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The top row are screen grabs from a video taken in January 2017 of a reported UFO over Liverpool, UK. The bottom row shows a very similar reported UFO in March 2017 over Gloucester, UK.

If some British tabloids are to be believed, UFOs have been lighting up the British skies these days, as if the night skies were an immense Christmas tree. 

As reported in The Express, “thousands of people across the globe are seeing mysterious shape-shifting UFO.”

Of course, an unidentified flying object typically turns out to be something other than an ET spacecraft once we take a closer look. In this instance, on March 12, Rob Wheatman, a resident of Gloucester,  captured an odd aerial phenomenon on video, as seen below.

“I saw it as a sparkling ‘star’ from the garden in Elmbridge, due south,” according to GloucesterLive. “What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and traveled at speed north east. I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that’s when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw.”

While there doesn’t seem to be any outward appearance of fakery going on here, there tends to be an immediate attitude either on the part of individuals who offer alleged UFO videos or from media sources that have a tendency to stretch the idea of credulity with descriptions like “[t]his apparently intergalactic lightshow was filmed above Gloucester last night, and it’s got us, and the cameraman, baffled. What it shows is anyone’s guess...We’re pinning our money on aliens. Definitely aliens.”

Once again, let’s offer this reminder: The vast majority of UFO sightings are eventually explained as natural or man-made objects. 

We consulted a photo analyst who was unimpressed with the sightings. 

“In this Gloucester video, I noticed first that the object was not in focus. That’s why it looked like a diamond shape. This is a common appearance of out of focus objects with some cameras,” according to Marc D’Antonio, chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network.

“In that video, the cameraman stated he was looking ‘due south.’ I believe that, due south at some point during the night, you will see Sirius, the brightest star in the northern sky. Because a star is ever only a point source, the slightest disturbance to the air between the camera and edge of the atmosphere in the direction being imaged will cause the image to dance around. This is called atmospheric scintillation,” D’Antonio told The Huffington Post.

In addition to his work as a video analyst, D’Antonio is CEO of FX Models, where he builds miniature versions of classified objects for his clients that include the U.S. Navy, Congress and the joint chiefs of staff. He knows a thing or two about things that are real, faked or simply misidentified.

HuffPost asked D’Antonio to look at another reported UK UFO video from January. This video begins with an object over Liverpool looking remarkably like the object in the first video above from Gloucester:

”In the second video, I noted that the object was out of focus at times. The cameraman stated that the object didn’t move, yet it absolutely did, moving over time from a position to the right and above a branch to a position just off the tip of that branch,” D’Antonio said.

“It had changed direction to reveal its nature ― it was an aircraft, landing lights on when it turned on final approach to a nearby airport. Landing lights can be seen up to 90 miles away and will persist for up to 4-5 minutes, then fade out as the aircraft makes its final turns. In my opinion, the first video showed an astronomical object ― likely Sirius ― and the second video showed a likely aircraft on landing approach.”

Incidentally, the objects in question in these two videos are quite similar to a diamond-shaped “UFO” videotaped in 2015 over another UK town, Tynemouth. In that case, it was determined that the object was, in fact, the bright star Sirius. 

If you happen to spot something in the night sky that, at first, seems out-of-this-world and tempts you to consider that you’re lucky enough to witness visitors from far away, remember that you’re more than likely seeing something that is truly astronomical in nature. 

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Uncovered video shows 'Illuminati destroying 13,000-year-old alien satellite built to keep an eye on humankind'

The Black Knight craft is famous among alien hunters who claim it was planted by another race thousands of years ago in order to keep a watch over us

BY KEYAN MILANIAN

This is the bizarre video 'leaked' online that conspiracy theorists claim shows the destruction of an ancient alien satellite.

The Black Knight craft is famous among alien hunters who claim it was planted by another race thousands of years ago in order to keep a watch on humankind.

But a new video, shared by secureteam10 , alleges the alien technology's destruction has been caught on camera.

A clip on YouTube shows a huge fireball hurtling through space as parts of the UFO break off it.

One conspiracy theorist has claimed an 'anti-matter missile' was used to destroy it.

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During the video, in a brief few seconds, another UFO appears nearby which they say was the aggressor - and a craft owned by the Illuminati.

Eventually, the fireball turns into one perfectly round flying object that the video's producers say is an alien escape pod.

However, alien hunter Tyler Glockner, who runs the popular secureteam10 channel, admits during the video that he is skeptical.

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He said the bizarre profile that posted the clip does not appear to be reputable and questions the strange film angles within the clip.

The Black Knight is said to be 13,000 years old and discovered by Nikola Tesla back in 1932.

He was convinced the bizarre machinery was alien and placed in the orbit to monitor the earth.

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Another sighting over Popocatépetl Volcano, Mexico 19-Mar-2017

Here’s one new footage of a bright unidentified lights flying over a Popocatépetl Volcano in Mexico. This was filmed on Sunday, 19th March 2017.

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Incredible 1989 Nashville UFO Photographs Provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy

The photographs of these UFOs were provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy. He obtained these photographs of a FS-143 saucer from a close friend who claimed to have rendezvoused with another intelligence and requests anonymity. These photographs were allegedly taken on September 27, 1989, near Nashville, Tennessee and used to build a model for theatrical events.

The photographs show strong circular columns of light shining down from the craft that suddenly stop in mid-air. Our spotlights do not function in this manner.

The Photographer’s Story

An experienced photographer was driving in a remote area near Nashville, Tennessee on the night of July 14, 1989. He saw a light behind the trees on top of a mountain several miles away at about 9:00 PM. He stopped his car, opened the trunk, picked up two cameras, a Canon AE-1 and a Canon T-90, that had previously been loaded with film. He started walking toward the bright light. The light came over the mountain several miles away and he started taking pictures with the cameras. He noticed a coronal discharge from around the perimeter of the object. It appeared to be materializing and coming into his vision. The bright light continued moving toward him. He aimed the camera at the light and started taking photos. His first photo was taken about 30 degrees above the horizon. When the object stopped he was shooting at about 50 degree up with the object still about four to six miles away. The photographer states, “I had a feeling that the craft was behind the mountain waiting for me and when it appeared it felt like I was in another world, the sounds were far, far away.” He looked at the object but could not see any definition, the light was far too bright and too far away. When he looked through the lens the craft was sharp and vivid. The craft was visible for more than five minutes, but less than ten. It seemed like forever. He changed the lens package from the T-90 to the AE-1 camera and continued shooting using all his film.

He felt he was not in control of what was happening. He remembers constantly pushing the buttons on the back of the T-90, each time he made a change it sharpened the image. The T-90 Canon with his lens package cost $3,400.00 It has four computer chips and at the time was one of the most professional cameras you could buy when purchased in 1985.” There were other witnesses, but they have been reluctant to come forward. They also were taking pictures, but the field around the craft interfered with the film as the craft moved away. They did not have high magnification lens so there was not enough definition to make the craft identifiable. The photographer has had a recent heart attack and an auto accident and does not want his name revealed.

The Canon T-9- was set upwith a spacer, two 2-2 X multipliers and 500 mm mirror lens with five filters. The lens package was 2000 mm plus. The speed of the film using the film push process is close to 3000. The camera was set up to take scenery at a distance. The computerized camera with computer chips was set to open the aperture as wide as possible. Commander Graham Bethune. was told by Bill Sherwood of Kodak that the object photographed with this package used on the camera was about five miles distant and would be 100 feet in diameter.ASA Kodak 400 or above film was used. Push processing was ordered when developing the film.

Film Analysis

Analysis of the film shows unusual colors not normally seen in any lighted object. The colors indicate a coronal discharge similar to the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights.) The photographs show a craft with approximately 32 red, white and blue perimeter lights. These lights are not used in normal aircraft configuration. At times they appear all red. At other times they are all white. Sometimes outer perimeter lights appear mixed in color indicating they may have the ability to change color.

Inside the outer perimeter lights are panels of lights. These also appear to have the ability to change color. Although they are predominantly white they are sometimes seen as partially red or black. Assuming the craft is 100 feet in diameter these outer panels take up about 40 feet or 20 feet on each side. Below the center of craft there appears to be a crystal or lights with crystal like appearance. Generally these lights appear blue. craft appears to rotate in the photos. Graham gave me his word that these were authentic photographs of an actual flying craft to the best knowledge. He has known the photographer for 24 years and the man worked for him for ten years. He has always been know to tell the truth and was of high character.

National UFO Center Note: 

I have observed a UFO at close distance. The colors of the smoke probably a coronal discharge were similar to what I saw. The lights themselves have an unusual depth of color. When you look at a colored light it is normally a white light covered by a lens of red, yellow, green, blue etc. The lights on the craft appear as if the light contain the actual color. There is a vividness of color that is difficult to describe that appears to be in these photos. The fog or plasma is penetrated by the powerful lights shining downward. The lights extend down for an estimated seventy-five feet to one hundred plus feet and seem to stop abruptly. Duplication of this capability is exceptionally difficult to accomplish with any normal lights. I have never seen lights that have these properties except on a UFO, nor have I seen comparable photography. I have over 5000 hours flying time and taken thousands of photographs. I would be very interested in any similar photographs or videos of a comparable craft.

Source: National UFO Center
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Aliens On Other Planets: Look For These 4 Signs Of Extraterrestrial Life Forms, Scientists Say

Is Footage From The International Space Station Proof Aliens Exist?

What happened to man 'bundled into van after stealing proof of ALIENS from Area 51?'

A COUPLE have come forward to shockingly claim they witnessed the sinister abduction by federal agents of a man who claimed to have stolen video of real aliens from the top-secret Area 51 military base.

NASA astronaut 'saw bodies of DEAD ALIENS' in sensational Roswell revelation

A NASA astronaut claimed he saw the corpses of aliens following the alleged crash of a UFO at Roswell.

By Rachel O'Donoghue 

Lt Col Ellison Onizuka, who was killed in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion, reportedly told his colleague Clark C McClelland that he'd seen footage of the dead extraterrestrials.

McClelland – a former operator if the NASA space shuttle fleet – made the stunning revelation in an article he wrote named, Alien Disclosure from an Astronaut.

The infamous Roswell occurrence refers to an incident in 1947 where ufologists claim a spaceship crashed into a field in New Mexico.

The US military has always denied the claims, saying the object was a weather balloon.

However, over the years multiple witnesses have come forward to say they saw the remains of aliens in the "spaceship" wreckage.

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“What appeared to be some sort of medical examination room with small bodies laying on some sort of table or slab”

Clark C McClelland

McClelland claims he was surprised when his colleague asked about his opinion on the existence of aliens.

He wrote: “(Mr Onizuka) had a surprising experience along with other US Air Force (USAF) aerospace flight engineers and pilots while on military training duty at McClellan air force base, about eight or nine years prior to his astronaut training.

"He and this group were at this base for specialised training when they were directed to report to a viewing room.

"As they were seated, the room darkened and a movie began without the usual official introduction by a USAF officer.”

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Lt Col Onizuka apparently told him he was shocked when the film "began to show what appeared to be some sort of medical examination room with small bodies laying on some sort of table or slab".

He added: "The small, strange looking creatures were humanoid in shape and appeared similar to those described by alleged witnesses at the well-known Roswell site in the Southwest USA in 1947.

"They all had large heads, large eyes, slight torsos, arms, and legs. They did not appear to be of earthly origin.”

McClelland said his NASA colleague then speculated that the footage was shown to them by bosses as a test to see how they would react if one of them actually saw an alien.

The two men reportedly agreed to discuss the incident later but before they could, Lt Col Onizuka died in the infamous Challenger explosion.

McClelland is known to be a dedicated believer in aliens.

He once claimed to have seen a nine-foot extraterrestrial in the bay of a space shuttle and also a flying saucer.

Rumours of dead aliens at Roswell have surfaced before.

In 2015, photos of what was claimed were extraterrestrial corpses were released.

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NASA Budget and Beer on Mars: The Most Amazing Space Stories This Week!

An artist's illustration of astronauts visiting an asteroid as part of NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission. President Donald Trump's proposed NASA budget would cancel this project.

Credit: NASA

President Trump released his proposed NASA budget, Budweiser announced it wants to brew beer on Mars and the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane neared an orbital record. Here are the most interesting things that happened in the universe this week.

President Trump unveils NASA budget request

The Trump administration released its 2018 budget request on March 16, a proposal that calls for the cancellation of NASA's astronauts-to-an-asteroid mission along with four Earth-science missions and NASA's Office of Education. [Trump's 2018 NASA Budget Request Would Scrap Asteroid Redirect Mission]

Beer on Mars

Budweiser has committed to brewing a beer for colonists on the Red Planet. "The King of Beers" revealed its "Bud On Mars" long-term effort, including plans to launch experiments to the space station, at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. [Budweiser Aims to Brew First Beer on Mars, Plans Space Station Experiments] 

X-37B space plane closing in on record

The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane is just eight days away from breaking its mission-duration record of 674 days in orbit. [Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Nears Orbital Record]

Stellar corpse cozies up to black hole

A white dwarf star whips around its companion black hole once every 28 minutes, a new study suggests. That means the duo are likely separated by just 2.5 Earth-moon distances — the tightest such orbit ever observed around a black hole. [Record-Setting Star Orbits Dangerously Close to Black Hole] 

SpaceX launches huge satellite from historic NASA pad

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the 6-ton Echostar 23 communications satellite from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Thursday morning (March 16). The mission was the first SpaceX flight in nearly two years that didn't feature a landing attempt by a Falcon 9 first stage. [SpaceX Rocket Launches EchoStar 23 Communications Satellite Into Orbit] 

Enceladus' ocean not buried so deep

The ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus rises nearly to the surface in some places, a new study suggests. [Saturn Moon Enceladus' Buried Ocean Comes Close to Surface] 

Titan 'magic island' mystery solved?

The strangely shifting island-like features in several of the Saturn moon Titan's hydrocarbon seas may actually be rafts of fizzing nitrogen bubbles, a new study suggests. [Fizzy Titan! Saturn Moon's Mysterious 'Magic Islands' May Be Nitrogen Bubbles]

Blue Origin: Crewed flights within 12 months?

The spaceflight company Blue Origin, which was founded by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, plans to launch its first crewed flight to suborbital space soon. [Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Plans Crewed Launch Within a Year] 

Musk and Bezos both shooting for the moon

The rivalry between billionaire space entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos may soon reach all the way to the moon. [To the Moon! The Musk-Bezos Billionaire Space Rivalry Just Reached New Heights] 

Huge exoplanet in death spiral

A giant planet that is scorchingly close to its star may not survive for long, a new study finds. The planet started a death spiral more than 2 billion years ago, and may have just a few hundred thousand years of life left before it gets torn apart. [Giant Alien Planet Is Spiraling to Fiery Doom] 

Will astronauts "hibernate" on way to Mars?

The aerospace engineering company SpaceWorks Enterprises thinks that the first human missions to Mars could employ a hibernation system for astronauts as soon as the early or mid-2030s. [Hibernation for Deep-Space Exploration Could Happen Sooner Than You Imagined] 

Satellites eye Winter Storm Stella

As a winter storm prepared to wallop the U.S. East Coast last week, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) kept a close eye on the storm by satellite. [Satellites Track Huge Snow Storm's Approach to US East Coast (Video)] 

Dark matter surprise

Although the invisible substance known as dark matter dominates galaxies nowadays, it was apparently only a minor ingredient of galaxies in the early universe, a new study finds. [Dark Matter Was Likely a Minor Ingredient in Early Galaxies, Study Finds] 

Huge Martian dust storms

Two large dust storms in two weeks, each spanning an area larger than the United States, have researchers pondering the atmospheric dynamics on Mars. [US-Sized Dust Storms Seen on Mars]  

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The Phoenix Lights: Twenty Years Later

For more information on mass UFO sightings like the article below, read The Alien Enigma by JP Robinson.

Twenty years ago this month (March 2017) one of the largest and spectacular mass UFO sightings in modern UFO history took place. Many have debunked the incident claiming that the lights seen in the sky by so many locals back in 1997, were simply flares sent out by the National Guard, but closer investigation would suggest that what occurred that night could be much more bizarre.

As people stood outside their homes in Phoenix, Arizona and looked skywards towards the Hale-Bopp comet which was passing by, many local residents witnessed a sky borne anomalous object which would later be referred to as ‘the Phoenix Lights’.

This particular mass UFO sighting was seen by thousands of local residents on March 13, 1997 as it moved slowly and silently across the Phoenix skyline. Described as a vast, gun-metal black triangle with huge round lights, the object which was first spotted at 8:15 p.m. continued to travel through the night sky for 106 minutes in total before finally disappearing from view.

One eyewitness Sue Watson said, “It had five big lights in front and it was the shape of a boomerang.” Mike Watson, another local who watched the lights in triangle formation heading straight towards him insisted that, “it was a solid craft, silent, very low to the ground.” Continuing, he added, “And the thing that took me was the size. Profoundly enormous, profoundly massive, we don’t even have a shopping centre this big.”

Seen from different vantage points across the city, the sighting caught many people’s attention and public interest in the unknown craft was bordering on hysteria over the days and weeks that followed. Excessive media coverage only served to fuel the fire, as residents were beginning to demand answers which would sufficiently explain what the mysterious lights could have been.

The previous evening, retired Lieutenant and Navajo Ranger John Dover watched the mysterious and silent lights flying over a Navajo reservation in Leupp, Northern Arizona. Dover, who paid regular visits to the Indian reservations during his time as a ranger, claimed that seeing UFOs was a regular occurrence for the residents there.

As part of an agency called the Navajo Nation Rangers, Dover had the freedom to investigate paranormal cases which were constantly being reported to the Police. Policing the Navajo reservations with his partner, Stan Milford, Dover took paranormal reports from the Navajo very seriously and together they investigated some very interesting cases and even found physical evidence in some cases which helped reinforce witness testimonies. “We finally started doing UFO cases; we had some major cases where landings and occupants were seen. Very unusual cases, very large craft”, Dover stated.

Dr. Lynne Kitei has written books and made a documentary about the lights, which she also saw that night in Arizona. “Most things can be explained, only a small percentage cannot and just because we don't have the technology to definitively define what these things are doesn't mean they aren't real”, she explained. According to Dr. Kitei, “The ‘Phoenix Lights’ is being considered around the world as the most important and most documented mass sighting in modern history.”

Over the weeks that followed, more than 700 witnesses called in reports to local officials and the National UFO Reporting Center, a private organisation based in Seattle. Governor of Arizona, Fyfe Symington III was coming under increasing pressure to supply some answers to the public regarding the lights. Shortly after, he gave a press conference in which he openly denied any knowledge of the incident and even mocked those residents claiming they saw something by dressing up a colleague in an alien costume and declaring that they had caught the culprit. It wasn’t until fifteen years after the sighting that Symington admitted, “I knew more about the lights over Phoenix than I let on.”

The evening of March 13, the Governor was eating his evening meal at home with his family when he saw the reports on the news. Deciding to personally investigate the matter further, Symington drove out to Sumida Park to see for himself what all the fuss was about. Within a few minutes of his arrival in the park, he looked up and saw what so many others had been describing; “This great big massive craft, probably 3 or 4,000 feet, took out a whole chunk of the sky,” he said. Adding, “And you could see other aircraft in the distance but the airplanes looked like little toothpicks compared to the size of this craft”.

The official explanation given at the time was that the Arizona National Guard had sent out flying A-10s to drop high-intensity magnesium flares between 9:30 and 10 p.m.

Although it is accepted that the flares were actually launched that night, the video footage, photographic evidence and multiple sightings across a wide expanse of the city confirmed that the lights from the flares were a completely separate event and were not the cause of all the reports.

When the Air Force was questioned over the appearance of the lights they avidly denied reports suggesting that they had sent out fighter planes to investigate the phenomenon. However, an anonymous phone call from an airman at Luke Air Force Base to the National UFO Reporting Center was recorded on the morning of March 14, in which he claimed that shortly after 8:30 p.m., Luke AFB did indeed send up two F-15 fighter jets.

“Apparently, we got a call from Prescott Valley Airport, a small airport north of us, reporting an object that had a near miss with a small Cessna” said the airman. “The call came approximately 8:32, that they encountered something over Phoenix, Arizona, over the area of 7th Avenue and Indian School Road. They don’t know what it was.”

One of the F-15 pilots wrote a statement which stated that they had followed the aircraft as it travelled on a straight-line course heading towards Sky Harbor Airport, at around 18,000 ft. before descending to 10,500 ft. He also described seeing five distinct lights in a triangular pattern and when he landed back at the base, the facility was immediately closed –  a total  lockdown, as “all hell broke loose”, according to the insider. Whilst reporting the incident the airman declared, “The command pilot of this particular flight...I’ve never seen this man scared, and he was scared to death. He’s not sure what it was.”

The debate over the origins of the Phoenix lights continues to this day, even as the event occurred twenty years ago this year, but the memory of that colossal UFO remains firmly etched in the minds of all those who were looking on in awe.

For more information on mass UFO sightings like the article above, read The Alien Enigma by JP Robinson.

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Hovering metallic object was size of large exercise ball

A Michigan witness at Grant recalled events from 2016 when a “bright, shiny, silver, metallic, spherical object – perfectly round in shape” – appeared low over a farm house, according to testimony in Case 82008 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Illustration of the sighting event.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness was outside at 5:42 p.m. on July 8, 2016, when the incident occurred.

“Hovering above power lines and excavating pits out back,” the witness stated,“between the pond and farm house. The object stayed stationary for several seconds.”

The witness attempted to move toward the object.

“I took several steps forward to finish stepping out from under cover of the large oak tree by pump, west side of pond. As I did this, it shot off at an extremely high rate of speed to the point it was too difficult to see the object’s trail that you would normally see, like say a jet flying by super-fast.”

The witness noticed the object hovering over power lines. Pictured: Grant, MI.

(Credit: Google)

The witness described the object.

“The object resembled an exercise ball in size – the ones you see at the gym or at physical therapy centers. They are roughly four to give times the size of a basketball. The sphere was shinny as well. It looked as if you had taken a exercise ball and wrapped it with aluminum foil, completely seamless with no ridges or lines. The sphere hovered several feet above power lines for approximately 10 seconds.”

The object was the size of a large exercise ball. Pictured: Grant, MI.

(Credit: Google)

The witness tried to take a photo.

“As I reached for my iPhone to attempt to take a photo, it took off so fast, I couldn’t even tell which direction it went. I had gotten a strange, one with the world, feeling several seconds before the sighting. The feeling was as if a thought was given to me, or an idea at least; ‘to look up.’ The last time I’d gotten a feeling anything close to that was when I drowned for five minutesand then given CPR and revived. There is much, much more to life than meets the eye.”

Grant is a city in Newaygo County, MI, population 894. Michigan MUFON Chief Investigator Danial Snow is investigating. 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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ASTRONOMERS FIND HUNDREDS OF POTENTIALLY ALIEN SIGNALS

Astronomy researchers at Laval University studied signals from 2.5 million stars to look for periodic patterns, or what might look like regular pulsing signals.

They found 234 of them, and they have no clear explanation of what they are. One of the possible theories they mention in their published paper is extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). 

They think the pulses look like a signal an intelligent alien might choose to send if they were trying to make contact. Of course, the researchers aren't concluding that this is what it is. They also looked for alternative explanations like naturally occurring spectral lines or rotating molecules, but none of these are good enough to say for sure that it isn't aliens, either.

Interestingly, these signals tended to come from stars of similar size and characteristics as our own sun. We already know that a star like this can support intelligent life around it, as evidenced by us being here ourselves, so for the believers in the extraterrestrial life theory, this is good news. Humans have sent and are still sending many different signals to try to contact whatever other life might exist, so it makes sense that we should also listen in case someone is trying to reach us.

The researchers themselves are cautious and call for additional independent studies to confirm their findings. The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, which works on listening for potential messages from extraterrestrial intelligence, agrees. They're quoted by Tech Insider saying "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", an attitude that speaks well of their commitment to using reliable scientific methods and avoiding unfounded conspiracies.

They are however making plans to study some of these 234 stars further, to see if they can replicate the findings from the original study. It is still possible that this could be the signal that confirms someone is out there, trying to let us know they're there. 

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The Michigan UFO craze of 1966

By Ken Haddad

Ann Arbor News, courtesy of the Ann Arbor District Library archive

DETROIT - In 1966, a string of seemingly odd occurrences in Washtenaw County drew the attention of the entire country.

The events centered on a sudden wave of UFO sightings, with reports by police and citizens in March 1966.

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It began on March 14, 1966, when Washtenaw County officers spotted lights in the sky, moving at high speeds over Lima Township.

The same lights were spotted by officers in Ohio, just across the Michigan border, and by observers at Selfridge Air Force Base.

The sightings triggered investigations by the Civil Defense and U.S. Air Force.

A few days following the first reports, the lights were spotted again at various locations around Washtenaw County, with one deputy reporting something floating in the sky - described as looking like a "child's top."

March 20, 1966

On Sunday, March 20, 1966, the sheriff's office received reports of a UFO landing in a wooded, swamp area of Dexter Township. Police spoke to Frank Mannor, a truck driver who had gone into the swamp with his son. Here's what Mannor told police:

"We got to about 500 yards of the thing,” Mannor told interviewers. “It was sort of shaped like a pyramid, with a blue-green light on the right-hand side and on the left, a white light. I didn’t see no antenna or porthole. The body was like a yellowish coral rock and looked like it had holes in it—sort of like if you took a piece of cardboard box and split it open. You couldn’t see it too good because it was surrounded with heat waves, like you see on the desert. The white light turned to a blood red as we got close to it and Ron said, ‘Look at that horrible thing.’”

Here's the report from the NICAP: Frank Mannor and his son, Ronald [plus 40-60 others including 12 policemen ?] saw hovering over a swamp about 1,500 ft away a brown luminous car­ sized object, with a "scaly" or "waffled" surface, cone-shaped on top, flat on bottom, or football­ shaped, and 2 bluish-green lights on right and left edges that turned bright red and helped illuminate object in between. Lights blinked out and object reappeared instantly across the swamp 1,500 ft away. The whole object lit up with a yellowish glow at one point and also rose up 500 ft then descended again. After 2-3 minutes of viewing, when 2 flashlights appeared in the distance the object seemed to respond by flying away at high speed directly over the witnesses with a whistling sound like a rifle bullet ricocheting. Object  remained in the swamp area for 1/2 hr. 

The report gained national attention. More than 40 officers joined a search of the swamp. Odd sightings continued, with officers spotting red and white lights in the sky, flying back and forth and then disappearing.

The next night, more than 80 students at Hillsdale College reported seeing lights in a nearby swamp.

The UFO craze took over, and reports from all around the Ann Arbor area, as well as surrounding areas in Michigan, started pouring in.

Here come the investigators

Michigan congressman Weston Vivian requested that the U.S. Air Force send an investigator from Project Blue Book, the agency that studied UFOs.

Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer from Northwestern, was tasked with the investigation.

Hynek arrived on March 23, touring the areas of sightings himself. What he found was something he called "near hysteria."

“It’s like reports from people who witness a fire,” Hynek told the press at the time. “You get as many different facts as you get people who saw the fire. So far, all I’ve been able to come up with is reports of a variety of lights.”

Under pressure for an explanation, Hynek told reporters during a press conference on March 25 that the sightings were simply mistaken observations of the moon and stars, and the Dexter UFO was just swamp gas.

Wait, swamp gas?

The swamp gas theory didn't go over so well. Many thought it was a huge cover-up. Several publications accused the government of hiding evidence.

Here was the actual explanation from Project Blue Book: 

A swamp Is a place of rotting vegetation and decomposition. Swamps are not a province of astronomers. Yet,the famous Dutch astronomer, Ninnaert, in his book, Light and Colour in the Open Air, describes lights that have been seen In swamps by the astronomer Bessel and other excellent observers. The lights resemble tiny flames some times seen right on the ground and sometimes rising and floating above it. The flames go out in one place and suddenly appear in another, giving the Illusion of motion. The colors are sometimes yellow, some times red, and sometimes blue-green. No heat is felt, and the lights do not burn or char the ground. They can appear for hours at a stretch and sometimes for a whole night. Generally, there Is no smell and no sound except for the popping sound of little explosions such as when a gas burner ignites.

Congressman (and future President) Gerald Ford called for a congressional investigation.

During all of this, UFO sightings continued pouring in from all over Michigan, and around the country.

UFO frenzy dies down, but mystery remains

By April 1966, the UFO frenzy had died down in Michigan, but the swamp gas explanation is still talked about to this day.

Thirty years later, Douglas Harvey, Washtenaw County sheriff at the time of the original sightings told The Ann Arbor News he and Dr. Hynek were talking in the sheriff’s office and the scientist admitted he didn’t know what the witnesses had seen, but felt it was worthy of further investigation. 

"He was on the phone for quite a while, which I found very enlightening,'' Harvey said. "He came out and I said, 'Well, Dr. Hynek. What do you think?' He said, 'It's swamp gas.' He tells me one minute he has no idea what it is. And then he makes one phone call to Washington and comes out and gives a statement that it's swamp gas. Very strange.''

"They did see something,'' he said. "I'll believe this to the day I die. Somebody has kept something quiet, and nothing more ever materialized. So we don't know if it was the government experimenting, or was it really a UFO. I don't know.''

Sources: Ann Arbor New, Ann Arbor Public Library, Michigan Today/UMich.

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Montana Album: Police spot UFO; Feed situation ‘very alarming’

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50 Years Ago

From the Tribune week of March 19, 1967

Construction is scheduled to begin by April 1 on a million-dollar discount center on the south side of Tenth Avenue South east of Forty-Seventh Street. The Great Falls Valu-Mart Department store will be the 18th built by Weisfield’s Inc of Seattle. With 100,000 square feet of floor space, the center will handle groceries, jewelry, drugs, hardware, ladies’ apparel, men’s clothing, shoes, appliances, toys, linens, records and cameras. The center will have parking for 1,000 cars.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A federal court on Wednesday ordered the desegregation of all Alabama schools not already under court order and, in an unprecedented move, laid the burden of enforcement on the state itself. The three-judge court in its unanimous ruling ordered the state to require affected school systems to submit desegregation plans for the 1967-68 school term. Gov. Lurleen Wallace declined comment pending official notification of the ruling. Her husband, George C. Wallace, whom she succeeded, has long fought against integration.

A new unidentified flying object sighting was made by three sheriff’s deputies and several others Thursday night, according to a report filed Friday. Undersheriff Frank Takala said the object hovered north and west of Gore Hill. The report said the UFO was yellow in color and seemed to emit a red glow from top and bottom. After remaining motionless in an overcast and starless night, it traveled west and disappeared. The undersheriff said it appeared to be about six times as large as the largest star that can be seen on a clear night. UFOs were also reported near Vaughn, Fort Benton and Choteau on Tuesday night.

VAIL, Colo. –  French skier Jean-Claude Killy made it four in a row Sunday as he sped through a blinding snowstorm to win the men’s giant slalom at the Vail Trophy race. Killy made the mile-long, 47-gate course in 1:42.83, seemingly unbothered by the poor visibility and rutted, icy trace. “Other people have five senses, but Killy has six,” French coach Honore Bonnet explained.

Firemen had to watch their equipment with one eye and the work at hand with the other Friday afternoon while fighting a fire at the resident of Joe Slemberger, 3209 6th Ave. S. Children in the area made off with a hydrant wrench while firemen were busy and almost got a hand radio valued at about $500 before a fireman saw a child running across a lawn with it. A fire official had left it near the home before going into the smoky basement to inspect damage.

Front page of the Great Falls Tribune on Monday, March 19, 1917. (Photo: Tribune archives)

100 Years Ago

From the Tribune week of March 19, 1917

That interest in naval and military matters are not confined to the males was evidenced a day or two ago when a young woman appeared at the navy recruiting office in the Simpson building and inquired as to the possibilities of her admission to the service. She said she had been told that the Navy Department was taking on women as stenographers and other work. Chief Petty Officer A. Foltz, who is in charge of the station, was compelled to decline to accept the proffered enlistment. So far during the present month five enlisted men only have been sent out from this station.

NEW YORK – James W. Gerard, former American ambassador to Germany, in an address before the New York chamber of commerce today, urged his hearers to go forth as missionaries of preparedness. Mr. Gerard predicted that if war should come, the U.S. would be faced with a great problem in dealing with “our alien enemy population.” “The question is,” he said, “’Shall we intern them as was done in Germany, or shall we allow them to roam at large, destroying bridges or anything else they can?’”

CHINOOK W.M. – Wooldridge came up from his ranch at Hinsdale yesterday for a brief stay. Mr. Wooldridge says the feed situation is very alarming all over northern Montana. Not since the country was first settled has there been such a long and hard winter for cattlemen and sheep men. Until this winter, Mr. Wooldridge has never been able to make a price for hay that could compete with prices in Lewistown and Butte, but now the dealers will pay almost any old price that is asked.

FORT WORTH, Texas –  Military training for professional baseball players has proved that it possesses a triple value at least. It varies the monotony of spring training; it improves the morale of a team; and it is a start toward providing Uncle Sam with a considerable number of good soldiers if he needs them. The results of the innovation, as far as the White Sox are concerned, has been very surprising. The players, almost without exception, took hold with determination and seriousness.

WASHINGTON – The principal American copper producers have agreed to furnish the government the copper needed for the army and navy during the coming year at 16 and a fraction cents a pound, about one-half of the current market price. Forty-five million pounds is the amount to be delivered. It is the first big concession in response to the appeals to the patriotism of the country’s industries since the Navy’s agreements with the shipbuilders and steel makers for profit cutting.

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Amerikanen zetten geheime filmpjes van kernproeven online: "Het licht was zo fel dat je de botten in je hand zag" - HLN.be

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Tussen 1945 tot 1962 experimenteerden de Amerikanen volop met kernwapens in de Nevadawoestijn en op de Marshall Eilanden in de Stille Oceaan, ten noordwesten van Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea. 210 van die mega-explosies werden voor het ministerie van Defensie gefilmd. De beelden waren decennia lang staatsgeheim. Tot nu.

De tests werden gefilmd vanuit verschillende standpunten, wat tegen de 7.000 filmpjes opleverde. Ze lagen opgeslagen in de kluizen van het Los Alamos National Laboratory in de woestijn in New Mexico. 

Al dat celluloid beeldmateriaal dreigde daar te vergaan door de tand des tijds en onbruikbaar te worden. Het materiaal werd gered door een expert van het Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. De eerste reeks filmpjes is nu deze week vrijgegeven. 

Paddenstoelen 
Het zijn de paddenstoelen die niemand wil zien. Kilometers hoog walmen ze omhoog. Alles verzengend in helse temperaturen. Wat er onder die kokende wolk gebeurde, leerde de wereld in Hiroshima en Nagasaki. Beide Japanse steden werden in 1945 vernietigd door Amerikaanse kernbommen die werden geworpen om het verzet van Japan te breken en het einde van de oorlog bespoedigen. 

Een kwart miljoen burgers kwam meteen om, nog eens honderdduizenden stierven daarna als gevolg van stralingsziekten Maar nog was het niet gedaan. De kernmachten stonden tegenover elkaar en testten steeds dodelijkere wapens. De Verenigde Staten alleen al deden honderden nucleaire tests in de kilste jaren van de Koude Oorlog - net als andere grote mogendheden trouwens, waaronder Rusland.

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Een deel van de beeldbank van Amerikaanse kernproeven -zowat 750 filmpjes- wordt niet langer als gevoelige informatie beschouwd, aldus Greg Spriggs, de leider van het restauratieproject. Ze mogen dus op YouTube.

"Het is ongelooflijk hoeveel energie vrijkomt", klinkt het in de omschrijving. "We hopen dat we nooit meer atoomwapens hoeven te gebruiken. Als we de kracht van dit soort wapens laten zien en de verwoesting die ze teweegbrengen, zullen mensen misschien terughoudender zijn om ze ooit nog in te zetten."

Duizenden getuigen
Vele duizenden Amerikaanse soldaten en ingenieurs waren destijds getuige van de atoomproeven. Een van hen was Frank Farmer, in de New York Times deed hij zijn verhaal. "Het licht was zo fel dat je de botten in je hand zag", klonk het. 

Zonder dat ze het wisten, werden veel militairen overigens ook besmet. Een aantal onder hen stierf aan kanker. 

Na 1963 werden de bovengrondse kernproeven verboden in een internationaal verdrag en gingen de Amerikanen ondergronds door. Die tests zijn inmiddels ook verleden tijd. Amerikaanse kernbommen worden tegenwoordig gesimuleerd op de computer.

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Amerikanen tonen tests met nucleaire wapens - HLN.be

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Tussen 1945 en 1962 testten de Verenigde Staten naar schatting 200 verschillende nucleaire wapens. Deze tests werden door de Amerikanen allemaal op beeld vastgelegd en gearchiveerd. Een team van onderzoekers heeft de collectie nu van de vernieling gered en op YouTube geplaatst.

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NASA cover up? UFO filmed on ISS space station camera is ‘UNDENIABLE PROOF aliens exist’

JAW-dropping video of a “smoking gun UFO” filmed on a NASA camera is “undeniable proof” aliens are out there, according to astonishing claims.

By Joshua Nevett

UFOs hunters claim footage of “multiple” mysterious objects shooting past the International Space Station is conclusive evidence aliens exist.

The astonishing footage shows what appear to be several unidentified objects hurtling through space in the background.

Extraordinary theories suggesting aliens are watching the ISS have been circulating online for years.

NASA has repeatedly dismissed claims of alien sightings as nothing more than hoaxes.

But truth seekers are convinced the latest bombshell film is conclusive proof “there are unknown manned objects flying out there in space”.

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In the clip Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, is seen demonstrating how to operate window shutters at the ISS.

But as she talks to the camera, several white objects appear to come shooting into view.

Tyler Glockner posted the footage, uploaded on March 18, 2017, to his UFO sightings YouTube channel Secure Team.

He describes one of the unknown objects seen hurtling past the ISS as a “smoking gun UFO”.

NASA

“There are multiple UFOs that can be seen speeding by.”

Tyler Glockner, of Secure Team

In the 14-minute video, he explains: “I do believe that we have some undeniable footage that will prove that there are unknown manned objects flying out there in space.

“I’m not talking about space debris or any of the usual go-to excuses used by NASA.

“I’ve had a tonne of people saying there is a point in this video when, moment after [Samantha] opens up this window hatch, there are multiple UFOs that can be seen speeding by.”

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In the comments of the video, many fellow UFO hunters agreed the objects are “proof of aliens”.

One wrote: “You're dumb to think we are the only life forms in the universe lol.”

Another posted: “If you look closer the second object is actually following the first one! The first object disappears for a second then reappears in the top left hand corner.”

In January UFO hunters got excited over a NASA video appearing to show a UFO performing an 180 degree turn.

Other ISS footage from January apparently a showed circular object rising above Earth – before NASA allegedly cut the live feed.

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Two UFOs Pass Over Volcano Mouth In Mexico, Lighting Up Above Volcano, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 19, 2017
Location of sighting: Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico

These UFOs were caught on the live volcano camera this week. As the first one passes over the mouth of the volcano, it lights up fully...with glowing orbs all round it. You now see three instead of two. Clearly the UFO did something as it passed over the mouth of the volcano, probably dropping off or picking up passengers and supplies for the alien base below. 
Scott C. Waring

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Giant 200 Meter Beam Of Light Over Volcano And It Moves! March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 2017
Location of sighting: Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy

This giant 200 meter beam of light was seen over the volcano mouth, then it began to move to the right, as if a space ship was beaming someone down and didn't account for the rotation of the earth speed. Very amazing sighting and it was caught byBPEarthWatch of Youtube. He gets scared sometimes when he posts alien subject material and then he delete these videos...someone should make a back up just in case this happens again like last time he posted one.
Scott C. Waring

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Huge UFOs caught on tape over Henderson, Nevada 17-Mar-2017

Here’s another interesting footage of a huge unidentified flying objects hovering above Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada. This was filmed on Friday, 17th March 2017.

Night video footage:

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Several UFOs Videotaped Above Ypsilanti, Michigan

An amazing cluster of strange lights was spotted flying towards a local body of water. Two observers reportedly sighted the unusual event in the nighttime sky and observed it for around one hour.

One witness sent photos and a video to NUFORC, which described them to be high quality.

Anyone who saw the same objects in the NUFORC website is encouraged to submit a written report using the Online Report Form.

According to the reporting witness, the UFOs appeared to be barbell-shaped.

Some viewers of the video thought they were planes at first but doubted with their formation if they were indeed planes.  One comment says that if they are not planes then, they are unidentified.
Commenter tall32guy said, “Bizarre, a bit spooky to me, indeed.”

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NASA Wants to Launch a Giant Magnetic Field to Make Mars Habitable

NASA scientists have proposed a bold plan that could give Mars its atmosphere back and make the Red Planet habitable for future generations of human colonists.

By launching a giant magnetic shield into space to protect Mars from solar winds, the space agency says we could restore the Red Planet’s atmosphere, and terraform the Martian environment so that liquid water flows on the surface once again.

Mars may seem like a cold, arid wasteland these days, but the Red Planet is thought to have once had a thick atmosphere that could have maintained deep oceans filled with liquid water, and a warmer, potentially habitable climate.

Scientists think Mars lost all of this when its protective magnetic field collapsed billions of years ago, and solar wind – high-energy particles projected from the Sun – has been stripping the Red Planet’s atmosphere away ever since.

Now, new simulations by NASA suggest there could be a way to naturally give Mars its thick atmosphere back – and it doesn’t require nuking the Red Planet into submission, as Elon Musk once proposed.

Instead, the space agency thinks a powerful-enough magnetic shield launched into space could serve as a replacement for Mars’s own lost magnetosphere, giving the planet a chance to naturally restore its own atmosphere.

In new findings presented at the Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop last week, NASA’s Planetary Science Division director, Jim Green, said launching an “artificial magnetosphere” into space between Mars and the Sun could hypothetically shield the Red Planet in the extended magnetotail that trails behind the protective field.

“This situation then eliminates many of the solar wind erosion processes that occur with the planet’s ionosphere and upper atmosphere allowing the Martian atmosphere to grow in pressure and temperature over time,” the researchers explain in anaccompanying paper.

While the team acknowledges that the concept might sound “fanciful”, they point to existing miniature magnetosphere researchbeing conducted to protect astronauts and spacecraft from cosmic radiation, and think that the same technology on a larger scale could be used to shield Mars.

“It may be feasible that we can get up to these higher field strengths that are necessary to provide that shielding,” Green said in his presentation.

“We need to be able then to also modify that direction of the magnetic field so that it always pushes the solar wind away.”

In the team’s simulations, if the solar wind were counteracted by the magnetic shield, Mars’s atmospheric losses would stop, and the atmosphere would regain as much as half the atmospheric pressure of Earth in a matter of years.

As the atmosphere becomes thicker, the team estimates Mars’s climate would become around 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer, which would be enough to melt carbon dioxide ice over the Red Planet’s northern polar cap.

If this happened, the carbon in the atmosphere would help to trap heat like it does on Earth, triggering a greenhouse effect that could melt Mars’s water ice, giving the Red Planet back its liquid water in the form of flowing rivers and oceans.

If all of this were to occur as the team anticipates – and admittedly, that’s a pretty fantastical if – it’s possible that, within the space of a couple of generations, Mars could regain some of its lost Earth-like habitability.

“This is not terraforming as you may think of it where we actually artificially change the climate, but we let nature do it, and we do that based on the physics we know today,” Green said.

The team acknowledges that the plan is largely hypothetical at this point, but it’s a pretty amazing vision for what might be possible in the years ahead. The researchers intend to keep studying the possibilities to get a more accurate estimate of how long the climate-altering effects would take.

If the concept does prove workable, there’s no telling just how much it would alter the prospects of colonising Mars in the future.

“Much like Earth, an enhanced atmosphere would: allow larger landed mass of equipment to the surface, shield against most cosmic and solar particle radiation, extend the ability for oxygen extraction, and provide ‘open air’ green-houses to exist for plant production, just to name a few,” the researchers explain.

“If this can be achieved in a lifetime, the colonisation of Mars would not be far away.”

The findings were presented at the Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop. 

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IF YOU THINK WE ARE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE – YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE THIS

One of the most popular questions today is, “Are we alone in the universe?” Believe it or not, you’re in the minority if you believe that absolutely no intelligent life exists outside of planet Earth. In the United States alone, at least half of all Americans say that we’re not alone in the universe. Fifty percent of Americans already believe that there is some form of life on other planets, while only seventeen percent believe there is not. A quarter of Americans believe that intelligent extraterrestrial visitors have already come to Earth and have been doing so for a long time. (source)

Here’s one of them:

“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” (source) (source) – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain, and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences

There are multiple reasons why the extraterrestrial question continues to gain popularity. People are starting to ask questions about the world around them, utilizing critical thinking and investigative skills. After thoroughly looking into this topic, it seems inevitable that you will arrive at these conclusions: We are not alone, and we are being visited.

1. The Size of the Universe

How often do you look up into the night sky and wonder just how many stars, planets, galaxies, and more are out there? Space has always fascinated us. From scientists and philosophers to artists and poets (and pretty much just about everyone else, too), we all want to know what’s out there. What is it about deep space that so ignites our collective imagination? Thinking about just how big the universe is can really put things into perspective.

Counting the stars in the universe is like trying to count the number of sand grains on a beach (impossible). Although estimates vary among different experts, the general consensus is that there are at least between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies in our universe. Think about that for a moment, and now throw in billions of stars in each galaxy! (source) And for all we know, this number could very easily be in the trillions.

Take the Milky Way Galaxy for example, which measures about 120,000 light years across (it would take light that many years to travel across the galaxy), and contains up to 400 billion stars.

Again, we’re talking about billions of galaxies that contain billions of stars. (source)

Scientists estimate that at least 10 billion habitable Earth-sized planets exist in the Milky Way alone, but it’s important to keep an open mind about what type of conditions and environments some unknown extraterrestrial forms could thrive in. They all don’t necessarily have to be Earth-like; the conditions we deem necessary for life might be exclusive to life on this planet, or this type of planet.

Given our estimation of the size of the universe, or multiverse (whatever you want to call it), odds are we are not alone.

2. Whistleblowers

The past few years have seen a surge of whistleblowers come out and say some pretty remarkable things. Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange have received the most attention, but the reality is that hundreds of whistleblowers with verified credentials and backgrounds have come forward. Mass surveillance and the security state are not the only things shocking people around the world, it’s also the fact that many of these whistleblowers claim that we are not alone in the universe. They wouldn’t be so hard to ignore if it wasn’t for the backgrounds these people have in their respected fields. 

The first one that comes to mind is Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defence Minister, the man responsible for combining the Canadian Air Force, Army, and Navy into one united force, now known as the Canadian Forces. Someone with such a background coming out and making these extraordinary claims is definitely going to have the attention of many people.

“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after… . Trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects about which both the Congress and the Commander in Chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.” (source)

“In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb.” 

Paul Hellyer isn’t the only one making extraordinary statements, at least a dozen NASA astronauts have done the same. Just like Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s quote, other astronauts have said some remarkable things. Let’s take a look at a few examples.

“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time, that their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon” (source) – Dr. Brian O’Leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor

“In my opinion I think they were worried that it would panic the public if they knew that someone had vehicles that had this kind of performance … so they started telling lies about it. And then I think they had to cover another lie, you know, tell another lie to cover their first lie, now they don’t know how to get out of it. Now it’s going to be so embarrassing to admit that all these administrations have told a lot of untruths…. [and that] there are a number of extraterrestrial vehicles out there cruising around.” (source) – Gordon Cooper, Former NASA Astronaut, Aeronautical Engineer, and test pilot; one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States

The list goes on and on, the latest in NASA Astronaut statements about UFOs came from the 2005 International Space Station (ISS) Commander, Leroy Chiao. 

Here is a video of John Podesta, recently appointed as councillor to Barack Obama, supporting UFO disclosure.

Some of the most extraordinary statements about UFOs and extraterrestrials come from people who have held some of the highest positions possible — those who would be in a position to ‘know’ about possible extraterrestrial encounters.

“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former head of CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source)

“There are objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee

“Everything is in a process of investigation, both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data.” – General Carlos Castro Cavero (1979), from UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2, written by Richard Dolan

The list of military whistleblowers is huge, there are hundreds of them and hundreds of quotes to choose from. To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE. You can also look up Dr. Steven Greer and the disclosure project.

The list of quotes from many people, working in diverse fields, is outstanding. I could literally fill pages upon pages, but I’ll stop here, I think you get the picture. I do, however, want to spend a little bit more time on the reason why almost everyone knows that we are not alone in the universe.

“There is another way whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.” (source) – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Nebraska.

“This thing has gotten so highly-classified…it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.” – Senator Barry Goldwater , Chairman of the Senate intelligence committee(source)

3. The Evidence of UFOs

Over the past few years, dozens of governments have admitted to allocating resources towards the study of UFOs. For instance, in Canada, the RCMP, Transport Canada, and the Department of National Defence recently admitted to tracking and investigating UFOs. (source) They’ve been doing it for years, accumulating thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents. Many of these documents have since been officially released.

HERE is the latest batch of UFO files released from the United Kingdom.

Documents released by the National Security Agency (NSA) reveal what is recorded when a UFO is being tracked on radar. HERE is one example. HERE is a four page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA report describing a particular encounter in great detail.

“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4.”

HERE is a Wikileak cable that describes how some politicians already know we are not alone in the universe. 

I could go on forever. Thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents are now available in the public domain. For a summary of more documents that have been declassified and made available, check out this short video by Richard Dolan.

4. Mass Mainstream Media Attention

Media outlets of all kinds are covering the topic, almost every movie that comes out these days has something to do with space or some kind of extraterrestrial intelligence. We’ve been bombarded with the topic for a while now so it’s not hard to see why so many people are thinking about it.

The most recent case of mainstream extraterrestrial noise was made when scientists spoke to the house Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Dan Werthimer, of the SETI Research Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, recently called for more funding to be allocated to the search for extraterrestrial life since he is “close to 100 percent” certain that we are not alone. (source)

In mid 2013, the same committee held a hearing about exoplanet discoveries, but perhaps one of the largest UFO/extraterrestrial hearings took place at the National Press Club, which was also held in Mid-2013. At this event, hundreds of researchers, activists, and military/agency/political witnesses, representing ten countries, gave UFO/extraterrestrial testimony to six former members of the United States Congress about events and evidence indicating an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

2008 presidential candidate and former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) said that there is “an extraterrestrial influence that is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.” You can learn more about the citizens hearing here.

Apart from these events, UFOs are a continual topic of interest in today’s mainstream news. Unfortunately, most mainstream media outlets which cover it seek only to ridicule, rather than investigate, the issue seriously.

To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE.

HERE is a clip on the same topic on CBC news.

5. Personal Experience and Video Footage

There are millions of people out there claiming to have contact with extraterrestrial beings. This has played a large role in spreading the influence of extraterrestrial interest across the world. All of us seem to be naturally fascinated with the unknown, especially when it comes to space. It seems like human nature.

Neuroscience can now explain what happens to our body when we meditate, but it’s something we all knew to be beneficial before the science. Is extraterrestrial life similar? Is it something we all feel deep down inside, something we don’t need proof for (even though the proof is there)?

Besides the thousands of videos available on YouTube, there is some very fascinating officially documented UFO footage available for us to see. 

HE RE  is a video that made headlines when it was released. It came straight from the Mexican Air Force. Do a quick UFO search on YouTube and, while you’ll see many fakes, you’ll also find many genuine videos of unknown aerial objects.

Final Thoughts

A few years ago the question was, “Do UFOs exist?” Today that question has been answered, and the presence of UFOs performing maneuvers which defy our laws of physics has been well documented. The question has more so shifted to, “Is that an extraterrestrial spacecraft?”

It’s nothing to fear, in my opinion they’ve been around forever. They were aware of us long before we became aware of them. As speculated with our ancient civilizations in Earth’s brief past, perhaps they will one day interact with humanity again. I guess we will see.

Perhaps some groups are concerned about our planet, and come here to push the idea that we need to start changing the way we are doing things. Perhaps one day soon we will find out.

I definitely believe that a good chunk of these UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. I also believe that many of these crafts are “ours.”

Source www.collective-evolution.com

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NASA DETECTS A WARM OCEAN BENEATH SATURN MOON'S SURFACE

Despite many of the controversies with agencies like NASA with some of their choices in the past and their lack of transparency in a lot of the more controversial topics like UFOs and alien discoveries, there are no complaints to be made when it comes to less controversial information.

NASA is always the first to reveal their hypotheses as well as release information to the science world and the general public when it comes to new findings in the realm of space. 

NASA does not disappoint in a recent finding that they have recently released to the public. According to NASA's recent findings there has been an usually large amount of heat being emitted from Saturn's moon of Enceladus. The reason why something like this is relevant and important is because it may in fact domino effect into something else that is just as fascinating to scientists and those who are interested. When this occurs the chance for something called tiger stripes can occur. Tiger stripes are fractures on the moon's South Pole, which creates unique blue lines on the surface of the planet.

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Leaving UFO Hunters Baffled! Another dynamic of this finding is that this means there is a body of water that is very close nearby to create this effect of increased heating, which was not known about before. This has created a lot amount of interest to surface around this topic. This could create a large amount of controversy however, because research has always indicated that a body of water means that there is a potential chance of some sort of living thing to exist on that planet. Could the Earth sudden have long-distance neighbors all the way from Saturn?

This is not the controversial part of the story though. The controversial thing is that like stated in the beginning, NASA has the tendency to become much more quiet when it comes to revealing potential living things existing on planets not from Earth. This could possibly indicate that the public is probably not going to be receiving anymore updates about this heat signature increase and body of water finding, unless it is shown to not have any life at all. This is where much of the controversy stems from. The mentality of only sharing things that are not controversial, while storing all of the devastating information for themselves and the government.

It is important to heavenly monitor what happens next for those who are interested in this topic to see how much longer NASA stays transparent on the issue at hand. Saturn is not a planet that is often spoken about or researched, however NASA has taken an unusually large amount of interest in Saturn to the point that they are willing to send a drone into space to go and research it farther. This drone is known as Cassini and has been on the job of researching Saturn for a good amount of time. The blue markings etched onto the moon are almost scary as Saturn's moon seems to look veiny and pulsating like it has its own heartbeat. This is definitely a fascinating find and is definitely worth following closely.

This could also speak to Saturn suffering from something the Earth has had a fear of for the last few centuries in global warming. The sudden heat is highly unexpected and the ice sheets on the rings of Saturn have been unusually low, to the point that NASA is finding this out all the way from planet Earth, so this could also be a huge and dangerous finding by indicating that global warming does in fact exist and it could be coming towards the Earth sooner rather than later. Something unusually creepy is occurring on Saturn, so this is an exciting yet fearful finding from NASA.

Study: http://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0063

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OPERATION HIGHJUMP DISCOVERED PARTS OF ANTARCTICA ARE WARM! WHAT'S HIDDEN THERE?

Last week, scientists from the Canada and Europe published a research, which has not been done before. The research focus was on the western part of Antarctica.

The results from the research have confirmed previous fears - that Antarctica melts from the bottom.

ANTARCTICA - WARM INDEED! 

The scientists have measured the temperature of the water in places, going go to a depth of one kilometer, in the western part of Antarctica. It turns out that the flow of 110,000 cubic meters of warm water is flowing to Antarctica every second. This hot water melts between 50 to 70 billion tons of ice, and it tapers to about 20 meters each year.

This is crucial because the water escapes into the ocean water. The ice cap on Western Antarctica slowly melts, and that part is larger in area than Germany. If all of this ice turns into water, then the oceans would rise by about two meters.

These scientists have made measurements at five different locations around the Western Antarctica. On a couple of the sites have discovered that the ocean is very deep. They have found an underwater canyon with a depth of 500 meters that splits into two; one is about 700 meters and the other over 1.200 meters deep. Both branches are wider than 4 kilometers. It is during these canyons running huge undersea flow of hot water to the Antarctica. Research has shown that the ice that has disappeared exactly matches the amount of heat coming from the ocean.

OPERATION HIGHJUMP

The warm place is named after Commander David E Bunger, the man who led a team of US Navy explorers to the breathtaking discovery in 1949, the region boasts “melt ponds” and unfrozen lakes.

Bunger’s discovery was part of Operation Highjump – a secret navy task force. The film 'The Secret Land' – released in 1948 – documented the exploration and captured the dramatic moment Bunger and his team found Antarctica’s most unlikely secret.

Conspiracy theorists have long claimed Antarctica is hiding secrets hidden by the powers that be.

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Metallic sphere seven times size of Jupiter found - and it’s PROOF of aliens, hunters say

ASTRONOMERS have detected a rogue, highly-metallic object in deep space which they are baffled by the presence of, leading conspiracy theorists to the conclusion this is proof we are not alone.

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Donkere materie had vroeger niet zoveel in de melk te brokkelen

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Nieuw onderzoek suggereert dat het mysterieuze goedje nu invloedrijker is dan in de jonge jaren van het heelal.

Dat concluderen astronomen in het blad Nature. Ze baseren zich op een onderzoek naar de rotatie van zes zware sterren vormende stelsels op zeer grote afstand van de aarde.

TWIJFELS OVER DONKERE MATERIE

Eigenlijk is donkere materie door onderzoekers ‘bedacht’ om te kunnen verklaren waarom snel roterende sterrenstelsels niet uiteenvallen. Of donkere materie echt bestaat, is onduidelijk. We kunnen het immers niet zien. Het bestaan ervan is alleen af te leiden uit het zwaartekrachtseffect dat het op zichtbare materie heeft. Overigens zijn lang niet alle onderzoekers ervan overtuigd dat donkere materie bestaat. Vorig jaar stelde de Nederlandse hoogleraar Erik Verlinde nog dat donkere materie niet bestaat en dat we het ook niet nodig hebben om te verklaren waarom snel roterende sterrenstelsels niet uiteenvallen.

Donkere materie
Sterrenstelsels roteren. En vrij snel ook. Zo snel dat je eigenlijk zou verwachten dat ze uiteenvallen. Maar dat gebeurt niet. Hoe kan dat? Onderzoekers wijten het aan donkere materie: een onzichtbaar goedje dat dienst doet als een soort ‘superlijm’ en voorkomt dat snel roterende sterrenstelsels uiteenvallen (zie kader).

In het jonge heelal
In dit nieuwe onderzoek bestudeerden wetenschappers roterende zware sterren vormende stelsels die ver van ons verwijderd zijn. Omdat het licht van deze sterrenstelsels miljarden jaren moet reizen alvorens het ons bereikt, zien we deze sterrenstelsels nu zoals deze er 10 miljard jaar geleden, oftewel in de tijd van het jonge heelal, uitzagen. Uit de waarnemingen van de onderzoekers blijkt dat deze sterrenstelsels op een belangrijk punt afwijken van de spiraalstelsels zoals we die in het huidige heelal zien. De buitenste delen van de sterrenstelsels uit het vroege heelal draaien namelijk veel langzamer dan de delen dichter bij de kern. Het suggereert dat er minder donkere materie aanwezig is dan verwacht.

Hier zie je een schematische weergave van draaiende schijfstelsels in het vroege heelal (rechts) en in het moderne heelal (links). De nieuwe waarnemingen suggereren dat zware sterren-vormende stelsels in het voege heelal minder sterk beïnvloed werden door donkere materie (rood ingekleurd), omdat donkere materie nog minder geconcentreerd was. Daardoor draaiden de buitenste delen van de verre sterrenstelsels minder snel dan dezelfde delen van sterrenstelsels in het lokale heelal.

Afbeelding: ESO / L. Calçada.

Kleine rol voor donkere materie
“Verrassend genoeg zijn de rotatiesnelheden in de sterrenstelsels niet constant, maar nemen ze naar buiten toe af,” vertelt onderzoeker Reinhard Genzel. “Dat heeft waarschijnlijk twee oorzaken. Allereerst worden de meeste van deze vroege zware sterrenstelsels gedomineerd door normale materie, en speelt donkere materie een veel kleinere rol dan in het lokale heelal. Op de tweede plaats waren de schijven van deze vroege stelsels veel turbulenter dan de spiraalstelsels die we in onze kosmische nabijheid zien.”

En hoe verder we teruggaan in het verleden, hoe sterker de door Renzel beschreven effecten tot uiting komen. Het suggereert dat het gas zich drie tot vier miljard jaar na de oerknal al had georganiseerd in platte, draaiende schijven, maar dat de omhullende halo’s van donkere materie zich nog over een veel groter volume uitstrekten. Het zou betekenen dat donkere materie miljarden jaren meer tijd nodig had om zich te verdichten en pas veel later een dominante rol ging spelen in het universum. Het is in lijn met eerdere waarnemingen die aantoonden dat vroege sterrenstelsels veel gasrijker en compacter waren dan de huidige sterrenstelsels.

Bronmateriaal:

"Donkere materie had minder invloed in sterrenstelsels in het vroege heelal" - ESO
De afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door ESO / L. Calçada

{https://www.scientias.nl/ }

Twee missies naar Jupiter: één gaat er door

Tim Kraaijvanger

Twee missies naar de grootste gasplaneet van ons zonnestelsel stonden tot vandaag op losse schroeven. Nu is bekend geworden dat een Europese missie doorgaat, terwijl de Amerikanen hun missie naar Jupiter schrappen.

Eerst het slechte nieuws. NASA gaat geen lander op de maan Europa plaatsen. Vorige maand presenteerde een speciale onderzoekscommissie nog een mooi rapport over hoe zo’n missie eruit ziet, maar het is afgeschoten door president Trump. Overigens ligt dit in de lijn der verwachting, want de Amerikanen hebben al een andere missie naar Europa goedgekeurd: de Europa Clipper. Deze ruimtesonde zal 45 scheervluchten langs Europa maken en onderzoeken waar de maan uit bestaat en of er leven mogelijk is in de onderzeese oceaan.

Het budget voor de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie daalt al jaren. In 1966 ging 4,4% van het nationale budget naar NASA, dit jaar is dat nog maar een half procent. Volgens de voorlopige prognose trekt president Trump de lijn van de afgelopen jaren door. Er komen dus geen grote bezuinigingen voor NASA, maar er komt ook niet veel geld bij. Het budget voor 2018 is iets meer dan 19 miljard dollar.

Artistieke impressie van ESA’s JUICE-ruimtevaartuig

En dan het goede nieuws: ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer-missie gaat (nog steeds) door. De Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie meldt dat de laatste hindernissen zijn genomen en dat er nu echt wordt begonnen met de constructie. In 2022 wordt dit ruimtevaartuig gelanceerd. In 2029 komt JUICE aan bij Jupiter. Er volgt dan een 3,5 jaar durend onderzoek, waarbij de ruimtesonde de turbulente atmosfeer van de gasplaneet in kaart brengt. Ook onderzoekt JUICE de enorme magnetosfeer, Joviaanse manen en de donkere ringen om de planeet. Aan boord van JUICE vinden we de beste instrumenten. Denk hierbij aan meerdere camera’s, een hoogtemeter, een radarinstrument en sensoren om de magnetische velden en geladen deeltjes te monitoren.

Bronmateriaal:

"ESA_s Jupiter mission moves off the drawing board" - ESA
"Trump Budget Proposal Axes NASA's Europa Lander Project" - Space.com

{https://www.scientias.nl/ }

De meren op Saturnus' maan Titan 'bubbelen' misschien

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Experimenten suggereren dat stikstof zich soms uit de met methaan en ethaan gevulde meren weghaast en daarbij ontstaan..bubbels. Heel veel bubbels.

Dat stellen onderzoekers van NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ze baseren zich op experimenten waarbij ze de omstandigheden op het oppervlak van Titan simuleerden.

Stikstof
Uit de experimenten blijkt dat grote hoeveelheden stikstof opgelost kunnen worden in het extreem koude methaan dat op Titan uit de hemel komt vallen en zich in rivieren, meren en zeeën verzamelt. Maar wanneer dat methaan vervolgens geconfronteerd wordt met een verandering in temperatuur of luchtdruk of samenstelling, kan het stikstof het hazenpad kiezen. Het verlaat de oplossing dan heel snel, net zoals koolstof dat doet wanneer je een fles frisdrank opent. Het resultaat? Bubbels!

BUBBELS? DAT KAN EEN PROBLEEM ZIJN!

Onderzoekers dromen van een ruimtemissie naar Titan en fantaseren al over een robotische sonde die in een meer van Titan plonst en er vervolgens rond gaat varen. Bubbels in die meren kunnen een bedreiging vormen voor zo’n ‘bootje’.

Mix van ethaan en methaan
Die bubbels kunnen bijvoorbeeld ontstaan als methaan zich mixt met ethaan, zo legt onderozeker Michael Malaska uit. “Onze experimenten tonen aan dat wanneer methaanrijke vloeistoffen zich mengen met ethaanrijke vloestoffen – bijvoorbeeld tijdens een heftige regenbui of wanneer een methaanrivier uitkomt in een ethaanrijk meer – de stikstof minder goed in staat is om in de oplossing te blijven.” Dat methaan- en ethaanrijke vloeistoffen zich wel eens mixen op Titan is niet zo heel vergezocht. Waarnemingen van ruimtesonde Cassini toonden eerder al aan dat de samenstelling van Titans meren en zeeën van plaats tot plaats verschilt. Op sommige plekken domineert het methaan, terwijl elders ethaan overheerst.

Magische eilanden
Wellicht kunnen de bubbels een groot mysterie op Titan oplossen. We hebben het over de zogenoemde ‘magic islands’. Kleine vlekken in zeeën op Titan die op beelden die Cassini van de maan maakte, opduiken en weer verdwijnen (om soms vervolgens opnieuw op te duiken). Onduidelijk is nog wat deze eiland-achtige vlekken zijn. Sommige onderzoekers denken dat het om golven gaat. Maar een andere optie is dat het een verzameling bubbels is.

Hier zie je Ligeia Mare, een zee op Titan. In deze zee is een ‘magic island’ gedetecteerd. Het ontstond ergens tussen 2007 en 2013 en was in 2015 weer een eind weg. Mogelijk gaat het dus om een eilandje ‘bubbels’.

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASI / Cornell.

Of er daadwerkelijk bubbels in de zeeën van Titan ontstaan en of zij ook verantwoordelijk zijn voor de magic islands kan later dit jaar nog duidelijk worden. Dan scheert Cassini namelijk voor de allerlaatste keer langs Titan. En tijdens die scheervlucht laat de sonde zijn radarbundel over de maan glijden. Als er dan ‘magic islands’ gespot worden, kan hun helderheid verraden of het om bubbels gaat.

Bronmateriaal:

"Experiments Show Titan Lakes May Fizz with Nitrogen" - NASA

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Canada Eyewitness Sees UFO Over Water during Storm,. Feb 2017, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: Feb 15, 2017
Location of sighting: Bay of Fundy, Main, Canada

A very interesting MUFON case came in this week. About a UFO seen over the bay and during a lightning storm. The UFO was causing the lightning so it could recharge from it.
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

I was watching a fairly intense lightning storm roll into the mouth of the bay off the Atlantic,” the witness stated. “We were waiting for our bar-b-q to finish and I began to film the storm hoping to get some good footage of the lightning as I waited.The storm was still a good 20 minutes away, but the lightning was going straight down into the water almost everytime and I continued to film for about two minutes.

I put my camera away,ate supper as the storm passed overhead, and thought nothing more of it until two or three days later when I was going through the video.I watched it normally and saw nothing, got to the end and hit pause during one of the lightning strikes.Took a screenshot for Facebook and continued to scroll backwards very slowly going from lightning strike to lightning strike and taking screenshots.

As I got to the very first seconds of the video, during the double lightning bolt and bang, I could see a disc-like object the size of a semi-trailer flying out of the bay on an angle at an unimaginable speed across the sky through the double flash and up into the clouds with a bang and whirly wind tunnel echo sound.

But with determination and brain surgeon fingers, I was able to get screenshots of it within that second.I have some unbelievable video and even more unbelievable pictures.I’ve spent almost eight months seeking help and getting nowhere. I pray you people take me seriously and show interest because this is real.

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Viral Video Shows Crystal Clear UFOs Over Pyramids

An amazing video of seemingly showing three crystal clear UFOs floating above ancient pyramids of Giza has made the rounds online. Uploaded to YouTube, the footage shows a crowd of tourists enjoying the incredible sight of the ancient world while the three strange, triangular aerial things hover above.

The footage can be considered as one of the clearest UFO sightings ever recorded on video.

Most UFO sighting recordings are either blurred or too shaky.

However, Youtube poster give any additional details about the video, but the description of the video states that it was recorded in April 2016 and the UFOs remained visible for four hours.

Section 51 2 website features the alleged UFO sighting video, but no further reference provided. It instead discusses the alleged ancient document Tulli Papyrus, which reveals that flying saucers, depicted as circles of fire, appeared above pyramids in around 1500 BC.

The article also touches the ancient astronaut conspiracy theory, which claims that our ancestors built the pyramids with the help of an advanced race of aliens thousands of years ago.

However, many viewers believe that the video is a deliberate hoax created using CGI technology.

Critics say that if this thing actually happened, then it would likely be the news for mainstream media all over the world and not only to one website.

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Are Aliens Real? Researchers Discover Life Forms Can Travel Across Planets In ‘Goldilocks Zone’

Mystery space crash sites on the moon ‘PROVE aliens are at WAR’

CRASH sites discovered on the surface of the moon are remnants of a destructive alien war, according to a UFO hunter.

By Zoe Drewett

Incredible NASA photos recently appeared to support theories that alien bases exist on the moon.

And now YouTube channel SecureTeam 10 believes crash sites and space craft wreckages that “cover” the moon’s surface are evidence that aliens really did exist there at some point.

The footage points to mysterious circular shapes that appear to be partially buried in the surface of the moon.

UFO hunter Tyler Glockner believes they are alien space ships.

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Using footage from fellow alien investigation channel Streetcap1, the video focuses on one “saucer” positioned on its own “in the middle of a very barren piece of land”.

“Could this be a rock or an asteroid?” Tyler asks.

“It could be that. But I think what Streetcap was pointing out was the almost perfect cylinder shape of this thing.

“If there were beings out there that had these advanced craft why do they seem to be crashing their ships all the time?"

YOUTUBE/SECURETEAM10

He argues there may have been a huge war millions of years ago on our moon.

“At some point in the distance past there was some sort of war or cataclysm that caused these ruins and unknown debris to be littered across the moon.

“This is why the moon is so heavily bombarded with craters and many of these aren’t craters at all – but instead are the remnants of nuclear explosions,” Tyler says.

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UFO close encounters highest across Hinckley and Bosworth

The truth is out there - in Barwell and Earl Shilton

Barwell and Earl Shilton have been singled out as hotspots for UFO sightings.

Reports of strange objects in the sky, gathered by The Hinckley Times and listed on a sky-watchers’ website, suggest the two neighbourhoods see the most sub-space activity of any location in Leicestershire.

A new article on history and heritage blog The Leicester Chronicle brings together a series of sightings going back to 1706.

Blogger Thomas Kirkup reckons the location of the town and village, close to one another and near to Hinckley but largely surrounded by open countryside, is the key factor in the swathe of flying object spots.

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According to his research, Earl Shilton and Barwell is the county’s prime UFO country, with the largest number of sightings reported by locals.

Glowing objects and bright white balls of light were seen in the skies as reported in The Hinckley Times in May last year and March 2015.

Even more cases of eerie ethereal phenomenon are listed on the LUFOIN - Leicestershire UFO Investigation Network.

One weird happening in particular was observed by various witnesses across Earl Shilton, Barwell and Leicester Forest East on May 25 last year at around 10pm.

Six people in different locations were fascinated by a blue glowing object, hovering low over the ground and apparently accompanied by the smell of sulphur.

One man said: “I was heading back from delivering a spa pool at a customer’s when I turned onto Station Road and I saw a brilliant blue light passing over Earl Shilton.

“It was low, about 100 feet off the ground and about 20 foot wide by about ten foot high, it was moving in a zigzag pattern.”

Another recalled: “I was walking the dogs last night when we saw a very bright blue craft in the sky over Elmesthorpe.

“It wasn’t a meteor as it was moving controlled.

“I’m lost as to what it was as it wasn’t an aeroplane and not a chopper or drone.

“There was only a humming noise I could hear, and a mouldy egg smell as it passed over.”

The smell was also detected by a third witness who said: “I saw a car-sized blue cut diamond UFO flying low over Barwell heading towards the village centre.

“There was a putrid smell in air as it passed over.”

Meanwhile another woman said: “My husband and I both noticed a bright blue, diamond-shaped aircraft in the sky hovering above the rugby ground near Beggars Lane, Leicester Forest East.

“It was shooting a red beam towards the ground.”

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• Eerie object spotted flying over Earl Shilton

Listings on the LUFOIN page feature a host of sightings from 2016 which range from hovering cylinder-shaped objects to a trio of domed objects appearing following streaks of light.

Colours are usually white, green or blue.

On a nationwide website the most recent report in the area originates from Newton Linford in November last year.

The account recalls it was getting light, a motorist and her daughter saw ‘a kind of tailing egg shape’ in the sky, seeming to disappear then alter appearance.

Last year Hinckley Times reader Colin Saunders described his experience of seeing a UFO on the old Fosse Way in 1999.

An ex aerospace engineer, he created a model of the object he saw in the skies near Hinckley.

■ If anyone has seen anything unusual in the sky reports can be made to LUFOIN. Personal details remain confidential.

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Dark Matter Wasn't as Important to the Early Universe as We Thought

Rosalie Chan

Today, we know dark matter as a mysterious, elusive presence in our universe, exerting a gravitational pull on our Milky Way and other galaxies. But in an unexpected twist, scientists are now learning dark matter was far less of a powerful presence in the early days of the universe than we once thought.

In a study to be published Thursday in Nature, as well as three accompanying papers in the Astrophysical Journal, an international team of researchers found that 10 billion years ago, the galaxy was dominated by baryonic or “normal” matter, which constitutes what makes up the gas, dust, stars, and planets in our universe today.

Today, dark matter, which does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, has a greater influence on our universe. It interacts with normal matter only through gravity, and it’s responsible for the rotation speeds in spiral galaxies.

“If you take a textbook case of a nearby spiral disk, there are large amounts of dark matter present that causes the rotational speeds to be high, even far from the galaxy center,” coauthor Stijn Wuyts of the University of Bath tells Inverse.

The team used telescopes to measure the rotation curves of six massive galaxies. Since these galaxies were so distant, it was like looking back in time 10 billion years ago, when stars were still forming.

This chart shows observations of six distant galaxies. The left column shows the distribution of the total surface brightness. The right column shows the velocity map. The galaxies show a rotation pattern, with blue areas moving towards the observer and red parts moving away.

But in early galaxies, researchers observed that the outer regions of the galaxies were spinning slower than central regions — meaning less dark matter than expected was present, and dark matter played a smaller role. These early galaxies were also more turbulent than spiral galaxies today. Two further studies of 240 star-forming galaxies supported these findings.

“From the peak epoch of galaxy formation 10 billion years ago to the present day, the reconstruction of this evolutionary path will be something we will be able to do more accurately,” Wuyts says.

Three to four billion years after the Big Bang, the gas in galaxies condensed into flat, rotating disks, while large dark matter halos surrounded them. Before, these halos were more spread out, but after billions of years, the dark matter has condensed and now has a larger effect on the rotation of many modern galaxies, like our Milky Way.

These findings have three possible implications. One is that because normal matter was more influential in the early universe, galaxies today have central regions that are rich in normal matter.

“It’s driven by the fact that galaxies in the young universe have so much gas in them, the gas that later in their lives will be used to form stars,” Wuyts says.

In addition, these findings imply that the winds driving out from the center of the galaxies may have altered the distribution of dark matter.

There’s also a speculative third possibility that the current hypothesis of dark matter may be incorrect. Perhaps the dark matter particle is lighter or not a particle at all, or perhaps it’s similar to black holes.

“We are learning that the situation is more complicated than people had assumed as far as dark matter is concerned, so we need to consider why that is,” lead author Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany tells Inverse. “If this might lead to a recognition that the dark matter paradigm needs to be rethought, that would be pretty sensational, but we need to first be conservative.”

The team saw the first hints of dropping rotation curves eight years ago, showing that dark matter was not as influential in the early universe. It continued to gather more evidence using data from other galaxies. In the next phase of their research, scientists plan to study galaxies with lower masses to help them better understand our universe’s origins.

“What I would predict is people will be very suspicious,” Genzel says. “That’s the nature of science. This is not what we would’ve expected. Other people will have to check it. In the meantime, the theorists hopefully will start thinking about the various options we’ve discussed and give us ideas on what we’ll do next.”

Abstract: In the cold dark matter cosmology, the baryonic components of galaxies - stars and gas - are thought to be mixed with and embedded in non-baryonic and non-relativistic dark matter, which dominates the total mass of the galaxy and its dark matter halo. In the local Universe, the mass of dark matter within a galactic disk increases with disk radius, becoming appreciable and then dominant in the outer, baryonic regions of the disks of star-forming galaxies. This results in rotation velocities of the visible matter within the disk that are constant or increasing with disk radius – a hallmark of the dark matter model. Comparison between the dynamical mass and the sum of stellar and cold-gas mass at the peak epoch of galaxy formation ten billion years ago, inferred from ancillary data, suggest high baryon factions in the inner, star-forming regions of the disks. Although this implied baryon fraction may be larger than in the local Universe, the systematic uncertainties (stellar initial mass function, calibration of gas masses) render such comparisons inconclusive in terms of the mass of dark matter. Here we report rotation curves for the outer disks of six massive star-forming galaxies, and find that the rotation velocities are not constant, but decrease with radius. We propose that this trend arises because of a combination of two main factors: first, a large fraction of the massive, high-redshift galaxy population was strongly baryon dominated, with dark matter playing a smaller part than in the local Universe; and second, the large velocity dispersion in high-redshift disks introduces a substantial pressure term that leads to a decrease in rotation velocity with increasing radius. The effect of both factors appears to increase with redshift. Qualitatively, the observations suggest that baryons in the early Universe efficiently condensed at the centres of dark matter halos when gas fractions were high, and dark matter was less concentrated.

Photos via Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Flickr / European Southern Observatory

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Scientists May Have Solved the Origin of Supermassive Black Holes 

Cassie Kelly

Supermassive black holes sit at the center of nearly every massive galaxy situated in the universe. Scientists don’t know how supermassive black holes form, but a new paper in published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, illustrates a theory crazy enough to perhaps work.

The running hypothesis is that black holes are born out of the collapse of a star, which can eventually suck up enough mass that they grow into supermassive black holes (SBHs). That process is thought to take billions of years, but scientists have already catalogued some SBHs that date back to 13.8 billion years in age — also the age of the universe. This would mean that some SBHs, if not all, form much more quickly than scientists originally suspected.

“The collapse of the galaxy and the formation of a million-solar-mass black hole takes 100,000 years — a blip in cosmic time,” Zoltan Haiman, an astronomy professor at Columbia University, said in a press release. “A few hundred-million years later, it has grown into a billion-solar-mass supermassive black hole. This is much faster than we expected.”

Two things are absolutely necessary for an SBH to form: A ton of mass, and gravitational force. Going by these two rules of thumb, Haiman came up with a new hypothesis back in 2008. What if the SBHs weren’t being created from within their host galaxies, but being fed by neighboring ones?

Haiman believed that if a huge nearby galaxy could pump enough radiation into a smaller galaxy that already hosted a black hole, the radiation could split molecular hydrogen into atomic hydrogen, stopping the galaxy from forming new stars and ultimately forcing it to collapse under the gravitational pressure of the black hole. Thus, the black hole would suck up that mass and quickly become an SBH.

To test this hypothesis, Haiman collaborated with John Regan at Dublin City University in Ireland. Together they simulated this process by crunching numbers on a supercomputer, running through different variations of fluid dynamics, gravity, and radiation. Their findings, published the new paper, proved that with just the right combination, this process could indeed create an SBH.

“The nearby galaxy can’t be too close, or too far away, and like the Goldilocks principle, too hot or too cold,” John Wise, co-author of the study and associate astrophysics professor at Georgia Tech, said in the press release.

There is still much more to understand about SBHs before drawing any conclusions. But with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be launched by NASA next year, to confirm this theory, the team is hoping it might have finally solved this longstanding mystery once and for all.

Photos via John Wise, Georgia Tech

Cassie Kelly@SciencebyCass

Cassie is an Ohio native who recently moved to Brooklyn to pursue her passion for science writing. When she's not typing up a storm, you can find her in local coffee shops or used book stores.

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THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERIOUS HANDBAG IN ANCIENT TIMES - HIDDEN TECHNOLOGY?

Mankind is a species with amnesia. The veil of time has obscured a lot of ancient knowledge and technology. Luckily some ancient stone carvings, statues and art works offer us the of understanding some of these forgotten tools.

In Mesopotamia, the cradle of modern civilization, the symbol of the mysterious handbag is shown in countless stone carvings and statues, dating back as far as 10.000 bc. The handbag motif is featured prominently in their sacred artwork.

The Sumerians depicted the so called Annunaki carrying what seems to be a handbag. These Annunaki were called the Nephilim in the Bible. The object is linked to the archetype of "The Tree of life" which connects to heaven and the underworld. It was said it connected all forms of creation.

In ancient Egypt, we can see the Ankh symbol being carried in a very similar way. The Ankh was the symbol of life. Could it be that the Ankh symbol and the symbol of the handbag are one and the same?

In Mexico, the handbag symbol can be found on many historical sites and is depicted in their most sacred works of art.

In Indonesia, we find the same handbag featured in multiple stone carvings. How did this handbag symbol become a world wide phenomenon? And more importantly, what did it represent? Did it contain secret knowledge offered by the gods as some myths claim? Was it some form of secret technology that we have forgotten? 

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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.

Minuscule extremophiles

When tardigrades dry out, they retract their legs and heads, transitioning into a form called a "tun." This image shows a scanning electron micrograph of six tardigrades in their tun state.

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Microscopic, blobby-bodied tardigrades — also known as "water bears" — are famed for their ability to survive in extreme conditions, even appearing to come back from the dead.

Now, a new study reveals that special proteins coded into tardigrade DNA may be the secret to the creatures' resuscitation superpowers. [Read more about the superpowers.]

Setting high records

The U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane, known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, is shown here in a 2009 photo at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. An X-37B spacecraft is currently flying the fourth classified mission for the U.S. Air Force.

Credit: U.S. Air Force

The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane is just eight days away from setting a record on its current clandestine mission.

If the robotic vehicle stays aloft until March 25, it will break the X-37B mission-duration mark of 674 days, which was established back in October 2014. [Read more about the near record.]

Cheesy prints

3D-printed cheese can hold its own against regular processed cheese, pictured here.

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Any way you slice it, cheese is considered by many to be a favorite food, whether cut into cubes as a snack, grated over pasta, layered in a sandwich or melted as a topping for pizza.

In a recent study, scientists 3D-printed cheese and conducted a series of tests evaluating its texture, resilience and "meltability," to see how this cheese from the future would stack up — on a structural level — against regular processed cheese. [Read more about printable cheese.]

Doomsday films

A mushroom cloud forms after a nuclear weapons test dubbed Operation Hardtack-1 - Nutmeg in May 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

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After decades spent slowly disintegrating in high-security vaults, thousands of historic films of U.S. nuclear weapons tests have been salvaged, including some that have been newly declassified. The incredible footage shows enormous mushroom clouds ballooning over the horizon in what could be a doomsday flick.

About 6,500 of the films have been located so far, and now, an initial collection of 64 videos, all showing tests conducted by the LLNL, have been made available online. [Read more about the declassified footage.]

First time users

By monitoring subjects as they undergo adolescence, researchers could gain new insights into how marijuana affects developing brains.

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The chemical tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana is known to trigger responses in brain regions related to thinking, perception, coordination and memory, and to have a lasting impact on users when taken frequently over time.

"We don't really know what happens to a first-time user — we don't know if one use will change the brain and make you more vulnerable to taking other drugs, for example," Weiss told Live Science. [Read more about pot brain.]

Hungry, hungry arachnids

A jumping spider, Phidippus mystaceus, feeding on a type of fly called a nematoceran.

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Each year, about 27 million tons of spiders consume somewhere between 440 million and 880 million tons of insects, new research finds.

Spiders are a very successful group of arthropods. They're found everywhere from deserts to grasslands to forests to Arctic tundra. More than 45,000 individual species have been identified so far, Nyffeler and Birkhofer wrote. Scientists estimate that there are around 131 spiders per every square meter of land on the globe, and in some places up to 1,000 individuals in that area (about the size of a single mattress). [Read more about their voracious appetites.]

Health and climate change

Climate change is poised to affect the health of Americans in every part of the country, a new report says.

But few Americans are aware of the impact climate change has on health, according to the report. Only about a third of Americans can name a specific way climate change affects people's health, according to the report. [Read more about climate change's affects.]

Life without the EPA

A coal-burning power plant near Bismarck, North Dakota, on July 30, 2013.

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Acid rain devouring New England forests. Homes built on toxic sites. Unswimmable rivers and cities cloaked in smog. The United States looked very different before the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) arrived, but a recent Congressional bill calls for the agency's abolition.

So Americans may wonder: What would life be like without the EPA? [Read more about the EPA's importance.]

Ancient plants

X-ray tomographic picture (false colors) of fossil thread-like red algae.

Credit: Stefan Bengtson

Scientists have discovered what may be the world’s oldest plant-like fossils, found in sedimentary rocks in central India. The preserved specimens are estimated to be 1.6 billion years old, and contain structures like those found in red algae.

The two types of fossils that researchers recently identified resembled red algae — one specimen was composed of filaments and another was made of more robust structures. The ancient specimens are 400 million years older than previous fossil algae discoveries, and hint that multicellular life evolved on Earth far earlier than was once thought. [Read more about the oldest fossils.]

Round tomb

The tomb's entranceway is located on the south wall of the tomb. It was blocked off with bricks 1,000 years ago. Images of two servants can be seen flanking the entrance.

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A 1,000-year-old circular tomb, whose walls are decorated with colorful murals, has been discovered in Datong City, in northern China.

The murals on the walls show servants, cranes and numerous articles of clothing that hang on several stands, their colors still vibrant despite the passage of a millennia. [Read more about the vibrant murals.]

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