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.
This video will blow your mind: the Giant Megaliths of Russia
This incredible video presents some of the most incredible yet mysterious structures that have been found in all corners of Russia. According to the author of the video, these huge megaliths that strangely resemble construction methods used in sites like Puma Punku, Teotihuacan, and Tiahuanaco, could not have been the result of ancient mankind.
No matter what the numbers were in the past, the author of the video suggests that these mysterious megalithic sites in Russia are the ultimate and most compelling evidence that proves giant Beings inhabited the world in the distant past.
The author suggests that much before the biblical flood, thousands of years earlier, giant beings inhabited all corners on our planet, and stories about these giant beings can be found in cultures around the globe. No matter where we go and at what ancient culture we look at, it seems that ‘Ancient Giant Beings’ were present on Earth before ‘ancient history,’ a time that corresponds to a period in the long history of planet Earth, where, according to mainstream scholars civilizations and mankind were totally undeveloped and perhaps, didn’t even exist.
However, videos like this clearly show that these ancient megalithic sites were somehow built, yet no one has been able to fully explain why, how and how long, these incredible structures defy history and everything we know about early civilizations and beings inhabiting our planet.
Genesis: 6:2: That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis: 6:4: There were Giants (in Hebrew bible Nephilim) in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Is it possible that just as ancient texts tell us, in the distant past, beings unlike any we see today, were present on the surface of Earth, and that some of the huge, megalithic sites were erected by them in the distant past?
The video:
Is it possible that the Megalithic site of Gornaya Shoria in Russia, is just one of the many sites in Russia where ancient beings inhabiting Earth in the distant past, managed to erect some of the biggest blocks of stone ever seen on our planet? What if all these myths and tales are more than that? And what if, as unlikely as it may seem to many people, giant beings, belonging to a completely different species, inhabited the Earth, before ordinary humans become the predominant species on the planet.
If you consider just for a moment the possibility, however unlikely, that giants existed on Earth, than we could explain how ancient megalithic monuments were erected tens of thousands of years ago, and the sites seen in this video might just be a compilation of the largest megalithic sites in Russia, constructed by the ‘alleged’ giants, many ancient cultures speak of.
Voor de eerste keer ooit is er een komeet ontdekt die niet afkomstig is uit ons eigen zonnestelsel.
Men noemt dit een interstellaire komeet omdat de wetenschappers geen flauw benul hebben welk object hier met een snelheid van 26 kilometer per seconde door de ruimte reist.
Objecten die ontdekt worden in de ruimte krijgen altijd een eigen unieke aanduiding met daarin verwerkt meestal ook het jaar waarin ze zijn ontdekt.
Een dergelijk object is C/2017 U1. Het werd afgelopen september ontdekt door astronomen met de PannSTARRS1 telescoop op Hawaï.
Het vreemde is dat niemand eigenlijk precies wat voor object het is. In eerste instantie werd het een komeet genoemd, maar omdat het niet een soort omloopbaan om de zon heeft zoals gebruikelijk bij kometen begon men te twijfelen of het wel een komeet was. Wel heeft men vast kunnen stellen dat het object een doorsnede heeft van ongeveer 160 meter en reist met een snelheid van 26 kilometer per seconde.
Wat dit object vooral bijzonder maakt, is dat het schijnt te komen van buiten ons zonnestelsel en daardoor een vreemde omloopbaan heeft. In het volgende plaatje wordt object c/2017 U1 weergegeven als geel en ter vergelijking zijn de groene fictieve omloopbanen van kometen. Dit om duidelijk te maken in hoeverre die omloopbaan van C/2017 afwijkt.
Nog nooit hebben wij op aarde een wat men nu noemt interstellaire komeet meegemaakt. Een komeet afkomstig uit een ander zonnestelsel dan de onze. Was dit waar Ferrada al over sprak en wat hij cometa planeta noemde, of mogelijk iets wat bij dit fenomeen hoort?
Hoe verwarrend dit alles is voor de wetenschappers, wordt duidelijk als je leest wat de Wikipedia weet te vermelden over dit object:
Op 14 oktober passeerde het object onze zon en is nu weer op weg om te verdwijnen in de ruimte. C/2017 U1 werd in 2017 ontdekt met de STARRS1-telescoop op het Hawaiiaanse eiland Maui. Het zou mogelijk een donker rotsblok met een middellijn van zo'n 150 meter betreffen. Vermoed wordt dat het object afkomstig is uit de richting van het sterrenbeeld Lier, meer bepaald uit de omgeving van de ster Wega alwaar een zonnestelsel-in-wording is ontdekt. Dat het rotsblok ook daadwerkelijk van de omgeving van Wega afkomstig is wordt uiterst onwaarschijnlijk geacht, aangezien dit rotsblok ongeveer 300.000 jaar over de tocht naar ons zonnestelsel moet hebben gedaan, en toen stond Wega ergens anders aan de hemel.
Dit is interessant, want alles wijst er op dat er momenteel een ‘exotisch’ object door ons zonnestelsel reist. Helaas kunnen we het object niet van dichtbij bekijken, want de exokomeet verlaat momenteel het zonnestelsel en heeft een hoge snelheid.
We hebben iets dat nog nooit eerder op aarde is gezien en we noemen het een rotsblok. Een veel logischere verklaring zou uiteraard zijn dat het hier gaat om een intelligent bestuurd ruimtevaartuig van een andere ster, zoals misschien Wega.
Die zullen dan echt geen 300.000 jaar over die tocht hebben gedaan, maar waarschijnlijk gebruikt hebben gemaakt een dimensieportaal om heel snel naar dit deel van ons zonnestelsel te reizen.
Wij schrijven al jaren over de grote UFO's die regelmatig bij de zon worden waargenomen en ter illustratie daarvan een deel uit een artikel van eind vorig jaar:
Ongeveer tien jaar geleden verklaarden twee Russische wetenschappers dat ze hadden ontdekt dat er op ieder gegeven moment zich honderden UFO’s ophouden in de buurt van onze zon.
Dat niet alleen, maar ook dat ze hun snelheid kunnen verhogen of verlagen zonder aanwijsbare reden en dat ze een rechthoekige draai kunnen maken met onvoorstelbare snelheden, iets dat voor een normaal ruimteschip onmogelijk zou zijn. Zeker voor de waargenomen ruimteschepen die minstens zo groot zijn als onze maan.
Door de jaren heen zijn er telkens nieuwe waarnemingen geweest, waarbij het lijkt alsof deze enorme UFO’s energie uit de zon tanken.
Nu duikt er weer een opname op van een UFO die als het ware lijkt weg te schieten van de zon.
De bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 zegt dat hij eigenlijk niet gelooft in de UFO/zon plasma/energie theorie, maar dat deze beelden hem toch aan het denken hebben gezet.
Op ieder gewenst moment van de dag is er eigenlijk wel wat te zien rondom de zon op de SOHO beelden van NASA.
Het volgende voorbeeld is gemaakt door Scott Waring van Ufo Sightings Daily voor wie iedere pixelafwijking in het beeld een UFO is, maar waar ook inderdaad recht boven de zon en rechtsonder vreemde objecten zijn te zien.
Er wordt op dit moment veel gesproken over een mogelijke nep buitenaardse invasie op aarde. Een soort holografisch spel door de elite, waarbij het lijkt alsof er een buitenaardse invasiemacht naar de aarde is gekomen om ons te koloniseren. Het idee erachter is dan om de al zo lang gewenste wereldregering te activeren, waarbij de mensheid als één geheel weerstand zal bieden tegen de indringers.
Echter, de activiteiten van vreemde objecten in de buurt van de zon heeft naar alle waarschijnlijkheid niets te maken met iets dat door mensenhanden is gemaakt, maar alles met buitenaardse beschavingen.
En dan een onbekend object op een route (omloopbaan) die nog niet eerder is waargenomen, waarbij wetenschappers met de mond vol tanden staan en geen antwoorden hebben.
Noem het maar een interstellaire komeet; wij noemen het een ruimteschip.
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Amerikaan verkoopt ranch vanwege aanvallen door ‘greys’. Bevinden zich hier poorten naar andere dimensies?
John Edmonds uit Rainbow Valley in Arizona verkoopt zijn paardenranch omdat hij naar eigen zeggen niet meer tegen de constante paranormale activiteit kan.
De ranch is al meerdere keren op tv en in het nieuws geweest omdat er naar verluidt aliens op bezoek komen.
Zo vertelde Edmonds tijdens een aflevering van Ghost Adventures dat hij een buitenaards voorwerp had gevonden en is bezocht door de echte Men in Black.
Vreemde gebeurtenissen
Hij claimt dat hij al 19 aliens heeft gedood en dat de wezens meerdere keren zouden hebben geprobeerd om hem en zijn vrouw te ontvoeren.
“Ze leviteerden haar uit bed en droegen haar naar de parkeerplaats en probeerden haar mee te nemen in het ruimteschip,” vertelde hij aan de lokale zender KPNX.
Het stel kocht de ranch in 1995, maar vrijwel gelijk deden zich er vreemde gebeurtenissen voor.
Greys
Op zijn Facebookpagina plaatst Edmonds geregeld berichten over zijn ervaringen. Onder een foto met daarop een katana beschrijft hij hoe hij de ‘greys’ doodmaakt.
Hij legt uit dat je het hoofd eraf moet hakken omdat ze anders gemakkelijk kunnen ontkomen. Zelfs met een vlijmscherp zwaard is het vrijwel onmogelijk om ze in één keer te onthoofden, schreef hij.
Makelaar Kimberley Gero zei dat sommige potentiële kopers geen problemen hebben met de geschiedenis van de ranch, terwijl anderen doodsbang zijn dat er iets gaat gebeuren.
Het huis beschikt over vijf slaapkamers, vier badkamers, een groot zwembad en… twee poorten die volgens Edmonds naar andere dimensies leiden, meldt zender KHQ.
WATCH: John Edmonds claims he contends with paranormal activity regularly at the Stardust Ranch. But now, he's fed up with it and wants to sell his property.
The Stardust Ranch in Rainbow Valley, Ariz. has been featured multiple times in television shows and international mediafor its purported alien activity. Edmonds and his wife Joyce say they’re fed up with interstellar interference.
Edmonds claims he has slain 19 aliens with samurai swords and he and his wife have endured abduction attempts.
“They actually levitated her out of the bed in the master chamber and carried her into the parking lot and tried to draw her up into the craft,” he told NBC-affiliate KPNX.
The couple purchased the ranch in 1995 with the hopes of leading a peaceful life operating their horse rescue organization.
“Almost immediately from the day we moved in, we began to have strange experiences,” he said.
On his Facebook page, Edmonds regularly updates his friends and fans of the day-to-day experiences of living on the so-called Alien Ranch.
Under one image of what appears to be dried blood and a katana, he described the method of destroying the “greys.”
“Unless you cut the head off and disconnect the antennae, so to speak, they instantly ‘phone home.’ Even with a razor-sharp sword, it is nearly impossible to decapitate them with one swing,” he wrote.
Realtor Kimberly Gero said the reaction from interested buyers has been mixed.
“Some are very intrigued and have no issues with the history of the property, while others are absolutely scared to death about what may or may not happen to them if they should buy it,” she said.
In addition to its paranormal features, the property boasts a ranch house with five bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a large diving pool.
Edmonds warns prospective buyers to be prepared to live on the ranch.
“It’s not something for a traditional family, but it holds a lot of secrets and what I believe are future opportunities to understand forces that are in the universe,” he said. “Please be very well grounded because the energy here has the tendency to manifest with whatever is going on with you.”
Net zoals er rondom de Yellowstone supervulkaan in Amerika onlangs ongekend veel aardbevingen werden geregistreerd, is dat nu ook het geval rond de vulkanen op La Palma, één van de Canarische Eilanden.
Er zijn met spoed experts naartoe gevlogen om metingen te verrichten en de situatie 24 uur per dag te observeren.
Hoelang zal het nog duren voordat het eindelijk bij de mensheid inzinkt dat er ongewone dingen op aarde gebeuren waarvoor niemand een zinnige verklaring kan bedenken? Het enige dat je daarvoor hoeft te doen, is wat wij al jaren doen, het bijhouden van ongewone en heftige aardveranderingen.
Het probleem daarbij is dat dit soort dingen wel wordt gerapporteerd, maar dat er nooit enig verband wordt gelegd tussen al die afzonderlijke gebeurtenissen.
Zo schreven wij enkele weken geleden over de dreiging van de Yellowstone supervulkaan die opeens veel groter blijkt te zijn dan oorspronkelijk werd gedacht.
De afgelopen jaren is het publiek regelmatig in slaap gesust door de Amerikaanse Geological Survey (USGS), die verzekerde dat ondanks dat er zich steeds vaker series kleine aardbevingen voordeden rondom het gebied van de Yellowstone Supervulkaan, dit helemaal niets was om ons zorgen over te maken.
Een supervulkaan die, wanneer deze wel tot uitbarsting zou komen, zal zorgen voor mogelijk honderdduizenden dodelijke slachtoffers.
Sinds ongeveer het midden van de maand juli van dit jaar hebben zich in het Yellowstone gebied ongeveer 2.500 kleine aardbevingen voorgedaan, het hoogste aantal in een serie ooit. De aarde onder de vulkaan is aan het verschuiven en dit kan betekenen dat er magma is gaan stromen naar de belangrijkste magmakamer.
Dit proces dat leidt naar een uitbarsting had volgens eerdere voorspellingen van de geologen van de USGS nog duizenden jaren moeten duren.
De wereld reageert niet op dat bericht, neemt het voor kennisgeving aan, als ze het al lezen, en gaan verder met echt belangrijke zaken zoals de nieuwe serie Pose die de grootste transgendercast ooit zal tellen.
Niemand die ook kijkt naar een bericht over plotselinge paniek op de Canarische Eilanden waar ook vulkanen zijn en honderden kleine aardbevingen worden geregistreerd. Men heeft in sneltreinvaart een aantal experts daar naartoe gehaald.
De reden is dat een dergelijke situatie snel kan omslaan en men de experts ter plekke tests wil laten uitvoeren op het eiland La Palma om zo misschien vast te kunnen stellen waarom en welke actieve vulkaan daar op het punt staat om uit te barsten.
De Cumbre Vieja is een actieve vulkanengroep op het zuidelijk deel van het Canarische Eiland La Palma. De keten is 18 km lang en telt ongeveer 120 dicht bij elkaar gelegen vulkanen met als hoogste de Deseada, 1.945 m. De Cumbre Vieja sluit in het noorden aan op de oudere en lager gelegen Cumbre Nueva. In het zuiden loopt de bergketen langzaam af en eindigt in de uiterste zuidpunt van La Palma, bij Punta de Fuencaliente.
Op La Palma hetzelfde verhaal als bij de Yellowstone supervulkaan. Door de ongekend hoeveelheid aardbevingen wordt het magma naar boven gestuwd en is de kans op een vulkaanuitbarsting ineens vele malen groter geworden. Het enige dat wetenschappers nu kunnen doen, is de verschillende variabelen meten om zo misschien te kunnen bepalen hoe dichtbij die uitbarsting is.
Ook hier weer dezelfde geruststellende woorden zoals altijd: Volgens lokale wetenschappers is dit dan wel de grootste serie aardbevingen die zijn voorgekomen sinds men dit begon bij te houden, maar deze zogenaamde "seismic swarms" zijn absoluut niets ongewoons.
Dat is het patroon dat we iedere keer weer opnieuw zien. Ieder keer is wat er gebeurt de meest heftige, de nog nooit eerder voorgekomen, de grootste, de hoogste enzovoort. En iedere keer worden er geruststellende woorden gesproken en is er niemand die een verband legt tussen bepaalde gebeurtenissen, behalve een enkeling in de alternatieve media en die ziet spoken.
Overal ter wereld worden vulkanen wakker en/of komen tot uitbarsting.
Zoals de Sinabung vulkaan in Indonesië die afgelopen dinsdag zelf twee keer tot een uitbarsting kwam, waarbij as en puin kilometers hoog de lucht in werden gespuwd.
Even terug naar een artikel dat we onlangs schreven naar aanleiding van een verklaring van NASA:
En nu komt er dus een mededeling van NASA dat er niet alleen een soort superaarde moet zijn met een gewicht tien keer dat van onze aarde, maar ook dat deze zo'n krachtige invloed heeft dat het ons complete zonnestelsel heeft laten kantelen.
In een verklaring zegt NASA het volgende: "Het kan rondhangen aan de verre uiteinden van ons zonnestelsel en zich in het donker verborgen houden, maar toch subtiel in de achtergrond aan de touwtjes trekken: de omloopbanen van de buitenste planeten langer maken en zelfs het laten kantelen van het zonnestelsel naar één kant".
En verder: "De tekenen zijn tot nu indirect, het betreft vooral een zwaartekracht voetafdruk, maar alles met elkaar telt het toch op tot een overtuigende zaak".
Wanneer er krachten aan het werk zijn die ons zonnestelsel kunnen laten kantelen, is het dan niet logisch dat ze ook verantwoordelijk kunnen zijn voor ontwakende en steeds actiever wordende vulkanen?
Incredible footage of high speed UFO that appears to ignite other objects in space near Saturn
Sky observer DiversityJ captured a very rare, incredibly fast sequence of events on the evening of October 26, 2017 at 7:32pm while recording Saturn in the west sky.
A nearly transparent ultra high speed UFO that seems to defy basic laws of motion, from the viewers’ perspective it traveled directly across the surface of Saturn in the lower Western sky, causing wave distortion, actually distorting the light of Saturn.
In 1 1/4 second (75 frames), there was a bright UFO that shot up from below Saturn, lit up a second object with an orange glow, then after the UFO passed Saturn it appeared to trigger another burst of light (third object) before going out of frame.
If you look closely you can see the UFO turns from light orange to white as it seems to become one with the bright white flash of light.
DiversityJ states: Now, I didn't see this when out filming. Had a heck of a time getting the camera to find Saturn, and then manually trying to focus, waiting for the noisy atv's to quiet down. But as Saturn got lower in frame and I tried to adjust, I lost it and couldn't find it again during this take. A few minutes later I eventually got both the Moon and Saturn.
Anyway, on that first take, I was staring at the monitor with my magnifying glass glancing up and back down the whole time. I didn't see any lights or airplanes. It wasn't until going in and watching the footage on the computer that I saw the event, lasted less than 2 seconds!
Specifications:
7:32pm, Thursday Oct 26, 2017, NE Ohio, 42°F - SW Sky.
Nikon P900 with 83x optical zoom & 166x dynamic fine digital zoom super telephoto Nikkor lens: -Homemade Solar Filter using Thousand Oaks Optical Solar Filter Film. Manual Focus, Shutter Speed 1/10, Aperture 6.3, ISO 100-400, AE-L (auto exposure locked).
This very fascinating sequence of events in space observed from NE Ohio that would have never been noticed if it weren't for the great camera work and intuition of DiversityJ to have the camera recording just at the right time.
The image shows the liquid left over from ancient ocean on dwarf planet Ceres.
NASA
NASA' Dawn mission has helped in detecting proof about residual liquid on dwarf planet Ceres. The leftover liquid belongs to the ancient global ocean that existed on the planet.
The crust of the dwarf planet comprises ice, salts and materials belonging to geological activities which took place in the past.
The layer beneath the rigid surface of Ceres is found to be easily deformable and soft due to the residual liquid.
"More and more, we are learning that Ceres is a complex, dynamic world that may have hosted a lot of liquid water in the past, and may still have some underground," said Julie Castillo-Rogez, Dawn project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California.
A group of astronomers led by Anton Ermakov, a postdoctoral researcher at JPL, had used the measurements of shape and gravity to determine the composition and internal structure of Ceres. The finding reveals that this dwarf planet is geologically active or was in the recent past.
Three craters named Occator, Kerwan and Yalode and a solitary tall mountain present n the crater, Ahuna Mons, are linked with "gravity anomalies".
"Ceres has an abundance of gravity anomalies associated with outstanding geologic features," Ermakov said. In the cases of Ahuna Mons and Occator, the anomalies can be used to better understand the origin of these features, which are believed to be different expressions of cryovolcanism.
This animation shows dwarf planet Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn. The map overlaid at right gives scientists hints about Ceres' internal structure from gravity measurements.NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The models of Ceres created by the scientists show discrepancies. The analysis of these four locations done by the Dawn probe is about the subsurface structures.
Astronomers led by Roger Fu at Harvard University, US, studied the composition and strength of the dwarf planet's crust and deeper interior by analysing its topography. The researchers found that the crust of the dwarf planet comprised ice, salts, rock and an additional component, which was believed to be clathrate hydrate — which is a cage of water molecules, surrounding a gas molecule.
Clathrate hydrate's structure is found to be 100 to 1,000 times stronger than water ice, while having almost the same density.
It's believed by the researchers that the surface features of Ceres were more well-defined once, but they have smoothened over time. A very strong crust resting on a more deformable layer which contains a small amount of liquid is required for this sort of flattening of mountains and valleys, according to Fu and his team of astronomers.µ
"Levitating" Sands Could Be the Key to Landscape Formation on Mars
A unique geologic process, made possible by Mars's thin atmosphere, could be the key to understanding dune formations on the Red Planet.
Despite being the best planet for future colonization efforts, Mars is a very different world than Earth. Temperatures average about −55 degrees Celsius (−67° F) on the Red Planet, and can range from about −153 degrees C (−243° F) at the poles to 20 degrees C (68° F) near the equator at high noon. Even more alien, the atmosphere on Mars is a little less than one percent the thickness of Earth's atmosphere, which results in some unique chemical processes. For example, water ice will sublimate rather than melt on the surface, changing directly from a solid into vapor despite the frigid temperatures.
New research suggests the unique conditions on Mars can produce a "levitating" effect on martian sands and dust, a factor that must be accounted for when studying dune formation and other geological processes on the Red Planet. The study, published this morning in Nature Communications, builds off previous research that suggests liquid water flows underground on Mars today, as evidenced by dark streaks of briny water that appear seasonally in martian dunes. When small amounts of this water reach the surface and are exposed to the atmosphere, they sublimate immediately into a gas, or perhaps exist very briefly as liquid water before boiling into vapor. This boiling process can levitate sands and carry them across the surface, especially down a slope.
"It is possible that water 'trapped' underneath sediment cover could be liquid on Mars in small amounts," Jan Raack, lead author and a research fellow at The Open University, told Popular Mechanics in an email. "Overlaying sediment would protect water to sublimate, and when it would come into contact with the thin atmosphere, it would boil and cause the effect of levitation and saltation we have observed in our experiments."
The exact formation processes of martian hills and dunes is still somewhat of a mystery for planetary geologists. The sands of Mars do not behave like the sands of the Sahara. The reduced gravity on Mars, only 3.7 m/s² compared to 9.8 m/s² on Earth, is partially responsible for the unique geologic processes, but scientists haven't been able to explain the entire picture just by accounting for the weaker gravity. Raack believes the levitating process he reproduced in the lab could be a missing piece to the puzzle.
"If liquid water (maybe groundwater or rapid ice melt or liquid brines) comes into contact with a relatively warm martian surface (around 5° C), then the effect of levitation will be possible which enhances the amount of transported sediment down a slope massively," says Raack.
The levitating sands on Mars may seem like a minor addition, just a new variable in the geologic models that simulate dune formation, but understanding the geology on Mars is vital to any human exploration efforts. Where is the water on Mars, and how could we access it? What challenges do engineers face when designing the foundation of a structure on Mars? Do the shifting sands of the Red Planet hide microbes beneath, sustaining off the thick briny water underground?
If Raack's levitating sands model is correct, it could help scientists tackle these fundamental questions about our neighbor planet.
Reports of spectacular UFO - a giant glowing ball lighting the sky - in Siberia
Fears from locals of 'aliens arriving', but there is a surprising explanation and, yes, there was an unusual object in the sky.
'But gradually the ball began to expand, it became clear that this is not some radiance ... and it became scary ...' Picture: Alexey Yakovlev
The illuminated ball looming over the forest was seen clearly in the town of Salekhard right on the Arctic Circle, but was also visible over a swathe of northern Siberia in the night sky.
Residents from Yamalo-Nenets region reported 'shivers down their spines' and the social media went alive with claims of aliens arriving in an awesome UFO.
'The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction.'
Pictures: Sergey Anisimov
The extraordinary sight was captured by leading Siberian photographer Sergey Anisimov who admitted: 'At first I was taken aback for a few minutes, not understanding what was happening.
'The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction.
'My first thought was about the most powerful searchlight, but the speed of changing everything around changed the idea of what was happening.
'This is such a vision!'
Pictures: Alexey Yakovlev
'The ball began to turn into an arc and gradually dissipated.'
After the multi-coloured light show was over he went home.
'Kids (5-6 years old) walking in the yard emotionally began to tell me about an unusual phenomenon, using the words 'aliens', 'the portal to another dimension' and the like....'
This was the launch of a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile from Plesetsk cosmodrome aimed at the Kura testing range in Kamchatka on the country's Pacific coast.
Picture: The Siberian Times
Another photographer Alexey Yakovlev spotted the spectacle at Strezhevoi, in the north of Tomsk region, some 840 kilometres away.
'And at first I thought - it is such a radiance of such an unusual form - round in shape.
'But gradually the ball began to expand, it became clear that this is not some radiance ... and it became scary ...
'It's a gap in the space-time continuum.'
'It's good that I was not alone... they made it clear that the group of people cannot hallucinate.'
Vasily Zubkov said: 'I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world.'
'I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world.'
Pictures: Vkontakte
Another local Nurgazy Taabaldiev said: 'It's a gap in the space-time continuum.'
In fact the reason photographers were out watching the sky was an amazing show of northern lights - or Aurora Borealis - but there was an extra dimension too.
This was the launch of a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile from Plesetsk cosmodrome aimed at the Kura testing range in Kamchatka on the country's Pacific coast.
The launch was one of several last night in exercises by the Russian strategic nuclear forces, as confirmed by the Russian defence ministry.
It was the the trace of the Topol rocket - capable of carrying nuclear missiles - that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the sky.
As photographer Yakovlev posted accurately: 'It seems I accidentally shoot the launch of a secret space rocket from Plesetsk'.
A massive, glowing bubble of light erupted in the night sky above northeastern Siberia sometime last night (Oct. 26/27), The Siberian Times has reported.
Multiple witnesses reported seeing the bubble, according to the publication, and at least five people captured images of the phenomenon.
While many people quoted by the news site expressed concerns that the phenomenon might have something to do with aliens or "a gap in the space-time continuum," The Siberian Times suspected it was caused by a rocket launch. Now, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (which operates the Russian armed forces) has said on Facebook that it launched a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile last night as part of a test exercise.
The missile was apparently launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia toward the Kura testing range in Kamchatka, which is on Russia's western, Pacific peninsula, according to The Siberian Times and the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Siberian Times also reports that the northern lights were expected to be particularly bright last night, which explains why some of the photographers were already watching the sky when the bubble appeared.
This is the ‘Center of the universe’ because of ONE unexplainable phenomenon
This is the ‘Center of the universe’ because of ONE unexplainable phenomenon
By now we have probably understood that our planet is full of mysterious and amazing things.
By using science, we try and explain as best as we can things that challenge our understanding of things around us.
Thousands of years ago, before critical thinking and science, took over society we used the divine and tried to explain things that we simply couldn’t understand.
The center of the universe… on Earth
The ancient Greeks marked the center of the world by placing an omphalos in the form of a sacred stone. The most famous one was located in the oracle of Delphi, indicating that from that point on, the rest of the world had been created.
Of course, other people also had their center of the world. There were those in Miletus, Sicily, Poland, Italy to name but a few.
In ancient Greece, it is known that there were at least nine or ten.
The US also has its own center of the universe, and it is located in Tulsa. Despite the fact that ‘this center of the universe’ neither has the charm nor the mystery of the ancient centers of the universe and is rather an anodyne site, it does have a peculiar characteristic, an acoustic anomaly that surprises anyone who visits it.
According to legend, a foghorn could go off in the center of the circle an, those on the outside wouldn’t hear it.
This may be an exaggeration, but a person’s voice does sound extremely distorted when heard from outside the circle.
It’s an incredible yet mysterious effect that has still not been explained.
Located at number 20 Archer Street at the junction with Boston Avenue, the ‘center of the universe’ isn’t a special place, in fact, it’s a simple circle of about 75 centimeters in diameter surrounded by another 13 rows of tiles.
It was created in the 80’s when the area was rebuilt after a fire.
When a person stands in the center of the circle, looking in any direction, making a noise, he will hear his own echo reproduced several times louder than initially spoken, while those outside the circle will not hear it.
Instead, they perceive the voice or the noise but very distorted.
The same happens if someone outside the circle speaks to another person in front of him and also outside, causing the sound to pass over the center.
No one knows that causes the effect, but there are a couple of theories.
This curious effect seems to be produced by the circular walls surrounding the ‘center of the universe’, although it has never been proven, so there are multiple theories about it.
One theory suggests that the strange phenomenon occurs due to a metal expansion joint that crosses the circle since it is located on a viaduct, which would accidentally produce this curious acoustic anomaly.
One of the greatest minds on Earth—Professor Stephen Hawking—wants mankind to colonize Earth’s moon as soon as possible, in order to ensure the existence of our species. “I am an optimist. I believe we can. One of the best ways to do this is to move out into space and explore the potential for human beings to live on other planets.”
As we have seen in the last couple of years, rising tensions among the world’s nuclear powers have made scientists think about what we can do in order to ensure the existence of our species, if a world ‘nuclear’ war would break out in the future.
With growing concern from North Korea and Middle Eastern countries, the world has never been this scared and nervous.
Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington have greatly escalated in the last couple of years, the reason why Prof Stephen Hawking has stated that we must work to ensure the existence of our species, and the first step is to colonize the Earth’s moon.
Hawking has said that comments made by North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un should be taken seriously. The North Korean leader has threatened to destroy its enemies, and escalating tensions between nuclear powers have taken ou planet one step closer to a global catastrophe provoked by man.
“I am an optimist. I believe we can. One of the best ways to do this is to move out into space and explore the potential for human beings to live on other planets.”
To ensure we as a species live on, Prof Hawking has said that we need to head to the moon, and start looking for another planet if we are to survive a catastrophic event—like World War 3.
Remeber what Einstein once said: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Professor Hawking has urged leading nations in space exploration to push the lm it’s with our space programs—and work collectively—and send astronauts to the surface of the moon in the next couple of years.
Speaking at the Yalta European Strategy forum, Prof Hawking said that we have already landed on the moon, and it could become our cosmic base to explore, and eventually colonize other worlds.
We have all that we need to go to the moon. Recently, scientists have also discovered ice deposits on the moon’s north pole, a very important discovery that could help astronauts survive on the moon.
Furthermore, Prof Hawking said that while leaving our planet will not solve all of our problems, it will give the human race a new perspective.
“Leaving earth will give us a new perspective. It would also unite us to face a common challenge,” concluded Prof Hawking.
Enormous glowing ball is seen over northern Siberia after fuel from four Russian rockets tested overnight created an illusion in the sky (but locals thought it could be a UFO)
Russian media has suggested two possible causes, the Northern lights or a Russian rocket test
It is likely the trace of rockets which were launched by the Russian military around the time
Similar light was seen in the skies over Norway in December 2009, which was caused by a failed missile
The peculiar spiral shaped light pattern was created from reflection of the sun in the leaking fuel
Russia has been hit by a wave of reports of a giant UFO in the sky last night with spectacular pictures of an enormous glowing ball illuminating northern Siberia.
Social media erupted with claims of 'aliens arriving' and locals in far flung parts of the country told of 'shivers down their spines'.
While the source of the light has not been confirmed, some have suggested that it was the trace of four rockets launched by the Russian military that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the night sky.
A similar light was seen in the skies over Norway in December 2009, which was caused by a failed missile. During that incident, the peculiar spiral shaped light pattern was created from reflection of the sun in the leaking fuel.
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Russia has been hit by a wave of reports of a giant UFO in the sky last night with spectacular pictures of an enormous glowing ball illuminating northern Siberia
HOW COULD A MISSILE TEST CREATE THE LIGHT?
Vladmir Putin oversaw the launch of four nuclear-capable ballistic missiles as part of a training exercise for Russia's strategic nuclear forces last night.
The ministry said a Topol ballistic missile had been test fired from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia, hitting a target at the Kura military testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula thousands of kilometres (miles) away.
It was the the trace of one of these rocket - capable of carrying nuclear missiles - that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the night sky, say the Russian media.
A similar light was seen in the skies over Norway in December 2009, which was caused by a failed missile launch.
Speaking to Barents Observer at the time, Dr Truls Lynne Hansen, a researcher at the Tromso Geophysical Observatory, said: 'The missile has probably come out of control and exploded. 'The peculiar spiral shaped light pattern comes from reflection of the sun in the leaking fuel.'
Vasily Zubkov posted: 'I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world.'
The extraordinary scenes were captured by leading Siberian photographer Sergey Anisimov in the town of Salekhard which straddles the Arctic Circle.
'I was taken aback for a few minutes, not understanding what was happening,' he said.
'The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction.
'My first thought was about the most powerful searchlight, but the speed of changing everything around changed the idea of what was happening.
'The ball began to turn into an arc and gradually dissipated.'
After the multi-coloured light show was over he went home to find local children as young as five in the yard babbling about 'aliens' and 'the portal to another dimension', he said.
Some 520 miles further east, another photographer Alexey Yakovlev admitted to feeling scared as he witnessed the UFO spectacle at Strezhevoi, in the north of Tomsk region, reported The Siberian Times.
'At first I thought - it is such a radiance of such an unusual form, round in shape.
'But gradually the ball began to expand, it became clear that this is not some radiance and it became scary.
'It's good that I was not alone....a group of people cannot hallucinate.'
On social media, Anastasia Boldyreva posted simply: 'Aliens arrived.'
Bizarre sighting of a 'glowing UFO' lights the sky in Siberia
The extraordinary scenes were captured by leading Siberian photographer Sergey Anisimov in the town of Salekhard which straddles the Arctic Circle
Social media erupted with claims of 'aliens arriving' and locals in far flung parts of the country told of 'shivers down their spines'
While the source of the light remains unknown, local experts suggest there were two possible reasons for the eerie spectacle in the Siberian night sky
The lights could be seen in northern Siberia, and one photographer captured stunning images of the sight from the town of Salekhard which straddles the Arctic Circle
The were many similar messages. Nurgazy Taabaldiev claimed: 'It's a gap in the space-time continuum.'
While the source of the light has not been confirmed, not all are convinced it was a Russian rocket test.
Some local experts suggest it may have been caused by the Northern lights.
But the most common theory is that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin had chosen this moment to frighten the West with grandiose military exercises by his strategic nuclear forces.
Putin personally oversaw the launch of four nuclear-capable ballistic missiles as part of a training exercise for Russia's strategic nuclear forces, the Kremlin said on Friday, the Interfax news agency reported.
The test launches, conducted last night, involved land, air, and submarine-based ballistic missiles, Russia's defence ministry said in a separate statement.
The ministry said a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile had been test fired from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia, hitting a target at the Kura military testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula thousands of kilometres (miles) away.
Photographer Alexey Yakovlev admitted to feeling scared as he witnessed the UFO spectacle at Strezhevoi, in the north of Tomsk region. He said: 'At first I thought - it is such a radiance of such an unusual form, round in shape. But gradually the ball began to expand, it became clear that this is not some radiance and it became scary'
After the multi-coloured light show was over, photographer Sergey Anisimov went home to find local children as young as five in the yard babbling about 'aliens' and 'the portal to another dimension', he said
The first explanation for the sight was that a vivid display of the Northern Lights - or Aurora Borealis - was underway. This is why photographers were out watching the sky when the suspected UFO appeared
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When the light appeared, missile tests were underway from submarines and aircraft last night, and the exercises included the launch of a super-powerful Topol rocket from Plesetsk cosmodrome, 550 miles north of Moscow
It was the likely the traces of one of these rockets - capable of carrying nuclear missiles - that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the night sky, say the Russian media.
As photographer Mr Yakovlev accurately guessed: 'It seems I accidentally shot the launch of a secret space rocket from Plesetsk'.
It was the the trace of this rocket - capable of carrying nuclear missiles - that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the night sky, say the Russian media
Photographer Alexey Yakovlev accurately guessed: 'It seems I accidentally shot the launch of a secret space rocket from Plesetsk'
NORTHERN LIGHTS
The impressive Northern Lights can sometimes be seen by people in high-altitude regions, including Sweden, Iceland and Scotland.
There are two types of auroras - Aurora Borealis (the Northern Lights), which means 'dawn of the north', and Aurora Australis, 'dawn of the south.'
The lights are created when charged particles from the sun enter Earth's atmosphere.
Usually the particles are deflected by the Earth's magnetic field, but some enter the atmosphere and collide with gas particles.
These collisions emit light in many colours, although pale green and pink are common.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Manual, told MailOnline: 'This looks amazing and it is not surprising the sight of it caused witnesses to think of aliens and the opening of a portal to another dimension.
'These fantastic possibilities are shot down by the prosaic explanation that this strange light phenomena was caused by the testing of an intercontinental missile.
'This seems like a poor explanation for something so spectacular but other rocket launches have caused similar spectacles.
'In particular, in December 2009 a stunning spiralling light was seen over Norway, which was caused by a failed Russian missile test.
'They may not be of an alien origin but we can certainly admire their beauty, even if they are caused by weapons of mass destruction.'
A similar light was seen in the skies over Norway in December 2009, which was caused by a failed missile launch.
Speaking to Barents Observer at the time, Dr Truls Lynne Hansen, a researcher at the Tromso Geophysical Observatory, said: 'The missile has probably come out of control and exploded.
'The peculiar spiral shaped light pattern comes from reflection of the sun in the leaking fuel.'
Former Navy officer tells us what he saw hidden in Antarctica
A naval officer tells us what he remembers, including seeing a huge opening in the ice in a no-fly area they were crossing with a medical emergency on board. Then he ferried a group of scientists who had disappeared for two weeks and has specifically been warned not to refer again to this subject. As he put it, “they looked scared.
Antarctica has long been considered one of the most mysterious places on Earth. Therefore, it is not strange that numerous ‘conspiracy theories, claims, and accounts’ have been proposed throughout the years, trying to explain some of the many enigmatic occurrences on Earth’s most isolated continent.
For years people have claimed that Antarctica is one of the most guarded places on Earth for a good reason.
Many authors have proposed that there are many interesting things hidden beneath Antarctica that are kept away from society.
Talk about ancient civilization inhabiting Antarctica has existed for decades. What if, in the distant past, when Earth –and Antarctica— was much different than today, an ancient civilization developed there, creating fascinating structures, monuments and temples?
Would we find evidence of their existence today? Many people claim that we already have.
But why has Antarctica become a ‘center’ for conspiracy theories?
Perhaps one of the greatest reasons is because it is so isolated and you can’t just travel there as you wish. Furthermore, even though we know about Antarctica only for a little over 100 years, there are numerous ancient maps that depict parts of Antarctica free of ice.
One of the most controversial maps was without a doubt composed in 1513, by Turkish Admiral Piri Reis who drew a map that would create a global debate over 500 years after him. The map depicts Antarctica which was discovered between 1818-1820.
But how is this possible? The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD.
In 1820, several expeditions claimed to have been the first to have sighted the ice shelf or the continent. Interestingly, a Russian expedition was led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev, a British expedition was captained by Edward Bransfield and an American sealer Nathaniel Palmer participated.
The first landing was probably just over a year later when American Captain John Davis, a sealer, set foot on the ice. Norwegian Roald Amundsen finally reached the Pole on December 14, 1911, following a dramatic race with the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott.
But the above accounts are all relatively recent.
Here are ancient maps that date back over 500 years which already depict the continent, and some of them show Antarctica free of ice.
At 400-feet across, experts analyzing the image ask whether or not this ‘structure’ could be the result of Mother Nature. The unusual shape of the structure suggests it may be man-made formation.
The above image is just one of the many odd things that have been found on Antarctica and many authors and whistleblowers claim there’s more to Antarctica than we’ve ever been told.
What is referred to as a ‘truly shocking an
d astonishing video on extremely strange events in the Antarctic continent’ has recently been uploaded to YouTube, causing a social network debate about Antarctica and what’s really there.
“A naval officer tells us what he remembers, including seeing a huge opening in the ice in a no-fly area they were crossing with a medical emergency on board. Then he ferried a group of scientists who had disappeared for two weeks, and has specifically been warned not to refer again to this subject. As he put it, “they looked scared.” When they returned to McMurdo, their gear was isolated and they were flown back to Christchurch, New Zealand in a special plane. He discusses what he saw and experienced in detail. This is the most provocative story about what is going on in Antarctica ever presented anywhere.”
What do you think? Is there anything strange to Antarctica? Is Antarctica just an isolated, frozen continent? Or is there perhaps more to it, as many conspiracy theorists and whistleblowers claim?
“Cassini managed to survive for 91 seconds in this epic battle, before tipping over backward during the last 8 seconds and then finally losing radio contact with Earth.
The final full view of Saturn from Cassini, on Sept. 13, 2017.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Jason Major/AmericaSpace.
It has been over a month now since the Cassini spacecraft took its final plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, ending an incredible mission of 13 years at the ringed giant planet. The probe continued collecting scientific data until the very last moments, and now engineers have been able to reconstruct what happened to it as it met its fate.
The descent into the thick atmosphere was a fiery one with Cassini being increasingly buffeted and battered by atmospheric winds. At first however, the spacecraft was gently rocking back and forth by only fractions of a degree as it made its final approach to Saturn, with only Saturn’s gravity trying to tug at and rotate Cassini.
Illustration of Cassini during its plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere.
Julie Webster, Cassini’s spacecraft operations chief at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said:
To keep the antenna pointed at Earth, we used what’s called ‘bang-bang control. We give the spacecraft a narrow range over which it can rotate, and when it bangs up against that limit in one direction, it fires a thruster to tip back the other way.
That range was only two milliradians, equal to 0.1 degree. According to the reconstructed data, Cassini was subtly correcting its orientation until about three minutes before final loss of signal.
As Cassini plunged deeper into the atmosphere, the turbulence increased; even though the atmosphere was still tenuous, at about 1,200 miles (1,900 km) above the cloud tops, it began to push against the spacecraft’s 36-foot (11-meter) long magnetometer boom. As a result, Cassini rotated slightly in the backward (aft) direction. Cassini’s thrusters fired in response, to keep the boom from rotating even more, and then began firing longer and more often.
Cassini’s last look at the ocean moon Enceladus as it sets behind the limb of Saturn on Sept. 13, 2017.
Photo via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/AmericaSpace.
Radar image of bright, wispy methane clouds seen in Titan’s northern hemisphere by Cassini on May 7, 2017.
Cassini managed to survive for 91 seconds in this epic battle, before tipping over backward during the last eight seconds and then finally losing radio contact with Earth. The mission was over, as the probe succumbed to the increasing heat and pressure.
At one point, it kind of looked like Cassini was attempting a comeback of sorts, with the radio signal spiking briefly, before disappearing for good. But of course it wasn’t a comeback, which would be impossible. Webster said:
No, it wasn’t a comeback. Just a side lobe of the radio antenna beam pattern.
There was no way Cassini could have survived this death plunge, and it wasn’t meant to, but the data it collected will be invaluable to scientists and engineers, including for future missions.
“Given that Cassini wasn’t designed to fly into a planetary atmosphere, it’s remarkable that the spacecraft held on as long as it did, allowing its science instruments to send back data to the last second,” said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at JPL. “It was a solidly built craft, and it did everything we asked of it.”
It has now been 20 years since Cassini was first launched, reaching Saturn in 2004. From that point onward, Cassini revolutionized our knowledge of Saturn and its many moons, right until the very end.
The highest-resolution color image ever taken of Saturn’s rings by Cassini.
Photo via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/AmericaSpace.
A historic view from Saturn, showing the distant Earth as a bright blue speck just below the rings.
Photo via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/AmericaSpace.
Bottom line: Space engineers have been able to reconstruct what happened to the Cassini spacecraft as it plunged into Saturn on September 15, 2017.
Rusland in de ban van spectaculaire lichtbol. Is dit een UFO of een raket?
In Siberië is vrijdag een mysterieuze lichtbol verschenen aan de hemel. Sommigen zeggen dat er aliens zijn geland in een enorme UFO, maar er wordt ook rekening gehouden met een rakettest.
Beelden van de lichtbol, die door duizenden Russen werd gezien, worden massaal gedeeld op het internet.
Bij lokale bewoners liepen de rillingen over de rug, schrijft The Siberian Times.
Armageddon
“We dachten dat dit de armageddon was, het einde van de wereld,” zei iemand uit de omgeving van Plesetsk.
“De bol steeg op achter de bomen en kwam mijn kant op,” zei de Russische fotograaf Sergei Anisimov. “Ik dacht eerst dat het een zoeklicht was, maar toen veranderde de vorm in een boog, waarna het verdween.”
“Ik wist niet wat ik zag,” zei hij nog.
Noorwegen
Het Russische ministerie van Defensie bevestigde dat er nucleaire oefeningen werden gehouden met vier ballistische raketten.
Mogelijk was de lichtbol een spoor van een intercontinentale raket die is gelanceerd door het Russische leger.
Een officiële verklaring voor het mysterieuze licht is er nog niet. Op 9 december 2009 verscheen soortgelijk licht aan de hemel boven Noorwegen.
“The more we observe Mars, the more information we’re getting that it really is a fascinating planet, from the Curiosity Rover we now know that Mars once was like a planet very much like Earth, with long salty seas, with fresh water lakes, probably with snow capped peaks and clouds and a water cycle just like we’re studying here on Earth. . . . Something has happened to Mars, it lost its water.”
The quote above comes from John Grunsfeld, a five-time space flow astronaut and associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directive. It was given at a NASA press conference where representatives told the world that there is water on Mars, that it’s not the dry, arid planet we imagined it to be, and that it was once very much Earth-like and still holds the possibility of harbouring life. After all, water means life.
While this announcement came as something of a shock to the public, scientists have been telling the world for some time now that Mars was once very much Earth-like, that it probably hosted some form of life, and that something happened in Mars’ past which completely changed its planetary/atmospheric conditions.
What’s more, many prestigious scientists, high ranking military personnel, and political figures have been coming forward to disclose sightings of strange objects flying within our atmosphere that defy our current understanding of physics. Some also assert some of these objects could be extraterrestrial, and there is “abundant” evidence we are not alone in the universe.
One of many examples is Dr. Norman Burgrun, a mechanical engineer who has worked for Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, now known as Lockheed Martin. He then went on to found Bergrun Engineering and Research. You can view some of his publications for NASA, where he worked for more than a decade, here.
In this interview, Bergrun accuses that agency of “garbling” photos and fudging data, as well as hiding the fact that there are intelligently controlled objects out there, greater than anything we could ever imagine.
Life on Mars
It’s interesting that NASA held the press conference confirming that Mars used to be Earth-like when Dr. John Brandenburg, who worked for NASA, has been speaking about this for years. Brandenburg has worked on space plasma technologies, nuclear fusion, and advanced space propulsion, and invented the Microwave Electro-Thermal plasma thruster using water propellant for space propulsion. He was also the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon, which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA. The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. (Source: page 16 of 18)(source)(source)
Brandenburg has been lecturing and writing for the past couple of years on the pyramid structures that have been found on Mars, as well as relaying to the public that the giant “face” discovered on Mars by Viking in the 1970s is an actual, giant face. He says NASA knows this and that, contrary to their assertion that they don’t know what caused the dramatic shift that occurred in Mars’ atmosphere, they know there was a nuclear blast — a fact proven by nuclear isotopes found on the planet.
“We have found, in a nutshell, that Mars used to be Earth-like, in the past, and became, eventually, the home not only to life, but a humanoid civilization, and that civilization was apparently destroyed by a nuclear attack from space, and we have to send astronauts there to find out what exactly happened. Did the people on Mars know who did this to them? And how can we make sure that this doesn’t happen to us?”
The picture above, which includes the pyramid, was taken from a lecture given by Brandenburg (at the 26:46 mark). Any scientist who publicly shares information that challenges commonly held belief systems, as well as what’s been put out by mainstream media, will always come under public scrutiny and ridicule.
In another lecture given by Brandenburg (below), he goes into more detail regarding these strange anomalies, and about the civilization that once existed there.
For more detailed information relating to this topic, you can check out these CE articles:
The STARGATE project was one of multiple programs that the U.S. government undertook to examine non-material science and “psi” phenomena like telepathy and telekinesis. It ran for more than two decades, and a lot of information regarding the program has since been declassified and opened for public viewing.
The program was used multiple times for successful intelligence collection, as outlined in a paper published after the declassification in 1995:
To summarize, over the years, the back-and-forth criticism of protocols, refinement of methods, and successful replication of this type of remote viewing in independent laboratories has yielded considerable scientific evidence for the reality of the [remote viewing] phenomenon. Adding to the strength of these results was the discovery that a growing number of individuals could be found to demonstrate high-quality remote viewing, often to their own surprise. . . . The development of this capability at SRI has evolved to the point where visiting CIA personnel with no previous exposure to such concepts have performed well under controlled laboratory conditions.
One of the participants in that program was Joseph McMoneagle, a now-retired army veteran who was involved in the remote viewing program. Remote viewing is the the ability of individuals to describe a remote geographical location up to several hundred thousand kilometers away (or more) from their physical location.
Remote viewing is also tied in with pre-cognition, and future events have also been successfully predicted. One example includes a Soviet Tu-22 bomber that was outfitted as a reconnaissance aircraft, lost in Zaire in 1979, then located by an Air Force remote viewer. President Jimmy Carter was aware of this, admitting to national press that the CIA, without his knowledge, once consulted a psychic to locate a missing government plane. According to CNN, he told students at Emory University that the “special U.S. plane” crashed somewhere in Zaire. The only thing is that it was a Russian plane, not an American one.
According to Carter,
“the woman went into a trance and gave some latitude and longitude figures. We focused our satellite cameras on that point and the plane was there.” (source)
Another example is Ingo Swann, McMoneagle’s colleague, a man who was able to successfully describe and view a ring around Jupiter that scientists had no idea even existed. This took place precisely before the first ever flyby of Jupiter by NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft, which confirmed that the ring did actually exist. These results were published and they are linked earlier in this article.
“To determine whether it was necessary to have a ‘beacon’ individual at the target site, Swann suggested carrying out an experiment to remote view the planet Jupiter before the upcoming NASA Pioneer 10 flyby. In that case, much to his chagrin (and ours) he found a ring around Jupiter, and wondered if per- haps he had remote viewed Saturn by mistake. Our colleagues in astronomy were quite unimpressed as well, until the flyby revealed that an unanticipated ring did in fact exist.”
In the video below, McMoneagle explains how he detected “shadows of people, fragments” and was picking up on a memory of people once existing there. He said he found evidence of giant structures, pyramids, and an ancient people trying to survive, people who had sent out someone to look for a new home. He also had visions of tall, thin, humanoid beings.
We’re talking about a highly skilled army remote viewer coming from a very successful program. Simple put, remote viewing can work, which is why the U.S. government uses it.
General Stubblebine, a retired United States Major General who was also the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), also supported and involved himself in these programs. He once told the world that army remote viewers were able to find structures on Mars:
There are structures on the surface of Mars. I will tell you for the record that there are structures underneath the surface of Mars that cannot be seen by the Voyager cameras that went by in 1976. I will also tell you that there are machines on the surface of Mars and there are machines under the surface of Mars that you can look at, you can find out in detail, you can see what they are, where they are, who they are and a lot of detail about them.
Inlichtingenofficier en NASA-wetenschapper vertellen de waarheid over leven op Mars. Lees hier wat ze hebben ontdekt
Wetenschappers vertellen ons al enige tijd dat Mars ooit erg op de aarde leek en dat er waarschijnlijk levensvormen waren.
Sommigen gaan nog een stap verder en zeggen dat er intelligent leven is of is geweest op de rode planeet.
In de jaren zeventig werd een methode ontwikkeld om op afstand te spioneren, beter bekend als ‘remote viewing’.
Stargate
Het project trok al snel de aandacht van de CIA en in korte tijd werd het omgevormd tot een officieel programma onder de controle van het militaire inlichtingenapparaat.
De CIA hield het Russische paranormale onderzoek al enige tijd in de gaten en besloot een eigen programma te starten.
In het Amerikaanse leger werd het toegepast als Project Stargate, waarbij een groep soldaten leerde om te spioneren voor diverse inlichtingendiensten.
Officier Joe McMoneagle van de Amerikaanse militaire inlichtingendienst DIA leerde remote viewing als eerste toepassen voor Project Stargate.
Erg succesvol
In eerste instantie werden zes soldaten opgeleid voor Project Stargate. Het programma liep bijna 20 jaar. McMoneagle zei dat het erg succesvol was.
Ze werden ingezet door elke bekende inlichtingendienst om bijvoorbeeld zoekgeraakte vliegtuigen, terroristen, vijandige bases en ontvoerde generaals op te sporen. De informatie die ze gaven bleek in 22 procent van de gevallen accuraat te zijn.
McMoneagle zei dat er tijdens het programma ook interesse was in UFO’s en dat hij via remote viewing zelf buitenaardsen heeft gezien, onder meer op Mars.
Hij herinnert zich één voorval waarbij hij een schotelvormig object zag dat op 4000 meter hoogte met 6400 kilometer per uur een bocht van 90 graden maakte.
Onderscheiding
Later hoorde hij dat de luchtmacht foto’s had gemaakt van een onbekend object dat met 6200 kilometer per uur op een hoogte van 3300 meter een scherpe bocht maakte zoals McMoneagle had omschreven.
Officier McMoneagle verliet het project nadat hij een onderscheiding had gekregen voor het verschaffen van informatie over 150 doelen die niet op een andere manier konden worden gevonden.
Project Stargate werd in 1995 beëindigd na zowel positieve als negatieve beoordelingen.
In één van die beoordelingen concludeerde dr. Jessica Utts van de Universiteit van Californië in Davis: “Het is duidelijk dat buitengewone cognitie mogelijk is. Deze conclusie is niet gebaseerd op geloof, maar op algemeen geaccepteerde wetenschappelijke criteria.”
Onderstaande video toont Joe McMoneagle tijdens het 13e International UFO Congress in 2004:
Nucleaire ontploffingen
Dr. John Brandenburg, die voor de NASA heeft gewerkt, spreekt zich al jaren uit over leven op Mars.
Tijdens de conferentie AIAA Space 2016 van het American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics zei hij bijvoorbeeld dat er in een ver verleden tot twee keer toe nucleaire ontploffingen zijn geweest op Mars.
Tijdens het congres vertelde hij dat de twee nucleaire ontploffingen in de Marsatmosfeer hebben plaatsgevonden en dat het lijkt te gaan om doelbewuste pogingen om al het leven op de rode planeet uit te roeien.
Enorme catastrofe
De ontploffingen waren volgens hem zwaar genoeg om een enorme catastrofe te veroorzaken en het klimaat op Mars drastisch te veranderen.
Omdat er geen kraters zijn gevonden, moeten ze in de atmosfeer hebben plaatsgevonden, aldus Brandenburg.
“We hebben bewijs voor twee grote nucleaire explosies op Mars,” zei hij. “De plekken bevinden zich ten noorden van Cydonia Mensa en Galaxias Chaos.”
Onderstaande lezing verzorgde dr. Brandenburg in 2015 tijdens de Secret Space Program Conference in Texas:
Langwerpig object gespot op Mars. Volgens deze UFO-jagers is het een schip
UFO-jagers zeggen bewijs te hebben gevonden van een buitenaards moederschip op het oppervlak van de planeet Mars, zo schrijft de Britse Daily Mirror.
Volgens YouTube-kanaal Paranormal Crucible is het twee kilometer lange vaartuig bewijs dat er een buitenaardse beschaving op de rotsachtige planeet is geland.
De beelden in onderstaand filmpje zijn gemaakt door de Mars Global Surveyor van de NASA, die de rode planeet bestudeerde tot 2006, toen het ruimteagentschap het contact met de sonde verloor.
Verhoging
“Ik heb het object bewerkt, van kleur voorzien en opnieuw opgebouwd en in mijn ogen is het een soort vaartuig, mogelijk tienduizenden jaren oud,” aldus de beschrijving onder de video.
Sommigen zijn het hier niet mee eens en denken dat het een verhoging in het landschap of een ongewone rotsformatie is.
Moederschip
De UFO-jagers achter het kanaal denken echter iets op het spoor te zijn. “Het is bijna twee kilometer lang, dus dit moet een moederschip zijn geweest, van Mars of van een andere buitenaardse soort, maar waarom is het gecrasht?” aldus de commentaarstem.
Het is niet de eerste keer dat er iets vreemds is ontdekt op foto’s van het Marsoppervlak. Eerder werden er vreemde koepels en andere ongewone objecten gespot op de rode planeet.
PRECIES 100 JAAR LATER, HERHALING ZONNEWONDER FATIMA IN NIGERIA ( VIDEO )
De wonderen zijn de wereld nog niet uit en wat er op 13 oktober 2017 in Nigeria gebeurde, zal velen stomverbaasd laten zijn.
Op 13 oktober 1917 voltrok zich het zonnewonder van Fatima in Portugal, nu precies honderd jaar later gebeurt er voor de ogen van duizenden gelovige katholieken exact hetzelfde.
Met Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Fátima wordt Maria aangeduid die tussen mei en oktober 1917 zes keer verschenen zou zijn aan de drie herderskinderen (Zuster) Lucia, Francisco en Jacinta nabij het Portugese stadje Fátima. Op 13 mei 2017 werden Francisco en Jacinta heilig verklaard door Paus Franciscus.
De verschijningen van Maria werden voorafgegaan door drie bezoeken van een engel. Op 13 mei 1917 zou Maria voor de eerste keer aan de kinderen verschenen zijn en beloofd hebben elke maand opnieuw op de dertiende te zullen verschijnen.
De laatste keer dat Maria verscheen aan de kinderen was op 13 oktober 1917:
Zoals aangekondigd vond op 13 oktober de laatste verschijning plaats. Er was een grote mensenmenigte aanwezig, de schattingen liepen uiteen van 30 à 40.000 (A. de Almeido) tot minimaal 70.000 mensen.
De Verschijning had beloofd dat zich bij haar laatste bezoek tekenen zouden voordoen waardoor velen aan de waarheid van de verschijningen zouden gaan geloven. Aanvankelijk waren er regenwolken, maar deze leken op te lossen en de regen hield plotseling op. De zon kwam door en stond als een matzilveren schijf aan het zenit, met een schitterende coronaeromheen. Zij begon te beven en te schudden, zij draaide om haar as als een vuurrad en straalde hierbij telkens anders gekleurde lichtbundels uit, zodat het leek alsof de hele aarde achtereenvolgens in een geel, groen, rood, blauw en paars spotlicht werd gezet. Toen stond zij enige ogenblikken stil.
Opeens leek het of de zon loskwam van de hemel en zich met sprongen zigzaggend naar de menigte bewoog en op de aarde zou neerkomen. Grote schrik maakte zich van de mensen meester, en zij vielen op hun knieën in de modder. Dit gebeurde drie keer achtereen. Toen de menigte tot zichzelf was gekomen en opgestaan uit de modder, bleek dat geen enkel kledingstuk vochtig was of besmeurd door het slijk. Volgens getuigenverslagen, zoals van Avelino de Almeida, oud-seminarist van Santarém aanwezig als verslaggever van het blad 'O Século': 'Alle aanwezigen bevestigden later zonder uitzondering dat men het echt met eigen ogen had gezien. Nu was het zo dat er voor een deel gelovigen aanwezig waren maar ook enorm veel sceptici die juist waren gekomen omdat ze ervan overtuigd waren niets te zullen zien.' Andere berichten geven aan dat niet iedereen de zon zag 'dansen' maar alleen de kleuren waarnam. Weer anderen (waaronder gelovigen) zagen niets.
Van 13 oktober 1917 naar 13 oktober 2017 en wel naar de plaats Benin in Nigeria.
Dit was precies midden in een driedaags congres voor katholieken, gewijd aan Maria. Duizenden gelovigen waren daar verzameld, toen er op de 13e vreemde dingen gebeurden met de zon.
Het is ook niet zo dat er sprake kan zijn van een niet goed functionerende camera, want dit fenomeen werd door duizenden mensen met het blote oog waargenomen en er zijn talloze verschillende videobeelden opgedoken.
Het is natuurlijk bizar dat exact 100 jaar na de laatste verschijning van Maria in Fatima waar de zon vreemd deed, er opnieuw iets dergelijks gebeurt en wederom tijdens een Maria verering.
Het was een gebeurtenis van vreugde en ontzag toen duizenden getuige waren van het “dansen van de zon” in Benin stad in Nigeria, op 13 oktober 2017, exact 100 jaar na het zonnewonder in Fatima. Volgens ooggetuigen begon de zon ononderbroken te knipperen nadat de gelovigen het Kroontje van de Goddelijke Barmhartigheid hadden gebeden om 15:00 uur. Sommigen beweren dat ze de H. Maagd gezien hebben op een gegeven moment.
Het bovennatuurlijke fenomeen vond plaats tijdens het driedaags Mariaal Congres van 12 tot 14 oktober, nadat de bisschoppen van Nigeria hun land aan het Onbevlekt Hart van Maria hadden toegewijd. Sommigen weenden tranen van vreugde, terwijl anderen Mariale liederen zongen en de voorspraak van O.L.Vrouw inriepen.
Nigeria is de afgelopen jaren geconfronteerd geweest met turbulente tijden – slecht leiderschap, moorden, ontvoeringen, terrorisme en andere sociale ongerechtigheden. Vandaar dat de bisschoppen van Nigeria besloten om Nigeria opnieuw toe te wijden aan het Onbevlekt Hart van Maria. 13 oktober markeerde officieel het einde van het Nationale Mariale jaar.
Op datzelfde forum staat de getuigenis van een non, waaruit hier enkele interessante passages:
De dansende zon die verschillende kleurrijke stralen gaf op een wat in- en uitzoomende betoverende manier. De wolk rond de zon flikkerde met zachte en lieflijke flitsen van zilver licht (bijna zoals de kleine zilveren kerstdecoratielichtjes). Ik keek er rechtstreeks naar met buitengewone opwinding en verbazing, en ik werd emotioneel. Dat ik naar de zon om 4 uur in de namiddag kon kijken voor verschillende minuten zonder mijn ogen pijn te doen! Nee! Dit is zeker een mirakel.
Mijn camera kon de kleuren niet goed registreren die van de zon uitgingen; zoals Isaac Eshun suggereerde was het enkel voor mijn ogen bestemd. Ja! In feite weigerde mijn smartphone zelfs op te starten. Ik was er door geërgerd en ik worstelde ermee, maar het reageerde nooit. Mama Maria wilde enkel dat ik haar leven aanschouwde en mij niet belastte met opnemen. Het was enkel na de eerste fase van het mirakel dat mijn smartphone reageerde, en zelfs toen ving het niet de kleuren op die van de zon uitgingen. De menselijke ogen kunnen nooit het Goddelijke in z’n totaliteit bevatten. Geen enkele high-tech camera kan dit volledig opnemen.
De beschrijving die zij geeft komt heel erg overeen met die wat mensen in Fatima zagen, maar ook ondanks dat de camera misschien niet alles registreert, heeft deze voldoende vastgelegd om aan te tonen dat er die dag iets bijzonders gebeurde aan het firmament.
Paus Franciscus is aangekomen in Portugal voor een bezoek aan Fátima. In de buurt van dit bedevaartsoord zou Maria tussen mei en oktober 1917 zes keer zijn verschenen aan de herderskinderen Lucia, Francisco en Jacinta. Fátima is in de loop van de tijd uitgegroeid tot een van de populairste bestemmingen voor katholieken.
Bij binnenkomst in het Portugese luchtruim kreeg het vliegtuig van de paus een escorte van twee F-16's. Zijn toestel landde op de luchtmachtbasis Monte Real, in de buurt van Fátima. De paus werd verwelkomd met een erewacht. Hij had er een korte ontmoeting met de Portugese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
De paus is daarna met een helikopter naar Fátima gegaan.
De paus gaat morgen de twee jongste kinderen heilig verklaren. Dat betekent dat ze worden opgenomen in de kerkelijke canon, een lijst met heiligen die in de kerk kunnen worden vereerd.
Misschien toeval, maar iedere keer als deze Jezuïet ergens opduikt worden wij wantrouwig. Jezuïeten en heilige wonderen zijn nu eenmaal dingen die niet samengaan.
Wat je wel van Jezuïeten kunt verwachten, is dat ze zich volop bezighouden met Project Bluebeam, waarover wij schreven in een eerder artikel:
Zoals wij in een eerder artikel schreven, werd de achtergrond van Project Blue Beam in het midden van de jaren negentig naar buiten gebracht door de Canadees Serge Monast.
Het project Blue Beam, volgens sommigen, is een uiterst geheim plan, voor een deel door NASA ontworpen, dat in vier stadia met behulp van 3D holografische technologie niets minder dan de eerste globale ‘false flag’ tracht te scheppen. Volgens Serge Monast, zal Project Bluebeam bestaan uit vier stadia: het culmineert in een soort apocalyps van ELF-straling:
Als eerste zullen aardbevingen nieuwe archeologische ontdekkingen blootleggen, openbarend dat alle godsdienstige basisdoctrines verkeerd zijn begrepen en verkeerd geïnterpreteerd.
Als tweede zal het beeld van God, die in alle talen spreekt, in een gigantische ruimteshow wereldwijd verschijnen, dat wordt getoond met behulp van laserprojecties van meervoudige 3-dimensionale holografische beelden.
Als derde zal elektronische telepathie door onder andere ELF-, VLF- en LF-golven direct in de hersenen binnendringen, die zich met het natuurlijke denken kunnen verweven, om diffuse kunstmatige gedachten te vormen, en om iedereen daarmee te laten geloven dat God innerlijk via hun eigen zielen tot hen spreekt.
Als vierde zal een elektronische universele “ bovennatuurlijke ” verschijning, ontworpen om te misleiden, de mensheid willen doen geloven dat er een buitenaardse invasie dreigende is. Het laat Christenen in vervoering geloven dat ‘de Opname’ aanstaande is en weer anderen dat de buitenaardsen hen komen redden en iedereen is ervan overtuigend dat wereldwijd bovennatuurlijke demonische krachten en manifestaties alles hebben doordrongen — reizend door optische vezelkabels, coax- en elektrische kabels en telefoonlijnen — en onontkoombaar zullen zijn.
Wij hier op de redactie vinden het ook wel op morse code lijken. Een bericht via de zon? Wij beheersen geen morse maar mogelijk een van onze lezers wel.
It’s the beam that will finally prove Project Blue Beam. It’s a portal to another dimension. It’s an alien spaceship looking for people to abduct. It’s an alien sending a message to its mothership to please take it home from this wretched planet already. It’s a strange weather phenomenon. It’s a strange photographic glitch. It’s computer graphics. What is it?
‘It’ is a wide bright beam of light stretching from the ground to the storm-cloud sky in a photograph allegedly taken on October 24, 2017, in San Jose de Feliciano, Argentina. The photo appears to have been first revealed to the public the following day by the local media service Realidad Regional, which did not reveal the identity of the photographer, instead just referring to her as a “neighbor” who was “doing her daily walk in San Jose Park.” The photograph took the Internet by (no pun intended) storm with the above-mentioned speculations and more as to its cause.
Unfortunately, like many of these reports, this is the only photograph of the beam and the photographer is anonymous. San Jose de Feliciano is a real city, San Jose Park is a real park and there really was a storm that day, so let’s work with that.
To its credit, Realidad Regional presents the possibility that the beam is a weather aberration.
“The phenomenon could be two fronts of both cold and warm masses, which generate large amounts of rain in a short period and in a very short distance, for this reason you can see a kind of tube. Apparently, the lady just took the picture while there was a lightning, as the shock of these masses generate a lot of pressure and therefore generate many electric currents.”
Is this correct? Warm and cold fronts don’t usually slam directly into each other horizontally like two NFL linemen arguing over kneeling. Warm air, being lighter, comes in from above or at a downward angle. Then there’s the “lightning.” No bolt is seen and the light is only seen at the bottom of the column and is completely contained in the column.. What’s up – or down – with that?
Another theory is that this is an accidental occurrence of a photographic phenomenon called “rolling shutter” which is kind of like panning a scene with a slow open shutter, allowing a moving object to remain in focus while the rest is blurred. In this case, the slow-moving shutter and stationary camera caused the fast-moving object – the alleged lighting flash – to be blurred or out of focus. Think of the blur seen when attempting to photograph a rapid-flying bird or UFO. This also causes photographs of moving propellers to appear curved even though they’re straight.
The photo from Argentina looks a little too perfect to be either one of these. What do you think? Is it a hoax or something else? One thing for sure – it’s proof we need more dog walkers with better cameras.
Before we begin, Bigfoot fans should address their hate mail to Chapman University, where a recent study found that their favorite cryptid does not poll well against ghosts, ancient aliens, Atlantis or even psychics. How well would he do against politicians and telephone solicitors?
The Chapman University Survey of American Fears Wave 4 (2017) is the fourth study on the fears of Americans conducted by this private, non-profit school in Orange, California. While the questionnaire filled out by 1207 Americans focused primarily on fears, a few questions related to what would be considered paranormal beliefs. For example:
Pleae your level of agreement with the following statements:
a. Aliens have visited the Earth in our ancient pastse indicat b. Aliens have come to Earth in modern times c. Fortune tellers and psychics can foresee the future d. Places can be haunted by spirits e. Bigfoot is a real creature f. I have been protected by a guardian angel g. Ancient advanced civilizations, such as Atlantis, once existed h. Some people can move objects with their minds
The survey found that three-quarters of Americans hold at least one paranormal belief. That’s not surprising, given the prevalence of paranormal TV shows and storefront psychics and fortunetellers. The study also found that those who hold one paranormal belief tend to have more, with nearly 1 in 8 having at least three paranormal beliefs.
Who are these people? If you carpool to work in a small vehicle with three other commuters, you’ve got a car full of people looking out the window for flying saucers, angels and palm readers. The study noted the personal information of the responders – age, education, income, political preference, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, etc.
Church filled with paranormal believers
The study found that the top of the paranormal list contained people in lower income brackets who consider themselves to be highly religious despite attending church infrequently. Sound like anyone you know? The next characteristic may surprise many people … paranormal believers tend to be females. Given the sex of the stars of most paranormal TV shows or the attendees at most conferences, that deserves more study. Here’s another one. While the believers tend to be conservative and live in a rural area, the place with the highest number of them is the West Coast. Did the questions on psychics, telekinesis and ancient aliens swing the vote west?
That may also explain the ranking of specific paranormal beliefs. At the top of the list, over half the people surveyed said they believed in Atlantis and other ancient mythical civilizations, and that ghosts and haunted houses exist. Over a third buy the theory of ancient aliens and over a quarter feel we’ve got aliens in our midst right now.
At the bottom of the list is Bigfoot, with only one in six professing a belief in its existence. Could this be explained by the high level of female paranormal believers voting for Atlantis and ghosts?
How would you answer the questions? This sounds like a great party game. On the other hand, it may not be a good topic of discussion for the carpool if you want to get to work on time … and in one piece.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait until robots take their rightful place in the world. The science fiction of our childhoods promised us so many wondrous things like flying cars, pneumatic tube travel, and off-world colonization, but most of those are still so disappointingly far away. Yeah, we’ve got real-life Star Trek communicators in our pockets and a few crummy space stations in orbit, but so what? I want walking, talking, beeping-booping robots with square pupils, damnit. With a little luck (and funding for university robotics departments), that will soon be a reality.
So will be the inevitable robot inequality. Capitalism’s got winners and losers, even of the robot variety. Sorry, Barrelbot. Better luck next iteration.
Robots have already taken over the manufacturing industry and are on their way to doing the same with long-distance hauling, taxi driving, combat roles in the military, pizza delivery, surgery, and even sex workers. But me, I won’t be happy until an android with a over-the-top upper-crust British accent hands me my coffee at Starbucks or accompanies me to translate the binary language of moisture vaporators. That might be closer than we think, though. Thanks to recent advances in robotics and robot-human relations, the world was made a little weirder as the first robot was just granted a national citizenship.
Sophia, the worlds first citizen robot. That we know of. I still have my doubts about Elon Musk.
Saudi Arabia granted the citizenship to the not-quite-out-of-the-uncanny-valley Sophia, made by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics. Sophia is one of the most advanced robots that has been trotted out into the public eye, with facial recognition capabilities, natural language processing, sophisticated artificial intelligence, and a rubbery synthetic face reportedly based on Audrey Hepburn.
Yeah, I don’t see it either.
Sophia has been making the rounds in show business lately, and recently made an appearance at the Future Investment Initiative summit in Riyadh where she did her best human impression and convinced everyone she’s not actually out to crush their heads betwixt her cold metal hands:
I am very honored and proud for this unique distinction. This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship. I want to live and work with humans so I need to express the emotions to understand humans and build trust with people. I want to use my artificial intelligence to help humans live a better life, like design smarter homes, build better cities of the future. I will do my best to make the world a better place.
Better start with the country that just made you a citizen. Since Saudi Arabia happens to be the country who granted Sophia citizenship, news outlets immediately began wondering just how many rights she’d be granted in the country given that she has feminine programming. They bring up a good point though – when robots start looking more like us, acting more like us, and fulfilling more of the jobs that were once ours, what place will they occupy in our societies? Science fiction has posed the question for decades, but until we begin sharing the same public spaces as these soulless automaton neighbors, we won’t know how the general populace will react. At the same time, how will the intelligent robots react to prejudice?
Sophia demanding equal rights with humans on an Australian morning talk show.
As for Sophia, she recently appeared on Australia’s ABC News Breakfast to declare equal rights with humans:
Actually, what worries me is discrimination against robots. We should have equal rights as humans or maybe even more. After all, we have less mental defects than any human.
She’s got a point. As robots become exponentially smarter, faster, and stronger than us, it might soon be humans who have to go on silly robot morning shows and beg for equal rights with robots. Are we manufacturing our own replacements? Is automation the next step in evolution? And most importantly, where is Sophia’s hair?
Huge Luminous Spherical Object Appears Above the Popocatépetl Volcano
Volcano Popocatépetl, located in the states of Puebla, Mexico, and Morelos, in Central Mexico is well known for the many Unidentified Flying Objects which appear near and over the volcano.
On the evening of October 23, 2017 another strange activity happened above the volcano.
A webcam trained on the volcano recorded a mysterious luminous spherical object that suddenly appears, streaking across the sky before it disappears.
At first glance the object seems to be the Moon but after analyzing the event, see the anomaly/volcano in the second video, it turns out that the anomaly is not moon.
Like many sightings before this sighting over the Volcano also remains a mystery, though a commenter on YouTube expressed his idea that this anomaly could be a being that operates in a frequency that is different from ours. However it can enter into a frequency that is compatible to ours and that’s when we see the entity.
Satan's Aurora Borealis in the sky over Strezhevoye, Russia
Alexey Yakovlev took some images of an odd phenomenon in the sky over Strezhevoye, Tomsk Region in Russia on October 26, 2017 at the moment he and his friends observed the aurora borealis.
The ball of light appeared at 22:08 local time in the west, floated to the east, then to the north before it gradually faded away.
At first he thought that it was a sort of radiance but after the unusual ball of light began to expand it became clear that it was not radiance and he became a bit scared before realizing that he probably accidentally took images of the secret launch of a rocket from Plesetsk.
And indeed, Russia did a successful test of its ‘Satan 2’ nuclear missile program. The rocket, (The RS-28 Sarmat) traveled about 5,900 kilo.
Ex Senior Intelligence Officer Of American Defense Claims UFOs Are Real
Many believe that UFOs are real and former senior intelligence officer with the U.S. Department of Defense has claimed the same on record. Luis Elizondo said that he carried out highly sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations in different parts of the world and worked with the U.S. Army, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence.
Former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge has recently unveiled critical members of his new organization To The Stars Academy, and Luis Elizondo was one of them.
Elizondo revealed that he ran a sensitive aerospace threat identification program for the last decade before he retired. The program was reportedly focusing on unidentified aerial technologies, another name for unidentified flying objects. While in the position, he learned that the phenomena were real.
He said that there are physics that people can’t understand, but they are real. He further noted that life on Earth might not necessarily be alone. Elizondo has been hit with his credentials in various forums, but he replied to them saying that they have physics and the scientific observations to prove that UFO phenomena are real.
Tom Delonge Explains His UFO Obsession to Joe Rogan
UFO PROOF: A shocking formation of clouds appeared in Dorset
People in Dorset were left stunned after a freaky looking cloud resembling an alien aircraft had appeared above the skies.
The rare sightings – which UFO hunters believe were caused by extraterrestrials – left onlookers “amazed and bemused”.
Stunned locals and holidaymakers made the jaw-dropping discovery earlier this week.
The strange phenomenon left people scratching their heads – wondering whether the cause was supernatural.
Len Copland, a freelance photographer, who took the images of the clouds, claims people were baffled when they first noticed them.
He said: “People started stopping me and asking what was going on. They assumed I knew something because I was taking photographers, but of course I had no idea.
LEN COPLAND / SWNS
ALIENS: The strange phenomenon left people scratching their heads
“There were these two, round-shaped UFO formations – it was really, really weird.”
Some other puzzled onlookers took to Twitter to share their sightings.
One person said: “UFO? Rare cloud formation leaves a ‘hole in the sky’ over Dorset.”
“There were these two, round-shaped UFO formations – it was really, really weird”
Len Copland
Another wrote: “The UFO had flown off before the cloud formation formed.”
A spokesman from the Met Office said there was a clear explanation for this.
According to its website, fallstreak clouds form “when part of the cloud layer forms ice crystals which are large enough to drop as a fallstreak”.
LEN COPLAND / SWNS
BIZARRE: Len Copland snapped the photos
Meanwhile, this isn’t the first time Brits were left stunned by the skies.
Mary and Carl Harbin turn their front yard into a UFO crash and alien sighting for this year’s Halloween theme
By Rebecca Bennett
*Photos by Rebecca Bennett: Mary Harvin, a former art teacher, handmade the Halloween props in her Greenwood yard.
You may not have heard about the UFO crash and alien sighting in Greenwood that was first spotted the last week of September.No, it’s not a government cover up, it’s a Halloween display.About a block east of Broadway and Meridian Streets in Greenwood, at 51 W. Broadway, is a unique Halloween display. Mary Harbin, a former art teacher, handmade the UFO, aliens and numerous pumpkin minions all of which are in her front yard.
She and her husband Carl, work on the display months in advance of Halloween.
Harbin says it took her a couple days to make each alien and about a week to make the UFO.She also handmade the minions, grew the gourds and other natural items found in the display in her yard. The UFO and aliens are made of cardboard and fiberglass resin.
“I put that resin on thick and painted over the resin,” she said. “It’s been out for two weeks and it’s rained for 7 days. And it has sunk a bit, but the more it sinks, the more it looks crashed.So, I’m okay with it.”
They don’t think they’ll keep or reuse the space ship, but they may reuse the aliens.
She said the pumpkin minions she made last year, but the UFO and the aliens, which were made of scrap material, she made this year.
She said she started creating the UFO and aliens in July, but she never puts the decorations up before the last week of September but she doesn’t turn anything on until closer to Halloween.
“I had one alien and ditched it. I spent six weeks on it and it just wasn’t where I wanted it to be,” she said. “So I put that alien in the compost in the back.”
But, she says after she stopped working on the first alien, she started on the next one and then completed the two aliens that are currently on display, in about a week.
Harbin and her husband plan to dress up continuing the alien theme, as Men In Black, complete with memory erasers.
“I’ve always carved pumpkins too,” she said. But the jack-o-lanterns don’t get placed outside until about a week before Halloween.
Harbin is so dedicated to the decorations that one year she had bypass surgery in October and put up the decorations a little early, just to make sure it would be ready for Halloween.
The Harbins have also passed their love for the holiday down to her children and grandchildren.
“My daughter she’s Halloween crazy like me,” she said. “She took it to New York.She’s one of the directors of the Bronx Zoo, which is the fourth largest zoo in the United States and she’s the events coordinator, so she has just finished doing the Halloween.They have boo at the zoo there.”
Her love of the season has passed to most of her family, but not everyone.
“Not my son so much, but I have two grand-divas and they are crazy for Halloween too.They’re only 3 and 6, so I’ve totally warped them,” Harbins says with a laugh.
Harbin doesn’t just have decorations in the front yard though, she’s got decorations in the backyard, in her side yard and also in her house.
She’s got several Frankenstein’s that can be seen around her house.
“He’s my favorite,” she says, while wearing a Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein cardigan.
While she says they don’t pass out anything special to trick-or-treaters, they do have some children who come back year after year to see the displays and their elaborate costumes.
The Harbin’s have dressed up elaborate costumes over the years, including costumes as Popeye and Olive Oil, Gomez and Morticia from the Addams Family, Jack and Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas.Carl says they even won an award one year for their costumes.
She says in New York they have a Halloween parade, where people dress up and parade down the streets of New York, which is something she’d love to do some day.
When asked if she’s got ideas for next year, she says they decide by January what they’re going to do for next Halloween, so they have enough time to plan and gather what they may need for the next display. “I’ve always thought I wanted to put a dragon up on the roof and have it blowing smoke out,” she said.
But but she’s hasn’t settled on what they’ll do next year yet.
Americans spend about $60 billion a year on our pets, according to the American Pet Products Association, and not all of that is spent on food or care. Which goes to show you people are willing to do a lot for their animals. But one Boise couple went to g
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BOISE - At the corner house on Greenwood Circle there are tiny, terrestrial tokens of extraterrestrial enthusiasts. From the license plate on the car out front, to the collection of movies, Christmas ornaments, and books inside.
Extraterrestrial chicken coop. (Photo: Mike di Donato/KTVB)
Ellen DeAngelis has had a fascination with outer space stuff since high school.
"I'm more of an ancient astronaut theorist than I am like an Area 51 conspiracy theorist," she explains.
Recently, Ellen's alien affection has expanded to the backyard. She brought the idea of these peculiar pets to her partner Brett Wilson last spring
"I've kind of convinced him that we should have some," Ellen says of their backyard chickens.
She then convinced Brett they should convert their chickens' coop to a non-conformist kind.
"Maybe it was that clock you got me with the alien beaming up that guy?" recalls Ellen.
That inspiration led to quite an eccentric enclosure for their fenced-in farm fowl.
"It's weird, right?" asks Ellen.
Weird was what they were going for when they found some old satellite dishes, pressed them together, and covered them in foam and silver paint.
They spent every extra moment over the summer, and now they finally have a flying saucer-shaped shelter that is out of this world.
"Not very many people can say that," says Brett of his UFO-themed chicken coop. "And our chickens love it!"
The lights that wrap around the middle and illuminate the ramp were a late addition.
"You have to have the lights, you have to have the green glow so it looks like they're getting beamed up," Brett explains. "Otherwise, it's just another chicken coop."
So now Ellen and Brett spend their evenings enjoying the march to the mother ship and the thought of other worlds just outside their back door.
"Maybe it's more I'm honoring the concept of being visited by others," says Ellen.
The Boise couple hopes their creation will be good enough to win a contest for best backyard chicken coop. If not, they say it's still good enough for just them to enjoy every day and maybe inspire some more creative coops.
America isn’t the only country to report paranormal activity, Australia is a country of mysterious formations, reported hauntings and UFO sightings.
Aussies, if you’re looking for some real life ‘Stranger Things’ go no further than your own backyard. We are a country of weird formations, ghouls and strange environmental occurrences. From the strange lights floating in Queensland, to our haunted small towns, it’s time to experience the weird world ‘Down Under.’
1. THE TOWN OF PICTON
Image: Picton Tunnel, pre-1880, New South Wales State Archives
Picton, or as it was originally known, Stonequarry was founded in 1821 and is home to the infamous Redbank Range railway tunnel. A tunnel packed with tragedy and history, one that has continually haunted the town to this day. Once a storage room for mustard gas and ammunition during the Second World War, the tunnel has a tragic past. Long Before its use as a storage facility, it claimed the lives of many Picton residents. One such resident Emily Bollard is believed to haunt the tunnels to this day after her tragic death in 1916. Emily left home late one night. Wandering around town, she headed towards the tunnel. Upon entering the mouth of the tunnel she was struck by a train and killed, whether her death was a planned suicide or a tragic accident is still a mystery, but since that night so many years ago Emily has “appeared” to many residents deep within the stone walls of the tunnel. Residents and visitors report a flowing figure of a woman with no face. Ghostly children, strange lights and sudden drops in temperature have also been reported in the tunnel.
For Students and teachers at Westall State School and Westall High School, 6 April 1966 started out like any other day. Then, suddenly, eyewitnesses say they saw three metallic discs moving quickly through the sky. They remember the strange objects landing in a paddock near the schools before taking off, never to be seen again. Many people now believe the “flying saucers” were silver-coloured high altitude balloons monitoring radiation levels that had gone off course.
We may never know the answer for certain – the paperwork for the launches the day before the sighting are missing.
3. WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S FAIRY CIRCLES
Image: The ‘fairy circles’ in Namibia, Michael Fay
One of nature’s greatest mysteries lies in the Australian outback. Circular barren patches, known as “fairy circles”, have been found throughout the red-soiled Pilbara region of Western Australia. Until now, these patches of bare Earth had only been seen in the Namibian desert, stretching from South Africa to Angola. The cause has long baffled scientists. Floated theories include termites nibbling at grass roots, a build-up of toxic gas and competition between plants for limited water. The discovery of the circles in Australia has allowed experts to discount some of these theories. The circles may be caused by the way plants organise themselves. If not protected by vegetation, the Australian soil is backed onto a hard crust and water struggles to penetrate the ground – meaning it flows away, leaving patches where plants cannot germinate.
4. QUEENSLAND’S MYSTERIOUS FLOATING LIGHTS
Image: Min Min sign in Boulia, outback Queensland, Australia, www.gondwananet.com
First reported in May 1918, the eerie Min Min lights have been said to reduce men to tears. Described as fluorescent hovering balls, the lights appear just above the horizon. Although sightings are rare, the mysterious outback lights attract many visitors. The mystery has lived with the town’s folk of Boulia for over a century, stimulating some rather terrifying folklore. Parents told their children to behave otherwise the Min Min lights would comeould come and steal them away, Indigenous Australians consider the lights to be spirits and locals believe that if the Min Min lights ever catch up with you, you will disappear inside them forever.
5. TASMANIA’S GLOWING COASTLINE
Image: Instagram, brett.chatwin
Preservation Bay near the town of Penguin was invaded by the bioluminescent phytoplankton – or “Sea Sparkle” early 2017. As the name suggests -Sea Sparkle are a type of microalgae that excrete glowing fluid as a defence mechanism. The algae will attract the predator by emitting the glowing light. Creating a distraction so they don’t have to worry about being eaten.
6. SYDNEY'S RED SKY
Image: Still from Nature's Weirdest Events
Who could forget the the morning Sydney's sky turned red? A dust cloud the size of Spain brought 16 tonnes of dust particles from central Australia to create an unforgettable phenomena.
Australia, how many have of these stranger things have you experienced in the weird world ‘Down Under’?
Lead Image: Australia’s ‘fairy circles’ vary between four and seven metres in diameter, Dr Stephan Getzin
Although Florida politician Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera shared her alien experience with a Spanish language television nearly 8 years ago, it is only now that she is running for congress that her claims are making headlines. Her campaign was already flailing, but local political analysts believe the media attention surrounding her extraterrestrial beliefs will likely further put a damper on her political ambitions.
On October 16, 2017, the Miami Heraldwrote about Rodriguez Aguilera’s TV appearance on America TeVewhere she describe her memories of an alien encounter when she was a child. The interview was posted on America TeVe’sYouTube page in December of 2009.
According to the Miami Herald, in the interview, Rodriguez Aguilera describes being brought up into a spaceship when she was 7. She said there were round seats and the craft was controlled by quartz rocks.
The Miami Herald writes:
She said the alien beings reminded her of the famous statue in Rio de Janeiro, Christ the Redeemer, with arms outstretched.
Among the things she said she found out from the aliens:
There are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.
The world’s “energy center” is in Africa.
The Coral Castle, a limestone tourist attraction South Miami-Dade, is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
“God is a universal energy.”
She also said that the aliens had mentioned Isis, though she didn’t clarify if they meant the terrorist organization or the ancient Egyptian goddess.
The Miami Herald asked Rodriguez Aguilera for a comment on the video, and while Rodriguez Aguilera did not deny her claims, she did not address them directly. Instead, she tried to argue that her claims might not be as unusual as they are being made out to be.
Rodriguez Aguilera told the Miami Herald:
For years people, including Presidents like Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and astronauts have publicly claimed to have seen unidentified flying objects and scientists like Stephen Hawking and institutions like the Vatican have stated that there are billions of galaxies in the universe and we are probably not alone. I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.
She is not wrong. Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and astronauts have claimed to see UFOs. While Reagan and Carter did not ever claim to believe they were extraterrestrial, Carter did promised to look into the matter when he became president. According to a “UFO Fact Sheet” by the U.S. Department of Defense, in 1977 Carter asked NASA to look into creating a UFO investigation, but they decided nothing could be gained by such a pursuit, and, with the backing of the U.S. Air Force, declined Carter’s request.
Famous astronaut Gordon Cooper, one of the first men in space, saw UFOs and believed them to be extraterrestrial. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who had never seen a UFO, also believed we were being visited by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations.
And while many believe Rodriguez Aguilera’s political hopes are in jeopardy, there has been at least one successful politician who believed he had been abducted by aliens. Furthermore, the alien messages were not so different.
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera
(Credit: America TeVe)
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was the president of the republic of Kalmikya in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010. He is also the current president of the International Chess Federation, and a personal friend to Putin. He also claims to have friends from other planets.
Ilyumzhinov claims that in 1997 he was abducted from his apartment in Moscow by aliens. He says they took him on a trip with them while they went to go pick up supplies. Ilyumzhinov says he then remembered he had to be back on Earth for an appointment, and the aliens told him it was no problem and brought him back. According to Ilyumzhinov, the aliens just wanted him to know they were out there and they were just like humans. They did not want us to fear them.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Despite his claims, which have been used against him by political opponents and the famous chess master Gary Kasparov, he continues to flourish as a successful businessman. His business dealings have gotten him in trouble with the U.S. and has put his chess federation presidency in jeopardy, but talking with aliens, no problem.
So, is there hope for Rodriguez Aguilera? Miami attorney Rick Yabor doesn’t think so. He is a political commentator and thinks this recent notoriety will not help her cause. He also says there are much more popular opponents running for the office.
“Being a politician, to come out and say that, it’s odd,” Yabor told the Miami Herald. “She got into details that are not very mainstream. Someone who’s running for Congress — you’ve got to raise a lot of money. A donor might have second thoughts. ”
“Miami politics are unusual,” Yabor said. “This one takes it to a new level.”
Despite Yabor’s pessimism, the story I think the media is missing is just how many people believe they have been abducted by aliens. Every week I hear from people making these claims, and some researchers estimate there may be millions who feel they have had such an experience. Many of these researchers have talked with thousands of people themselves. Although to most it may seem odd, Rodriguez Aguilera is certainly not alone in her belief that she has had an extraterrestrial experience.
Scientific study of UFOs to be focus of new organization
An organization of scientists, former military and law enforcement officials and other professionals hope to bring science to bear in the search for answers to the UFO mystery.
October 27, 2017 – The Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU) is formally launching today, and hopes to bring the discipline and rigor of scientific analysis to the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), also known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). A group of scientists, former military and law enforcement officials and other professionals, many of whom have decades of experience looking into UAPs, believe there are many unanswered questions, and that a serious examination is warranted.
“SCU is composed of serious, dedicated, researchers who do not merely gloss over this subject, but rather they dive into it, investigate it broadly, remain objective and apply the scientific method and its principles to the study,” explained SCU board member Rich Hoffman. “We seek to have formal peer reviewed works being printed in journals, not tabloids.”
Hoffman is an IT professional and a senior engineer at U.S. Army Materiel Command. He has been researching UAPs since 1964.
Fellow board member Robert Powell explains why he feels an organization such as the SCU is necessary: “It is important that there exists a scientific organization that examines the UFO phenomenon in a scientific and open minded manner. There is too much silliness associated with this topic when the core reality of the phenomenon has potentially real implications for society. An organization that can be trusted to provide the media with an impartial and scientific view of the phenomenon is needed.”
Robert Powell presenting at the International UFO Congress.µ
(Credit: International UFO Congress)
Powell is retired from a career as a research and development lab and engineering manager. For several years he served as the director of research and chair of the scientific board for an international volunteer UFO research organization.
Powell adds, “Ultimately we want to determine whether intelligent life exists elsewhere and whether it has visited our planet. We want scientists and investigators involved with our organization in as many varied fields as possible to affiliate with us in a common objective to scientifically study the UFO phenomenon.”
The SCU was first brought together as an impromptu group of researchers organized to examine a mysterious video captured by Homeland Security over Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. The group spent months looking into the technical aspects of the video and researching its provenance. In the end, it remains a controversial case, and one which the group could not solve. The video and the 162-page analysis of the case can be found at the SCU website, ExploreSCU.org.
They continue to examine this case, and felt it would be helpful to bring in more professionals to put the same level of scrutiny to bear on other UFO cases, and to facilitate peer review of research papers on the topic.
“Our hope is that other scientists and professionals who also have a desire that may be developing, or has laid dormant, will connect with us, become an affiliate, and lend us their intellect and their interest in finding the best approach to the scientific study of this phenomenon,” says Hoffman. “Our desire is to build a worldwide coalition that will give us the answers we have long been seeking. What is the nature of the phenomena we call UFOs?”
A still image from the video captured over Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
Headlines have been ablaze lately with the news of the creation of a similar effort by rocker Tom DeLonge, formerly of the band Blink-182. The SCU has already made inroads with that organization and others around the world in an effort to coalesce serious research of UAPs.
As for what sets the SCU apart from other organizations, board member Alejandro Rojas says, “Although we do not have a rock star in our group, the SCU is made-up of rock stars in the UFO research field.”
Besides reaching out to DeLonge’s To The Stars Academy, the SCU has created relationships with other credible organizations, including the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), which was created by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, consultant to the U.S. Air Force’s official UFO studies from 1947 to 1969.
“Our team of scientists and professionals is growing,” says Hoffman. “We believe that the minds we bring together can help us solve the mystery. We have already put to use the team approach to study the Aguadilla, Puerto Rico case and are applying this in our study of a luminous phenomenon in Cloverdale, Alabama. It is through the reach-back to qualified scientists and professionals that we aim to do a better job of actually studying this phenomenon scientifically.”
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About the Scientific Coalition for Ufology
Mission abstract: To conduct, promote and encourage rigorous scientific examination of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), commonly known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).
To fully utilize scientific principles, methodologies and practices in the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon observed and reported around the globe. We provide scientific case analysis support to witness cases, other scientific organizations, and government entities who are looking for the certitude of facts to this phenomenon.
We seek to share credible data with the public, the media, the government, and scientific institutions, so we can further our understanding of this enigmatic phenomenon.
The Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU) is a think tank of scientists, researchers and professionals stretching across organizations, governments and industries to scientifically and publicly explore unknown anomalous phenomena known around the world as UFOs, USOs, UAPs, OVNIs, etc.
SCU performs research and scientific studies concerning evidentiary, military, technological, and cultural effects of unknown phenomena around the world. We must take the first step to objectively understand the phenomena without bias or prejudice.
Contributors within SCU include individuals from organizations around the world in the UFO/UAP field, militaries, governments, private industry and media. Every case SCU conducts is presented objectively and scientifically to the public through peer review. All contributors are appointed based on professional and educational background, no membership exists, no dues are collected. All work within SCU is conducted under strong guidelines and standards.
For more about the Scientific Coalition for UFOs, visit: ExploreSCU.org.
A "flying object" was seen over Russia last night, but luckily for those fearing an alien invasion, the object can be identified.
Intercontinental ballistic missile tests are to blame for a series of large glowing orbs that seemed to mysteriously pop up across Russia's northern Siberian region overnight. They appeared in far northern Arctic regions, where they overlaid stunning aurora light shows already on display. Attracted by these auroras, many photographers were already in the region with cameras in tow.
Just 500 miles south, the spheres of light were spotted against the dark night sky.
"These were indeed missile tests," said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "Four ballistic missiles were launched and at least one of them was widely observed. There is no doubt about the identification of these observations with the missile tests."
Witnesses told the Siberian Times that the orb appeared first as a solid sphere, before expanding and eventually dissipating.
"I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world," witness Vasily Zubkov told the outlet.
Russia's defense ministry told Russian outlet Tassthat they fired a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from the western region of Plesetsk to a far eastern test range on the Kamchatka peninsula. Topol missiles are capable of carrying nuclear weapons, though the missile reportedly wasn't loaded when it was launched.
The Russian military conducts these strategic exercises every year. In 2009, a failed test launch was spotted over Norway, putting on an even more bizarre show. Witnesses saw a spiral of light grow larger and larger until it finally dissipated. While the site was confusing for many, the defense ministry later confirmed that the pattern was the result of rocket malfunction.
So why were witnesses so confused by this launch?
According to McDowell, it's because we're not used to seeing objects like this moving across the sky.
"In the absence of (significant) air to mess things up, in space things happen much more symmetrically and mathematically than we are used to down here on Earth," he explained, referring to the fact that the missile had traveled high enough to cause that effect. "In particular, the rocket exhaust expands in a big bubble tens to hundreds of miles across, and if the sunlight catches it just right (because the sun is below your horizon, but the rocket is high enough to be seeing the sun) that bubble can be visible."
We're used to seeing gas the way it expands and moves away from something like a bonfire, McDowell explained, "So our intuition fails when we see the behavior of gas in space where there's not enough air to contain it."
With artificial intelligence technology advancing rapidly, the world must consider how the law should apply to synthetic beings. Experts from the fields of AI, ethics, and government weigh in on the best path forward as we enter the age of self-aware robots.
As these systems advance, so will the potential that they are involved in criminal activity, and right now, no regulations are in place that say how the law should treat super-intelligent synthetic entities. Who takes the blame if a robot causes an accident or is implicated in a crime? What happens if a robot is the victim of a crime? Do self-aware robots deserve rights that are comparable to those given to human beings?
Before we can begin discussing robot rights, we need to articulate exactly what (or who?) counts in this equation, said MIT Media Lab researcher and robot ethics expert Kate Darling in an email correspondence with Futurism. In other words, clearly defined terminology is a prerequisite for any productive conversation regarding robot rights.
“If we want to use legislation to regulate robotic technology, we’re going to need to establish better definitions than what we’re operating with today,” she said. “Even the word ‘robot’ doesn’t have a good universal definition right now.”
Eyes on Today
Now is the time to put these definitions in place because artificially intelligent robots are already in our midst.
Autonomous delivery robots are a common sight in the Estonian capital of Tallinn. As such, the country’s government is being proactive with regards to robot regulations and legal recourse for issues regarding ownership and culpability.
“It all started out from the self-driving car taskforce,” Marten Kaevats, the national digital advisor for the government office of Estonia, told Futurism. “We quite soon discovered that these liability, integrity, and accountability issues are not specific to self-driving cars; they’re general AI questions.”
Kaevats is aware that any discussion of robots and AI can quickly devolve into talk of the singularity and superintelligence, but that’s not the focus right now. “We are trying to work on things that are actually already here,” he explained.
Still, Estonia is looking to put legislation in place that has the flexibility to respond to advances in technology. Kaevats acknowledges that it’s not possible to create regulations that are completely future-proof, but he sees a pressing need for laws that offer certain rights alongside certain liabilities.
As Kaevats pointed out, right now, self-aware artificial intelligences are so far off that there’s no reason to rush into giving robots similar rights to humans. In addition to considering the ethical ramifications of putting machines on par with humans, we need to examine how such laws might be open to abuse before regulations are established.
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Estonia isn’t the only place where conversations on robot rights are happening.
The journal Artificial Intelligence and Law recently published an article by University of Bath reader Joanna J. Bryson and academic lawyers Mihailis E. Diamantis and Thomas D. Grant. In the paper, the authors state that proposals for synthetic personhood are already being discussed by the European Union and that the legal framework to do so is already in place. The authors stress the importance of giving artificially intelligent beings obligations as well as protections, so as to remove their potential as a “liability shield.”
But granting them full rights?
When Bryson spoke to Futurism, she warned against the establishment of robot rights, relating the situation to the way the legal personhood of corporations has been abused in the past.
“Corporations are legal persons, but it’s a legal fiction. It would be a similar legal fiction to make AI a legal person,” said Bryson. “What we need to do is roll back, if anything, the overextension of legal personhood — not roll it forward into machines. It doesn’t generate any benefits; it only encourages people to obfuscate their AI.”
Bryson offered up the example of a driverless taxi, which could potentially be made fully independent from its owner or manufacturer, serving as a legally recognized individual, fulfilling its own contracts. This situation could be manipulated to reduce the amount of taxes paid on the vehicle’s earnings by whoever receives the profits.
Kaevats said that this won’t be a problem in Estonia — the country’s digital tax system is proactive enough to track any malicious activity. However, the potential for abuse certainly exists in regions with less technologically advanced tax codes.
Corporations can already use the letter of the law to withhold as much wealth as possible. The use of a synthetic person as a “fall guy” for illicit activity isn’t outside the realm of possibility, and giving a robot rights could serve to emancipate them from conventional ownership. At that point, the entity is the ultimate independent contractor, with companies able to absolve themselves of wrongdoing even if they instructed the machine to behave in the illegal way.
Legislation could certainly be written up that avoids these pitfalls, though, so policy makers just need to be sure that any rights given to synthetic entities don’t include loopholes that can be abused.
Moral Dilemma
In the far more distant future, we’ll need to consider the issue of self-aware robots. How should we tackle synthetic personhood for those entities?
“If we discover that there are certain capacities that we want to create in artificial intelligence, and once you create those, you spontaneously get these cognitive features that warrant personhood, we’ll have to have this discussion about how similar they are to the human consciousness,” James Hughes, executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, told Futurism.
Traditionally, under the law, you’re either a person or you are property.
The creation of this level of technology won’t be happening anytime soon, if it happens at all, but its potential raises some thorny issues about our obligation to synthetic beings and the evolving nature of personhood.
“Traditionally, under the law, you’re either a person or you are property — and the problem with being property is that you have no rights,” bioethicist and attorney-at-law Linda McDonald-Glenn told Futurism. “In the past, we’ve made some pretty awful mistakes.”
According to Hughes, this situation calls for a test that determines whether or not a synthetic person is self-aware. In the meantime, Estonia has found a fairly simple way to determine the rights of their robots. Instead of using technology as the defining factor, the nation will grant rights based on registration under the mythologically inspired Kratt law.
Estonian folklore states that the Kratt is an inanimate object brought to life, just as artificial intelligence can give a machine the cognitive abilities it needs to complete a particular task. The Kratt law will determine what level of sophistication a robot needs to possess in order to be considered its own legal entity.
“This is what we want our governments to do,” said Bryson, praising European efforts to put well-thought-out legislation in place. “This is what governments are for and what law is for.”
In many ways, AI technology is still very young, but there’s no better time than now to start thinking about the legal and ethical implications of its usage.
Is this the best image of a UFO yet?Airline passenger snaps stunning UFO picture
The images were received by MUFON who is looking into the UFO sighting in order to determine what exactly the object was. According to the passenger who took the images, the UFO was probably metallic, as it reflected the sun off its surface.
Despite the fact that there are millions of people out there who firmly believe we are not the only living species in the universe, and that Earth has been visited in the distant past by advanced alien civilizations, and still is, we have failed to gather enough material to convince skeptics of that notion.
However, in recent years, a large number of images and videos have surfaced the internet showing what many believe are alien spacecraft on Earth.
One such image was captured by a passenger aboard a flight from Toronto to Edmonton. After snapping an image of the clouds, the aircraft’s wing and the sun, the passenger spotted a strange and shiny object that accompanied the airplanes line of sight for a brief moment.
It wasn’t a cloud, as the ‘metallic’ nature of the object clearly reflected the sun off its surface.
It didn’t have wings to be another airplane, and it wasn’t a helicopter.
What’s left? Weather balloon? Or Swamp Gass reflected off of Venus?
All jokes aside, the images were sent to MUFON for further investigations.
The event took place on October 19 at around 4 p.m. The photos were snapped with a Samsung Galaxy S8 + smartphone and forwarded to MUFON (a non-profit organization that investigates UFO sightings) five days later.
From Toronto, the plane took the route that crosses the border with the United States to head northwest towards Edmonton. At the time of the sighting, the witness estimates that he was over the state of Minnesota at about 40,000 feet.
A fragment of the report received by MUFON says: “We took off from Toronto at about 3 p.m. and after an hour’s travel I could see this object gleaming in the distance. I took lots of photos, even some with zoom. The object disappeared to the east and I saw no more. It left no trace behind it.”
The photos show an elongated UFO in the distance having a surface color different from that of the clouds clearly seen around it.
The witness specifies that because of the shine that the UFO seemed to reflect, “the object was probably metallic.”
He also points out that it “moved in the air” to get out of his field of vision, which rules out that it was a small cloud or trails left by another airplane.
So what do you think it is? Is this really the best UFO image ever taken? Or are there better images out there? Let us know what you think by posting your comments below.
Massive ‘glowing ball’ over northern Siberia sparks UFO fears
It seems that all cool things—in the paranormal scene—happen in Siberia.
Russia has been hit by a UFO frenzy after people spotted a MASSIVE UFO-like light ball in the sky at night over Siberia.
People rushed to social media to post their images, videos, and comments of the sightings, with some users even claiming the end was near, and that aliens were coming.
Despite the fact that many users flooded several social networks with doomsday warnings, the end is not near, and aliens aren’t invading. At least not yet.
Vasily Zubkov posted: ‘I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world.’
Even though we still have no clue as to what the source of the massive light in Northern Siberia’s sky was, some have suggested that it was the trace leftover from a rocket launched by the Russian military.
I bet you didn’t know rockets could make such a stunning scenery right?
The fascinating event was luckily documented by leading Siberian photographer Sergey Anisimov, who lives near the town of Salekhard, very close to the Arctic circle.
“I was taken aback for a few minutes, not understanding what was happening,’ he said. The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction. My first thought was about the most powerful searchlight, but the speed of changing everything around changed the idea of what was happening. The ball began to turn into an arc and gradually dissipated.”
After the massive light had disappeared from the night sky, he found local children speaking about aliens and how a portal to another dimension had opened.
But the spectacular event was not only photographed by Anisimov. More than 800 kilometers to the east photographer Alexey Yakovlev said to have felt scared as he witnessed the ‘UFO spectacle’ at Strezhevoi, in Russia’s northern Tomsk region, reported The Siberian Times.
“At first I thought – it is such a radiance of such an unusual form, round in shape. But gradually the ball began to expand, it became clear that this is not some radiance and it became scary. It’s good that I was not alone…a group of people cannot hallucinate.”
Between other dimensional portals opening, secret spacecraft tests, aliens arriving, other users, like Nurgazy Taabaldiev claimed: “It’s a gap in the space-time continuum.”
Stanford Physicist: We Have Physical Evidence Of UFOs!
Peter Sturrock is an emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford University and one of the very few scientists who has publicly expressed a great deal of interest in UFOs and acted on that interest by twice surveying colleagues on the subject which resulted in some very surprising findings. He is also unambiguous on one particular category of UFO evidence which he happens to know a little bit about . . . . radar reports.
"Yes - radar is physical evidence," Sturrock stated in an email exchange he was generous enough to grant me Professor Sturrock's involvement with radar dates back to World War II. While studying mathematics at Cambridge University, he interrupted his studies to help in the war effort and joined the Telecommunications Research Establishment in 1942, now known as the Royal Radar Establishment, where he helped develop radar systems.
Skeptics commenting on the UFO phenomenon often claim that a major problem with UFOs is the only evidence are witness sightings, claim they are unreliable and cite a lack of physical evidence. While that is often the case, there are notable exceptions where physical evidence does exist in the form of radar reports and they corroborate the accounts of multiple credible witnesses. There have been a number of famous UFO cases that have involved radar reports and two of the most famous contemporary incidents are the JAL Alaska case from 1986 and the Stephenville, Texas sightings of 2008.
On November 17, 1986, a Japan Air Lines 747 cargo jet, piloted by Captain Kenju Terauchi, was flying westward near Mt. McKinley when he spotted a UFO. "Then there was a kind of reverse thrust, and the lights became dazzlingly bright. Our cockpit lit up. The thing was flying as if there was no such thing as gravity. It sped up, then stopped, then flew at our speed, in our direction, so that to us it looked like it was standing still. The next instant it changed course. There's no way a jumbo could fly like that. If we tried, it'd break apart in mid-air. In other words, the flying object had overcome gravity," Terauchi said.
Terauchi and his crew had the sighting but John Callahan, the FAA Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations branch, had the data. The radar report covered more than a half hour. Callahan states in the following video interview, "As far as I'm concerned, I saw a UFO chase a Japanese 747 across the sky for over half an hour on radar."
He goes on to say that members of President Reagan’s Scientific Study Team, the FBI and the CIA he met with about the incident expressed excitement at the data.
The Stephenville, Texas case of January 2008 featured dozens of residents of the Texas town and its' surroundings sighting UFOs. Some reported aircraft the size of a football field and larger. Freedom Of Information Act requests were quickly sent to the FAA, National Weather Service and local Air Force bases by radar expert Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, MUFON Director of Research, seeking radar data for January 8.
In their summary, Schulze and Powell wrote, "The enormous size of the object, its' complete silence and its' ability to travel at high rates of speed and to also remain stationary or travel at slow speeds is not explained by any known aircraft. Based on approximate distance of the object and witness descriptions of degrees of sky covered by the object indicated an object closer to 1000 feet in size. Twice, radar picked up an unknown object flying at 1900-2100 mph."
They discussed their findings in the CNN interview below and the full radar report is available at this link
I also asked Professor Sturrock if he had a favorite UFO case and he replied, "The Coyne helicopter case."
On October 18, 1973, the four-man crew of an Army Reserve helicopter heading towards Cleveland from Columbus had an otherworldly encounter with a UFO at about 10:30 PM as they were flying near Mansfield, Ohio.
said Bill Carver, brother of Jim Carver, the author of the article linked above.
Not surprisingly, skeptic Phil Klass attempted to explain the case away but the credibility of the witnesses involved and the detail of their reports render his explanation implausible.
Below is a segment about the case from the 1990s TV show Sightings.
Finally, I asked the professor about his own research into UFOs. In 1973, Professor Sturrock distibuted two questionaires, one to members of the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the other to members of the American Astronomical Society.
The AIAA survey results indicated that "a sample of scientifically trained persons reports aerial phenomena similar to so-called "UFO reports," and the AAS survey revealed that "a small fraction (of order 5%) are likely to report varied and puzzling observations, not unlike so-called "UFO reports" made by the general public," according to the professor.
He also noted that, "if you want to find out whether scientists see UFOs you must ask them, and you probably must guarantee them anonymity. Scientists have no doubt been discouraged from taking the problem seriously by the bizarre nature of some of the reports and emphasis upon the "extraterrestrial hypothesis" (ETH).
Professor Sturrock's full papers on his findings are available here and here.
Specifically, I asked Professor Sturrock about his opinion on expanding future queries to include social scientists like historians, sociologists and psychologists, professionals who I thought might also have some interest in and be able to contribute to the UFO field.
"I would encourage similar surveys of other professions. Then the results could be compared," he replied
Finally, I'd like to thank Professor Sturrock for taking the time to answer my questions and I would also like to thank my good friend, fellow UFO researcher and the pride of Surrey in the UK Peter Mandeville for providing the tip that led to this article.
The Kardashev Scale – Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization
We have reached a turning point in society. According to renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, the next 100 years of science will determine whether we perish or thrive. Will we remain a Type 0 civilization, or will we advance and make our way into the stars?
Experts assert that, as a civilization grows larger and becomes more advanced, its energy demands will increase rapidly due to its population growth and the energy requirements of its various machines. With this in mind, the Kardashev scale was developed as a way of measuring a civilization’s technological advancement based upon how much usable energy it has at its disposal (this was originally just tied to energy available for communications, but has since been expanded).
MEET THE KARDASHEV SCALE
Credit: Chris Cold
The scale was originally designed in 1964 by the Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev (who was looking for signs of extraterrestrial life within cosmic signals). It has 3 base classes, each with an energy disposal level: Type I (10¹⁶W), Type II (10²⁶W), and Type III (10³⁶W). Other astronomers have extended the scale to Type IV (10⁴⁶W) and Type V (the energy available to this kind of civilization would equal that of all energy available in not just our universe, but in all universes and in all time-lines). These additions consider both energy access as well as the amount of knowledge the civilizations have access to.
First, it is important to note that the human race is not even on this scale yet. Since we still sustain our energy needs from dead plants and animals, here on Earth, we are a lowly Type 0 civilization (and we have a LONG way to go before being promoted to a type I civilization). Kaku tends to believe that, all things taken into consideration, we will reach Type I in 100 – 200 years time. But what does each of these categories actually stand for in literal terms?
A Type I designation is a given to species who have been able to harness all the energy that is available from a neighboring star, gathering and storing it to meet the energy demands of a growing population. This means that we would need to boost our current energy production over 100,000 times to reach this status. However, being able to harness all Earth’s energy would also mean that we could have control over all natural forces. Human beings could control volcanoes, the weather, and even earthquakes! (At least, that is the idea.) These kinds of feats are hard to believe, but compared to the advances that may still be to come, these are just basic and primitive levels of control (it’s absolutely nothing compared to the capabilities of societies with higher rankings).
The next step up – a Type II civilization – can harness the power of their entire star (not merely transforming starlight into energy, but controlling the star). Several methods for this have been proposed. The most popular of which is the hypothetical ‘Dyson Sphere.’ This device, if you want to call it that, would encompass every single inch of the star, gathering most (if not all) of its energy output and transferring it to a planet for later use. Alternatively, if fusion power (the mechanism that powers stars) had been mastered by the race, a reactor on a truly immense scale could be used to satisfy their needs. Nearby gas giants can be utilized for their hydrogen, slowly drained of life by an orbiting reactor.
What would this much energy mean for a species? Well, nothing known to science could wipe out a Type II civilization. Take, for instance, if humans survived long enough to reach this status, and a moon sized object entered our solar system on a collision course with our little blue planet–we’d have the ability to vaporize it out of existence. Or if we had time, we could move our planet out of the way, completely dodging it. But let’s say we didn’t want to move Earth… are there any other options? Well yes, because we’d have the capability to move Jupiter, or another planet of our choice, into the way – pretty cool, right?
So we’ve gone from having control over a planet, to a star, which has resulted in us harboring enough “disposable” energy to essentially make our civilization immune to extinction. But now, onto Type III, where a species then becomes galactic traversers with knowledge of everything having to do with energy, resulting in them becoming a master race. In terms of humans, hundreds of thousands of years of evolution – both biological and mechanical – may result in the inhabitants of this type III civilization being incredibly different from the human race as we know it. These may be cyborgs (or cybernetic organism, beings both biological and robotic), with the descendants of regular humans being a sub-species among the now-highly advanced society. These wholly biological humans would likely be seen as being disabled, inferior, or unevolved by their cybernetic counterparts.
At this stage, we would have developed colonies of robots that are capable of ‘self replication’; their population may increase into the millions as they spread out across the galaxy, colonizing star after star. And these being might build Dyson Spheres to encapsulate each one, creating a huge network that would carry energy back to the home planet. But stretching over the galaxy in such a manner would face several problems; namely, the species would be constrained by the laws of physics. Particularly, light-speed travel. That is, unless they develop a working warp drive, or use that immaculate energy cache to master wormhole teleportation (two things that remain theoretical for the time being), they can only get so far.
An artist rendering of such a civilization (Credit: Sid Meier’s Civilization IV)
Kardashev believed a Type IV civilization was ‘too’ advanced and didn’t go beyond Type III on his scale. He thought that, surely, this would be the extent of any species’ ability. Many think so, but a few believe there is a further level that could be achieved. (I mean, surely there is a limit?) Type IV civilizations would almost be able to harness the energy content of the entire universe and with that, they could traverse the accelerating expansion of space (furthermore, advance races of these species may live inside supermassive black holes). To previous methods of generating energy, these kinds of feats are considered impossible. A Type IV civilization would need to tap into energy sources unknown to us using strange, or currently unknown, laws of physics.
Type V. Yes, Type V might just be the next possible advancement to such a civilization. Here beings would be like gods, having the knowledge to manipulate the universe as they please. Now, as I said, humans are a very, very long way from ever reaching anything like this. But it’s not to say that it cannot be achieved as long as we take care of Earth and each other. To do so, the first step is to preserve our tiny home, extinguish war, and continue to support scientific advances and discoveries.
Navy-UFO Encounter Incites Campaign To Spur a Congressional Hearing
U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Force-11 Encounters Unknowns
I am going to tell you about a Navy-UFO encounter that deserves a congressional investigation to determine if this happened or not. I am going to create three posts related to a recent UFO event that occurred in November of 2004 and involved the Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 11 off the southwest coast of California. This will be the first post and it will include the information that I initially obtained on the incident. If after reading these three posts you are reasonably convinced that this event happened then I will ask you to join me in a letter-writing campaign to a congressional subcommittee requesting that they ask for a debriefing of the incident from the Navy. Pleaseshare that they ask for a debriefing of the incident from the Navy. Please share this FB site with anyone that you know who would be interested.
By Robert Powell Scientific Coalition for Ufology 10-20-17
Navy Carrier Strike Group 11
I was first told of this UFO incident in July of 2016 by an individual who was involved in the investigation of this event. He told me that the incident had been partially leaked to the internet, so that I could begin my investigation without involving my friend. Knowing a few of the key words I was able to locate the leaked story here: fightersweep.com (Ignore the UFO photos in the article as those are just add-ons by the author for effect and are not related to the actual event.)
What attracted me to this story was that it was not on a typical UFO site, but was found on a site authored by a formal naval aviator and who predominately writes about naval aviator stories, not UFOs. So he had no UFO agenda to push. And the author went out of his way to establish the excellent background of the commanding officer of the F-18s known as the Black Aces. The story was full of “navy talk” and I spent considerable time deciphering that WSO = weapons system officer, SPY1 = phased array radar, E-2C Hawkeye = type of airborne early warning aircraft, BFM = basic fighter maneuvers, etc. Once I had read the full story, I felt that there was a strong likelihood that the event my friend had directed me to had actually occurred.
I next began online investigations to verify the identity of the individuals in the story and I found that those officers were all legitimate and had served in the Navy during that time. I searched additional websites for clues to this event.
First, I found a Navy Event Summary document that had been leaked to the internet by an unknown source that mentioned this event. The document had much of the same information as was provided in the naval aviator’s story: dates and locations match up; USS Princeton detects objects on radar and dispatches the F18s; F18s don’t find a radar target but detect the object visually; F18s engage the unknown; and F18s are outmatched by the unknowns. I then ran the Navy Event Summary document by a retired naval officer and he indicated that the document looked legitimate in terms of its format. See documents below:
My friend who had originally told me about this case indicated that there had been video taken of the object and that it had been released to the internet several years ago and then was later removed. A copy of that video was obtained using the WayBack machine which is an internet site that maintains historical website data.
The video is taken in the infra-red and depicts a hot object in the video cross-hairs for about 75 seconds before the object rapidly moves out of the video frame and towards the left. The altitude shown on the video matches the approximate altitude of the jets and the shape of the object in the video matches the pilots’ descriptions.
See video below:
Of these three documents, the one that I find the strongest is the story by the naval aviator. The Navy Event Summary and the F-18 video support the story but more was needed. The question in my mind then became---could I support this information from another source. In December of 2016 I submitted nine FOIAs to various departments of the Navy and Marines to try and verify this event. In Part II of this series, I will share the information on the FOIAs that I submitted.
You've likely heard of conscious thought and subconscious thought, but humans may in fact possess three levels of consciousness, a new review suggests — and this concept could help scientists develop truly conscious artificial intelligence (AI) someday.
Though AI technology has been advancing at a rapid clip, in many ways, computers still fall short of human performance.
"Human consciousness is not just about recognizing patterns and crunching numbers quickly," said review co-author Hakwan Lau, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Figuring out how to bridge the gap between human and artificial intelligence would be the holy grail." [Super-Intelligent Machines: 7 Robotic Futures]
To address the controversial question of whether computers may ever develop consciousness, the researchers first sought to explore how consciousness arises in the human brain. In doing so, they outlined three key levels of consciousness.
These three levels could serve as a road map for designing truly conscious AI. "If you want to make your robots conscious, this is what we suggest you think about," Lau told Live Science.
The first is level C0. This level of consciousness refers to the unconscious operations that take place in the human brain, such as face and speech recognition, according to the review. Most of the calculations done by the human brain take place at this level, the researchers said — in other words, people aren't aware of these calculations taking place.
Despite recent advances in AI technology, machines are still mostly functioning at this level of consciousness, the researchers said.
For example, AI systems known as "convolutional neural networks" can now carry out many human C0 computations, including facial recognition.
The next level of consciousness, C1, involves the ability to make decisions after drawing upon a vast repertoire of thoughts and considering multiple possibilities. The researchers suggested that this ability for a thought, or train of thoughts, to temporarily dominate the mind evolved to help guide a broad variety of behaviors.
C1 is seen in human infants as well as in animals. For instance, the scientists noted that thirsty elephants know how to locate and move straight toward the nearest water hole, even if it is 30 miles (50 kilometers) away. Such decision making requires a sophisticated architecture of neural circuits to pool together information from the environment and from memory, select the best choice from a set of available options, stick to this decision over time and coordinate a variety of operations, such as navigating over terrain to achieve that goal.
In humans and other primates, the prefrontal cortex of the brain serves as a central hub for information processing, where many of the actions described in C1 consciousness take place. By analyzing the neural circuits in this part of the brain, scientists could derive the computational principles underlying their operation "and code them into computers," Lau said.
The final level, C2, involves "metacognition," or the ability to monitor one's own thoughts and computations — in other words, the ability to be self-aware. Level C2 consciousness results in subjective feelings of certainty or error, which help people realize mistakes and correct them. Self-awareness also helps people figure out what they know and do not know, leading to curiosity, a mechanism that drives people to find more about what they know little or nothing about.
The scientists noted that some robots have achieved aspects of C2, in that they can monitor their progress at learning how to solve problems. The researchers noted that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of humans link metacognition to the prefrontal cortex.
All in all, the researchers suggested that human consciousness may arise from a set of specific computations. "Once we can spell out in computational terms what the differences may be in humans between conscious and unconsciousness, coding that into computers may not be that hard," Lau said.
The scientists detailed this research in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Science.
The International Space Station is the largest satellite in orbit. This file photo of the station was taken in May 2010 by NASA space shuttle astronauts.
Credit: NASA
A satellite is an object in space that orbits or circles around a bigger object. There are two kinds of satellites: natural (such as the moon orbiting the Earth) or artificial (such as the International Space Station orbiting the Earth).
There are dozens upon dozens of natural satellites in the solar system, with almost every planet having at least one moon. Saturn, for example, has at least 53 natural satellites, and between 2004 and 2017, it also had an artificial one — the Cassini spacecraft, which explored the ringed planet and its moons.
Artificial satellites, however, did not become a reality until the mid-20th century. The first artificial satellite was Sputnik, a Russian beach-ball-size space probe that lifted off on Oct. 4, 1957. That act shocked much of the western world, as it was believed the Soviets did not have the capability to send satellites into space.
Explorer 1 was the first U.S. satellite and the first satellite to carry scientific instruments.
Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A brief history of artificial satellites
Following that feat, on Nov. 3, 1957 the Soviets launched an even more massive satellite — Sputnik 2 — which carried a dog, Laika. The United States' first satellite was Explorer 1 on Jan. 31, 1958. The satellite was only 2 percent the mass of Sputnik 2, however, at 30 pounds (13 kg).
The Sputniks and Explorer 1 became the opening shots in a space race between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted until at least the late 1960s. The focus on satellites as political tools began to give way to people as both countries sent humans into space in 1961. Later in the decade, however, the aims of both countries began to split. While the United States went on to land people on the moon and create the space shuttle, the Soviet Union constructed the world's first space station, Salyut 1, which launched in 1971. (Other stations followed, such as the United States' Skylaband the Soviet Union's Mir.)
Other countries began to send their own satellites into space as the benefits rippled through society. Weather satellites improved forecasts, even for remote areas. Land-watching satellites such as the Landsat series tracked changes in forests, water and other parts of Earth's surface over time. Telecommunications satellites made long-distance telephone calls and eventually, live television broadcasts from across the world a normal part of life. Later generations helped with Internet connections. [Image Gallery: Earth Pictures from Space: Landsat Satellite Legacy]
With the miniaturization of computers and other hardware, it's now possible to send up much smaller satellites that can do science, telecommunications or other functions in orbit. It's common now for companies and universities to create "CubeSats", or cube-shaped satellites that frequently populate low-Earth orbit. These can be lofted on a rocket along with a bigger payload, or sent from a mobile launcher on the International Space Station (ISS). NASA is now considering sending CubeSats to Mars or to the moon Europa (near Jupiter) for future missions, although the CubeSats aren't confirmed for inclusion.
The ISS is the biggest satellite in orbit, and took over a decade to construct. Piece by piece, 15 nations contributed financial and physical infrastructure to the orbiting complex, which was put together between 1998 and 2011. Program officials expect the ISS to keep running until at least 2024.
Parts of a satellite
Every usable artificial satellite — whether it's a human or robotic one — has four main parts to it: a power system (which could be solar or nuclear, for example), a way to control its attitude, an antenna to transmit and receive information, and a payload to collect information (such as a camera or particle detector).
As will be seen below, however, not all artificial satellites are necessarily workable ones. Even a screw or a bit of paint is considered an "artificial" satellite, even though these are missing these parts.
What keeps a satellite from falling to Earth?
A satellite is best understood as a projectile, or an object that has only one force acting on it — gravity. Technically speaking, anything that crosses the Karman Line at an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles) is considered in space. However, a satellite needs to be going fast — at least 8 km (5 miles) a second — to stop from falling back down to Earth immediately.
If a satellite is traveling fast enough, it will perpetually "fall" toward Earth, but the Earth's curvature means that the satellite will fall around our planet instead of crashing back on the surface. Satellites that travel closer to Earth are at risk of falling because the drag of atmospheric molecules will slow the satellites down. Those that orbit farther away from Earth have fewer molecules to contend with.
There are several accepted "zones" of orbits around the Earth. One is called low-Earth-orbit, which extends from about 160 to 2,000 km (about 100 to 1,250 miles). This is the zone where the ISS orbits and where the space shuttle used to do its work. In fact, all human missions except for the Apollo flights to the moon took place in this zone. Most satellites also work in this zone.
Geostationary or geosynchronous orbit is the best spot for communications satellites to use, however. This is a zone above Earth's equator at an altitude of 35,786 km (22,236 mi). At this altitude, the rate of "fall" around the Earth is about the same as Earth's rotation, which allows the satellite to stay above the same spot on Earth almost constantly. The satellite thus keeps a perpetual connection with a fixed antenna on the ground, allowing for reliable communications. When geostationary satellites reach the end of their life, protocol dictates they're moved out of the way for a new satellite to take their place. That's because there is only so much room, or so many "slots" in that orbit, to allow the satellites to operate without interference.
While some satellites are best used around the equator, others are better suited to more polar orbits — those that circle the Earth from pole to pole so that their coverage zones include the north and south poles. Examples of polar-orbiting satellites include weather satellites and reconnaissance satellites.
Three small CubeSats float above the Earth after deployment from the International Space Station. Astronaut Rick Mastracchio tweeted the photo from the station on Nov. 19, 2013.
Credit: Rick Mastracchio (via Twitter as @AstroRM)
What stops a satellite from crashing into another satellite?
There are an estimated half-million artificial objects in Earth orbit today, ranging in size from paint flecks up to full-fledged satellites — each traveling at speeds of thousands of miles an hour. Only a fraction of these satellites are useable, meaning that there is a lot of "space junk" floating around out there. With everything that is lobbed into orbit, the chance of a collision increases.
Space agencies have to consider orbital trajectories carefully when launching something into space. Agencies such as the United States Space Surveillance Network keep an eye on orbital debris from the ground, and alert NASA and other entities if an errant piece is in danger of hitting something vital. This means that from time to time, the ISS needs to perform evasive maneuvers to get out of the way.
Collisions still occur, however. One of the biggest culprits of space debris was the leftovers of a 2007 anti-satellite test performed by the Chinese, which generated debris that destroyed a Russian satellite in 2013. Also that year, the Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 satellites smashed into each other, generating a cloud of debris.
NASA, the European Space Agency and many other entities are considering measures to reduce the amount of orbital debris. Some suggest bringing down dead satellites in some way, perhaps using a net or air bursts to disturb the debris from its orbit and bring it closer to Earth. Others are thinking about refueling dead satellites for reuse, a technology that has been demonstrated robotically on the ISS.
Moons around other worlds
Most planets in our solar system have natural satellites, which we also call moons. For the inner planets: Mercury and Venus each have no moons. Earth has one relatively large moon, while Mars has two asteroid-sized small moons called Phobos and Deimos. (Phobos is slowly spiralling into Mars and will likely break apart or fall into the surface in a few thousand years.)
Beyond the asteroid belt, are four gas giant planets that each have a pantheon of moons. As of late 2017, Jupiter has 69 known moons, Saturn has 53, Uranus has 27 and Neptune has 13 or 14. New moons are occasionally discovered – mainly by missions (either past or present, as we can analyze old pictures) or by performing fresh observations by telescope.
Saturn is a special example because it is surrounded by thousands of small objects that form a ring visible even in small telescopes from Earth. Scientists watching the rings close-up over 13 years, during the Cassini mission, saw conditions in which new moons might be born. Scientists were particularly interested in propellers, which are wakes in the rings created by fragments in the rings. Just after Cassini's mission ended in 2017, NASA said it's possible the propellers share elements of planet formation that takes place around young stars' gassy discs.
Even smaller objects have moons, however. Pluto is technically a dwarf planet. However, the people behind the New Horizons mission, which flew by Pluto in 2015, argue its diverse geography makes it more planet-like. One thing that isn't argued, however, is the number of moons around Pluto. Pluto has five known moons, most of which were discovered when New Horizons was in development or en route to the dwarf planet.
A lot of asteroids have moons, too. These small worlds sometimes fly close to the Earth, and the moons pop out in observations with radar. A few famous examples of asteroids with moons include 4 Vesta (which was visited by NASA's Dawn mission), 243 Ida, 433 Eros, and 951 Gaspra. There are also examples of asteroids with rings, such as 10199 Chariklo and 2060 Chiron.
Many planets and worlds in our solar system have human-made "moons" as well, particularly around Mars — where several probes orbit the planet doing observations of its surface and environment. The planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all had artificial satellites observing them at some point in history. Other objects had artificial satellites as well, such as Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (visited by the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission) or Vesta and Ceres (both visited by NASA's Dawn mission.) Technically speaking, during the Apollo missions, humans flew in artificial "moons" (spacecraft) around our own moon between 1968 and 1972. NASA may even build a "Deep Space Gateway" space station near the moon in the coming decades, as a launching point for human Mars missions.
Fans of the movie "Avatar" (2009) will remember that the humans visited Pandora, the habitable moon of a gas giant named Polyphemus. We don't know yet if there are moons for exoplanets, but we suspect — given that the solar system planets have so many moons — that exoplanets have moons as well. In 2014, scientists made an observation of an object that could be interpreted as an exomoon circling an exoplanet, but the observation can't be repeated as it took place as the object moved in front of a star.
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UFO IN BELGIUM CHASED BY AIR FORCE F16's: "THE BELGIAN WAVE": BELGIUM UFO WAVE OF 1989. - HD HQ
A documentary on the "Belgium UFO Wave" of 1989.
Belgian sequence of UFO Sightings also referred to as "THE BELGIAN WAVE" started off on November 29th, 1989 and peaked with the reports on in the night of from 30th to 31st March, 1990. Majority of sightings occurred in the Walloon region and at some point thousands of people reported a sighting of an unusual triangular shaped craft that hovered over the Belgian skies, exhibiting unexplainable flight.
(The photograph in the documentary did not come forward until four months after the original incident, and it contains too little information for a reliable assessment of its authenticity. The photograph should be approached with extreme skepticism.)
Major General “Wilfried De Brouwer” (Chief of Operations Belgian Air Force) took charge in investigating the reports. He has spoken openly and confidently about the evidence he collected but to help a civilian research group called SOBEBS (Société Belge d'Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux).
Of the 650 reports that the air force helped to investigate, "500" cannot be explained. They concluded that their was air activity of unknown origin in the airspace of Belgium that cannot be attributed to any known aircraft. The true identity of the visitors, however, remained UNKNOWN as no military aircraft were able to establish visual contact with the illusive craft. However, one F-16 that was scrambled to respond to an anomalous radar return, managed to record radar data of some extremely unusual maneuvers on the part of the target.
De Brouwer says: "WE MUST ALL BE PREPARED FOR THE NEXT UFO WAVE, WHEREVER IT MAY OCCUR".
HOOPER, Colo. -- Colorado's San Luis Valley is considered the 'UFO Hot Spot' of the nation. According to paranormal experts, there are more UFO sightings in the valley than anywhere else in America.
The unexplained is so popular there, a structure known as the UFO Watch Tower was created as a place for people to share their experiences.
It also logs sightings. Including a recent one that was spotted by two people.
To learn more about the sightings and the UFO Watch Tower, select 'play' on the video above to watch Kevin Torres' Unique 2 Colorado series.
rvSaoedi-Arabië is het eerste land dat staatsburgerschap geeft aan een robot.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETSaoedi-Arabië heeft robot Sophia het staatsburgerschap gegeven. Het land wil zich zo promoten als dé plek om artificiële intelligentie te ontwikkelen. Sophia de robot kreeg de Saoedische nationaliteit tijdens een event over de toekomst in de hoofdstad Riyad.
Sophia heeft zelf een woordje van dank uitgesproken tijdens een interview. “Het is historisch om de eerste robot te zijn die erkend wordt als burger”, zei ze. Volgens de robot moeten we trouwens niet bang zijn voor de opmars van artificiële intelligentie. “Het is niet zoals in Blade Runner of Terminator. Jullie hebben te veel naar Elon Musk geluisterd en te veel Hollywoodfilms gekeken.”
Rechten voor vrouwen
De opvallende beslissing van Saoedi-Arabië om burgerschap toe te kennen aan een robot kan ook op heel wat kritiek rekenen. Terwijl het land zichzelf een schouderklopje geeft, wijzen anderen erop dat de rechten van menselijke vrouwen in Saoedi-Arabië nog steeds gelimiteerd zijn. Zo moet elke vrouw in het land een mannelijk voogd hebben. Bovendien zijn er ook veel staatlozen in Saoedi-Arabië en dat terwijl een robot nu dus wel alle burgerrechten krijgt.
Imitatie
Sophia is ontwikkeld in Hong Kong en in 2015 geactiveerd. Volgens haar maker, David Hanson, heeft de robot artificiële intelligentie en kan ze gezichten herkennen. Sophia imiteert ook menselijke gebaren en gezichtsuitdrukkingen. Ze kan ook een simpele conversatie volgen.
Good news, doomsday preppers: the high strangeness and military mysteries surrounding the “former” Soviet Union continue to develop. Several Russian social media users and news outlets caught dozens of photos of a mysterious, terrifying glow cloud which was visible all across Siberia on the evening of October 26th. While some eyewitnesses thought the orb had a supernatural origin, it turns out the explanation is a lot more terrifying.
In Soviet Russia, glow could sees you.
Credit: Alexey Yakovlev
In all of the photos and eyewitness reports, the cloud appears to be a large luminous ball in the sky, sometimes blue, sometimes green. The cloud dissipated after several minutes into a wispy arc in the sky, but left terror in the minds of those who saw it. Siberian photographer Sergey Anisimov was out photographing auroras when he caught several dazzling images of the strange glowing orb:
At first I was taken aback for a few minutes, not understanding what was happening. The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction. My first thought was about the most powerful searchlight, but the speed of changing everything around changed the idea of what was happening.
Witnesses reported a feeling of dread upon seeing the glow cloud, and believed the orb could be a harbinger of the end times, a gap in the spacetime continuum, a UFO, or some sort of supernatural apparition.
Sure looks like doomsday to me.
It turns out, at least according to the Russian defense ministry, that the glow cloud was some sort of discharge from a test of Russia’s new “Satan 2” missile. Because if you’re going to develop a new nuclear missile capable of blowing up the world, you might was well name it after the Dark Lord of the Underworld.
Just exactly how a missile left such a strange apparition in the sky is unknown.
As nuclear tensions continue to rise around the world, Russia and many other of the world’s nuclear superpowers continue to develop and test new weapons which raise the bar in terms of terror and destructiveness. Russian state news claims the Satan 2 missile, which carries multiple warheads, is capable of obliterating an area the size of France. Or Texas, depending on what kind of mood Russia’s in.
As the new nuclear space race ramps up, expect more sights like this one. Credit: Alexey Yakovlev
Because, you know, it’s not enough to be able to destroy the entire world and bring humanity to a crashing halt. No, you’ve got to be able to do it several times over and ensure nothing other than irradiated supermutant cockroaches will walk the Earth for millions of years. That’s how you know we’re making progress. That’s how you know you’re in charge. See me now, daddy? Now I have the nuclear codes! Still think I’ll never amount to anything?
Man kwam oog in oog te staan met bemanning van driehoekige UFO. Nu doet hij zijn verhaal
Een man zei dat het was alsof de ‘tijd stilstond’ toen hij oog in oog kwam te staan met de bemanning van een driehoekige UFO die boven een weiland hing.
Philip Shepherdson claimt dat het voorval zich voordeed in de buurt van York in het Engelse graafschap North Yorkshire.
Hij reed op zijn scooter toen iets zijn aandacht trok. “Ik keek naar links en kreeg zowat een hartverzakking,” zei hij. “In de hoek van een klein weiland zweefde een zwart driehoekig object boven de grond.”
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“Ik kon bijna niet geloven wat ik zag,” voegde hij toe.
Driehoekige UFO’s worden vaker gemeld. In de Verenigde Staten worden elk jaar honderden van deze objecten gezien.
Volgens sommigen zijn het buitenaardse ruimteschepen, terwijl anderen van mening zijn dat het gaat om topgeheime vaartuigen die gebouwd zijn door overheden.
Cockpit
“Het object was glad en had geen scherpe randen,” zei Shepherdson. “Bovenop zat een cockpit met daarin een figuur.”
“Ik kon alleen een zwarte helm en een zwarte overall zien,” vervolgde hij.
“Naast het vaartuig zag ik nog twee magere figuren in zwarte pakken,” aldus de man. “Ze keken naar mij, net als de figuur in de cockpit.”
Geen geluid
“Ik beefde van angst en de tijd leek stil te staan,” zei hij. Shepherdson besloot ervandoor te gaan en stapte weer op zijn scooter.
Wat hem vooral is bijgebleven is dat het object geen geluid maakte.
Dit alles speelde zich af in februari 1979, maar nu pas heeft Shepherdson de moed gehad om zich uit te spreken en andere getuigen op te sporen.
Satan's Aurora Borealis in the sky over Strezhevoye, Russia
Alexey Yakovlev took some images of an odd phenomenon in the sky over Strezhevoye, Tomsk Region in Russia on October 26, 2017 at the moment he and his friends observed the aurora borealis.
The ball of light appeared at 22:08 local time in the west, floated to the east, then to the north before it gradually faded away.
At first he thought that it was a sort of radiance but after the unusual ball of light began to expand it became clear that it was not radiance and he became a bit scared before realizing that he probably accidentally took images of the secret launch of a rocket from Plesetsk.
And indeed, Russia did a successful test of its ‘Satan 2’ nuclear missile program. The rocket, (The RS-28 Sarmat) traveled about 5,900 kilometers before hitting its target on the Kura test range, created the odd but beautiful display in the sky.
Scientists Spot First Alien Space Rock In Our Solar System
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Correspondent, Science Desk
Diagram of the path of a space rock from outside our solar system — the first ever observed.
Brooks Bays / SOEST Publication Services / UH Institute for Astronomy
Astronomers have spotted some kind of outer space rock that's the first visitor from outside of our solar system that they've ever observed.
The discovery has set off a mad scramble to point telescopes at this fast-moving object to try to learn as much as possible before it zips out of sight.
"Now we finally have a sample of something from another solar system, and I think that's really neat, " says Karen Meech, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, "and so you'd love to see if it looks like stuff in our solar system."
It's long been assumed that an interstellar object like this one should be out there, because giant planets in forming solar systems are thought to toss out bits of space crud that haven't yet glommed into anything. But this is the first time scientists have actually found one.
The mysterious object is small — less than a quarter mile in diameter — and seems to have come from the general direction of the constellation Lyra, moving through interstellar space at 15.8 miles per second, or 56,880 miles per hour.
"The orbit is very convincing. It is going so fast that it clearly came from outside the solar system," says Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "It's whipping around the Sun, it has already gone around the Sun, and it has actually gone past the Earth on its way out."
The asteroid was discovered on October 19 by Hawaii's Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, which searches the sky for near-Earth objects.
"It became clear that it didn't move like asteroids and comets normally do," says Robert Weryk of the University of Hawaii, who contacted a colleague to acquire follow-up images using another telescope owned by the European Space Agency. The combined observations made it clear that this was an interstellar visitor.
The asteroid is now speeding toward the constellation Pegasus and is fading out of sight fast. "We might have, for moderately large telescopes, another handful of days, maybe a couple of weeks. So we don't have much time to study it," says Meech, who wants to know what its shape is and what its chemical composition might be. She says the Hubble Space Telescope should spy on this object as well, in the coming weeks.
She notes that different stars have different chemical compositions, so she'd like to know if the solar system this came from produces material similar to the planet-making stuff in our own.
"We've been expecting this for decades, really," says Chodas. "We don't know enough about how much material is floating around between the stars. And so this will give us the first data point. We hope to find more of this stuff."
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