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

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UFO Over South Korea Caught By Professional Photographer On April 2017, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Over South Korea Caught By Professional Photographer On April 2017, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: April 12, 2017
Location of sighting: Seoul, South Korea
Source: MUFON #83126

This professional photographer was recording some actors for a TV show in South Korea. When he looked back at his photos two had UFOs in them. The UFO is far behind the people...at least as far as the building or more. How do I know? Easy, the focus of the camera cannot be fooled. The distant objects are blurred, the close objects are super HD clear. So this UFO was big, and far away. 



However a concern I have is that this may be an advertising ploy to get more attention for their TV show, since they did mention its name. This remains a possibility.
Scott C. Waring
 
Eyewitness states: 
It is really glad that I am writing a UFO report about my resent findings. Last Wednesday, 12th April, one of the our professional photographers took several series of continuous shooting, while taking a promotional poster of our newly launched drama of KBS in central Seoul, South Korea We are really surprised as well as thrilled that we captured a stunning moment that UFO was flying in front of our lens It was clear sky on that day and 7 out of 9 photos seem normal and only 3 of them captured black spots behind two actor and actress. They are attached files : CHA_2648, CHA_2688 and CHA_2689 The photographer has never acknowledged that he captured UFO-like object while shooting and there was no suspicious smell nor sound came out on the shooting site. With the photographer, there were other directors and crews making the drama and they have not acknowledged the fact he took photos of UFO either. We have tried our best what he has taken and what they are, but there was no specialist in South Korea, who is able to investigate the photographed UFO at this moment. We would love you to have a look at those photos and if you find something suspicious, please inform me whether it is really UFOs or not through this email. It is really thankful that your dedication to defining UFO in advance. 

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Saturn's adorable UFO-shaped moon, Atlas, gets a close-up

Saturn's adorable UFO-shaped moon, Atlas, gets a close-up

Can a moon be cute? If you're a tiny Saturn moon that resembles a flying saucer, the answer is "Yes!"

Sorry, folks, this isn't an actual UFO.

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Saturn's minuscule moon Atlas is one of the smallest among the ringed planet's massive collection that includes dozens of satellites. NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped some new images of Atlas on Wednesday from a distance of just 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) away, giving us our closest look at the goofy little moon.

Atlas is just 19 miles (30 kilometers) across. Compare that to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, which is 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers) across. Atlas has a distinctive central bulge, leading NASA to give it the "flying-saucer" moon nickname.

Atlas has made cameo appearances in Cassini pictures before, where it can be seen hiding in Saturn's rings, dwarfed by its much larger brethren. Atlas bears a passing resemblance to another itsy-bitsy moon named Pan. Pan, however, looks more like a ravioli than a UFO.

Cassini isn't long for this solar system. The NASA craft, which originally launched in 1997, is scheduled to end its mission later this year when it plunges into Saturn's atmosphere.

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NASA Scientist Says Her Money Is on Europa for Alien Life

The Clipper Spacecraft Above Europa - Ver 2/B

NASA Scientist Says Her Money Is on Europa for Alien Life

There is now solid evidence that Jupiter’s moon Europa has plumes much like Saturn’s moon Enceladus, meaning the probability of an ocean beneath its surface is very likely. But, it won’t be until NASA’s Europa Clipper arrives that we’ll know for sure.

In a news briefing on Thursday, NASA officials explained that there were two repeat occurrences of a single plume on Europa. The first was identified by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014 and the second, also identified by Hubble, was in 2016. Both plumes were in the same location, which also happened to be the very spot where the Galileo spacecraft detected a thermal hotspot in a close flyby.

“Repeated behavior like this gives us faith in the observation,” said William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “It’s not proof, but it’s right at the limit of what Hubble can do.”

This information makes the mission to Europa all the more thrilling because if there really is an ocean in the interior, there’s a real possibility of finding alien microbial life swimming around in it. The discovery of plumes on Europa also has NASA discussing the possibility of a probe to Enceladus, which has been found to have a number of icy, geyser-like plumes.

But, Mary Voytek, a NASA astrobiologist, said, “My money is still on Europa.”

This is because Enceladus has such high volumes of hydrogen and carbon dioxide that it could be that there is no life to absorb it. This would also explain why Europa doesn’t have as harsh plume activity.

Another hint of life is the smoothing of both moon’s surfaces. Enceladus has large portions of what was once believed to be cratered terrain that has been smoothed over by the vapor. However, most of Enceladus is still covered in craters, leading NASA to believe it is much younger than Europa, which is entirely smooth.

To explore the mysterious territory on Europa, the Clipper will be able to tell how thick or thin ice shelves are on the moon, use thermal imaging to see how hot areas are, especially near the plume location, and use an ultraviolet spectrometer, to find more plumes. It will even fly close enough to go through the plumes and take measurements.

“We’re using everything in our arsenal to probe these ocean worlds we’ve just discovered,” said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA. “They are one of the best locations, we believe, that may harbor life one day.”

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"Houston, we have a problem": hét foute citaat van vorige eeuw - HLN.be

"Houston, we have a problem": hét foute citaat van vorige eeuw - HLN.be

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'Houston, we have a problem'. Heel Amerika gebruikt al decennialang deze quote voor om het even wat er enigszins verkeerd loopt. Ook in onze contreien tiert de iconische uitspraak welig. Maar... er is inderdaad een probleem: ze klopt historisch gezien niet.

Op 13 april 1970 - gisteren 47 jaar geleden - kreeg de Apollo 13 op weg naar de maan af te rekenen met een explosie aan boord. Een ernstig probleem uiteraard voor astronauten Jim Lovell (commandant), Jack Swigert (piloot van de commando-module) en Fred Haise (piloot van de maanlander). Swigert rapporteerde als eerste aan de basis op aarde: "Okay, Houson, we've had a problem here" (Oké, Houston, we hebben hier een probleem gehad). De controlekamer antwoordde: "This is Houston. Say again, please." (Houston hier, herhaal eens alsjeblief). Waarop Lovell in de ruimte overnam en zei: "Uh, Houston, we've had a problem".

Dat is woordelijk het gesprek zoals het toen in werkelijkheid plaatsvond. Niemand zei dus "Houston, we hebben een probleem", maar wél "We hebben een probleem gehad". Een taalkundig nuanceverschil: de astronauten gaven zo aan dat het probleem achter hen lag, wat dan ook weer niet klopte, want de missie moest afgebroken worden.

Volgens de Houston Chronicle is de foutieve quote te wijten aan de film 'Apollo 13' uit 1995 van regisseur Ron Howard. Acteur Tom Hanks spreekt daarin wel degelijk de zin 'Houston, we have a problem' uit, wat cinematografisch veel spannender is omdat het euvel zich - ook taalkundig - op dat moment nog altijd aan het afspelen is. Een van de scenaristen, William Broyles Jr., gaf toe dat hij daarom de historische melding wijzigde.

Taalkundeprofessor Naomi S Baron zegt dat het bovendien logisch is dat in de film het woordje 'okay' werd weggelaten. Dat was wel nuttig voor de controlepost in Houston om hun aandacht te trekken maar niet meteen voor de filmkijker. Baron dacht overigens zelf altijd dat de uitspraak correct geciteerd werd, tot ze deze week door de Washington Post om haar linguïstische interpretatie werd gevraagd.

De film met Tom Hanks is dus de schuldige? Toch niet. In 1983 was 'Houston, we have a problem' de titel van een wekelijkse radio-uitzending van NASA zelf. Maar ook dáár zou niet de oorsprong van de aangepaste quote liggen. De zinsnede gaat nóg verder terug in de tijd. In 1974 al bracht Universal Television een tv-film uit over de missie van de Apollo 13. Aan de Washington Post zei de ontgoochelde astronaut Lovell daarover dat die "fictief" was en "van slechte smaak getuigde". De titel van de tv-film? Die luidde: "Houston, we have a problem".

NOG 5 ANDERE BEROEMDE 'MISQUOTES'

1. 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'.

Iconische uitspraak van de eerste man op de maan (missie Apollo 11), Neil Armstrong, in 1969. Maar de astronaut beweerde achteraf zelf iets licht verschillends gezegd te hebben: "That's one small step for a man..." Semantisch belangrijk, want in de meest geciteerde versie zijn 'man' en 'mankind' synoniemen en dus betekenen die woorden eigenlijk niet zo veel.


2. 'Het doel heiligt de middelen':

toegeschreven aan de Italiaanse politicus en filosoof Niccolò Machiavelli. Maar het is nergens terug te vinden in zijn geschriften. Wél iets als: "Je moet het eindresultaat voor ogen houden".


3. 'Beam me up, Scotty'.

Uit Star Trek, maar in de originele reeks is die letterlijke zin nergens te vinden. Komen wél voor: 'Scotty, beam us up, fast', 'Beam us up', 'Beam me up' en 'Scotty, beam me up'.


4. 'Elementary, my dear Watson'.

Sherlock Holmes zegt dit in geen enkel verhaal of roman van Conan Doyle letterlijk zo. P.G. Wodehouse schreef het wel in zijn roman Psmith Journalist uit 1915.

5. 'Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je me battrai jusqu'à la mort pour que vous ayez le droit de le dire'.

Beroemd citaat van Voltaire, maar de Franse filosoof heeft dat nooit zo geschreven. Vertaling: "Ik ben het niet eens met wat je zegt, maar ik zal het recht om het te zeggen tot de dood toe verdedigen". Het komt uit een boek over Voltaire.

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Heetwaterbronnen op Saturnusmaan Enceladus maken leven mogelijk - HLN.be

Heetwaterbronnen op Saturnusmaan Enceladus maken leven mogelijk - HLN.be

Bron: Science

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Op Enceladus, de zesde maan van Saturnus, zijn onderzeese heetwaterbronnen ontdekt die damppluimen met waterstofmoleculen het heelal inspuiten. Enceladus heeft zo "sommige van de ingrediënten die nodig zijn voor een leefbare omgeving", aldus NASA. Kortom: buitenaards leven is er in principe mogelijk. Enceladus en Jupiters maan Europa zijn de twee oceaanwerelden in ons zonnestelsel waar de kans op buitenaards leven het grootst is.

De waterstofgassen moéten volgens wetenschappers wel een energiebronnen als oorsprong hebben in de kilometers diepe oceaan die zich onder het bevroren ijsoppervlak van Enceladus bevindt. 

In 2004 ontdekte de planeetverkenner Cassini al een soort van geisers die dampen spoten vanuit de oceaan door scheuren in het ijs. Op 28 oktober 2015 vloog Cassini dwars door die geiserdampen en kon zo meten dat ze onder meer watersof bevatten. Wetenschappers gaan ervan uit dat de hydrothermale bronnen op de bodem van de oceaan de waterstofmoleculen doen ontstaan door reacties van het hete water met mineralen in de bodem. Ook chemische methaan kan zo ontstaan en zou micro-organismen kunnen ondersteunen.

Op onze planeet staat dat soort van gelijkaardige bronnen alvast garant voor allerlei leven, dat geen zonlicht behoeft. Dat zou dus ook mogelijk kunnen zijn op de Saturnusmaan. Maar bewijs van buitenaards leven op de Enceladus is er nog niet gevonden.

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UFO-jagers spotten 500 meter lang object voor kust van Antarctica

UFO-jagers spotten 500 meter lang object voor kust Antarctica

UFO-jagers spotten 500 meter lang object voor kust van Antarctica

UFO-jagers hebben voor de kust van Antarctica een 500 meter lang object gespot, zo schrijft de Britse Daily Mail.

Volgens sommigen gaat het om een buitenaardse basis die verborgen ligt onder het ijs.

Het object, dat is gespot op Google Earth, lijkt op het eerste gezicht op een groot stuk ijs dat zich heeft losgemaakt van het continent.

Perfecte plek

“Ik ben geen ijsberg-expert, maar dit object ziet er heel vreemd uit,” aldus de website UFO Sightings Hotspot. “Het lijkt te gaan om een vaartuig dat vermomd is als ijsberg.”

Voor de meeste mensen is Antarctica een kale woestenij, maar volgens UFO-jagers is het continent de perfecte plek voor buitenaardse bases.

Vreemd pad

De site vergeleek foto’s die in 1984, 1990 en 2013 van de plek zijngemaakt.

In 1984 is nog geen ijsberg te zien, in 1990 is een vreemd pad onder het wateroppervlak te zien en in 2013 verschijnt de vreemde ijsberg.

Zes vormen

Volgens de website past deze ijsberg in geen van de bestaande categorieën. Er zijn grofweg zes vormen te herkennen:

  • Koepel, ijsberg met een koepelvorm.
  • Ananas, deze heeft een aantal uitsteeksels.
  • Wig, aan de ene kant een steile wand en aan de andere een glooiende helling.
  • Droogdok, twee delen die alleen onder water aan elkaar verbonden zijn.
  • Brug, een variant van het droogdok, waarbij de twee delen zowel boven als onder water met elkaar verbonden zijn.
  • Blok, naar verhouding plat met een steile helling langs alle zijden.

De coördinaten zijn als volgt: 72°43’13.53″Z 78°40’21.56″W.

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UFO-Like Strange Clouds Returning to Wyoming

UFO-Like Strange Clouds Returning to Wyoming


By now most people have had about enough of the winter the skies that blanket Wyoming each time a front moves through. But as we move into spring, and then summer, the types of cloud formations that we see begin to change. A few are unique to Wyoming.

Some of the regional clouds might explain the occasional Wyoming UFO sighting. The website Astronomy Picture Of The Day posted a strange disc-like shape moving across the sky, with a tail that almost made it look like a comet. According to National UFO Reporting Center State Report Index For WY, people were actually reporting weather anomalies.

The weather chasers called Base Hunters captured the massive hanging and ominous dark cloud in the video, above. It caused quite a stir, both locally and online when a thunderstorm developed into a supercell near Clareton, Wyoming.

Massive thunderstorms, called supercells, are most common across the great planes and generally cause two reactions: 1. ‘WOW I have to stand here and watch this!” Which quickly becomes 2., “WOW – Why am I still standing here?”

Some clouds are mostly not clouds. A weather event called virga happens when a smaller cloud starts dumping rain before it ever had a chance to build into a thunder storm. You know virga when you see long wisps of bending mist pouring out of the bottom of the cloud and reaching toward the ground, but never quite making it.

There will be a lot of interesting things to see in the Wyoming sky this summer. As Jack Horkheimer used to say, “Just keep looking up.”

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How Would NASA Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Enceladus?

How Would NASA Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Enceladus?

NASA hasn't planned any follow-on missions for Enceladus, but it could be selected for a current or future round of planetary missions.

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As NASA’s Cassini spacecraft prepares for its grand finale at Saturn, scientists have uncovered the first evidence of a potential energy source for extraterrestrial microbial life. 
 
The detection of hydrogen inside an ice plume jetting off from Saturn’s ocean-bearing moon Enceladus means that hot water is interacting with rock, creating a potential chemical kitchen for microbial life that doesn’t rely on photosynthesis to survive.
 
On Earth, these types of microbes flourish around hydrothermal vents on the sea floor. Scientists wonder if the same might be true 790 million miles away on Enceladus, an ice-capped inner moon of Saturn’s that is just 500 miles in diameter.
 
“The fact that there is molecular hydrogen there — and a lot of it — can be interpreted in two different ways with regard to life,” Cassini scientist Hunter Waite, with the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, told Seeker. “One is that there is so much hydrogen because there are no microbes there to eat it... The more positive way is that there is H2 there, there is plenty of food for them, but there’s probably some other limiting growth factor so that there is excess H2 in the system.”

RELATED: NASA: Saturn's Ice Moon Enceladus Might Be Capable of Supporting Life
 
“If you saw this [hydrogen detection] coming up from Earth, you’d say, ‘Ah, there’s potential food for microbes in the interior ocean.’ But you wouldn’t say necessarily that there are these microbes in the ocean,” he added. “There is every reason to believe we’re moving toward Enceladus’s ocean being habitable, but we’re not making any claims at this point about it being inhabited.”
 
The discovery of molecular hydrogen in Enceladus’s plumes was reported by Waite and his colleagues in this week’s issue of the journal Science.

An image taken survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus. |NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Cassini, which has been circling Saturn and its entourage of moons since 2004, will end its mission in September with a suicidal plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere to avoid any chance of contaminating potential life on Enceladus. But even if Cassini could carry on for years, it was not designed to search for life.
 
 “We’ve come as far as we can go, so it remains for a future mission to detect life at Enceladus,” Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told reporters on Thursday.
 
Ideally, scientists would like to drill through Enceladus’s ice cap and sample its underground ocean. An easier, lower-cost mission, however, would be to do what Cassini did, which is to fly through the plumes of material that continuously shoot out into space from the moon’s southern polar region.

RELATED: NASA Prepares to Crash Cassini Probe Into Saturn for Mission's ‘Grand Finale'
 
Besides measuring the ratio of hydrogen to carbon dioxide, which Cassini was able to do, there are several different chemical relationships that would be evidence of potential food sources for microbial life. A laundry list of those processes would be one of the things that a follow-on mission would look for, Waite noted.
 
Other options are to look for ratios of amino acids and structural patterns in fatty acids that are indicative of biology.
 
“There’d be a whole host of tests, and if you got green lights on all of them, then you’d have a pretty good idea that you had a high probability that life exists,” Waite said.
 
In the 2020s, NASA is planning to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa, which, like Enceladus, has a salty ocean beneath its icy surface. The US space agency has not yet planned any follow-on missions for Enceladus, but it could be selected as the destination for a current or future round of planetary missions in the New Frontiers program. Proposals are due April 28.

WATCH: There Are Oceans in Our Solar System That Could Contain Life

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NASA's Extraterrestrial Oceanography --"Hydrothermal Activity On Saturn's Enceladus Similar to That in Earth's Oceans"

NASA's Extraterrestrial Oceanography --"Hydrothermal Activity On Saturn's Enceladus Similar to That in Earth's Oceans"

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"The amount of molecular hydrogen we detected is high enough to support microbes similar to those that live near hydrothermal vents on Earth," said SwRI's Dr. Christopher Glein, a co-author on the paper and a pioneer of extraterrestrial chemical oceanography. "If similar organisms are present in Enceladus, they could 'burn' the hydrogen to obtain energy for chemosynthesis, which could conceivably serve as a foundation for a larger ecosystem."

Scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have discovered hydrogen gas in the plume of material erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicates that the hydrogen is best explained by chemical reactions between the moon's rocky core and warm water from its subsurface ocean. The SwRI-led team's discovery suggests that Enceladus' ocean floor could include features analogous to hydrothermal vents on Earth, which are known to support life on the seafloor.

"Hydrogen is a source of chemical energy for microbes that live in the Earth's oceans near hydrothermal vents," said SwRI's Dr. Hunter Waite, principal investigator of Cassini's Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS). "Our results indicate the same chemical energy source is present in the ocean of Enceladus. We have not found evidence of the presence of microbial life in the ocean of Enceladus, but the discovery of hydrogen gas and the evidence for ongoing hydrothermal activity offer a tantalizing suggestion that habitable conditions could exist beneath the moon's icy crust."

Waite is the lead author of "Cassini Finds Molecular Hydrogen in the Enceladus Plume: Evidence for Hydrothermal Processes," published in the April 14, 2017, issue of the journal Science.

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On the Earth's ocean floor, hydrothermal vents emit hot, mineral-laden fluid, allowing unique ecosystems teeming with unusual creatures to thrive. Microbes that convert mineral-laden fluid into metabolic energy make these ecosystems possible.

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During Cassini's close flyby of Enceladus on Oct. 28, 2015, INMS detected molecular hydrogen as the spacecraft flew through the plume of gas and ice grains spewing from cracks on the surface. Previous flybys provided evidence for a global subsurface ocean residing above a rocky core. Molecular hydrogen in the plumes could serve as a marker for hydrothermal processes, which could provide the chemical energy necessary to support life. To search for hydrogen specifically native to Enceladus, the spacecraft flew particularly close to the surface and operated INMS in a specific mode to minimize and quantify any spurious sources.

"We developed new operations methods for INMS for Cassini's final flight through Enceladus' plume," said SwRI's Rebecca Perryman, the INMS operations technical lead. "We conducted extensive simulations, data analyses, and laboratory tests to identify background sources of hydrogen, allowing us to quantify just how much molecular hydrogen was truly originating from Enceladus itself."

Scientists also considered other sources of hydrogen from the moon itself, such as a preexisting reservoir in the ice shell or global ocean. Analysis determined that it was unlikely that the observed hydrogen was acquired during the formation of Enceladus or from other processes on the moon's surface or in the interior.

"Everything indicates that the hydrogen originates in the moon's rocky core," Waite said. "We considered various ways hydrogen could leach from the rock and found that the most plausible source is ongoing hydrothermal reactions of rock containing reduced minerals and organic materials."

The Daily Galaxy via SWRI

Image top of page: With thanks to space artist Joe Bergeron.

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MUFON asked to investigate Orangeville UFO sighting

MUFON asked to investigate Orangeville UFO sighting

by Chris Halliday

UFO sighting

According to a report of a UFO sighting received by MUFON, an unidentified person saw a “silent camouflage aircraft” above the skies of Orangeville at about 9 p.m. on March 28.

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The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is being asked to investigate a strange sighting in Orangeville.

According to a report of a UFO sighting received by MUFON, an unidentified person saw a “silent camouflage aircraft” above the skies of Orangeville at about 9 p.m. on March 28.

“Every night around that time I take my dog for a walk. I take him to on the train tracks down the road and I usually stare at stars and satellites,” the witness reported.

“About 15 minutes in, I noticed something that looked like a faint letter 8 horizontally with no sound or visible light,” the person added. “As it moved from northwest to east at a steady pace, it appeared to bend the light of the stars as it moved.”

The witness claims the event lasted a duration of about two minutes. No other details about the Orangeville UFO sighting were made available in the MUFON report.

As one of the oldest and largest civilian UFO-investigative organizations in the United States, MUFON has received five reports of UFO sightings in Orangeville from 2004 to 2017.

About seven years ago, MUFON’s was asked to investigate after a person reportedly saw a UFO being chased by a military aircraft near Orangeville in October of 2010. In August of 2015, a witness claimed to have seen a large "glowing object" hovering in the air for about 10 minutes.

According to the 2016 Canadian UFO Survey, an annual report compiled by the Canadian organization Ufology Research, there were 1,131 UFO sightings in 2016. That's a drop from the 1,267 reported the previous year.

Across the country, 21 per cent of last year's reports were considered to have probable explanations while 74 per cent were insufficient, which was a big reversal from the previous year's report where 66 per cent were probable and 20 per cent considered insufficient. The report notes that's because of a "more rigorous evaluation process" this year.

About four per cent were considered unexplained, which the report says is the lowest in its 28 years, but does note that classification doesn't imply alien visitation.

"Each case may still have an explanation following further investigation. And, of those that remain unexplained, they may (stay) unexplained but still are not incontrovertible proof of extraterrestrial intervention or some mysterious natural phenomenon," reads the report.

To learn more about the five UFO sightings reported to MUFON in Orangeville, visit mufon.com. To read the Canadian UFO Survey’s 2016 annual report, visit survey.canadianuforeport.com.

— With files from the Mississauga News and Independent and Free Press

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NASA Finds Food Source for Possible Extraterrestrial Life

NASA Finds Food Source for Possible Extraterrestrial Life
The vapor plumes emitted by a moon of Saturn contain molecular hydrogen
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This photo provided by NASA shows water vapor jets emitted from the southern polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. 
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(NEWSER) – Scientists have found a potential food source for microbes on one of Saturn's tiny moons—and that could dramatically increase the chance of finding life beyond Earth, CBC reports. In a research paper published Thursday in Science, NASA reveals its Cassini spacecraft discovered molecular hydrogen in the plumes of vapor that erupt into space from the huge ocean sitting below Enceladus' layer of ice. The plumes themselves are evidence of hydrothermal vents in Enceladus' ocean. On Earth, microbial life thrives near such vents and feeds on molecular hydrogen. On Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon, that molecular hydrogen would be formed by reactions between hot water and rock, Space.com reports.

Hunter Waite, lead author of the paper, says the discovery has them "very excited," and NASA's director of planetary science tells the New York Times there's a "tremendous opportunity" to "see if there's life" on Enceladus, which is now believed to have all the components need for life, including organics, water, and an energy source. Astronomers believe similar conditions also exist on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. This discovery is just the latest made by the spacecraft Cassini, which will end its two-decade mission in September when it destroys itself by plunging into Saturn. (NASA recently found seven Earth-sized planets.)

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UFO sightings amongst Freedom of Information requests sent to Kilkenny County Council in past year

UFO sightings amongst Freedom of Information requests sent to Kilkenny County Council in past year

Councillors and council officials expenses were also included in the questions asked.

Kilkenny County Council got some interesting requests presented to them under the freedom of information act since January 2016.

Among those was any communication made to the department from members of the public with regard to UFO’s, UFO sightings or incidents of a similar nature.

The request was made by a Journalist in January of this year, but was refused by the local authority.

Another request that was refused was when a business asked for a list of common areas in the city for parking which do not require or need a parking disc or ticket.

In 2016 the council were asked to release the total amount of money spent for paying celebrities to attend events from 2013 – 2016. This request was also refused.

Among the requests granted under the freedom of information act was the total amount spent on public notices in newspapers and the breakdown of payments to companies for translating services.

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Cloud Orb Over Istanbul, Turkey In Broad Day Light, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Cloud Orb Over Istanbul, Turkey In Broad Day Light, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: April 2017
Location of sighting: Istanbul, Turkey

This UFO was only noticed because of its white cloud like appearance and the deep blue, cloudless sky behind it. The conditions were perfect for cloud orb hunting. They are hard to catch, even for an expert and may take weeks of hunting to catch a great one, but once you catch your first, your confidence grows, you give up less easily and you soon find another  not long after. Istanbul is no stranger to UFOs, being one of the oldest cultural sites on Earth, aliens find it fascinating how an older culture could still exist in this modern age.

Scott C. Waring
 

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Forestry Worker Experienced Chilly Morning With Aliens In Scotland

Forestry Worker Experienced Chilly Morning With Aliens In Scotland

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More than 30 years ago, forestry worker Robert Taylor claimed to have experienced a chilly November morning. What had happened on that morning has baffled all who have investigated the case, including the police, who consider it unexplained and keep the file open.

He arrived with his company-owned pickup truck as usual with his Irish red setter Larah. He walked down into the forest then rounded the path into a clearing. Suddenly, he saw what he described as a large dome-shaped object that left him to astonish. The size of the unusual object was around 20 to 30 feet circumference floating just 15 feet over the grassy surface, as Robert described.

Interestingly, the UFO seemed to disappear around the edges. The witness said that it somewhat dematerialized, which enabled him to see the trees behind the strange object, then solidified again. As he observed the event, two items that resembled WWII sea mines dropped from beneath the UFO and rolled towards him. However, before they reached him, he smelled like burning brake lines and heard a loud swishing noise.

As the “mines” rolled across, rods came out of them and attached themselves to his hips. They then pulled him towards the object.

After the pulling incident, Robert said that he lost consciousness and was not sure of the duration, but believed it could only have been for a minute or two.

When he got back for being conscious, the objects were nowhere to be found but left marks and holes on the ground. According to the investigations, there were over 20 triangular or circular indentations in the grass. Robert had an incredible thirst moments later. He also had a nasty graze on his chin and forehead.

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Scientist Measures Brightness of the Universe with New Horizons Spacecraft

Scientist Measures Brightness of the Universe with New Horizons Spacecraft

Artist's impression of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI)
Images taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher in a paper published this week in Nature Communications.
In the study, “Measurement of the Cosmic Optical Background using the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on New Horizons,” lead author Michael Zemcov used archival data from the instrument onboard New Horizons—the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, or LORRI—to measure visible light from other galaxies. The light shining beyond the Milky Way is known as the cosmic optical background. Zemcov’s findings give an upper limit to the amount of light in the cosmic optical background.
“Determining how much light comes from all the galaxies beyond our own Milky Way galaxy has been a stubborn challenge in observational astrophysics,” said Zemcov, assistant professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy and member of RIT’s Center for Detectors and Future Photon Initiative.
Light from the cosmic optical background can reveal the number and location of stars, how galaxies work and give insights into the peculiar nature of exotic physical processes, such as light that may be produced when dark matter decays. Dark matter is the invisible substance thought to comprise 85 percent of matter in the universe.
“This result shows some of the promise of doing astronomy from the outer solar system,” Zemcov said. “What we’re seeing is that the optical background is completely consistent with the light from galaxies and we don’t see a need for a lot of extra brightness; whereas previous measurements from near the Earth need a lot of extra brightness. The study is proof that this kind of measurement is possible from the outer solar system, and that LORRI is capable of doing it.”
Spacecraft in the outer solar system give scientists virtual front-row seats for observing the cosmic optical background. The faint light from distant galaxies is hard to see from the inner solar system because it is polluted by the brightness of sunlight reflected off interplanetary dust in the inner solar system.
Cosmic dust is sooty bits of rock and small debris that moved, over time, from the outer solar system toward the sun. Scientists launching experiments on sounding rockets and satellites must account for the dust that makes the Earth’s atmosphere many times brighter than the cosmic optical background.
NASA’s New Horizons mission has been funded through 2021, and Zemcov is hopeful for the chance to use Long Range Reconnaissance Imager to re-measure the brightness of the cosmic optical background.
“NASA sends missions to the outer solar system once a decade or so,” Zemcov said. “What they send is typically going to planets and the instruments onboard are designed to look at them, not to do astrophysics. Measurements could be designed to optimize this technique while LORRI is still functioning.”
Zemcov’s method harkens back to NASA’s first long distance missions Pioneer 10 and 11 in 1972 and 1974. Light detectors on the instruments measured the brightness of objects outside the Milky Way and made the first direct benchmark of the cosmic optical background.
“With a carefully designed survey, we should be able to produce a definitive measurement of the diffuse light in the local universe and a tight constraint on the light from galaxies in the optical wavebands,” Zemcov said.
Archived data from New Horizon’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager show “the power of LORRI for precise low-foreground measurements of the cosmic optical background,” Zemcov wrote in the paper.
Chi Nguyen, a Ph.D. student in RIT’s astrophysical sciences and technology program, mined data sets from New Horizons’ 2006 launch, Jupiter fly-by and cruise phase. She isolated four different spots on the sky between Jupiter and Uranus, captured in 20
07, 2008 and 2010, that met their criteria: looking away from the solar system and looking out the galaxy.
Poppy Immel, an undergraduate majoring in math and computer science, generated the data cuts and determined the photometric calibration of the instrument. Other co-authors include Asantha Cooray from University of California Irvine; Carey Lisee from Johns Hopkins University; and Andrew Poppe from UC Berkeley. Zemcov is affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Hunt for Why We Exist Turns to Weird Atomic Decay

Hunt for Why We Exist Turns to Weird Atomic Decay

Hunt for Why We Exist Turns to Weird Atomic Decay
The germanium detector array is being lowered into the liquid argon. The physicists wanted to see if this germanium-76 ever decays without releasing the neutrinos — neutrinoless double-beta decay.
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A never-before-seen type of radioactivity could explain why matter, including humans, exists today. And now a team of physicists has launched an experiment to find the oddball phenomenon.

When the universe first formed some 13.7 billion years ago, current theories say that equal amounts of matter and its bizarre cousin, antimatter, should have been produced during the Big Bang. Physicists know that when the two come into contact, they annihilate each other — poof. If that were the case, though, nothing should exist except photons and neutrinos. And yet, here we are. Calculations show there was a tiny bit more matter than antimatter — enough so that things exist — but why? 

One way to explain this matter-antimatter asymmetry is to look for some difference between the two, besides charge, that could explain matter's advantage. It's a big question in contemporary physics, because otherwise matter and antimatter should, per contemporary theories, behave the same way. [The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics]

In this new study, physicists are seeking so-called neutrinoless double-beta decay. Normally, some radioactive atoms' unstable nuclei will lose a neutron via beta decay — the neutron transforms into a proton by releasing an electron and a tiny particle called an electron antineutrino. A mirror image can also occur, in which a proton turns into a neutron, releasing a positron and an electron neutrino — the normal-matter counterpart to the antineutrino. Double-beta decay happens when two electrons and two antineutrinos (the antimatter counterparts of neutrinos) are released: basically, the beta decay happens twice. Scientists have long theorized a neutrinoless version of this process — something that would suggest that the two neutrinos annihilated each other before being released from the atom. Essentially, the neutrino behaves as its own antimatter sibling.

(Particles of matter that are their own antiparticles are called Majorana fermions, after the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana, who hypothesized their existence in 1937.)

If neutrinos and antineutrinos behave differently from each other, that could help to explain why all matter wasn't annihilated at the instant the universe formed. [5 Elusive Particles That May Lurk in the Universe]

Finding this odd event though, is hard to do, because there's so much background "noise," said Bernhard Schwingenheuer, the spokesman for the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) collaboration. The background "noise" comes largely from cosmic rays.

In the experiment, physicists had to account for background noise, mostly from cosmic rays. So they covered the inner walls of the water tank surrounding the liquid argon with a reflecting foil to improve light detection and allow for the identification of cosmic muons (formed when cosmic rays interact with Earth's atmosphere).
In the experiment, physicists had to account for background noise, mostly from cosmic rays. So they covered the inner walls of the water tank surrounding the liquid argon with a reflecting foil to improve light detection and allow for the identification of cosmic muons (formed when cosmic rays interact with Earth's atmosphere).
Credit: K. Freund/GERDA collaboration

So the physicists turned to GERDA. Nestled in an underground lab in Italy, the GERDA experiment consists of detectors in a bath of liquid argon that is enriched with the isotope germanium-76, which is mildly radioactive. It has a half-life of 1.78 x 1021 years (or 1.78 billion trillion years) — meaning that it takes that amount of time for half of its atoms to turn into selenium, which is many orders of magnitude longer than the universe's 14-billion-year age.

Usually, germanium will emit two electrons and two electron antineutrinos — the ordinary double-beta process — when it transforms via its slow decay. The physicists wanted to see if this ever happens without releasing the neutrinos: the long-sought neutrinoless double-beta decay.

With such a long half-life, one might think it would take too long to see this happen, but a half-life is a probabilistic phenomenon. This is why the experimenters used some 84 lbs. of germanium mixed with the liquid argon: that yields about 4.5 x 1025 (or 45 trillion trillion) atoms, which means at least a few of them should undergo the decay while scientists are watching.

The GERDA team gathered data for about seven months, from December 2015 until June 2016. They didn't find the decay, but they could put a lower limit on how often the decay happens: It has a half-life of 5.3 x 1025years, which means you'd have a 50-50 chance of seeing a single atom do it in that amount of time.

If they find it, that would mean that neutrinos are their own antiparticle, like photons — the neutrinoless decay couldn't happen unless that were the case. It also means that this kind of radioactive decay is not symmetrical. Recall that beta decay has a mirror image — either electrons and antineutrinos or positrons and neutrinos are emitted. If the double-beta decay isn't symmetrical, that means that neutrinos and antineutrinos behave differently. This isn't true of other kinds of particle-antiparticle pairs, as far as anyone knows.

This phenomenon would affect the Standard Model, which has been a wildly successful way to describe particle physics, but it's clearly incomplete. The model predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle. However, Schwingenheuer noted that there is evidence that neutrinos have a tiny mass (only discovered in 1998, which won the Nobel in 2015) and that dark matter exists — indicating that the Standard Model isn't the last word.

"If neutrinoless double-beta decay is observed, it helps solve a couple of problems," said Philip Barbeau, an assistant professor of physics at Duke University in an email to Live Science. "For one, it helps to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. It also helps explain why neutrino masses are so surprisingly small. We would also get an idea of the neutrino masses as well, as the decay rate is related to the mass scale of the neutrinos."

The question then becomes what kind of physics lies beyond it. The GERDA experiment has yet to reveal the decay that the researchers seek, but that doesn't mean it won't in the future, Schwingenheuer said. And it would be difficult to rule it out entirely, because it's possible that the timescale is just longer than they think. Right now, they've set a lower limit on the half-life for this decay, but further experimental runs could push that number up.

As for what happens if they don't see the odd decay after many runs, Barbeau said it might not be a deal breaker for new models. "We don't go back to the drawing board from the point of view of the underlying theories. We just won't know whether neutrinos are Majorana or not."

The research is detailed in the April 6 issue of the journal Nature.

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NASA Says Saturn’s Moon Has “The Ingredients Necessary For a Habitable Environment”

NASA Says Saturn’s Moon Has “The Ingredients Necessary For a Habitable Environment”

by Karla Lant

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This set of images from NASA's Cassini mission shows how the gravitational pull of Saturn affects the amount of spray coming from jets at the active moon Enceladus.
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A New Discovery

NASA just released evidence that a liquid water ocean that could support life lies beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The agency reports that the world has many of the “ingredients needed for a habitable environment.”

Thanks to Cassini, organic chemicals—carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur—which are the basic building blocks of life, were seen spraying forth from the “tiger stripe” cracks on the cold surface of the moon.

Additionally, in the paper published in Science, which comes from researchers on the Cassini mission, it was revealed that molecular hydrogen, which NASA notes, “could potentially provide a chemical energy source for life,” is pouring into the ocean on Enceladus via hydrothermal vents on the seafloor.

It has almost all of the ingredients you would need to support life as we know it.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Peter Girguis, a deep sea biologist at Harvard who is not associated with the research, noted the significance in relation to discovering microbial life: “For a microbiologist thinking about energy for microbes, hydrogen is like the gold coin of energy currency. If you had to have one thing, one chemical compound, coming out of a vent that would lead you to think there’s energy to support microbial life, hydrogen is at the top of that list.”

“Confirmation that the chemical energy for life exists within the ocean of a small moon of Saturn is an important milestone in our search for habitable worlds beyond Earth,” added Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a NASA press release. “We now know that Enceladus has almost all of the ingredients you would need to support life as we know it on Earth,” she continued.

Water Means Life

To clarify, water, which supports and cradles life on Earth, is abundant in our solar system. As University of Michigan planetary scientist Sushil Atreya told Scientific American, water is necessary for life-as-we-know-it for a number of important reasons: “Liquid water acts as a solvent, as a medium and as a catalyst for certain types of proteins, and those are three main things that allow life to flourish.”

Indeed, everywhere that we find water on Earth, we find life—and enough water appears to be on this world, and in the proper conditions, that it seems likely that we will find alien life there.

“The way the jets react so responsively to changing stresses on Enceladus suggests they have their origins in a large body of liquid water,” Christophe Sotin co-author and Cassini team member said in the NASA release. “Liquid water was key to the development of life on Earth, so these discoveries whet the appetite to know whether life exists everywhere water is present” (pun, probably, intended).

“Although we can’t detect life, we’ve found that there’s a food source there for it. It would be like a candy store for microbes,” said Hunter Waite, lead author of the Cassini study.

In a statement, Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters in Washington, succinctly summarized the significance of the find: “This is the closest we’ve come, so far, to identifying a place with some of the ingredients needed for a habitable environment. These results demonstrate the interconnected nature of NASA’s science missions that are getting us closer to answering whether we are indeed alone or not.”

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NASA: Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has All the Basic Ingredients for Life

Illustration showing Cassini above the plumes of Enceladus.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA: Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has All the Basic Ingredients for Life

Well, what are we waiting for?

DAVID NIELD

NASA scientists have found more evidence that Saturn's icy moon Enceladuscould support life: the presence of hydrogen molecules in huge geysers of water shooting up from the surface.

The discovery of this chemical energy source means Enceladus is currently the very best place to look for life outside of Earth, with conditions that could be just right for alien microbes to survive.

"This is the closest we've come, so far, to identifying a place with some of the ingredients needed for a habitable environment," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

We've got the Cassini spacecraft to thank for the new findings, as the probe has been busy taking measurements around Saturn and Enceladus since 2004.

An analysis of the samples Cassini took two years ago, as it flew through the geysers of Enceladus, have now revealed these tell-tale hydrogen molecules.

The hydrogen strongly suggests that hydrothermal activity is going on in the ocean below the surface of Enceladus, and because some of the most basic lifeforms on Earth thrive in ocean vents like the ones Cassini has been flying over, the same type of life could exist on Saturn's moon.

"This doesn't tell us whether life is there or not," astronomer Jonathan Lunine, from the Cornell Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, told Gizmodo.

"It just makes the case for the ocean being able to support life that much stronger."

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We've suspected for a while that water is being heated below the surface of Enceladus, but the presence of hydrogen just about confirms it: the reaction of certain minerals with hot rocks is the most likely explanation for the large amounts of hydrogen found by Cassini. 

Meanwhile, the hydrogen discovery also makes it more likely that methane is being produced from carbon dioxide on the moon, a process known as methanogenesis.

The hydrogen and the methanogenesis could well provide a food source for microbes, experts think, in the same way it does on Earth.

In other words, Earth's microbes could probably live on Enceladus.

But, the hydrogen is so abundant that it might also mean there are no microbes around to eat it up, NASA said in its press conference today, or that microbes are there but only in a very small number.

For the time being we just don't know – but the ingredients for life are there, based on the research published today.

"The discovery of native molecular hydrogen [H2] completes the set of what I would call the 'basic' requirements for life as we know it: liquid water, organic molecules, minerals, and an accessible source of 'free' energy," Lunine explained to Gizmodo.

"The H2 discovery completes the case for going back to Enceladus to look for life."

At the same time, scientists working with the Hubble telescope say they've found more evidence that another of Jupiter's moons, Europa, is spurting out watery jets of its own, giving us yet another potential spot where life might develop.

Researchers have suggested Europa has geysers of its own before, but this latest evidence is more compelling. For the time being though, Enceladus remains the most promising place to look for life.

Sadly, we soon have to say goodbye to Cassini after all the fantastic work it's been doing in studying Saturn and its moons.

The spacecraft will crash into Saturn in September, after a job well done.

The findings have now been published in Science.

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ROSWELL UFO: Truman's secret crash site debrief, his body double, and the 'cover-up'

ROSWELL UFO: Truman's secret crash site debrief, his body double, and the 'cover-up'

PRESIDENT Harry Truman visited the site of an alleged flying saucer crash in Roswell, New Mexico, to ensure that the "incident" was covered up from the world. it has shockingly been claimed.

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William Sells (top left), Major Edwin Easley (bottom left) and President Truman (right).

UFO investigators are looking at claims that President Truman and his personal bodyguard secretly visited the scene in July 1947, and were promised by a leading military official that there would be no trace left of the crash.

The Roswell myth has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.

But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.

Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.

The conspiracy theories surrounding the events remain today.

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The allegations were yesterday made to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which keeps a global database of alleged UFO and alien sightings.

It carries out investigations into some of the reports it receives. 

In the report to MUFON an unnamed source said: "My Uncle was personal bodyguard to Harry S Truman in 1947. 

"They both went to Roswell at the insistence of President Truman in July 1947 after sneaking out of White House disguised as press. 

"My uncle said they met a Major Easley at crash site. 

"Major Easley promised the President that nothing from the crash would remain."

Express.co.uk discovered a man has made similar claims on Facebook.

William Sells, from Noblesville, Indiana, whose profile says he is a retired "specialist" at the National Security Agency (NSA), said his uncle Wayne Schell had been personal bodyguard to President Truman, and had told him in the 1960s about the secret operation, which involved the use of a "double" of President Truman.

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They both went to Roswell at the insistence of President Truman in July 1947 after sneaking out of White House disguised as press.

Report to MUFON

Mr Sells says he also previously held a "top-secret SI crypto clearance from the NSA."

He posted: "Harry and him left the White House in disguise to the crash site after Truman saw debris at Andrews Air Force Base (in Prince George's County, Maryland).

"The secret service instituted Operation Doppelganger and provided Harry Truman's double to make sure the press was unaware of Harry's real location. 

"At first I did not believe him (Mr Schell) until we opened his military footlocker in his bedroom after his death around 1969. 

"In there were letters from FDR and Truman along with glossy photos of the Yalta Conference with Churchill, Stalin and FDR."

He said his uncle lived in Middletown, Indiana, and ran a dairy farm after his secret service work. 

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He added: "He told me that Roswell was extraterrestrial and that the military swept the site. 

"They met a Major named Edward Easley at the site and he promised Truman that nothing would remain and nothing would be said."

Express.co.uk could find no other record of a Wayne Schell linked to President Truman.

It is well documented, and among UFO circles, that Major Edwin Easley was the provost marshal at the Roswell Army Air Field at the time of the alleged crash and that he was responsible for base security.

Conspiracy theorists claim that dead aliens were found in the wreckage of the alleged crashed flying saucer but they were secretly hidden at a US air force base.

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Gaat de NASA vanavond de aankondiging van de eeuw doen?

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Gaat de NASA vanavond de aankondiging van de eeuw doen?

De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA gaat om 20.00 uur Nederlandse tijd nieuwe bevindingen presenteren over oceaanwerelden, manen en planeten met ondergrondse oceanen, in ons zonnestelsel.

Op de website van de NASA staat te lezen:

NASA zal nieuwe resultaten bespreken over oceaanwerelden in ons zonnestelsel van het ruimtevaartuig Cassini en de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop.

De nieuwe ontdekkingen helpen bij de toekomstige verkenningen, inclusief NASA’s aanstaande missie Europa Clipper, die in 2020 gelanceerd moet worden, en de verdere zoektocht naar leven buiten de aarde.

Beste kans

Er wordt druk gespeculeerd over wat de ontdekking of ontdekkingen zouden kunnen zijn. Bekend is dat Jupitermaan Europa één van de meest waarschijnlijke plekken is om buitenaards leven te vinden.

Als op die maan vloeibaar water aanwezig is, is de kans groot dat er leven is. Het oppervlak van de maan bestaat uit ijs, maar onder het ijs vermoedt men een vloeibare oceaan van water.

“Europa is de beste kans op buitenaards leven in ons zonnestelsel,” aldus professor Britney Schmidt van het Georgia Institute of Technology, die meewerkt aan Europa Clipper.

Aankondiging van de eeuw

Er wordt ook gedacht dat er leven mogelijk is op Mars, maar de kans bestaat dat de rode planeet alleen in het verleden bewoonbaar is geweest.

“De vraag is of we een planeet willen bestuderen die misschien ooit bewoonbaar was of iets willen bestuderen wat op dit moment bewoond kan zijn,” aldus Schmidt.

Wie weet gaat de NASA vanavond de aankondiging van de eeuw doen met bewijs dat er buiten de aarde leven bestaat.

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GROTE UFO DAALT AF IN MEXICAANSE VULKAAN ( VIDEO )

GROTE UFO DAALT AF IN MEXICAANSE VULKAAN ( VIDEO )

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Al jaren verschijnen er in Mexico vreemde vliegende objecten nabij of zelfs in de krater van de beroemde Popocatépetl vulkaan. 

Deze potentiële vuurspuger vormt een soort tweeling met een andere vulkaan waar we eigenlijk nooit wat over horen, tot vandaag dan. 



Namen van deze vulkanen moet je niet proberen uit te spreken als je een wijntje hebt gedronken, want dan breek je waarschijnlijk je tong. 

Zeker als het gaat over de satellietvulkaan van de Popocatépetl. 

De Iztaccíhuatl of Ixtaccíhuatl is een actieve vulkaan in de Mexicaanse deelstaten Mexico en Puebla. De Ixtaccíhuatl is 5286 meter hoog, hoewel satellietmetingen aangeven dat zij in werkelijkheid 5230 meter hoog is. Het is het derde hoogste punt van Mexico, na de Piek van Orizaba en de Popocatépetl, waarmee zij een dubbelvulkaan vormt. 

De Ixtaccíhuatl bestaat uit vier pieken en wordt van de Popocatépetl gescheiden door de Pas van Cortés. Wanneer de vulkaan vanuit het oosten of westen wordt gezien, toont de Ixtaccíhuatl een sterke vergelijkenis met een slapende vrouw. De naam Ixtaccíhuatl betekent dan ook 'witte vrouw' in het Nahuatl. In de Azteekse mythologie was Ixtaccíhuatl een prinses die verliefd was op de krijger Popocatépetl. 


Haar vader beloofde dat zij hem mocht huwen wanneer hij terug zou zijn van een veldtocht in Oaxaca. Hij ging ervan uit dat Popocatépetl toch niet levend terug zou keren, dus vertelde zijn dochter dat hij was overleden. Deze stierf daarna van verdriet. Later bleek dat Popocatépetl nog wel in leven was. Toen deze hoorde van de dood van zijn geliefde stierf hij ook van verdriet. De goden gaven hun vervolgens een kleed van sneeuw en veranderde ze in de twee vulkanen.

Het is bij deze vulkaan dat de webcam op 4 april 2017 iets bijzonders vastlegt. 

In de volgende video zie je na ongeveer 20 seconden een soort rond licht verschijnen in de hemel dat langzaam afdaalt richting krater van de vulkaan. 

Naarmate het dichterbij komt, wordt het licht opeens veel groter en feller. Dan, net voordat het in de mond van de krater verdwijnt, wordt het licht zwakker. 

 

Net zoals bij die andere vulkanen verschijnt ook bij deze een UFO die lijkt te verdwijnen in de krater. 

Ook eind vorig jaar, in november, werd er via de webcam een prachtige UFO vastgelegd boven de Ixtaccíhuatl vulkaan. 

Wie of wat het zijn weten we niet, maar wel dat er keer op keer bijzondere objecten worden waargenomen bij de Mexicaanse vulkanen waarvan de wereld doet alsof ze niet bestaan. 

 

De volgende opname is een jaar daarvoor gemaakt, op 1 december 2015, en dit keer niet door een webcam. Het is een prachtige video, gemaakt van grote afstand, net voor zonsopgang, waarbij je minutenlang vreemde lichtgevende objecten rond de krater van de vulkaan ziet hangen. 

Toch wel bijzonder dat wij in een wereld leven waar zoveel dingen voorkomen die niet bestaan. 

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VIDEO / Flying lanterns cause temporary panic in Duck Lake, Sask.

VIDEO / Flying lanterns cause temporary panic in Duck Lake, Sask.

Mysterious lights in the sky orignally thought to be aliens, missiles

By David Shield, CBC News

Flying lanterns like these ones caused concern in the town of Duck Lake, Sask. this weekend.

Flying lanterns like these ones caused concern in the town of Duck Lake, Sask. this weekend.

(Lee Jin-man/The Associated Press)

A memorial service in small-town Saskatchewan caused a brief moment of panic this weekend as flying lanterns were mistaken for everything from missiles to UFOs.

On Sunday night, Brenda Gaudry was driving through Duck Lake, Sask. when she and her husband noticed five or six bright lights moving across the night sky.

"At first, I thought it was really cool," she said. "Then I started to think about all the things going on with Donald Trump and shooting missiles and all these things that are going on in the world."

As soon as she got home, she uploaded a video she took to Facebook to ask the community if they had seen the lights in the sky. The video unexpectedly turned viral. On Wednesday afternoon, it had been watched 12,000 times.

"I didn't even know it had gone that crazy," she said. "All of a sudden, it was in the thousands, and it just keeps going."

Gaudry wasn't the only one surprised by the lights. Apparently one young boy walking down the street saw them and ran home, thinking there was a nuclear war.

Eventually, Gaudry was approached by the organizers of a memorial service, who told her the flying lanterns had been released to commemorate the one-year anniversary of a young man's death.

She said she didn't know about the service and didn't mean to anger the family.

"Some people were very angry," she said. "They thought I was trying to make fun of these lanterns. But I didn't know what it was."

Meanwhile, things have started to calm down in Duck Lake, located 85 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.

"I'm so happy and elated that that's what it was," she said. "And not what I feared it was."

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UFO museum opens in Runcorn ahead of potential 'Alien Festival'

UFO museum opens in Runcorn ahead of potential 'Alien Festival'

Artist inspired by tale of 'UFO contactee from Runcorn' teams up with composer and others to lay on archives and music

A pop-up display celebrating the world of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) is on show in Runcorn for two weeks.

The Flying Saucer Museum is on from April 10-25 in Runcorn Shopping Centre

Chiz Turnross, the organiser behind the event, is hoping to raise awareness and test the water for a potential alien festival later in the year.

The pop-up museum was inspired by the 60th anniversary of Europe’s first purported UFO contactee, James Cooke, of Runcorn, who claimed to have encountered a spaceship on Runcorn Hill in September 1957 and also to have been taken to the planet Zomdic by his extraterrestrial visitors.

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Chiz, who is also an artist, came across the story while researching Cheshire folklore.

He uncovered a Runcorn Weekly News article stored in microfiche format at Runcorn Library with the headline ‘Runcorn flying saucer anticipates red moon’ in reference to the blood moon that month.

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UFO SPOTTED IN THE SKIES OVER LIVERPOOL

The report related the events of James Cooke’s alleged rendezvous with Zomdic.

Chiz has collaborated with curator Jane Anderson, of Models For Practice, composer Lucy Pankhurst and family, friends and residents to produce a miniature archive of UFO-related material, workshops and performances, and to gather views and ideas from the public on the alien festival, while researching international collaborators for what he said would be the UK’s first ‘Alien Festival’.

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Chiz said: “At first I was researching blind until I hit upon the idea of an Alien Festival for Runcorn and Halton, a heritage project with a difference. Beyond the James Cooke story, Halton appears to be the prime UK window for UFO activity.”

He added: “The fortnight-long mission will culminate in a specially composed alien music performance in the former Mecca Bingo hall in Runcorn Shopping City centre, which we hope will consolidate our research and celebrate our findings.”

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Numerous UFO sightings reported in County Derry over the past few years

Numerous UFO sightings reported in County Derry over the past few years

Reports of UFOs across Co Derry in recent years include witnessing strange red, blue and white lights in the sky, a potential sighting of Santa on Christmas Day and a person who claimed they were abducted by aliens in Magherafelt.

Reports from Limavady, Ballykelly, Claudy and Bellaghy are some of the sightings that have been submitted to several UFO sighting websites.

A report from Magherafelt was submitted to ufo-hunters.com in early April 1998. It states that a group of people were walking through a wooded area when they noticed a light in the sky.

“We looked up and saw the ship in the sky. It changed from an oval shape to a disc shape before our eyes. There was a bright flash of light and I found myself in the spacecraft,” the report read.

“I noticed a few oval shaped heads surrounding me. I was momentarily stunned and couldn’t move. When I woke up I was on a cold bench. The 'beings' were operating on me and I have the scars to prove it.”

The person then said that the group was returned to the spot where they left, but arrived three hours before they had left. The person who made the reports said they still “have flashbacks to this day.”

A report made to ufoinfo.com by three witnesses in Limavady says that they spotted “a very bright fiery object in the sky” just after Christmas Dinner in 2008.

“My first impressions where that it was a plane on fire because of the intense orangey red light emanating from the object,” the report read.

“The fieryness of the object changed into three circular disks in a triangular formation as it moved away.”

“My grandson reckoned it was Santa Claus going home after a busy night!!!”

There were also two separate reports of three orange spheres flying in a line over Limavady on the same day in February 2008.

A couple driving between Portglenone and Bellaghy in December 2011 reported seeing a flashing blue light in the sky, which “shot across just above the horizon & stopped at a position of 9 o'clock in relation to the car.”

“It had stopped flashing at this stage and stayed completely still for approx two seconds. It then shot across to a positon of 7 o'clock, stayed still for approx one second then disappeared.”

A student living in Ballykelly said that they saw four crafts in the sky in September 2013, one of which was “the shape of a traffic cone” and then saw another craft they described as “the shape of a modern set of bathroom scales or something, oval, and curved in the middle.”

He said that he had a feeling of “peace and a sort of inner understanding” as he watched the objects, but later became afraid and went inside.

“I did this as although I have quite a big interest in UFOs and extra-terrestrials, at that time I did not want to be abducted.”

A report from Portstewart in March 2016 speaks of a silent moving light in the sky, which had flashing red, blue and white lights, while an October 2010 report from Coleraine mentions an orange light and an oblong object “with four wings in the shape of bent arms (crablike)” that suddenly shot up into the sky.

Chris McMurray, Chairperson of the Northern Ireland UFO Society said that reports of UFOs in the north appear to be becoming more frequent. However, he said that many reports can be easily explained as sightings of Chinese lanterns, satellites, aircraft or even planets, particularly Venus.

“The two biggest headaches for UFO researchers and investigators are Chinese lanterns and more recently, drones. Drones can be bright and seem silent at a distance at night and appear to pull off impossible manoeuvres, of which can't be attributed to any conventional manned aircraft,” he said.

Mr McMurray added that there were cases that could not be explained and that they tend to occur at “sites of historical significance.”

“A lot of ancient sites tend to be built on or near places where natural energy produced by the earth is significantly stronger than elsewhere. These are called primary nodal points, and structures such as the great pyramids in Egypt, Stonehenge in England and even military establishments are reported to be near them,” he said.

He said that he was “sceptical” of the report of an abduction in Magherafelt and said that such a case “would always merit a one to one interview with the abductee to establish if they're fabricating their story or not.”

“Demonologists would also have an interest here as they tend to believe that demonic entities are behind hallucinations which are interpreted as alien abductions,” he said.

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Triangle UFO hovers low over rural Pennsylvania

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Triangle UFO hovers low over rural Pennsylvania

A Pennsylvania witness at Lancaster County reported watching a nearly 100-foot-long, triangle-shaped object hovering at the tree top level, according to testimony in Case 82286 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Witness illustration of the object. (Credit: MUFON)

Witness illustration of the object.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness was driving along back roads between 8 and 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 22, 2017, when the incident began.

“Was at a stoplight when something caught my eye,” the witness stated.“I glanced over and noticed a line of bright lights. Didn’t think much of it and looked away. I double took, however, and when I looked back, they were in a triangle formation.”

The witness was unsure what the object was.

“I went through everything in my head. It was not a plane. There were no blinking lights, plus it was too low to the field to be a plane. I thought it might be a drone, but with it being so low it would’ve been a very, very, big drone. Nothing was blinking or illuminating off of it. There were no beams or anything like that.”

The witness was driving in rural Lancaster County, PA, when the object was seen on February 22, 2017. (Credit: Google)

The witness was driving in rural Lancaster County, PA, when the object was seen on February 22, 2017.

(Credit: Google)

The object then began to move.

“After I saw it, it moved again – not lightning fast, but quickly to a third point in the field and hovered again for a few seconds. At this point I realize the light had turned green, and I begin to drive away. But interested in trying to figure out what I saw. I looked back and slowed down and I found nothing there, nothing in the sky. There was nothing up higher. There’s nothing in the field. It was gone. There was one very bright light at the top and three, maybe four, dimmer lights coming out of it in a triangle formation.”

The triangle-shaped object was first seen hovering at the tree top level. Pictured: Lancaster County,  PA. (Credit: Google)

The triangle-shaped object was first seen hovering at the tree top level. Pictured: Lancaster County, PA.

(Credit: Google)

The witness provided one illustration with the MUFON report, which was filed on February 22, 2017. Pennsylvania MUFON Field Investigator Larry Shaak 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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UFO Communicates To Passenger On Delta Flight 43 to Atlanta - UFO Raw Footage, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Communicates To Passenger On Delta Flight 43 to Atlanta - UFO Raw Footage, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Feb 23, 2017, but reported recently
Location of sighting: Between JFK airport and Atlanta, USA

This is a interesting report of a person on a flight who recorded a UFO disk with their iphone. Sometimes, like this instance, you have only 3-10 seconds to catch the UFO. Those are stressful seconds...do or do not record? The answer is always to try to record. This is just a few seconds of a disk...that communicated telepathically to this woman on board...whom they may have been watching through the window. If only a few seconds of communication...its still a miracle in itself. Its a handshake to them. A beginning. She may be important to them. Remember, UFOs travel faster than the speed of light, which allows time travel to happen. Aliens know the future and the past. Thus, the person they said hello too may be of very important significance in the future. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

Atlanta, Georgia - 02-23-17 February 23: On Delta flight 43 traveling from JFK to Atlanta around 6:30 PM. I suddenly felt compelled to look out my window for some strange reason almost as if I was prompted. I then noticed a faint object in the distance that I really had to focus on. I waited to see if it was air traffic from another flight, but the object appeared completely different from any airplane, jet, zeppelin, etc. It seemed as if it were a few miles away, but strange enough to keep my attention. It stayed consistent in motion for a few moments, but the longer I focused my attention the more it seemed to change position. It was moving left to right, or suddenly blinking in and out view. It is very difficult to describe what I saw exactly, but it didn't seem like anything I could really wrap my mind around. I took my iPhone out which came out to be pretty low in quality, but I had my boyfriend enhance the footage by slowing it down/increasing the scale/reducing noise/adding contrast. I have the original footage upon request, but as you can see, the object really emerged once we enhanced the original footage. 

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UFOs Over Los Angeles Light Up Sky On March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

UFOs Over Los Angeles Light Up Sky On March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: March 2017
Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA

Here is a video reported this week by UFO Casebook of Youtube. It shows several glowing disks in the sky and a crowd of people staring at them in wonder. UFOs over LA are no strangers, back in Feb 25, 1942 my mother (East LA is my home) told me she witnessed the Battle of Los Angeles...several very large metallic disk of LA during WWII, which the military shot at tens of thousands of rounds, and all the while the UFOs passed over from the ocean slowly, in no hurry to leave, and unharmed in any way. You see, its an easy way to send a message to the government of America...that they cannot be harmed and don't care if humans know about them or not. The US gov doesn't want the public to know yet.

Scott C. Waring
 
Report states: 
Los Angeles, California - March, 2017 - Submitted by former MUFON Staff Photoanalyst, Jeffrey Sainio, on behalf of the videographer, whose name/number is known to me. Video was submitted through KUFOS member Jong han Seo to me.

Video shows 2 disk or sphere-shaped object apparently ascending. One object disappears (except for 1 light which is apparent for a few more frames, and then apparently moves to the lower right.


Video 1 is the original submitted video.

Video 2 is a brightened version of the above.
Video 3_marked.mp4 has a tiny light marked in frames where it is visible, which may be the 'disappeared' object moving.
Video 4 is a slow-mo enhancement of Video 2

Audio shows children talking and possibly a baby.


Suggest the videographer be interviewed by a local FI.


Videographer has agreed to be interviewed.


Time and number of witnesses is actually unknown.

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Most remarkable UFO sightings in March 2017

Most remarkable UFO sightings in March 2017

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Most remarkable UFO sightings in March 2017 by www.Latest-UFO-Sightings.net.

1st March 2017; unknown lights in the sky – Mesa, Arizona


early March 2017; triangle UFO – Oklahoma


26th March 2017; Mass UFO Sighting – Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada


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«Prétendre que nous sommes seuls dans l’univers est une absurdité totale»

«Prétendre que nous sommes seuls dans l’univers est une absurdité totale»

Jean.-Marie Potiez. 

À la faveur d’un nouveau livre, Jean-Claude Bourret fait le point sur 40 années de découvertes et d’hypothèses scientifiques pour faire émerger la vérité sur le phénomène ovni.

Le journaliste Jean-Claude Bourret (75 ans) et un ancien directeur de recherche au CNRS, Jean-Pierre Petit, relancent la question des univers parallèles…

Quelle est cette "extraordinaire" découverte que vous annoncez dans votre livre ?

L’ouvrage est constitué de deux parties. La première s’adresse au grand public, elle est accessible à tous. La seconde est plutôt réservée aux scientifiques de haut niveau. Jean-Pierre Petit nous expose le résultat de ses 40 années de recherches. Il a trouvé une formule mathématique révolutionnaire qui, si elle est avérée, devrait lui valoir un prix Nobel. Cette formule prouve qu’il existe un autre univers à côté du nôtre. Tandis que nous sommes dans un univers "positif", il existerait un univers "négatif" dans lequel la vitesse de la lumière est différente, c’est-à-dire plus de 300.000 kilomètres par seconde. Ainsi, des civilisations extraterrestres utiliseraient les lois physiques de leur univers pour rejoindre le nôtre et nous observer depuis des millénaires. Les calculs et hypothèses de Jean-Pierre Petit ont été publiés dans des revues scientifiques de haut niveau.

On a toutefois du mal à le suivre lorsqu’il dit que ses recherches ont été inspirées par de mystérieuses lettres émanant de gens qui prétendent être des extraterrestres !

Ça paraît fou parce qu’on ne connaît pas le dossier, donc on a tendance à prendre Petit pour un illuminé. Il m’a montré certaines de ces lettres "anonymes" qui lui ont permis de progresser et de transcender la formule de la relativité d’Einstein. Au début, il croyait à un canular. Mais quand il a vérifié ces formules et qu’il a constaté que ça marchait parfaitement, il a fait des simulations sur ordinateur qui permettent de faire un bond en avant considérable sur la compréhension de la constitution des galaxies. Il faut ajouter qu’aucun scientifique n’a contesté le travail de Jean-Pierre.


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À votre avis, d’où viennent ces lettres ?

Personnellement, j’ai toujours considéré que Jean-Pierre Petit avait eu accès à une connaissance initiatique qui lui avait été transmise. Un polytechnicien de haut niveau, qui travaillait pour le Premier ministre, m’avait dit être au courant et que, même si ça paraît invraisemblable, les résultats annoncés par Petit étaient scientifiquement recevables. Selon lui, ça pouvait venir des services secrets soviétiques qui, faute de temps et de budget, les transmettaient à des scientifiques très pointus pour faire avancer les recherches. Jean-Pierre ne cache pas que son obstination à travailler sur les ovnis lui a coûté sa carrière !


Jean-Pierre Petit.

Jean-Pierre Petit.

Pourquoi le phénomène ovni dérange-t-il autant ?

J’ai mis longtemps à le comprendre. En fait, les scientifiques sont très hostiles parce que, face aux ovnis, ils perdent leur statut de personnalités les plus cultivées et les plus intelligentes de la planète Terre. Quand le "professeur Duchemoll" est confronté à la vie extraterrestre, il se rend compte qu’il est comme un singe par rapport à un prix Nobel. Prétendre que nous sommes seuls dans l’univers est une absurdité totale.

Pensez-vous que la découverte récente de nouvelles exoplanètes pourrait faire changer d’avis les scientifiques ?

Espérons-le ! En tout cas, il faut rendre hommages aux Belges qui font faire des bonds en avant considérables à la connaissance scientifique de l’univers. Qui a imaginé le Big Bang ? C’est le chanoine belge Georges Lemaître. Qui vient de découvrir qu’il y avait une étoile avec neuf planètes, dont trois "habitables", qui tournent autour d’un soleil ? C’est le Liégeois Michael Gillon et son équipe. Il y a chez vous un creuset impressionnant de génies scientifiques !

À votre avis, quelles seraient les conséquences si on révélait l’existence d’extraterrestres ?

Elles seraient immenses car ça remettrait tout en cause. Nos connaissances, les maladies et tout notre système seraient détruits par les avances technologiques et philosophiques d’une civilisation extraterrestre qui serait forcément bien supérieure à la nôtre. Sans parler de la remise en cause de toutes les religions. C’est une supposition, mais imaginez qu’ils nous disent : « Sur la planète Terre, vous vous tuez entre musulmans, juifs, chrétiens, protestants et hindous en disant "C’est mon Dieu qui est le meilleur !" Maintenant, je vais vous dire que Dieu n’existe pas, et voilà comment l’univers a été créé ! » À ce moment-là, toutes les religions s’effondreraient. À ce propos, l’Italien Mauro Biglino, traducteur officiel pour le Vatican, va très loin puisqu’il remet en cause les fondements même de la religion en affirmant que la Bible évoque les véritables créateurs de l’espèce humaine, c’est-à-dire une race extraterrestre.

Dans votre livre, vous donnez tous les détails pour fabriquer un détecteur d’ovnis ("Ufo-catch")…

C’est l’autre point important du livre. On en a assez de voir que les États nous cachent les observations d’ovnis depuis 40 ans. Donc, on va se prendre en main en construisant ce système qui ne coûte pas cher (entre 100 et 160 euros). Avec les bénéfices du livre, qui sont intégralement reversés à l’association de Jean-Pierre Petit, nous ferons fabriquer une série qu’on vendra au prix coûtant, pour que chacun puisse mettre une caméra sur son toit ou son balcon. Chacun pourra dialoguer à travers un forum et échanger ses données. Vous savez, je dis aux gens : « Apprenez à vos enfants à regarder les étoiles. On ne peut pas continuer à vivre sur cette petite planète Terre comme si on était seul dans l’univers. » Il faut apprendre à nos enfants qu’il y a des milliards de civilisations et qu’elles sont beaucoup plus avancées que la nôtre.

Diriez-vous comme Fox Muller, dans la série "X-Files", que « la vérité est ailleurs » ?

Non, la vérité est universelle. Mais il faut ouvrir la bonne porte pour avoir sa lumière !

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Nieuwe theorie: "Kwallen zijn voorouders van alle dierlijk leven" - HLN.be

Nieuwe theorie: "Kwallen zijn voorouders van alle dierlijk leven" - HLN.be

Bron: The Independent

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Ribkwallen zouden aan de oorsprong van alle dierlijk leven liggen. 

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Kwallen zouden de eerste vorm van dierlijk leven op aarde zijn geweest. Dat ontdekten Amerikaanse onderzoekers. De nieuwe theorie weerlegt voorgaand onderzoek dat de spons als de oudste tak in het dierenrijk zag.

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"De truc is om de genensequenties van verschillende organismen te vergelijken om zo uit te zoeken welke organismen het meest verwant zijn"
Professor Atonis Rokas

Een nieuwe genetische analyse van onderzoekers aan de Vanderbilt- en Wisconsin-Madison-universiteiten claimt dat kwallen de eerste vorm van dierlijk leven op onze planeet waren. Die bewering werd voordien sterk gecontesteerd door aanhangers van de sponstheorie, die dat simpele organisme als ultieme voorouder bestempelden. 

Het onderzoek benaderde de theorie vanuit een compleet andere invalshoek om de discussie voor eens en voor altijd te beslechten. Terwijl wetenschappers voordien de stamboom van de dieren probeerden reconstrueren op basis van bestaande genetische data, focusten zij nu op de genen die de organismen allemaal deelden. 

"De truc is om de genensequenties van verschillende organismen te vergelijken om zo uit te zoeken welke organismen het meest verwant zijn", aldus professor Antonis Rokas van Vanderbilt.

Baanbrekend

De analyse resulteerde in een zogenaamd "fylogenetisch signaal" dat de ribkwallen ontegensprekelijk aanduidde als eerste leven. De onderzoekers gebruikten diezelfde fylogenetische techniek ook om te achterhalen of krokodillen het meest verwant zijn aan vogels of schildpadden. Daaruit bleek dat schildpadden een zustersoort waren en vogels eerder dichte neven. 

De onderzoekers benadrukten wel dat niet alle onenigheid hiermee zou wegebben. Eén eigenwijs gen kan genoeg zijn om de conclusie helemaal te doen keren van de ene soort naar de andere. Evolutie zou dan nagenoeg geen sporen in de genen achterlaten. Al gelooft professor Rokas dat de aanpak een baanbrekende impact zal hebben op de evolutiebiologie.

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Leven mogelijk op maan 'Europa'? NASA kondigt nieuw ontdekkingen aan - HLN.be

Leven mogelijk op maan 'Europa'? NASA kondigt nieuw ontdekkingen aan - HLN.be

Bron: CNN

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Met haar zoute oceaan die een tweemaal zo groot volume beslaat als de oceanen op aarde, herbergt Europa, Jupiters maan, immers nog een mogelijkheid op buitenaards leven. © reuters.

NASA zal morgen, donderdag, nieuwe bevindingen presenteren over de zogenaamde oceaanwerelden - manen en planeten met ondergrondse oceanen - in ons zonnestelsel. Kennis over zulke werelden kan de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven een nieuwe wending geven.

De vraag is: willen we een planeet bestuderen die misschien ooit bewoonbaar was of willen we iets bestuderen dat op dit eigenste moment bewoond kan zijn?
Britney Schmidt

Wetenschappers verzamelden de resultaten met behulp van de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop en ruimtesonde Cassini. Die draait reeds sinds 2004 mee in de baan van planeet Saturnus. De missie van het ruimtetuig loopt dit jaar ten einde.

De Aarde wordt beschouwd als een oceaanwereld omdat water de meerderheid van de aardoppervlakte bedekt. Andere gelijkaardige omgevingen in ons zonnestelsel zijn de manen van Jupiter, Saturnus en Neptunus, alsook de dwergplaneet Pluto. Venus en Mars zouden ooit ook oceanen gehad hebben, maar door het broeikaseffect en hun kwetsbare atmosfeer verloren ze die. 

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NASA wil de waterbronnen in ons heelal nog aan verder uitgebreid onderzoek onderwerpen met de Europa Clipper-missie. Het ruimteagentschap wil zich daarbij vooral richten op Jupiters maan 'Europa'. Met haar zoute oceaan, die een tweemaal zo groot volume beslaat als de oceanen op aarde, herbergt ze immers nog een mogelijkheid op buitenaards leven. 

"Europa is de beste kans op buitenaards leven naast de Aarde in ons zonnestelsel", zegt Britney Schmidt, assistent-professor aan Georgia Institute of Technology. Schmidt is een van de bezielers van de Europa-missie. De Europa Clipper zal na 2020 gelanceerd worden. Het zal vanaf dan nog enkele jaren duren vooraleer het zijn eindbestemming bereikt.

Omdat leven op onze buurplaneet Mars al jaren tot de verbeelding spreekt, kon Jupiters maan het grote publiek niet fascineren. Er zijn wel argumenten in het voordeel van potentieel leven op Mars, maar de kans bestaat dat deze planeet enkel in het verleden bewoonbaar was. Toen waren het klimaat en de atmosfeer van de Rode Planeet een stuk aangenamer. "De vraag is: willen we een planeet bestuderen die misschien ooit bewoonbaar was of willen we iets bestuderen dat op dit eigenste moment bewoond kan zijn?", vraagt Schmidt zich terecht af.

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DAVID DUCHOVNY AND GILLIAN ANDERSON REUNITE FOR X-FILES AUDIOBOOK

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Reunite for X-FILES Audiobook

DAVID DUCHOVNY AND GILLIAN ANDERSON REUNITE FOR X-FILES AUDIOBOOK

Last year, Fox brought back The X-Files for a six-episode run that left fans on a big cliffhanger with no resolution in sight. And while we’re still waiting for word about a fresh order of new episodes, series stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are already set to reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in The X-Files: Cold Cases, a new audio drama from Audible.

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The X-Files: Cold Cases is based on The X-Files: Season 10 comic book series by writer Joe Harris and artist Michael Walsh. That comic was produced before Fox commissioned the revival series, so it is out-of-continuity with the television show despite input from X-Files creator Chris Carter. For the new audio version, Dirk Maggs (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) adapted Harris and Walsh’s initial storyline, which finds Mulder and Scully forced out of hiding when their former associates are targeted by an enigmatic group.

The X-Files Cold Cases

In a newly released video from Audible, Duchovny and Anderson teased their returns, but they aren’t the only cast members coming back. Mitch Pileggi will once again play Walter Skinner, alongside William B. Davis as the Cigarette Smoking Man, and Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, and Dean Haglund reprising their roles as the Lone Gunmen.

If Audible continues to adapt the comic book storyline beyond the initial Cold Cases, then several other X-Files characters could potentially return as well. It’s an exciting possibility for fans of the series, and we’d love to see that happen!

Audible will release The X-Files: Cold Cases on July 18.

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How to communicate long distance with aliens

How to communicate long distance with aliens

Space observer Eamonn Ansbro to give lecture on looking for extraterrestrial life

Alien interaction: “The chances are pretty good for contact to take place,”  says Dr Eamonn Ansbro ahead of his Trinity College Dublin public lecture on Monday night.

Alien interaction: “The chances are pretty good for contact to take place,” says Dr Eamonn Ansbro ahead of his Trinity College Dublin public lecture on Monday night. 

For the last 17 years since setting up his Kingsland Observatory outside Boyle, Co Roscommon, Eamonn Ansbro has been looking for extraterrestrial life.

It’s a pursuit that is easily to mock. Aliens of the popular imagination are green, with pointy heads and fly around in saucers. Their human pursuers are often similarly ridiculed.

Yet, in the last few years the discovery of thousands of exoplanets – planets around other stars – has made the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) a serious proposition.

The problem is that we do not know whether or not extraterrestrial intelligence exists and even if it does we do not know how they are communicating.

The biggest barrier is the distances involved. Even at the speed of light (250,000km a second), a message sent to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, would take nine years to get there and back.

Dr Ansbro is advocating faster-than-the-speed-of-light communication, a potential discovery which would overturn the laws of physics defined by Albert Einstein.

“It is possible,” he says, “There have been theoretical models regarding this. There has been work done in the last five or six years to indicate that this is possible. Currently you are constrained by the speed of light.”

Extraterrestrial intelligence

He speculates that while humans use 4D technology (ie radio communication), he believes extraterrestrial intelligence may be using something more advanced which is called quantum superluminal communications (QSC) or 5D. To borrow an analogy, human beings may be on AM while aliens may be on FM.

Dr Ansbro admits there is no certainty there is extraterrestrial intelligence. “The science of SETI is still on the fringe with astrobiology [the notion of extraterrestrial life],” he says.

“We have no history behind us similar to say any of the other sciences and we are going on a number of assumptions. It’s a really high-risk project.

But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Mankind has only very recently had the tools to even begin the search. New telescopes are being developed that will look for the tell-tale carbon signatures of life in the atmosphere of exoplanets.

At a lecture on Monday hosted by Astronomy Ireland, Dr Ansbro will explain the latest thinking on the possible nature of extraterrestrial life.

“The chances are pretty good for contact to take place,” he says. “The ultimate test will come from the exploration of extraterrestrial biospheres.

“ In what to us will be extreme planets, eg having a global ocean a hundred kilometres deep or much larger rocky planets than Earth with extreme gravity, our extrapolations will be tentative, but we can nonetheless envisage life in a range of habitats considerably wider than what we know on Earth.”

Dr Ansbro’s Astronomy Ireland public lecture takes place in Trinity College Dublin, Fitzgerald Building, at 8pm. Tickets are €10 with concessions at €5.

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Stunning pictures show UFO flying through the sky above Devon this morning

Stunning pictures show UFO flying through the sky above Devon this morning

The UFO reported this morning

The UFO reported this morning

A Devon photographer claims he has pictured an unidentified object flying through the early morning sky.

Ben Landricombe took these stunning images in Plymouth at 6am today.

Ben, a keen photographer, managed to capture the extraordinary sight - and has produced these stunning pictures.

"I've never seen anything like it in my life," said Ben, who works for Plymouth City Council. "I was late to work, but I think my boss was alright.

"I showed everyone the pictures and they all said 'Wow!'".

Read more: TV's Phil Mitchell to play Captain Hook in Devon panto

Did you see this too this morning?

Ben was driving to work from his home on Hooe Road when he spotted something in the air.

Recalling the strange turn of events, he said: "I drove straight back home to get my camera, then I went to the highest point in Plymstock to take the pictures, where the big cross on the hill is.

"I missed the meteor coming through the atmosphere, but I saw the sparks coming down, travelling really fast."

Council worker Ben is a keen photographer

Meteors: The facts


A meteoroid is a small particle from an asteroid or comet orbiting the sun. That's different from a meteor - which is a meteoroid burning up in the Earth's atmosphere – known as a shooting star. Finally, a meteorite is a meteor that survives its passage hit the Earth's surface.

They are all different from asteroids or comets which have orbits around the sun that bring them close to the earth. An asteroid is a relatively small, inactive body, composed of rock, carbon or metal, which is orbiting the sun. Whereas a comet is a A relatively small object composed of dirt and ice.

Comets are characterised by dust and gas tails when in proximity to the sun.

Far from the sun it is difficult to distinguish an asteroid from a comet.

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NASA to reveal new findings around ocean worlds beyond Earth this week

NASA to reveal new findings around ocean worlds beyond Earth this week

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Exoplanet With Earth-like Atmosphere Found For First Time

Exoplanet With Earth-like Atmosphere Found For First Time

Exoplanet (Photo : Max Planck Society/Phys.org) The Gliese 1132b exoplanet with an atmosphere like the earth's environment has been detected 39 light-years away from the earth.

An atmosphere wrapped around an exoplanet called Gliese 1132b (GJ 1132b) has been identified. It is located almost 39 light-years away in a constellation that is called Vela.

The discovery is of special importance to those interested in alien life. It is the first time that some sort of atmosphere has been found around an exoplanet that has a mass and radius like the Earth's. For those who are searching for signs of extraterrestrial life, this is a big discovery.

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"With this research, we have taken the first tentative step into studying the atmospheres of smaller, Earth-like, planets," said Lead researcher John Southworth from Keele University in the UK on the exoplanet, according to Science Alert. "The planet is significantly hotter and a bit larger than Earth, so one possibility is that it is a 'water world' with an atmosphere of hot steam."

The exoplanet is thought to have some "'water world' with an atmosphere of hot steam" almost 1.6 times as big as the Earth's. Its radius is also 1.4 times bigger. However, its complete similarity or habitability to the earth is still not clear. The new exoplanet's surface temperature of 370 degrees Celsius (698 degrees Fahrenheit) sounds pretty uninhabitable. The planet orbits the red dwarf star Gliese 1132. This was the star that Southworth and his group studied.

They used the ESO/MPG telescope in Chile. When they assessed the dimming of brightness in its seven wavelengths of light, they found that the GJ1132b exoplanet went by the host star after every 1.6 Earth days. This gave them a good idea of the planet's size as well as composition.

The exoplanet looked bigger when it was examined in one type of infrared wavelength of light. Hence, it showed an atmosphere opaque to such wavelengths. After examining various versions of the atmosphere, scientists saw an atmosphere rich in water and methane.

The GJ 1132b exoplanet is orbiting a host star that is a low-mass red dwarf. It seems to be a star that is very common in the Universe and tends to host small, Earth-like planets. However, such stars are also aggressive and could blast with massive solar flares the planets around them. Research has shown that activity like this could evaporate the planet's atmosphere, according to The Astronomical Journal. 

It has also been found that such an atmosphere can tolerate flares for billions of years and still not get destroyed. Hence, it is possible that there are thousands of such exoplanets that are revolving around low-mass stars. They too could be having such atmospheres. 

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Two UFO sightings in North Bay last year

Two UFO sightings in North Bay last year

The most popular shape of UFO reported in 2016 was a simple point source of light
by: Jeff Turl
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The Canadian UFO Survey is out for 2016 and North Bay reported two UFO sightings and Parry Sound one.

The first was on June 18, around 9:30 a.m. when five lights were seen travelling on a path. There was no wind. Two sightings were reported.

The report does not give exact locations.

The second report was on September 25, 2 p.m. A black triangular object with lights around it and making abrupt turns was seen.

The Parry Sound sighting was in the early morning hours of March 3 when two circular crafts were signalling to each other.

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The annual Canadian UFO Survey is conducted by

UFO sightings are still being reported at a near- record level, according to the survey.

In 2016, 1,131 UFO reports were officially filed in Canada, the fifth year in a row above 1,000 cases but down slightly from 1,267 UFO sightings reported in 2015. 

Last year most UFO reports were recorded during the summer with June, July and August having a combined 37.7 per cent of all cases.

Most sighting reports were simple lights in the sky, known as Nocturnal Lights (54.9 per cent), and Close Encounters comprised less than one per cent of the total.

The most popular shape of UFO reported in 2016 was a simple point source of light.

Other shapes reported were Triangle, Ball, Cigar and Fireball. 

The classic “flying saucer” was only reported 48 times or 5 per cent in 2016.

While the vast majority of cases reported to UFO groups and official agencies are of low Strangeness, some rather odd incidents are reported each year, the report states. 

"Close Encounter cases are definitely in the minority, but some of these cases are extremely close indeed," it said. 

A witness in Cornwall, P.E.I. reported that a thin, six-foot-tall, long fingered, white alien in a black suit appeared in his bedroom. The witness spoke to the alien, which then left by walking through a wall.

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One report from Quebec simply stated 'They contacted me.'

Read the full report The Canadian UFO Survey

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UFOs over Grey-Bruce?

UFOs over Grey-Bruce?

By Denis Langlois, Sun Times, Owen Sound

UFO stock illustration(FOTOLIA)

UFO stock illustration(FOTOLIA)

Someone spotted a mysterious “white orb” in the sky in just one of many photographs they took last spring at Lion's Head and reported it as a UFO.

A couple months later, a person noticed a “starlike object” moving side to side in the skies over Williamsford. The object then flashed and disappeared.

Then, last fall, someone in Markdale saw two lights moving at a high rate of speed before blinking out in the sky.

The three accounts were among the 1,131 reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) that were officially filed last year in Canada, according to a 2016 Canadian UFO Survey produced by the Manitoba-based Ufology Research.

Six of the reports related to sightings in Grey-Bruce.

Astronomer Chris Rutkowski, the study's author, said 21 per cent of the reports in the survey have been classified as having a probable explanation, while 74 per cent did not come with enough information to be explained.

Only about four per cent of the cases are considered unexplained, which is the lowest in 28 years. That's most likely due, he said, to more careful scrutiny by Ufology of the raw information it received. About 1.5 per cent of the cases have been explained, which is the lowest in 24 years.

The survey notes that the unexplained classification does not imply an alien visitation.

“None of the reports that we have and none of the statistical studies that we do really say anything about whether there are aliens out there or not. This is simply what people are reporting,” Rutkowski said in an interview.

“Some people claim that they've seen some aliens associated with them but we don't have any proof of that.”

Rutkowski said, as an astronomer, he believes there is probably extraterrestrial life “out there somewhere.

“And probably within five or 10 years, we're going to find some definite proof that there is life outside our solar system quite close to earth. But there's no definite proof for this,” he said.

The UFO sightings included in Ufology Research's report were either reported directly to the organization or were collected from other sources, such as Canadian government agencies, civilian Canadian UFO organizations, USA-based groups like the Mutual UFO Network and the National UFO Reporting Centre, and Internet sites, including YouTube.

This was the fifth year in a row that more than 1,000 cases were included in the report.

Just over 18,000 Canadian UFO reports have been catalogued since the Canadian UFO Survey launched 28 years ago. About 2,150 of the cases are still unexplained.

In 2016, about 57 per cent of the sightings related to a “simple point source of light in the sky.” About five per cent of the UFOs were described as being the classic flying saucer shape, while nine per cent were reported as balls of light, five per cent were identified as fireballs, four per cent were triangular shapes and three per cent were cigar-shaped objects.

Only one per cent of the cases described a “close encounter.”

The other local cases in the 2016 survey include a March 18 report of a red light flying fast in the sky in the Town of the Blue Mountains before a helicopter came into the area and an April 1 account of a white light crossing the night sky above Owen Sound. There was also a report of an unknown object flying in multiple directions above Walkerton on Nov. 6.

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The Flying Saucer

The Flying Saucer

Columnist Cheryl Costa tells the origins of the “flying saucer” name.

This particular UFO classification hasn’t always been called flying saucers. UFOs have been reported for many centuries, so it’s no surprise they have been called many other names.

Strange objects and lights in the sky were reported in Charles Fort’s 1919 non-fiction publication The Book of the Damned. It was called “Damned” because 19th- and 20th-century scientists refused to investigate such reports.

During World War II, pilots on all sides of the conflict reported strange objects that literally flew circles around aircrafts of that era. The American airmen nicknamed them “foo-fighters.”

It wasn’t until 1947 the term came to be. On June 24, 1947, businessman and private pilot Kenneth A. Arnold of Washington State reported observing a “V”-shaped formatting of nine discs flying at great speed over Washington’s Mount Rainier. Two days later, the Chicago Sun, while reporting the news of Arnold’s sighting, coined the term “flying saucer,” and the handle stuck.

Statistically speaking, flying saucers as a UFO silhouette are approximately 5.5 percent of the 120,000-plus national UFO sightings. Of course, the principle national UFO reporting databases don’t call them flying saucers. The National UFO Reporting Center and Mutual UFO Network refer to them as a “discs.” Both databases have relatively equal numbers: NUFORC with 51 percent of this type of report and MUFON with 49 percent. From 2001-2015, the national total is 6,629 flying saucer reports.

The top five states for flying saucer reports are: California: 902; Florida: 433; Texas: 380; New York: 316; Arizona: 315. At the other end of the ranking, we must not forget the states with the least amount of flying saucer reports. They are: Wyoming: 16; Detroit: 13; North Dakota: 12; Washington D.C.: 10; San Diego: 8.

If you’re interested in recent flying saucer sighting reports, click here for the NUFORC “disc” report.

If you are interested in joining a monthly UFO discussion group in the Onondaga County area, drop Cheryl an email at Blogger@CherylCosta.com. If you have a UFO sighting to report, you can use either one of the two national database services: nuforc.org or mufon.com. Both services respect confidentiality.

STATISTICS SOURCE: UFO SIGHTING DESK REFERENCE: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2001-2015

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Giant UFO Over Cleveland, Ohio Caught On Internet Camera! April 11, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Giant UFO Over Cleveland, Ohio Caught On Internet Camera! April 11, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: April 11, 2017
Location of sighting: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

This UFO was captured on live cam by Youtube user and UFO researcher Orlando Bosca. He caught footage of this UFO while it was moving and we can see that its huge and no aircraft are investigating it, however it must have been seen on radar just from its immense size. UFOs are often seen over water areas, because they hide below the water until they are ready to carry on with their mission. 

Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:
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Mysterious Black Disk Hovering Above Mexico Enthralls UFO Followers

Mysterious Black Disk Hovering Above Mexico Enthralls UFO Followers

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An amateur video sent conspiracy theorists into a frenzy after seeing a mysterious disk in it hovering above Mexico.

According to the witness, he was driving a car in the city of Morella when he saw the UFO, which has left Ufologists abuzz. A 40-second clip was posted to YouTube by Carlos Arriola, who said he had also seen the strange thing.

The strange black sphere in the video appears to hover in the sky and travel in one direction at a slow speed and then changes direction.

Some UFO enthusiasts believe the video shows an alien spacecraft so clearly. They described the aerial thing in question as a dark disk moving slowly above a busy road in Morelia, Mexico.

The person who took the video was driving the car while recording the UFO on video. Many UFO followers were impressed with the smooth movement of the unknown aerial thing while making no sound over the city. They said that seeing a close up a real UFO is a rare opportunity to savour.

The strange craft has since captivated the local area. It reportedly made an appearance on March 27.

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Indiana witness illustrates UFO moving overhead

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Indiana witness illustrates UFO moving overhead

An Indiana witness at Anderson recalled a UFO event from 2015 where the object was “as big as a football field” and just 300 feet overhead, according to testimony in Case 82148 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness said the object was as large as a football field moving overhead. Pictured: Downtown Anderson, IN. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The witness said the object was as large as a football field moving overhead. Pictured: Downtown Anderson, IN. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The witness was walking home after a third shift in November 2015 when the incident occurred.

“No cars were out,” the witness stated.“Just me walking down the middle of a major road.”

The witness saw the UFO out of the corner of his eye.

“I turned to the right and saw the huge, stretched, diamond-shaped spaceship. It had orange lights on all sides of it. It was just floating in a straight line heading east. No noise, no fumes. It was massive. Floating 200 feet above me.”

Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)

Witness illustration.

(Credit: MUFON)

The object quickly moved away.

“It slowly flew east and I watched it until it disappeared. Breathtaking moment. Unbelievable.”

The witness provided three illustrations of the event with the report, which was filed on February 17, 2017.

Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)

Witness illustration.

(Credit: MUFON)

Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Indiana, population 56,129. MUFON Indiana Field Investigator Timothy D. Wagner investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown.

“This object is not a natural phenomenon,” Wagner stated in his report. “It is possibly man-made. Could be a military secret craft. This can’t be ruled out. The object most likely is not a blimp because if it was 200 to 300 feet above witness, he should have heard the blimp motors. No sound pretty much rules out any conventional aircraft as we know it. Too big to be a hobbyist’s drone. With this limited information, would recommend a disposition of Unknown – UAV.”

Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)

Witness illustration.

(Credit: MUFON)

Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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Maine witness describes close encounter with triangle UFO

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Maine witness describes close encounter with triangle UFO

A Maine witness at Orrington reported a late-night encounter with a low flying, silent, triangle-shaped object along a rural roadway, according to testimony in Case 82505 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Witness illustration of the triangle object. (Credit: MUFON)

Witness illustration of the triangle object.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness was driving with friends on Friday, January 13, 2017, about 11:19 p.m. when the incident began.

“It also happened to be my friend’s birthday, so I can remember quite vividly what happened,” the witness stated.“I got out of work around eight o’clock and I went home to let my dog out and I went out to the lake to go see him and hang out with friends. I got to his house around 9 and we hung out for 45 minutes or so when we decided to go to Walmart with his brother and another friend because I just bought a new car and he wanted to get a video game.”

So the group all piled into the car and drove to Walmart.

“We left the Brewer Walmart around 10:50 right before they closed at 11 and we headed back towards Orrington. We were heading up the Brewer Lake Road and went around an ‘S’ turn and we had noticed these red lights down the road above the dam on the lake. We aren’t far away from Bangor International Airport so it didn’t seem like there was anything unusual about something like that; it looked like it was just beyond the dam and it was flying parallel to the road, so it looked like it could have been a plane coming in.”

Witness illustration of the triangle object. (Credit: MUFON)

Witness illustration of the triangle object.

(Credit: MUFON)

But there was something unusual about the lights.

“When we saw it, I started talking about, I swear,how I saw a UFO the previous January. As we drove down the road closer to the object, (and I’m still talking about the UFO) it was like it heard me talking about UFOs because this triangular silhouette went from being far off the road and fairly high in the air (500 – 700 feet) to swooping in very close probably 400 feet off the road and 200 feet high.”

The witness described how the object moved.

“The way the object moved down closer was very odd and I was euphoric, but terrified at the same time. It was flat with the horizon when the object dipped up one side at 20 to 30 degrees and swooped in closer.The best way to describe it is the way a feather or a leaf falls to the ground and swoops side-to-side. After it swooped down close to the car everyone started to have this moment of awe, yet panicky.”

The witness slowed down the car and pulled off to the side of the road.

“It was just us four at the time because it was 11 at night. I turned the radio off and I rolled all the windows down and it was dead silent. That too-quiet type of quiets – and we were all looking at the black equilateral triangle that had glowing bright red lights on each end. The object also had a center light that glowed white and the object was dark against the clear night sky and it had to have been 40 to 60 feet across.”

As the group looked at the object, one of the friends in the back seat pulled out her phone and tried to film it on her iPhone.

“But we looked at the video after and we couldn’t see anything but darkness. While she was filming, I kept almost driving my new car off the road into a ditch because this object seemed to be hovering closer to us.”

Witness illustration of the triangle object. (Credit: MUFON)

Witness illustration of the triangle object.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness was afraid as the object moved closer to the vehicle and was not sure what to do. Then a second object was seen.

“I kept driving slowly down the road going back to my friend’s house and we turned the corner away from the UFO, and this bigger, triangular thing was across the lake above the Holden/Bucksport side of the lake heading towards the direction of the black triangle UFO. This could have been an airplane, but it was still dead silent. I was still driving slowly down the road when I stopped and started talking to everyone in the car and we decided to turn around and go back and investigate.”

The group returned to the area where they first saw the object.

“When we went back to the area where I  pulled off the road, of course, the object was gone along with whatever the larger object was. For weeks after I kept dreaming about that 4 or 5 minutes of my life and it was odd it happened on Friday the 13th. The photo is just a quick sketch I did at work with the blue representing the red lights.”

Orrington is a town on the Penobscot River estuary in Penobscot County, Maine, population 3,733. Maine MUFON Assistant State Director Valerie Shultz 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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TRIANGLE UFO MADNESS: Insane bizarre craft report after encounter on Friday 13TH

TRIANGLE UFO MADNESS: Insane bizarre craft report after encounter on Friday 13TH

A WAVE of bizarre triangle-shaped UFO sightings across the United States has continued with a fresh report.

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Triangle UFOs have reportedly been seen all over the US, according to MUFON.

UFO investigators are looking into a case when a man said he encountered a low flying, silent, triangle-shaped object along a rural road.

The man in Orrington, Maine, was driving with friends at 11.19pm local time when the incident happened.

He reported it the the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) which is investigating the growing phenomenon.

In a report to the organisation, which keeps a global database of UFO cases it investigates, the witness said: "We were heading up the Brewer Lake Road and went around an ‘S’ turn and we had noticed these red lights down the road above the dam on the lake."

He initially thought it could be a plane from Bangor International Airport.

He added: "But there was something unusual about the lights.

“This triangular silhouette went from being far off the road and fairly high in the air (500 – 700 feet) to swooping in very close probably 400 feet off the road and 200 feet high.

“The way the object moved down closer was very odd and I was euphoric, but terrified at the same time. 

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A sketch the witness did of the strange UFO.

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"It was flat with the horizon when the object dipped up one side at 20 to 30 degrees and swooped in closer.

"The best way to describe it is the way a feather or a leaf falls to the ground and swoops side-to-side. After it swooped down close to the car everyone started to have this moment of awe, yet panicky.”

The man went on to describe a bizarre encounter that they tried to film.

He said: "We were all looking at the black equilateral triangle that had glowing bright red lights on each end. 

"The object also had a centre light that glowed white and the object was dark against the clear night sky and it had to have been 40 to 60 feet across.

“But we looked at the video after and we couldn’t see anything but darkness. 

"While she was filming, I kept almost driving my new car off the road into a ditch because this object seemed to be hovering closer to us.”

The group said they saw a second, larger triangular object in the sky.

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The way the object moved down closer was very odd and I was euphoric, but terrified at the same time.

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The report added: "We turned the corner away from the UFO, and this bigger, triangular thing was across the lake above the Holden/Bucksport side of the lake heading towards the direction of the black triangle UFO. 

"This could have been an aeroplane, but it was still dead silent. 

“For weeks after I kept dreaming about that 4 or 5 minutes of my life and it was odd it happened on Friday the 13th."

The incident was in January, but has just been reported to MUFON.

Maine MUFON Assistant State Director Valerie Shultz is investigating. 

A MUFON spokesman said: "Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made."

In December Express.co.uk revealed the huge number of similar triangle UFO reports being made to MUFON.

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The reports are often eerily similar, leading to speculation the bizarre UFOs could be REAL.

Many reports tell of a silent triangle shape, defined by a series of lights, that are said to be in some cases as big as a football field, moving slowly across the sky.

Scott Brando runs website ufoofinterest.org which exposes hoax UFO sightings.

He is sceptical any unexplainable sightings have been made.

Mr Brando says triangle UFOs are usually aircraft or military flares.

He told Express.co.uk: “About other similar sightings I'd like to see some reports by MUFON, however many formation of sky lanterns or the launch of skydivers Golden Knights were often mistaken for UFOs.”

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Did 'magnetic' rock with 'alien carvings' come from the UFO that 'crashed at ROSWELL?'

Did 'magnetic' rock with 'alien carvings' come from the UFO that 'crashed at ROSWELL?'

THIS strange rock with "alien symbols" could have come from a flying saucer that allegedly crashed in the New Mexico desert nearly 70 years ago, according to UFO conspiracy theorists.

Known as the Roswell Rock, it is still being debated on websites as the potential smoking gun evidence in the world's biggest unsolved UFO mystery.

Roswell has been at the heart of UFO conspiracy theories since July 1947 when the military sensationally announced it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.

But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.

Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.

Roswell now holds an annual UFO festival because of its notoriety, and sightings are still taking place.

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The Roswell Rock has been linked to the alleged UFO crash of 1947.

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The rock was actually found around 25 miles from the alleged crash site in 2004.

According to believers, the rock has magnetic properties and markings etched into it that are similar to those found inside crop circles across the world.

Debate about the origins of the rock were fuelled this week after it appeared in a new online video.

Tyler Glockner, founder of YouTube channel Secureteam10 said in the short film: "It was discovered back in 2004, sticking out of the dirt in Roswell, New Mexico, in a basically barren, empty area of desert close to where the infamous Roswell crash occurred.

“The rock was very smooth, rounded, and it contained these mysterious symbols that looked to show almost what looks like a lunar cycle of the Moon.

“It’s been theorised that this rock may have been part of the wreckage from the Roswell crash.

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I suppose what we’re supposed to deduce here is that this rock had been in the spacecraft before the crash and that somehow it was ejected with no sign of the destruction of the craft, to be found, literally miles and miles from the crash site by a bow

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“Or, that this rock – which is said to hold some very mysterious powers, was actually left behind by a previous alien visitation, and that the Roswell crash was what occurred when these aliens had come back to Earth to retrieve the mystery rock.”

It is claimed that if magnets are placed near the stone it spins in circles, but this has not been filmed.

Despite the ongoing debate about the rock, sceptics claim it is nothing more than a hoax, and the creator of it previously came forward.

A post on a discussion about the rock on ufocon.blogspot.co.uk said: "That's a several years old hoax, I think. If memory serves, an artist came forward and admitted making it.

Even some well known Roswell researchers are not convinced the rock has anything to do with the alleged UFO crash.

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UFO researcher Kevin Randle said: "I suppose what we’re supposed to deduce here is that this rock had been in the spacecraft before the crash and that somehow it was ejected with no sign of the destruction of the craft, to be found, literally miles and miles from the crash site by a bow hunter. 

"The fact he was in New Mexico doesn’t mean that this rock had anything to do with the events of July 1947 and there is absolutely no way to connect it to 1947, just as they had been no way to connect any of these other items to the crash."

He said similar rocks had even been on sale at a UFO festival in Roswell in the 1990s.

He added: "We can close another chapter on the Roswell UFO crash. 

"Clearly the rock had nothing to do with it and had it not been found in central New Mexico, no one would have taken a second look at it."

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UFO hunters spot a strange 500-metre long object near the Antarctic and claim it is an underwater ALIEN b

UFO hunters spot a strange 500-metre long object near the Antarctic and claim it is an underwater ALIEN base

  • The object was spotted on Google maps by a keen-eyed UFO hunter
  • It appears to show a large body of ice sheered off of the side of the continent
  • But a bizarre theory claims that it is a secret underwater base used by aliens

UFO hunters have spotted an enormous 500-metre (1640 foot) long object off the coast of Antarctica.

Some have claimed that it is a mysterious alien ship or base hidden underwater in the continent's ice.

The object was spotted on Google maps and appears to show a large body of ice sheered off the edge of Antarctica.

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UFO hunters have spotted an enormous 500 metre (1640 foot) object off the coast of Antarctica (pictured)

UFO hunters have spotted an enormous 500 metre (1640 foot) object off the coast of Antarctica (pictured)

ICEBERG OR ALIEN BASE?

UFO hunters were particularly interested in the latest finding because of the object's bizarre shape.

Normally icebergs come in a wide range of shapes and sizes.

But the keen-eyed UFO hunters claim that this iceberg does not fit any of the most common categories of iceberg.

'Icebergs can be classified on the basis of their shape,' wrote UFO Sightings Hotspot.

'The two basic types of iceberg forms are tabular and non-tabular. 

'The shapes and forms from this iceberg look very different if we compare it with all the different shapes and forms of tabular and non-tabular icebergs.'

But conspiracy theorists have put forward the bizarre claim that the object is in fact a large extraterrestrial base.

The object can be seen on Google maps by searching the coordinates 72°43'13.53"S 78°40'21.56"W. 

'I'm not an iceberg expert but this object is really peculiar and looks like a vessel disguised as an iceberg,' wrote the website UFO Sightings Hotspot.

'It looks out of place.'

To most people Antarctica is a barren wasteland of ice and snow found at the bottom of the globe.

But UFO hunters believe it could house extraterrestrial bases and life, acting as the perfect hiding spot due to its lack of human settlers.

Previous strange theories around the continent have suggested that UFOs are parked inside of Antarctic caves.

UFO hunters were particularly interested in the latest finding because of the object's bizarre shape.

Normally icebergs come in a wide range of shapes and sizes.

But the keen-eyed UFO hunters claim that this iceberg does not fit any of the most common categories of iceberg.

The iceberg was spotted on Smyley Island (pictured), which lies off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula

The iceberg was spotted on Smyley Island (pictured), which lies off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula

Normally icebergs come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. Different shapes include tabular (1), wedge (2), dome (3), drydock (4) pinnacled (5) and blocky (6)

Normally icebergs come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. Different shapes include tabular (1), wedge (2), dome (3), drydock (4) pinnacled (5) and blocky (6)

'Icebergs can be classified on the basis of their shape,' wrote UFO Sightings Hotspot.

'The two basic types of iceberg forms are tabular and non-tabular.

'Tabular icebergs have steep sides and a flat top, much like a plateau, and Non-tabular icebergs have different shapes.

'The shapes and forms from this iceberg look very different if we compare it with all the different shapes and forms of tabular and non-tabular icebergs.'

UFO hunters find mysterious disc on satellite images of Antarctic

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