arecibo. “It indicates that the pulsar environment is changing, but just what those changes entail is open to debate.”

The pulsar community is not agreeing yet about the ON-OFF mechanism, but Lyne is still hopeful that more studies on PSR J1929+1357 will produce more answers on the spin-down phenomenon and the pulsar emission mechanism.

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Exploring our solar system’s origins with two new NASA missions

Exploring our solar system’s origins with two new NASA missions

NASA’s newest Discovery-class missions will teach us more about our solar system and its formation.

By Alison Klesman

Artist’s concept of NASA’s newest Discovery Program missions. Lucy (left) will visit six of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids; Psyche (right) is the first mission to the unique “metal world” of main belt asteroid 16 Psyche.

SwRI and SSL/Peter Rubin

Our modern-day solar system is a result billions of years in the making. Unfortunately, rewinding time to witness the formation of the solar system is out of the question. To determine our solar system’s origins, astronomers instead study “planetary leftovers” for clues about the makeup of the original solar nebula around our infant Sun. NASA’s newest Discovery-class missions, Lucy and Psyche, will provide valuable insight into the past lives of the planetary building blocks that share our local neighborhood.

Asteroids represent a vital part of our solar system’s fossil record. Uncovering their secrets will further astronomers’ understanding not only of how our own solar system formed, but how planetary systems form around stars throughout the galaxy as well.

The newest missions to receive NASA Discovery Program backing will study these fossils in greater detail. Lucy, set to launch in 2021, will examine both a main belt asteroid and six of the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun. According to Harold F. Levison, the mission’s principal investigator and a researcher at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, CO, “the Trojans … hold vital clues to deciphering the history of the solar system.” This is because astronomers believe that the Trojans may have formed much further out in the solar system, and only settled into their current orbits once they were captured by Jupiter’s gravity. The mission is named after the famous 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil to highlight the Trojans’ potential for revolutionizing our understanding of the early solar system.

Psyche, launching in 2023, is set to encounter its namesake, the asteroid 16 Psyche, in 2030. Unlike the majority of asteroids found in the main belt, which are icy or rocky, the 130-mile (210 km) wide 16 Psyche is metallic, comprised largely of iron and nickel. With a makeup so unlike its neighboring asteroids and so similar to the Earth’s core, astronomers wonder whether 16 Psyche could be the remnants of an early protoplanetary core that has lost its outer rocky layers via collisions. Psyche’s principal investigator, Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University, hopes the mission will shed light on this unique solar system object and help scientists understand how planetary bodies separate into layers over time. Currently, Psyche’s mission plan includes a 20-month mission duration once the spacecraft reaches its destination to map the surface and study its properties.

The data gathered by Lucy and Psyche will add to the ever-sharpening picture of asteroids that other missions such as NEAR, Dawn, and OSIRIS-REx are designed to provide. According to Jim Green, NASA’s Planetary Science Director, “These additional pieces of the puzzle will help us understand how the sun and its family of planets formed, changed over time, and became places where life could develop and be sustained – and what the future may hold.”

NASA’s Discovery Program has been in operation since 1992. Designed to promote missions that complement NASA’s largest “flagship” projects while focusing specifically on solar system science, the Discovery Program consistently launches smaller, less expensive spacecraft with shorter turnaround times. Discovery mission budgets are capped at $450 million, but their “smaller” budgets have in no way limited these missions’ contributions to planetary science. Some of the program’s most famous missions include Lunar Prospector, Stardust, Mars Pathfinder, MESSENGER, and Kepler. The Discovery Program’s core directive also emphasizes education and outreach, bringing the excitement of solar system science and discovery home to the public.

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Maandag 9 januari 2017

Best Space Stories of the Week — Jan. 1, 2016

Best Space Stories of the Week — Jan. 1, 2016

By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer

An artist's illustration of an asteroid breaking apart in space. A new study suggests this might be the fate of the asteroid 3200 Phaethon.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Purple rocks on Mars, the sudden loss of a "Star Wars" icon, unexpected orbits from China's satellites and (expected) New Years' comet flybys — it's Space.com's best space stories of the week.

Redhead goes purple

Although Mars looks entirely red from Earth, NASA's Curiosity rover caught a glimpse of purple rocks embedded in the planet's surface. The rocks, near the foot of the Red Planet's 18,000 ft (5.5 km) Mount Sharp, likely contain an iron-oxide mineral called hematite, also found in other Mars rocks. [Full Story: NASA's Curiosity Rover Spots Purple Rocks on Mars]

Loss of a legend

Carrie Fisher, the actress best known as Princess Leia from the "Star Wars" films, passed away the morning of Dec. 27 after suffering a heart attack two days earlier. She most recently reprised her famous role in 2015's "The Force Awakens." [Full Story: Actress Carrie Fisher, 'Star Wars' Icon, Dies at 60]

Out of place

Two commercial Chinese Earth-observation satellites reached a different orbit than intended, looping around Earth lower than expected after their Dec. 28 launch. The two are following an egg-shaped orbit, and would re-enter Earth's atmosphere within months without adjustment. [Full Story: China's New Earth-Observation Satellites in Unexpected Orbits: Report]

See also: China's Lofty Space Ambitions Include 2018 Landing on Moon's Far Side (New White Paper)

Ancient seas

The dwarf planet Ceres holds what seems to be an ocean's worth of ice layering its cold, dark craters — suggesting it could have hosted an ocean billions of years ago. Ceres is the largest body in the solar system's main asteroid belt, and it is about a third the size of Earth's moon. [Full Story: Dwarf Planet Ceres Likely Had Ocean Long Ago]

Slow-motion breakup

A rocky object called 3200 Phaethon, an asteroid with comet-like features, is being slowly shredded to pieces as it orbits hair-raisingly close to the sun. The strange asteroid features a comet-like tail of debris because of its extremely close orbit — it approaches closer to the sun than any other named asteroid, to within half Mercury's orbit, before swinging away again — and its trail of debris sparks the yearly Geminid meteor shower when Earth passes through. [Full Story: Space Shredder: Sun May Be Tearing Asteroids Apart]

Earth-sci panic

Amid rumors and what-if scenarios regarding Earth science's fate in the new US presidential administration, NASA tells researchers to "be a source of signal, not a source of noise." [Full Story: Earth Scientistss Are Freaking Out. NASA Urges Calm.]

Go deep

Astrobiologists are advocating for NASA's 2020s lander on Jupiter's moon Europa to drill into the moon's ice — in order to avoid any contamination caused by thrusters blasting to slow the lander down. The moon's tantalizing water-vapor plumes make the moon one of the solar system's most promising potential sites for extraterrestrial life. [Full Story: NASA's Europa Lander May Drill to Find Pristine Samples on Icy Moon]

Good location

New research suggests that the faint star Proxima Centauri, home to the newly-discovered exoplanet Proxima b, is indeed gravitationally bound to the nearby Alpha Centauri binary system. Researchers have wondered since Proxima Centauri's discovery whether the star orbits the binary system — and if it does, that's a very good sign for the habitability of Proxima b, our nearest exoplanet neighbor. [Full Story: Proxima Centauri's Origins Could Mean Its Exoplanet Really Is Habitable]

New Mars digs

NASA has made progress toward picking the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover, narrowing the choices down from 54 to 8 high-priority sites that could have hosted water (and therefore supported life) in the ancient past. The agency is also considering the best locations for a future human landing site. [Full Story: Where to Land on Mars: NASA Makes Progress in Quest for 2020 Rover Site]

Plus: A Promising Spot for Life on Mars

New Years' comets are coming

Comets in the New Year's Eve and early 2017 skies will be a feast for the eyes — if you have a telescope or binoculars handy. Look out for their shining flybys above. [Full Story: 'New Year's Eve Comet' and More: Three Flybys Will Kick Off 2017 New Year]

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Zondag 8 januari 2017

The White House Now Has a Plan for Handling an Asteroid Disaster

The White House Now Has a Plan for Handling an Asteroid Disaster

Impact: An asteroid impact wold spark climate disaster claim the theorists

(Photo: PA)

IN BRIEF

Who can forget the startling scenes of a giant meteor flashing across the cold winter skies of Russia in 2013, when the "Chelyabinsk Event" reminded us of just how vulnerable we really are to asteroid impacts?
Now, the White House has finally released a report outlining the protocols for responding to an Earth-bound near-Earth object (NEO).

In 2013, a meteor broke apart over Russia, sparking panic and injuring over 1,400 people. Called the “Chelyabinsk Event,” the culprit meteor was estimated to be around 17-20 m (56-65 ft) in diameter and released approximately 500 kilotons of energy. In fact, before the atmosphere absorbed most of the energy, the meteor had about 29 times the energy of the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima.

POSSIBLE ASTEROID IMPACTS

Every year, there could be dozens (if not more) of interstellar objects like comets and asteroids that come very close to Earth. In fact, as of January 3 of this year, 15,420 Near -Earth Objects (NEOs) had been discovered. On March 21, 2016, an NEO under 1 LD (lunar distance) from Earth was estimated to be 35-86 m (114.8-282.1 ft) in diameter. If that object had broken through the atmosphere and landed on Earth, the damage and devastation would be immense.

Yet even more threatening is the possibility of asteroid 2013 TV135 impacting the Earth. This asteroid has only a 1 in 63,000 chance of impacting within the next 100 years, but if it does, it would be absolutely catastrophic. The asteroid measures in at about 400 m (1,300 ft), which is around 4% of the size of the asteroid that is said to have killed the dinosaurs. So, while no dino-killer, the asteroid would certainly pack enough of a wallop to give the Earth one cosmic migraine.

A size comparison of some of the more notable objects to strike the Earth in the last 50,000 years or so. Credit: theobjectreport.com

WORKING TOGETHER

The United States government is not taking the possibility of an asteroid impact lightly. In January of 2016, NASA joined with US defense and research agencies to form the Detecting and Mitigating the Impact of Earth-bound NEOs (DAMIEN) group. This group released a report detailing its strategy for dealing with NEOs.

The authors of this report state that “While it is highly unlikely that there will be a civilization-ending NEO impact over the next two centuries, the risk of smaller but still catastrophic NEO impacts is real…There is currently no whole-of government or international strategy to respond to such an even through all phases of a NEO impact scenario.”

Within the report, this group outlines seven strategic goals that they will use to help mitigate the risks of a possible asteroid impact.

1. Enhance NEO Detection, Tracking, and Characterization Capabilities

2. Develop Methods for NEO Deflection and Disruption

3. Improve Modeling, Predictions, and Information Integration

4. Develop Emergency Procedures for NEO Impact Scenarios

5. Establish NEO Impact Response and Recovery Procedures

6. Leverage and Support International Cooperation

7. Establish Coordination and Communications Protocols and Thresholds for Taking Action

According to Lindley Johnson, NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer: “The amount of time needed to mount a robotic planetary mission is typically 5-6 years, so I’d say realistically, you’d need about 8-10 years advance warning to do something about an asteroid in space.”

Our civilization is now truly global in scale and scope, and it behooves us to comport ourselves accordingly and take cognizance of all the potential threats to our survival—whether destructive wars, disease pandemics, climatic change, or the threat of extraterrestrial impactors. Hopefully, the survival of humanity will not be threatened by the impact of an NEO anytime soon; but if it is, we can rest a little easier knowing that measures are being taken and there is finally a sound plan in place.

Space disaster: Artist's impression of a 'super-impact'. A very large asteroid, about 800km in diameter, strikes the Earth

(Photo: NASA / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

References:

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Kean took time out from UFOlogy to write a book presenting "evidence for an Afterlife."

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Zondag 8 januari 2017

Two Exclusive Videos: Military Aircraft and UFOs!

Two Exclusive Videos: Military Aircraft and UFOs!

(Before It's News)

How likely is it that UFO’s are indeed just secret military aircraft?
When all the evidence is compiled and what facts we know are brought forth, could all these UFO sighting really just be a catagory of military technology that is so secret that only a handful of top officals truely know about it?

We all know the Goverment has decieved the public time after time,in fact they tend to cover the truth with rumors on top of rumors then a few far fetched tales to confuse the public even more. Could the UFO phenomenon really just be th ultimate cover story for one of the most secret operations.

UFO Maryland Settembre 2016

The presidents of the United states most likely have very little information into these operations, as it would give the the deniablity when asked questions. Think about this, top generals of the military hold there position for years longer than a president can be in office so who really controls what is happening, and what secrets can be withheld.

Given the pace of how fast technology moves and how advanced our computers alone have become I think it is quite possible that the majority of sighting really are prototype systems.

What better cover than its a “unidentified flying object” you can literilly fly it over a vast population and then say “We dont know” its the perfect cover. Dont get me wrong i stongly believe that we are not alone in this universe however there really has not been a smoking gun that could not be disputed. If there is that smoking gun that has crossed the path of the public then the “man’ has done a very good job at making it go away. Especilly in this day and age where just about anything can be duplicated by fancy graphics programs.

Could there be both manmade systems as well as extraterestrial systems among us?

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Zondag 8 januari 2017

Leslie Kean's new Infrared UFO Video from Chile - Solved?

Leslie Kean's new Infrared UFO Video from Chile - Solved?

Leslie Kean is a well-known UFO writer, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record (2010. See my review of it here).

In recent years Kean has been working with the CEFAA, an official organization within the Chilean Air Force to investigate UFOs (similar to the now-disbanded Project Blue Book in the U.S. Air Force). In 2012, she promoted a newly-released "UFO video" by CEFAA, asking provocatively "Is this the case UFO skeptics have been dreading?". In the end, the much-hyped "UFO" turned out just to be a fly buzzing near the camera, and all those Chilean Generals and Pilots and Government Officials who pronounced it authentic were full of baloney.

The now-retired blogger Kentaro Mori explained in 2011 that the CEFAA's supposed "world's best UFO photo" appears to be nothing more than a reflection on a car windshield.

This photo taken in 2010 near the El Yeso Reservoir is the "world's best UFO photo," according to the CEFAA.

After that embarrassment, for a long time one didn't hear much about Leslie Kean, or the CEFAA. In May of 2015, Kean announced another marvellous UFO video received from the CEFAA. She wrote

The CEFAA, a government agency investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) within the department of civil aeronautics (DGAC) in Chile, has released a summary of its meticulous investigation into the relatively recent “AGA case.” The acronym “AGA” refers to the prestigious Air Force War Academy (Academia de Guerra Aérea) in Santiago, Chile, which provides training for high level Air Force officers.

The sighting of unexplained lights in formation at the Academy was video taped on two cell phones. Due to technical problems, the videos are not accessible on the CEFAA website.

By "technical problems," she apparently means that none of the Chilean Generals, Pilots, or government officials could figure out how to upload a cell phone video to a website. However, since that video only showed indistinct lights in the sky, taken on a shaky camera, practically nobody else got excited about this case.

But now she is back, big time. The CEFAA recently released a new UFO video, some of it using infrared imaging, and it quickly became the #1 trending item on Facebook. In a January 5, 2017 article on the Huffington Post, Kean wrote

An exceptional nine-minute Navy video of a UFO displaying highly unusual behavior, studied by Chilean authorities for the last two years, is now being released to the public. The CEFAA - the Chilean government agency which investigates UFOs, or UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena), has been in charge of the investigation. Located within the DGAC, the equivalent of our FAA but under the jurisdiction of the Chilean Air Force, CEFAA has committees of military experts, technicians and academics from many disciplines. None of them have been able to explain the strange flying object captured by two experienced Navy officers from a helicopter.

The object and its "envelope," according to astrophysicist Luis Barrera.

UFOlogist Ted Roe is a member of NARCAP, the group that investigated the CEFAA's fly video and pronounced it to be an unknown object. Roe posted to a Facebook discussion of the current video, "Our experience w CEFAA has been pretty good. .. they've got a pretty strong college of experts and, at first glance, this case is provocative" (ellipsis in original). Apparently by describing his experience with the CEFAA as "pretty good," that means "we made fools of ourselves over this video of a fly." (Roe is currently embroiled in a nasty controversy concerning how he allegedly drove Isaac Koi, an outstanding researcher, out of UFOlogy.)

CEFAA caption: "The object moved away from the massize plume it ejected just moments earlier. "

In France, a group called IPACO specializes in "Analysis of photo/video documents of alleged ufos." They investigated this video, and produced a sixteen-page report, completed November 26, 2015. They performed a highly technical analysis of the video. Their conclusion: "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."

IPACO updated the CEFAA's map to show the calculated path of the presumed aircraft (blue). The red line shows the helicopter's path.

And now Mick West of Metabunk seems to have driven the final nail into the coffin of the great Chilean IR UFO video. After explaining how all of the aspects of the video are consistent with that of an aircraft, West writes

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.

The plane that 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[s] why it was not seen on radar (the actual plane was on radar, just not where they thought it was)

As the French skeptic Gille Fernandez noted, we have a situation here where a major UFO case was solved by 'amateurs' in two or three days, after having been unsuccessfully investigated by "experts" for two or three years. The same thing happened with the "Roswell slides" in 2015.

Leslie Kean doesn't agree with this at all. On January 7 she wrote on her Facebook page

There are many holes in this flight LA330 hypothesis. First and foremost is that the Chilean authorities would have easily determined this to be the explanation if indeed it were.

Those same Chilean "authorities" who gave us the El Yeso reflection UFO and the El Bosque fly UFO video? She has a lot more confidence in them than I do.

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Zondag 8 januari 2017

Updated: NASA taps missions to tiny metal world and Jupiter Trojans

Psyche is believed to be the stripped-bare core of an ancient planetesimal.

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Updated: NASA taps missions to tiny metal world and Jupiter Trojans

By Paul Voosen

NASA is plunging into the solar system’s origins, selecting two planetary missions to visit mysterious asteroids. The agency has chosen Lucy, which will visit Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, and Psyche, which will orbit a large metallic asteroid, for its next Discovery missions, its low-cost planetary science mission line.

Lucy, set for a 2021 launch, will take advantage of a unique orbital moment to fly past six of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, which precede and follow the gas giant's orbit, a region previously unexplored by spacecraft. Launching in 2023, Psyche will orbit a rare iron and nickel asteroid of the same name, believed to be the stripped-bare core of an ancient planetesimal, and will test whether such bodies could have been hot enough to have formed molten, spinning cores.

“Lucy and Psyche will take us to unique worlds that humankind has never explored before," says Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. "With this, NASA is continuing its legacy of firsts.”

The Jupiter Trojans have long been an exploratory goal for NASA. But Harold Levison, Lucy's principal investigator and a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, came to the project from his theoretical work. A decade ago, he helped devise a leading model of the solar system's formation that, among its virtues, gave birth to objects with orbits like the Jupiter Trojans. These are the fossils of planet formation, he says. "If we're going to detangle what happened out there, the Trojans are the place to look."

Lucy will make a grand tour, examining its targets with an infrared spectrometer and new versions of the black-and-white and color cameras found on New Horizons, the Pluto explorer. After passing one asteroid in the main belt, in 2027 it will fly past four Jupiter Trojans over the course of a year and a half. And then, 5 years later, it will pass a rare binary asteroid system in an orbit highly tilted from Jupiter’s orbital plane. It's a complicated trajectory that was only possible with the 2021 launch, which may have helped its selection. "I've been worshipping at the feet of the celestial mechanics god for the last 30 years," Levison says, "and they're paying us back."

Little is known about Lucy's targets. The team knows their colors, from which they infer composition, and some of their reflectivity. From this limited information, it's clear they are diverse in type, and not homogenous leftovers from the formation of Jupiter. It's likely they originated farther out from their current orbit, Levison says, and found their way to Jupiter during the reconfiguration of the planets. The most interesting target is the binary pair Patroclus and Menoetius, Levison adds. Binaries are rare in much of the solar system, but common in the Kuiper belt beyond Neptune, far from the gravity of planets. That could indicate the duo are nearly pristine leftovers from that early era.

Psyche, meanwhile, has its origins in research conducted by Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the project's principal investigator and planetary scientist at Arizona State University in Tempe. With several colleagues, Elkins-Tanton identified remnant magnetic fields in meteorites that could be linked to ancient planetesimals, the building blocks of planets. Such magnetism was thought only to come from the spinning molten cores of full-fledged planets, not cooler, smaller protoplanets. But they surmised that a radioactive isotope of aluminum may have been abundant enough to heat the planetesimals from the inside-out, forming a molten core.

It was controversial. At the first meeting where they presented this idea, in 2011, "they lined up three deep at the microphones to rebut me even before I started talking," Elkins-Tanton says. But it gradually caught on, and then the Jet Propulsion Lab called, suggesting a mission to test their hypothesis.

They settled on 16 Psyche as a target. At 210 kilometers in diameter, it is one of the largest known members of the asteroid belt, and thought to be largely iron and nickel in composition, similar to Earth's core. They suspect it could have once been the molten core of a planetesimal that might have neared Mars in size. And late last year, observations from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility also discovered signs of what looks to be water or hydroxyl on Psyche's surface, which could make it a promising resource-rich depot for human exploration in the future.

After its launch in October 2023, Psyche will arrive at its target in 2030. While orbiting, it will use a magnetometer to search for signs of a remnant magnetic field, which could have once been half as strong as Earth’s. "A little fridge magnet in space," Elkins-Tanton says. It will also employ a gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer to study radiation emitted by the asteroid, to judge its metallic composition. It's not an asteroid mission in the classic sense, Elkins-Tanton adds. "We want to understand the interior of a planet. It just happens this planet is categorized as an asteroid."

The Lucy mission will visit six Trojans, asteroids that precede and follow Jupiter’s orbit.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA has supported many missions to small bodies in recent years, but its appetite has not waned. Lucy and Psyche are different, but worthy, missions, says Michael A'Hearn, an astronomer at the University of Maryland in College Park. "Psyche is important because it will tell of the evolution of bodies in the solar system, whereas Lucy is telling us more about the origins of Trojans." Many scientists suspect the Jupiter asteroids are similar in composition to comets, he adds.

Each capped at $450 million in costs, these proposals were selected from five final candidates, all focused either on Venus or small solar system bodies. After an initial cull in 2015, the teams received $3 million to flesh out their proposals. After weeks of waiting over the holidays, the candidates learned of their selection only hours before the final announcement today.

The agency also announced it would extend another year of funding to the Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), one of the finalists, though its plans beyond that were not immediately clear. “This mission is an important capability for the agency,” says Jim Green, NASA’s planetary science division director in Washington, D.C.

The final five candidates were:

Lucy and Psyche;
NEOCam, a space-based telescope that would discover and study 10 times more Earth-threatening asteroids and comets than known today;
DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging), a probe that would plunge into Venus's atmosphere for 63 minutes and study its chemical and isotopic composition; and
VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy), a Venus orbiter that would map the planet with radar at high resolutions, hunting for active volcanism.

The announcement comes as a particular rebuke for planetary scientists focused on Venus. For years, these researchers have been frustrated by NASA's refusal to return the planet, which it last directly targeted in the early 1990s. After failing to win selection in the previous Discovery round earlier this decade, scientists worked to clarify their scientific questions and needed measurements. By selecting two Venus missions among its final five candidates, NASA seemed to signal their success in coming together.

Many planetary scientists were also wary of the NEOCam mission. NASA faces a congressional mandate to identify 90% of mid-sized near-Earth objects by 2020. Although NEOCam would provide worthy scientific research, scientists feared it would take a Discovery slot away from more deserving work—fears that were ultimately unfounded. But bypassing NEOCam means it is unlikely that NASA will meet its congressional obligation, unless Congress ultimately decides to separately finance the mission.

The B612 Foundation, which once promised to launch a private asteroid telescope similar to NEOCam, has backed away from its plans. The $650 million Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), currently being built in Chile with the support of the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, will identify many near-Earth asteroids as it surveys the entire sky every 3 nights once it begins operations in 2023. But simulations suggest the LSST is unlikely to meet the 90% threshold on its own. According to a White House strategy memo released late last month, the best strategy may be to combine a space-based telescope with the LSST.

For 2 decades, NASA's Discovery program has supported low-cost planetary missions, with a goal of launching a new probe every 2 to 3 years. However, it has been 5 years since the last launch, and the most recent selection, the InSight probe to Mars, has been plagued by delays, with its launch falling back to 2018. NASA had a goal of selecting two Discovery missions this round to help it get back on schedule, though there had been concerns whether federal budget uncertainty would allow it. Green says missions should launch every 32 to 36 months going forward. “The program is now back, now healthy.”

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Zondag 8 januari 2017

NASA is Sending a Probe to Explore a “New Type of World”

NASA is Sending a Probe to Explore a “New Type of World”

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IN BRIEF

NASA's given the go-ahead for a mission to the asteroid 16 Psyche—a giant piece of metal that may be all that's left of the nickel-iron core of an ancient protoplanet.
As part of the agency's low-cost Discovery Program, it may furnish us with some insight about the Earth's mysterious inner core, and shed some light on the evolution of the Earth and the other planets.

Psyche is believed to be the stripped-bare core of an ancient planetesimal.

LEARNING ABOUT INNER SPACE

It’s the only known asteroid in the Solar System not made of rock or ice. Discovered way back in 1852, 16 Psyche is a strange hunk of metal orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, and is one of the ten most massive objects in the asteroid belt. Recently, NASA just gave the thumbs up for a mission to send a probe to 16 Psyche, as part of two newly approved Discovery Program missions—missions that could reveal a great deal about how the earliest planets that orbit the Sun were formed.

“This is an opportunity to explore a new type of world—not one of rock or ice, but of metal,” explained planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton, who first proposed the mission in 2015. “16 Psyche is the only known object of its kind in the Solar System, and this is the only way humans will ever visit a core. We learn about inner space by visiting outer space.”

The Psyche mission is expected to launch by 2023 and arrive at its destination in 2030. The long journey will include an Earth gravity assist maneuver in 2024, and a Mars flyby in 2025—two encounters that will provide an opportunity to do some interesting science on the voyage. The robotic mission will spend 20 months in orbit taking photos of 16 Psyche, measuring its composition, and registering the object’s magnetic field strength and gravity.

Believed to have once been the liquid metallic core of a planet about the size of Mars, 16 Psyche has a diameter of more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) and seems to be mostly made up of iron and nickel—with a surface possibly bearing volatiles like water or hydroxyl, according to observations from the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. It’s thought that the surface of the ancient planet was whittled down after a series of collisions with multiple objects in the Solar System, leaving behind the naked metallic core as a kind of stillborn protoplanetary embryo.

DISCOVERY PROGRAM

The Psyche mission can open a window onto the earliest ages of the Solar System, an era less than 10 million years after the birth of the Sun. The mission will help us understand how planets were formed, and give us an idea as to how planets and other bodies in the cosmos develop and differentiate into multiple layers—cores, mantles, and crusts—in their earliest histories.

Apart from the Pysche mission, NASA also approved a mission called Lucy to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. “Lucy will visit a target-rich environment of Jupiter’s mysterious Trojan asteroids, while Psyche will study a unique metal asteroid that’s never been visited before,” explains Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Like Psyche, Lucy will also help us understand an earlier, fascinating era in our Solar System’s history. “This is what Discovery Program missions are all about—boldly going to places we’ve never been to enable groundbreaking science,” Zurbuchen added. At the moment, both Psyche and Lucy are in their mission formulation stages.

While Discovery Program missions are relatively low-cost, the significance of their potential contributions is priceless. “These are true missions of discovery that integrate into NASA’s larger strategy of investigating how the Solar System formed and evolved,” said Jim Green, Planetary Science director at NASA. “These additional pieces of the puzzle will help us understand how the Sun and its family of planets formed, changed over time, and became places where life could develop and be sustained—and what the future may hold.”

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Zondag 8 januari 2017

Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests

Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests

By Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer

Our universe may be one of many, physicists say.

Credit: Shutterstock/Victor Habbick

The first direct evidence of cosmic inflation — a period of rapid expansion that occurred a fraction of a second after the Big Bang — also supports the idea that our universe is just one of many out there, some researchers say.

On Monday (March 17), scientists announced new findings that mark the first-ever direct evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in space-time created just after the universe began. If the results are confirmed, they would provide smoking-gun evidence that space-time expanded at many times the speed of light just after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.

The bottom part of this illustration shows the scale of the universe versus time. Specific events are shown such as the formation of neutral Hydrogen at 380 000 years after the big bang. Prior to this time, the constant interaction between matter (electrons) and light (photons) made the universe opaque. After this time, the photons we now call the CMB started streaming freely.

Credit: BICEP2 Collaboration

The new research also lends credence to the idea of a multiverse. This theory posits that, when the universe grew exponentially in the first tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang, some parts of space-time expanded more quickly than others. This could have created "bubbles" of space-time that then developed into other universes. The known universe has its own laws of physics, while other universes could have different laws, according to the multiverse concept. [Cosmic Inflation and Gravitational Waves: Complete Coverage]

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Inflation is the mysterious force that blew up the scale of the infant universe from sub-microscopic to gargantuan in a fraction of a second. See how cosmic inflation theory for the Big Bang and universe's expansion works in this Space.com infographic.

Credit: By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist

"It's hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse," Alan Guth, an MIT theoretical physicist unaffiliated with the new study, said during a news conference Monday. "It's not impossible, so I think there's still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously."

Other researchers agreed on the link between inflation and the multiverse.

"In most of the models of inflation, if inflation is there, then the multiverse is there," Stanford University theoretical physicist Andrei Linde, who wasn't involved in the new study, said at the same news conference. "It's possible to invent models of inflation that do not allow [a] multiverse, but it's difficult. Every experiment that brings better credence to inflationary theory brings us much closer to hints that the multiverse is real."

When Guth and his colleagues thought up cosmic inflation more than 30 years ago, scientists thought it was untestable. Today, however, researchers are able to study light left over from the Big Bang called cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).

In the new study, a team led by John Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found telltale signs of inflation in the microwave background. The researchers discovered a distinct curl in the polarization pattern of the CMB, a sign of gravitational waves created by the rapid expansion of space-time just after the Big Bang.

If multiple universes exist, they may collide with each other and leave behind signs in the cosmic microwave background radiation, researchers say.

Credit: Stephen Feeney/UCL

Linde, one of the main contributers to inflation theory, says that if the known universe is just one bubble, there must be many other bubbles in the cosmic fabric.

"Think about some unstable state," Linde explained. "You are standing on a hill, and you can fall in this direction, you can fall in that direction, and if you're drunk, eventually you must fall. Inflation is instability of our space with respect to its expansion.

"You have something growing exponentially," he added. "If you just let it go … it will continue exponentially growing, so this [the known universe] is one possibility of something going wrong with this instability, which is very, very right for us because it has created all of our space. Now, we know that if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong once and a second time and a third time and into infinity as long as it can go."

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Worlds Without End: The Many Kinds of Parallel Universes

Worlds Without End: The Many Kinds of Parallel Universes

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IN BRIEF

Parallel universes are a staple of science fiction, but the notion originates in some very important cosmological theories that may help us understand our universe.
And if parallel universes really do exist, could we ever travel to one?

MULTIVERSAL

It’s a frequent staple of science fiction—the notion that there’s another universe out there, coextensive with yet sejunct from our own; a distinct, alternate reality populated by our doppelgängers, who made all the right choices and are happily living the life we always dreamed for ourselves.

Or perhaps there’s a “multiverse”—a multitude of divergent spacetime continua, offspring of that same primordial Big Bang that gave rise to our own, each exhibiting some uniquely different physical, mathematical, or chemical property that might preclude the evolution of life as we know it.

These are familiar concepts—but what is a parallel universe, really? There are nearly as many definitions as there are potential universes in a multiverse, but let’s take a look at just a few of the myriad possibilities of cosmological plurality.

MANY WORLDS

Imagine an infinite universe. That’s not exactly in keeping with the best theoretical models propounded by cosmologists, which indicate we exist within an expanding but definitely finite universe that arose some 14 billion years ago.

But if the universe were infinite, then it’s mathematically conceivable that somewhere out there amidst all that immeasurable vastness is a lonely pocket of spacetime where matter and energy have assumed identical, or nearly identical, configurations to our own little corner of cosmic creation.

This form of “parallel universe” would be safely cushioned from us by the universal speed limit set by the velocity of light; but if you really wanted to get there, it’s been calculated that an identical cosmological volume would only be 10^{10^}¹¹⁵meters away, and your identical copy just 10¹⁰^{^29} meters away.

And that’s hardly the strangest form of parallel universe. Some cosmologists envision the early inflationary epoch spawning a multitude of “bubble universes”—in other words, the universe expanded at such a breakneck speed that pocket spacetimes pinched off and became contiguous but separate universes.

“Every experiment that brings better credence to inflationary theory brings us much closer to hints that the multiverse is real,” says Andrei Linde, a theoretical physicist at Standford University.

And there are, of course, many other scenarios that admit of cosmological parallelism. If certain superstring cosmologies are correct, our universe is a 3-dimensional “brane,” one of many, floating like drifting plankton within a hyperdimensional “bulk.” Or, according to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which alternate universes are continually generated by every particle in the universe exploring every possible timeline, we’re living in a sea of infinite potential subject to our every whim.

The cyclic, oscillating ekpyrotic model of the universe.

VOYAGE TO ANOTHER UNIVERSE

So even if there are multiple universes floating around out there somewhere, what are the odds of us ever being able to reach and explore one? Probably less than zero. We’ve already discussed above the physical impossibility of traveling fast enough to reach the disparate pockets of statistical repetition in an infinite universe; the odds hardly improve when it comes to universes even further removed from us.

And if the brane-theories are remotely correct, it would require liberating oneself completely from the tridimensional constraints of our local brane and “casting off” into the hyperdimensional spaces beyond, hoping somehow to locate and enter another brane. Or, if the “ekpyrotic” scenario is correct, you could conceivably wait until two branes collide, and make the transition at that catastrophic and highly uncertain point in time. This all assuming one is in possession of near-godlike powers of control over matter and energy, and is invulnerable to cosmos-creating energies.

Bottom line: parallel universes or no, we’ve got plenty to keep us occupied within the humble ambit of our own restricted and provincial little spacetime configuration, so perhaps it’s time we adjust our expansive imaginations to just accept the Lilliputian dimensions of our local spacetime.

References: PBS, Space.com

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China Claims It’s Made the Impossible EmDrive Possible

China Claims It’s Made the Impossible EmDrive Possible

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IN BRIEF

Rumor has it that the Chinese are testing that fabulous Sangraal of spacecraft propulsion—the EmDrive.
But the Chinese have been known to make some pretty fantastic, and insupportable claims; and there's so far not a shred of evidence that the EmDrive actually works.

MADE IN CHINA

If you’ve seen Rogue One (or any Star Wars movie), you’ve seen how those X-Wing and TIE fighters were able to do those crazy maneuvers in space using just their thruster engines, right? Well, that’s supposed to be impossible in a vacuum. But with the EmDrive (short for Electromagnetic Drive), which is able to generate thrust without needing a propellant, it just might be possible—of course, it’ll need more than just that.

This is assuming that the EmDrive actually works—and not just in theory.

Well, China claims to have been able to prove that it does, and says it’s already begun testing one. The news comes from a government-sponsored article published at the Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, which claims that the country has been doing “key technology research” for five years now into the EmDrive for “possible engineering applications.”

In a press conference announcement, officials from the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) confirm that they have indeed developed EmDrive prototypes and have begun testing if the device could actually work in space.

“We have successfully developed several specifications of multiple prototype principles,” claimed CAST communication satellite division head Chen Yue. “The establishment of an experimental verification platform to complete the milli-level micro thrust measurement test, as well as several years of repeated experiments and investigations into corresponding interference factors, confirm that in this type of thruster, thrust exists.”

Also at the press conference, Li Feng, chief designer of the communication satellite division of CAST, explained what exactly it is they’re doing. “This technology is currently in the latter stages of the proof-of-principle phase, with the goal of making the technology available in satellite engineering as quickly as possible,” he said. “Although it is difficult to do this, we have the confidence that we will succeed.”

This would seem to confirm information from unnamed sources which claim that an EmDrive is being tested on its Tiangong-2 space laboratory.

NO REAL PROOF

Apart from these mysterious sources, however, there’s no actual indication that China indeed has a functioning EmDrive in space—especially since China doesn’t exactly enjoy a good record when it comes to trustworthy research. And, Chinese tests or no, it’s certainly not proven that this “propellantless” thruster technology actually works. Despite NASA’s recent publication of their peer-reviewed study, experts remain skeptical about the EmDrive. They are also taking the NASA study with a sizable grain of salt.

Credits: NASA

As the University of Connecticut’s advanced propulsions system expert Brice Cassenti explained:

This is a violation of Newton’s third law of motion, which says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Action and reaction is a direct result of the conservation of momentum. The violation of such a basic law as the conservation of momentum would invalidate much of the basis for all of physics as we know it. Hence, many scientists and engineers feel the thrust measurements reported for the EM Drive are due to experimental error. Adding to this is the fact that those who believe the results are valid do not yet have an experimentally or a theoretically plausible proven physical explanation.

So we may not be zooming through space just yet.

How the EmDrive works

The EmDrive created by Shawyer's SPR Ltd

The EmDrive created by Shawyer's space company Satellite Propulsion Research LtdRoger Shawyer, Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd

The EmDrive is the invention of British scientist Roger Shawyer who, in 1999, proposed that – based on the theory of special relativity – electricity converted into microwaves and fired within a truncated cone-shaped closed metal cavity causes microwave particles to exert more force on the flat surface at the large end of the cone. There is less combined particle momentum at the narrow end due to a reduction in group particle velocity, so this thereby generates thrust.

His critics say that – according to the law of conservation of momentum – his theory cannot work as, in order for a thruster to gain momentum in one direction, a propellant must be expelled in the opposite direction – and the EmDrive is a closed system.

However, Shawyer says that, following fundamental physics involving the theory of special relativity, the EmDrive does in fact preserve the law of conservation of momentum and energy.

For an in-depth explanation, see What is the EmDrive and why should I care?

References: ScienceAlert - Latest, International Business Times, Science and Technology Daily, emdrive.com

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Hello! This is how scientists plan to communicate with aliens

Hello! This is how scientists plan to communicate with aliens

The song Across the Universe by The Beatles, and compositions by Vivaldi and Gershwin have been sent to space for communicating with aliens.

Scientists from San Francisco-based Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) plan to send signals to distant planets and communicate with aliens instead of waiting for them to initiate the interaction.

Also Read: Here's how NASA is using a laser to save Earth

Keeping it simple, the first message METI researchers plan to send to the intelligent aliens is "Hello".

NASA, Hubble Space Telescope, Proxima Centauri,

An image of Sun's nearest star Proxima Centauri shot by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

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The astronomers are planning to start the talks with aliens by sending laser or radio signals. The first celestial body they will send the message to is none other than Proxima Centauri, the star that is nearest to the Sun. Other far-off celestial bodies located hundreds or thousands of light years away will then be sent the communication signals.

"If we want to start an exchange over the course of many generations, we want to learn and share information," said Douglas Vakoch, president of METI and former director of Interstellar Message Composition at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) in California, phys.org reported.

Founded last year, METI is going to host two workshops in 2017 in St. Louis and Paris. The organisation also plans to raise $1 million for its mission to install transmitters at remote spots in space.

For now, the researchers are thinking about how to create and send the simple yet powerful message, "Hello," to the aliens. However, the project is also turning controversial, with people asking whether we want aliens to know our whereabouts, especially if they are hostile.

To this question, physicist Mark Buchanan reacted by stating: "We have almost zero idea of whether aliens are likely to be dangerous," according to the journal, Nature Physics.

On the other hand, positive responses have also been received by METI.

"I think there's something to be learned, nothing to be feared, and at least the possibility of discovering something truly revolutionary: We have company nearby," Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI Institute, was quoted as saying by phys.org.

The first mission of this sort was spearheaded by NASA in the early 1970s, when Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft had carried a message in the form of a gold plaque, which was followed by a phonograph record.

Also, a radio message was beamed by SETI's Frank Drake, which could be collected in the form of a pictogram of images.

The song Across the Universe by The Beatles, and compositions of Vivaldi and Gershwin have also been sent to space for communicating with distant celestial bodies and aliens.

So far, no regulations have been formulated for sending the signals to space.

Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner funded the SETI and the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project at the University of California, Berkeley, which aims at scanning space in order to discover any sign of alien technology.

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Watch: Chilean government declassifies UFO encounter details after 2 years [VIDEO]

Watch: Chilean government declassifies UFO encounter details after 2 years [VIDEO]

In a rare instance, the government agency of Chile has confirmed that one of its helicopters encountered an "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon".

In picture: A screenshot from the video that shows the UFO.Video Screengrab

The Chilean government has declassified a video from two years ago that shows what is apparently an unidentified flying object (UFO) moving at speeds equal to its Navy helicopter. There have been several sightings of what people consider UFOs across the world, but rarely are they acknowledged by governments.

The Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (CEFAA) or the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena — a Chilean government agency that studies paranormal and possible extraterrestrial encounters or evidence -- have categorised this one as an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, which could be just another term for UFO.

According to an official statement from CEFAA: "On November 11, 2014, a helicopter of the Chilean Navy (Airbus Cougar AS-532), equipped with an infrared high-definition FLIR camera, was patrolling in the coastal sector between the port of San Antonio and Quinteros a At 16:48 UTC, when the camera operator detected an unknown object, apparently flying at a constant speed similar to that of the helicopter, and moving forward."

This seems consistent with other UFO sightings, where the objects reportedly fly at speeds matching those of the aircraft they are being recorded from. Also, in most cases, the objects move closer to the human air vessels before disappearing.

The CEFAA has said in the statement that the encounter — which lasted for more than 10 minutes — was confirmed by both the helicopter pilot and the camera operator. They then reportedly tried to confirm the existence of the object with the local Air Traffic Control (ATC), but the ATC said it did not detect any such object on the radar.

The ATC also did not detect any other airplane or weather balloon in the area, debunking theories that this might have been a man-made vessel. Other theories on what it could have been have also been debunked, given the altitude at which it was flying and other such metrics.

The helicopter crew then reportedly tried to hail the object over known radio frequencies, but received no reply. The object then reportedly disappeared in the clouds before the helicopter crew could make out more of its details.

Watch the declassified video here:

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Autoriteiten tasten in het duister over ufo boven Chili - HLN.be

Autoriteiten tasten in het duister over ufo boven Chili - HLN.be

Bron: AD.nl

De Chileense autoriteiten hebben een opmerkelijk filmpje van het leger van ruim 9 minuten vrijgegeven waarin een onverklaarbaar vliegend object is te zien. De ufo werd op 11 november 2014 bij daglicht gespot en geregistreerd door een helikopter die een controlemissie vloog boven zee ten westen van de hoofdstad Santiago.

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Experts van de CEFAA - een overheidsorganisatie die merkwaardige verschijnselen in de lucht onderzoekt - hebben twee jaar lang intensief gespeurd naar een verklaring. Omdat die niet is gevonden, zijn de beelden nu openbaar gemaakt. CEFAA-generaal Ricardo Bermúndez, die nauw betrokken was bij het onderzoek, staat voor een raadsel. "We weten niet wat het was, maar we weten wel wat het niet was", meldt hij in een verklaring.

Wat er precies gebeurde op de dag dat het object werd gezien, is uitvoerig beschreven. Aan boord van de legerhelikopter (een Airbus Cougar AS-532) waren een piloot, een legerkapitein en een legertechnicus die tijdens de missie een nieuwe, geavanceerde infraroodcamera zou testen. Het weer was helder, de temperatuur 10 graden Celsius en de vliegsnelheid 152 kilometer per uur. Om 13.52 uur ontdekte de techicus, terwijl het toestel over de kustlijn vloog om de grond te observeren, boven zee een vreemd object.

Blote oog
De drie mannen konden, zo blijkt uit verklaringen die ze los van elkaar gaven, het raadselachtige ding makkelijk met het blote oog zien. Het vloog op een afstand van circa 65 kilometer bij de heli vandaan. De technicus richtte direct de camera op de ufo, zoomde in terwijl de piloot en legerkapitein contact zochten met twee radarstations op de grond. Die konden wel de heli zien, maar niet het vliegende object. Ook de radars van de heli en de camera registreerden het verschijnsel niet.

Uit een bandopname blijkt dat de helikopterpiloot meermaals heeft geprobeerd tijdens de vlucht contact te maken met de CEFAA. De man gebruikte daarvoor een internationale radiofrequentie die zowel door het leger als burgers mag worden gebruikt. Hij kreeg echter nooit antwoord. Terwijl hij zat te bellen bleef de techicus filmen met als eindresultaat een zwartwit-filmpje van bijna 10 minuten. De beelden tonen zwarte, grijze en witte gebieden die gerelateerd zijn aan verschillende temperaturen. Zwart staat voor heet, grijs voor warm en wit voor koel.

Omkeren
De drie mannen zouden zich zijn rotgeschrokken van de verschijning. De technicus stopte met filmen toen de heli weer terug moest naar het vliegveld. Tijdens het keren verdween de ufo achter de wolken. Weer op de grond alarmeerden ze de CEFAA die de beelden direct ging onderzoeken. Gedurende die analyse werd ook de heli-crew ondervraagd. "Het zijn goed getrainde, betrouwbare professionals die geen enkele reden hebben om zoiets te verzinnen. Ze hebben iets gezien wat ze niet kunnen verklaren, zo benadrukken ze nog steeds'', aldus Ricardo Bermúndez.

Op de vrijgegeven beelden is te zien dat het object lijkt te bestaan uit twee, door een horizontale as verbonden, ovale of ronde delen die naast warmte mogelijk ook een soort gas, rook of vloeistof produceerden. Volgens de Chileense autoriteiten, die ook nog ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA en andere landen inschakelden, zijn het in geen geval straalmotoren van bijvoorbeeld een vliegtuig, omdat er tijdens de bijzondere waarneming geen andere toestellen in de lucht waren. Ook was geen sprake van een weerballon, bijzondere weersomstandigheden of apparatuur van de heli die onvoldoende functioneerde.

Het filmpje is volgens de CEFAA reglementen openbaar gemaakt, omdat de organisatie er verder niks mee kan. "Wij weten het niet. Laat het publiek nu maar oordelen", aldus de generaal.

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Uniek: er komt een nieuwe ster bij aan de hemel, maar ze bestaat wel al 1.800 jaar - HLN.be

Uniek: er komt een nieuwe ster bij aan de hemel, maar ze bestaat wel al 1.800 jaar - HLN.be

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In de derde eeuw was het hommeles op het Europese vasteland: talrijke oorlogen deden het Romeinse rijk langzaam maar zeker afbrokkelen. Maar niet alleen op aarde stond die periode in het teken van onrust, ook in de ruimte heerste er chaos. Twee sterren botsten met elkaar en veroorzaakten zo een gigantische explosie. Het resultaat daarvan kunnen we binnenkort bewonderen, bijna twee millennia later.

Het licht dat 1.800 jaar geleden ontstond bij een monumentale ontploffing tussen twee sterren komt in 2022 eindelijk aan op aarde. Dat betekent dat er een mooie ster bijkomt aan het firmament. De verwelkoming van een nieuwe ster is een uiterst uitzonderlijke gebeurtenis die je echt niet wil missen.

Voor ze met elkaar in botsing kwamen, waren de twee sterren te zwak om ze vanop aarde met het blote oog te kunnen waarnemen. Het licht dat ontstond na de botsing is 10.000 keer helderder en dus wel perfect waarneembaar. De nieuwe ster zou misschien zelfs even helder zijn als de Poolster.

We hebben er 1.800 jaar op moeten wachten, maar straks komt het licht van de nieuwe ster op aarde aan. Maar na ongeveer zes maanden moeten we er helaas weer afscheid van nemen.

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Unieke gebeurtenis

"Voor het eerst in de geschiedenis kunnen ouders naar een donkere vlek in de hemel wijzen en zeggen: 'Kijk kinderen, daar verstopt zich een ster die weldra zal oplichten!'" zo zegt Matt Walhout, astronoom aan het Calvin College in Michigan, waar de voorspelling werd gedaan. "Niemand heeft ooit de geboorte van een ster voorspeld. We denken dat amateur astronomen zullen wedijveren met andere liefhebbers om de ster als eerste te spotten."

Niet alleen is dit een prachtige en unieke gebeurtenis voor sterrenliefhebbers, het is ook een uitgelezen kans voor astronomen om de geboorte van een nieuwe ster van dichtbij mee te maken. De wetenschap kan er alleen maar wel bij varen.

Zes maanden lang zal de zogenoemde 'Boom Star' een van de helderste sterren aan het firmament zijn voor ze geleidelijk aan weer uitdooft. Na twee tot drie jaar zou de ster haar oorspronkelijke helderheid terugkrijgen.

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