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

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Leegte tussen de ringen van Saturnus nu ook te "horen" - HLN.be

Leegte tussen de ringen van Saturnus nu ook te "horen" - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

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Eerder deze week had het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA laten weten dat de ruimte tussen de ringen van Saturnus en de planeet verrassend leeg is, nu is dat ook met geluid gestaafd. Die leegheid is vastgesteld door de Amerikaanse sonde Cassini.

De NASA pakte vandaag uit met twee audiofragmenten. Het eerste dateert van 18 december 2016 toen Cassini zijn 253 baantjes rondom de planeet maakte. Wat men hoort, is te omschrijven als een symfonie van een knetterend kampvuur en een zwaar beschadigde vinylplaat.

Op de video hieronder zijn de audiofragmenten van 18 december 2016 te horen:

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Groot is het contrast met een audiofragment van 26 april jongstleden, toen de sonde een eerste duik in de ruimte tussen de ringen en Saturnus maakte. Er is enkel een aanhoudende ruis te horen zoals wanneer het beeld op televisie uitvalt. Het zwelt soms wat aan, er is een zeldzaam piepje en er zijn wat Morse-signaalachtige geluidjes te horen.

Op de video hieronder zijn de audiofragmenten van 26 april 2017 te horen:

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Mysterieus iets gevonden op Google Earth. Onderzoekers staan voor een raadsel. Enig idee wat dit is?

Mysterieus iets gevonden op Google Earth. Onderzoekers staan voor een raadsel. Enig idee wat dit is?

Mysterieus iets gevonden op Google Earth. Onderzoekers staan voor een raadsel. Enig idee wat dit is?

In 2007 zocht een amateurarcheoloog op satellietbeelden naar vindplaatsen toen zijn aandacht werd getrokken door een vreemde figuur in de woestijn.

De foto’s waren gemaakt boven de steppe van Noord-Kazachstan. De geogliefen die werden ontdekt waren zo opvallend dat ze zelfs de aandacht trokken van NASA-wetenschappers.

Met behulp van satellieten onderzochten ze het woestijnachtige gebied. Ze ontdekten al snel meer vreemde symbolen in het landschap.

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In Kazachstan zijn honderden vreemde geogliefen ontdekt. Ze bestaan uit kruizen, stippen, ringen of lijnen.

“Ze zijn prachtig, enorm en laten zien dat de mens dingen kan doen die zelfs vanuit de ruimte indruk maken,” zei Amanda Marchetti van DigitalGlobe, die de foto’s analyseerde, in het programma What On Earth?

Onontdekt

Onderzoekers die naar het gebied afreisden kwamen tot de ontdekking dat de patronen bestaan uit heuvels van aarde. Ze lijken bovendien veel ouder te zijn dan gedacht.

Door hun enorme omvang zijn ze duizenden jaren onontdekt gebleven. Ze zijn enkel zichtbaar vanuit de lucht. Door en voor wie zijn ze gemaakt?

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Babylon 5 solar system bears striking resemblance to our own

Babylon 5 solar system bears striking resemblance to our own

Artist's illustration of the Epsilon Eridani system showing Epsilon Eridani b

Artist's illustration of the Epsilon Eridani system showing Epsilon Eridani b 

(Credit:NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook)

The number of planetary systems discovered seems to grow on a daily basis, but most of them are wildly different to our own solar system. Now a team of University of Arizona researchers led by Kate Su have used NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) flying observatory to take a closer look at a system 10.5 light years away and discovered it has a familiar general structure.

The star in question is Epsilon Eridani (ε Eri) in the southern hemisphere of the constellation of Eridanus. Its previous claims to fame were as the setting for the sci fi television series Babylon 5 and the disputed location of Star Trek's planet Vulcan. It's also been the subject of several early studies seeking extrasolar planets and was even monitored in the 1960s by Project Ozma as a possible source of extraterrestrial intelligence.

Previously, Epsilon Eridani was found to have a debris disk made of gas, dust, and perhaps asteroids circling it, as well as a planet with about the mass of Jupiter and orbiting the young star at a comparable distance to that which the gas giant orbits the Sun.

None of this is very remarkable by today's standards, but when Su's team examined images from SOFIA, a different story emerged. SOFIA is a 100-in (2.5-m)-diameter telescope mounted inside a Boeing 747SP jetliner that operates out of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center's Hangar 703, in Palmdale, California.

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Much of the previous work on Epsilon Eridani involved the Spitzer Space Telescope, but SOFIA is over twice the size of Spitzer, has three times the resolution, and can operate in the infrared at wavelengths between 25 and 40 microns. What this meant was that SOFIA could discern much smaller details, especially from warm materials, than before, which suggested an alternative model to the one provided by Spitzer's data.

What the University of Arizona scientists found was that Epsilon Eridani's inner system is clear of debris with a narrow debris ring just inside the orbit of the Jupiter-like planet. Beyond this is another clear region with another debris ring about where Neptune would be in our solar system. In other words, it's a lot like the inner Solar System, asteroid belt, Jupiter, the outer Solar System and the Kuiper Belt.

"The high spatial resolution of SOFIA combined with the unique wavelength coverage and impressive dynamic range of the FORCAST camera allowed us to resolve the warm emission around eps Eri, confirming the model that located the warm material near the Jovian planet's orbit," says Su. "Furthermore, a planetary mass object is needed to stop the sheet of dust from the outer zone, similar to Neptune's role in our solar system. It really is impressive how eps Eri, a much younger version of our solar system, is put together like ours."

The research was published in the Astronomical Journal.

Source: NASA
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NASA's SOFIA confirms a nearby star system is similar to our solar system

NASA's SOFIA confirms a nearby star system is similar to our solar system

A planet having a mass similar to that of Jupiter orbits the eps Eri star at a similar distance at which the gas giant Jupiter orbits the Sun.

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Are we looking hard enough for aliens? Astronomer says no

Are we looking hard enough for aliens? Astronomer says no

Mike Wehner

Finding existing extraterrestrial life would undoubtedly be one of the crowning achievements of the human race, but with so much talk of the potential for life on exoplanets many light-years away, one astronomer is asking why we aren’t looking harder for evidence of aliens right here in our own solar system. Penn State astronomy professor Jason Wright has written a paper suggesting that maybe we need to shift our focus from the deep cosmos and simply take a closer look in our own celestial backyard.

In his writings, Wright implores scientists to consider the idea that evidence of extraterrestrial life might be right under our noses. Wright, who doesn’t take a stance on whether or not he believes intelligent life indeed existed in our own solar system or abroad before humanity, says that looking for the leftovers from technological species who resided here might actually be easier to find than biological evidence including microbes.

“Searches for alien artifacts in the Solar System typically presumes that such artifacts would be of extrasolar origin, even though life is known to have existed in the Solar System, on Earth, for eons,” Wright notes. “But if a prior technological, perhaps spacefaring, species ever arose in the Solar System, it might have produced artifacts or other technosignatures that have survived to present day.”

Wright flags Venus and Mars as potential locations where intelligent life might have spawned, developed, and then gone extinct or simply left, and even suggests that Earth might hold secrets of an ancient but advanced civilization that has since been lost to the shifting of continents, plate tectonics, and erosion.

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LISTEN TO THE EERIE SOUNDS INSIDE SATURN'S RING RECORDED BY NASA

LISTEN TO THE EERIE SOUNDS INSIDE SATURN'S RING RECORDED BY NASA

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Space exploration has unearthed, or "un-saturned" actual sounds recorded during ongoing space voyages by NASA, the national institute of Scientific advancement. New findings show that NASA scientists have procured genuine audio recordings emanating from the massive planet Saturn! What did NASA find in space aboard the exploration vessel known as the Cassini? 

The Cassini is a modern marvel of the human species, a spacecraft that NASA is currently using to explore, record, and orbit the behemoth known as Saturn. Not just any planet, Saturn happens to be the second largest gas ball in the solar system. Hovering delicately around this massive formation are awe-inspiring rings, large oval-shaped rings, and tiny delicate groups of ringlets. What sounds did the Cassini record? It was the sound of vastness and echoes displayed by a sensitive gauge- specifically called a Radio and Plasma Wave Science Instrument (RPWS). As the Cassini traveled thru the glorious rings of Saturn, microscopic ring bits were detected and sounds of these nanoparticles bouncing off the RPWS were recorded! Findings reveal the audio evidence, actual photos show the digital print-out of the sounds of Saturn. These images display the density and strength of the waves, similar to the print out of an EKG.

The actual sediment that the gauge picked up on is called “dust particles” and “ring particles” by researchers involved in the Cassini mission. Please be advised- the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument is not a sound recording device. As the name suggests, this tool reads radio and plasma waves- technicians then transcribe the radio and plasma waves into readable sound data.

Finally hearing sounds from a huge, strange planet might sound like headline news. Ponder this…. Sounds from space have been documented before. Almost a year ago to the day, space explorers from NASA were able to record sounds from Jupiter, another gas giant of the solar system. A photo of the Jupiter recording is present in NASA research archives, Juno is the name of the aircraft that participated in that event.

NASA and Cassini have propelled the imagination of civilization to another level, another orbit. Hopefully, the youth of this nation will be inspired, motivated to continue space flight with exploration. And what of the actual space vessel, Cassini? Sadly, Cassini will have just four more months of robotic life. Cassini will be commanded to do a kamikaze death mission to end its project- flying and crashing to its demise on Saturn, spawning instant combustion on impact.

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NSA DOCUMENT ADMITS EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT!

NSA DOCUMENT ADMITS EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT!

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In 2004, a selection of NSA documents was given the all clear for public disclosure. However, in an unexplained move, the security agency chose not to release the documents, collected under the intriguing title of “Key to the Extraterrestrial Messages” for a full seven years afterward.

The NSA were finally pushed into publishing the information on their website following legal intervention, and it can still be viewed today. But what does it actually say?

The documents, which have been described as a veritable ‘treasure trove’ by extraterrestrial enthusiasts, contain an incredibly compelling report which was compiled for the NSA’s internal journal. The documents first appeared in the NSA Technical Journal Vol XIV No 1 with FOIA Case number 41472 and were authored by the esteemed cryptologist Dr. Howard Campaigne. The topic of this fascinating report concerns twenty-nine coded messages intercepted by the Sputnik satellite which is believed to derive from an extra-terrestrial origin.

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https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/assets/files/key_to_et_messages.pdf

Dr. Campaigne is one of the most renowned cryptologists in the world who has spent decades of his life working for various governmental agencies such as the Naval Security Group, Army Security Agency, National Security Agency among others. He was selected to examine the exciting messages along with a team of other accomplished NSA cryptologists.

However, the documents suggest that they had limited success in decoded the presumed alien communications. Dr. Campaigne said that some of the words of the messages were able to be translated but that there were many elements of the communications that the team had still not been able to properly comprehend. He also said that while the team had a hazy grasp on the alien grammar that they had been unable to thoroughly understand the vocabulary.

This astonishing report, which was released with no fanfare, raises some interesting implications. It is well known that various intelligence agencies from all over the globe were deeply invested in examining the extraterrestrial phenomenon in the recent past, but the governments of the world have been loath to admit that their agencies are still involved in these activities in the present day.

However, this document reveals that despite their reticence in speaking publicly about belief in extraterrestrials that the American government is still taking intelligent contact from alien beings seriously. This raises questions about what they have discovered about intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and why they are so cagey about releasing this kind of information into the public domain.

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PLAYING GOD: SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO BUILD SYNTHETIC HUMAN DNA

PLAYING GOD: SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO BUILD SYNTHETIC HUMAN DNA

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Scientists Plans For Building Synthetic DNA Of Humans Goes Public Leading To Tension Flares.

Manipulating the fundamental building blocks of life is one of science`s biggest ethical debates, and tensions are about to flare up once again as scientists have revealed a controversial and rather ambitious plan to write the human genome from scratch. They want to synthesize DNA and then put it into mammals, with human cells perhaps being only four or five years away.

SCIENTISTS WANT TO WRITE HUMAN GENOME FROM SCRATCH 

Almost 200 genetic researchers along with researchers in bioengineering will be heading to New York next week to a meeting that will discuss the stages to follow of what has been called the Genome Project-write, also known as GP-write. This is a venture costing US$100 million to engineer, research and test a living system of model organisms, which are said to include human genome.

THE NEW PROJECT TAKES UP WHERE THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT ENDED

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The new project is said to be the follow-up to the Human Genome Project which reached an end in 2003 following research that spanned over 13 years and which mapped out the human genetic code. The new project is said to be the next logical step forward so that scientists can learn how to synthesize animal, plant and human DNA cost-effectively.

The GP-write coordinator Nancy J. Kelly said that HGP had allowed scientists to read the genome, however, at the moment it isn’t completely understood. The scientists involved want to portray the project as being an international collaboration that has been designed so that scientists can further their understanding of genome science. The project brought about a lot of controversy during the first meeting, a year ago, which had been conducted in secret with only a hand-selected group of experts invited to talk behind closed doors.

DETAILS OF THE PROJECT REVEALED IN PAPER

Since that time researchers have become more candid and have announced the details of the new project in a paper along with releasing a white paper which gives the outline of the timeline and goals. Jef Boeke, biochemist, and geneticist is one of the leading scientists on GP-write and he said that the approach has been to consult with the scientific community to steer and frame the research as it develops.

He went on to say that the plan was not to start off with human genome; there is a four to five year period during which there is lots of time to talk about the wisdom of it, if the resources should be put into that direction or if another should be taken. He said that whenever it’s human genome people will have an opinion and they will speak out and want their voice to be heard and the scientists want to know what they have to say about the matter.

Of course, while conversations may be ongoing, the science is continuing to develop. Boeke gave details about a project that is related which he is working on. In the project he is working with hundreds of scientists all working together to try to synthesize artificial yeast genome, this project is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.

While there is a big difference between being able to synthesize the DNA of yeast and the creation of human DNA from the drawing board, the overall goal remains the same, to find out how to synthesis comparatively simple genetic code before then moving on to the final goal. Boeke said that in the end, a synthetic genome is just a new engine for allowing learning of new information. GP-write is the parent project encompassing the core area of Human Genome Project-write, with a focus on human genome synthesis, either in whole or in part.

COST OF ENGINEERING GENOMES NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT DOWN

Along with synthesizing animal, plant and human DNA, the project`s goal is to bring down the cost of engineering genomes. At the moment it is said to cost around 10 US cents just to synthesize a base pair of nucleobase molecules making up the DNA. When you take into account that human beings have 3 billion pairs, it is expensive. The scientists hope to bring down the cost by over 1,000-fold in 10 years.

If the costs can be brought down and expenses loved for synthesizing DNA, it may unlock many kinds of potential medical treatments, which may be able to target cancer or genetic diseases, which may help the body in better accepting organ transplants, along with boosting learning about gaining immunity to viruses.

Before this happens, the organizers of GP-write will have to raise around US$100 million in funds, a topic which is going to be discussed in another meeting. It is exciting, but there is sure to be a lot more controversy as the project goes ahead.

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7 Year Old Boy Sees UFO Over New South Wales, Australia Photo, May 2017, UFO Sighting News.

7 Year Old Boy Sees UFO Over New South Wales, Australia Photo, May 2017, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: May 2017
Location of sighting: Tarro, New South Wales, Australia
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This is an awesome shot of a UFO. This UFO is similar to one that was seen over the Statue of Liberty just last week. Australia has had an overwhelming amount of sightings this years. They are increasing their exposure to the public little by little. 
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A local seven-year-old boy has snapped a photograph of an unidentified flying object. The suspicious object was spotted flying over Tarro on Friday evening. Halo Galli is fascinated with the Roswell UFO incident, where a spaceship was said to have crashed in America in 1947. He is convinced his photograph is proof of an alien spaceship closer to home. “He was in the yard with his dad and four-year-old sister when he asked his dad for his iPhone,” mother Tanya Beasley said. “All evening he pestered me to look at his sighting and when he showed me the one and only photo he took of his spaceship, low and behold he actually had captured something.” Halo insisted the photograph be sent in to the newspaper.

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Mysterious Moving Rocks in the Desert Stumped Scientists for 70 Years

Mysterious Moving Rocks in the Desert Stumped Scientists for 70 Years


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Death Valley’s ‘sailing stones’ are able to move thanks to unique environmental conditions.

Have you ever seen a rock move? I mean move independently—not, like, roll after someone kicked it or knocked it over—just sliding across a flat surface of its own accord. With the exception of certain psychedelic experiences, I'm going to guess you haven't. But these rocks exist, and they stumped scientists for decades.

The Racetrack Playa is a wide, flat, desert basin in the middle of Death Valley National Park. It's surrounded by tall, rocky hills and, hundreds of years ago, was filled with water, but these days it's just a dried up lakebed. It's one of the hottest, driest, and lowest places in North America, and it's home to the "sailing stones:" rocks that move along the playa on their own. It took until 2014 for scientists to conclusively uncover how the stones get from one place to another: an unusual, and unique combination of ice, wind, and sun.

For a more detailed story behind the sailing stones, listen to this week's episode of Science Solved It: 


It's rare to see the stones in motion, but there's a clear sign that they've been on the move. Behind the rocks are long, sometimes winding trails in the dirt. Scientists have used GPS units to track to stones' movements, and have proven that they're mobile. They were first publicly documented in the early 1900s, but for decades, nobody could explain how they moved, according to Richard Norris, an oceanographer at University of California San Diego, and one of the researchers who finally solved the mystery of the rocks.4

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"The first scientific study was done 1948 and then there was a succession of scientific papers," Norris said. "Every ten years or so somebody published a new paper on the Racetrack, but nobody is basing their scientific career on this kind of work. It's just a really fun sort of mystery."

Norris became aware of the stones when he was just a kid. His uncle, a geomorphologist at UC San Diego, would take class trips out to the playa, and Norris and his cousin would tag along. As adults, and both scientists themselves, Norris and his cousin decided they ought to take a stab at solving how the rocks moved, so they designed an experiment.

Previous research had produced hypotheses about how the rocks moved. Some thought it was exceptionally heavy winds, others believed ice formed around the rocks and caused them to be buoyant. There were also some less scientific theories, such as acoustic levitation—the belief that sound can cause heavy objects to levitate.

To figure it all out, Norris and his cousin attached specially-designed GPS units to the back of rocks they had brought into Death Valley (the National Parks Service wouldn't let them mess with the rocks that were already there). They also installed a weather station, and then...they waited.

It took two years, but finally, the rocks moved. Norris and his cousin, completely by chance, actually got to witness them in action. The researchers discussed their findings in a paper published in PLOS One. They found that when enough rain fell on the playa to pool, and the temperature dropped, the water would freeze into huge, thin sheets of ice around the rocks—which tumble onto the playa from a nearby hillside. As the morning sun began to melt the ice, if a gentle breeze blew, it could move the ice, which dragged the rocks along with it.

"The ice is like the thickness of a window pane," Norris told me. "And although it's very thin, it's a huge, huge sheet of ice. It's sort of being moved sort of inextricably by these breezes and it can shove around really big things—and a lot of rock."

The results shocked Norris and many other scientists, but it's a phenomenon that's since explained similar moving rocks around the globe. Though it wasn't the paranormal explanation that so many people had hoped for, the truth was even more tantalizing.

"Science is delightful," Norris said.

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Researchers discover 11 'strange' signals using telescope

Researchers discover 11 'strange' signals using telescope

However, none of these signals are believed to be extraterrestrial life.
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Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner-backed Breakthrough Listen is an initiative that is dedicated to exploring extraterrestrial signals in the universe in search of life beyond Earth. A team of researchers from Breakthrough Listen have now released its first results after analysing three 5-minute observations of 692 stars.

The researchers found 11 “strange” signals during their study. However, none of these signals are believed to be extraterrestrial life. The team has submitted the analysis paper, which they hope will act as a “launch pad” for future investigations.

Breakthrough Listen has been gathering data with the Green Bank Radio Telescope in West Virginia, Lick Observatory’s Automated Planet Finder on Mt Hamilton in California and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, reported DailyMail.

The project, led by researchers based in California scans billions of radio channels in search for intelligent source outside our solar system.

The latest findings will be discussed at the Breakthrough Discuss conference tomorrow.

 “With the submission of this paper, the first scientific results from Breakthrough Listen are now available for the world to review,” said Dr Andrew Siemion of BSRC. “Although the search has not yet detected a convincing signal from extraterrestrial intelligence, these are early days. The work that has been completed so far provides a launch pad for deeper and more comprehensive analysis to come,” he added.

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Director Ridley Scott Says ‘There Are Real Aliens Out There’

Director Ridley Scott Says ‘There Are Real Aliens Out There’

With a new “Alien” movie about to open, Scott warns that real ETs “are a lot smarter than we are.”

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A mean-looking alien on the attack in Ridley Scott’s upcoming prequel “Alien: Covenant.”

In 1979, Ridley Scott presented “Alien,” the first of six films in a series that would continue into 2017. This science-fiction horror franchise has produced nearly 40 years of sequels and prequels, numerous books, toys and video games.

On May 19, the second prequel, “Alien: Covenant,” debuts under Scott’s direction, and not only is he promoting the film, he’s also ― very cleverly ― letting it be known that he thinks aliens really exist and we should fear them.

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Filmmaker Ridley Scott speaks on stage during AFI FEST 2015 on Nov. 11, 2015, in Hollywood, California.

“I believe in superior beings,” Scott, 79, told the international news agency Agence France-Presse. “I think it is certainly likely. An expert I was talking to at NASA said to me, ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it?’ That’s ridiculous.”

“The experts have now put a number on it, having assessed what is out there,” Scott continued. “They say that there are between 100 and 200 entities that could be having a similar evolution to us right now. So when you see a big thing in the sky, run for it!” 

Here are some other astronomical numbers that can make your head figuratively explode like Scott’s aliens often explode out of the stomachs of their unfortunate human victims.

According to Space.com, astronomy experts estimate that there’s a range of “between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies” throughout the universe. 

And those galactic numbers will most likely go up as newer, more powerful telescopes are built and sent into space to reach out to the cosmos.

Part of the magnitude of these numbers is the fact that typical galaxies have a lot of stars. Our Milky Way is home to about 300 billion stars, reports Sky & Telescope.

Just last week, three planet-hunters were included on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. One of those scientists, Natalie Batalha of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, made a mind-blowing statement that would probably cause Scott’s hair to stand on end.

She said, “You know, we look up in the sky and instead of seeing stars, we see other solar systems, because now we know that every star in the sky has at least one planet.”

Scott’s 1979 movie “Alien,” which started his entire franchise, had the tag line: “In space, no one can hear you scream.”

He told Agence France-Presse that earthlings would probably be better off if we show any aliens a little respect. “Because they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them, you will be taken out in three seconds.” 

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From “Alien: Covenant,” an extraterrestrial is about to emerge from its comfortable pod to wreak havoc with the unlucky human visitors to its planet.

Scott certainly has aliens on his mind. He’s also listed as a producer for “Phoenix Forgotten,” a film that debuted in April and uses what are known as found-footage sequences to tell the story of events surrounding the appearance of mysterious lights over Phoenix in 1997.

It’s considered one of the most famous UFO sightings in history, primarily because so many people saw it. Though the military tried to explain it away as flares in the sky during an exercise over the city, there have been lingering doubts, especially from the man who was governor of Arizona at the time, Fife Symington.

One of the interesting things about “Phoenix Forgotten” is how remarkably similar it is on almost every level to another movie, “Phoenix Incident,” that came out a year ago. Both movies tell of groups of young people who vanished forever while trying to investigate the “flares” out in the desert.

Maybe Scott feels more comfortable presenting aliens on another planet.

“Alien: Covenant” opens on May 19. 

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Filer’s Files #18 -2017 UFO Shot Down - PART I

Naperville, Illinois a suburb of Chicago on April 24, 2017.
Naperville, Illinois a suburb of Chicago on April 24, 2017.

Filer’s Files #18 -2017 UFO Shot Down - PART I

In special reports, this week’s files cover: In special reports, this week’s files cover: French Minister of Defense UFOs Exist, Peru – Crashed UFO Was Likely Shot Down, India – Vimana UFOs Flew in 4,000 B.C., Dr. Bruce Cornet Reports, Mars Tree Stump, China Moves 150k Troops to North Korea Border

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Columbia, India, Philippines, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.

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

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Robert Galley, French Minister of Defense states, “I must say that if listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports coming in from the government’s airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of which reports are forwarded by us to the National Center for Space Studies, then they would see that it is all pretty disturbing.

 I believe that the attitude of spirit that we must have is an open mind to vis-a-vis this phenomenon, that is to say that it doesn’t consist in denying a priori, as our ancestors of previous centuries did deny many things that seem nowadays perfectly elementary.”  M. Robert Galley, French Minister of Defense, interviewed on radio by Jean-Claude Bourret, February 21, 1974.

 

Peru – Crashed UFO Was Likely Shot Down

 Marine Corps Lance Corporal John Weygandt, who was part of the Disclosure Project, was sent to Peru in March 1997, to provide perimeter security for a radar installation that he was told tracked drug traffic aircraft in Peru and Bolivia. He states, “About midnight, while I was on guard duty, Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson told me, an aircraft crashed and they need us to go and secure the crash site.” Early that morning we drove six Hummers close to the crash site just when it started to get light. Well, we found the area real easy because there was a huge gash in the land where something had crashed. Everything was burned and it was like something had almost cut warm butter with a knife. It was like something on fire or had some kind of energy like a laser had cut it. It was really strange. I was in the front with Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson and we were ten or twenty meters ahead of everyone else. We were the first ones to see this thing. It had gone up the hill and then off in the side  of the ravine and ridge. This was a 200-foot ridge, of solid rock. A huge craft was buried at a 45-degree angle in the side of the cliff there at the ridge.

The craft was dripping a greenish-purple syrup-like liquid. The liquid was everywhere and fluctuated like it was alive and changing to a different shade of greenish purple. The craft was humming like a bass guitar and had a slowly turning light. Most of the craft seemed buried into the cliff but vents, like a fish gill were on the back. The liquid got on my clothes and ate holes in them and burned off  some the hair on my arms. There were three holes in the ship that may have been hatches that were not flush with the main body of the craft. There was another hatch the same width and diameter of the top hatch and it was kind of crooked to the side and it was half open. I didn’t see any lights or anything coming out of it but I felt this… presence. It is real strange. I think the creatures calmed me. It was weird and I think they were trying to communicate with me, telepathically. The Corporal estimated the craft was ten meters in width and about 20 meters in length and shaped like something between an egg and a teardrop. The skin of the craft had bumps and notches and appendages on it. It was really organic and almost like art. It looked like something that could be made in a shop. It looked like it could have been handmade but out of what materials I do not know. It was definitely nothing like titanium. It looked like metal but there was no reflection. The sun was shining on it and I could see the different shades of the craft and it didn’t reflect anything. Suddenly the Sergeants were yelling at me to get the hell out of there.

After we climbed back up, the Department of Energy people were there. I was arrested and cuffed, both hands down. I had all my gear taken from me by men in black cammies who threatened me and subdued me and put me on a cot. They had no name tags. At the crash site there were about thirty of these guys wearing hazard suits.

I had been told aircraft were flying in and out of the atmosphere at mach ten plus. When you have objects that reenter the atmosphere and then stop on a dime and then turn around and go exactly the opposite direction – that is kind of strange. Meteors don’t do that. The craft was not from Earth. I knew that when I looked at it. I wondered if those facilities were built for the intent to track UFO’s and their cover was to track drug aircraft. They had laser range finders and all kinds of high tech stuff that I have never seen before. I couldn’t really explain it. They [the laser range finders] that looked like big telescopes and some sort of Command Center manned by a multi –national force. So these craft were tracked from this particular radar and were logged. I’m confident that when I saw the aircraft, it had been hit by something, perhaps by a Patriot Missile System or laser weapons. Something had taken it out.

Editor’s Note: Corporal Weygandt described a craft damaged by enemy action, either ours or an opposing alien force. His testimony on Page 274 of “Disclosure: Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets” by Steven Greer M.D. is excellent and indicates lethal deadly force was being used against alien intruders during the Clinton Administration. We can assume this war continues.

India – Vimana UFOs Flew in 4,000 B.C.

According to Dr. V. Raghavan, retired head of the Sanskrit department of India’s prestigious University of Madras, contends that centuries-old documents in Sanskrit (the classical language of India and Hinduism) prove that aliens from outer space visited his nation. “Fifty years of researching this ancient works convinces me that there are livings beings on other planets, and that they visited earth as far back as 4,000 B.C.” The scholar says. “There is a just a mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons, that can be found in translations of the Vedas scriptures, Indian epics, and other ancient Sanskrit text.”

“In the Mahabharata (writings), there is notion of divine lighting and ray weapons, even a kind of hypnotic weapon. And in the Ramayana writings, there is a description of Vimanas or flying machines that navigated at great heights with the aid of quicksilver and a great propulsive wind. “These were space vehicles similar to the so-called flying saucers reported throughout the world today. The Ramayana even describes a beautiful chariot which ‘arrived shining, a wonderful divine car that sped through the air’. In another passage, there is mention of a chariot being seen ‘sailing overhead like a moon.’

“The references in the Mahabharata are no less astounding: At Rama’s behest, the magnificent chariot rose up to a mountain of cloud with a tremendous din. Another passage reads: “Bhima flew with his Vimana on an enormous ray which was as brilliant as the sun and made a noise like the thunder of a storm.” In the ancient Vymanka-Shastra (science of aeronautics), there is a description of a Vimana: “An apparatus which can go by its own force, from one place to place o globe to globe.”

Photo courtesy of Commander Graham Bethune.

Dr. Raghavan points out, “The text’s revelations become even more astounding. Thirty-one parts of which the machine consists are described, including a photographing mirror underneath. The text also enumerates 16 kinds of metal that are needed to construct the flying vehicle: “But only three of them are known to us today. The rest remain untranslatable.” Thanks to the India Daily.

Contact in the Desert

Contact in the Desert

Moon Disc

As an attempted cure for insomnia I have been photographing Jupiter which is extremely bright in the night sky. It is actually the brightest object next to the moon. Last week while photographing the moon April 17, 2017, I obtained something strange. I usually do three shot bursts (like the military) but in photography it’s called bracketing. #82 contains the object – a small dot in the center. The blow up seems to show a disk like object similar to speculated “space planes”. The color of purple similar to Jupiter’s moons located 480 million miles away. I don’t think this is a bug – we have had very few insects recently during the day and this was at 2:00 AM. Regards Robert M Stiles

Temple of Karnak, Egypt

There is an overwhelming about of evidence that some ancient Egyptian leaders were aliens, and the tomb of Senmut and the astronomical signs are further proof. If we had to build the ancient pyramid today, it would never get built. The blocks were too big, and the seams between them were too perfectly sealed without cement, not to mention even with today’s technology, this would be an almost impossible task.
Scott C. Waring

In the tomb of Senmut, the architect of Queen Hatshepsut, a panel of the ceiling represents the celestial sphere, the signs of the zodiac, and the other constellations, with an inverted orientation of the southern part of the firmament (1). Senmut supervised the quarrying, transport, and erection of twin obelisks, at the time the tallest in the world, at the entrance to the Temple of Karnak. Senmut, was a Grand Vizire, architect, and chief of the national and religious calendar, He was the mightiest person in Egypt next to Pharaoh

A characteristic feature of the Senmot ceiling is the astronomically false orientation of the South panel. The center of this panel is occupied by the Orion-Sirius group, in which Orion appears to the west of Sirius, instead of being to the East as it might be seen from a different planet. It appears that at the time the cosmic map was created the stars were positioned in a different perspective. Many believe that it’s because an Earthly catastrophe that happened 12.000 years ago, which caused a change in inclination of the ecliptic plane. The mystery of the cosmic ceiling of the tomb of Senmut! http://www.disclose.tv/news/

 Bruce Cornet Reports

 Ellen Crystall, three other watchers, and I chased this Boeing 707-shaped craft down country roads at 60 mph, and caught up to it. It stopped, hovered, turned 180 degrees “on a dime,” and then flew back over us. A full Moon behind cloud cover produced a silver-screen effect, and we could make out its shape clearly well below the clouds.

A couple months later, that same airplane-like craft met me on my way home before sunset, and followed me home. It flew below 200 feet above ground at highway speeds.

The crafts occupant’s singled out Cornet for its performance, and allowed Cornet to photograph it so many times, indicates both intent and purpose.  The military mindset does not include parading its top secret or new and advanced technologies before the public, let alone before an unsecured camera. Consequently, either this performance was for the purpose of a covert human experiment with a strong psychological objective or it was an overt non-human experiment with a strong awareness objective.  The first explanation is easier for skeptics to accept, even if it is not strongly supported by the evidence. Whatever followed Cornet home that evening was not

a standard Boeing 707. The fact that it flashed its headlights and flew in front of Cornet seven times that evening certainly qualifies Cornet as the target of this performance.  The energy patterns on its belly and the loops it performed before his camera indicate an exotic form of propulsion and lift.  Its slow speed indicates that this AOP did not require wings to fly.  Thus, its resemblance to a Boeing aircraft either indicates that this was an experimental aircraft using a new type of propulsion system, or that its resemblance was intended as camouflage or for deception. 

: 23 June 1992. Time: 11:12 pm. Place: West Searsville Road next to the Wilde farm, northwest of Montgomery, NY. Witnesses: Bruce Cornet and five other people. On that night they witnessed a cigar-shaped craft possessing multicolored lights rising slowly and silently to the west of their location. This B&W photograph is the first of two taken of this AOP (Anomalistic Observational Phenomena) before it unfolded wings and turned on sound like that of a conventional jet.

Figure 3 the second of two time exposures showing the lights on a cigar-shaped AOP as wings unfolded, they moved apart, and the sound of a conventional jet was heard for the first time. The group of witnesses then jumped into their cars and gave chase down country roads, and caught up to this AOP after it stopped and hovered, apparently waiting for them. As they watched, this object, which now resembled an all black Boeing 707 without engines, swiveled around and flew over them back in the direction it came.

Was this the same AOP that followed Cornet home?  These were the only two days Cornet saw this all black AOP that resembled a Boeing 707: Once on 23 June 1992 and again (seven times) on 24 September 1992.

Bruce was the Deputy Administrator of NIDs.

NIDS came out with a report leaning in favor of Black Triangles as being our military hardware. Bruce took reports on the phone of people seeing Black Triangles (BT) taking off from Naval and other military air bases.  The Administrator Dr. Colm Kellener had made a map using only the NIDS database, and a statistically high percentage of BT sightings occurred between Air Force Bases.  So he concluded that BTs are our technology.

But he needed to test his theory, and convinced Bigelow to purchase the Hatch and MUFON databases.  When those data were included, a completely different picture emerged.  At the May 2004 SSE Convention in Las Vegas, he gave a talk on his new results.  He said the composite map falsified his original theory, and showed that BTs were too widespread to be only military craft.  He even suggested we might be witnessing the First Wave of an alien invasion.

If you look at the attached graph, with the addition of the NUFORC database, it shows a rapid increase in BT sightings between 1997 and 2003, while sightings around Pine Bush N.Y. declined.

But since then other types of UFOs have been seen, and Filer’s Files indicate a significant increase in disc-shaped UFOs.  So, is the BT threat over?  I don’t know.  Perhaps if the frequency of BTs during the first four years of the Millennium was part of a military experiment to see how people would react.  Then their frequency dropped, because the experiment was over?

A friend at JPL tells me that the Secret Space Program (SSP) is real and has a budget dozens of times larger than that of NASA and JPL combined.  He says there has been exponential progress in vehicular technology in the last 20 years. Could this in part explain our burgeoning National debt since 2000?

Question becomes: How much of the exponential rise in BT sightings is due to this technology, and why would black projects be surveying US cities and major highways (populated areas) using these platforms?  Couldn’t the Intelligence Community do this the conventional way?

Examine the attached NIDS map and graph showing rapid increase in sightings since the Belgian encounters in 1989-1990.

So, if this is our technology, why was I given so many personal demonstrations between 1992 and 1997? Is the objective to convince people this new technology is not ours?  Will our national adversaries buy that concept and deception also?

If this steady and dramatic increase in sightings since 1992 is because of our Visitors, what would be their objective or intent? Dr. Colm Kelleher (Administrator of NIDS) said at the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) convention in May 2004 in Las Vegas that this could be the first wave of an alien invasion.  Might you agree?  I don’t know what to think, but your contribution to documenting sightings around the country and world is very important.  Keep up your efforts.  I will help you however I can. Cheers, Bruce Cornet

Mars Tree Stump on Right

: Paranormal Crucible makes a hypothesis that this could be an ancient tree stump on Mars photographed April 2017. It’s a good assumption since NASA themselves said Mars was Earth-like when a solar explosion hit the planet, striping the atmosphere and oceans from its surface.  Thanks to Scott C. Waring

Paranormal Crucible states:
Intriguing object found by the curiosity rover, this time a possible tree stump. This object definitely looks out of place and in my opinion could be the petrified remnants of a Martian tree. Object is around 3 feet in height, and with numerous discoveries of plant and animal life on mars, it would be logical to assume, that a variety of tree either existed, or still exists on this enigmatic planet. Source NASA photo:

China Moves 150k Troops to North Korea Border

The North Korean propaganda outlet released a video showing a mock attack on the White House, declaring “the enemy to be destroyed is in our sights.” Images of the White House and aircraft carriers marked by cross hairs are shown in the 2½-minute video, released by the Meari, or Echo, website of North Korea.

It is not know how accurate the North Korean nuclear tipped missiles are and their range. Some intelligence indicates they could reach Hawaii or Alaska and hit the US carrier task force. The already precarious political situation surrounding the relationship between North Korea and the United States has once again become escalated, this time by China’s actions of moving 150,000 troops to the North Korean border.

The Chinese have stated that the move is in preparation for ‘unforeseen circumstances’, in other words in case a conflict breaks out between North Korea, and South Korea and the United States.

The question is whose side is China supporting in the possible conflict?  Recent actions on both sides seem to suggest that a conflict is becoming inevitable, with China now adopting a new policy of economic sanctions against North Korea. Allegedly North Korean ships were turned back before arriving in China, worsening their isolation and economic problems further. While previous American regimes seemed happy to leave the Hermit nation to its isolation, Donald Trump seems more determined to remove the growing threat Kim Jong Un presents.

North Korean Anti-ship Missiles

This more aggressive and less tolerant stance from American can seemingly only have two conclusions. Either North Korea will have to back down and stop antagonizing the West for the seemingly little gain to themselves, or there will eventually be a conflict of some sort. The troops moving towards the border with China, anti-missile defense systems being transported into South Korea and warships being redeployed closer to the peninsula from the United States are all signs of the latter. North Korea would almost certainly be annihilated if they were ever to start a war with the US and South Korea. In a war artillery aimed at Seoul could cause heavy destruction

The United States and South Korea similarly have nothing to gain from a war with the North. http://www.disclose.tv/news/escalation_china_deploys_150000_troops_to_north_korean_border/138505


David Twichell We Are Not Alone.

Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, passed away on February 4, 2016. We were fortunate to have had him on this show on October 5, 2016. In honor of Dr. Mitchell, that interview will be re-aired on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 from 1-2 PM. Dr. Mitchell recounts his historic moon walk, family history and we are not alone in the universe. Remember after the broadcast this show is available as a podcast. Go to http://whfr.fm/: click on Talk Shows–Tuesday Forum–(select date).

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Filer’s Files #18 -2017 UFO Shot Down - PART II

Filer’s Files #18 -2017 UFO Shot Down - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

Arkansas Object

Pine Bluff – I was flying a drone and having difficulty getting it to land the more try to get it to land. It flew higher until the battery died and it crashed. When I reviewed the footage I was recording I noticed a black dot in the sky in front of the sun.  I also mounted camera upside down so you’ll see the footage upside down. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Arizona Light

 Lake Havasu City — Orb appeared in photo as I was taking photo of the saucer shaped cloud.  The orb was in one of four pictures taken within 5 seconds on September 12, 2016. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Cylinder

 Fowler –, I don’t remember the exact date when I took this photo. It could’ve been either in 2013 or 2014 at 2 pm. I took the photo with my Nikon D50 of very large dark clouds over my home. I did not see the very large transparent object when taking a photo.

Only afterwards looking through my photos that I saw it. I did not hear any sound. I have witnessed more unexplained objects in Fowler than anywhere else. I noticed on the ends of this object are pale green and pink. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Anaheim — I was laying in my yard with my dog on Friday, April 20, 2017 about 3:30 pm and saw a thin contrail; I sensed its aircraft due to my training in the Army as an anti-aircraft gunner. I began to film a unique contrail I had seen once before many years ago. I had read in Popular Mechanics about a contrail left by an unknown aircraft, but most likely a new spy plane. They call the contrails “Donuts on a rope” due to a new propulsion system.

I believe alien technology is used for this plane. It may even fly to space; I was told it sure was high in the air when I saw this. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Delaware Lights

On April 4, 2017, outside I saw blinking drones that changed from three lights to multiple lights.

It looked like the lights were reflected by multiple mirrors (but you can see through it somehow), like gravitational lensing.

It just moved for one minute and then the lights turned off and it was gone. Nothing moved much as it was like in the old Predator movie.

I was Googling a drone show around this place, but nothing.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Cube

Hialeah — Large cube shaped ufo, much larger than a 777 by size comparison. It was hovering at first and fluctuating in various colors. I took footage of it in zoom on February 19, 2017. I zoomed in it appeared to be structured and cube shaped. Minutes later it started to move and I began recording again, it sped off into the horizon above the clouds and at the end of the footage I showed how it was no longer in its original position. When I took a screenshot of a frame from the second video which was zoomed in and enlarged it, it appeared to be similar to a building or skyscraper with several windows. I’m attaching the original video and the enlarged image taken from the second video. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Objects

Naperville — I was sitting in my car about to go into the office I work at in a suburb of Chicago on April 24, 2017.

When I noticed a bright reflection coming from an object in the sky, I noticed it moving oddly as if it was tumbling end to end. It didn’t seem to be falling, but flying on a relaxed heading.

Didn’t seem to be moving quickly, but it’s hard to tell as I couldn’t determine its size or proximity. I thought it was odd so I quickly pulled out my iPhone 7 and took a photo burst. It then moved out of view behind some foliage. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Chicago — I was working my shift at O’Hare Airport and was recording a plane because it had my name across it on April 17, 2017. Then I noticed something flying above the plane in a hovering manner, so I zoomed in on the flying object. It looked like a dark orb but the way it was flying was abnormal for anything in the vicinity of the airport. I worked there for three years and have taken many videos and pictures of planes and the sky and never have seen anything like it. I would have kept recording but I had to assist a passenger. I was recording through a window but the window was clear so it is not a window smear. It is flying in the sky doing its own thing. I’ve asked allot of pilots for their opinion and they said it looks unexplainable. When I went back to record more it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Hawaii Flying Object

Kauai—I was filming the valley using my phone.

I observed an object flying from waterfall through line of sight.

I did not notice anything until I viewed video.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Light

Hudson River — I was passing by to see the Statue of Liberty.
2. Later on looking at the picture I noticed a bright light with object on top.
3. Thought it could definitely be a UFO.
4. I can’t describe the object and how it behaved because I notice on the picture.
5. I felt like this is a good opportunity to see I actually snapped a real UFO.
6. I never had sight of it, and didn’t notice until reviewing my pictures.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Massachusetts Disc

Boston — While driving north on Route 93 heading towards Boston just beyond the LNG gas tanks in Dorchester, I looked up at one of the skyscrapers. I noticed a large square/rectangular object hovering off to the left of it.
It was 9:30 am, and traffic was moving slowly over Route 93. I had witnessed something similar in 2013, in the same general area.  I got a picture of it this time. It appeared to be pewter colored and dull. It seemed to hover for a bit then slowly starts to move towards the east. I eventually lost sight of it when I entered the tip O’Neal tunnel. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Oval Shape

Lakehurst Naval Base — I was coming home from work on a December night in 2014. At the end of this one long hilly road, you come to a four way stop. Diagonally, there is a large empty field. And beyond that is the base. Once I got to the stop sign there was another car in front of me and we simultaneously saw something in the sky and hit the brakes immediately in the middle of the road. There were 12 or more lights lined up in an oval shape larger than a football field. It could have been much bigger if it was further way. It was a similar to the Phoenix lights but the oval shape was more pronounced. The ring or halo of lights were almost tilted on and angle. The lights lit up in a row. Slowly around the oval and sped up quicker and quicker until it vanished completely without a trace. The reason why I decided to write about this now is because I was driving past that field the other day and realized you can see stars everywhere in the sky, except for where those lights were above the base. Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Carolina Orbs

Asheville — In early February I watched the documentary “Man cursed with Seeing UFOs” starring Christo Roppolo. I could not get it out of my mind how in the movie he used prime number signaling to summon craft and intelligent entities. I thought this was so farfetched yet instinctively knew that there was in fact something to it. Two nights later on February 24, 2017 at around 9:45 pm something or some feeling made me pop up off the couch, grab my phone and head outside to try and signal some UFOs

I used my bright screen to signal two times and two UFO orbs started signaling back to me or so it seemed. What I would describe as two bilateral, white light emitting orb shaped UFOs signaling light sequences and alternating between being stationary and moving across the sky at different speeds and in different random directions. Eventually after filming them for almost 5 minutes and my phone being completely drained, they flew off in separate directions. What I witnessed very much resembled the light emitting UFOs which I have seen others post on Youtube.

The two orbs of light that I saw looked almost like eyeballs looking at me and they communicated with me. I felt this message was sent to me, “We are here and have been for a long time. Everything matters. Do not fear us. Keep learning, have patience, teach others, practice unconditional love.” I have found these same light emitting orbs documented hundreds of times with video on Youtube. I see clearly that our society is moving forward as fast as possible regarding what is revealed to us about extraterrestrial life. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas Cylinder

Denton — I have witnessed and reported similar lights before. A dull light shaped sort of like a cigar first caught my attention on April 24, 2017. I wasn’t sure if I was looking at a plane leaving a trail, so I began to photograph it, and after uploading the photos to my computer I could see that there were three lights at first, and they eventually disappeared. It was getting dark, and I didn’t have a tripod, so many of the photos were out of focus. I did manage to get a few decent photos. Power lines were present and I feel that the lights were much further than the power lines, but I can’t be positive about that. A short time later, two other lights appeared. I took video of the two lights and one light was traveling slowly and appeared to go through a power line, but that could have been because I was in full zoom and the camera was shaky and it may have made the light appear to do so. I had my camera set to photograph in RAW which I hoped would have captured good detail, but the lights seemed faraway and the photos were not of the greatest quality. Even still, I believe that you can see that it is not an airplane, and in my opinion the lights didn’t seem close to the power lines, but again I can’t be sure. I contradict myself in saying that in viewing the video, the lights appear to be right at the power lines, but if that is the case the lights are a big as the power line are thick. I have converted the RAW files to jpeg.

West Virginia Light

I already reported this. I wanted to add the photos plus I reported after midnight on my report so I got the date wrong.

It was approx 10:30 on April 21, 2017.

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Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia

 Sydney — Just taken these sunset photos while on a ferry home on April 29, 2017. The strange thing is a white object in the sky above the bridge. On my last photo it is no longer there. The moon is off to the top right.

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Canada Objects

 Grimsby — Object observed in the southeast at an elevation close to 10k-20k feet above ground. Object appeared to be hovering with egg shaped object. I observed the object from my ground floor and then moved upstairs to take photographs. I only took one picture. When I looked at it I phoned Police to ask if they had any objects reported in the area. The object was hovering below the clouds and was flying on jet airways from Hamilton International. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Clearland – 1 was home with my daughter
2. I look at the sky allot
3. I saw a ufo as I am a believer
4. It was having a fun time doing zigzags all over the sky. It was nice to watch if you go on Youtube you can find it on there. ufo Nova Scotia/Sara Hubley.
5. I was amazed at the way it could move around like it did.
6. It just went away on February 3, 2012.

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Columbia Orb

Bogata — I was with my wife on the terrace of a building during a nice sunset on March 24, 2017, and so I decided to take a picture with my iPhone 6. When I was ready to take the picture I saw a commercial jet (type Airbus 330 or 340) just taking off from El Dorado airport. Since I love planes I decided to take a sequence hoping to get a nice one of the aircraft. The view was not very clear because of the glare from the sunset and the presence of a huge grey cloud, but between pictures I noticed a bright light moving close to the airplane. I zoomed with my phone and did three more shots before seeing the object disappear towards the sunset and behind the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Philippines Cloud

Pagadian City, Zamboanga — This UFO was recorded by Anne Elle Salikala of Facebook, who personally witnesses the glowing iridescent UFO hovering over a cloud near her home. The colors are scientifically impossible for them to occur in clouds; however for a cloaked UFO it’s very possible. As a matter of fact, I once saw a tiny baseball size UFO just two meters from me with the exact same colors, so I know firsthand. The easiest and most relaxing way a UFO can come close to a human community is by making itself appear as a cloud. This is a magnificent alien craft we are looking at here. Scott C. Waring News source:

Spain

UFO Seen from Passenger Jet

This long dark object was seen poking through a cloud 4,000 feet up in the air in April 2017. It may be a beam or transporter that is sending down supplies into an underwater base and the UFO may be hidden in the clouds above it. These lucky passengers got to see it, even if it’s only for a few seconds. It’s enough to change how you see the world.  Not only are we not alone on Earth, we have never been alone on this planet. Aliens have lived here in secluded areas below the surface for over 10,000 years. Scott C. Waring

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If you see some strange things flying in the air while traveling in an airplane, “what questions will arise in your mind? A similar incident has happened recently, in fact, whenever a person travels in air, he sees the beautiful scenes of the sky window, but have you ever thought that, if you were in Hawaii If you see something different from the outside of the ship’s window, how would you feel? In an airplane from Spain to England, a passenger got to see something similar, which he was able to see. In fact, this passenger had seen a pillar blown between the clouds. Due to which she got a little nervous, but only after she was caught, she caught that scene in her camera soon. Many people say that, in fact, this is the warning light from the oil terminal, so some people say that it can be a scratched in the seat window. This passenger says that on seeing from four thousand feet, this hammer looked like a big pillar of iron.

UK/England Sphere

 Newton Abbot, Devon — I was sky watching when I spotted a passenger plane approaching on ‎September 21, ‎2014.. As it flew past I noticed a flying saucer fly up to the back of the passenger plane and make physical contact with the tail section. It then gave the plane a nudge before flying off at an incredible rate of speed at 1:26 PM GMT. The pilot must have felt the nudge and probably thought it was air turbulence. I could not believe what I had just witnessed through the viewfinder of my Sony camera. Luckily I had managed to take two photographs. In the first photograph you can clearly see the flying saucer near the tail section of the plane and in the second photograph you can clearly see that the flying saucer is gone. It definitely looks like a classic flying saucer. I have seen this UFOs get pretty close to commercial aircraft before but never hit an aircraft until I had witnessed this event. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Newton Abbot — It was the early hours of the morning 1:20 AM, on June 26, 2016. I looked out the kitchen window and saw a bright object hanging above a nearby housing estate. I ran and got my Nikon P900 Camera and open the window and looking through the viewfinder I zoomed in and I could see the object clearly. The object was definitely not any type of known aircraft. The large object was glowing bright orange and had a white pulsing light on the top left side. The object hung there silently over the housing. After a while a tube began to extend from the middle of the object and when it was fully extended it glowed with a yellowish tinge. While making my observations I had been taking photographs and managed to capture the strange unknown object. I then felt tired and closed the kitchen window and put the camera on the side and went to bed. In the morning I was confused to why I had gone bed. Why didn’t I take more photographs why did I go to bed? The photograph was taken ‎26 ‎June ‎2016, ‏‎1:27 AM GMT at Newton Abbot Devon England. Check out the photograph below.

Devon — I have had a lot of sightings at the Teign Estuary lately so I went back to sky watch there again on April 10, 2017.

. Then after hours of sky watching all of a sudden two orange and yellow orbs emerged from the clouds that were right above me.

I quickly took a photograph and managed to capture the two amazing orbs just before they went back into the clouds. I had previously photographed these orange and yellow orbs on April 2nd at 20:39 PM at Newton Abbot. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 

Exmouth — I spotted a Cigar shaped UFO over Dawlish Warren on April 11, 2017. The cigar shaped UFO was hovering quite low over the beach. I quickly took a Photograph of the cigar shaped UFO before it ascended up into the sky and started to move away.

When the cigar shaped UFO was higher in the sky I took another photograph. The cigar shaped UFO then appeared to bend and flew off at an incredible speed. There were a lot of people about but none of them seemed to see this object. It was very strange. The Photographs were taken on the 11th of ‎April ‎2015, 3:40 PM GMT at Exmouth Devon England.

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WHERE SHOULD WE LOOK FOR ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM?

Image of the "Face of Mars" by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with the Viking 1 image inset (bottom right). Credit: NASA/JPL

WHERE SHOULD WE LOOK FOR ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM?

  Article Updated: 2 May , 2017
by Fraser Cain

The search for life in the Universe takes many paths. There’s SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which is searching for signals from a distant ancient civilization. There’s the exploration of our own Solar System, on Mars, or underneath the subsurface oceans of Europa and Enceladus, to see if life can be anywhere there’s liquid water and a source of energy. And upcoming space telescopes like James Webb will attempt to directly image the atmospheres of distant extrasolar planets, to see if they contain the distinct chemical signatures of life.

But according to Jason Wright, an astronomer at the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds at Penn State University, we could consider searching for evidence of ancient civilizations right here on Earth, or across the Solar System. Don’t get excited, though, so far “there is zero evidence for prior indigenous species in the Solar System.”

Artist's impression of the terraforming of Mars, from its current state to a livable world. Credit: Daein Ballard

Artist’s impression of the terraforming of Mars, from its current state to a livable world.

Credit: Daein Ballard

In a paper, recently submitted to the arXiv electronic preprint archive entitled Prior Indigenous Technological Species, Dr. Wright describes how we might go about searching for the technological artifacts left behind by ancient civilizations that have evolved in the Solar System. Perhaps on an ancient, cooler Venus, or on Mars in a time when it was wetter and had a thicker atmosphere. Those civilizations could have arisen millions or even billions of years ago, destroyed themselves or left the Solar System, and only ancient traces of their culture and technology would still be around.

If a civilization had reached a high level of technology, where did it go? Wright suggests a variety of catastrophes, like a swarm of comets, self destruction, or even a nearby supernova explosion that irradiated the whole Solar System with high energy gamma rays. Even without a specific event, a civilization might have simply just died out, or became permanently non-technological. Of course, these possibilities face our own human civilization. It’s hard to read the paper and not consider the fate of humanity. Will future aliens search for scraps to learn about us?

Where should we look? According to Wright, Earth is the obvious, most habitable place in the Solar System, and it’ll be the easiest to search. Humans have dramatically changed the landscape of Earth. Our open pit mines, for example, are a clear indication that an intelligent species dug out a specific mineral from the ground. These might be obvious for millions of years, but over the course of billions of years, plate tectonics will have recycled those regions, absorbing the evidence back into the ground. Radioactive isotopes from ancient nuclear reactors, or fossils of ancient beings will have about the same lifespan. Beyond a few hundred million years, the Earth itself would have completely obscured any evidence of a technological civilization.

Inhospitable surface of Venus. Credit: Magellan

Venus is inhospitable today, but it might not have always been the case. Billions of years in the past, when the Sun was cooler, it might have had a thinner atmosphere and milder temperatures. It’s worth searching. That said, it appears that Venus has gone through major geological resurfacing events, where the entire planet’s surface turned inside out. Venus could easily hide its secrets.

Scientists are accumulating more and more evidence that Mars was warmer and wetter in the past, with eras when liquid water could exist on the surface for long periods of time. And unlike Earth and Venus, it doesn’t have active plate tectonics. Landscapes on the surface have remained there for billions of years. Well, okay, they’ve been pounded by meteorites, but they’re still there.

What should we be looking for? One idea is technological structures: ancient mining facilities, factories, even cities. On Mars, these structures could get covered by dust or worn down by erosion, so it’s entirely possible our space-based observations could have missed them. Even structures on asteroids and the Moon get eroded by micrometeorites wearing them down. Over the course of millions years, an ancient factory would look very similar to a small rocky outcrop. The real evidence could be hidden underground, safely protected from the surface erosion. We need more rovers and orbiters with ground penetrating radar to see below the surface.

The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment placed on the Moon by the Apollo 14 astronauts. Credit: NASA

The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment placed on the Moon by the Apollo 14 astronauts.

Credit: NASA

There could be free-floating objects in the Solar System, like ancient space stations. Of course, if they’ve been abandoned long ago, they wouldn’t be functional, and that same micrometeorite erosion would have worn them down over the vast timescales. Furthermore, their orbits might not be stable, and could eventually crash into another world, or get kicked out of the Solar System entirely. Space stations out in the Kuiper Belt would be subject to less erosion, and better preserved over vast timescales. We need better telescopes and deeper surveys to answer this question.

The bottom line is that Dr. Wright doesn’t conclude there’s any evidence for ancient civilizations in the Solar System so far. But the reality is that we’ve only just begun to look. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which contains the most powerful telescope to ever travel away from the Earth has only mapped a few percent of the Martian surface at its highest resolution. Astronomers have only mapped a tiny fraction of the asteroids and comets zipping around the Solar System. And we’ve only had single glimpses at places in the outer Solar System, like Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

There’s so much more searching that needs to be done. But while we’re at it, we should keep an eye out for ancient civilizations. If we did find an old factory, space station, or even the dumping ground of a precursor species, it would be a boon to our knowledge.

And might just give us a warning; advanced knowledge of what the future holds for our own civilization.

Original Source: Prior Indigenous Technological Species

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Did Intelligent Space Aliens Once Live in Our Solar System?

Did Intelligent Space Aliens Once Live in Our Solar System?

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A Grey Alien standing against an outer space background, with planet Earth.

A respected scientist says that if the existence of a home-grown intelligent alien species has never been established, it's never been ruled out either. 

Mark Stevenson / Getty Images/Stocktrek Images

Was our solar system once home to an advanced civilization other than our own — perhaps one that predated humanity by hundreds of millions of years before being wiped out by an asteroid impact or some other cataclysm?

There's no evidence for such a pre-human indigenous technological species, though people have been speculating about one since ancient times. But a respected space scientist points out in a provocative new paper that if the existence of home-grown intelligent space aliens has never been established, it's never been ruled out either.

And if a race of smart and perhaps spacefaring aliens did make their home in our solar system, traces of their lost civilization might still be out there somewhere in the system just waiting for us to find them.

Related: Are Human Beings the Real Ancient Aliens?

At least that's what the scientist, Penn State astrophysicist Dr. Jason T. Wright, argues in the paper, "Prior Indigenous Technological Species." The paper was posted on the online research archive ArXiv on April 24, 2017.

What sorts of traces does Wright have in mind? He's not saying we might dig up aliens' fossilized bones. Rather, he's talking about "technosignatures." The term encompasses a range of possible artifacts, including archaeological ruins and old mining operations as well as synthetic chemicals or nuclear isotopes that could have been created only by technological processes.

Wright argues that if a prior indigenous technological species did exist in our solar system, it might have arisen on Earth or a "pre-greenhouse" Venus, or on Mars when it still had flowing water.

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NASA Discovers Four New Exoplanets That Could Possibly Sustain Life 

But we're unlikely to find any artifacts from this species on Earth, he says, because surface erosion and the shifting tectonic plates on our planet would probably have erased them long ago (or changed them so dramatically that we might not recognize them as products of technology).

Similarly, any artifacts left on Venus would probably have been destroyed long ago by the planet's harsh atmosphere or the violent "resurfacing" the planet underwent hundreds of millions of years ago.

If any technosignatures were left on Mars, however, Wright believes they might still exist. But given the red planet's thick dust, he writes that "it is unlikely that artifacts might be obvious from space imagery, or even from the sort of shallow probing performed by the various Martian rovers."

In other words, just because the orbiters and rovers we've sent to Mars haven't turned up any technosignatures doesn't mean they're not there. They might simply be lying deep under the surface.

Related: Why Finding Signs of Life May Be Harder Than We Thought

Other places to look for technosignatures include our moon (again, probably under the surface) and the rocky moons and asteroids of the outer solar system. And as Wright told NBC News MACH in an email, there might even be "large structures free-floating in space" — some sort of space stations left over from this hypothetical civilization.

What do other experts make of Wright's ideas?

Dr. Paul Horowitz, a research professor of physics and electrical engineering at Harvard University and a noted expert on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), praised the paper as "very nice" but cast doubt on the notion that our solar system might have been home to the kind of species Wright discusses.

"If I had to guess, I'd say it's highly unlikely, but not impossible, that an ancient civilization existed — probably even more unlikely we'll ever find evidence," Horowitz told MACH in an email.

Related: Is an Alien Megastructure Causing This Star's Strange Behavior?

In a separate email to MACH, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson called Wright's ideas "intriguing," but added with a measure of understatement that efforts to confirm the existence of another home-grown technological species would "require substantial upticks in our space exploration budgets."

Wright himself isn't actually calling for a massive new effort to look for evidence of the hypothetical species. But he does hope his paper has an impact on the way scientists think about the possibility of ancient intelligent life in our neck of the cosmic woods.

"I'd like people who think about ancient Earth — archaeologists and paleontologists — to consider how we can rule out a prior indigenous technological species," he said. "Before what [geologic] time are we sure that there was no complex life, no technology, on the surface of the Earth? I feel that planetary scientists can tell us how old the surfaces of Venus and Mars are, and how long artifacts should last."

Are you guys listening?

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Why Our Plans to Colonize the Universe Haven't Come to Fruition (Yet) 
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Space expert claims trio of UFOs are hiding secret spacecraft which is invisible to the naked eye

Space expert claims trio of UFOs are hiding secret spacecraft which is invisible to the naked eye

Experts say the footage recorded through night vision technology show UFOs are hiding in plain sight above us...

Experts believe three UFOs spotted in the sky could be a sign of an invisible alien spaceship moving above us.

Footage shows three orbs of light moving in formation, which experts believe could be the three corners of a triangular-shaped spaceship.

The UFOs in the clip, shared by experts at Secure Team 10 in America, start as small dots but soon become brighter.

The footage was filmed in Kentucky in the USA and sent in for analysis.


The three objects were spotted in a triangle formation

Tyler from Secure Team said: "This was captured on a night vision camera of three distinct objects moving in a perfect triangular formation, orbiting the planet it would seem."

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He adds: "This is an amazing sighting, we see that these three objects, and I've watched this entire clip, these things stay locked into their position.

Experts believe there are more UFOs hiding in the sky in plain sight

"If you watch closely there are a couple of other UFOs moving in other directions.

"These UFOs are not able to be seen with the naked eye.

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"It is only once you use these specialty devices that can actually detect things in this specific light, we start to realise just how many of these unknown objects are sitting above us in plain sight.

"And you would only know were there if you had some of these night vision goggles or tech." 

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Most remarkable UFO sightings in April 2017

Most remarkable UFO sightings in April 2017

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

10th April 2017; triangle formation – Mexicali, Mexico


17th April 2017; triangle UFO – Exmouth in UK


19th April 2017; orbs in the sky – Summerlin, Nevada


late April 2017; UFOs during the storm – Stillwater, Oklahoma


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“ The Hammer ” Supercomputer Deep State’s Secret Weapon Exposed

“ The Hammer ” Supercomputer Deep State’s Secret Weapon Exposed

The American Scandal Of The Millennium That Will Not Go Away
 
WiretapGate’s First Victims:
U.S. Intelligence Community,
the Mainstream Media,
and Democratic Party
 
The systematic criminal misuse of a heretofore secret supercomputer administered by the “national security state” has revealed several instances of treason in high places and sedition in low ones.
 
President Trump’s allegation that the Obama Administration was wiretapping him is not only supported by Montgomery’s whistleblower revelations about Brennan’s and Clapper’s computer system THE HAMMER, but also by statements made this week by William Binney, a former NSA Technical Director of the World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group, by former CIA and State Department official Larry Johnson, and by Montgomery’s attorney Larry Klayman.
Computer expert Dennis Montgomery developed software programs that could breach secure computer systems and collect massive amounts of data.
 
 
That system, THE HAMMER, according to the audio tapes, accessed the phone calls, emails and bank accounts of millions of ordinary Americans.
The tapes also reveal that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court (FISA), Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, 156 other judges, members of Congress, and Donald J. Trump were targeted by the HAMMER.
One of the audio tapes made public by Federal Judge G. Murray Snow revealed that Brennan and Clapper particularly targeted and wiretapped Donald Trump a “zillion times.”
 
Truly, it doesn’t get any bigger than WiretapGate.  This is the BIG one we’ve all been waiting for.
 
Yes, Pizzagate is much more radioactive, as is the much larger Pedogate.  However, it’s clear that those two ongoing scandals will never break out into the MSM (mainstream media) — AS A SERIOUS NEWS STORY — until WiretapGate first explodes the Global Control Matrix.
 
 
The Global Control Matrix is both the overarching superstructure and hidden infrastructure by which the countless agents of Deep State execute their myriad schemes to maintain planetary command and control.
 
You see, such a multi-millennial conspiratorial plot really all comes down to intel. Especially good intel.  Because whoever controls the flow of the intelligence worldwide effectively controls the world.  Hence, the 17 intelligence agencies, which make up the U.S. Intelligence Community, always determine who the real king is, as well as who the kingmakers are.  Actually, it is those who control the intel chiefs who pick the kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers around the world.
 
3 Pillars of Deep State
 
With this critical understanding, it ought to be clear that there is an epic war going on between the Trump Administration and Deep State.  Deep State‘s three primary pillars are currently under massive assault by the Trump wrecking crew.  The Company, as the C.I.A. is widely known in intelligence circles, as well as the NSA, are right in the crosshairs of Trump’s closest advisors.  So are the MSM (Mainstream Media) and the FED (Federal Reserve System).
 
 
The sides of this war are not totally black and white.  There are surely some white hats operating in the intelligence community, although the majority is likely wearing dark hats.  That’s because they have all been ponerized over several decades.  Likewise, there are undoubtedly an unknown number of dark hats furtively working inside of Team Trump.
 
 
Nevertheless, the general conflict which defines this intensifying “War of the Titans” clearly pits the globalist entity known as Deep State against the nationalistic patriot movement many call the “Trump Movement”.  This war is quite global because the seeds of nationalist-driven revolutions have been sprouting across the Earth realm throughout this decade.  Brexit and Grexit, Frexit and Nexit are just a few examples of this citizen’s liberation impulse manifesting worldwide, as was the election of Donald Trump.
 
Trump had no choice but to blow up WiretapGate
 
Because Deep State has refused to allow Donald Trump to govern as POTUS, much less carry out his several mandates, he was forced to expose WiretapGate.  Had he chosen not to, his administration would have suffered death by a thousand cuts…as it is currently with the dramatic crash and burn of Ryancare.
 
Because there was such justifiable mutual suspicion between the spooks and the Trumpsters, the relationship got off to an extremely rocky start, as it was destined to. After all, the C.I.A. did everything in its power to seal a victory for the career arch-criminal and inveterate globalist Hillary Clinton.  She was Deep State’s selected heir to the treasonous Barack Hussein Obama, who was just as certain to give the C.I.A. everything it ever wanted like BHO did.
 
  • Key Point: The C.I.A., together with the MSM and the FED, form the very backbone of Deep State.  This triad has many functions but its essential task, which is assigned by the World Shadow Government (WSG), is the efficient maintenance of the perpetual war economy.  To do that effectively the WSG must exercise strict control over all agents of Deep State, especially those who are in key positions of political power. Hence, the 17 intelligence agencies, working in concert with the major MSM news outlets, keep the politicians, key appointees and other government officials in check.  The FED is also used to exert financial pressure as needed to produce specific political and economic outcomes.
 
“The Hammer” Supercomputer: Tool for CIA/NSA Sedition
 
 
As far as the primary intelligence tools are concerned, a top-secret supercomputer known as “The Hammer” is as good as it gets. This exceedingly powerful and unusually capable supercomputer is hidden away deep in the bowels of the Military-Industrial Complex. Until fairly recently no one even knew “The Hammer” existed, just as many other similar advanced IT technologies remain hidden.  Because of how it’s routinely utilized by intel heads, there is very good reason why the “Masters of Intelligence” have kept “The Hammer” highly classified.
 
President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper and his Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Brennan oversaw a secret supercomputer system known as “THE HAMMER,” according to former NSA/CIA contractor-turned whistleblower Dennis Montgomery.
Clapper and Brennan were using the supercomputer system to conduct illegal and unconstitutional government data harvesting and wiretapping. THE HAMMER was installed on federal property in Fort Washington, Maryland at a complex which some speculate is a secret CIA and NSA operation operating at a US Naval facility.
 
Now that the cat is out of the bag, there’s no putting it back in.  Nationalist leaders worldwide are quietly going ballistic at how this “patently unlawful spying and surveillance regime” has been aimed at every perceived enemy of Deep State.  They know it’s also being used against their powerful friends and influential collaborators–24/7–and that there’s nothing they can do about it. The whole world now knows that the American Republic has fallen prey to this totalitarian tactic of control of its political class.  Hence, the illusion of a constitutional republic in the form of democracy USA has been forever shattered.
 
There is no question about the existence and illegal use of “The Hammer”, as some in intelligence circles have insinuated otherwise.  However, what’s even more curious is how the CIA-controlled MSM has gone out of its way to maintain Washington’s dirty little secret.  This conspiratorial behavior by the Fourth Estate is not only highly incriminating, it speaks directly to an organized plot to overthrow the Trump Administration.  However, it is the rogue elements within the U.S. Intelligence Community who are most responsible for running this black operation on American soil.
 
 
WiretapGate: A soft coup enabled by foreign intelligence services
 
The only thing that WiretapGate and Watergate have in common is that they both begin with “W”.  Outside of that, WiretapGate makes Watergate look like a walk in the park. The fact of the matter is that WiretapGate is so serious because it implicates so many high-level Obama Administration officials and members of the U.S. Intelligence Community in a highly coordinated criminal scheme to sabotage Donald Trump’s candidacy for POTUS.
 
If that’s not serious enough, this conspiratorial plot also involves the secret services and intelligence agencies of foreign nations.  Each entity was specifically chosen in order for the perps to present “plausible deniability” during a potential investigative process–an anticipated eventuality which became a reality.  More significantly, foreign assets were employed to basically commit sedition against a sitting POTUS, as they have been enlisted to commit treason in the past.
 
Hence, it can be said with absolute certainty that the entire US intelligence apparatus made Team Trump the target of unprecedented spying and surveillance.  And, that the United Kingdom’s GCHQ was the prime mover and go-to organization for the real sensitive stuff that was done in this regard.  The Brits are the absolute best for denying their obvious law-breaking with a perfectly straight face.  There is no doubt that much of this black operation was farmed out to GCHQ for the sake of plausible deniability…which is exactly the way it turned out.
 
Conclusion
 
In light of these earth-shattering revelations, it’s now incumbent upon President Trump to really begin to drain the Swamp, especially the one inside the Beltway.  There simply is no other alternative at this point since the CIA swamp monsters will only retreat from the spotlight “temporarily” to lick their wounds (EXPOSED: CIA – The Swamp Monsters). More dangerous to Team Trump, however, is that the C.I.A. et al. will further consolidate their power, which has been unlawfully arrogated to itself based upon the false pretext of ‘national security’.
 
This is precisely why the false allegations of a “Russian election hack” with Team Trump collaboration were floated in the first place.  The top-tier of leadership within Deep State knew that it would need a very strong justification to ‘wiretap’ Trump.  So, they simply fabricated one. That’s why the MSM echo chamber nonsensically makes stuff up about Russia–to keep the fictitious story alive for as long as possible.[1]  Only in this way can the intel heads continue to this very day to ‘wiretap’ Trump.  And then transmit false data to the MSM which reflexively produces and disseminates the daily fake news about Team Trump.
 

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MAJESTIC-12: A FORBIDDEN STORY ABOUT THE SECRET U.S. UFO COMMITTEE

MAJESTIC-12: A FORBIDDEN STORY ABOUT THE SECRET U.S. UFO COMMITTEE

Majestic 12 (MJ-12) is the nickname given to a secret group (scientists/military/government) of paranormal researchers- widely theorized by popular UFO conspiracy claims. Who was this secret group? Where did this secret group come from? Is this secret group true? What evidence did they find? How much does our government know? 
 
The government must have had an inkling to round a search party. MJ 12 was organized by then President Truman in 1947. Rumors of MJ12 began when the FBI investigated leaked documentation regarding secret alien life capture- and deemed it false. The public did not trust the FBI and displayed their belief that the leaked proof was indeed authentic.
 
 The infamous leaked eight pages are directly linked to the notorious Roswell Incident. At that time there were already whispers of a government cover-up. The eight pages were actually photos of eight pages of documents that were received anonymously by a high ranking UFO Explorer. The first page mentions the three words, Operation Majestic Twelve, hence the formation of the nickname, Majestic 12. The second image was of the names of the twelve members. On page three comes the bombshell, news of the actual possession of a crashed alien Warcraft- and a genuine alien life form. 
 
The papers go on to detail the involvement and ongoing cover-up by government officials. Truman supposedly knew about the alien crash and sent Defense Secretary Forrestal to keep house. The genuine nature of these documents is believed by many because of Truman's orders to keep civil obedience a top priority. Letting fears of civil unrest take precedence over the right of the public to know the truth. 
 
There are several reasons why many people doubt the authenticity of this documentation. Military time is commonly used by the military; these papers were typed with the time in regular/civilian time. Another theory claims misuse of the title admiral when the correct term is "rear admiral." There are also a few words that do not date back to the 40’s- when this document was allegedly written. 
 
On the other hand, the twelve signatures on this classified sworn secret project. Were all verified as authentic. It was an extremely powerful group of people, Majestic 12. CIA, top politicians, and respected scientists. Whoever masterminded the creation of this group knew what they were doing. How much the government knows and does not know will always be up for discussion. 
 
 
 

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Alien Russia ( KGB VIDEO )

Alien Russia ( KGB VIDEO )

According to information from Russia knows about extraterrestrial civilizations over several decades, so for many it is not surprising that such rumors are circulating for many years. Russia’s first contact with the gray aliens allegedly occurred in 1942. At that time, were planned series of diplomatic visits to discuss issues of mutual interest – by alleged Russian documents and agreements that have been created
 
 
According to the document, 072 / E at meeting the 1961 incident occurred that involved three entities for breach of contract officers army base, when they discovered that their arrival was filmed hidden devices without their consent. Based on the agreement were 23/04 confidential meetings and filming or taking pictures was not allowed.
 
 
According to the Truth KGB allegedly special unit designed to collect and monitor all kinds of information regarding the mysterious and unexplained phenomena that report back inside, and inside the Soviet Union.
 
 

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Siberian Taiga UFO (VIDEO)

Siberian Taiga UFO (VIDEO)

Siberian Taiga UFO (VIDEO)

The Siberian taiga is perhaps as unspoiled and unexplored as the Amazon jungle. More than 100,000 square kilometers of western Yakutia are completely uninhabited, devoid of any sort of trails. The human foot treads on this area very rarely. It’s a thick forest growth with uprooted trees and sprawling swamps with swarms of mosquitoes. In short, an ideal birthplace for myths and legends about strange creatures and anomalous zones where bizarre things happen.

The local wild man Chuchuna may not even be anything exceptional; the most attention is given to a peculiar legend about the Valley of Death and its “cauldrons”. Nomadic Evenki, Yakutians and lone hunters who happened to wander into these territories have for long discovered odd houses shaped like red hemispheres protruding from the perpetually frozen ground.

The formations were smooth, with an opening at the top, with a winding stairwell leading to a circular gallery with numerous metal rooms. Despite outdoor temperatures of forty below, it was pleasantly warm inside.

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RIDLEY SCOTT : ' ALIENS EXIST AND THEY'RE A LOT SMARTER THAN US. DON'T CHALLENGE THEM! '

RIDLEY SCOTT : ' ALIENS EXIST AND THEY'RE A LOT SMARTER THAN US. DON'T CHALLENGE THEM! '

 
 "SUPERIOR BEINGS WILL VISIT EARTH, EXPERT AT NASA AGREES" 
 
He made the following comments on extraterrestrial life: 
  • “I believe in superior beings. I think it is certainly likely. An expert I was talking to at NASA said to me, ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it?’ That’s ridiculous.
  •  The experts have now put a number on it having assessed what is out there. They say that there are between 100 and 200 entities that could be having a similar evolution to us right now. So when you see a big thing in the sky, run for it.” 
 Ridley's “Xenomorph” and “chestburster” alien creatures have terrified his fans for nearly 40 years. 
 
Alien: Covenant is the second in the list of prequel movies and it has a setting during the year of 2104 on a spacecraft that is carrying 2,000 colonists who have been cryogenically frozen while traveling to a distant planet when they come across what they believe is uncharted paradise. However, as you might expect from Ridley Scott, the voyage soon becomes a nightmare full of gore that will have those watching think nothing of the alien bursting out of the chest of the man in the original movie. 
 
"WE SHOULD NOT MESS WITH REAL-LIFE ALIENS" 
 
He explained: 
  • “They are a lot smarter than we are. If you are stupid enough to challenge them, you will be taken out in three seconds.”
 Finally, he joked: 
  • “Nothing scares me.I have a 9mm (pistol).
 Scott went on to say that he could not believe all the terror that he had managed to create when he saw the reactions of those who had watched the original movies. He said that people were hiding half under their seats by the time the kitchen scene where the alien pushed its way out of the chest of John Hurt. Scott, on the other hand, claims to be un-shockable, he bragged that nothing scared him, he did admit to being nervous though when walking onto the set of a film and there are 600 plus people all looking at you.
 
 Whether the alien life form that Scott believes is going to be making its way to Earth at some point in time will be anything like the aliens Scott created remains to be seen, but it’s hoped they are friendlier.
 
 “ALIEN: COVENANT” WILL OPEN NATIONWIDE IN CINEMAS ON MAY 19. 
 
 
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Stof-vrije ruimte tussen planeet Saturnus en zijn ringen - HLN.be

Stof-vrije ruimte tussen planeet Saturnus en zijn ringen - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

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De Cassini zweeft boven het noordelijke halfrond van Saturn voordat hij een van zijn "duiken" tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen maakt. 

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De ruimte tussen de planeet Saturnus en zijn kenmerkende ringen lijkt "relatief stof-vrij" te zijn, zo heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA gisteren meegedeeld.

De verbazende vondst gaat terug op data die de Amerikaanse Saturnusverkenner Cassini heeft vergaard. Die maakte vorige week de eerste "duik" ooit tussen de planeet en de ringen. Volgens projectmanager Earl Maze is het gebied blijkbaar "de grote leegte".

Dat kan goed nieuws zijn voor de Cassini. Want de onbemande sonde kan dan bij enkele van de 21 volgende duiken zijn schotelvormige antenne gebruiken als schild tegen stofdeeltjes.

De Cassini is in 1997 samen met de Europese sonde Huygens gelanceerd. De aankomst bij Saturnus was in 2004, de Huygens is succesvol geland op de Saturnusmaan Titan, de grootste maan van ons zonnestelsel. De Cassini zal zich in september te pletter gooien op Saturnus.

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NA ITALIË IS BEROEMDE GRONINGSE UFO NU BOVEN INDIA GEZIEN...

NA ITALIË IS BEROEMDE GRONINGSE UFO NU BOVEN INDIA GEZIEN...

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Het begint er langzamerhand op te lijken dat een bijzonder soort UFO onze planeet bezoekt. 

Nadat deze UFO voor het eerst in Groningen werd waargenomen, volgen er nu meer plaatsen, waaronder Italië en India. 




Het begon in de zomer van 2015 toen deze UFO voor het eerst werd waargenomen in Groningen waarvan het beeld vervolgens de wereld rondging. 

Daarna werd dezelfde UFO onlangs gezien in Italië en nu komt er bij Mufon een melding binnen van een groepje kampeerders die een bijzondere foto hebben gemaakt. 

Ze geven er geen details bij, behalve dat de foto is gemaakt in het Dang District in Gujarat, India. 

De waarneming staat bij Mufon geregistreerd onder nummer 83441. Wat we niet weten, is of deze waarneming ook met het blote oog te zien was, waardoor het in theorie een soort lensflare zou kunnen zijn. 

Het is een bijzondere foto:


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Rechts bovenin de foto zie je iets wat in eerste instantie een vallende ster lijkt, maar niets is minder waar. 

Want, wanneer het beeld iets wordt uitvergroot, komt er een bekende vorm tevoorschijn.


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Een vorm die we eerder tegenkwamen in Groningen en Italië. 

Ter vergelijking, hier een deel uit een eerder artikel en dan zie je dat we hier duidelijk te maken hebben met hetzelfde soort object. 

Een object dat voor zover ons bekend voor Groningen niet eerder op onze aarde is waargenomen. Mocht er iemand zijn die denkt dat dit niet zo is en dat er eerder dit soort waarnemingen zijn geweest, dan horen we dat graag. 

UFO liefhebbers zullen zich het voorval van enkele jaren geleden nog wel kunnen herinneren, maar voor hen die het niet meer weten, hierbij, uit een eerder artikel, wat er in Groningen gebeurde:

Perton is een Groninger die nogal nuchter blijft onder dit soort dingen en denkt dat de vreemde foto te maken heeft met lichtval of iets dergelijks, wat best zou kunnen.

Het gaat om deze foto die wij al eerder publiceerden:

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Echter, ook internationaal is deze foto niet onopgemerkt gebleven en zijn er mensen die zich afvragen of we hier de eerste echte afbeelding hebben van een portaal naar een andere dimensie. 

Het was een stormachtige dag in ons land en op het moment dat Perton de foto nam, spreekt hij over een flits: 

Opeens flitste er iets. Ik dacht eerst mijn toestel, maar de flitskap stond niet omhoog. Ook zat er geen druppel op mijn lens. Ik besloot dat het een bliksem moest zijn geweest. Maar thuis zie ik wat vreemds op een van de foto’s die ik aan het eind van het bomenlaantje maakte. 


We zijn nu twee jaar later en iemand maakte op 3 april 2017 een vergelijkbare foto, maar nu in het noorden van Italië. 

De getuige die de opname maakte, heeft het voorval gemeld bij Mufon en zegt dat een vriend op dezelfde plek ook een waarneming had in 2008. 

Hoe dan ook, dit is net zoals in Groningen, een bijzondere opname die weinig of geen overeenkomsten vertoond met een natuurlijk fenomeen.


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Maar, net zoals het KNMI een verklaring heeft voor vliegtuigstrepen, zo hadden ze dat ook voor het verschijnsel in Groningen. 

Perton is geen sterrenkundige, dus heeft hij voor de zekerheid Theo Jurriëns (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) ook nog ingeschakeld. 'Hij belde met het KNMI en die zei dat het een drone was. Maar dat vind ik vreemd. Want wie laat nou zo'n kostbare drone tegen onweer aanvliegen?' 

En ongetwijfeld zal het object uit Italië worden geclassificeerd als een nieuw soort drone wolk door onze weerexperts.

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ESA’S JUICE SPACECRAFT COULD DETECT WATER PLUMES ERUPTING ON EUROPA

ESA’S JUICE SPACECRAFT COULD DETECT WATER PLUMES ERUPTING ON EUROPA

Artist's impression of the JUICE mission. Image Credit: ESA/AOES

Artist’s impression of the JUICE mission.

Image Credit: ESA/AOES

ESA’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission to the Jovian system could easily confirm the presence of water on Europa, a new study finds. According to the research, it is feasible to detect water molecules (H2O) and water ions (H2O+) from the moon’s plumes during a flyby mission.

The suspected water vapor plumes erupting on Jupiter’s moon Europa are still baffling scientists in the search for habitable environments in our solar system.

It is assumed that Europa harbors a vast subsurface liquid ocean and these plumes could be an indicator of water erupting from the moon’s interior. Hence, they offer a great opportunity to gather samples originating from under the thick layer of ice, where many mysteries of extraterrestrial life may await to be unraveled.

These composite images show a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The images bolster evidence that the plumes are a real phenomenon, flaring up intermittently in the same region on the satellite. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and W. Sparks (STScI).

These composite images show a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The images bolster evidence that the plumes are a real phenomenon, flaring up intermittently in the same region on the satellite.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and W. Sparks (STScI)

Recent observations of Europa with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) show a plume rising about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the surface. Researchers estimate these plumes could rise even 125 miles (200 kilometers) before raining material back down onto the icy surface.

According to a new study conducted by a team of European scientists, these plumes should be thoroughly investigated by a future flyby mission like JUICE in order to confirm the presence of water.

In a recent paper, the researchers studied the feasibility of in-situ measurements of Europa’s plumes, by modeling the trajectories of neutral and ionized plume particles and the respective measurements by neutral and ion mass spectrometers.

“Instead of using ‘photons’ as Hubble does, we will use in-situ particle data,” Yoshifumi Futaana, Co-Investigator of the JUICE/PEP instrument at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics told Astrowatch.net. “This means that we will validate the presence of water independently using the in-situ data. JUICE is the mission that can do this as it will be equipped with the Particle Environment Package (PEP) instrument suitable for this measurement.”

PEP is a plasma package with six sensors to characterize the plasma environment. It will measure density and fluxes of positive and negative ions, exospheric neutral gas, thermal plasma, and energetic neutral atoms.

The package will include the Jovian plasma Dynamics and Composition (JDC) sensor, measuring water ions, and the Neutral gas and Ions Mass spectrometer (NIM) sensor, measuring water molecules.

Futaana and his colleagues are convinced that the particles of the low mass flux plumes (1 kilogram per second) can be detected by PEP with large margins. Furthermore, the results of their study suggest the plume signal is recognizable as a temporal signal enhancement of one order of magnitude in the H2O count rate during six minutes. This means the detection of water plumes during a flyby is indeed feasible.

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Jupiter’s moon Europa and its icy surface.

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“Our paper shows that the plumes can be detected from the JUICE flybys with particle instruments that detect [water] particles in the vicinity of the spacecraft,” Hans Huybrighs of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, one of the co-authors of the paper, told SpaceFlight Insider. “This is the case even if the plume is significantly smaller than what has been observed. With this, we mean that the plumes in our work only release one kilogram of water per second, while the very first plume observation indicated 7,000 kilograms of water is released per second.”

The authors of the study underline that even in the case of relatively very small water plumes, the water atoms dissociating from the molecules, as well as their ions, make significant signals. So far, Hubble observations of the plumes detected only atomic oxygen. Given the amount of oxygen and other considerations it was concluded these oxygen atoms must arise from dissociated water molecules.

“This would also explain the observed spatial features, which were interpreted as a plume,” Peter Wurz of the University of Bern in Switzerland told Astrowatch.net. “Even though it is all very plausible, and is not contested in the scientific community, it is an interpretation. PEP on JUICE will be able to confirm this interpretation and provide a lot of additional data to understand the nature of the plume, its composition, and its relation to the subsurface of Europa’s ice shell, which is mostly water ice.”

The researchers have also shown the geometry of the plume source does not influence the density distributions, therefore it will not affect their detectability when using PEP. They said that it makes no difference whether it is a point source or a several-hundred-mile-long crack.

All in all, JUICE, equipped with the PEP instrument, has the potential to take a peek at Europa’s subsurface ocean without drilling into the moon’s icy shell. This ocean could hold many clues to mysteries of life beyond Earth.

“What is so interesting about this ocean is that it has probably been there for a long time,” Huybrighs said, “and that there could be sources of energy for life in it, like geothermal vents on the bottom of the ocean, making Europa’s ocean a very interesting environment that is possibly habitable for some form of life.”

The JUICE mission is planned to be launched in 2022. The spacecraft will perform two flybys of Europa in early 2031. During these flybys, JUICE is expected to approach Europa up to a height of about 250 miles (400 kilometers).

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Ridley Scott Thinks Aliens Are Real and They'll Probably Kill Us

Ridley Scott Thinks Aliens Are Real and They'll Probably Kill Us

Ridley Scott is at the helm of a nearly 40-year franchise of films about killer aliens who are smarter and deadlier than us. It’s not a coincidence, since Scott thinks that could happen in real life.

In an interview with Sky News, Scott mentioned that he believes in aliens, or what he called “superior beings.” This isn’t exactly surprising. Not only has Scott spent a large portion of his career creating movies about aliens (the latest being Alien: Covenant, which comes out May 10), but a majority of people agree with him. A YouGov poll from 2015 showed that over half of Americans, Britons, and Germans believe in extraterrestrials, and another poll showed four out of five Canadians do too.

“An expert I was talking to at NASA said to me, ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it?’ That’s ridiculous,” Scott said, adding that he thinks there are at least 100 to 200 similar species out there right now.

“When you see a big thing in the sky, run for it. Because they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them you will be taken out in three seconds,” Scott said.

I’d be curious to see whether Scott believed in aliens first, leading to him making the first Alien film, or whether his work on the series led to his faith in extraterrestrial life. It’s really a chicken or the egg scenario— or, if you want to get technical, face-hugger or the egg.

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TRIANGLE UFO SENSATION: Craft built by US government using alien technology says expert

TRIANGLE UFO SENSATION: Craft built by US government using alien technology says expert

EXCLUSIVE: A SPATE of bizarre triangle UFO sightings could be top secret craft built by the US government using technology recovered from crashed flying saucers, an expert has claimed.

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Triangle UFOs, like this CGI impression, have been seen all over the USA.

Express.co.uk has been reporting on the phenomena of odd-triangular UFOs which have been spotted across the United states.

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

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

Now a top UFO expert has explained how they could be experimental craft built by the US Air Force in top secret locations like Area 51 in the Nevada desert, using technology from allegedly crashed UFOs.

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There is a widespread conspiracy theory aliens do exist and visit Earth, and that they have crash landed, like during the alleged flying saucer incident just outside Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947.

The theory claims that the government has secretly tried to recreate the technology so that it can be used to its advantage.

Steve Bassett, of Paradigm Research Group, is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the subject of alien disclosure.

Disclosure activists want to bring about an end to a so-called "truth embargo" and force the government to tell all about alien visitations of Earth.

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My theory that there are so many reports of triangular UFOs is that they could be ones that we have developed using reverse engineered alien technology.

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In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Mr Bassett gave his theory on the spate of triangle UFOs which has continued.

He said: "My theory that there are so many reports of triangular UFOs is that they could be ones that we have developed using reverse engineered alien technology.

"It may be that the USAF has not been able to get the anti-gravity system used in disc-shaped saucers to work in a craft of the same shape, but they can get it to work in a triangular craft so have adapted it.

"This is what I think a lot of the triangle UFOs could be - something built by humans."

But he believes some triangle UFOs could also be extraterrestrial craft.

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There have been reports of some of them being as big as a football field.

Mr Bassett added: "I don't think they could be ours. I just don't think we could develop anything as large as that."

The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), based in America, is the world's largest organisation dedicated to alien and UFO research.

It continues to receive multiple reports of triangle UFO sightings across the states.

The US government denies that there is a truth embargo or that aliens have knowingly visited Earth and that this is covered up. 

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Why President Trump has been INUNDATED with calls about UFOs

Why President Trump has been INUNDATED with calls about UFOs

A NEW hotline demanded by President Donald Trump has been besieged with calls about suspected UFO sightings.

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Donald Trump's hotline for receiving illegal immigrant tip offs got UFO calls instead.

Mr Trump launched an immigration hotline for people to reported suspected 'illegal aliens' in the US.

But, it appears many people got the wrong end of the stick or have been making deliberate hoax calls.

On its opening day, there were mass calls reporting alien and UFO sightings.

Set up amid much controversy, the VOICE hotline launched last week was a bid to tackle and stem illegal immigration.

The new hotline, under the Department of Homeland Security, aims to help "victims and their families who have been impacted by crimes committed by removable criminal aliens".

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If any of you need to report space aliens to our government, please call their hotline: 1-855-48-VOICE. Here are some of their Most Wanted.

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Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly said: “Until today, those victimised at the hands of illegal aliens have had no point of contact in our federal government dedicated to this issue and to them. 

"Families would call and would send letters all over Washington hoping that someone in some agency would respond.” 

But, instead there has been a mass of UFO-related activity.

Twitter users have been trolling the phone number with reports of extraterrestrials.

Steven Santos tweeted: "If any of you need to report space aliens to our government, please call their hotline: 1-855-48-VOICE. Here are some of their Most Wanted."

Jordan said: "The truth IS out there! If you've been probed by illegal extraterrestrial aliens, call 1-855-48-VOICE & let them know."

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Anti-Trump activists rallied on social media under the hashtag #AlienDay to encourage others to flood the hotline with UFO calls. 

Alexander McCoy tweeted: "Wouldn't it be a shame if millions of people called this hotline to report their encounters with aliens of the UFO-variety."

The real use of the hotline has been strongly criticised by opponents.

Brent Wilkes, head the of League of United Latin American Citizens, said: “This just continues the campaign strategy Donald Trump employed to vilify immigrants and identify them with a small number of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.” 

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UFO Caught Near Space Station, Classic Saucer On NASA camera! April 29, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Caught Near Space Station, Classic Saucer On NASA camera! April 29, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: April 29, 2017
Location of sighting: Space Station
Source: MUFON #83465

This is a classic disk style craft that an anonymous person reported this week. Caught on the live NASA space station cam, UFOs are seen every few hours, and even every few minutes during space walks. NASA has become so paranoid about it that they often cut to blue screen or maintenance screen in an attempt to hide these UFOs, but there are just too many. 

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Eyewitness states:
On april 29th at around 21:06 g.m.t for around 10-15 seconds during a live stream of the international space station I observed a faint light which got lighter before appearing as two whitish lights before materialising into what I can only descibe as a "flying saucer" the event (which I was hoping would happen) only lasted 10-15 secs which i managed to screenshot the photos on my iphone I know what this wasnt and would hope somebody else has this footage on video.

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Jellyfish UFO Over Angeles City, Philippines On May 1, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Jellyfish UFO Over Angeles City, Philippines On May 1, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: May 1, 2017

Location of sighting: Angeles City, Philippines
Source: MUFON #83456

This jellyfish style UFO was seen over the Philippines this week. The UFO has long tendrils which are probably landing legs, but may be arms. The Philippines is a diverse and old cultural area where aliens may find it unique compared to the rest of the world. The person reported three photos, but only two were semi focused. 

Extraordinary evidence that aliens are observing the Philippines. 
Scott C. Waring

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Eyewitness states: 

First I will state that being a U.S. Marine, I'm a trained observer. I had already been well awake by 3am and had coffee and was on the computer, when approximately 5:40am I heard my dogs carrying on outside and went to investigate. At first I thought they had barked at nothing, when I suddenly caught sight of the object, I watched it only for 30 seconds or so before realizing that it wasn't a plane, helicopter, or hot air balloon and ran into the house and grabbed my cell phone as it was the closest camera available. The object first appeared to be about 700 ft high, but as the object had moved into the background of my house it appeared to be gaining altitude and I snapped three photos as it passed beyond the peak of the roof over my bedroom, moving in a South or South East direction towards Manila. The object made no sound at all, and it had no visable lights of any kind, it seemed to be moving about the same speed as a small plane at first and was completely out of sight in about 3 minutes or less, apparently gaining speed. When I first looked at the pics, I though I missed it, as it looked like a speck of dust or dirt, I then downloaded them to my desktop computer and cropped the photos, and then I could see better detail. I was a bit stunned when saw it, as I had never seen any craft like this before, and it clearly had a some type of leg structure for landing. Three pics were taken, and numbered in the order taken, the best being the first pic. 

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Aliens may have existed on Earth. Here's why they left

Aliens may have existed on Earth. Here's why they left

by Harriet Marsden in discover 


Picture: GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO

Do aliens exist? Are humans the only sentient species in the universe? Is there extra-terrestrial life? Are we alone?

It's one of humanity's most all-consuming questions, fascinating scientists, governments and pop culture alike.

But now, one US space scientist is claiming that advanced life forms may be a reality - but that they disappeared long ago.

Professor Jason Wright, an astronomy and astrophysics professor at Pennsylvania State University, published a paper in arXiv entitled 'Prior Indigenous Technological Species'.

He claims that ancient 'technological species' may have lived on Earth billions of years before the human race.

Well, either Earth, or a "pre-greenhouse Venus," or "a wet Mars". He's not 100 per cent sure.

However, Wright claims:

Given that it is known to host complex life, the most obvious origin for a prior species of any sort is Earth.

He pulls no punches when he explains that:

Present-day Venus would seem to be a terrible candidate for a technological species, with a surface temperature over 700K, although when it comes to alien life we should keep an open mind about even this.

Wright believes that the ancient species has disappeared, but that in the past we could have found found traces of them underground, called "technosignatures".

However, he claims that most of the physical evidence would now be lost.

On Venus, for example, the global greenhouse arrival may have resulted in a resurfacing of the planet, while on Earth the movement of tectonic plates and subsequent erosion could have erased any lingering traces.

Nevertheless, he writes, it might still be possible to recognise these technosignatures even if the physical evidence is all but destroyed.

He explains:

Structures buried beneath surfaces might survive and be discoverable as long as they do not suffer a collision so severe that their artificial nature is obliterated.

Merely destroying them would render them nonfunctional, but they might still be recognisably technological.

We might conjecture that settlements or bases on these objects would have been built beneath the surface for a variety of reasons, and so still be discoverable today.

Wright proposes that we might find traces on more undisturbed surfaces such as the Moon and Mars.

Of course, the idea that humans are not the only sentient species is nothing new.

Indeed, he writes, "the idea of indigenous Martian civilisations pervades science fiction to the point of cliche".

However, the proposal that the alien species is already extinct is comparatively unexplored in the scientific field.

But why does Wright think they disappeared?

Wright says that "the most obvious answer" is a cataclysm, "whether a natural event such as an extinction-level asteroid impact, or self-inflicted, such as a global climate catastrophe".

However, in the case of a species which had settled in the Solar System, Wright explains:

...Such an event would only permanently extinguish the species if there were many cataclysms across the Solar System closely spaced in time (a swarm of comets, or interplanetary warfare perhaps), or if the settlements were not completely self-sufficient.

Alternatively, an unexpected nearby gamma ray burst or supernova might produce a Solar-System-wide cataclysm.

Even without a cataclysm, the species may have simply died out, or become permanently non-technological at some point, or [...] abandoned the Solar System permanently for some reason.

HT Daily Mail

More: UFO sightings are at an all-time high

More: Aliens might be trying to tell us something

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Life could jump between TRAPPIST-1's Earth-like planets in decades

Life could jump between TRAPPIST-1's Earth-like planets in decades

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The Monthly Pattern of UFOs

The Monthly Pattern of UFOs

Cheryl Costa

Columnist Cheryl Costa looks at how UFO sightings vary during different seasons.

People have been asking if my wife and co-author, Linda Miller Costa, and I had made any discoveries when we were researching our book, UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015. We actually made a number of previously unknown discoveries about the observation of UFOs, including a significant one called the “month pattern.”

Since I started writing the New York Skies blog, I have found that New York experiences a high season for UFO sightings, June through September, peaking in July and August. My assumption, and the conjecture from many readers, suggested that this was a fair weather pattern. Nicer weather gave a better opportunity for more observers to be outside for a chance to see a UFO. We also took for granted that the every place would have a pattern like this.

When my wife was laying out the book, she began to notice that there were different monthly patterns in certain states. She also noted that they seemed to be latitude dependent. In Northern states, the observer pattern followed a strong rise during the summer months.

Linda also noted that in mid-Southern states, the monthly pattern with high numbers of summer season sightings began to level out with the year-round baseline of sightings. This is nicely illustrated in our monthly chart for Maryland. We observed this pattern of the mid-South, flattening on states across the country that are at the same general latitude.

Finally, as we moved into the deep Southern states, we discovered that UFO sighting reports leveled out and became a generally flat baseline, as we see in our Arizona monthly chart.

New hypothesis: If the seasonal weather is generally mild, more people are outside and can be observers. Also take into account the weekend phenomena, that most people have weekends off. Our data observation suggests the concept that moderate weather and regularly scheduled leisure time are conducive to outdoors activity and affects the observation of Unidentified Flying Objects.

There are some subtle variations in the pattern. For instance Florida, while it has the general flattened characteristics of other deep Southern states, we see significant sighting spikes in the winter months. We have attributed this to the migration of people to Florida in the winter months. Again, this is all supposing the postulation that temperate weather and leisure time are conducive for sky watching and possible UFO observation.

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British witness photographs sphere UFOs following jet

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British witness photographs sphere UFOs following jet

A British witness at London reported watching and photographing multiple objects that appeared to be following an aircraft, according to testimony in Case 82822 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Witness image. (Credit: MUFON)

Witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness was in the Fulham section of London walking to a café when the incident occurred.

“I looked up and saw a star-like object about seven aircraft widths to the left of the passenger aircraft,” the witness stated.“Then noticed several lights to the right of the aircraft. As I looked up: about 7, 12 and 15 aircraft widths to the right. They followed the aircraft and continued to follow it, keeping the same relative distance, as it banked gently toward a more northerly path.”

Cropped and enlarged witness image. (Credit: MUFON)

Cropped and enlarged witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness first thought the objects were balloons.

“At first I thought they were balloons reflecting bright sunlight. I’ve seen some rarely. But these lights remained at a constant speed, had a smooth direction and all turned relative to each other, and at same distance from each other. Also, they seemed to emit a constant light and not reflect it, whereas balloons change intensity as they tilt relative to me/observer and the sun. The aircraft wasn’t landing at a London airport, those are only a few thousand feet above observer-point and the aircraft had a vapor trail and I should imagine it was over 15-20,000 feet above me. Aircraft and light were obscured by city housing then.”

Cropped and enlarged witness image. (Credit: MUFON)

Cropped and enlarged witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

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

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WHAT’S THAT STRANGE GLOWING MOLD? ASTRONAUTS WILL SOON BE ABLE TO SEQUENCE UNKNOWN SPACE ORGANISMS

WHAT’S THAT STRANGE GLOWING MOLD? ASTRONAUTS WILL SOON BE ABLE TO SEQUENCE UNKNOWN SPACE ORGANISMS

by Matt Williams

Seeking to understand more about space-born microbes, NASA has initiated a program known as Genes in Space-3 – a collaborative effort that will prepare, sequence and identify unknown organisms, entirely from space. For those who might be thinking that this sounds a lot like the film Life – where astronauts revive an alien organism on the International Space Station and everyone dies! – rest assured, this is not the setup for some horror movie.

In truth, it represents a game-changing development that builds on recent accomplishments, where DNA was first synthesized by NASA astronaut Kate Rubin aboard the International Space Station in 2016. Looking ahead, the Genes in Space-3 program will allow astronauts aboard the ISS to collect samples of microbes and study them in-house, rather than having to send them back to Earth for analysis.

The previous experiments performed by Rubin – which were part of the Biomolecule Sequencer investigation – sought to demonstrate that DNA sequencing is feasible in an orbiting spacecraft. The Genes in Space-3 seeks to build on that by establishing a DNA sample-preparation process that would allow ISS crews to identify microbes, monitor crew health, and assist in the search for DNA-based life elsewhere in the Solar System.

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space and sequenced more than a billion bases during her time aboard the ISS.

Credits: NASA

As Sarah Wallace – a NASA microbiologist and the project’s Principal Investigator (PI) at the Johnson Space Center – said in a recent press release:

“We have had contamination in parts of the station where fungi was seen growing or biomaterial has been pulled out of a clogged waterline, but we have no idea what it is until the sample gets back down to the lab. On the ISS, we can regularly resupply disinfectants, but as we move beyond low-Earth orbit where the ability for resupply is less frequent, knowing what to disinfect or not becomes very important.”

Developed in partnership by NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Boeing (and sponsored by the ISS National Lab), this project brings together two previously spaceflight-tested molecular biology tools. First, there is miniPCR, a device which copies targeted pieces of DNA in a process known as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to create thousands of copies.

This device was developed as part of the student-designed Genes in Space competition, and was successfully tested aboard the ISS during the Genes in Space-1 experiment. Running from September to March of 2016, this experiment sought to test if the alterations to DNA and the weakening of the immune system (both of which happen during spaceflight) are in fact linked.

Student Anna-Sophia Boguraev, winner of the Genes in Space competition, is pictured with the miniPCR device.

Credits: NASA

This test will be followed-up this summer with Genes in Space-2 experiment. Running from April to September, this experiment will measure how spaceflight affects telomeres – the protective caps on our chromosomes that are associated with cardiovascular disease and cancers.

The MinION, meanwhile, is a handheld device developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Capable of analyzing DNA and RNA sequences, this technology allows for rapid analysis that is also portable and scalable. It has already been used here on Earth, and was successfully tested aboard the ISS as part of the Biomolecule Sequencer investigation earlier this year.

Combined with some additional enzymes to demonstrate DNA amplification, the Genes in Space-3 experiment will allow astronauts to bring the lab to the microorganisms, rather than the reverse. This will consist of crew members collecting samples from within the space station and then culturing them aboard the orbiting laboratory. The samples will then be prepared for sequencing using the miniPCR and sequenced and identified using the MinION.

As Sarah Stahl, a microbiologist and project scientist, explained, this will allow crews to combat the spread of infectious diseases and bacteria. “The ISS is very clean,” she said. “We find a lot of human-associated microorganisms – a lot of common bacteria such as Staphylococcus and Bacillus and different types of familiar fungi like Aspergillus and Penicillium.”

In addition to being able to diagnose illnesses and infections in real-time, the experiment will allow for new and exciting research aboard the ISS. This could include identifying DNA-based life on other planets, the samples of which would be returned to the ISS via probe. In addition, if and hen microbes are found floating around in space, they could be returned to the ISS for swift analysis.

Another benefit of the program will come from Earth-based scientists being able to access the experiments going on aboard the ISS in real-time. And scientists here on Earth will also benefit from the tools being employed, which will allow for cheap and effective ways to diagnose viruses, especially in parts of the world where access to a laboratory is not possible.

Once more, the development of systems and tools for use in space – an environment that is not typically conducive to Earth-based technologies – is offering up applications that go far beyond space travel. And in the coming years, ISS-based genetic research could help in the ongoing search for extra-terrestrial life, as well as provide new insights into theories like panspermia (i.e. the cosmos being seeded with life by comets, asteroids and planetoids).

Be sure to enjoy this video titled “Cosmic Carpool”, courtesy of NASA’s Johnson Space Center:

Further Reading: NASA

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The 10 Absolute Worst Aliens to Be Abducted By

The 10 Absolute Worst Aliens to Be Abducted By

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The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for Aliens

The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for Aliens

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Astronomer Wonders If We've Looked Hard Enough For Signs of Long Extinct Alien Life

Astronomer Wonders If We've Looked Hard Enough For Signs of Long Extinct Alien Life

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ESA's JUICE spacecraft could detect water from plumes erupting on Europa

ESA's JUICE spacecraft could detect water from plumes erupting on Europa

 by Tomasz Nowakowski, Astrowatch.net
ESA’s JUICE spacecraft could detect water from plumes erupting on Europa

ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission to the Jovian system could easily confirm the presence of water on Europa, a new study finds. According to the research, it is feasible to detect water molecules (H2O) and water ions (H2O+) from the moon's plumes during a flyby mission.

The suspected water vapor plumes erupting on Jupiter's moon Europa are still baffling scientists searching for habitable environments in the solar system. It is assumed that Europa harbors a vast subsurface liquid ocean, and these plumes could be an indicator of water erupting from the moon's interior. Hence, they offer a great opportunity to gather samples originating from under the thick layer of ice, where many mysteries of extraterrestrial life may await to be unraveled.

Recent observations of Europa with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) show a plume rising about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the surface. Researchers estimate that these plumes could rise even 125 miles (200 kilometers) before raining material back down onto the icy surface.

According to a new study conducted by a team of European scientists, these plumes should be thoroughly investigated by a future flyby mission like JUICE in order to confirm the presence of water. In a recent paper, the researchers studied the feasibility of in-situ measurements of Europa's plumes by modelling the trajectories of neutral and ionized plume particles and the respective measurements by neutral and ion mass spectrometers.

"Instead of using 'photons' as Hubble does, we will use in-situ particle data. This means that we will validate the presence of water independently using the in situ data. JUICE is the mission that can do this, as it will be equipped with the Particle Environment Package (PEP) instrument suitable for this measurement," Yoshifumi Futaana, co-investigator of the JUICE/PEP instrument at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics told Astrowatch.net.

PEP is a plasma package with six sensors to characterize the plasma environment. It will measure density and fluxes of positive and negative ions, electrons, exospheric neutral gas, thermal plasma and energetic neutral atoms. The package will include the Jovian plasma Dynamics and Composition (JDC) sensor measuring water ions, and the Neutral gas and Ions Mass spectrometer (NIM) sensor measuring water molecules.

Futaana and his colleagues are convinced that the particles of the low mass flux plumes (1 kg/s) can be detected by PEP with large margins. Furthermore, the results of their study suggest the plume signal is recognizable as a temporal signal enhancement of one order of magnitude in the H2O count rate over six minutes. This means that the detection of water plumes during a flyby is, indeed, feasible.

ESA’s JUICE spacecraft could detect water from plumes erupting on Europa
These composite images show a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The images bolster evidence that the plumes are a real phenomenon, flaring up intermittently in the same region on the satellite. Credit: NASA, ESA, and W. Sparks (STScI).

"Our paper shows that the plumes can be detected from the JUICE flybys with particle instruments that detect (water) particles in the vicinity of the spacecraft. This is the case even if the plume is significantly smaller than what has been observed. With this, we mean that the plumes in our work only release one kilogram of water per second, while the very first plume observation indicated 7,000 kilograms of water is released per second," Hans Huybrighs of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, one of the co-authors of the paper, told SpaceFlight Insider.

The authors of the study emphasize that even in case of relatively small water plumes, the water atoms dissociating from the molecules, as well as their ions, create significant signals. However, so far, Hubble observations of the plumes detected only atomic oxygen. Given the amount of oxygen and other considerations, it was concluded that these oxygen atoms must arise from dissociated water molecules.

"This would also explain the observed spatial features, which were interpreted as a plume. Even though it is all very plausible, and is not contested in the scientific community, it is an interpretation. PEP on JUICE will be able to confirm this interpretation and provide a lot of additional data to understand the nature of the plume, its composition, and its relation to the subsurface of Europa's ice shell, which is mostly water ice," Peter Wurz of the University of Bern in Switzerland told Astrowatch.net.

The researchers have also shown that the geometry of the plume source does not influence the density distributions. Therefore, it will not affect their detectability when using PEP. They noted that it makes no difference whether it is a point source or a several hundred miles-long crack.

All in all, JUICE equipped in the PEP instrument has the potential to take a peek at Europa's subsurface ocean without drilling the moon's icy shell. This ocean could hold many clues to mysteries of life beyond Earth.

"What is so interesting about this ocean is that it has probably been there for a long time, and that there could be sources of energy for life in it, like geothermal vents on the bottom of the ocean, making Europa's ocean a very interesting environment that is possibly habitable for some form of life," Huybrighs concluded.

JUICE mission is planned to be launched in 2022. The spacecraft will perform two flybys of Europa in early 2031. During these flybys, JUICE is expected to approach Europa up to a height of about 250 miles (400 kilometers).

 Explore further: Hubble spots possible venting activity on Europa

Source: Astrowatch.net

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UFOs: What does the government know?

UFOs: What does the government know?

What are the politics of U.F.O.s? Hillary Clinton said she believed in giving wider access to government records related to U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial life. Listen to what other presidents had to say about aliens and Area 51.

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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

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

The researchers found these unbroken mastodon ribs and vertebrae, including one vertebra that had a large neural spine, also called a spinous process, at the site in San Diego, California.
The researchers found these unbroken mastodon ribs and vertebrae, including one vertebra that had a large neural spine, also called a spinous process, at the site in San Diego, California.
Credit: San Diego Natural History Museum

Early humans may have lived on the North American continent 130,000 years ago, more than 100,000 years earlier than scientists previously believed, according to a new study.

The research examined ancient mastodon bones that bore "conclusive" signs of being handled by intelligent beings, the researchers said. [Read more about the new timeline.]

President Donald Trump will mark 100 days in office on April 29, and though it is still early on in his administration, he has enacted policies or signaled his stance on a variety of science issues, ranging from climate change to space exploration.

Experts from several different fields offered opinions on the new administration's performance so far. [Read more about the President's first 100 days.]

A sonar image showing the ill-fated HMS Erebus shipwreck.


A sonar image showing the ill-fated HMS Erebus shipwreck.
Credit: copyright Parks Canada

Scientists have extracted DNA from the skeletal remains of several 19th-century sailors who died during the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, whose goal was to navigate the fabled Northwest Passage.

The results were published April 20 in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. [Read more about the discovered DNA.]

A proposed eight-bladed drone could soar across Saturn's moon Titan, exploring multiple sites over the course of decades.
A proposed eight-bladed drone could soar across Saturn's moon Titan, exploring multiple sites over the course of decades.
Credit: APL/Michael Carroll

A relocatable lander could explore the hazy skies of Saturn's intriguing moon Titan, according a new mission proposal. As the eight-bladed whirlybird travels across the moon, it could investigate some of the most promising potentially habitable sites on the Saturn satellite, where methane and ethane fall from the sky and flow as rivers and lakes.

The lander-size instrument, known as Dragonfly, would take advantage of Titan's low gravity and thick atmosphere to visit multiple sites over several years, moving from one promising site to the next and recharging between the brief flights. [Read more about space-bound drone.]

People who use psychedelic drugs have described the experience as feeling as though they have reached a "higher state of consciousness." And now, a brain scan study backs them up.

Previously, researchers knew that normal waking consciousness is a higher state of consciousness when compared with drowsiness and sleep, being under anesthesia or having certain brain injuries or diseases. Evidence of this came from studies in which scientists quantified the state of consciousness by measuring the certain types of activity of neurons. [Read more about the effects of psychedelic drugs.]

The "super" laser brings together the power of multiple laser beams directed into a single intense output using an ultra-pure diamond crystal at the point of convergence.
The "super" laser brings together the power of multiple laser beams directed into a single intense output using an ultra-pure diamond crystal at the point of convergence.
Credit: Macquarie University

Though it's not big enough or strong enough to destroy a planet, scientists have developed an amplified laser reminiscent of the Death Star from "Star Wars," according to a new study.

An ultrapure diamond crystal is the key to a new proof-of-concept amplified laser. By placing a diamond at the point of convergence of the different laser beams, the power of each individual beam is transferred into one potent laser beam, the researchers said. [Read more about the laser.]

This piece of plastic is quite holey after wax worm caterpillars (<i>Galleria mellonella</i>) spent 30 minutes on it.
This piece of plastic is quite holey after wax worm caterpillars (Galleria mellonella) spent 30 minutes on it.
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A wiggly, ravenous caterpillar — one that doesn't limit its diet to naturally grown objects — can biodegrade plastic bags, a material infamous for the amount of time it takes to decompose, a new study finds.

Now, through a serendipitous discovery, it's clear that G. mellonella can also decompose polyethylene, a thin but tough plastic that is used across various industries, including in shopping bags and food packaging. [Read more about the strange appetite.]

People with chronic fatigue syndrome may have imbalances in their gut bacteria, a new study suggests.

The researchers then checked to see if these imbalances also characterized the subset of patients in the study who had irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), an intestinal disorder that is common in people with chronic fatigue syndrome. [Read more about the chronic fatigue syndrome.]

A mask representing an <em>Australopithecus afarensis</em>, a human ancestor that may have given birth in a way that was in-between chimpanzees and humans, scientists have found.
A mask representing an Australopithecus afarensis, a human ancestor that may have given birth in a way that was in-between chimpanzees and humans, scientists have found.
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How might the ancient relative of humanity dubbed "Lucy" have given birth? In a manner in between that of chimpanzees and humans, with newborns undergoing a bit of tilting in the birth canal as they were born, a new study finds.

These findings could shed light on how modern human childbirth evolved and made way for large brains, scientists added. [Read more about the birthing helper.]

The tumultuous sky in Edvard Munch's "The Scream" painting may have been inspired by so-called nacreous clouds.

The tumultuous sky in Edvard Munch's "The Scream" painting may have been inspired by so-called nacreous clouds.
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Could Edvard Munch's "The Scream" have been inspired by a rare cloud formation?

A new hypothesis holds that Munch may have been inspired to paint the masterpiece by "mother-of-pearl clouds" (also called nacreous clouds). These unusual, nearly iridescent, clouds are best seen in wintertime at sunrise or sunset, when they are lit from below. [Read more about the unique image.]

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We May Have Uncovered the First Ever Evidence of the Multiverse

We May Have Uncovered the First Ever Evidence of the Multiverse

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IN BRIEF
A recent study on a space anomaly that has perplexed scientists for years has some suggesting that it could be explained by a parallel "bubble universe" — although there are other, more standard potential explanations, as well.

TOO COLD

For years, scientists have been baffled by a weird anomaly far away in space: a mysterious “Cold Spot” about 1.8 billion light-years across. It is cooler than its surroundings by around 0.00015 degrees Celsius (0.00027 degrees Fahrenheit), a fact astronomers discovered by measuring background radiation throughout the universe.

Previously, astronomers believed that this space could be cooler simply because it had less matter in it than most sections of space. They dubbed it a massive supervoid and estimated that it had 10,000 galaxies fewer than other comparable sections of space.

But now, in a recently published survey of galaxies, astronomers from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) say they have discovered that this supervoide could not exist. They now believe that the galaxies in the cold spot are just clustered around smaller voids that populate the cold spot like bubbles. These small voids, however, cannot explain the temperature difference observed.

MULTIVERSE?

To link the temperature differences to the smaller voids, the researchers say a non-standard cosmological model would be required. “But our data place powerful constraints on any attempt to do that,” explained researcher Ruari Mackenzie in an RAS press release. While the study had a large margin of error, the simulations suggest there is only a two percent probability that the Cold Spot formed randomly.

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“This means we can’t entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model. But if that isn’t the answer, then there are more exotic explanations,”  said researcher Tom Shanks in the press release. “Perhaps the most exciting of these is that the Cold Spot was caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe.”

If more detailed studies support the findings of this research, the Cold Spot might turn out to be the first evidence for the multiverse, though far more evidence would be needed to confirm our universe is indeed one of many.

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In the Future, Humans May Live in 3D Printed Space Colonies

In the Future, Humans May Live in 3D Printed Space Colonies

MIT researchers have designed a system that can 3-D print the basic structure of an entire building. The system consists of a tracked vehicle that carries a large industrial robotic arm, which has a smaller, precision-motion robotic arm at its end. 
IN BRIEF
A team of engineers from MIT have developed a 3D printing robot that could be the future of constructing houses and similar structures on Earth and beyond. The Digital Construction Platform can build any object in any environment.

If you’ve played StarCraft or any similar game, you’ve probably wondered how your units were able to build bases so  fast. Well, those Terran SCVs were probably 3D printers, most likely similar to one that MIT recently previewed.

Though not the first to 3D print a house, MIT’s Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is not your ordinary 3D printer. For starters, it’s a fully customizable, free-moving system that can 3D print an object of any size. Plus, the plan is to make the DCP a self-sufficient construction tool, capable of making individualized buildings designed using onsite environmental data.

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In short, the DCP is an autonomous robotic system that can work in any environment using whatever materials nature can provide it with. The goal is, according to Steven Keating, “in the future, to have something totally autonomous, that you could send to the moon or Mars or Antarctica, and it would just go out and make these buildings for years.”

In a proof of concept run, published in the journal Science Robotics, the DCP was able to use a combination of foam and concrete to construct a 3.7-meter-high (12 ft) dome in just 14 hours.

“So to me it’s not merely a printer,” said Neri Oxman, “but an entirely new way of thinking about making, that facilitates a paradigm shift in the area of digital fabrication, but also for architectural design. … Our system points to a future vision of digital construction that enables new possibilities on our planet and beyond.”

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Webcast Replay: SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite, Lands Falcon 9

Webcast Replay: SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite, Lands Falcon 9

Update for 7:30 am ET: SpaceX has successfully launched the classified satellite NROL-76 for the NRO on Monday, May 1, after a one-day delay  due to a rocket sensor issue. Liftoff occurred at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage making smooth landing at SpaceX's Landing Zone 1 at the nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.  

Launch Wrap: SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite on Secret Mission, Nails Rocket Landing

Here's what we know about the secret satellite's mission: Secret US Spy Satellite Heading to Low-Earth Orbit, SpaceX Launch License Shows

From SpaceX:

"SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver NROL-76 to orbit. SpaceX is targeting launch of NROL-76 from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two hour launch window opens on Sunday, April 30, at 7:00 a.m. EDT, or 11:00 UTC.

"A backup launch window opens on Monday, May 1, at 7:00 a.m. EDT, or 11:00 UTC. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will attempt to land at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

"NROL-76 will launch on Falcon 9, a two-stage rocket designed from the ground up by SpaceX for the reliable and cost-efficient transport of satellites and SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. As the first rocket completely developed in the 21st century, Falcon 9 was designed from the beginning for maximum reliability. Falcon 9’s simple two-stage configuration minimizes the number of separation events – and with nine first stage engines, it can safely complete its mission even in the event of an engine shutdown."

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The Most Amazing Space Stories of the Week!

The Most Amazing Space Stories of the Week!

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A probe shoots between Saturn and its rings, a NASA astronaut sets a spaceflight record, SpaceX prepares for a top-secret first, and the sun's protective shield is a bubble, not comet — it's Space.com's best news stories of the week.

Mind the gap!

NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot through the gap between Saturn and its rings Wednesday, braving the unknown in the first of its 22 ring dives scheduled before it plunges into the planet's atmosphere Sept. 15. The spacecraft turned to use its antenna as a shield as it passed through the gap, since the quantity of dust and debris was not yet clear. [Full Story: Cassini Saturn Probe Survives 1st 'Grand Finale' Dive]

Spaceborne win

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson made history — again — by spending more than 534 cumulative days in space over the course of her 3 long-duration flights, breaking the American record for time off-world. Whitson currently commands the International Space Station and is the first woman to command the station twice; she also holds the records for most spacekwalks by a female astronaut and oldest woman to fly in space. [Full Story: Peggy Whitson Breaks US Record for Most Time in Space by an Astronaut]

Marching for science

Thousands of scientists and science enthusiasts joined a march in Washington, DC to highlight the importance of the U.S. government supporting and funding science as well as embracing its findings. Satellite marches occurred in more than 500 cities around the world. [Full Story: In March for Science, Earth and Space Take Center Stage]

Bubbled

New research suggests that the sun's magnetic sphere of influence, extending out past Neptune and Pluto and protecting the solar system from cosmic rays, might be bubble-shaped rather than comet-shaped, as previously thought. The sun carries this shield-like bubble, called the heliosphere, with it as it travels through interstellar space. [Full Story: Sun's Magnetic Shield May Be a Bubble, Not Comet-Shaped]

Special delivery

The robotic Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft docked automatically with China's Tiangong-2 space lab, forming a rigid, combined unit. Two additional spacecraft dockings are planned to help build Tiangong-2 up into a full space station. [Full Story: China's Cargo Craft Docks with Space Lab]

Call for cleanup

At a recent conference on space debris, scientists floated ideas from a tractor beam to nets and tentacles to self-propelling tethers — all to help clean up the dangerous junk that clogs Earth orbit. [Full Story: Meet the Space Custodians: Debris Cleanup Plans Emerge]

Trouble at Ceres

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, exploring the dwarf planet Ceres, has lost the third of four reaction wheels which control the spacecraft's orientation. Fortunately, the mission team had already been using the probe's thrusters rather than the wheels to spin; the failure doesn't threaten the mission, agency officials said. [Full Story: NASA's Dawn Probe at Dwarf Planet Ceres Loses Another Reaction Wheel]

Uncanny twilight

Saturn's moon Titan appears brighter during its twilight than its daylight, according to new research — the only known place in the solar system with that peculiar quality. The moon's hazy atmosphere extends so high up that more light is scattered off the haze onto its surface when the sun is at an oblique angle. [Full Story: On Saturn's Moon Titan, Twilight Outshines Daylight]

Plus: 'Dragonfly' Drone Could Explore Saturn Moon Titan

A hearing on listening

Scientists spoke to the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Wednesday about the state of SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence), highlighting improvements in technology that could let researchers search a million star systems for signals over the next 20 years. [Full Story: SETI Scientists Could Survey a Million Star Systems by 2037, Lawmakers Are Told]

First time classified

SpaceX will launch its first classified U.S. spacecraft into orbit Sunday, breaking a 10-year monopoly by United Launch Alliance on classified government and military launches. The company's Falcon 9 rocket will loft a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office into orbit sometime between 7 and 9 a.m. EDT (1100 and 1300 GMT). [Full Story: SpaceX Poised for First Military Launch Sunday]

You can watch the launch live online here.

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Meet the megalith of Al-Naslaa—split in half with LASER-LIKE precision

Meet the megalith of Al-Naslaa—split in half with LASER-LIKE precision

Located at the Tamya Oasis in Saudi Arabia is a fascinating megalith called Al-Naslaa. It is perfectly split in half and has curious symbols portrayed on its surface. If that wasn’t enough, the two rocks split in half with laserlike precision have managed to remain standing for centuries, and are somehow perfectly balanced. The stones were split in half with an LASER-LIKE precision.
 
Imagine walking around in the desert, exploring the unknown and you come across a massive standing stone, split in half by a PERFECT LINE. What would be the first thing that jumps to your mind?
 
The standing stone(s) of Al-Naslaa truly are a GIANT mystery. Located in Saudi Arabia, the two stones split in half have created confusion among experts ever since their discovery.
 
Considered as one of the most photogenic petroglyphs on the surface of the planet, the massive rock is split in half with extreme precision. However, according to experts, the laser-like precision cut was NOT created artificially.
 
According to many, it is one of the greatest mysteries found by man, and this incredible ancient stone structure attracts thousands of tourists each year who come to Al-Naslaa to observe its perfection and balance, which has given rise to countless theories that try to explain its origin.
 
The rock is in perfect balance, supported by two bases and the strangest thing is that it is perfectly split in half. It all suggests that at some point it must have been worked on by extremely precise tools, some have even ventured out and said laser-like tools.
 
Look at that precision!
 
 
Each part of the split stone has a smaller rock or shock absorber at the bottom, preventing it from touching the ground.
 
Archaeological discoveries show that in ancient times the region where the rock is located was inhabited. In fact, it is one of the most photogenic petroglyphs in the area.
 
The megalith was discovered by Charles Huver in 1883, and ever since its discovery, it has been a subject of debate among experts who have divided opinions when it comes to its origin.
 
In 2010, SCTH – Saudi Commission for Tourism & National Heritage announced the discovery of a rock near Tayma with a hieroglyphic inscription of Pharaoh Ramses III.  Based on this discovery, researchers have hypothesized that Tayma was part of an important land route between the Red Sea coast of the Arabian Peninsula and the Nile Valley. Recent archaeological discoveries show that Tayma has been inhabited since the Bronze Age.
 
As noted by http://saudi-archaeology.com the split between two standing rock and its flat surface is a completely natural occurrence.
 
UnusualPlaces offers a natural explanation for the enigmatic, laser-like cut…
 
  • “…Most likely the ground shifted slightly underneath one of the two supports and the rock split. Could be from a volcanic dike of some weaker mineral that solidified there before everything was exhumed. Or, it could be an old pressure crack (you see a parallel crack just to the right of it) that has been pushed/pulled apart some. Or, it could be an old (minor) fault line, since fault motion often creates a zone of weakened rock that erodes relatively easier than the surrounding rock…”
 
But that of course is just another theory. The extremely precise cut, dividing the two stones has raised more questions than answers.
 
If we are to understand its origin, perhaps we should travel back in time.
 
According to reports, the oldest mention of the oasis city appears as “Tiamat” in Assyrian inscriptions dating as far back as the 8th century BCE. The oasis developed into a prosperous city, rich in water wells and handsome buildings.
 
Furthermore, archaeologists have discovered Cuneiform inscriptions possibly dating from the 6th century BCE at the oasis city. It is mentioned several times in the Old Testament. The biblical eponym is apparently Tema, one of the sons of Ishmael.
 
Interestingly, for part of his reign, Babylonian king Nabonidus retired to Tayma for worship and looking for prophecies, entrusting the kingship of Babylon to his son, Belshazzar.
 
As you can see, besides being an area where numerous archaeological discoveries have been made, the area where the incredible megalith of Al-Naslaa is located is also rich in history.
 
Taking a look at the stone of Al-Naslaa you cannot help and wonder what its true purpose was. Is the split in the rock really a result of the forces of nature as some experts suggest? Or is it possible that just as there are many other ancient places on Earth—dating back thousands of years—featuring precision cuts, this stone too was crafted by an unknown technology?
 
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Most closely watched area of the world – hiding aliens and their technology?

Most closely watched area of the world – hiding aliens and their technology?

Area 51 is the most secret and most protected area of ​​the world by the US military. What is hidden in the bowels of an inaccessible base?
 
North of Las Vegas, near the Nevada desert territory is the size of 15,000 km square. It is the most secret and most protected area of ​​the world by the US military – Area 51. This is an area where the first conducted underground tests of nuclear weapons and where was the secret US military exercises. Later, there began research and training flights with the latest types of combat aircraft of the US Air Force. The base circulating different stories and myths, in particular regarding the existence of UFOs. It was built in 1957 as a military research center in drying lake
 
 
 
Base shrouded in mystery
 
Area 51 is the mysterious territory surrounded on all sides by mountains and reaches deep into the uninhabited wilderness. In any case, it is not open to the public, admission is strictly guarded and enter this object has the option of only US military and researchers. Since 1957 serves as the core base where Air Base Lockheed has innovated lietedlá for the needs of the CIA. The secret military base located at the bottom of dried up lake Groom, across which passes the longest runway in the world. Among the pilots to make this territory called the „Dreamland“ – the land of dreams. It is the area used to strictly secret latest research, which is essential to increase the efficiency of defense forces and national security. The base, however, will always be for verejnosťopradená veil of mystery because the US Air Force admitted and finally confirmed the existence of the object to Area 51 in 1994!

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België op een boogscheut van Amerika: zo zouden de landsgrenzen er 300 miljoen jaar geleden hebben uitgezien - HLN.be

België op een boogscheut van Amerika: zo zouden de landsgrenzen er 300 miljoen jaar geleden hebben uitgezien - HLN.be

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Ruim 300 miljoen jaar geleden zag de aarde er helemaal anders uit dan nu. Terwijl de continenten nu van elkaar zijn weggedreven, waren die in het Paleozoïcum nog samengeklit in één megacontinent, Pangea genaamd. Van de Atlantische Oceaan was bijvoorbeeld nog geen sprake. Een artiest ontwierp een kaart die weergeeft hoe de landsgrenzen er toen zouden hebben uitgezien. Vroeger hadden we een buurland meer en was Amerika helemaal zo ver niet.

175 miljoen jaar geleden begon het megacontinent te breken in verschillende kleinere continenten, het Eurazië, Noord- en Zuid-Amerika, Afrika, India, Antarctica en Australië van nu. Geleidelijk aan dreven de continenten steeds verder van elkaar weg tot waar ze nu liggen.

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Artiest Massimo Pietrobon wou wel eens weten hoe de politieke grenzen er in dat grote continent zouden hebben uitgezien. Zijn kaart geeft alle landsgrenzen mooi weer.

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België had vroeger met het Verenigd Koninkrijk een buurland extra, want Het Kanaal had zich nog niet gevormd. En een trip naar Amerika was helemaal zover niet zonder de Atlantische Oceaan, even ver als een reis naar pakweg Italië. 

Andere vreemde buurlanden in het Paleozoïcum waren de VS en Marokko, Canada en Portugal en Italië en Tunesië. 

Bekijk HIER de kaart in hoge resolutie.

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UFO & alien disclosure binnenkort afgedwongen? Wat onthult Steven Greer over deze topgeheime WikiLeaks-achtige informatie?

UFO & alien disclosure binnenkort afgedwongen? Wat onthult Steven Greer over deze topgeheime WikiLeaks-achtige informatie?

UFO & alien disclosure binnenkort afgedwongen? Wat onthult Steven Greer over deze topgeheime WikiLeaks-achtige informatie?

Komen er binnenkort WikiLeaks-achtige onthullingen over buitenaardse intelligenties? In de nieuwe film Unacknowledged worden mysteries rond UFO’s en geavanceerde aandrijfsystemen ontrafeld.

In de documentaire wordt de waarheid over buitenaardse levensvormen en UFO-geheimen boven water gehaald.

Deze zaken worden onder de pet gehouden door de media en onze overheden, schrijft IBTimes.

Bizarre geheimen

De drijvende kracht achter het project is dr. Steven Greer, die inmiddels al meer dan 500 man militair en overheidspersoneel heeft geïnterviewd over hun ervaringen met betrekking tot UFO’s, aliens en de manier waarop buitenaardse technologie wordt achtergehouden door overheden en ruimteagentschappen.

In 2001 organiseerde hij een persconferentie waar 20 van deze getuigen bizarre geheimen onthulden over buitenaardse levensvormen die onze planeet bezoeken.

Dr. Greer heeft contact gehad met oud-presidenten en vele hooggeplaatste leger- en overheidsfunctionarissen.

Overbodig

De geheime technologieën waar onze overheden over beschikken kunnen onze hele wereld veranderen.

Dankzij de kennis over de werking van UFO’s, die door overheden systematisch verborgen is gehouden, zullen olie en kernenergie namelijk overbodig worden.

En dat is meteen ook de belangrijkste reden waarom regeringen deze informatie nooit naar buiten brengen, aldus de film.

Meerdere malen

Greer werkte eerder mee aan de film Sirius, die onthulde dat onze aarde al meerdere malen is bezocht door buitenaardse wezens, maar dat dit steeds geheim werd gehouden onder druk van een militaire, industriële en financiële elite.

Onder meer getuigenverklaringen van vooraanstaande wetenschappers en officiële documenten die het bestaan van aliens aantonen passeerden de revue.

De film Unacknowledged ging op 24 april in Los Angeles in première. Kijk hieronder de livestream terug:

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