EVACUATIEVLOOT GEPARKEERD ACHTER DE ZON?

Voor een christen heet het het plotseling verdwijnen van de aarde, de opname, maar voor een niet gelovige lijkt het verdacht veel op een evacuatie met ruimteschepen. 

Door de opname wordt de gemeente gespaard voor de slotfase van de eindtijd, dat is de Grote Verdrukking. 

NASA heeft een aantal telescopen in een baan in de ruimte waarvan de STEREO A en STEREO B de bekendsten zijn. 

Deze maken vanuit verschillende posities opnames van de zon en op het volgende plaatje is te zien waar deze telescopen zich nu ongeveer bevinden ten opzichte van onze aarde en de zon.

Op 10 mei 2017 is er een bijzondere opname gemaakt met de STEREO B telescoop. Deze geeft ons dus een beeld van de achterkant van de zon; een gebied waar we normaal gesproken nooit zouden kunnen kijken. 

Op die afbeelding staan een drietal enorme objecten.

Iets dichterbij zien we objecten die lijken op enorme ruimteschepen, waarbij op één een fel licht is waar te nemen aan het uiteinde van een soort uitsteeksel.

Een andere bekende ruimtetelescoop is de SOHO. Deze bevindt zich in een omloopbaan rond een fictief punt L, ergens halverwege de aarde en de zon, zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding.

En ook op die telescoop is door de bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 een bijzondere ontdekking gedaan. 

Ook daar enkele objecten die veel lijken op enorme ruimteschepen. Ook daar, bij één van die schepen, een soort uitsteeksel met aan het uiteinde iets wat misschien een kleiner schip zou kunnen zijn.

We hebben al eerder geschreven over een mogelijk verband tussen de vaker waargenomen enorme ruimteschepen bij de zon en de eindtijd zoals die in de bijbel wordt beschreven. 

Velen herkennen de huidige tijd als kenmerkend voor deze eindtijd en voor christenen hoort daar de zogenaamde opname (rapture) bij. Voor hen zijn het geen ruimteschepen die hen komen halen, maar voor een niet gelovige vertoont het verhaal alle symptomen van een buitenaardse vloot die misschien klaarstaat om een deel van de wereldbevolking te evacueren voor de dingen die gaan komen. 

Uiteraard blijft het allemaal speculeren, maar interessant is wel dat er wordt gesproken over een opname voordat het echt misgaat op aarde. 

De opname van de gemeente is niet hetzelfde als Zijn wederkomst. Met de opname wordt de gemeente naar de hemel gebracht, zonder dat de Here Jezus op aarde neerdaalt. Als de Heer wederkomt zal iedereen Hem zien komen met de wolken. Dan zal Israël worden verlost van haar vijanden en zal Hij Zijn voeten op de Olijfberg zetten (Zach. 14:3,4). Het Koninkrijk van God zal dan op aarde gevestigd worden (Dan. 2:34,35; Zach. 14:8,9). 

Door de opname wordt de gemeente bewaard voor de slotfase van de eindtijd, dat is de Grote Verdrukking. 

Wederom, voor een niet gelovige klinkt dit als een evacuatie vanaf de aarde voordat er echte rampen zullen plaatsvinden.

De tijd zal het leren, maar dat het geen camera-afwijkingen zijn die worden waargenomen bij de zon, zoveel is duidelijk.

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NEW ERA IN SPACE TRAVEL BEGINS: PLASMA JET ENGINE BREAKTHROUGH!

When it comes to plasma, the word alone invokes thoughts of sci-fi weaponry and space ships shooting out giant balls made of light and energy. What many do not know, however, is that plasma is actually a fourth state of matter alongside liquid, solid, and gas.

The term plasma comes from the Greek word from jelly and is interpreted as a moldable gas. What separates plasma from the previous states of matter, however, is that it never occurs naturally on the surface of the Earth, and must be created artificially by humans using various means of harnessing the plasma.  

THE PLASMA ENGINE, NO LONGER SCI-FI?

While the process behind making plasma is enough for an article of its own, it is important to note that plasma is created by taking the electrons out of natural gas in a closed environment to create a reaction, like a neon tube sign. This is a very violate state of matter that is constantly trying to escape and dissipate into the atmosphere, so containment is necessary for some vacuum.

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Now there has been a major breakthrough by a team from the Technical University of Berlin lead by Professor Berkant Goskel on a study into making plasma engines, and breakthrough that could change jet propulsion technology as we know it and revolutionize the aerospace industry overnight by creating an engine that runs solely off of air and electricity alone.

What makes these engines unique, is that unlike the normal large jet engine, the plasma genuine would be a series of smaller engines in an array made up of anywhere from 100 to 10,000 of these mini thrusters. The ramifications of an engine that runs purely on air and electricity are obvious and astounding; jet fuel would be a thing of the past and getting to the edge of space would require nothing but a constant supply of air and electricity.

For now, Berkant claims that the first generation of these engines will take aircraft to altitudes of 30 miles (or 50km) with the future being seemingly unlimited. Furthermore, Berkant states that the plasma jets will be able to be used at ground level as well to traverse speeds of up to 20 kilometers a second, something that would liquefy a person until we figure out how to handle the intense amount of g-force traveling at speed like that would create.

A normal jet engine burns fuel and compressed air, with the resulting pressure being forced out of the back of the engine create forward propulsion, a very simple concept that was mastered decades ago. The plasma engine, however, uses much more complicated technically in which it mimics the way a star or fusion reactor creates power.

By turning natural gas into plasma, then create an electromagnetic field around it electricity then is feed into the field, and forward thrust is created, that multiplied by up to 10,000 additional thrusters generating force is what will propel newly created aircraft through the sky if this engine is a success. Creating a public transport jet powered by these new plasma thrusters is exactly what Professor Berkant wishes to do.

There are, however, several problems that need to be overcome before the plasma jet engine will become a reality. First of all is the aforementioned issue where a full sized jetliner will be required to have about 10,000 of these thrusters to safely propel one through the sky which means that the size must be reduced, at the current size however they could use a thousand thrusters to power a smaller sized aircraft such as a private jet.

Secondly, these thrusters run off of electricity, a lot of it, which means there is a need for batters with a large storage capacity and transfer rate, that must also be lightweight enough to not significantly weigh down the aircraft.

So the final problem is the most significant one of them all, to generate that much power is impossible with current technology, and improvements in things such as solar electricity and compact fusion are the only solution. Still, at the rate technology is advancing these days, it isn't a stretch to imagine that ten years from now the technology jump in both electricity and plasma technology will have been enough to create the first real plasma propelled jetliner.  

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READY FOR SPACE WAR? RUSSIA ACTIVATES MYSTERIOUS 'KILLER SATELLITES'

Three suspicious Russian satellites spring back into life after two years of dormancy.

International experts have expressed concern after Russia chose to re-activate some deeply suspicious satellites which are suspected of being powerful weapons after a period of two years of dormancy. These satellites are capable of operating in a military context in space which has led to some suspicion that the Kremlin are preparing for a space war.  

The three satellites were launched between the years of 2013 and 2015 after Russia submitted a notification to the United Nations. While correct procedure was followed in the launching of the satellites, many nations became suspicious that the Russian government and military were not being entirely honest in the capabilities of these new satellites. Military intelligence in some western countries noticed that the satellites were capable of extraordinarily intricate maneuvers which led to the suggestion that the satellites were intended for use in combat or spying purposes. The suggestion caused such a furor that the Russian space agency chief Oleg Ostapenko was forced to call a press conference in 2014 to reassure the world’s media that the crafts were not ‘killer satellites’.

In 2015 the satellites appeared to go dormant and were not observed making maneuvers again. However, in March of this year, one of the satellites suddenly sprang back into life and was spotted passing within 1,183 meters of a now defunct Chinese weather satellite. Shortly after that, another one of the satellites was spotted moving and making maneuvers again.

It is believed that these three satellites can come within a few dozen feet of other satellites which means that they could be used to spy on, hijack or possibly even destroy foreign satellites. According to the Russian-born journalist and space historian Anatoly Zak, it is entirely possible that the satellites could be equipped with lasers or loaded with explosives which could make them an incredibly dangerous weapon if there was a space war.

Russia is not the only nation that appears to be preparing for this novel form of warfare. In recent years some countries including the United States, Sweden, Japan and China have all tested similar satellites.

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DR. STEVEN GREER EXPLAINS HOW ETS MAKE THEIR SHIPS AND HOW THEY CONTROL THEM

Dr. Steven Greer once said: "Anyone with knowledge of this stuff would have a bullet with their name written on it.”

Steven Macon Greer (June 28, 1955) is an American retired medical doctor and ufologist who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Disclosure Project, which seeks the disclosure of allegedly suppressed UFO information.

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NASA Scientists Want to Seed Human DNA Throughout the Universe

 Brett Tingley

When it comes to theories on how life began on Earth, there’s quite a high degree of disagreement. Aside from the belief that some glowing bearded man or flying spaghetti monster blinked His eyes and made everything suddenly appear, many scientists are now looking into the panspermia hypothesis. This theory suggests that life came to Earth on a meteorite, asteroid, or other planetoid that crashed into our planet and seeded Earth with living organisms or at least the building blocks necessary for the evolution of organisms.

There are several variations of the panspermia theory, the most popular being lithopanspermia – the theory that the original organic molecules or organisms were embedded into meteorites which crashed into Earth.

Many microorganisms have indeed recently been found to be able to survive the harsh conditions of outer space for long periods of time, lending some credence to the panspermia theory. Of course, there are still other problems to address before this theory can be confirmed, but that’s where a new experiment suggested by NASA-funded scientists comes in. At the recent Breakthrough Discuss conference, several Breakthrough Starshot scientists discussed plans to send human DNA throughout the universe in hijacked bacteria to test the panspermia theory. You might know Breakthrough Starshot as the group planning to propel postage-stamp-sized spacecraft throughout the galaxy by shooting lasers at them.

Breakthrough Starshot wants to send thousands of their nanocraft throughout the galaxy to survey surface features of other planets.

At a panel titled “Scientific Goals and Instrumentation for a Flyby of the Nearest Stars,” Breakthrough Starshot developer Philip Lubin says that human DNA could fly to other worlds on such a craft and that his team already has NASA funding for their panspermia project:

A part of our program — at least on the NASA side, because we haven’t cleared this with Breakthrough yet — is actually to put organisms to sleep, in stasis mode. And there are certain organisms known as C. elegans, which we’re going to embed human DNA into and send them out and then awaken them on arrival. However, I expect that will be a highly controversial thing to do.

Uh, yeah. It will. NASA and other space agencies are very careful not to contaminate other worlds with Earth germs, going so far as to slam their spacecraft and satellites into other planet’s atmospheres in order to incinerate them once they’ve reached the end of their lifespans. By proposing to send our DNA throughout the cosmos, these scientists essentially want to play at being gods.

What could go wrong?

I find some serious problems with this suggestion. First of all, who are we to say that our DNA should propagate throughout the universe? Such an experiment could have completely unknown side-effects that could be disastrous for other worlds. Maybe our DNA will take hold and (over eons) create another race of beings which will wipe out the indigenous life on whatever piteous planet it lands on. Or, that DNA could just spend eternity hurtling through the cold, empty vacuum of space only to burn up in some alien world’s atmosphere. The point is we don’t know. Which means this experiment is probably better suited to the domain of science fiction.

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'Styrofoam' Planet Discovery Will Help Us Find Habitable Planets and Alien Life

An artist's rendering of KELT-11b, an exoplanet with Styrofoam-like density.

Credit: Walter Robinson/Lehigh University

Since the largest exoplanets are the easiest to spot and study, it makes sense that distant worlds with large "puffy" atmospheres would provide the best and most abundant information about the envelope of gases surrounding these faraway planets. But the challenge comes in finding planets with such large atmospheres.

Enter KELT-11b.

According to researchers at Lehigh University, KELT-11b has by far the largest atmospheric scale height of any ever studied, including our own solar system. Scale height describes the height at which an atmosphere "hugs" a planet, and while the scale height of Saturn's atmosphere is about 60 km (37 miles) and Earth’s is about 8 km (5 miles), KELT-11b's is a whopping 2,763 km (1,716 miles).

And the oddities of KELT-11b don't stop there. The planet itself is one of the most puffy and inflated planets in the known universe, with the density of a Styrofoam ball — the kind that students use to simulate planetary bodies in classroom presentations.

"It is highly inflated, so that while it's only a fifth as massive as Jupiter, it is nearly 40 percent larger, making it about as dense as Styrofoam, with an extraordinarily large atmosphere," said Joshua Pepper, astronomer and assistant professor of physics at Lehigh University, who led the study.

Pepper called KELT-11b an "extreme" version of a gas planet. It is orbiting very close to its host star, circling it in less than five days. The star, KELT-11, has started using up its nuclear fuel and is evolving into a red giant, so the planet will eventually be engulfed by its star and not survive the next hundred million years.

But this star is extremely bright — the brightest known transiting exoplanet host that can be seen from the southern hemisphere — and is the sixth brightest transit host to date. Such a bright star allows for precise measurements of the planet's atmosphere.

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The team wrote in their paper that all "these attributes make the KELT-11 system a valuable target for follow-up and atmospheric characterization and it promises to become one of the benchmark systems for the study of inflated exoplanets."

Pepper also said that KELT-11b is "an excellent testbed for measuring the atmospheres of other planets," and that it will help astronomers develop the best tools to see the types of gases in atmospheres, specifically for assessing habitability or possible life on distant exoplanets.

"We don't know of any real Earth-like planets or stars for which we can measure their atmospheres, though we expect to discover more in future years," Pepper said. "These [giant gas] planets are the gold standards or testbeds for learning how to measure the atmospheres of planets."

Another unique aspect of this exoplanet is that it was found with the help of citizen scientists. In fact, 40 amateur scientists from 10 countries contributed directly to the discovery of KELT-11b and are listed as co-authors on the paper.

The KELT (Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope) survey uses two small robotic telescopes in Arizona and in South Africa. The telescopes scan the sky every night, measuring the brightness of about five million stars. Like the exoplanet-finding "champion," the Kepler space telescope, KELT looks for stars that seem to dim slightly at regular intervals, which can indicate a planet is orbiting that star and eclipsing it, called a transit.

But most of the planets found by Kepler orbit faint stars, making it difficult to measure the planets' properties precisely.

"The KELT project is specifically designed to discover a few scientifically valuable planets orbiting very bright stars, and KELT-11b is a prime example of that," Pepper said.

RELATED: Watery Atmosphere Discovered on Neptune-Like Exoplanet

KELT specifically looks for gas giant planets orbiting bright stars, but the team didn't expect to find planets with such low mass and large sizes.

"We were very surprised by the amazingly low density of this planet," Pepper said. "It's extremely big for its mass. It's got a fifth of the mass of Jupiter but is puffed up into this really underdense planet."

They hope that further study of this world by the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes will provide additional information about the mechanism that causes inflated planets.

While exoplanet researchers are anticipating the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, both scheduled to launch in 2018, Pepper and his fellow researchers feel that small, ground-based telescopes still have a special niche to fill in exoplanet studies.

"Notably, the population of transiting planets discovered by the ground-based surveys tend to be large planets with short orbital periods orbiting bright stars," the team said in their paper. "These planets, unlike the vast majority of the Kepler planets, offer great potential for detailed characterization of the atmospheres of exoplanets. For that reason, the ongoing discoveries from ground-based transit surveys will continue to provide great value."

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Cassini: de tien hoogtepunten van een fantastische missie

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Met pijn in het hart nemen we in september afscheid van een ruimtesonde die ons beeld van Saturnus en zijn manen voorgoed veranderd heeft.

In oktober 1997 wordt ruimtesonde Cassini vanaf Cape Canaveral gelanceerd. Na een scheervlucht langs Venus, de aarde en Jupiter arriveert de sonde zeven jaar later – in 2004 – bij zijn eindbestemming: Saturnus. Inmiddels zijn we dertien jaar verder en cirkelt Cassini nog altijd rond de gasreus heen. Maar niet lang meer. Na een missie van bijna 20 jaar begint de brandstof van Cassini op te raken. En daarom krijgt deze in september opdracht om zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. Een duik die de sonde al na korte tijd fataal zal worden. Met de snoekduik in de turbulente atmosfeer van Saturnus komt een einde aan een lange ruimtemissie die gekenmerkt wordt door grootse ontdekkingen. De tien belangrijkste hebben we voor je op een rij gezet.

1. De lovehandle van Iapetus
Cassini heeft zich eigenlijk nog maar net in een baan rond Saturnus genesteld als deze tijdens een scheervlucht langs Saturnus’ maan Iapetus op een verrassing stuit. Ter hoogte van de evenaar blijkt de maan een flinke bergkam te bezitten. De richel is zo’n 20 kilometer breed en dertien kilometer hoog. Vervolgonderzoek wijst uit dat het gebergte (letterlijk!) uit de lucht is komen zetten. Waarschijnlijk is Iapetus in het verleden in botsing gekomen met een ander object waarbij een ring van puin rond de maan is ontstaan. En dat puin is uiteindelijk weer naar beneden komen zetten.

De bergrug op de evenaar van Iapetus.

Afbeelding: NASA.

2. Huygens
In 2005 slingert Cassini de Huygens-lander richting het oppervlak van Titan. En met succes: de lander overleeft de reis door de dikke atmosfeer en landt heelhuids op het oppervlak. Voor het eerst kunnen we dat oppervlak – dat anders schuilgaat onder de dikke, nevelige atmosfeer van Titan, van heel dichtbij bekijken. Het levert spectaculaire beelden op. Zo’n 72 minuten nadat Huygens op Titan is geland geeft deze de geest: de batterij is leeg.

3. Er is vloeibaar water op Enceladus!
Een paar jaar na aankomst bij Saturnus doet Cassini misschien wel de belangrijkste ontdekking uit zijn carrière. De sonde fotografeert geisers op het oppervlak van Saturnus’ maan Enceladus. En het lijkt erop dat deze geisers vloeibaar water in de lucht spuiten. Wetenschappers zijn door het dolle heen. Want waar vloeibaar water is, is wellicht leven. Inmiddels weten we dat het water dat de geisers uitspugen afkomstig is uit een wereldwijde oceaan die onder de ijskorst van Enceladus schuilgaat. Of er in die oceaan daadwerkelijk leven te vinden is, is nog altijd onduidelijk. Maar hoe meer onderzoek er naar de maan gedaan wordt, hoe aannemelijker het lijkt te worden dat het een vrij prettige plek is voor aliens. Enkele weken geleden verscheen bijvoorbeeld nog een onderzoek dat aantoont dat Enceladus hydrothermale bronnen bezit die de ondergrondse oceaan verrijken met een potentiële energiebron voor leven.

De geisers op Enceladus.

Afbeelding: NASA.

4. Titan heeft meren!
En een paar maanden later doet Cassini weer een grootse ontdekking. Op Saturnus’ maan Titan treft de ruimtesonde verschillende meren aan. Sommige zijn slechts 1 kilometer breed. Anderen meten wel 30 kilometer. In de meren vinden we geen water, maar vloeibaar methaan en ethaan. Naast meren heeft Titan trouwens ook heel aardige bergen: de hoogste blijken meer dan 3300 meter hoog te zijn. En de maan heeft diepe valleien die gevuld zijn met vloeibaar methaan.

Meren op de noordpool van Titan.

Afbeelding: NASA.

5. En nog een maan..en nog één..en nog één
Herhaaldelijk ontdekt Cassini tijdens zijn reisjes in de omgeving van Saturnus nieuwe manen. Methone en Pallene bijvoorbeeld. Maar ook de in Saturnus’ G-ring verstopte maan Aegaeon. Het laatstgenoemde hemellichaam is – met een gemiddelde straal van zo’n 300 meter – de kleinste maan die Saturnus rijk is.

De dunne en nauwelijks zichtbare ringen die Cassini enkele jaren na aankomst bij Saturnus ontdekte.

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.

6. Saturnus heeft meer ringen dan gedacht
Naast manen heeft Cassini ook enkele nieuw ringen ontdekt rond Saturnus. De sonde spotte de ringen toen deze in de schaduw van Saturnus verbleef en de ringen in tegenlicht kon bestuderen. De ene ring is zo’n 2500 kilometer breed en bevindt zich tussen de E- en G-ring, in de baan van Pallene. De andere bevindt zich tussen de heldere hoofdringen en de G-ring, is zo’n 5000 kilometer breed en bevindt zich in de baan van de manen Janus en Epimetheus. Aangenomen wordt dat de ringen bestaan uit deeltjes die tijdens inslagen van het oppervlak van Janus, Epimetheus en Pallene zijn weggeslingerd. Dat die deeltjes zo’n mooie ring vormen, verbaast onderzoekers.

7. Storm verslikt zich..in zichzelf
In 2010 en 2011 zien onderzoekers – via de ogen van Cassini – iets heel bijzonders gebeuren op Saturnus. In december 2010 ziet een enorme storm het levenslicht op de gasreus. Kort nadat de storm ontstaan is en richting het westen begint te bewegen, creëert deze een tegen de klok indraaiende vortex. De vortex beweegt veel langzamer dan de storm, waardoor een langgerekte monsterstorm ontstaat. Die storm wordt groter en groter en in het voorjaar van 2011 heeft deze zich – op 33 graden breedte – bijna helemaal rond Saturnus gewikkeld. In juni 2011 is het dan echt zover: de snel bewegende kop van de storm stuit op zijn veel trager bewegende staart. En daarop valt de storm stil. Het is voor het eerst dat onderzoekers er getuige van zijn dat een storm zichzelf op zo’n manier ‘consumeert’. “Zelfs de reusachtige stormen op Jupiter consumeren zichzelf niet zo, wat maar weer eens laat zien dat de natuur heel wat indrukwekkende variaties kent en ons keer op keer kan verrassen,” stelt onderzoeker Andrew Ingersoll daar in 2013 over.

De enorme storm op het noordelijk halfrond van Saturnus.

Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.

8. Dione en Rhea hebben een atmosfeer
In 2010 ontdekt Cassini dat maan Rhea een dunne atmosfeer heeft. De atmosfeer bevat zuurstof en koolstofdioxide. En een paar jaar later blijkt ook maan Dione een zuurstof bevattende atmosfeer te hebben. Ook Dione’s atmosfeer is maar dunnetjes. Maar het maakt de ontdekking niet minder interessant. “We weten nu dat Dione, net als de ringen van Saturnus en de maan Rhea een bron van zuurstofmoleculen is,” stelde onderzoeker Robert Tokar in 2012. “Het laat zien dat moleculaire zuurstof best veel voorkomt in het Saturnussysteem en versterkt het idee dat het kan voortkomen uit een proces waarin leven geen rol speelt.”

Een prachtige foto van Saturnus en enkele van zijn manen. Op de voorgrond zien we Rhea (1528 kilometer groot). Rechtsachter pronkt Enceladus (504 kilometer groot) en links achter Dione (1123 kilometer groot).

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.

9. Magische eilanden
Toch weer even terug naar Titan. Want daar ontdekt Cassini in 2014 iets heel bijzonders: magische eilanden. In Ligeia Mare – één van de grotere meren die Titan rijk is – ziet Cassini een 260 vierkante kilometer grote vlek verschijnen en weer verdwijnen. Tot op de dag van vandaag is onduidelijk wat het precies is geweest. Golven? Drijvende vaste stoffen? Of bubbels misschien?

Een magisch eiland.

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

10. Bergen op de ringen van Saturnus
Wie denkt dat de ringen van Saturnus plat zijn, heeft het mis. Cassini onthulde dat de ringen ook verticale structuren kennen. Op de foto hieronder zie je ze aan de rand van de B-ring. Ze torenen tot wel 2,5 kilometer boven het ringvlak uit. De structuren ontstaan mogelijk door toedoen van kleine maantjes (tot 1 kilometer groot) die het ringmateriaal omhoog dwingen.

Foto: NASA / JPL / SSI.

Het is zomaar een greep uit het veelbewogen werkzame leven van Cassini. En stiekem hopen we natuurlijk dat daar de komende maanden nog wat hoogtepuntjes bij komen. Dat zou niet heel verwonderlijk zijn, want de sonde duikt momenteel herhaaldelijk in het gat tussen Saturnus en de ringen. En dat is onontgonnen gebied en levert hoogstwaarschijnlijk behalve spectaculaire beelden ook spectaculaire inzichten over Saturnus en zijn ringen en manen op.

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Astronomers scramble to probe 'alien megastructure' star

Tabby's Star fluctuates in brightness so much, and at such irregular intervals, that scientists can not work out what causes it.

Image:This illustration of Tabby's Star was released by NASA. Pix: JPL-Caltec

Astronomers are scrambling to point their telescopes at one of the weirdest stars ever observed after it mysteriously dimmed again.

KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, has been monitored for several years after it was noticed that its brightness changed significantly and at irregular intervals.

A range of theories have been put forward for this strange behaviour, including one hypothesis which suggests an alien megastructure may have been built around the star to harvest its energy.

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Although the star was first discovered in the 1890s, it was not until observations between 2009 and 2013 when scientists first noticed something particularly odd about it.

It was subsequently named after Louisiana-based astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, who wrote a paper about its strange behaviour.

Professor Boyajian noticed that at one point Tabby's Star's brightness had dropped by 22%, which can not be explained by any properly understood phenomenon.

Image:Artist drawing by NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

Last month scientists noticed what appeared to be another slight dimming of the star - but that accelerated significantly on Friday, causing a scramble for additional observations.

Jason Wright, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, told a web chat: "One of the difficulties here is that most telescopes are scheduled weeks, months in advance.

"We can't just jump on a telescope and take a spectrum typically. So we need to have a network of people around the world."

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Tabby's Star is in the constellation Cygnus and is approximately 1,275 light years from Earth.

Scientists hope they might be able to work out what is causing the star to dim by analysing its full spectrum of light. But to do this, they need to know when that dimming is going to occur.

Astronomers do not believe it is being caused by a planet passing in front the star as this would not cause such a significant change in brightness, and it would be more predictable.

A number of other theories have been put forward. One suggests there may be a large cloud of dust and debris around the star.

Another suggestion is that it is recovering having been hit by a planet and a third theory suggests a swarm of comets may be responsible.

The most unusual suggestion - but one which scientists can not yet dismiss - is that an alien megastructure has been built around the star to harvest its energy.

The concept, which sounds like it comes straight out of science fiction, is actually referred to as as Dyson Sphere.

It is named after British-born scientist Freeman Dyson who, in the 1960s, hypothesised that advance civilisations would seek to power their worlds in this way.

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Bizarre Star Dims Again, and Astronomers Scramble to Catch It in the Act

A new observing campaign aims to understand a star that some have suggested might even host an alien civilization

By Charles Q. Cho

Artist's illustration showing a cloud of comet fragments blocking light from a star—one of the possible explanations for the strange, occasional dimming of KIC 8462852, also known as “Tabby’s Star.”  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The star often called the most mysterious in the galaxy has begun darkening again. Scientists are now rushing to watch the event with as many telescopes as they can muster to attempt to understand what is causing its bewildering fluctuations of light.

The star, called KIC 8462852 and nicknamed “Tabby's Star” after Yale University astronomer Tabetha “Tabby” Boyajian, first made news in 2015 when researchers discovered something odd about its light, whose strange brightenings and dimmings have even caused some to speculate it might host alien megastructures around it. The star is an otherwise-normal F type star—slightly larger and hotter than our sun—located about 1,480 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. When astronomer Boyajian and her colleagues analyzed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, however, they found dozens of strange instances of KIC 8462852 darkening up to 22 percent.

These dimming events are far too substantial to be caused by planets crossing the face of the star, so scientists looked for other explanations. Some have even suggested that it might host signs of intelligent alien life—specifically, a Dyson sphere, a hypothetical megastructure built around a star to capture as much of its energy as possible to power an advanced civilization.

In order to solve this mystery astronomers have been planning to analyze the full spectrum of light from Tabby's Star as it darkens via spectral measurements that split light into its constituent wavelengths. Because different materials absorb different wavelengths of light, spectra from the star could reveal what is causing its light fluctuations. “We’ve been waiting to catch another dip in light,” Jason Wright, an astronomer at The Pennsylvania State University, said in an online chat May 19.

Now scientists have discovered Tabby's Star is dimming again, and are racing to get as many telescopes as they can to watch it in as many wavelengths of light as possible, Wright said. “All week there's been some indication that something might be up,” he said. “Sure enough, at about 4 A.M. this morning [Pacific time], I got a phone call from Tabby [Boyajian] saying that Fairborn Observatory in Arizona had confirmed the star as 3 percent dimmer than it normally is. That's enough to say that it’s absolutely no statistical fluke, and we’ve now confirmed it with multiple observatories.”

Astronomers have proposed several possible reason’s for Tabby’s Star’s strange behavior, and each would create a different spectral signature. If clouds of dust are causing the dimming, they usually absorb bluer wavelengths of light, making stars look redder whereas comets passing close to a star would heat up and emit infrared light, Wright said. If interstellar clouds of gas are responsible, those are usually rich in sodium, hydrogen and calcium. And if the dimming is a phenomenon intrinsic to Tabby's Star itself, the spectra will show no signs that anything is absorbing the star's light. If an alien megastructure is the cause, it is difficult to predict what it might look like—if it is solid, “we might see the star getting dimmer overall,” Wright said.

In 2015 Boyajian and her colleagues predicted a dimming event might happen in May 2017. Based on the Kepler data, they suggested dimming of Tabby's Star might follow a roughly 750-day cycle. “It’s right on schedule,” Wright said. Boyajian herself demurred as to the accuracy of the estimate, noting “the prediction was a long shot—we cast a net of several hundred days.”

Among the telescopes Wright said researchers now hope to use to catch this dimming event in the act:

—The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope

—The Automated Planet Finder at Lick Observatory near San Jose, Calif., a robotic optical telescope

—Both telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, which operate in optical and near-infrared wavelengths

—The MMT Observatory in Arizona, an optical telescope

—NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, which operates in gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet and optical wavelengths

‑Las Cumbres Observatory, a worldwide network of robotic optical telescopes

—Fairborn Observatory in Arizona, which operates in optical wavelengths

—The Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, which operates in optical and near-infrared wavelengths

—The Hobby–Eberly Telescope in Texas, an optical telescope

“Our plan is to observe the star in as many wavelengths as we can,” Wright said. “This could be the weekend that we take the data that solves the puzzle.” Even more telescopes may also join in. “It's been a crazy 18 hours, and it’s going to be a really exciting weekend,” he said.

It remains unknown how long this dimming might last. “Most dips in the Kepler data take two to seven days,” Wright said. “So if this is a deep dip, it might be going on for a week. If it’s a shallow dip, it could be gone soon. Hopefully it’s a deep dip.” The data from Kepler does suggest such dimming events happen in clusters.

“This could just be the beginning,” Wright added.

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Scientists Have Just Discovered Evidence That Parallel Universes Exist

Scientists have discovered a mysterious ‘Cold Spot’ in space that could prove our universe is just one of an endless string of realities.

The Cold Spot is an area of space 13 billion-years-old and 1.8 billion light years across, which is 0.00015 degrees Celsius (0.00027 degrees Fahrenheit) colder than its surroundings – and this unfathomable mass ‘might be taken as the first evidence for the multiverse.’

Astronomers have been unable to explain the cause of this massive supervoid – and a new study conducted by Durham University claims it couldn’t possibly exist at all.

The co-author of the study, Professor Tom Shanks said:

We can’t entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model [of particle physics]. But if that isn’t the answer, then there are more exotic explanations.

Perhaps the most exciting of these is that the Cold Spot was caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe. If further, more detailed, analysis … proves this to be the case then the Cold Spot might be taken as the first evidence for the multiverse.

The new study suggests galaxies in the Cold Spot cluster around smaller voids that spread over the region like bubbles, and that there is only a two per cent chance that it formed randomly.

If Shanks’ assertions are true, the Cold Spot indicates that our cosmos contains an infinite number of parallel universes which, in turn, contain an infinite number of realities.

But this theory isn’t straight off the pages of sci-fi, as astronomy expert Dr Stuart Clarke wrote in the Guardian:

These uncountable realms sit side by side in higher dimensions that our senses are incapable of perceiving directly. Each alternate universe carries its own different version of reality.

There will be one where you wrote this column and I read it… even a really weird one in which Donald Trump uses twitter to spread nothing but amusing cat videos.

Brilliantly sassy and politically-motivated astronomers aside, this news could mean that somewhere out there, Rick and Morty are truly travelling through parallel dimensions and eating Szechuan sauce and that, on another realm, you could play Matthew McConaughey’s character in Interstellar.

The possibilities are endless and this is truly the most fascinating timeline.

Mind. Blown

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Carl Sagan Knew UFOs Are Real, Confidant Reveals

But Sagan kept his viewpoint quiet to avoid losing academic funding

ZNN – Renowned astronomer and astrophysicist Dr. Carl Sagan revealed to Dr. J. Allen Hynek that he believed UFOs were real but avoided any public statements to prevent the loss of academic research funding. Sagan’s once powerful influence on mainstream science to play-down the reality of UFOs is now in question.

In an interview with research journalist and author Paola Leopizzi-Harris she told ZlandCommunications: 

“My recollection is that Hynek said it was backstage of one of the many Johnny Carson Tonight shows Sagan did. He basically said [to Hynek] in 1984, ‘I know UFOs are real, but I would not risk my research [College] funding, as you do, to talk openly about them in public.’’ “

This startling revelation about Carl Sagan, one of this century’s most esteemed scientists and writers, has now been made public by Paola Leopizzi-Harris, a former associate of Dr. Allen J. Hynek who worked with him from 1980 to 1985.

Dr. J. Allen Hynek served as a civilian scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book from 1952 to1969, initially taking a very critical and skeptical position on anything related to the reality of UFOs. In one of his own reports he stated:

“I had started out as an outright ‘debunker,’ taking great joy in cracking what seemed at first to be puzzling cases. I was the arch-enemy of those ‘flying saucer groups and enthusiasts’ who very dearly wanted UFOs to be interplanetary.” Hynek, J. Allen. “The Hynek UFO Report”. Dell Publishing Co. 1977

After leaving Project Blue Book – the U.S. Air Force’s pseudo-investigatory public relations scheme on UFOs, Hynek later wrote: 

“Now, however, documentation which puts the UFO- U.S. government controversy in quite a new light has become available. The [UFO] authors have made revealing use of documents released through the mechanism of the Freedom of Information Act and other data which have been made available to them… which show that the CIA and NSA protestations of innocence and lack of interest in UFOs are nothing short of prevarication.” 

Hynek went on to say: “For the government to continue to maintain that UFOs are nonexistent in the face of the documents already released and of other cogent evidence presented in this book is puerile and in a sense an insult to the American people.”  “The UFO Cover-Up.”(Fireside books, Simon & Schuster 1984)

Hynek’s credentials are indeed impressive, having consulted on the Stephen Spielberg movie Close Encounters. As well he presented a paper on UFOs at the UN in 1978. (All Experts)

Sagan’s link to UFOs and possibly to Dr. Hynek occurred in 1966 when Sagan was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book. This committee concluded that the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book had been lacking as a scientific study, and recommended a university-based project to give the UFO phenomenon closer scientific scrutiny. 

In scientific circles much of Sagan’s notoriety came from debates conducted under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 1969 he challenged J. Allen Hynek on whether investigations of unidentified flying objects should be considered serious. Hynek argued yes Sagan no. (NNDB) 

Sagan was a prolific writer of some 20 books including Contact – eventually made into a movie staring Jodie Foster. Sagan also hosted the brilliantly crafted and highly popular series COSMOS: A Personal Voyage. In Episode 12: “Encyclopedia Galactica”, Sagan explored UFOs and alien abductions while also including ‘refutations’ on UFOs. 

In a statement at the 1968 Congressional Hearings before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics – U.S. House of Representatives Carl Sagan stated:

“As I understand what the committee would like from me, is a discussion of the likelihood of intelligent extraterrestrial life… clearly it is the hypothesis that unidentified objects are of extraterrestrial origin which the committee must have in mind. I’m delighted to tell about contemporary scientific thinking along these lines, but let me begin by saying that I do not think the evidence is at all persuasive, that UFO’s are of intelligent extraterrestrial origin…”

Sagan’s confidential conversation with Dr. Hynek in 1984 appears to not only contradict this statement to the House Committee in 1968, Sagan’s new found view – that UFOs were real – clearly did not play any role in Sagan’s later highly successful public work. 

This revelation by Paola Leopizzi-Harris appears to raise serious scientific discrepancies concerning Sagan’s public verses private beliefs about the nature of UFOs and Extraterrestrial life. 

It appears, therefore that Carl Sagan presumably embarked upon his many television appearances, consulting on major television and Hollywood feature productions as well as his own academic writing while professing one public scientific point of view, yet maintaining a significantly contradictory personal belief – “I know UFOs are real…” as told to Dr. J. Allen Hynek in 1984 according to Paola Leopizzi-Harris.

In later years Sagan also heavily promoted SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which discounts UFOs as an ET reality – advancing the theory that listening for signals from deep space may help locate intelligent ET civilizations. [Ed.note – SETI officials were contacted by ZlandCommunications for a comment on this matter – however at the time of publication no response had yet been received.]

It is unknown how long Sagan held this personal view or when and what changed his mind – future disclosures may reveal this. That Sagan presented much of his finest and most popular work outside the context of his personal belief that UFOs were real remains a salient incongruity for a man of Sagan’s stature, obvious integrity and celebratory contributions to humanity and science.

One can only speculate upon why, during the period between Sagan’s initial statement in 1968 and all during his now legendary writings and media productions, Sagan continued to espouse critical views on the reality of UFOs. Why did his views change so dramatically? Did funding issues alone motivate him not to come forward publicly to declare his change-of-mind?

This revelation made to Paola Leopizzi-Harris by a well-respected scientific figure like Dr. J. Allen Hynek alters if not the magnificent quality of Sagan’s work but re-constructs his considerable scientific influence on the mainstream scientific theories about the universe, the intelligent nature of UFOs and Extraterrestrial life. 

How will mainstream science respond knowing now that a corner stone of modern science and one of its most revered members is now recognized as to have conceded – UFOs are real?

Two conclusions emerge –

• One of the 20th Century’s most renowned space gurus and scientific leaders, appears to have inadvertently shattered the prevailing notion among the scientific community and the so-called experts, that UFOs are fictitious and that issue is does not merit further study.

• The second conclusion – short of full disclosure by government of the UFO/ET reality, this revelation most assuredly represents the most serious damage yet to the wall of secrecy and the truth embargo surrounding the Extraterrestrial presence so ardently maintained by government officials and bolstered by mainstream science.

Notably this information also comes at a time when Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister of National Defence has publicly admonished another pillar of mainstream science, Professor Stephen Hawking, for contributing to misinformation about advanced Extraterrestrial civilizations. Hellyer’s admonishment is timely. It puts all scientists on notice that ponderous changes to their entrenched belief about the universe and Extraterrestrial life are about to occur.

The Sagan story also arrives on the eve of the X-Conference 2010 – the largest annual American UFO/ET Disclosure event coordinated by Stephen G. Bassett Director of PRG – the Paradigm Research Group at the National Press Club in Washington DC, just down the street from the White House and a President that recognizes the need for grave global change.

When asked to comment PRG Director Stephen G. Bassett said, 

“Carl Sagan and J. Allen Hynek perfectly represent the intellectual and political dilemma faced by the human race during the second half of the 20th century. Both helped to radically change our view of the world… Yet one must be profoundly wrong on the most important historical event in human history.”

Ironically, a cloistered conversation between to academicians behind the curtain – backstage on the set of the Johnny Carson Show in 1984 seems to have changed science and with it, the paradigm beliefs of an entire planet – we are not alone. 

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Anonymous donor saves Shag Harbour UFO incident’s 50th anniversary event

Earlier this week, a newspaper in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia reported that an event planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of Canada’s most famous UFO incidents was in jeopardy due to funding. The event is being organized by the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society (SHUFOIS), who had hoped to secure a grant offered by Canada’s Department of Communities, Culture & Heritage. Unfortunately, they were not approved for the grant, putting the event’s future in question. However, according to SHUFOIS, an anonymous donor has come forward to fund the event, and the festivities are now back on.

The Shag Harbour Incident Society Museum.

(Credit: Shag Harbour Incident Society)

Shag Harbour is a small fishing village with around 500 residents. Their claim to fame is a UFO incident that occurred on October 4, 1967.

A website setup by the Canadian Library and Archives describes the UFO event:

Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia

October 4, 1967

On the night of October 4, 1967, officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and six civilians witnessed an incredible, yet unexplainable, sight. Earlier in the evening, the RCMP had received many phone calls from residents reporting that an airplane had crashed into Shag Harbour. Both the RCMP and locals had rushed to the shore of the harbour, but what they encountered there was far from a conventional aircraft.

Witnesses reported seeing an object 60 feet in length moving in an easterly direction before it descended rapidly into the water, making a bright splash on impact. A single white light appeared on the surface of the water for a short period of time. The RCMP, with help from local fishermen and their boats, endeavoured to reach the object before it sank completely.

Local fishermen remember travelling through thick, glittery, yellow foam to get to where they saw the object. Bubbles from underneath the surface of the water appeared around the boats. The crews attempted to search the area for evidence of survivors, but found no one.

The Department of National Defence (DND) conducted an underwater search of the area, but failed to locate any evidence of an object.

The crashing of the unidentified flying object into Shag Harbour is still discussed today, with many articles appearing on the Internet. There is no trace of the RCMP reports of this sighting in the files. The Department of National Defence has identified this sighting as unsolved, and the only documentation that exists in the files is a DND memo.

Related documents:

Department of National Defence Memo

Canadian UFO report linked to in the Shag Harbour UFO Incident summary.

(Credit: Canada Library and Archives)

The incident is famous in UFO circles, and often referred to as Canada’s Roswell. However, SHUFOIS members say they have not received the support they feel they deserve.

Brock Zinck, vice-president of SHUFOIS , told the Shelburne County Coast Guard, “We can’t get a lot of love here in Shag Harbour; they won’t even give us a (Highway 103) sign.”

“Maybe the government doesn’t want to know we are there,” Zinck added.

Inside the Shag Harbour Incident Society Museum.

(Credit: Shag Harbour Incident Society)

Their hearts were further broken when they were denied the grant.

“We were really counting on the grant…we were excited,” Zinck said.  “It does throw a wrench in our preparations. We had big plans to take it to the next level.”

However, in a press release OpenMinds.tv received this morning, Zinck writes: “We are back on track to make this the most epic Shag Harbour UFO Incident Festival ever. It’s going to be outta this world!”

Zinck says that a civilian, who is involved with the study of UFOs and “related phenomenon,” read about the lack of funding and, as Zinck puts it, “to our complete shock, offered a significant donation.”

Gazebo and sign outside of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident museum.

(Credit: DiscoverShelburneCounty.com)

Zinck says the donor wished to remain anonymous, but did provide a public statement.

Although there is much I can’t reveal, without any hesitation I can say the Canadian Government (and the International Community it answers to) appears to be concealing what happened in and around the waters of Shag Harbour, Canada on Oct 4th, 1967. People with the connections, notoriety, and finances are working hard to challenge how we view the world around us. Shag Harbour is one of the smoking guns that will be used to achieve this.

Mysterious, to say the least.

The weeklong festival will be held September 29 to October 1 later this year. There will also be an event on October 4, marking the actual anniversary of the event.

You can find out more about the festival at www.ShagHarbourIncident.com.

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EXPERT EXPLAINS WHY GOD PROBABLY DOES EXIST

Because church attendances worldwide are falling and that the percentage of individuals who identify as atheist or as not following a religion is increasing, it is generally increasingly becoming an accepted view that God does not exist.

The idea of a god of some kind isn't necessarily in a rapid decline, rather how people tend to think of God and the idea of organized religion.

It has long been established that the various Christian disciplines contain numerous contradictions not to mention revisions and portions of the Bible hidden from the public by the Vatican City.  

The Catholic sect has experienced scandal after scandal over the last few years while the Muslim faith is gaining a worldwide negative reputation due to the continued actions terrorists using their scriptures as justification for their actions.

While religions are self-imploding, the view that most people have of the world and their understanding of the universe and our place in it is also changing.

As recently as a few decades ago people could easily deny the possibility of life on other planets as no other potentially life-bearing planets had been discovered. Similarly, the sheer size and scale of the universe and how tiny and insignificant humankind and the earth are was not known.

While the old ideas of a god being an omnipotent presence who watched over us die off, however, belief in a universal God is increasing. This is a god who does not care what we do, know we even exist or have any interest in being worshiped. More the idea that the universe started from somewhere and as scientific knowledge increases the one defining start point of the universe is increasingly unknown.

This suggests that while a deity as most people think of one doesn't exist, a god of some description becomes more likely. The more questions that science can answer, the more puzzling the fundamental questions become, and the more the answer can only be a deity of some kind.

Other examples of reasons for the existence of God include the spontaneous development of different forms of religion at various points in history, or the constant reemergence of different life forms after mass extinctions.

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What are they hiding? Brexit blamed for latest delay in release of UK UFO 'X-Files'

THE Pre-Brexit general election has been blamed for yet another delay to the release of British classified UFO files that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) appears reluctant to let go of.

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It’s almost certainly not aliens, but once again, Tabby’s Star is acting hella weird. The star that first became our planetary obsession back in the fall of 2015—when astronomer Jason Wright suggested its weird flickering behavior might be the result of an alien megastructure—is, once again, flickering. But unlike previous stellar glitches, astronomers are now prepared to study it in the act.

The world was first alerted to a alien signal mysterious change in the star’s light output in a tweet from Wright this morning.

Jason Wright @Astro_Wright

ALERT:@tsboyajian's star is dipping

This is not a drill.

Astro tweeps on telescopes in the next 48 hours: spectra please!

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As reported by Popular Science, Fairborn Observatory in Arizona confirmed that the star’s light output has recently dimmed by approximately 3 percent. As with previous dimming events, this can’t be easily explained by any ordinary stellar behavior. Past explanations for the star’s fits and starts include a swarm of cometary fragments, a recently-annihilated planet (full disclosure: my brother, an astronomer at Columbia University, came up with that one), and, every true believer’s favorite, an alien megastructure.

Tabby’s Star, or KIC 8462852 as it was first identified in the Kepler space telescope database, has confounded astronomers since its unusual light curve was first spotted by citizen scientists. Over four years of Kepler observations, the star’s light output intermittently tanked, dropping by roughly 20 percent on one occasion. The more astronomers looked at the star, the weirder things got. An analysis of old photographic plates hinted that the star’s light output diminished a whopping 19 percent over the 20th century, and a subsequent analysis of Kepler’s data seemed to confirm long-term dimming. It was soon decided that the only way to solve the mystery would be to observe the star in the act of dimming across the electromagnetic spectrum. Following a successful crowdfunding campaign by star-discoverer Tabetha Boyajian last spring, that’s exactly what astronomers have been gearing up to do.

 

Now, they’re wasting no time. A call is currently open for telescopes around the world, including amateur astronomers, to point their eyes at Tabby’s Star and watch how its light curve changes over the course of the ongoing dimming event. “Right now, we’re organizing lots of different telescopes,” Wright said in an interview with UC Berkeley’s SETI program, noting that observers on both Keck telescopes in Hawaii were going to look at Tabby’s Star tonight, along with, hopefully, folks at several other observatories elsewhere in the United States and around the world. “It should be a really exciting weekend.

As I’ve explained previously, Kepler’s data on Tabby’s Star consisted of a smear of white light. More precise measurements at different wavelengths could help us zero in on whatever material is actually occluding it. A spectra with high absorption in blue and ultraviolet wavelengths, for instance, could point to a giant blob of dust around the star, while an excess of infrared radiation may support the comet hypothesis. 

But what would support the theory of a vast alien construction project? Only the most extraordinary evidence—although at this point, as long as the star continues to defy natural explanations, the nerds in the room can dream on.

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Exciting stuff! I’ve reached out to Boyajian and Wright for comment on what the next steps are, and I’ll update this post if I hear back. If you’re keen to learn more right now, SETI’s hour-long conversation with Wright today, embedded above, is chock full of additional information.

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'Alien Megastructure' Star Is at It Again with the Strange Dimming

An artist's illustration of Boyajian's star, which experiences unexplained changes in brightness. One hypothesis is that a planet has broken up around the star, and the debris is block the star's light.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech

The perplexing cosmic object known as "Boyajian's star" is once again exhibiting a mysterious pattern of dimming and brightening that scientists have tried to explain with hypotheses ranging from swarms of comets to alien megastructures.

Today (May 19), an urgent call went out to scientists around the world to turn as many telescopes as possible toward the star, to try and crack the mystery of its behavior.

"At about 4 a.m. this morning I got a phone call … that Fairborn [Observatory] in Arizona had confirmed that the star was 3 percent dimmer than it normally is," Jason Wright, an associate professor of astronomy at Pennsylvania State University, who is managing a study of Boyajian's star, said during a live webcast today at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT). "That is enough that we are absolutely confident that this is no statistical fluke. We've now got it confirmed at multiple observatories, I think.

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Star KIC 8462852, or Boyajian's star (also nicknamed "Tabby's star," for astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, who led the team that first detected the star's fluctuations), has demonstrated an irregular cycle of growing dimmer and then returning to its previous brightness. These changes were first spotted in September 2015 using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which was built to observe these kinds of dips in a star's brightness, because they can be caused by a planet moving in front of the star as seen from Earth.

But the brightness changes exhibited by Boyajian don't show the kind of regularity that is typical of a planet's orbit around its star, and scientists can't see how the changes could be explained by a system of planets.

Scientists have hypothesized that the changes could be due to a swarm of comets passing in front of the star, that they're the result of strong magnetic activity, or that it's some massive structure built by aliens. But no leading hypothesis has emerged, so scientists have been eager to capture a highly detailed picture of the light coming from the star during one of these dimming periods. This detailed view is what scientists typically call an object spectra. It can reveal, for example, the specific chemical elements that are in a gas. It can also tell scientists if an object is moving toward or away from the observer.

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"Whatever's causing the star to get dimmer will leave a spectral fingerprint behind," Wright said during the webcast, which took place in the Breakthrough Listen laboratory  at the University of California, Berkeley. "So if there is a lot of dust between us and the star … it will block more blue light than red light. If there is gas in that dust, that gas should absorb very specific wavelengths and we should be able to see that. And so, we've been eager to see one of these changes in one of these dips of the star so we can take some spectra."

But the scientists couldn't predict when the next dimming event would occur or how long it will last. (Dips detected by Kepler lasted for between two and seven days, according to Wright.) Professional-grade telescopes typically schedule observing time weeks or months in advance, so Wright and his colleagues knew their observations would have to come at the behest of colleagues who were already using the telescopes for other projects.

"We need to have a network of people around the world that are ready to jump on [and observe it]," Wright said. "Fortunately, Tabby's star is not too faint and so there are a lot of observers and telescopes … that have graciously agreed to take some time out of their science to grab a spectrum for us [tonight]."

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Wright said the call had gone out to amateur as well as professional astronomers to observe Boyajian's star during this dimming period. The largest and most powerful telescopes that will heed the call are the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W.H. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The team is working to gain observing time on at least three other large telescopes on the U.S., according to Wright.

The Breakthrough Listen initiative, which searches for signs of intelligent life in the universe, has also taken an interest in the star and will be observing it with the Automated Planet Finder telescope at Lick Observatory in California, according to Andrew Siemion, director or the Berkeley SETI Research Center, said in the webcast.

"It's Super Bowl Sunday," Siemion said of the atmosphere at the during the webcast. "There's a palpable tension."

Breakthrough and the Berkeley center are now trying to get some observing time on the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia, according to Siemion. 

Boyajian was the astronomer at Yale University who led the team that initially spotted the star's brightness fluctuations. It was Boyajian who called Wright at 4 a.m. to confirm that the star is dimming.

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REVEALED: The REAL Men in Black exposed by alien hunters

ARMIES of conspiracy theorists have been desperately seeking the truth about aliens and UFOs for years – could real Men In Black be hiding it from the public?

By Andrew McDonald 

Sci-fi blockbuster Men in Black was an international hit in 1997 for showing two US secret agents – played by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones – tracking down aliens and erasing the memories of any witnesses that saw them.

The movie – based on a 1992 comic by Lowell Cunningham – was such a success that it spawned two sequels, a number 1 hit record, an animated series, merchandise and now talks of another film are in the works.

But despite the fun and light-hearted tone of the film, the origins of the tale are hauntingly real.

Dozens of sightings of "strange men in black suits" have been recorded over the years and Daily Star Online delved deep into these bizarre accounts.

Who are the REAL Men in Black?

The real Men in Black are rumoured to be part of a secret US government agency who ask questions and give no answers.

The men are believed to be human-alien hybrids that only target civilians who have been abducted by extra terrestrials, seen UFOs or are actively researching alien life.

It is not known what the men do to "believers" but reports suggest they arrive out of the blue, flash security cards and ask questions about the sightings, even if they weren't reported.

The Men in Black are said to demand silence regarding the sighting and confiscate any materials related to aliens or UFOs.

There have been many Men in Black sightings over the years, some of which feature in the video above.

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When did the first Men in Black sighting take place?

The first Men in Black sighting reportedly occurred in 1947 in "The Maury Island incident".

Harold Dahl claims he saw six saucer-like objects in June of that year on Maury Island in Washington, US.

The alien craft dropped "molten hot debris" that killed his dog and burnt his son but, terrified, he told no one.

The sighting alone was terrifying enough but what happened next is even creepier.

Dahl was then visited by a man in a black suit driving a Buick car who invited him to eat breakfast at a nearby diner to go over the details.

After sharing his flying saucer story, Dahl was warned that "bad things would happen to him and his family if he told anyone about the incident", according to UFO networking site MUFON.

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“Was that an MIB experience?”

Dan Aykroyd, Ghostbusters star

Men in Black sightings have happened since?

After Howard Dahl's strange experience, a man called Albert K. Bender started releasing news about UFOs to "believers" after he was visited by men in dark suits and threatened in 1952.

He published a magazine called Space Review and claimed to have discovered the truth about a UFO cover-up.

Bender was going to publish the revelation in an issue but was visited three times by "men dressed in black".

He never released the information, stopped the publishing of his magazine and dissolved a society he had created called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), just one year after launching it.

Bender released this statement: “The mystery of the flying saucers is no longer a mystery. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by order from a higher source.

"We would like to print the full story in Space Review, but because of the nature of the information we are very sorry that we have been advised in the negative."

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But no explanation was given as to why the magazine was stopped or the IFSB closed.

Another man called Paul Miller saw a disappearing "luminous silo" in a field with weird human-like creatures inside, while walking with friends in 1961.

Terrified, he panicked and shot at them with a rifle.

Miller and his friends claimed to have blackouts on the way home afterwards and lose three hours.

A more recent Men in Black experience was revealed by Ghostbusters star Dan Aykroyd.

The 64-year-old actor was about to film a UFO documentary series but had it abruptly cancelled.

Just before interviewing a pair of alien abductees, Aykroyd went outside for a breath of fresh air to see a tall man in a black sedan waiting outside.

The man apparently gave the star "a real dirty look" before disappearing.

In a 2005 documentary called Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs, he says: "The show was cancelled two hours later. Was that an MIB experience?"

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ILLUSTRATION OF THE STAR KIC 8462852

The weird light blips coming from this star might be caused by a family of comets or collision debris, but scientists don't really know.

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In late 2015, astronomers noticed something absurd happening around a distant star. Something massive seemed to be blocking as much as 20 percent of the star’s light.

That’s way too much to be a planet. It might be comets, or maybe an alien-made Dyson swarm. The problem is that none of the hypotheses that scientists have come up with (including the one about aliens) really fits with the data. That leads them to think that some as-yet-undiscovered phenomena is happening around this star.

For years, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian and her colleagues have been waiting for the mysterious light dips to happen again, so that they could collect more data and try to get to the bottom of the mystery. And now it seems the star is finally dimming again:

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The researchers suspected another dip was happening yesterday, but this morning the Fairborn Observatory in Arizona confirmed that the star has dimmed by three percent. (By comparison, a Jupiter-sized planet would block one percent of a star's light, at most.) The team has put out a call for amateur astronomers and large observatories to point their scopes at the star and try to collect data. The Swift, Keck, Fairborn, and Lick telescopes are among the observatories who'll helping the effort.

In particular, the astronomers want to see how the star looks in different wavelengths. That's because different materials will block some wavelengths but not others, offering clues to the identify of any circumstellar material that may be blocking the light.

The light from 'Tabby's Star' has dipped by three percent so far. Astronomers aren't sure if the light will continue to plummet, or if so, for how long.

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If it's dust that's blocking the light, the spectra should show big dips in the blue and ultraviolet wavelengths. If it's other stuff orbiting the star, like a family of huge comets, then the observations should show extra heat being radiated off of this stuff. So far, that excess infrared has remained elusive, but Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State, said that the observations that will start tonight could provide the first evidence of that.

If it's an alien megastructure, or some kind of internal process, all of the wavelengths should get dimmer equally. A bizarre signature, such as Tritium or artificial elements would be a pretty strong hint for aliens, although it would take an extraordinary amount of evidence to prove such an extraordinary claim.

Wright said they might have some preliminary results back as soon as tomorrow night, but other data will take longer to analyze.

“I don’t think we’re going to solve the puzzle this weekend," says Wright, but he added that this weekend may be when they collect the data that eventually solves the puzzle.

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Stefan Michalak was treated at a hospital for burns to his chest and stomach that later turned into raised sores on a grid-like pattern.

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Stan Michalak can still vividly remember when his dad came home sick and injured after something happened in the Falcon Lake woods in Manitoba on the May long weekend of 1967.

It was something that put his family life into upheaval and remains one of the world's best-known UFO encounters.

"I recalled seeing him in bed. He didn't look good at all. He looked pale, haggard," said Michalak, who was nine years old at the time and was allowed to see his dad for a couple of minutes on the day after what soon become known as the Falcon Lake incident.

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Then there was the smell.

"When I walked into the bedroom there was a huge stink in the room, like a real horrible aroma of sulphur and burnt motor. It was all around and it was coming out of his pores. It was bad," said Michalak, who co-authored the book When They Appeared with Winnipeg UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski.

Stefan Michalak's sketch of the strange craft he encountered.

The book will be launched on Saturday in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the incident.

"I was very afraid. My dad had been injured and I didn't know anything about it," Michalak told CBC News in recalling that Saturday 50 years earlier.

Within a couple of days, however, not only did he know more — so did much of the public.

The story about his dad being burned by a UFO ran in the Winnipeg Tribune newspaper "and that's when everything pretty much hit the fan," Michalak said.

The encounter

Stefan Michalak was an industrial mechanic by trade and an amateur geologist who liked to venture into the wilderness around Falcon Lake — about 150 kilometres east of Winnipeg — to prospect for quartz and silver.

He had staked some claims the prior year and set out on the May long weekend in 1967 to explore some more.

On May 20, 1967, Stefan was near a vein of quartz along the Precambrian Shield in the area when the 51-year-old was startled by a gaggle of nearby geese that erupted into a clattering of honks.

A grid of dots can be seen on Stefan Michalak's burned shirt.

According to his accounts, as reported in newspapers at the time and since repeated in books, magazines and on TV shows like Unsolved Mysteries, Stefan looked up and saw two cigar-shaped objects with a reddish glow hovering about 45 metres away.

One descended, according to Stefan's account, landing on a flat section of rock and taking on more of a disc shape. The other remained in the air for a few minutes before flying off.

Believing it to be a secret U.S.military experimental craft, Stefan sat back and sketched it over the next half hour. Then he decided to approach, later recalling the warm air and smell of sulphur as he got closer, as well as a whirring sound of motors and a hissing of air.

A piece of the radioactive metal that was retrieved from the crash site in 1968. It was found in the cracks of the Precambrian rock.

(Chris Rutkowski)

He also noted a door open on the side with bright lights inside, and said he heard voices muffled by the sounds from the craft.

He said he called out, offering mechanical help to the "Yankee boys" if they needed it. The voices went quiet but did not answer, so Stefan tried in his native Polish, then in Russian and finally in German.

Only the whirr and hiss of the craft responded.

He claims he went closer and noted the smooth metal of the ship, with no seams. He then looked into the bright doorway, pulling on the welding goggles he used to protect his eyes while chipping at rocks during prospecting.

Stefan Michalak wearing the welding goggles he says he used to peer into the craft he encountered in Falcon Lake.

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Inside, Stefan said he saw light beams and panels of various-coloured flashing lights, but could not see anyone or any living thing. When he stepped away, three panels slid across the door opening and sealed it.

He reached to touch the craft, which he said melted the fingertips of the glove he was wearing.

The craft then began to turn counter-clockwise and Stefan says he noticed a panel that contained a grid of holes. Shortly afterward, he was struck in the chest by a blast of air or gas that pushed him backward and set his shirt and cap ablaze.

He ripped away the burning garments as the craft lifted off and flew away.

Disoriented and nauseous, Stefan stumbled through the forest and vomited. He eventually made his way back to his motel room in Falcon Lake then caught a bus back to Winnipeg.

He was treated at a hospital for burns to his chest and stomach that later turned into raised sores on a grid-like pattern. And for weeks afterwards, he suffered from diarrhea, headaches, blackouts and weight loss.

'It just flipped our lives over'

Once the story was out, the RCMP, the air force, the media, various government agencies, and hordes of gawking members of the public descended on the Michalaks's small River Heights bungalow in Winnipeg.

That's who Michalak refers to in the title of the book — those endless visitors and phone calls, the media and people camping on the lawn, the people who would follow Michalak to school one day peppering him with questions.

"It just flipped our lives over," he said. "It took several years before it finally died down."

When They Appeared is being launched this weekend, on the 50th anniversary of the Falcon Lake incident.

(Chris Rutkowski)

After that, and until the day he died in 1999 at the age of 83, Stefan believed he never should have said a thing, Michalak said.

But at the time, he felt it was a duty. He wanted others, if they were to see the same thing, to avoid it and not get hurt, Michalak said.

In Poland, before Stefan moved his family to Canada, he was a military policeman with a set of moral guidelines that he lived by — that is, if something happened, it should be reported, Michalak said.

In addition to constant probing from authorities, the family endured condemnation and criticism in the public, Stefan's sanity was questioned and Michalak was bullied in school.

Though he wished he hadn't said anything, Stefan never backed away from the story, either. He also never claimed to have seen aliens and still considered it a secret military craft.

"If you asked him what it was he saw, he could describe it in intimate detail but he would never say, 'Oh, it was definitely extraterrestrials,' because there was no evidence to prove that," said Michalak.

"He might ask, 'What do you think I saw?' but right up until he died, his story never changed one iota — nothing about it or how he told it."

In all those years since and with some 300 pages of documentation on the encounter, "there's nothing so far that has flawed his story," Michalak said.

So what does he think?

"I'm not so close-minded that I can't entertain the possibility that it's otherworldly. I can't discount that. But without specific evidence to show me that it is, I don't know," Michalak said.

"What I can tell you is that I'm an aviation fanatic, a huge aviation buff, and I am very familiar with how aviation technology has advanced in the past 50 years. And there was nothing even close to that in the works anywhere at that time."

Intensely investigated

The case was investigated intensely by a number of levels of government and the official conclusion, even from the United States Air Force, was that the case was unexplained, Rutkowski noted.

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"The Falcon Lake incident is possibly Canada's best-documented UFO case," he said.

"It even beats Roswell [the alleged flying disc that landed in New Mexico in 1947] because the United States still doesn't recognize that anything happened in Roswell out of the ordinary."

"If Dad hoaxed this — remember we're talking about a blue-collar, industrial mechanic — if he hoaxed it then he was a freakin' genius."- Stan Michalak 

Items were later retrieved from the encounter site, including Stefan's glove and shirt and some tools, which were subjected to extensive analysis at an RCMP crime lab. No one could determine what caused the burns.

At the landing site was a circle about 15 feet in diameter, devoid of the moss and vegetation growing in other areas of the same rock outcropping. Soil samples, along with samples of clothing, were tested and deemed to be highly radioactive.

So were pieces of metal that were chipped out of cracks in the rock about a year after the incident. The metal had somehow been melted into the cracks.

Many of the items have long since been lost as they were transferred through various authorities and agencies. However, Rutkowski and Michalak still have one of the pieces of metal, which remains radioactive.

Still sick in 1968 with recurrences of the burns showing up on his chest and suffering from blackouts, Stefan went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Doctors did a thorough investigation and even sent him to a psychiatrist "who came back with the report that this is a fellow who's very pragmatic, very down to earth — pardon the pun — and does not make up stories," Rutkowski said.

"If Dad hoaxed this — remember we're talking about a blue-collar, industrial mechanic — if he hoaxed it then he was a freakin' genius," said Michalak.

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Maantje ontdekt rond Kuipergordelobject 2007 OR10

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De maan zou tussen de 240 en 400 kilometer groot zijn.

Astronomen ontdekten de maan dankzij observaties van ruimtetelescopen Hubble en Kepler. Hoe groot de maan precies is, is nog onduidelijk. Waarschijnlijk heeft deze een diameter tussen de 240 en 400 kilometer. Ter vergelijking: 2007 OR10 heeft zelf een diameter van zo’n 1530 kilometer.

2007 OR10: EEN GROTE KLEINE JONGEN

2007 OR10 is te vinden in de Kuipergordel. Het is een dwergplaneet en behoort dus tot een select gezelschap. Tot op heden zijn we ons van het bestaan van slechts negen dwergplaneten bewust. 2007 OR10 behoort tot de wat grotere dwergplaneten: alleen Pluto en Eris zijn groter.

De eerste aanwijzing
De eerste aanwijzingen dat de dwergplaneet 2007 OR10 een maan bezat, kregen onderzoekers via ruimtetelescoop Kepler in handen. Deze telescoop ontdekte dat de dwergplaneet er zo’n 45 uur over doet om een rondje rond zijn as te draaien. Daarmee is ‘ie aan de langzame kant. “Doorgaans hebben Kuipergordelobjecten een rotatietijd van minder dan 24 uur,” vertelt onderzoeker Csaba Kiss. Dat 2007 OR10 aanzienlijk langzamer draaide, kon wel eens het resultaat zijn van een maantje dat met zijn zwaartekracht aan de dwergplaneet trok. En dus doken de onderzoekers in archiefbeelden van Hubble. En jawel, op twee foto’s die een jaar na elkaar waren gemaakt, ontdekten de onderzoekers een stipje dat duidelijk bij de dwergplaneet hoorde.

Foto: NASA / ESA / C. Kiss (Konkoly Observatory) & J. Stansberry (STScI).

Baan is onbekend
Ironisch genoeg weten onderzoekers nog altijd niet of er een verband is tussen de trage rotatie van 2007 OR10 en het bestaan van de maan. Dat komt doordat de baan van het maantje nog niet in kaart is gebracht.

De ontdekking van het maantje is belangrijk. Het maantje kan namelijk meer vertellen over de omstandigheden waarin 2007 OR10 en andere dwergplaneten zijn ontstaan. We weten nu dat bijna alle grote dwergplaneten – met een diameter groter dan 965 kilometer – in de Kuipergordel een maantje hebben (alleen Sedna heeft geen natuurlijke satelliet). “De ontdekking van satellieten rond alle bekende grote dwergplaneten – met uitzondering van Sedna – betekent dat in de tijd dat deze hemellichamen ontstonden regelmatig botsingen plaatsvonden,” legt Kiss uit. Want de maantjes zijn dar het resultaat van. Het wijst er weer op dat de Kuipergordel 4,6 miljard jaar tamelijk dichtbevolkt was.

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The 'government or aliens' are secretly testing anti-gravity spacecraft over Devon, claim conspiracy theorists

• Footage uploaded to YouTube appears to show a spinning triangle of lights
• Conspiracy theorists say aliens are conducting anti-gravity flights
• But one leading expert believes a drone or Chinese lanterns are more likely

By Tim Collins For Mailonline

Strange lights have been spotted in the night sky over Devon, which UFO hunters believe are proof that aliens or the government are conducting anti-gravity flights.

A popular UFO hunting YouTube channel has uploaded footage of an encounter by a bus driver showing a bizarre triangular shaped object.

But one leading expert believes that a more down to Earth explanation, like a drone or Chinese lanterns, is more likely.

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Footage that appears to show a strange spinning triangle of lights in the night sky (circled) is proof that aliens are conducting anti-gravity flights above England, according to conspiracy theorists

The video, which appears to show a spinning triangle of lights above Exmouth, in east Devon, was captured by a bus driver who was on a break.

Speaking to UFO website Mufon, the unknown driver is reported to have said: 'I was taking to my best man about my upcoming wedding on the phone.

'I would normally be in our restroom, but since the clock in the restroom was fast I had gone out early to wait while still chatting to my friend. 

'While I was talking, I was just kind of walking about near the leisure centre, where my bus stops, when I looked randomly over in the direction of the river, which is when I saw the three lights in a triangle pattern rotating on its axis and wobbling slightly.'

A video discussing the object, which was spotted at around 9:40 pm on April 17 this year, was uploaded to YouTube by UFO Hunters Secure Team 10 earlier this week.

There, it is argued that the craft, known as a TR3B among UFOlogists, is likely of alien or governmental origin.

Many of the 'spacecraft' captured on amateur footage over they years appear to hover and move at great speed in any direction, according to conspiracy theorists.

They usually do so silently, leading the UFO community to conclude that they do not use conventional methods of propulsion.

The footage, which appears to show a spinning triangle of lights (pictured) above Exmouth, in east Devon, was captured by a bus driver who was on a break. One expert says a drone or Chinese lanterns could explain the sighting

One popular explanation is that the craft utilise a method of anti-gravity called electrogravitics, which uses an electrical field to reduce an objects mass.

This could theoretically free it from gravity's clutches and allow it to move in the unusual manner of a UFO. 

Speaking in the video, Tyler Glockner from the channel, which has almost a million subscribers, said: 'They've been linked to secret government projects but we've also seen these things in space, so I guess the jury is still out on who owns them and who is operating them.

'I'd wager a guess to say that we both are. There are people outside the planet that have craft like these and the US government has these craft as well.

'This same object has been spotted multiple times. I think there's something strange going on above England.'

But not everyone is convinced that the footage shows anything sinister.

Alien expert and author of the UFO Investigations Manual Nigel Watson believes a more simple explanation is likely.

Speaking to MailOnline, he said: 'The objects are hard to distinguish due to lack of detail. 

'Three lights can imply a triangular structure behind them, but in this case the lights seem to be moving about as if they are linked together or flying in close proximity to each other.

'They are silent so they couldn't be caused by an helicopter or conventional aircraft. 

'There is a possibility that they are attached to a drone or three drones, or that they are Chinese lanterns that often look as if they are in formation and move swiftly and silently in the night sky. 

'I think those possibilities or more likely than them being the lights of an alien spacecraft or a secret aircraft being tested over England.' 

DO YOU BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES?

People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking, according to a study earlier this year.

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

Writing in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the team explained: 'Previous research linked the endorsement of conspiracy theories to low self-esteem.'

In the first study, a total of 202 participants completed questionnaires on conspiracy beliefs, asking how strongly they agreed with specific statements, such as whether governments carried out acts of terrorism on their own soil.

Alongside this, they were asked to complete a narcissist scale and a self-esteem assessment.

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

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Close encounter of the Manitoba kind

Precisely a half-century ago, the Falcon Lake Incident vaulted an amateur Winnipeg prospector into a UFO-sighting celebrity

By: Kevin Rollason

WHITESHELL PROVINCIAL PARK — The truth is outthere, but so still are the answers.

New Mexico may have its Roswell, Britain has its Rendlesham Forest, Nova Scotia has its Shag Harbour, but Manitoba also has a claim to stake when it comes to one of the most notable unidentified flying object sightings around the world.

Fifty years ago, an amateur prospector saw something at a remote spot in this provincial park that changed his life and the lives of his family members, and not always for the better.

No one knows for sure what Stefan Michalak saw while he was looking for signs of gold and silver in the rocks in the Precambrian shield, but numerous military and scientific experts went to the site, tested the area, repeatedly interviewed him and, in the end, the report of the United States government-sponsored UFO project concluded that the incident was "unknown."

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Stan Michalak points out landmarks matching those in a sketch his father, Stephen, provided to the RCMP following the 1967 UFO incident he witnessed.

Surprisingly, it was only a few days ago that for the first time, his youngest son Stan — who was nine years old at the time and has now co-written a book being launched this weekend about how his family experienced the unwanted attention from authorities and the media — visited the site itself, the big bang of the incident and the elephant in his family’s life.

"I’ve always wanted to do it — and then not," Stan said earlier this month shortly before going to the site accompanied by the Free Press. "I don’t know why. This is closure. Putting the book together is kind of farewell, and I’m done.

"This will be the first and last time. It is a chapter of our family life and history that remained before us for a long time."

What Stefan — who also went by Stephen and Steve — saw on May 20, 1967, at about 12:15 p.m., is now known around the world as the Falcon Lake Incident, considered one of the most documented UFO sightings of all time.

In a short 40-page booklet entitled My Encounter With The UFO, which Michalak wrote a few months after the sighting in his native Polish — and then had it translated into English — he said, "Up until the time and the events I am about to describe I had no special interests in ‘flying saucers’ and other strange phenomena one hears about time and again.

"Maybe they are real, maybe not, but I had never been seriously concerned about them. Not until May 20, 1967, when I, perhaps as nobody else — or at least very few — came in such a close contact with one of those strange objects commonly called UFOs."

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Stefan Michalak suffered burns to his torso during his encounter. “A sharp beam of heat had shot from the craft... My chest was severely burned.”

It all began when Michalak, 51, married with three children, and self-described amateur prospector, went to the Whiteshell on the Friday of the first long weekend of the summer looking for precious metals. As he had done before, he stayed at a motel that used to be on the south side of the Trans-Canada Highway. At 5:30 a.m. he got up, crossed the road, and began finding his way north through the pine trees and rock formations. Eventually, he got to a small peninsula on top of which were exposed rocks, trees and scrub, with a lake on one side and marsh on the other two.

He was chipping away at a quartz formation, just after eating lunch, when he was "startled by the most uncanny cackle of the geese that were still in the area. Something had obviously frightened them.

"Then I saw them. Two cigar-shaped objects with humps on them about halfway down from the sky. They appeared to be descending and glowing with an intense scarlet glare. As these ‘objects’ came closer to the earth they became more oval-shaped."

One took off a few minutes later, while the second one landed about 50 metres from where he was crouching. He said there was an opening near the top of the craft with brilliant purple light coming out. After waiting several minutes, he went closer, stopping when he heard voices.

"They sounded like human, although somewhat muffled by the sounds of the motor... I was able to make out two distinct voices, one with a higher pitch than the other."

Still thinking it was likely some type of new American craft, Michalak called through the opening, at first in English. When he didn’t receive any response, he called out in other languages. He even stuck his head in the opening where he saw "a maze of lights."

The opening suddenly closed, but just before the craft took off, he touched it. It was so hot it burned the glove he had on.

"All of a sudden the craft tilted slightly leftward. I turned and felt a scorching pain around my chest. My shirt and my undershirt were afire. A sharp beam of heat had shot from the craft. I tore my shirt and undershirt and threw them to the ground. My chest was severely burned."

Newspaper photos of the time show Michalak, his pyjama top open, with a series of circular third-degree burn marks making a square pattern on his chest.

Then Michalak began to get a headache, started vomiting and felt weak. He was able to stumble out of the bush and later that evening board a bus back to Winnipeg; his eldest son Mark drove him to Misericordia hospital to treat his burns. Doctors there, and in the United States, never could say how he got the burns. The next day he gave his first press interview, the first of many in the days, months and years ahead with media, law enforcement, government and military authorities.

A box of the booklets, written when Michalak and the family grew tired of answering the same questions from strangers, was stationed by the front door so that Mark could hand them to the curious.

Michalak concluded the booklet by not blaming whatever — or whoever — was on the craft for his injuries.

"The burns and suffering I had endured were not caused by any aggressive moves of the craft or its occupants... if I stayed farther away from the craft I would not have been burned or suffered in any other way.

"I offer this warning to all who may also encounter such a craft: keep away from it far enough to protect yourself."

•••

A copy of the sketch Stefan Michalak made for the RCMP and the Royal Canadian Air Force

Who was Stefan Michalak?

At the beginning of his booklet, Michalak introduces himself as having being born 51 years earlier in Poland and emigrating to Canada in 1949, after "the turbulent years of the Second World War that started in my homeland."

Those "turbulent years" included becoming a junior officer in the Polish army just before the Nazi blitzkrieg stormed in and took over the country, and then joining the Polish Home Army in resistance operations against the Germans. Because they were associated with him, his future wife Maria and her two sisters were arrested and sent to a concentration camp in 1943. All three survived and were liberated two years later.

Michalak, who was now serving with the resistance against the Communist regime, was forced to escape the country, even though Maria, now his wife, had one child and was pregnant with another. They didn’t see each other for almost a decade. They first lived in Regina, where their third child was born, and then moved to Winnipeg.

He was working at Inland Cement, located on Kenaston Boulevard behind IKEA, when he went off to the Whiteshell for what he figured would be one more weekend of looking for precious metals.

By all accounts, Michalak was not somebody who lied and certainly was not somebody who was seeking publicity. He just wanted someone to tell him what he saw and felt it was his duty to report it to the authorities.

••• 

Sketch made by Stefan Michalak after witnessing an unidentified flying object in 1967. It’s now widely known as the Falcon Lake Incident.

By horse, it takes about 45 minutes to get to the site located a few kilometres north of the townsite of Falcon Lake. The trail is narrow, marked with a few elevation changes, and boulders and small rocks that horses try to avoid. There are plenty of tree branches and trunks forcing detours, and streams and boggy areas to cross.

But at least there’s a trail. When Michalak first went to the site, he was simply walking through the bush looking for minerals. He couldn’t even find the site the first time he tried to locate it for police, and then Life magazine. He managed to find it again about a month later.

A half-century later, everything has changed. Then-immature trees are now mature, towering over the site. Young trees are filling in some of the sightlines Michalak would have had. Much of the flat rock area is now covered by lichen and short plants.

But, the outlines of the site, as seen on a drawing he made of the area by memory for the RCMP and Royal Canadian Air Force, are still there.

It took most of Stan’s lifetime to get to the site. Maybe it was part of his personal catharsis of finally seeing the spot his dad saw through his own eyes, but the overriding thought he expressed aloud was simply: "What the hell was he doing here?"

Holding a copy of the hand-drawn map his father had made of the site, Stan continued to stand in place while looking around. Then he walked around, examining for a few seconds the line of quartz running through the rock. He peppered UFO expert Chris Rutkowski, who travelled with him to the site, with a few questions to get a better sense of where everything was. He walked some more, shaking his head back and forth. And then he looked off into the distance seeing only reeds, water and mud between where he was and the lines of trees in the distance.

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Stan Michalak describes the scene where he believes his father Stephen was eating lunch when he encountered a UFO in 1967.

It might not have been what Stan expected.

"There is nothing here to attract or entrance," he said. "But I guess this was just a stop. He chipped at some rocks. He took a break. If it hadn’t happened he would have moved on until he was tired and then gone back to the hotel.

"But that’s not what happened."

Seeing the site didn’t shake his continued belief of what his father saw.

"I always believed that what he said was the truth," Stan said.

"I think what happened is exactly as he described... it pisses me off that people didn’t believe him.

"I still get angry. 

•••

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Chris Rutkowski is the UFO expert in Winnipeg. He has a piece of radioactive metal (in photo) from a UFO incident.

Chris Rutkowski, research co-ordinator of Winnipeg-based Ufology Research — and Canada’s foremost UFO expert — said the Falcon Lake Incident is one of almost 2,000 sightings from Manitoba’s historical records.

"If it’s a hoax it has enough complications to make it one of the best on record," Rutkowski said.

"It is even better than Roswell, because with that one the government denies anything happened... and it takes effort to get to the place. But (Falcon Lake is) part of Manitoba’s history."

Rutkowski said 1967 was "a watershed year" for UFOs in Canada.

"There were UFOs in Shag Harbour, where it crashed in the ocean, another in Rivers, Manitoba and a case in Calgary, where a photograph was taken of a silver object. Right across Canada there were an amazing number of sightings, for some reason."

There are about 1,200 reported UFO sightings every year across Canada, he said. About three to five per cent can’t be explained away.

"None say we’ve been visited by aliens, but they are very curious cases," he said.

Rutkowski said he not only has copies of the hundreds of documents produced by the authorities, he also has in his possession a piece of the melted radioactive metal found at the site.

Rutkowski said that from his knowledge of all the other cases, the Falcon Lake Incident is notable because, "(Michalak) reported just the facts without very much embellishment."

"If I’d made it up I would have gone to town (with details), but he said what he saw. He didn’t care of anyone believe him or not.

"As far as what Stefan Michalak encountered — I have no idea. But it’s a riveting story."

•••

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Stan Michalak, whose father reported a UFO incident in 1967 while prospecting in the Falcon Lake area. Stan was only 10 years old at the time and while this has influenced the last 50 years of his life, he had never been to the site until now.

Five decades on, whatever happened near Falcon Lake is still of interest to UFO enthusiasts. Regular folks, too.

Local resident Bob Firth has no doubt that Michalak saw what he reported that day. Firth, who works at the Falcon Lake Golf Course, may have seen one of the two objects.

"I was 14 at the time," he said. "It is such a weird story."

Firth said he and three friends were at the beach on the south side of Falcon Lake when they saw something on the other side, north of the lake, moving westward.

"It was little. If you hold your thumb up, it would be that big. The thing just jumped across the sky. ‘What is that?’ And I said, ‘it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a flying saucer.’

"I didn’t think anything more about it."

But later that weekend while his family was in Winnipeg to see Victoria Day fireworks, someone ran up to them and started talking about the Falcon Lake sighting. That’s when Firth realized he might have seen the same thing.

"I was later interviewed by someone with the University of Manitoba," he said. "In my mind I can still see it. Something crossed the sky and disappeared."

Barb Hamilton didn’t see the UFO, but that didn’t stop her and other local kids from getting caught up in all the excitement.

"I was 12 at the time and for young kids, after what happened, it started everyone to wonder," she said. "We kids got together and formed a little club for UFOs."

And they thought they were hot on the trail when one of them heard a beeping sound in the forest.

"We were all convinced it was something. We called all the kids together and we went off in the direction of the beeping sound. We couldn’t find it and came flying back and just screamed."

But Hamilton said her dad suggested they speak with a wildlife expert and, after they did, she heard the sound of the Saw-whet Owl.

"Its mating call sounds like a machine," she said, but quickly added that she doesn’t doubt Michalak’s story.

"I don’t think Stefan was making it up," she said. "I think he saw something. I just can’t explain it."

Falcon Beach Ranch owner Devin Imrie offers trail rides to the site for people who make reservations in advance.

This weekend, the ranch is hosting a 50th anniversary commemorative event with escorted trail rides to the site.

"We’ve been going to the site for a number of years now," he said.

"It’s a real range of people who go there. We get a lot of people who had been in the area as kids. Others never heard of it before they came here and think it sounds interesting. And then we get a few UFO enthusiasts who know more about it than I know.

"They all are just fascinated by it."

Imrie, who grew up at the ranch, said he did a school project on the incident.

"It really is part of the history of this community," he said.

LAUNCH OF WHEN THEY APPEARED — FALCON LAKE 1967: THE INSIDE STORY OF A CLOSE ENCOUNTER

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• Saturday May 20, 7 p.m.
• Stan Michalak and Chris Rutkowski

The Falcon Beach Ranch is hosting a 50th anniversary celebration of the Falcon Lake incident Saturday and Sunday, including escorted horseback rides to the landing site at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., a barbecue dinner and a fireside chat with Stan Michalak, Chris Rutkowski and others. The cost is $65.

As well, reservations are taken at other times of the year for trail rides to the site. Call 204-349-2410 or go to www.falconbeachranch.com for more information.

Canada’s history, too.

On June 29, 1967, a rookie Manitoba MP stood up in the House of Commons and asked a question about UFO investigations and the Michalak case.

"I had felt obliged to ask a question — it had happened in my riding," said former governor general and premier Ed Schreyer, then an NDP member of Parliament.

"Plus, I was intrigued that someone seemed so genuinely convinced he had seen something inexplicable. I asked the question and the question was taken not by one of the ministers, but by the prime minister himself.

"What did (Lester) Pearson do? He took it as notice."

A few days later, Pearson offered him a chance to look through the government’s file on the matter. Schreyer refused.

"I didn’t take it because it required an understanding that you had to keep the contents confidential," Schreyer said. "I thought that would put me in a problematic position. I just wanted to make sure there was no danger to the individual, the family and the country.

"I was reassured there was no significant danger... it was left somewhat as an open question."

A few months later, defence minister Leo Cadieux was quoted in Hansard as saying "it is not the intention of the Department of National Defence to make public the report of the alleged sighting."

Although he never met Michalak in person, speaking to him at the time on the phone, Schreyer said he hopes to visit the site this summer with his grandchildren now that he knows they can get there on horseback.

"Having made a point of trying to find out more information at the time, yes, I’d like to see the site with my own eyes."

•••

Standing on the flat rock that his father described as the one the UFO landed on, Stan was surprised how accurate his father’s hand-drawn map — drawn from memory in the days after the incident — really was.

While he expected to see the flat rock, he didn’t know it was sloped slightly.

"It still baffles me — the slant we are on — but then I remembered how he described the object tilt as it went up," Stan said. "Now I know it probably tilted because it was coming up from a slope."

Again Stan wondered: "What the hell was he doing here?"

"There is nothing for him here, the geology stakes and the looking for precious metals," he said. "I sure as hell wouldn’t want to spend time here.

"But he was here. I know that now."

And he has a theory about why his dad, and many others around the world, have reported so many UFOs in the post-Second World War years.

"When we blew up the first nuclear bomb and we sent our first radio signals, we got attention. Maybe it was, ‘What are they doing on that planet? Oh, they’re killing each other. Let’s check back in a few hundred years.’"

•••

When Michalak died on Oct. 28, 1999 at the age of 83, there was no mention in his obituary of the Falcon Lake Incident, only of how his "passion for this vast, new country developed into a love of nature, open spaces, animals and birds and a celebration of what Canada’s unending wilderness had to offer" and that "geology became one of his hobbies and the reason for many trips to the wilderness to see the world in a grain of sand."

For a man whose hobby of prospecting had given him such joy, the Falcon Lake Incident also marked the end of his amateur prospecting career, Stan said.

"When he died, we found several wooden boxes of rocks in the basement. I kept only one or two samples — the rest went into the garden."

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ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURES ORBIT 64 NEARBY STARS SAYS ASTRONOMER

Astronomers have more or less confirmed it. Not just one, but 64 alien-like mega structures are said to be orbiting stars close to Earth. Astronomers of various credibility have claimed that these mega structures are more likely to be shaped like thin discs rather than spherically. Many astronomers have a general consensus: If you know where to look, you can probably find these orbiting alien megastructures. 

It all started out as a confusion, maybe even a glitch in the equipment that was used. However, as checks were done, more and more confirmed that this was not a technical error. Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale, told The Atlantic that "It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.” This means to say that this is not a false alarm, but a rather shocking and true statement of fact from a credible source.

Many astronomers, based on the research that they have gotten, are now starting to gather evidence that these mega structures are actually the Dyson Sphere - a theory that was hypothesized by the physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson. The Dyson Sphere isn't some fairy-tale - it proves that super advanced civilizations are out there in the galaxy. We are not alone.

Why does this prove that super advanced civilizations, so much more advanced than humankind actually exists? In his theory, Dr. Dyson theorized that as a civilization advances, its energy demand constantly increases, and exponentially, one day, if human civilization were to last long enough, this energy output could actually rival that of a sun.

The Dyson Sphere is a theory of a mega machine that is able to collect the power output of an entire star. Who needs that much energy to power their homeland, and what do they have that requires that much power? Do these logical questions sound scary enough to you yet? 

An illustration of the megastructures stealing energy from a star

The theory that humankind is not alone in the entire universe might seem like a far-fetched tale, but in recent years, and as our technological advances in research and Space improves, humankind finds more and more shocking secrets - let us hope that these alien like mega structures are one from a friend - not a foe, if not we would have a reenactment of the Marvel movies - but in real life. If that doesn't sound scary enough for you, nothing ever will.

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Secret UFO crash site ‘identified’ in satellite images of Antarctica, claims expert

A RUSSIAN UFO hunter claims to have identified evidence of a giant alien spaceship that crash-landed in remote Antarctica.

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Valentin Degteryov posted images of his findings online, leaving viewers baffled.

The video clearly shows a dark object lying next to a large crater close to the Eklund Islands on the world’s most southernly continent.

As the clip continues, it shows the scale of the giant mystery entity – which Degteryov claims measures more than 1,900ft.

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He claimed the supposed alien wreckage, which he spotted while studying the continent using images from Google Earth, became visible due to melting ice in Antarctica.

“The huge spaceship in Antarctica,” he wrote online.

“Millions of years ago in Antarctica, the huge spaceship crashed.

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“It has fallen on the big mountain. It's length is 600 meters. It became visible after the ice descended.”

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Australian government reviews funding for UFO group

If Australian UFO enthusiasts hope to retain government money, they may need more proof of terrestrial activity.

The nation's Social Services Minister, Christian Porter, has described having "a beam me up, Scotty" moment after learning his department had approved grants to the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group.

The group has received A$6,000 (£3,400; $4,500) since 2013 under funding to support volunteers with disabilities.

Mr Porter has halted the payments to seek "more detail" about the group.

"I'm sure they are very nice people and there are lots of volunteers who are getting something out of it, but looking at it from my perspective, representing taxpayers, it did not seem to pass a common sense test," Mr Porter said on the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Funds on hold

The New South Wales group has more than 800 members on Facebook, where it says it shares "news, information, support friends and network in UFO matters as well as related topics".

When asked about apparent sightings in the region, Mr Porter said: "You tend to find a lot of sightings when you are funding UFO-sighting groups, I tend to think. But we will see what they are about."

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A person identified as a spokeswoman told the Central Coast Gosford Express Advocate: "We have elderly people we pick up and take to meetings, where we need projectors and microphones so everyone can see and hear what is going on."

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Canada Denies Shag Harbour UFO 50th Anniversary Funding

 MJ Banias

This year will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the best documented UFO incidents in history, and the community of Shag Harbour applied for a government grant to fund a large celebration. Alas, the Canadian government axed their request which has left organisers scrambling.

At around 11:20 pm on October 4th, 1967, the small fishing village of Shag Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada was awakened to a loud whistling noise followed by the sound of a crash. A dozen of witnesses saw a bright illuminated object crash into the harbour, and watched for nearly 30 minutes as a bright round shape floated upon the water’s surface before it sank under the depths and vanished. Contacting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the local detachment sent several officers to the location. Fearing an aeroplane crash, they contacted the Coastguard and the Navy. Local fishing boats went out into the bay to look for survivors, but nothing was ever found and no aircraft were reported missing.

The Shag Harbour UFO Incident is one of the best documented UFO incidents in history. Investigations were conducted by the RCMP, the Canadian Navy and Air force, as well as the US led Condon Committee. A media frenzy followed the event, and the Navy even spent several days after the event combing the sea floor looking for the object. Whatever the people of Shag Harbour saw that night, it has never been identified.

Canada is turning 150 years old this year, and to generate excitement, the Canadian government created a grant program called “Canada 150” to help fund major celebrations around the nation. The Shag Harbour Incident is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and the community wanted to do something special.

The society’s vice-president, Brock Zinck, said in an interview,

We can’t get a lot of love here in Shag Harbour; they won’t even give us a [highway] sign…Maybe the government doesn’t want to know we are there.

In regards to the loss of the grant money,

We were excited…It does throw a wrench in our preparations. We had big plans to take it to the next level.

The Shag Harbour Incident Society applied for $20,000 to put on a major event, including a conference with UFO experts and speakers. Many of these speakers had to be flown in from across Canada and the from the United States. The event would have brought significant tourism to the quiet village of 500 people, and the economic benefits would have been significant.

Photo inside the Shag Harbour Incident Center.
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UFO researcher and science writer Chris Rutkowski was slated as one of this year’s guests. Author of several books on UFOs, his latest release, “When They Appeared” came out only two weeks ago. In an exclusive interview with Mysterious Universe, in regards to the benefits of such an event, he stated,

It would have been quite appropriate for a Canada 150 event because it is one of the best-known Canadian [UFO] cases, and one that attracts visitors to Nova Scotia. It certainly would be at least as important as a local community event involving mainstream or more traditional historical projects like museums and artwork.

The internet and its host of conspiracy theorists has taken this denial of funding as another aspect of the “truth embargo” regarding the UFO phenomenon. Perhaps the government is hiding something, and the less attention the Shag Harbour event gets, the better. Most people believe that other cultural events simply took precedence, and the Canada 150 grant committee simply had to make cuts to certain requests.

However, the UFO community in Canada has not taken this news sitting down. Podcasters and UFO enthusiasts around the nation are continuing to bring awareness to the event. Tickets are still for sale, and the society plans to host the event anyway, just on a more grassroots level. Event planners are hoping for the best, and praying for a miracle. The event is slated for September 29th to October 1st 2017, with a celebration party on October 4th.

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As we perhaps draw thrillingly/terrifyingly closer to discovering life elsewhere in the universe, the chorus of people warning us to be careful what we wish for is growing louder. Most famously, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has argued for hitting the brakes, reiterating as recently as 2016 his concern about seeking alien contact in his comments about possibly life on Gliese 832c: "One day, we might receive a signal from a planet like this. But we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well." For example, European germs were deadly for the natives and some fear that could happen to us.

Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell, however, disagrees with all of this. From his perspective, things are considerably less scary than many think. In an article recently published on Literary Hub, he offers a host of comfortingly solid arguments for why we should stop worrying.

1. Why Aliens Wouldn’t Want to Enslave Us or Breed with Us

Sure, humans have repeatedly enslaved other humans throughout our history, but we’re not that advanced. Our collective sense of guilt may be making us fear that someone else will do to us what we’ve done to others. Dartnell says we’re looking at this wrong.

There’s an increasing concern that we’ll soon find ourselves competing for jobs with robots. After all, they may offer a more efficient form of labor than us humans. Dartnell points out that any civilization advanced enough to traverse space and arrive here would have no need for slaves. He writes, “Constructing robots, or other forms of automation or mechanization, would be a far more effective solution for labor—people are feeble in comparison, harder to fix, and need to be fed.”

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As far as wanting us for breeding purposes, Dartnell’s points out how perfectly in sync two organisms’ chemistry has to be to allow mating — in fact, such mismatches are what separates one terrestrial species from another. For reproduction to be possible, here’s a short list of some of the things aliens would have to share with us. The same:

• polymer, or RNA, we use for storing genetic information

• A, C, G, and T genetic letters we use

• coding system that that translates the letters into proteins

• chromosomal organizational structure

Given how rare a workable match is even here on earth, Dartnell concludes it’s “overwhelmingly improbable that an alien life form from a completely different evolutionary lineage would be compatible.”

2. Why Aliens Wouldn’t Want to Eat Us

As food, it’s likely we wouldn’t agree with them. In order for an alien to derive any nutrition from us, they’d have to be biochemically similar. They’d have to have enzymes that allow them to successfully break down and make use of the polymers of amino acids, polymers of bases and sugars, and membranes of phospholipids from which we’re made.

Dartnell points that while there’s a chance they’d be made of the same stuff as us — amino acids, sugars and fatty molecules have all been found in meteorites , suggesting they’re common across the universe — there’s an interesting additional wrinkle: Enantiomers. Simple organic molecules can occur in mirror images of each other. As Dartnell says, it’s like how your two hands are the same, but can’t be placed atop each other in alignment. All life on our planet has “left-handed” amino acids and “right-handed” sugars, and any creatures looking to us for sustenance would need to have the same, even if they do share our basic microbiology.

Unless we’re just really tasty.

3. Why Aliens Wouldn’t Come Here to Steal Our Water

Europa (NASA/JPL/DLR)

Simply put, there’s plenty of water everywhere, water that would be easier to acquire than the stuff we have. A thirsty alien visiting our solar system would probably head straight for Jupiter’s moon Europa, which holds more liquid water beneath its frozen surface than we have here. There also appears to be lots of water on other icy moons and even in comets and asteroids, the likely sources of our own H2O. It would be easier to suck it off one of those smaller bodies than from a planet like ours with so much gravity trying to hold our water in place.

4. Why Aliens Wouldn’t Come Here for Some Other Raw Material

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Again, asteroids seem like a more logical place to get any of the building materials we have here such as iron, nickel, platinum, tungsten and gold. The lack of gravity would again make them easier to extract from a smaller body. In fact, there are companies on earth planning asteroid mining operations.

What Dartnell suggests may make us a bit more special in this regard is plate tectonics, which hasn’t been seen many other places so far, and could theoretically produce something we’re unaware of that an alien might want. Maybe.

5. Why Aliens Wouldn’t Want to Colonize and Live Here

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As an astrobiologist, Dartnell admits that earth hosts a variety of conditions that make it especially suitable for supporting complex life, and that it could therefore be attractive to an extraterrestrial species looking for a new home.

However, he points out that any civilization capable of traversing the mind-boggling expanses of space is probably more than capable of artificially managing, or “bioengineering,” the environment of any planet to make it habitable. If this is so, why would aliens bother with having to eradicate the billions of organisms here that are unlikely to line up with an alien’s own unique biochemistry? It would be quicker and easier to simply design and build a compatible biosphere somewhere free of bothersome inhabitants.

So Why Would Aliens Come Here at All?

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Dartnell suggests that if aliens do appear, it may simply be that they want to meet us. “I suspect that if aliens did come to Earth, it would be as researchers: biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keen to understand the peculiar workings of life on Earth, to meet humanity and learn of our art, music, culture, languages, philosophies and religions” he writes.

And Where Are They, Anyway?

Dartnell asserts that since we’ve been sending signals out into the void for nearly a century — and recently, intentionally doing so — yet no one has responded, one of two things are most likely:

1. Either no one’s out there, and we’re alone.
2. There’s so much intelligent life in the universe that we’re not that special.

Either possibility packs an emotional wallop.

For many of us, the thought of aliens visitation began with movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind that had us scanning the night skies with a hopeful sense of expectation. Lately, however, some have been shifting our gazes downward with a fearful sort of, “nope, nothing here to look at, keep flying by” attitude. Darnell’s argument makes so much sense, though, that it feels safe once again to look back upward in excitement at that sky full of promising stars.

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 Atmosphere that could support alien life found on Earth-sized planet

Harley Tamplin for Metro.co.uk

Trappist-1 and nearby planets could hold the key to alien life (Picture: Getty)

Scientists are getting excited at the prospect of finding alien life on a recently discovered Earth-sized planet.

The planet, LHS 1140b, is one of seven orbiting a star named Trappist-1.

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It has immediately been pushed to the front of the queue in the quest to find alien life – because it lies in the ‘Goldilocks’ zone.

This is an area from a star where the surface temperature is not too hot, or too cold, but just right.

This means water could flow in liquid form, rather than as ice or vapour, allowing life to flourish.

There are three planets in the ‘Goldilocks’ zone (Picture: Getty)

Astronomers studying the rocky world believe its atmosphere could have supported the world for billions of years.

Jason Dittmann of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said: ‘This is the most exciting exoplanet I’ve seen in decades.

‘We could hardly hope for a better target to perform one of the biggest quests in science – searching for evidence of life beyond Earth.’

Further studies are set to take place on the planet, which is 39 light years from Earth.

All seven of Trappist-1’s planets are considered potential candidates for having water in some form, but the chances are highest for three located in the Goldilocks zone.

Xavier Bonfils, an astronomer at the Observatory of the Sciences of the Universe in Grenoble, France, said LHS 1140b now ‘joins Trappist-1 at the head of the rankings’.

He said: ‘We are very excited by this discovery. It’s a super opportunity.’

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 An artist’s impression the surface of Trappist-1f. Astronomers originally thought this might be the most habitable planet, but its neighbour, Trappist-1g, appears to be the most likely home for life.

Illustration: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (IPAC) / HANDOUT/EPA

Ian Sample Science editor

An Earth-sized world that swings around a star in the constellation of Aquarius has become a priority in the search for extraterrestrial life after scientists found that an atmosphere could have enveloped the planet for billions of years.

The planet is one of seven circling a small and feeble star called Trappist-1 which astronomers reported in a wave of excitement in February this year. The rocky world lies in the habitable zone around its parent star, where temperatures should allow for free-running water, but that would count for little if the planet has no atmosphere.

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“Since the discovery of the seven planets there has been a great deal of interest in using telescopes such as the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to determine whether these planets have atmospheres, and if so, what their composition is like,” said Manasvi Lingam at Harvard University. “It is fair to say that the presence of an atmosphere is perceived as one of the requirements for the habitability of a planet.”

If Earth serves as a good example, the evolution of complex and ultimately intelligent life calls for an atmosphere that not only contains the right blend of gases, but which persists for hundreds of millions, or preferably billions, of years.

With Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope not due to launch until late 2018, the scientists turned to computer models to find out whether the Trappist-1 planets could have long-lived atmospheres. From details of the Trappist-1 system, which lies 39 light years distant, they worked out the intensity of the stellar wind – the rush of high energy particles streaming out of the star – and the effect it would have on the seven orbiting planets.

The Astronomers have used computer models to determine whether the seven Trappist-1 exoplanets could have long-lived atmospheres, thought to be a requirement for complex life. Illustration: NASA/PA

Atmospheres that exist around planets soon after they form can gradually be stripped away if they are battered by a strong stellar wind from their parent star. The model showed that the stellar wind from Trappist-1 was much faster and far more dense than the solar wind that reaches Earth. On Trappist-1b, the first planet from the star, the stellar wind was 1,000 to 10,000 times stronger than the solar wind that strikes Earth.

The intensity of the solar wind destroyed the atmospheres of the inner Trappist-1 planets within millions of years. But planets further out fared better, their atmospheres surviving for billions of years, the models found. According to the scientists, while the seventh planet around the star is considered too cold for liquid water to exist on the surface, the sixth planet, Trappist-1g, appears to be the most likely home for life in the Trappist-1 system.

In a report submitted to a leading journal, the scientists write: “The outer planets of the Trappist-1 system, which are expected to retain their atmospheres for longer periods, may therefore support more complex biospheres eventually.”

Amaury Triaud, an exoplanet researcher at Cambridge University who helped discover the Trappist-1 planets said: “The work is quite optimistic that the planets could retain an atmosphere, which is nice to hear. It prepares us for what we might or might not see. Maybe we’ll find atmospheres that are denser and denser for the outer planets.”

“Having too much of an atmosphere containing a lot of hydrogen would be detrimental for life, but if you strip everything down to the surface, it’s also no longer habitable. The moon is the same distance from the sun as the Earth and it has absolutely no signs of life,” he added.

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Astronomers have now detected about 3,600 planets beyond the solar system. The Trappist-1 planets orbit incredibly close to their parent, an ultracool dwarf star the size of Jupiter that shines 2,000 times less brightly than the sun. Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is six times farther from the sun than the outermost seventh planet is from Trappist-1.

All seven of the planets have Earth-like dimensions, ranging from 25% smaller to 10% larger than our home planet. Most, if not all, will be “tidally locked”, meaning they show only one face to their star. Such worlds would be defined by stark divisions, with one half in constant daylight, and the other in permanent darkness.

“We don’t really know how life started,” Triaud said. “Some people say life was born at the bottom of the ocean. If that is the case and there is a lot of water on the Trappist-1 planets, then it’s good news: it doesn’t matter which side it is on, because at the bottom of the ocean you have no light at all.

“But if life is born on the surface then the UV irradiation the planets receive is important. It drives chemical reactions to begin with, but it can become an issue for DNA mutations, and whether they were on the day or the night side would matter. There really are a lot of elements,” he said.

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