UFO is filmed in the sky in Mexico as expert claims aliens are 'increasingly monitoring us'

• A strange vertical object was spotted in the state of Baja California in Mexico
• A video sparked a number of theories about what the flying object was
• Expert Pedro Ramirez claims the UFO was the first alien sighting of 2018

By Charlotte Dean For Mailonline

A UFO filmed shooting through the the sky in Mexico shocked drivers but an expert claims that aliens are monitoring us. 

The footage of the mysterious object was shot alongside a busy road and sparked a number of theories about what the vertical flying object was.  

A woman who was travelling on the road in the state of Baja California in Mexico uploaded the video to the internet where it was picked up by UFO expert Pedro Ramirez. 

Mr Ramirez claimed the potiential UFO was the 'first sighting of 2018'.

He said: 'You can see that the tubular UFO is flying vertically over the city.'

He also claims that there has been increased alien activity during the last two months of 2017. 

He added: 'Aliens are aware that we have made a number of space launches recently and have identified that we have been sending up 'war material'. 

'Concerned by our activity, they have been increasingly monitoring our planet. 

'This year will be very important for those of us who follow this phenomenon closely.' 

A UFO filmed shooting through the the sky in the state of Baja California in Mexico shocked drivers and a woman can be heard asking 'what is that?' during the video

Pedro believes that forthcoming launches by NASA and SpaceX  will lead to an increase in UFO sightings.

He said: 'Some of these space missions have 'suspicious objectives' that alien beings are aware of.'   

In the video, a woman can be heard saying 'what is it?' as she follows the UFO with her camera. 

The unusual object is clearly visible in the recording, silhouetted against the dramatic skyline.   

The video was shared 50,000 times by netizens who were either concerned by the sighting or utterly unimpressed. 

Some suggested that the UFO was someone testing a jetpack or that the video had even been faked.

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Are you aware of the phenomenon called Crop Circle? Are they Cosmic made or Man Made?

There is a marvel in our world called Crop circle, they are a large geometric pattern of flattened crops, most often found in fields around the south of England and also in other parts of the world.

             Images are Crop circle in England and wall Paper showing Crop Circle

Crop circles are said by some who have studied them to be messages from intelligent extraterrestrial life, but many have been proved to be the work of humans.
Beginning in the late 1970s, simple crop circles began to appear regularly in the fields of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Gloucestershire in southern England. They were made at night, and over the years they became more complex, growing into large patterns of geometric forms hundreds of feet across.

Some people who studied crop circles were convinced that their intricacy and the fact that the plants seemed to be bent but not broken precluded a human creator, which meant that they were being produced either by some unknown natural phenomenon or by extraterrestrials.
In 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley of Southampton, England, confessed to having made more than 200 crop circles since the late 1970s with nothing more complex than ropes and boards [although they are yet to produce a picture of them making a crop circle, they only demonstrated how to make a Crop Circle. Also, there had been mentioned of Crop Circle in Journals long before their confession]. They said they were initially inspired by a 1966 account of a UFO sighting near Tully, Queensland, Australia, in which a flying saucer supposedly landed in a lagoon and left behind a depressed area of reeds.
Crop circles appear regularly throughout the world, but the majority still appear in England and even those who view crop circles as messages from extraterrestrials or as unexplained natural phenomena admit that a significant portion of them are now made by humans. Nevertheless, they are beautiful, and a nice introduction to a different artistic perspective to humanity.Are you aware of this wonder called Crop Circle? What is your opinion, will like to know your opinion on this crop circle discussion?

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UFO Legacy: What Impact Will Revelation of Secret Government Program Have?

Stephen Hawking predicts that Earth could be destroyed due to global warming

According to comments made by world-renowned theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, mankind doesn’t have much left to save our planet from climate change.

According to Professor Hawking, if we don’t act now, our beautiful planet could become like Venus with unbearably boiling hot temperatures on the surface.

The popular physicist said in Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places that humanity must find a new “home” in space between the next 200 and 500 years if it wants to survive.

Scientists warn that Earth could turn into a planet similar to Venu if we don’t stop Global Warming.

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To illustrate what could happen to Earth, Hawking explains the situation of another planet in our solar system: Venus.

“In many ways, Earth and Venus are the same,” explains Hawking, who added that both planets are like close relatives.

“Venus is almost the same size as Earth and is only a little closer to the Sun. It also has an atmosphere,” he continued.

However, when Hawking “arrives” at Venus in a virtual journey, an atmospheric pressure is found 90 times higher than that of our planet, “enough to crush a submarine,” according to the British physicist.

In addition, the temperature is around 200 ° C.

Hawking says that the current state of Venus is the result of what happens when greenhouse gases are out of control.

In turn, the scientist fears that the fate of our planet is the same.

“The next time you talk to someone who denies the existence of climate change, tell them to take a trip to Venus. I will take care of the expenses, “said the physicist in an ironic tone.

Furthermore, Professor Hawking said how US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement is a catastrophic move, which has doomed Earth to one day becoming totally uninhabitable.

Scientists believe how the build-up of Greenhouse gasses in Venus’ atmosphere made the planet turn into a boiling celestial body where temperatures can rise above 200 ° C, with winds of up to 100 meters per second, raging on the surface.

When President Trump decided it was best to leave the Paris Climate Agreement, Professor Hawking said: “We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Climate change is one of the great dangers we face and it’s one we can prevent if we act now.”

“By denying the evidence for climate change, and pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Donald Trump will cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet, endangering the natural world, for us and our children.”

For those interested, the audiovisual series led by Hawking, which was awarded last year with an Emmy, can be seen on the Curiosity Stream platform.

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Out-of-This-World Diamond-Studded Rock Just Got Even Weirder

Ancient Aliens? Footage of vertical UFO flying over city in Mexico captured | Watch Videos

As the clip went viral, many conspiracy theorists have come forward explaining the weird sighting. Pedro Ramirez, a UFO expert said that this is the first UFO sighting in 2018.

Ancient Aliens? (Video Grab)

New Delhi:

A mysterious object has been spotted in the skies of Mexico and is said to be Alien's UFO. According to reports, a new video captured in a cellphone shows footage of a vertical UFO flying over a city in Baja, Mexico. 

The footage is not so clear but the still images from the video show a vertical, perhaps cylindrical object flying over the city. Also, this is not the first time that something is seen moving in the sky.

However, the video which was shot from the Mexican state of Baja, California is widely considered to be the first alien UFO sighting post new year, and the clip has already gone viral on social media platforms.

As the clip went viral, many conspiracy theorists have come forward explaining the weird sighting. Pedro Ramirez, a UFO expert said that this is the first UFO sighting in 2018.

Ramirez told Daily Mail that the last two months of 2017 have witnessed an increased spike in UFO activities, and this will increase in the coming days, as NASA and Space X are busy gearing up with new launches.

He said: ‘You can see that the tubular UFO is flying vertically over the city.‘

He also claims that there has been increased alien activity during the last two months of 2017. 

He added: ‘Aliens are aware that we have made a number of space launches recently and have identified that we have been sending up ‘war material‘. 

‘Concerned by our activity, they have been increasingly monitoring our planet. 

‘This year will be very important for those of us who follow this phenomenon closely.‘ 

Pedro believes that forthcoming launches by NASA and SpaceX  will lead to an increase in UFO sightings.

He added, ‘Some of these space missions have ‘suspicious objectives‘ that alien beings are aware of.‘   

In the video, a woman can be heard saying ‘what is it?‘ as she follows the UFO with her camera. 

The unusual object is clearly visible in the recording, silhouetted against the dramatic skyline.   

The video was shared 50,000 times by netizens who were either concerned by the sighting or utterly unimpressed.

Video Credit:Virality TV YouTube

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UFOs are REAL and use ‘new energy’ that could change our future - expert

UFOs are real and use extremely advanced technology that could lead to breakthroughs in energy production on Earth, it was sensationally claimed today.

It seems you can’t throw a stone in Egypt without hitting some ancient artifact, and the odds are favorable that the artifact is somehow connected to a pharaoh or pyramid. It also seems that a favorite game to play there – since the country finally got serious about protecting these artifacts from looters and black marketeers – is “Guess what’s in the pyramid?” If you had bet on both happening in the same week, you’re a winner.

In one of the strangest headlines about Egyptology, local media outlets were shouting in big letters that “Granite Feet Belonging to Pharaoh Discovered in Parking Lot!” According to Egypt Independent, which had a more subtle headline, the parking lot was in Akhmim in the Sohag governorate where construction workers were digging it up for new development. Instead, they found an old development – part of a black granite statue that appeared to be two feet with the left foot pointing forward (seen here). That points to the feet belonging to a statue of an Egyptian king who were traditionally represented in this way.

Not a pharaoh’s foot but still impressive

But whose kingly feet are these? That was explained by the right one which was covered with hieroglyphics (seen here) showing the coronation and birth names of King Amenhotep III. This comes as no surprise to Egyptologists – over 250 statues of Amenhotep III have been discovered, the most of any pharaoh. Perhaps that was his plan in case he didn’t get a pyramid … which he didn’t. Amenhotep III was buried in a royal tomb in the Western Valley of the Valley of the Kings. His granite feet, on the other hand, now reside at the Sohag Museum where they’re getting a restorative pedicure.

Meanwhile, back at the pyramids …

Speculation has been running rampant among experts about what could be in the newly-discovered mysterious void in the Great Pyramid of Giza. One of the first and certainly most interesting comes from Giulio Magli, Director of the Department of Mathematics and Professor of Archaeoastronomy at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. He writes in his new paper on the subject:

“A possible explanation of this space, interpreted as a chamber connected to the lower north channel and aimed to contain a specific funerary equipment is tentatively proposed. According to the Pyramid Texts, this equipment might consist of a “Iron throne”, actually a wooden throne endowed with meteoritic Iron sheets.”

An Egyptian throne

That’s right. The Pyramid Texts — carved on the walls and sarcophagi of the pyramids at Saqqara during the 5th and 6th Dynasties of the Old Kingdom – say that “the pharaoh, before reaching the stars of the north, will have to pass the gates of the sky and sit on his throne of iron.” Magli believes that the only way ancient Egyptians could imagine an iron throne — actually a wooden throne covered with metal — reaching the stars was if it were covered with star material itself … metals collected from meteorites. Farfetched? We recently found out that King Tutankhamun’s dagger was made from meteor matter. Could Cheops have rested his royal tush on a star seat?

Of course, the only way to find out is to look inside the void inside the pyramid. That may happen If the folks at ScanPyramid can get permission to drill a tiny shaft and insert a micro-blimp drone to explore it. How will it know if the throne is covered with meteor metal? Have you ever heard of accidental bumps?

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The search for alien life isn’t concerned solely with searching for advanced extraterrestrial races, but also with discovering if the so-called ‘building blocks’ of life exist elsewhere in the cosmos. Earth is so far the only planet on which the necessary ingredients for life are found – based on our current definition and understanding of what life is, that is. Given that all life on Earth is carbon-based, scientists believe the element is one of the most basic components needed to create life. Astronomers still don’t understand where Earth’s carbon came from, and in turn life, but a new discovery in a nearby corner of space now has some scientists wondering if we might have found some of the raw ingredients of life in the universe.

The Taurus Molecular Cloud

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia discovered the chemical signature of a molecule known as benzonitrile (C6H5CN) in a massive cloud of dust and gas known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1. The cloud sits some 430 light-years from Earth in the Taurus constellation and is the nearest star formation region, making it perfect for the study of cosmological processes. Scientists have long been searching for benzonitrile and other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the universe as it is believed they may be abundant, but their chemical signatures hasn’t been found prior to this new study. These carbon-rich molecules are believed to a common source of carbon throughout the universe, and therefore in some ways are the main building blocks for life.

Carbon bonds are resilient, but also able to be rearranged by various processes, thus making carbon a perfect “building block.”

Now that we have found at least one source for these molecules, scientists might be able to start piecing together the mystery of where and how life originated in the universe. Georgia Southern University astrochemist Ryan Fortenberry told Scientific American that this discovery could inch us closer towards understanding one of the great mysteries of humankind:

We need carbon to make planets, to make life, to do interesting chemistry. We have this hypothesis about where the carbon is tied up, but we’ve had no way to confirm it. [Benzonitrile] allows us to start looking in the right places.

While right now this discovery is little more than the discovery of a giant carbon-rich gas cloud, it might one day lead us to find where we came from: giant stinking cloud. Did I mention the giant cloud of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons just so happens to smell like almonds, hence their name? Neat.

There are worse things to smell like I suppose.

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Photographer caught Glowing Green Object in the sky over Area 51

The photographer was driving around the dirty roads around the perimeter of Area 51 and took many images with his I-phone set to “live” photos but saw nothing at the time.

When he reviewed the images he noticed in one image a large vertical glowing green object in the sky.

The photographer said that he has an interest in unexplained phenomena, but have never before seen anything live or in any photo he took. He understands there could be multiple other explanations, but he doesn’t know how to explain this glowing object. Mufon case 89517.

The following image was taken by a tourist last year 2017 who made a trip to Villefranche de Confluent in France and shows an odd object hovering over the top of a snowy mountain.

When zoomed in on the object it appears to be surrounded with bright lights.The strange object was not visible in other images taken at the same time. Mufon case 89519.

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The Super Nations are going to fight against an Evil from Space?

SpaceX launched the secret Zuma spacecraft on January 7, 2018, Sunday night and although according to some media reports, citing anonymous government officials, have reported that the Northrop Grumman-built Zuma spacecraft may have failed after it launched into orbit we believe that the launch was a success.

Then we have the mysterious bright sky-filling flash that turned night into day, huge booms and ground shaking over thousands of miles in Russia after midnight Sunday, January 7, 2018.

And now it appears that The United States government plans to launch a new classified reconnaissance spy satellite, the NROL-47, today, if not delayed again.

The launch of the NROL-47 spy-satellite comes only 5 days after the launch of the SpaceX/Zuma satellite and a third classified mission is scheduled for October.

The NROL-47 satellite ready to launch. (Watch it live).

If the NROL-47 launch isn't enough, Space agencies in China and India are also expected to launch rockets coming Thursday.

With India there are now 5 nations (US, Russia, China, Japan, and India) who have launched rockets with satellites; it seems that they are putting up a wall of satellites around the earth to monitor something.

Now let’s take a look at the logo from NROL-47 and you see that it depicts the symbol of the Knight Templars and the words “Mali Nunquam Praevalebunt” which means “Evil Will Never Prevail”

As you can see in the logo; A Knight Templar is swinging his sword, fighting against a dragon.

We can only imagine that they have chosen such a distinctive logo depicting the battle between good and evil if there really is a serious threat from space.

About the mysterious flash, boom and ground shaking event in Russia as well as all other similar events around the world, in her latest report, Linda Moulton Howe suggests that what we are dealing with here; is an alien presence on earth and a drop of the solar system and beyond.

Whatever the threatening danger from space could be, the Governments with the possible help of the aliens here on earth have a good reason to bring their secret satellites/weapons into space.

By showing the Knight Templar logo, they actually are telling us that they are ready to fight against the evil, whatever it may be.

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Top Space Researcher Says The UFO That Chased US Jets May Be Aliens

A top scientist bared his thought recently about a video footage that made the rounds online showing a UFO apparently chasing US jet fighters. Dr Michio Kaku has said the mysterious object that the US military personnel reported could be a new type of super-fast aircraft. The US military personnel reported seeing a strange object that apparently chased some of their warplanes.

However, the well-known physicist also said that the UFO could be extraterrestrials.

Reports that the Pentagon has been running a multi-million-pound program dedicated to investigating UFOs for years has emerged recently.

A video has also been released depicting two US pilots checking on unusual aircraft in the Pacific Ocean approximately a hundred miles from San Diego. The UFO reportedly first made an appearance at 80,000 feet.

Strangely enough, it hurtled towards the sea before halting at around 20,000ft and then vanishing.

Dr Kaku, the world-renowned physicist, gave his thoughts on the reported encounter and Pentagon research.

He said that UFOs chasing the military jets might be experimental hypersonic drones, or perhaps aliens from outer space. He added that he keeps an open mind.

Both China and Russia are developing hypersonic aircraft with speed reportedly over five times the speed of sound.

China has been sending drones into space in recent years and experimenting with hypersonic technology.

There were reports that the People’s Liberation Army (PLS) has been developing ballistic missiles called hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV), which can strike anywhere in the US in less than an hour. They are capable of delivering nuclear payloads within a matter of minutes, which might leave defence systems useless.

Russia has claimed their 16,000mph hypersonic nuke missiles could be all set for operation in two years.

The US also has reportedly developing hypersonic weapons that can travel at five times the speed of sound and destroy targets with a kinetic energy warhead.

Meanwhile, former US Navy pilot commander David Fravor, who chased a UFO in 2004 in one of the two fighter jets, warned that leaders in the world should take the alien threat seriously.

Speaking about his encounter, Mr Fravor said that they saw the UFO on a bright day. He said that it had no windows and no form of propulsion. He described the UFO as a big white object.

He cut across to get closer to the UFO, but it accelerated in tremendous speed and disappeared. He said that it was gone in just a matter of a second.

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Watch – Bright UFO Near The Moon

Matt Beland was taking a break to smoke after working all day on January 1, 2018. Amazed at the view of the moon, he took photos of it, but he saw something that even made him more astonish. He decided to flipped the video on and began recording.

The video seems to show a bright unidentified flying object (UFO) either coming out or leaving the moon till it vanishes.

It is not revealed where the video was taken.

According to Matt, it was not the first time he saw the mysterious thing next to the moon as he has seen the same UFO several times before.

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Mysterious Radio Blasts from a Distant Galaxy Draw Attention of Alien Hunters

Where to Go for the Best Chance to See a UFO in America

Trisha Phillips

The first renowned sighting of a UFO occurred back in 1947, and it was reported by a man named Kenneth Arnold. He laid claim that while he was flying his airplane around Mount Rainier in Washington, he noticed not one, but nine objects flying at incredibly high speeds — upwards of a few thousand miles per hour. It was Arnold’s description of the objects moving “like saucers skipping on the water” that the term flying saucer was coined.

As sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena or UFOs continued to roll in, the Air Force felt it needed to be privy to the action, launching its own investigation known as Project Sign in 1948. Investigations have continued into the 21st century, including the Pentagon’s recently revealed $22 million investigation, known as the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.

Nevertheless, for those who haven’t witnessed a UFO, the phenomenon seems questionable at the very least. So if you’re eager to get a glimpse with your own two eyes, here’s where you should go for the best chance to see a UFO.

15. Albuquerque, New Mexico

The skies over Albuquerque, New Mexico get a lot of UFO action. | iStock.com/alex grichenko

There have been 376 reported UFO sightings in Albuquerque alone. Ranging anywhere from a split second to nearly one hour in length, the sightings vary in color, shape, and size. A report in April 2017 claimed to see an object hovering in the sky with a rounded bottom and funneled top with lights beaming from all directions.

Next: The Midwest is no stranger to UFOs.

14. Springfield, Missouri

UFOs love this small, midwestern city. | City of Springfield, Missouri

Numerous UFO sightings have occurred in Springfield  — 380 to be exact. And according to the reports, some onlookers’ experiences lasted well over an entire hour. Reporters claimed they witnessed an entire spectrum of colors coming from multi-dimensional, low-flying objects.

Next: Theme parks, Disney, and alien activity

13. Orlando, Florida

UFOs made for an interesting New Year’s 2018 in Orlando. | iStock/Getty Images

As recently as January 1, 2018, reports came in of UFO activity in Orlando. According to one individual, what began as one very large spotlight quickly turned into numerous spotlights in a semi-circle formation. The sighting lasted over an hour and a half and was witnessed by numerous individuals.

Next: The Big Apple has seen its fair share of UFOs.

12. New York City

Maybe Times Square reminds aliens of home? | AndreyKrav/iStock/Getty Images

In 2017 alone, 39 UFO sightings were reported in New York City. While it appears that sightings were down in comparison to 2016’s 47 reported sightings, many New Yorkers claimed to witness flashing lights and objects of all shapes and sizes that lasted anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes. There have been 418 UFO sightings in the Manhattan borough alone.

Next: The stars at night are big and bright

11. Austin, Texas

UFOs are doing their part to keep Austin weird. | RoschetzkyIstockPhoto/iStock/Getty Images

There are 426 UFO sightings on record for Austin, Texas. In January 2017, reports came flying in about orange, fireball-like orbs flying around in the sky. According to the news report, three lights in a triangle formation split apart moving at impressive speeds. Photos were captured and numerous reports came in from all over Texas and even Louisiana and each report describing the same phenomenon.

Next: It’s not the Rocky Mountain high that has everyone seeing visions of UFOs.

10. Denver, Colorado

UFOs seem drawn to the Mile High City. | Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Reports of UFOs out of Denver and the surrounding area are strong, totaling out at 429. From mere seconds to multiple hours, the reports claim sightings of spherical, oval, rectangular, triangular and even disc-like shapes emitting lights reminiscent of the colors from the entire spectrum.

Next: Could it be another Lone Star state space invasion? 

9. Houston, Texas

Houston residents know to watch the skies. | Sean Pavone/iStock/Getty Images

Awe and bewilderment struck many Houston residents regarding what still seems to be an unexplainable aerial phenomenon. A police officer claimed to see a bright orange orb of light that he believes was a UFO. This makes one of the 466 reports of UFOs in the Houston area.

Next: Morning surf session and evening UFO sightings

8. San Diego

Military pilots have seen some weird things above San Diego.| iStock/Getty Images

It was off the coast of San Diego where Navy pilots witnessed what appeared to be a “whole fleet” of disc-shaped UFOs. The experience occurred in 2004 and was investigated by the Pentagon’s Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. As it currently stands, there have 477 UFO reports out of San Diego.

Next: The desert seems to be the ideal sightings

7. Tucson, Arizona

Tucson apparently gets the attention of little green men. | iStock/Getty Images

“Halting lights that stare back” and an “impossible eclipse of the crescent moon” are just two of the bizarre reports that have come out of Tucson regarding UFO sightings. And with close to 500 sightings on record, it’s no surprise that onlookers have experienced some otherworldly scenes. One resident driving home in May of 2017 claimed to have seen a light brighter than the moon in the eastern sky. With the experience came a “very mild sense of vertigo and nausea.”

Next: UFOs have been spotted by millions in this West Coast metropolis

6. Los Angeles

Have UFOs mistaken the control tower at LAX airport as one of their own? | jupiterimages/iStock/Getty Images

A plethora of UFO sightings have come out of Los Angeles, and they certainly don’t seem to be slowing down. While the city of Los Angeles has just over 500 documented reports, the state as a whole has over 12,000 reports on record. In fact, millions in the Los Angeles region once watched a “massive blue UFO” fly overhead.

Next: 1950s flying saucers and whole lotta man buns

5. Portland, Oregon

Portland has been a hotbed of UFO activity for nearly 70 years. | iStock/Getty Images

The Trent UFO photos from 1950 solidified Oregon as a hotspot for UFO activity. And quite frankly, the photos are pretty legitimate, considering kids weren’t flying drones around back in 1950. Ever since then, Oregon has continued to see its fair share of UFO activity. Portland, in particular, has 528 sightings on record. Meaning your chances of spotting a flying saucer are reasonably high.

Next: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? 

4. Chicago

Chicago gets more than its fair share of UFO sightings. | Ibsky/iStock/Getty Images

While many UFO reports are considered a little bonkers, some folks can recall the 2006 Chicago O’Hare Airport UFO sighting. The “flying saucer-like” object was witnessed by seasoned airline professionals who believe what they saw was unmistakeably a UFO. One United Airlines manager told the Tribune, “I stood outside in the gate area not knowing what to think, just trying to figure out what it was.” This makes one of 562 reports for Chicago.

Next: Space needles or space aliens? 

3. Seattle

Seattle has its share of alleged UFO sightings. | aiisha5/iStock/Getty Images

Perhaps you recall the Kenneth Arnold UFO report mentioned earlier. That took place just over an hour from Seattle. While it marked the beginning of the UFO sightings in the region, it certainly was not the last. In fact, the city has reported well over 600 sightings since.

Next: Viva Las Vegas (and Area 51)

2. Las Vegas

It makes sense that aliens would love a place like Vegas. | Sky_Sajjaphot/iStock/Getty Images

There isn’t much surprise in finding Las Vegas at the number two spot for UFO sightings. After all, Area 51 is less than two hours away from Sin City. However, when it comes to Vegas proper, the city has had 649 documented UFO reports. One YouTube video posted by an individual in Las Vegas depicts four yellow-orange, moon-like orbs hovering in the night sky. The orbs started vividly flashing before immediately disappearing into the thin air. Later in the evening, the orbs reappeared, baffling the heck out of viewers.

Next: The cream of the crop is right here

1. Phoenix, Arizona

Spend enough time in Phoenix and you’ll see some interesting things in the sky. | Dreamframer/iStock/Getty Images

Topping the charts with just shy of 1,000 reported UFO sightings, Phoenix, Arizona, seems to be on fire with activity. And with mysterious light formations regularly appearing in the sky, the chatter of UFO activity doesn’t seem to quiet for long. If you’re on the hunt, this may be your prime spot for spotting a UFO.

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Coming Distractions: Skeptics Still Persist That UFOs Don’t Exist

By Cheryl Costa

On Dec 16, 2017, The New York Times broke the story that the Pentagon had a program for studying UFOs, and that they have evidence. Many people in the UFO community danced with joy that this was “Disclosure.”

I think disclosure is still too strong a term to describe the revelations. I like Nevada television newsman George Knapp’s term: “Confirmation!” It was simply a confirmation of what disclosure lobbyists, activists and I have been writing about for several years: There were unacknowledged special access units in the Pentagon studying the threat potential of UFOs. For our efforts, we were simply laughed at and labeled conspiracy theorists.

In reaction to the New York Times’ news stories, the mainstream media took notice in a massive way. Political types ranted that the government spent $22 million on something as “silly as UFOs.” The elite skeptics lined up on talk shows and news programs to assure everyone that there is no such thing as ETs, and even if there were, they live a gazillion miles from here and can’t get here from where they are, provided they exist at all.

So what’s next? Well, a recent New York Post article stated that the New York Times article lacked solid proof. Sure, we got fuzzy video from fighter jets and former Pentagon officials telling us that UFOs are real. Yes, we did get an admission from the Pentagon that an unacknowledged special access unit did study them for five years but aren’t any more.

If you listened carefully to the cockpit audio, the pilots indicate that there wasn’t only one of them but a FLEET of them. Why didn’t the mainstream news organizations jump on that statement?

Many skeptics moaned that an advanced aircraft could come from any number of countries on Earth and that’s probably what it was. I can buy that statement if there was one of them. But a FLEET of them? A fleet says to me that it’s a clear and present danger: Sit up and take notice!

The other upsetting thing was that the New York Times article pointed out that the Department of Defense, via subcontractor Bigelow Aerospace, have pieces of a UFO: in essence, the long-demanded evidence. These are supposedly compounds that are fragments of a UFO and they can’t be analyzed. Again, the mainstream media focused on little green men and where they are from.

Scientific American’s Dec. 22 article “The Truth About Those ‘Alien Alloys’ in The New York Times UFO Story” skeptically and arrogantly pronounced that anything can be analyzed! Here is an author-scientist who is not even open to the possibility that these compounds are beyond current scientific understanding.

The mainstream media needs to really dig into this story. They need to really apply the pressure to the CIA and DOD. After all, taxpayers have been funding all their under-the-table research in some form or another for 70 years. The American people deserve to get our money’s worth and learn the damned truth.

If these alloys are supposed to be from exotic vehicles, earth-based or off-world, why isn’t the National Academy of Sciences being involved to engage the best and brightest in chemistry and metallurgy to help in the analysis effort? For years they’ve told the UFO community, “You’ve got no evidence!” So now potentially there is evidence.

Mainstream media, use your clout and demand that the evidence be brought into the light, and let the truth be known.[snt]

If you have a UFO sighting to report, use one of the two national database services: NUFORC.org or MUFON.com. Both services respect confidentiality.

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Researchers Identify Eight Sites With Exposed Water Ice on Mars

by Brad Jones

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UFO SHOCK: 2017 was the year of the flying saucer - explosive dossier released

ITALIAN UFO-spotters reported a record number of mysterious sightings in 2017, a new dossier has revealed.

Angelo Carannante, president of the Mediterranean UFO Centre (Cufom), has published the extraordinary document full of images from all over Italy and especially from the skies of Liguria. 

Mr Carannante said the sightings were accompanied by photos and videos that have been carefully screened and investigated by Cufom specialists.

He said the UFO reports from across the country were supported "with surprising and eloquent images". 

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An image from the Cufom 2017 dossier

It seems that in 2017 there has been a leap in quality in the objects sighted

Angelo Carannante

Reported sightings included flying saucers, spheres, squadrons and luminous UFOs of various colours.

Observers described the objects as stationary, travelling very fast at low or high altitudes, small and huge. 

Mr Carannante said those who reported sightings were “the most varied people and many foreigners". 

He said: “It seems that in 2017 there has been a leap in quality in the objects sighted, given the unusual clarity of some unidentified flying objects, filmed or photographed, that had been absent for years and seem to be back.

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Cufom officials said 2017 was a record year for sightings

“This was demonstrated by the UFOs sighted in Lavagna, Arco Felice near Naples and the clamorous sighting at Civitavecchia seen about 50 metres above sea level.

“The ships flew in group, giving rise to spectacular phenomenon as happened throughout Italy in the summer 2017, like the concert of Ennio Morricone.

“There were also real chases between UFOs and military fighter planes, as happened in Cosenza, photographed and witnessed by many people.” 

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Cufom praised the quality of photo and video evidence provided by UFO-spotters

Italy’s first reported UFO sighting of 2017 came exactly a year ago when an unusual bright green spherical object, which changed shape and colour over a four minute period, was caught on camera in Salento.

Mr Carannante said the Salento incident was followed by many other sightings documented by photos and films from Savona, Paestum, Brescia, Trieste, Cabella Ligure, Latina, Florence, Naples, Pomezia , Casalnuovo di Napoli, San Benedetto del Tronto, Vico Equense, Caserta, Ascoli Piceno, Guglionesi, Cassino, Vicenza.

(Additional reporting by Maria Ortega.)

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Italie : Augmentation spectaculaire des observations d’OVNIs

 PAR MANUELRODRIGUEZ

Des ufologues et autres experts italiens ont révélé qu’il y avait eu un record d’observations d’OVNI au cours de l’année 2017. Ils ont rassemblé ces troublantes conclusions dans un nouveau rapport.

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An image from the Cufom 2017 dossier

Angelo Carannante, président du CUFOM (« Centro ufologico mediterraneo »), a publié ce document extraordinaire, accompagné d’une multitude d’images et rassemblant des cas survenus un peu partout en Italie, surtout au-dessus de la région de Ligurie.

M. Carannante a déclaré que beaucoup d’observations étaient accompagnées de photos et de vidéos soigneusement étudiées et examinées par des spécialistes du Cufom.

Il a dit que les rapports d’OVNIS de tout le pays étaient étayés « par des images surprenantes et suffisamment éloquentes ».

Les témoins ont décrit avoir vu des objets immobiles ou se déplaçant à grande vitesse, volant à basse ou haute altitude, et de taille petite ou bien gigantesque.

M. Carannante a expliqué que ceux qui avaient rapporté ces observations étaient « de personnes très diverses et de nombreux touristes ».

« Il semble qu’en 2017 il y ait eu une augmentation dans la qualité des observations d’objets volants non identifiés. Les objets filmés et photographiés étaient d’une clarté inhabituelle. Ce genre d’images n’avaient plus été vues depuis des années. »

« Cela a été démontré par les OVNI aperçus à Lavagna, ou à Arco Felice près de Naples ou encore l’observation retentissante qui s’est produite à Civitavecchia à environ 50 mètres d’altitude. »

« Les OVNI volaient en groupe, donnant lieu à un phénomène spectaculaire comme ce fut le cas en Italie au cours de l’été 2017. »

« Il y a également eu de véritables courses poursuites entre des OVNI et des avions de combat militaires, comme ce qui est arrivé à Cosenza, et qui a été photographié et vu par beaucoup de gens. »

La première observation d’OVNI en Italie en 2017 est survenue le 11 janvier quand un objet vert vif de forme sphérique a été filmé dans le Salento. Il changeait de forme et de couleur et a été observé pendant quatre minutes.

M. Carannante a déclaré que l’incident du Salento a été suivi de nombreuses autres observations documentées par des photos et des films à Savone, Paestum, Brescia, Trieste, Cabella Ligure, Latina, Florence, Naples, Pomezia, Casalnuovo di Napoli, San Benedetto del Tronto, Vico Equense, Caserte, Ascoli Piceno, Guglionesi, Cassino, et Vicenza.

Source: Express.co.uk, traduit par AP

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EGG-SHAPED OBJECT PHOTOGRAPHED OVER ARKANSAS

Cropped witness image #2

(Credit: MUFON)

by Roger Marsh

​An Arkansas witness at Summers reported watching and photographing an egg-shaped object slowing crossing the sky, according to testimony in UFO Case 82288 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was in his yard observing Venus and checking to see if Orion was visible at 6:15 p.m. on February 23, 2017.

“I then noticed a white object to my left above a tree,” the witness stated. “It didn't look like anything I've seen before and was moving slowly compared to a commercial airline, but faster than a weather balloon or a blimp.”

The witness did not recognize the object.

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Five Reasons Why We Should be Exploring Space

BY CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

If you’ve ever found yourself under a bright starry sky on a clear night, you probably noticed the splendor that is space. For millennia, man has cast his gaze towards the heavens and wondered what’s out there. For some, that quote serves as both the question and justification for continuing to cast our gaze deeper and deeper into space.

Credit: NASA.

Some people don’t even bother. For them, the answer to that question is a resounding ‘who cares?’. So why bother with exploring space? There is a myriad of reasons but it would take too long to go through all of them, so we’ve broken them down into five reasons: we learn, we push, we discover, we benefit, we evolve.

Curiosity

Mankind has demonstrated time and again an insatiable curiosity and the need to satisfy that curiosity. Explorers have always sailed the wide ocean in the search for new lands. Sir Edmond Hillary scaled Mt. Everest. Magellan circumnavigated the globe in a ship. Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong first pushed the limits of humans into space.

Humans push the limits of what we can do — it’s in our very nature. If you think about it, children push their own limits every single day. They learn new things and expand their horizon.  Space exploration is, in a way, turning back to that childhood curiosity. Every day, we learn new things about the universe around us. However, humans have no idea what our limits are in space, so we keep pushing, and we keep learning.

Credit: NASA.

With every boundary, we learn new things: how humans deal with extended time in space, the physical composition of the moon, how to fix a toilet in zero gravity, how to grow food in space, the location of black holes, recycling water and oxygen in space and (finally) how to break free of our gravitational limits and move forward.

Scientific

With the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, humans took a quantum leap into the exploration of space that rivaled Galileo when he probed the skies in the late 1500s. The images the Hubble telescope have allowed us to peer deeper into space than anyone could have ever imagined (seriously, check those images out).

Pointed at a supposedly blank portion of the sky, about the size of a pinprick, seemingly bereft of anything interesting, Hubble gave us images that changed our understanding of the universe. Tens of thousands of galaxies, many like our own, each with trillions of stars and at least as many planets. Now multiply that by the number of “pinpricks” in the night sky and you now have some idea of just how vast the cosmos truly is.

It’s not just about space, either: the International Space Station carries out numerous experiments, from biology to hard physics. Credit: NASA.

Financial

Eventually, humans will figure a way into space and utilize the infinite resources it promises. The development of space will make fortunes for those brave (and lucky) enough to take the plunge. These new-found resources will certainly be the source of significant benefits for those of us who remain firmly planted on terra firma.

It will also signify that man has evolved enough to perhaps establish a permanent extra-terrestrial habitat. A century ago, WWI was winding down. Cars, indoor plumbing, electricity, and refrigeration were luxuries (or non-existent). Now, we have airplanes, smartphones, space travel, and computers.

Continuing that progression, the idea of colonizing the moon, Mars or moons of the gas giants shouldn’t be that far-fetched. It’s the natural progression/evolution of our species.

Five reasons to explore space? We learn, we push, we discover, we benefit and we evolve. That’s why.

Now go back and check that Hubble link!!

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Cliffs of pure, blue water-ice spotted just below Mars’ surface

BY ALEXANDRU MICU 

Mars seems to be hiding a hoard of pristine frozen water just below the surface, a new paper reports.

Thick bands of ice (blue) spotted in Martian cliff faces.
Image credits NASA / JPL / USG / University of Arizona.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been beaming back high-resolution images of the planet for over a decade now, and for most of the time, nothing too special pops up. However, a few years ago Colin Dundas, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, spotted something hidden below Mars’ rusty, dusty exterior — a pale line of blue.

Dundas subsequently found the same structures at seven other sites on Mars. These formations, wedged in the flanks of tall, steep cliffs, appear to be nearly pure ice — water-ice, that is.

In a new paper, researchers argue these findings suggest there are vast stores of underground ice tantalizingly close to the surface, even at low martial latitudes (i.e. closer to the equator). Such reserves could help researchers tease out the planet’s history, and dramatically improve the feasibility of any potential colonies on Mars.

Rust and ice

“This kind of ice is more widespread than previously thought,” says Dundas, paper co-author.

We’ve found ice on Mars before. There’s a thick cover of it on the planet’s poles (which Elon Musk thinks we should nuke) and MRO’s radar suite has picked up signatures of buried ice across Mars. Some have argued that those deposits are the remains of ancient glaciers, a by-gone of an age when the planet had a very different climate. However, based on MRO’s radar data, we can’t tell how deep these icy formations are, and whether they’re made up of solid chunks or tiny drops frozen in the soil’s pores.

MRO brought us even more evidence of ice on Mars in the past: pools of (what appears to be) pure ice, puddled on the floors of fresh meteorite craters. Still, there was no way of ascertaining if such pools were connected to underground glaciers or isolated patches of fluid.

Mars, with some of its polar ice visible.
Image credits NASA / JPL.

The structures described in this new paper could plug those holes in our understanding. Each of the cliff-faces identified in the study, standing at roughly 100 meters (32.8 feet) tall, seem to the naked face of a glacier, the team reports. MRO could thus observe the glaciers in cross-section (like seeing the layers in a slice of cake), and the team revisited all the sites to see how they changed over time.

The most significant find is that the ice persists through the Martian summer. This is significant because it points to solid, massive structures — a light frosting would have simply vaporized. Further evidence in support of this is that last year the orbiter caught several boulders tumbling out of the cliff faces, suggesting they were being slowly eroded from a large deposit at surface level.

All of this strongly suggests that the surface-level ice and the large subsurface deposits are connected, the authors say.

Layer cake

“This deep, thick, pure ice extends almost all the way up to the surface” says co-author Ali Bramson.

Such structures promise to yield a layered record of past martian climates, similarly to how polar ice caps do on Earth. Alternatively, they would be a prime resource for colonists.

Banding in the glaciers suggests that the slabs are stacked — meaning they formed over many seasons as layers of snow got compressed into ice in different climate cycles. Winds then carried grit over each layer, sealing them apart, and creating the banding. It’s a similar process to how ice caps and glaciers form on Earth, and so the team believes that drilling a core into one of these deposits and bringing it back for analysis would offer geologists a treasure trove of information about the Martian climate.

The glaciers are also a boon for colonists. Water is crucial for astronauts because it can be mixed with CO2 (the most common gas in Mars’ atmosphere) to create breathable oxygen and methane to be used in rockets. But any deposits would only really be any good if they’re no more than a few meters below the surface — that’s why the ice-cliffs are so exciting.

The cliffs are found at about 55° north or south, however, which grow frigid and dark in the Martian winter. These aren’t very good areas for a solar-powered human base, so NASA study was limited to sites to within 50° of the equator. Following these new findings, however, NASA wants to extend its exploration program closer to the Martian tropics.

The paper “Exposed subsurface ice sheets in the Martian mid-latitudes” has been publishedin the journal Science.

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Mysterious fast radio bursts from space likely twisted by a black hole, researchers report

BY ALEXANDRU MICU

Mysterious radio signals originating from a body some 3 billion light-years away carry hints of an environment capable of producing extremely powerful magnetic fields — such as an undiscovered supermassive black hole or the remains of a supernova.

The Arecibo Observatory.
Image credits NASA Blueshift / Flickr.

First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts still continue to puzzle astronomers. These signals are aptly named, lasting up to a few milliseconds at best. Incredibly short-lived — but extremely energetic as well — during their fleeing lifetimes, these signals burn with a vengeance on instruments that can pick them up.

Such levels of energy betray the signals’ source as a very powerful body or event — however, it’s not a source that we have yet determined. Mostly, it comes down to their unpredictable nature, which has thrown a bag full of wrenches into attempts to properly understand these events. Here is where FRB 121102, sitting about 3 billion light-years away in a dwarf galaxy, comes into the picture.

Bursts for days

What’s so special about this body is that it fires such radio bursts repeatedly. Because it emits fast radio bursts in clusters, it’s possible to train more instruments on the source and gather data in real time. Sensing that answers lurk close, a team of astronomers decided to study the signals beamed from FRB 121102 and get to the bottom of things — but their results have merely deepened the mystery.

According to their observations, the signals from FRB 121102 appear to be “twisted” in a way indicative of an extreme stellar environment, the team reports, one that can spawn an extremely powerful magnetic field.

FRB 121102.

The researchers used the Arecibo (radio) Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to look at FRB as it was emitting a burst. The plan was to measure the signal’s polarization (geometric orientation), a quality that can be influenced by local phenomena. Polarization was seen before in other fast radio bursts, but the values the team picked up were totally off the scale — some 500 times greater extreme than any other recorded burst.

The findings muddy our understanding of FRB 121102 even more. The working hypothesis up to now was that the source was a kind of neutron star: either a pulsar (which spins very fast) or a magnetar (which spins but also has an extra strong magnetic field). Because it’s found in a star-forming region of its host galaxy, it was believed that FRB 121102 was somehow linked to stellar birth or death. The new data, however, points to several new explanations.

“We’ve seen this effect in other fast radio burst sources before, but in this case the effect is 500 times larger than what we’ve seen at other sources,” said senior author Jason Hessels. “That was quite surprising.”

FRB 121102 may be a pulsar in close proximity to a growing supermassive black hole, the team reports. Plasma spinning around the black hole could lense and twist the light from FRB 121102 — but we have no way of explaining why a giant black hole would form in a dwarf galaxy — although, to be fair, we’ve seen supermassive black holes doing all kinds of strange things. Another possibility is that FRB 121102 is cloaked within a dense nebula, whose that affects the signal on its way to us. However, this hypothesis fails to explain how the signal remains as bright as what we’re picking up.

It’s also been suggested that the source is some kind of pulsar, however, that doesn’t fit with the incoming burst pattern. FRB 121102 doesn’t emit at regular intervals, as one would expect from a spinning neutron star and their highly regular periods, but in clusters of signals.

Whatever the case may be, we’re currently baffled by what we’re seeing. The team will continue to study FRB 121102 and fast radio bursts in general, but so far, only a few dozen individual sources have been found. Researchers, however, estimate that as many as 10,000 fast radio bursts flash across the night sky every single day — it’s just a matter of catching them.

The paper “An extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the fast radio burst source FRB 121102” has been published in the journal Nature.

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New research suggests the origins of one of astrophysics' greatest mysteries.

Michael Byrne

Arecibo Observatory.

Image: BrianPIrwin/Shutterstock

An international team of astrophysicists has traced the origin of the only known repeating fast radio burst, according to a study published this week in Nature. The phenomenon, characterized by intense millisecond-long blasts of radio energy, is among the most mysterious in astrophysics and has led even relatively serious people to start thinking in terms of aliens.

An analysis of 16 bursts detected with the William E Gordon Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory suggests that their origin is likely to be within a dwarf galaxy hosting a supermassive black hole (10 to 100 million times the size of our Sun) and a neutron star (a form of dead star) in its orbit. The key feature of such a neutron star would be its very high magnetic field, a sort of highly-energized cosmic afterlife. Such a field would serve to supply the massive amounts of energy packed into a fast-radio burst viewable here on earth.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are not uncommon. We see them all over the sky all the time. A FRB is simply a pulse of radio energy that lasts for just a few milliseconds, but what makes them especially weird and vexing is that they usually don't repeat. It's not like looking at, say, a pulsar, which emits radiation at regular, dependable intervals. If a pulsar is a lighthouse, then an FRB is a signal flare, albeit one that doesn't flare for long enough to reveal its source or much of anything.

What the researchers behind the current paper are after is the exception to this: a repeating FRB. The only one. While these signal flares are exploding in random places in the sky all the time, there's just this one out there that happens in the same place again and again. FRB 121102 is special: a mystery within an already mysterious phenomenon.

What gives the source conditions of FRB 121102 away is the bursts' polarization. Polarization is a kinda hard to think about property of light. Basically, imagine a wave moving in one direction, but that's also been rotated around an axis that's perpendicular to that direction of travel. Twisted light. In fact, the degree of twisting seen is here is among the most extreme ever seen from an astrophysical source.

The radio waves of FRB 121102 have been twisted, we think, because they passed through a strong magnetic field—possibly a ripping torrent of high-speed, highly-magnetized plasma. Based on this, we can guess that the FRB 121102 source is itself within such a field.

CHIME

"We found something that is clearly in an extreme place and the extreme location may create a phenomenon that is one of the biggest astrophysical mysteries of recent times," offered study co-author Victoria Kaspi, a professor at McGill University and leading voice on pulsars and neutron stars, in a statement. "If you have an extreme object in an extreme environment, is that just a coincidence? FRBs have these huge explosions in radio waves and we don't know why that occurs. Maybe this is a clue to the mechanism that produces these explosions."

So, no, we don't really understand that mechanism yet. We just know that whatever it is, it's probably occurring within a cloud of highly-magnetized plasma. The good news is that FRB 121102 is apparently still at it and its future behavior will go a long way toward understanding its ultimate source, perhaps a magnetar in one of several possible configurations with a nearby black hole. In any case, when the Canadian CHIME Telescope (above) goes online later this year we'll have a way to look even deeper at FRB 121102's ultimate origin.

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The search for aliens giveth, the search for aliens taketh away. It seems like every time there is a major discovery which might hint at the existence of alien life, it’s quickly refuted and explained away by banal, boring explanations. Things got exciting at the end of last year when our solar system received its first interstellar visitor, prompting many scientists speculated it might be some type of craft. Turns out it was just some dumb rock covered in space gunk. It’s always some dumb rock.

It’s not like our solar system needs another dumb rock anyway. Move along, Oumuamua.

Other than that dumb rock, one of the biggest stories of 2017 was FRB121102, a mysterious source of so-called fast radio bursts, or FRBs. The powerful, anomalous radio signals emanating from FRB121102 were unlike anything else observed in the universe, lending hope that they may actually be an attempt at communication from a distant alien civilization. Turns out it’s just some dumb neutron star in an “extreme environment” which causes the radio waves shooting out from it to ‘twist’ as they travel through space. Ok, that actually sounds pretty cool.

Discoveries like this make our own solar system seem pretty boring. Lucky for us.

In a new study published this week in Nature, a massive team of astronomers from around the world analyzed data from FRB 121102 and believe they might have found a unique environment in deep space unlike anything we’ve discovered so far. An “extreme magneto-ionic environment” is believed to surround a powerful neutron star some 3 billion light years away, and this highly magnetic environment is what causes the radio waves to “twist and shout” the way they do. Neutron stars are known to emit radio waves, but this is the first time scientists have seen one affected by such an extreme magnetic environment. James Cordes, the George Feldstein Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, says this area of space is extremely hostile:

We estimate the magnetic field and gas density surrounding the blast source, and we can link them, for example, with a model involving a young magnetar – a neutron star with an especially large magnetic field – to the central engine that produces the bursts. This is exotic. If we had one of these on the other side of our own galaxy – the Milky Way – it would disrupt radio here on Earth, and we’d notice, as it would saturate the signal levels on our smartphones. Whatever is happening there is scary. We would not want to be there.

FRB 121102 is so strong that a radio burst lasting just a millisecond emits more energy than our Sun does in an entire Earth day. Researchers believe there is likely a massive black hole nearby causing the bursts, but more observation is needed. While FRB 121102 might not be aliens, a hellish magnetic storm surrounding a giant black hole sounds terrifyingly awesome. Space might be devoid of life (as far as we know), but it’s still pretty rad.

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Wetenschappers ontdekken acht mogelijke plekken voor een kolonie op Mars - HLN.be

Bron: Reuters

Het was al bekend dat ongeveer een derde van het oppervlak van Mars ijs bevat en dat ook op beide polen grote ijsafzettingen aanwezig zijn, maar uit onderzoek dat vandaag werd gepubliceerd in het vakblad Science blijkt nu ook dat er dikke ondergrondse ijslagen blootgesteld zijn op steile hellingen tot 100 meter hoog in zowel de noordelijke als zuidelijke hemisfeer van de planeet.

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“Het was verrassend om ijs te zien aan de oppervlakte op deze plaatsen. Langs de middelste breedtegraden is het normaal gezien bedekt met een laag stof of regoliet,” losse stenen op een laag grondgesteente, zegt geoloog Colin Dundas van het U.S. Geological Survey’s Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, die de studie leidde.

Water en zuurstof

De onderzoekers maakten gebruik van beelden van de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, die al sinds 2006 rond de planeet cirkelt. Uit hun bevindingen blijkt dat er meer ijs voorhanden kan zijn op Mars dan aanvankelijk werd aangenomen. Het ijs kan gebruikt worden om water mee te maken en zelfs om eventueel omgezet te worden in zuurstof.

“Mensen hebben water nodig waar ze ook naartoe gaan en het is erg zwaar om met je mee te nemen. Hier hebben we vermoedelijk bijna zuiver waterijs net onder de oppervlakte. Je hebt geen hoogtechnologische oplossing nodig. Je kan gewoon met een emmer en een schop aan de slag en zoveel water verzamelen als nodig,” zegt planetair wetenschapper Shane Byrne van het Lunar and Planetary Laboratory van de universiteit van Arizona. “Ik denk dat het een doorbraak is. Het ligt ook veel dichter bij plaatsen waar mensen waarschijnlijk zouden landen, in tegenstelling tot de poolkappen die erg onherbergzaam gebied zijn,” aldus Byrne, die meewerkte aan de studie.

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Proper ijswater net onder oppervlakte Mars ontdekt - HLN.be

Bron: Science

Een ploeg van wetenschappers, onder leiding van de planetaire geoloog Colin Dundas, onderzocht acht regio’s op de planeet Mars waar erosie onderliggende lagen met ijs blootlegde. Ze presenteren die studie in de nieuwste editie van het gerenommeerde blad Science.

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Wetenschappers ontdekken acht mogelijke plekken voor een kolonie op Mars

Het belang van die ontdekking ligt in het feit dat wetenschappers nu rechtstreeks aan sommige ijslagen kunnen en er bijgevolg meer onderzoek naar kunnen uitvoeren. Dat was lange tijd onmogelijk, aangezien de ijslagen zich meestal te diep onder de oppervlakte bevinden om aangeboord te kunnen worden door de robots die op Mars landen. De gevonden ijslagen bevinden zich soms maar één meter onder de oppervlakte, soms meer dan honderd meter.

De informatie die de wetenschappers op deze manier konden inwinnen, is van vitaal belang voor toekomstige bewoners van de planeet, zo stellen ze. Eerst en vooral gaat het niet om puur ijs. Volgens de studie zouden de gevonden ijslagen het resultaat zijn van sneeuwregens en verijst zijn samen met stukken stof en ander ‘vuil’. Toch zou het ijs puur genoeg zijn om relatief makkelijk in water te kunnen omzetten.

Minpunt is echter dat de gevonden plekken zich ver van de evenaar van Mars bevinden. Daar is het klimaat niet echt gunstig: het kan er soms stevig vriezen, wat een toekomstige nederzetting op die plek een pak moeilijker maakt. Ook rond de evenaar, waar het klimaat leefbaarder is, is er ijs te vinden. Anderzijds maakt de warmere temperatuur rond de evenaar dan weer dat het water daar dieper in de bodem dringt, stelt de studie.

De onderzoekers concluderen dat ze nog heel wat moeten leren over de ijslagen op de planeet eer menselijk leven er mogelijk is. Aangezien de meest optimistische schattingen de eerste reizen richting Mars ten vroegste tegen de jaren ’30 van deze eeuw schatten, hebben ze wel nog even tijd.

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Mystery Radio Bursts From Space Just Got Even Weirder

Astronomers are transfixed by twisted waves seen coming from an odd object three billion light-years away.

Astronomers discovered the oddly twisted radio bursts using data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. 

PHOTOGRAPH BY TOMAS VAN HOUTRYVE, AP

By Nadia Drake

OXON HILL, MARYLAND - There’s a new twist in the tale of one of the strangest objects in the sky.

About three billion light-years away, that mysterious object continually hurls humongous blasts of radio waves into the cosmos. Now, scientists have spied in those waves the spiraling signature of an extremely strong magnetic field, suggesting that the cosmic oddity exists in an intense galactic environment containing a powerfully magnetic source.

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The discovery adds to astronomers’ understanding of phenomena known as fast radio bursts, or FRBs, which are magnificently energetic flashes of radio waves that last for mere fractions of a second. It also allows researchers to paint a clearer picture of what conditions are like in an incredibly distant corner of the universe.

“We're directly probing the local environment of a source in a galaxy billions of light-years away,” says Emily Petroff of ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. “It's like the power to zoom in at a billion times magnification on an extreme object somewhere else in the universe.”

While the exact source of the magnetism is unclear, it’s possible this FRB is next to a supermassive black hole, like the churning bruiser near our galaxy’s center, or swaddled in the chaotic aftermath of a stellar explosion.

“In the coming weeks, we expect that very creative theorists are going to come up with explanations that we haven’t thought of yet,” says ASTRON’s Jason Hessels, a member of the team reporting the observations today in Nature and at the 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Maryland.

TWIST AND SHOUT

The weird object, now called FRB 121102, first announced its presence to Earthly astronomers in 2012, when a tremendously energetic, perplexingly quick flash of radio waves slammed into the giant telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Though fast radio bursts had been baffling astronomers for years, this was the first one netted by Arecibo. Over the years, astronomers continued to study the spot on the sky, hoping to collect some clues about the cosmic enigma.

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In 2015, Arecibo caught FRB 121102 in the act of repeating itself. Since then, the same object has slung more than 200 blasts of radio waves across the universe—and it’s still the only repeating fast radio burst among the roughly 30 known.

Last year, astronomers were finally able to pin the burst on a particular galaxy, a fuzzy little blob of a thing that’s furiously birthing stars three billion light-years away in the constellation Auriga.

And now, using data collected by Arecibo on Christmas in 2016, Hessels and his colleagues have been able to study the radio waves coming from the FRB at a higher frequency, and this time, they spied a twist in those blasts. Called Faraday rotation, the signal is produced when radio waves are twisted as they travel through magnetic fields. Except these waves are so strongly spun it means that FRB 121102 must be near a fantastically powerful magnetic field.

“This source is weird because it repeats, and now it’s weird because it has this huge rotation measure,” Hessels says.

BLACK HOLES AND GAS TENDRILS

Though scientists now suspect that a neutron star—the dense corpse of a formerly much larger star—is involved in firing those radio blasts, they aren’t sure what, exactly, is powering the faraway magnetism. FRB 121102 is not the only such object with a magnetic fingerprint, but it’s 500 hundred times stronger than the handful of other twisted bursts, meaning that something unusual is happening its environment, even by the already bizarre FRB standards.

One way to explain the strength of that magnetic field is a nearby supermassive black hole, something with the mass of thousands of suns—perhaps even the one thought to be parked at the center of the burst’s home galaxy.

That’s because, in our own Milky Way, a pulsar near the galactic center also sends out waves with strong Faraday rotation, Hessels says. In fact, it’s the only object with a magnetic twist that even comes close to that observed at FRB 121102.

“A black hole being involved does make sense on some level, particularly since that's the only place we've seen magnetic fields this strong before,” says Petroff. But, she notes, “it's entirely possible that what is happening around FRB 121102 has no analog in our own galaxy.”

Another possibility is that the FRB source is very young and is tucked into a nebula formed by a recent supernova, the explosion that happens when a large star grows up and dies. These lethal eruptions are among the most violent events the cosmos can offer, and they leave behind some intriguing remnants, including neutron stars. If the FRB’s source is a magnetar (a type of neutron star), and it’s being naturally magnified by a magnetic bundle of gas and dust, that could also explain the observations.

“Dense tendrils of magnetized matter associated with turbulent gas surrounding a young supernova remnant would provide a comparably compelling explanation,” says Jean-Pierre MacQuart of Australia’s Curtin University.

He says that a supermassive black hole and roiling supernova remnant are both consistent with the data, at least for now: “I am sure that, in time, the astronomical community will conjure up no shortage of alternate scenarios to explain the environment of this FRB!”

This iconic Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1300 is suffused with detail—bright blue young stars, the dust lanes spiraling around the bright nucleus, distant galaxies shining through.

NASA, ESA, AND THE HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM (STSCI/AURA). ACKNOWLEDGMENT: P. KNEZEK (WIYN)

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VREEMDE PAARSE LUCHTEN WIJZEN OP NADERING NIBIRU...

De afgelopen dagen hebben we talloze getuigen de revue laten passeren die allemaal vreemde onverklaarbare geluiden in de lucht hoorden. 

Een aantal echter, kwam ook met vreemde luchten, paarse luchten, waarover wij eerder schreven en die worden toegeschreven aan de naderende planeet Nibiru. 

Het duurt lang in mainstreamland voordat ergens het kwartje begint te vallen, want het zijn meesters in het negeren van dingen die werkelijk gebeuren of er idiote verklaringen voor weten te vinden.

Een goed voorbeeld hiervan krijg je bij het zien van wat een lezer uit de omgeving Breda heeft opgestuurd (dank!). Het gaat om een foto van 10 januari 2018 en waarover hij schrijft:

Beste, hierbij foto’s van paarse lucht boven Breda woensdag 10 januari 2018. 

Volgens diverse media reflectie van de kassen. Flauwekul. Volgens de weersverwachting reflectie van de wolken. Erg merkwaardig.

Een andere lezer uit België (dank!) ziet ook 's nachts vreemde luchten die verschijnen en dan plotseling weer verdwijnen, dit in combinatie met een vreemd geluid.

Een verslag uit Oostakker:

De lucht en het weer hebben me altijd al gefascineerd dus ik kijk heel veel naar de hemel zowel overdag als ‘s nachts. Ik heb zo de indruk dat er veel aan het veranderen is, er gebeuren dateringen in de lucht. Te veel rode gloed aan de hemel terwijl dat niet altijd mogelijk lijkt.

Daar komt bij dat ik veel meer geluiden hoor die ik vroeger veel minder hoorde, veel rare wolken, ‘s nachts ook dikwijls een roze/rood/oranjeachtige gloed en dat dikwijls in verschillende richtingen zodat het echt niet normaal is. 

Afgelopen nacht keek ik ook weer buiten terwijl ik een sigaretje aan het roken was toen ik weer die gloeden zag, maar er was ook nog een wit lichtpunt dat kwam en ging in een s-vorm. Ik wou het opnemen maar het was van slechte kwaliteit. 

En toen was het er. Een luid, onheilspellend geluid alsof een groot schilgeven metaalachtige iets aanvoer. Overweldigend! Leek ook beetje op scheepshoorn. Duurde toch minuut of 7. Rode gloed verdween en het werd donker, pikdonker. Creepy! 

Dat was zo rond 4 uur afgelopen nacht. Ik hoop het nooit meer te horen. 

Het is het geluid van onheil.

Er verschijnen steeds meer berichten, ook bij de mainstream, over vreemde, paarse luchten zoals de volgende:

Of zoals de volgende, onlangs genomen in de Amerikaanse staat Tennessee: 

En in Ecuador:

De vreemde paarse luchten en ook een mogelijke verklaring daarvoor kwamen aan bod in een eerder artikel: 

Zo werden de inwoners van de Amerikaanse stad Houston enkele weken geleden wakker en zagen ze overal paarse luchten. 

Aangezien eerst even de zon scheen en toen onweerswolken binnen begonnen te rollen, werd de lucht helemaal paars en zong iedereen in de stad het lied “Purple Rain” van de onlangs overleden Prince. 

Volgens Nancy Lieder van Zetatalk wordt dit soort verschijnselen veroorzaakt door een combinatie van het ijzeroxide stof in wat zij noemt de “staart van Niburu”, die zich vermengt met luchtvervuiling zoals je die in Houston aantreft. Dit zorgt ervoor dat in plaats van een rode kleur de hemel boven de stad paars kleurt. 

Veel mensen die de afgelopen week hun ervaringen naar ons hebben gestuurd, maken melding van een soort onbehaaglijk gevoel, misschien niet direct angst, maar wel iets in hen dat zegt dat dit geassocieerd wordt met iets onprettigs.

Zoals hierboven staat bij de ervaring van een lezer: Het is het geluid van onheil.

Daarom, ter afsluiting nog even terug naar een eerder artikel:

Tenslotte zullen wij allemaal in onze genen ergens de ervaring hebben opgeslagen van een eerdere passage van Nibiru, bijgenaamd de Verwoester. Een gebeurtenis die uitgebreid staat beschreven in de Kolbrin bijbel zoals wij al eerder berichtten: 

“De donkere dagen begonnen met het laatste bezoek van de Verwoester en dit werd voorspeld door vreemde tekenen aan de hemel. Alle mensen werden stil en liepen rond met een bleek gelaat. 

Angst nam de bevolking in haar grip en vrouwen werden door die angst onvruchtbaar. Ze konden niet zwanger worden en degene die het wel werden verloren hun kind. 

De dagen van stilte werden gevolgd door een tijd waarbij trompetgeschal en doordringende hoge tonen werden gehoord in de hemelen en de mensen werden net zo bang als een kudde zonder herder. 

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ZOVEEL VERSCHILLENDE MENSEN KUNNEN NIET ALLEMAAL EEN VREEMD GELUID INBEELDEN.

Eerst waren er drie mensen die melding maakten van een vreemd geluid dat ze hoorden boven het westen van Nederland. 

De dag erna kwamen er nog drie, dit keer zelfs uit België, maar nu komen er echt overal mensen tevoorschijn die iets dergelijks hoorden, van Groningen tot Roosendaal.

Wanneer zoveel mensen iets in de lucht horen wat daar eigenlijk niet thuis hoort, dan is niet meer te spreken over verbeelding of fantasie. In een artikel gisteren kwamen mensen aan het woord die allen een vreemd geluid hadden gehoord en al deze mensen woonden eigenlijk min of langs de kuststreek of in ieder geval het westelijk deel van ons land en België.

Het mysterie groeit, want in plaats van antwoorden, komen er nog veel meer meldingen binnen.

Zoals deze uit de buurt van Alkmaar (dank):

Naar aanleiding van jullie artikel over de vreemde geluiden hier mijn ervaring van afgelopen nachten. Al 2x werd ik wakker door een brommend geluid, het leek op een stationair draaiende motor van een auto maar veel indringender en luider. Het geluid kwam ook niet van straat, maar van boven.

Ik zag echter niets. Het kwam bij mij niet als eng over, maar was wel super irritant. Het was geen vliegtuig, want het geluid bleef “hangen” en opeens was het weg. Ik woon vlak boven Alkmaar.

En dan een eerste melding die niet uit het Westen komt, maar uit de buurt van Steenwijk (dank!):

Reeds verschillende keren hebben mijn vrouw en ik het , zogenaamde helicoptergeluid, gehoord. Het geluid heeft maandagochtend 8 januari jl. wel meer dan een uur geduurd. Het was een zonnige dag. Wij wonen in Basse ten Noorden van Steenwijk. In de lucht was niets te zien. Voor ons gevoel kwam het geluid vanuit zuid Oost Drenthe.

En dan, geen ervaring, maar iemand die zegt dat iets dergelijks vaker is voorgekomen (dank!):

Gezien uw 2 artikelen over geluiden in Nederland en Be dat u/men een verklaring zoekt. U zou e.v.t op de site van Mevr Ans Hoornweg kunnen kijken, er is daar op 22 juni 2017 bericht gepubliceerd, dat daar ook over gaat, en haar verklaring er aan geeft. Verhaal van ook persoonlijke ervaring.

Wanneer we daar kijken, dan staat er het volgende, klaarblijkelijk waar gebeurde verhaal:

Het gebeurde op één van die hele warme dagen in deze maand juni. De zon scheen toen volop en de lucht was prachtig blauw. Mijn kennisje had ‘s middags enkele familieleden op visite, maar omdat het buiten té warm was bleven ze liever binnenshuis.

Rond een uur of 4 zaten ze gezellig in haar woonkamer te praten, maar toen werden hun gesprekken verstoord door het geluid, of beter gezegd kabaal, van een helikopter die vlak boven hun huis leek te hangen. De man des huizes ging samen met één van hun gasten naar buiten om te kijken waarom die helikopter zo irritant boven hun huis hing. Ze speurden de hele lucht af, maar tot hun grote verbazing zagen ze geen helikopter, terwijl ze hem wél hoorden?!

Verbijsterd gingen beide mannen weer naar binnen en vertelden hun familieleden dat er nergens een helikopter te zien was.

Het geluid van de helikopter begon langzaam weg te sterven, maar op dat moment werd het, voor heel even, aardedonker om hen heen …. en dát op een zonnige dag om 4 uur ‘s middags?!
Na deze vreemde gebeurtenis keken de familieleden elkaar verbijsterd en vol ongeloof aan …. wat was hen, in Godsnaam, zojuist was overkomen?!

En daar wordt dan de volgende uitleg aan gegeven door mevrouw Hoornweg:

Het kennisje vroeg aan mij of ik een verklaring wist voor deze, door haar én haar visite ervaren, vreemde gebeurtenissen.

Mijn antwoord was dat ik dacht dat er die middag waarschijnlijk een ‘experiment’ met de psyche van haar en haar visite had plaatsgevonden – momenteel vinden er nl. vele geheime experimenten plaats, waaronder ook manipulatie van onze geest.

Ja, er gebeuren vreemde dingen in ons luchtruim waar wij mensen niets van mogen weten …… en degenen die daar verantwoordelijk voor zijn zwijgen in alle talen.

Vervolgens een waarneming van iemand uit het Westland:

Ik woon in het Westland en ervaar nu sinds een week elke avond/nacht die geluiden waarover jullie spreken, of het hetzelfde is weet ik niet. Het begint als een laag geluid wat na 5 seconden begint te trillen en wat daarna wegebt. Een enkele keer is het ook een hoge toon. Het is geen interne zaak aangezien ik duidelijk hoor dat het uit 1 richting komt.

Als ik meer weet of ervaar laat ik het weten.

De volgende lezer meldt geen ervaring, maar vertelt het volgende (dank!):

Reagerend op de topic dat er iets gaande is in Nederland en België wil ik hieraan het volgende toevoegen :

Het valt mij op dat ik de laatste paar weken vooral s' avonds helicopters over hoor vliegen. Soms één per avond, soms meerdere per avond.EEA doet mij denken aan een voorval in 2015 op de Veluwe toen mijn vrouw en ik een korte vakantie genoten en op een terras in Elspeet Chinook's over zagen en hoorde vliegen. Ik heb dit destijds ook aan jullie redactie gemeld en ook weer reagerend op een topic over vreemde geluiden en lichten boven ons land.

Gisteravond was het rond 21.30 uur opnieuw raak en vloog hier boven onze huizen een helicopter over, geen chinook , maar en ander soort. Nu weet ik absoluut zeker dat de lezers en lezeressen van deze site helicopter geluiden zullen herkennen en deze niet verwarren met het vreemde geluid wat overal hoorbaar is. Wat mij wel te denken geeft is de activiteit van helicopters s'avonds na 21.00 uur.

Dat er “iets” gaande is staat voor mij als een paal boven water, mijn advies aan lezers en lezeressen van deze site :

Wees voorbereid, sla voedsel in, minimaal 2 maanden, zorg voor voldoende drinkwater in flessen en zorg dat je huis en haard kan verdedigen en hiermee doel ik niet op saté prikkers of aardappelschilmesjes. 

Zorg dat je drank in huis hebt, het kan dienen als ontsmettingsmiddel en als ruil middel als geld waardeloos is of niet meer uit muren komt. 

Zoals op deze site vaak gewaarschuwd wordt, wat als er straks geen drinkwater meer uit kranen stroomt of de electra valt een week uit. 

Mijn vrouw zei laatst geërgerd dat ze de muslie niet zag staan in onze voorraadkast, das precies wat ik bedoel, de beste raad = voorraad. 

Wees voorbereid !!!!!

Dan, waarnemingen uit Groningen en Drenthe (dank!):

Ook ik heb deze artikel gelezen wat er boven Nederland en België gaande is, en het is niet alleen aan de westzijde van Nederland en België. Afgelopen maandagnacht, dus van maandag op dinsdag, was dat geluid hier ook aanwezig. Ik wordt s' nachts niet gauw wakker van geluid maar dit was inderdaad ook dat zware dempende geluid wat zeker een uur boven mijn huis hing. Uiteindelijk ben ik ook maar eens buiten gaan kijken wat het was, niets te zien...

Toen golfde het geluid uiteindelijk weg, richting het westen. Ik woon in het Westerwolde, oost-Groningen.

Later hoorde ik van mijn kinderen, die in Emmen (Dr.) wonen, dat zij het ook gehoord hebben en van het geluid ook s' nachts naast het bed stonden.

Misschien draaf of fantaseer ik nu door, maar onlangs las ik dat Ashtar de overheden had gewaarschuwd i.v.m. Disclosure en daarom misschien wat van zich laat horen...(?) Van bekenden in de USA hoorde ik ook dat zij ook geregeld dit soort zware geluiden horen.

Of wat mij waarschijnlijker lijkt, ze (overheden, koningshuizen etc.) zijn s' nachts in samenwerking met buitenaardsen (Lees: reptielen) druk in de weer alles voor te bereiden, alles over te hevelen, mocht het te heet onder de voeten worden. Want ik kan mij niet voorstellen dat men zo overdag met alle schilderijen, sieraden goud, etc., etc., zo onder de arm de deur uitgaan, en tot nooit weerziens roepen. Alles gaat in stilte, zodat met er geen lucht van krijgt. 

Zomaar wat hersenspinsels, maar ik denk niet dat ik er te ver van af ben...

Nog een waarneming uit Drenthe (dank!):

Enige tijd gelden (27-12-2017 om 23:30 volgens mijn browser geschiedenis) lag ik in bed toen ik eveneens een zwaar brommend geluid heb gehoord. Ik woon in Drenthe (Valthermond) bij een laagvlieggebied voor militaire vliegtuigen. In eerste instantie dacht ik dat het militaire transportvliegtuigen waren die laag over kwamen vliegen. 

Maar het geluid leek zich niet tot nauwelijks voort te bewegen, het leek of het op één plek bleef hangen of maar heel langzaam bewoog. Ook was het geluid behoorlijk laag en zwaar voor een vliegtuig of helikopter. 

Ik ben toen niet mijn bed uit gegaan om te kijken wat het was. Op google heb ik gezocht of er militaire training was (vandaar dat ik de datum en tijd terug kan halen), die worden vaak aangekondigd maar er was niks over te vinden. Op vliegtuigradar was op dat moment geen vliegbewegingen boven het gebied waar ik woon te zien. De dag erna kon ik er ook niks over terug vinden in het nieuws. 

Helaas ben ik niet naar buiten geweest en heb dus ook niks gezien. Nadat het zware bromgeluid een tijdje had aangehouden verdween het langzaam. 

Om een lang verhaal kort te houden; ook in Drenthe zijn er vreemde geluiden in de lucht gehoord.

Dan we gaan we weer naar het zuiden, Roosendaal, waar een lezer  het geluid ook hoort en vindt dat het iets spookachtigs heeft.

Ik heb met belangstelling uw relaas gelezen over vreemde geluiden, die worden gehoord. 

Ik woon zelf aan de zuidkant van Roosendaal en ik heb al diverse keren vreemde geluiden gehoord. Het is telkens weer hetzelfde geluid. Een indringend, luid, zwaar, dof, monotoon en irritant gebrom. Meestal 's-avonds laat, zo rond middernacht. 

Het geluid komt duidelijk uit de lucht. Ik ben al diverse keren buiten gaan kijken, maar kan niets in de lucht waarnemen, dat dit zou kunnen veroorzaken. Zelfs niet bij een heldere sterrenhemel. Het geluid lijkt recht van boven te komen. De bron van het gebrom lijkt ergens stil te hangen in de lucht. Afstand, hoogte en richting zijn echter niet te bepalen. 

Het geluid begint heel plotseling en houdt even plotseling op. Het gebrom duurt meestal maar enkele minuten, maar kan ook best wel eens een kwartier aanhouden. Het geluid lijkt een beetje op het afblazen van een enorme hoeveelheid stoom. Dan denk ik toch wel aan een veelvoud van het afblazen van de stoomketels van de Titanic na de aanvaring. 

Roosendaal ligt op een steenworp afstand van de uchtmachtbasis Woensdrecht. Militaire vliegtuigen, helicopters en shinooks komen regelmatig over vliegen, maar dat klinkt wel allemaal anders. De snelweg en de spoorlijnen maken ook wel wat lawaai, maar dat hoort toch ook heel anders. In Roosendaal staat een hele grote zendmast, die ook wel eens wil brommen, maar dat komt in de verste verte niet in de buurt van het geluid. 

Langs Roosendaal loopt een zgn. leidingenstraat met allerlei pijpleidingen en hoogspanningsmasten. Daar wil het ook wel eens brommen, maar dat geluid is toch lang niet zo indringend. Industrie, die dit soort geluid zou kunnen veroorzaken is er in de hele omgeving niet. Alleen de kerncentrale van Doel, ten noorden van Antwerpen, zou in aanmerking kunnen komen. Maar ik heb nog nooit gehoord, dat dat ding zou brommen. 

Kortom, ik kan alleen maar vaststellen, dat er inderdaad iets vreemds gaande is, waarvoor geen afdoende verklaring voor handen is. Uit de verhalen, die u hebt gepubliceerd, meen ik voorzichtig te mogen vaststellen, dat het telkens om een zelfde geluidsbron gaat. 

Een interessant detail is, dat het geluid ook in andere streken van het land wordt gehoord Het fenomeen intrigeert me. Het heeft iets spookachtigs.

Van Roosendaal gaan we wederom naar Rijnsburg (dank!):

Ik las het artikel op jullie site. 

Ook ik heb de nacht van woensdag op dondernacht dat rare geluid gehoord. Ik dacht dat het kwart voor drie was toen ik naar het toilet moest en dacht jeetje nog zo vroeg, ik lag er net weerlekker in toen ik een zwaar brommend geluid hoorde. Ik dacht eerst ook aan een auto maar daar was het geluid te hard voor. Ik ben wel eens in Kortrijk geweest waar ze oude Dakota’s hadden vliegen. 

Het geluid leek daar heel erg op. Toen dacht ik maar dat kan toch niet vliegtuigen mogen toch op bepaalde uren niet opstijgen….. of landen. Het geluid duurde ik weet niet hoelang in mijn verbeelding, na een tijdje net toen ik dacht ik ga er uit en kijken wat het is nam het geluid geleidelijk af. Ik keek op mijn wekkertje en het was net half 4. Ik woon in Noordwijk, net naast Rijnsburg……

Van Rijnsburg richting oosten naar Deventer (dank!):

Ook in de buurt van Deventer is minutenlang een ronkend motorgeluid van een vliegtuig (?) gehoord begin van deze week. Dusdanig dat ik naar buiten ging om e.e.a. te kunnen plaatsen. Ik weet gebrek aan visuele waarneming van het object aan de bosrijke omgeving waarin ik woon tot ik jullie stuk las hierover. Het (harde) geluid verplaatste zich namelijk niet…, maar ging uiteindelijk over in een zachtere modus zonder van plek te veranderen. Althans dat is zoals ik het beleefde.

We gaan nog verder naar het oosten, naar Aalten (dank!):

Artikel ‘’ Er is iets gaande boven Nederland en België’’  Woensdag 10 januari 2018  10:13 uur.  Ik ben woonachtig  in de gemeente Aalten Gelderland  en heb twee keer een geluid gehoord wat op in de verte  het rangeren van treinen leek  maar hier geen treinstation , voor de duidelijkheid dit was overdag in de middag. De filmpjes  welke op  internet  te vinden zijn  met hoog  schurend  piep achtig trompet en  brom  geluid,  dat zelfde meende ik ook te horen . 

Ik ben  naar buiten gegaan  en in de lucht gekeken   maar kon niet echt  richting bepalen  maar voelde als  Noord .  Omdat het  niet  echt lang aanhield  ben ik  weer naar binnen gegaan.  Heb ook  nagedacht over wat de oorzaak zou kunnen zijn, nu  denk ik de atmosfeer over  elkaar schuurt  dus koude lagen   bevroren op  grote hoogte  langs warmere lagen . 

Wat niet  gelijk bliksem flitsen geeft door  koeling  op die grote hoogte.  Wat  mij tevens opvalt is, dat  de laatste  maanden  hier waar het  normaal dood en doodstil in de nacht is, nu veel nachtelijk verkeer bedrijvigheid is.  Dat ik zelfs  onrust  ervaar daardoor,  bevreemd  mij dit .

Dan, waarnemingen en een mogelijke verklaring uit Helmond (dank!):

Ik las het artikel over laagfrequente geluiden in West nederland.Ik wil daarover zeggen, dat ik reeds in augustus vorig jaar contactopnam met de gemeente Helmond, wegens het 's nacht wakker liggen

van een opdringerige BROM, een zogenaamde E.L.F. 

De gemeente zei; daar gaan wij niet over. Ga maar naar de provincie Brabant.Welnu, ik had er een dag over gedaan om mijn klacht te omschrijven, en binnen drieminuten na verzending keeg ik drie woordjes retour:"afgehandeld zonder onderzoek" Daaronder stond de suggestiedat ik mijn klacht maar eens bij de Provincie Gelderland moest leggen (serieus).Zoals altijd, politiek is er niet voor u als ze eindelijk iets echt moeten gaan doen.De reden van de weigering van onderzoek was, dat ik niet kon aangeven wat debron van het geluid was. Hoe idioot kan dat zijn? 

Maargoed, ik heb dus op den duur schema's aangelegd van het geluid's nachts. En mijn nachtelijke plaag stopte ineens op 14 november jongstledenen toen ik bemerkte dat het definitief weg was kon ik weer normaal slapen.Op den duur zijn er door dit fenomeen ook zeer scherpe en hoge tonen

in mijn oren gekomen. Het schijnt zo te zijn dat die hoge tonenveroorzaakt worden door een E.L.F als die langdurig aanhoudt.Meer daarover bij de stichting Laagfrequent geluid waar nu mijn klacht overigens gedeponeerd is. 

Echter, afgelopen donderdagnacht 4 januari was daar ineens weer die brom, vanuit het niets begon het weer alsof iemand een knop omdraaide. En het valt me op dat dat dezelfde datum is als in het artikel. Maar of het gerelateerd is durf ik niet te zeggen. Het is wel toevallig.De brom klinkt alsof er ergens in de buurt een tractor staat te draaien.Maar nergens lijkt het alsof je dichter naar de bron toe kunt lopen.Dat is heel raar. 

Ik ben ernstig aan het onderzoeken gegaan en ik heb ontdekt dat vrijwelalle gebouwen in de regio, in trilling worden gebracht door een resonantiein de aarde. Het is dus zo dat ik het op andere plaatsen ook gehoord hebzowel binnen als buiten, maar buiten alleen als je direct naast een muur staat. 

Het belangrijkste is, er is mogelijk een oorzaak van de brom aan te wijzen.het is wellicht het Amerikaanse GWEN-tower systeem. Dit systeem zendt laagfrequente golven uit langs de bovenste laag van de Aarde, dit om de effecten van straling na bijvoorbeeld een kernoorlog te kunnen omzeilen.

Maar volgens mij is dat allemaal geleuter. Het GWEN systeem wordt ook wel de "ZOMBIE MAKER"genoemd.Omdat het in staat zou zijn om in de slaap van mensen, het DNA te muteren.

gwen-towers-earthquake-machines-zombie-makers Nou ja ik weet niet of dat waar is.

Maar wat ik wel weet is dat ik van die brom super-agressief wordt.Ik ga gewoon slaan soms, en ben reeds vele malen naar buiten gevlucht in het midden van de nacht, omdat mijn bed niet vol te houden was. 

Dus ja, iemand zit absoluut te klooien in Nederland.Hebben we nu binnenkort een zware aardbeving ergens, dan weten we dat het geen natuurlijke is geweest. Het bereik van GWEN is ongeveer 2500 kilometerdus het apparaat kan wel ergens in Roemenië staan, of in Tromso Noorwegen bijvoorbeeld, want daar moet ik steeds aan denken. 

zie ook

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/scalar_tech/esp_scalartech04.htm

http://truthstreammedia.com/2015/07/27/what-is-this-gwen-tower-really-for/

En een lezer uit Zevenaar (dank!) die niet specifiek dit geluid de afgelopen dagen heeft gehoord, maar wel gedurende de afgelopen jaren.

Ik woon in Zevenaar bij Arnhem en hoor dat vreemde gebrom al een paar jaar met flinke tussenpozen wel/niet . We horen het in de huiskamer . Zodra we de tuindeur open doen is het niet te traceren waar het vandaan komt . Alsof het alleen in huis te horen is . Het is een lage frequentie toon/brom . 

Ik had ooit een stuk gelezen in de Telegraaf (+ - 25 jaar geleden dat ze in Engeland testen deden om verschillende frequentie op mensen los te laten om zo hun stemming te bepalen. Zo kunnen ze mensen rustig houden tijdens wedstrijden en rellen , mensen verdrietig of vrolijk laten zijn.  Of zijn ze nu bezig de bevolking om zeep te helpen want valt wel op dat er erg veel mensen last hebben van depressies . Om het maar eens niet gelijk bij de Aliens te zoeken of een Aardbol die op een roestige as draait haha .

Zo ook iemand uit Rotterdam (dank!):

Ik wil graag ook reageren op het onderwerp over de diepe bromgeluiden, ik hoor dit al een 3/4 jaar met enige regelmaat hier in Rotterdam, ik dacht dat ik het misschien alleen was die dit meemaakte en dat het met gehoor problemen door verkoudheid te maken had, maar ook ik kan bevestigen dat de brom er een is van de diepste categorie , ook is het alsof je even in een vacuüm gezogen wordt op het moment dat de brom begint en die paar seconden dat deze duurt, het gaat door je hele hoofd heen, ik heb dit voorheen nog nooit ervaren, eerste keer schrok ik er van zo vreemd en plots als het begon, nu ben ik niet meer bang, alleen overvalt het je op elke willekeurige plek, buiten of binnen, het moet iets heel erg groot zijn dat dit veroorzaakt dat voel ik er wel bij, al is er niets te zien, ik ben blij dat ik dit lees en ik niet de enige ben, ik wilde het toch even bij jullie melden.

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Scientists have found evidence of a ‘fourth dimension’

Eureka!

For a long time have scientists thought that the universe had three spatial dimensions: top-down, left-right, front-back.

In 1905, Albert Einstein helped us with his theory of relativity to understand “the dimension of time”. But the new fourth spatial dimension has remained hidden so far.

The truth is that the fur dimension is as mysterious as it gets.

Two groups of scientists from America and Europe claim to have discovered the fourth dimension, and their findings have been published in the journal Nature.

Despite the fact we can’t see it, the fourth dimension is there.

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Researchers carried out two experiments in which they could observe the quantum Hall effect – the movement of electrons within a material limited to two dimensions as this material passes through a magnetic field in a perpendicular way – and they demonstrated— theoretically—that this effect can be extended in four spatial dimensions.

Despite the fact that the papers focused on two different experimental approaches, they arrived at a similar conclusion.

European scientists created a 2D system with supercooled atoms held in position with a special grid made of lasers. Referred to as ‘charge pump’, scientists used it to test the flow of electrical charge while monitoring how the atoms behaved. Scientists noted how variations in the movement match up with how a 4D quantum Hall effect would ripple out, which gives us hope that a fourth spatial dimension may somehow be accessed.

The second group of scientists created a system with light particles which were set to move through a special glass that has the ability to bounce light back and forth between the edges. Scientists simulated the effects of electrical charges via physical input and observed how the light behaved. Experts looked for irregularities that could only exist if there was a fourth dimension. Again, researchers observed a 4D quantum Hall effect.

Speaking about the discovery to Ryan F. Mandelbaum at Gizmodo, Mikael Rechtsman from Penn State University said: “Physically, we don’t have a 4D spatial system, but we can access 4D quantum Hall physics using this lower-dimensional system because the higher-dimensional system is coded in the complexity of the structure.”

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“Maybe we can come up with new physics in the higher dimension and then design devices that take advantage the higher-dimensional physics in lower dimensions.”

The discovery is perhaps best explained by Science Alert writer David Nield who wrote: “just as a 3D object casts a 2D shadow, scientists have managed to observe a 3D shadow potentially cast by a 4D object – even if we can’t actually see the 4D object itself. That could unlock some new findings in the very fundamentals of science.”

“I think that the two experiments nicely complement each other,” one of the European researchers, Michael Lohse from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Germany, said in an interview with Gizmodo.

The findings from the two experiments have been published in Nature here and here.

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Historic: For The First Time In 150 Years, A Lunar Eclipse Will Coincide With A Blue Moon

Prepare yourself sky gazers, for the first time in 150 years–actually 152 years to be precise–a Lunar Eclipse will coincide with a blue moon. This event will make the moon look much larger, much brighter and of a different color.

Now don’t get confused by the term Blue Moon, as it has nothing to do with the color of the moon.

The full moon will seem red or a burnt-orange hue, hence its “blood moon” moniker.

According to NASA, this occurs because the indirect sunlight that reaches the moon, during a total lunar eclipse, first makes its way through our planet’s atmosphere, where most of the scattered blue-colored light is filtered out.

A super ‘blue Moon’ is said to occur on January 31st.

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The moon could also appear blood red, dark brown or gray say, researchers.

It’s a magical event and Dr. Noah Petro, a planetary geologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center calls it a “collision of multiple lunar events.”

“A lot of things are happening at once,” Petro said. “It’s a cool event.”

The only thing left to do is hope for good weather.

Events like this is why I love astronomy. At the end of January, to be exact on January the 31st, we will witness a total lunar eclipse.

This NASA chart details the visibility range and times for the Jan. 31, 218 total lunar eclipse.

Image Credit: NASA

A lunar eclipse occurs when our planet is aligned between the Sun and our moon. As this alignment occurs, our planet’s shadow blocks the sunlight from reflecting off the moon. So, when looking at the moon we actually sere our planets shadow on the moon.

When a TOTAL lunar eclipse occurs, where a full moon passes through earth shadow, our sun’s light is actually filtered through our planet’s atmosphere, which makes the moon look reddish from our viewpoint on Earth.

Space.com tells us that the last time a total lunar eclipse coincided with a blue moon was on March 31, 1866.

IF for some reasons you end up missing this incredible astronomical event, fear not, as on December 31st, 2028, you’ll get a chance to witness the same thing.

The event on January 31st is part of a series of three lunar events that started on December 3rd, 2017. The second event took place on January 2nd 2018, and the third, grand finale will happen on January 31st.

Even though the total lunar eclipse will be visible all over the world, you have to be located on the nighttime on Earth while the eclipse takes place in order to witness this rare astronomical phenomenon.

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GIMBAL is the first of three US military videos of unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) approved for public release. The footage shows what was on display in the cockpit for the pilots of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet. Department of Defense/To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science via Storyful

Last Sunday night, an Indian Trail man’s wife excitedly burst into their house to report two orange, glowing balls that seemed to hover a few hundred feet overhead.

The man, who reported the incident to the Mutual UFO Network, wrote that he and his grandson headed outside to see a single ball hovering silently above them. Less than a minute later, a group of three balls appeared.

“My first thought was Chinese lanterns but they would have been very, very large, small plane or helicopter size, and defying wind patterns,” wrote the man, who MUFON would not identify. “The light source was much much brighter than a candle. With the binoculars it appeared spherical with a red beam coming out of the yellow-orange glow that the whole sphere was giving off.

“Any idea what we were watching?”

Chilean Navy helicopter pilot shoots video of UFO

On Nov. 11, 2014, a Navy captain and technician were on a routine daytime patrol mission flying north along the Chilean coast, west of Santiago, and filmed an unidentified flying object.

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More and more, says the venerable Scientific American, scientists are seriously seeking answers to that question. In a piece posted Tuesday, the magazine declares 2017 “a banner year for scientists seeking aliens – even though they (apparently) didn’t find any.”

It’s not that scientists delight in crushing the belief that aliens are among us, the article states. They instead demand clear evidence to support an extraordinary claim. Yet some scientists acknowledge the slight possibility of extraterrestrial explanations for some recent observations.

The extreme dimming of Boyajian’s Star, for example, was probably caused by space dust – unless its light was absorbed by “alien megastructures.” Last October, the large object called ‘Oumuamua that streaked past Earth was probably a comet but might also have been an alien probe.

Just last month, a self-described UFO investigator posted a YouTube video that suggests a group of alien aircraft were recently seen hovering over Spring Lake, North Carolina, about two hours east of Charlotte. The video got nearly 70,000 views within two days of being posted.

U.F.O.s: What does the government know?

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

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In the North Carolina mountains west of Asheville, skyshipsovercashiers.com has reported UFO sightings (and Bigfoot evidence) for nearly a decade.

Editor Mary Joyce said the website grew out of photos taken by an 8-year-old in the mountain community of Cashiers that appeared to show a saucer-shaped silhouette against the sun. Since then, Joyce said, UFO sightings have been reported all over Jackson County.

Joyce said public officials and academics scoff at such accounts even if, she adds, they privately acknowledge them.

“The ones that want to get the information out kind of tiptoe around. They’re not going to lightly do this,” she said. “The people who are really, really aware of what’s going on regarding UFOs have actually feared for their lives.... These people have real reasons to be fearful if they know stuff. The (scientists) at the college level, they don’t know squat.”

Official Washington also appears to have taken an interest in probing the potential for alien encounters.

In a story line that could have been borrowed from the “X-Files,” the New York Times reported in December on a secretive Defense Department program, shut down in 2012, that investigated UFO sightings. The program was largely funded at the request of former Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

Unidentified aerial phenomenon appears to have no visible exhaust plume

(Video has no sound) FLIR1 is the second of three US military videos of unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) approved for public release. The footage was captured by a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet present at the 2004 Nimitz incident off the coast of San Diego. Pilot interviews state that the UAP was hovering at 24,000 feet.

Department of Defense/To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science via Storyful

The program and the aerospace company it hired “produced documents that describe sightings of aircraft that seemed to move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion, or that hovered with no apparent means of lift,” the Times reported.

The program’s former director, Luis Elizondo, told CNN: “My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.”

Photos were taken by Glynis Heenan and shown here on skyshipsovercashiers.com. Scientific American magazine called 2017 a “banner year” for scientists probing such sightings. Photos taken by Glynis Heenan in this screenshot of skyshipsovercashiers.com

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Supercomputer provides black hole breakthrough

Scientists have gained insights into the most mysterious phenomena in modern astronomy, the relativistic jets from black holes.

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What's sending mysterious repeating fast radio bursts in space?

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Story highlights

• A repeating fast radio burst 3 billion light-years from Earth may be coming from a neutron star
• The strong magnetic field around it could be the result of a black hole or powerful nebula

(CNN) The only known repeating fast radio burst in the universe just got more extreme.

These radio flashes usually last a millisecond and have an unknown physical origin. People love to believe that they're from an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, and this hypothesis hasn't been ruled out entirely by researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program dedicated to finding evidence of intelligent life in the universe.

Fast radio bursts in space themselves are not rare, but FRB 121102 -- first detected in 2012 -- is the only one that has been known to repeat. And the repetition is sporadic.

Last year, its host galaxy, a star-forming dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years from Earth, was also identified.

Mysterious radio signal traced to dwarf galaxy light-years away

Now, researchers have used the newest detections to learn more about the extreme environment for the source of this mysterious burst. The details were revealed in a study published in the journal Nature as well as at this week's 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington.

The radio burst itself releases a "monstrous" amount of energy in each millisecond, comparable to what our sun releases in an entire day, the researchers said.

The newest detections allowed researchers to discover that the radio bursts themselves are polarized and coming from an environment that contains an incredibly strong magnetic field. They were also able to detect the radio bursts at a higher frequency than ever.

Data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico helped with new research about fast radio bursts.

When the radio waves pass through the magnetic field, they are twisted in a way known as Faraday rotation. The stronger the magnetic field, the greater the twist. The degree of twist for the latest detections of FRB is among the largest ever measured in a radio source.

"FRB 121102 was already unique because it repeats; now, the huge Faraday rotation we have observed singles it out yet again. We're curious as to whether these two unique aspects are linked," said Daniele Michilli, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Amsterdam and ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.

The causes of such a strong magnetic field provide two intriguing possibilities: proximity to a massive black hole in the galaxy or within a powerful nebula.

'Zombie' star won't die, even after exploding

These hypotheses both support some factors of the radio bursts but also raise questions.

Jason Hessels, study author and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam and ASTRON, described the possibilities.

If it's near a massive black hole, that would explain the persistent radio source and create the right kind of environment, but the researchers aren't entirely confident that such a massive black hole would exist in a dwarf galaxy.

If it's within a powerful nebula, an interstellar cloud of gas or dust, it would also explain the persistent radio source and remain consistent with the fact that astronomers believe the source of the bursts is "young." But it's a million times brighter than the Crab nebula in our own galaxy, which is already massively bright. How could the nebula be that bright?

As for the direct source itself, the latest findings support the idea that it's a neutron star or a pulsar, a highly magnetized and rotating neutron star.

The fact that the source throws out short bursts, ranging from 30 microseconds to 9 milliseconds, supports a source that is just over 6 miles across. That's the right size for a neutron star.

A 3-D-printed version of the variation in fast radio bursts.

Or it could be something undiscovered.

"We can not rule out completely the ET hypothesis for the FRBs in general," said University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral fellow Vishal Gajjar of Breakthrough Listen and the Berkeley SETI Research Center.

First-seen neutron star collision creates light, gravitational waves and gold

The researchers are eager to use a number of observatories with new radio telescopes coming online to observe more fast radio bursts. They estimate that there are 10,000 fast radio bursts happening per day in each area of the sky that telescopes around the world are able to monitor. That's a radio flash every 10 seconds, and radio telescopes will be able to find them.

They hope to learn whether the bursts have their own periodicity, or intervals at which they recur, as well as discovering the true nature of the persistent radio source.

"We are continuing to monitor how the properties of the bursts change with time," Hessels said. "With these observations, we hope to distinguish between the two competing hypotheses of a neutron star either near a black hole or embedded in a powerful nebula."

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Is this the US Air Force's secret 4,600mph spy plane? Mystery 'hypersonic aircraft' is captured in Google Earth images of a Florida airbase, claims conspiracy theorist

• US Air Force is believed to be developing a spy plane that travels at 4,600mph
• Secretive hypersonic plane is being developed by defence firm Lockheed Martin
• Google Earth images show an object that looks similar to the artist's impression
• Pictures were taken by UFO conspiracy theorists from SectureTeam10
• Many have dismissed the latest footage, saying it just shows a high speed boat

By Phoebe Weston For Mailonline

The US Air Force is understood to be developing a spy plane that travels at more than 4,600mph (7,400km/h).

Now, a conspiracy theorist claims he has spotted an image of the mystery craft on Google Earth's view of Florida.  

The satellite image appears to show an object similar to the artist's impression of the secretive hypersonic plane being developed by defence firm Lockheed Martin. 

It comes a day after Lockheed Martin's secretive Skunk Works unit said it had already finished making the radical hypersonic update of the long-retired Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird spy plane.

Images from Google Earth show an object that looks similar to the artist's impression of the secretive hypersonic plane being developed by defence firm Lockheed Martin

The Google satellite images were compiled in a video by Tyler Glockner, known for uploading images of UFO sightings to his YouTube channel Secureteam10.

Whoever created the craft has a 'main foothold in designing aircraft engines that are widely used in civilian and military aviation', Mr Glockner claimed.

'What you're seeing is a very secretive object... I haven't been able to work out what it is', he said.

More than 400,000 people viewed the video which shows a series of screen shots from Google Earth.

'It is no public aircraft that has been disclosed', Mr Glockner claimed.

'You can see that this thing looks like a hypersonic aircraft or spacecraft'.

The shape is similar to the SR-72 hypersonic plane - which is set to be a strike and reconnaissance aircraft that tops Mach 6, writes Daily Star. 

The strange footage was captured by Tyler Glockner, known for uploading images of UFO sightings to his YouTube channel secureteam10

US Air Force is understood to be developing a spy plane that travels at speeds of 4,600mph (7,400kmh) (artist's impression) and new footage could give a glimpse of the new craft

The shape is similar to the SR-72 hypersonic plane (pictured) - which is set to be a strike and reconnaissance aircraft that tops Mach 6

The defence firm Lockheed Martin firm has been working on the project since the early 2000s. 

However, many people were skeptical of the claims, with many saying the footage showed a high speed boat.

'It honestly looks like one of those racing jet boats', wrote YouTube user 'Kody Read'.

'It looks like a powerboat I live next to the ocean seen this shape before and it is next to swamp land and water', wrote another user 'Jamie Lynn'.

One user, called 'Leo Pokat' said it was a 'UPO - unimaginable parked object'.

Earlier this week reports suggested the radical hypersonic update of the long-retired Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird spy plane might have already been finished.  

Jack O'Banion, Vice President of Strategy and Customer Requirements, Advanced Development Programs for Lockheed Martin, let slip at a conference the unmanned aircraft has already been made. 

More than 400,000 people viewed the video which shows a series of screen shots from Google Earth of the strange object

SectureTeam10 is one of the most viewed YouTube channels, with over 785,000 people subscribing to its conspiracy videos. Pictured is their latest Google Earth footage

The footage was taken from Palm Beach County Florida. Lots of people were sceptical of the claims, which many saying the footage showed a high speed boat

Speaking at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech Forum, he showed a slide of a digital mockup of the craft, and said 'Without the digital transformation, the aircraft you see there could not have been made.'

Mr O'Banion also said the aircraft will have a 'digital twin' that knows every part on the aircraft. 

'Talking about speed, you're talking about hypersonics, aircraft that operate above Mach 5,' he said. 

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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Most people say that history began 10,000 years ago, when humans began writing things down. If Ancient Aliens is to be believed, we were all grunting, stupid apes prior to that. The former is a reasonable guess. The latter is little more than snake oil meant to sell books and advertising on the History Channel.

But historian Yuval Noah Harari suggests history actually began 70,000 years ago, when an unremarkable primate we now call Homo sapiensunderwent what he terms “the cognitive revolution.” To Harari, this explains why other humans – Neanderthals, Dinosevians, and so on – no longer walk among us. Something changed in the brains of the sole remaining human species that allowed it to leap frog its way up the food chain and spread out across the world.

The change was the ability to create fiction. Mythmaking. And while many profess that they have no need of religion, Harari suggests this is self delusion. To illustrate, he explains that the car company Peugeot does not really exist. Nor does the United States, human rights, or much anything else we take for granted. Peugeot (or you can take GM, Tesla, Toyota. In fact, any large or small corporation will do.) is not its employees. If the employees all quit tomorrow, Peugeot could simply replace them with new workers or robots. The company is not its cars. If every Peugeot car in existence were scrapped in a day, Peugeot would simply build new cars. Peugeot is not its management. If Peugeot’s management all resigned or were killed or sent to prison, stockholders and employees would simply hire new management. In fact, the only way for Peugeot to cease to exist is if either the stockholders and management dissolve the company or the courts, for whatever reason, order it to disband. Peugeot is a collective fiction designed to facilitate the building of cars. Neanderthals could not do that. Humans can. They do it with everything from corporations to religion to nation states to concepts like rights and property, and especially money. None of these things exist in reality, and yet they do. Because we all agree that they do.

This, Harari posits, is what makes Homo sapiens special. He divides the history of the species into three revolutions: The first is the cognitive, in which humans learned to gossip, trade, tell stories, and create ideas that made bands of hunter-gatherers something more than a collection of hominids roving in highly intelligent packs. The second is the agricultural revolution, in which humans found it more efficient to pen in animals and grow crops in fields. This gave rise to empires, money, writing, and cities. The last is the scientific revolution, and it explains why a backwater continent like Europe was suddenly able to conquer the world. Modern commerce, complex technology, and the computer age arose from this.

Harari says that one should not consider one age better than the other. For instance, hunter-gatherers actually worked fewer hours to survive than most modern humans. And because the only animals they lived with domestically were dogs, they were less prone to disease than we would be later. But we also were not an apex predator quite yet. The agricultural revolution found humans more self-sufficient and safer from predators. And one need only watch an episode of Game of Thrones to see how irrelevant the average empire was to the life of a peasant, who could grow his own food. But it also made us dependent on limited food sources and put is in close proximity with livestock that could transmit diseases that, before and since, were not much of an issue for us. And the scientific revolution, while ultimately reducing violence (you’re more likely to commit suicide or get hit by a car than die in a war or be murdered today), disease, and starvation, also has wrecked the environment. And humans, despite their adaptability, have a tendency to drive large mammals to extinction. We haven’t been killing off every animal on the planet, but hunter-gatherers wiped out the mastodon and giant sloth, and right now, the only animals that seem to be thriving are microbes, domestic pets, and livestock and poultry. Harari’s conclusion is that humans’ ability to think and adapt is amazing, but it also has caused changes in our species that evolution cannot keep up with. We’ve not had time to get our DNA out of the African savanna, and that has consequences, both good and bad.

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Meteorites carrying both water and organic compounds point to an ocean world “seeding life” in the universe

BY ALEXANDRU MICU

New research raises an intriguing possibility — that of an alien ocean world seeding life throughout space.

One of the meteorites’ tiny crystals bearing organic compounds.
Image credits Queenie Chan / The Open University.

In 1998, a group of friends had to cut their basketball game short for a somewhat unexpected reason — a meteorite decided to crash just yards away from the hoop.

Seeds of life

But that seems to have been fortune’s plan all along, as the rock seems to be a harbinger of life rather than death. Initial analysis of the chunk of meteorite, along with another that fell in Morocco the same year, revealed traces of liquid water and other organic components that underpin life. Now, an in-depth chemical analysis points to an ancient ocean world as the likely cradle of these organic compounds. It’s possible that such material could seed life on planets they land on, including the early Earth.

Initial analysis revealed that the main elements inside the meteorites include liquid water and amino acids. Taken together, that’s not really news — we’ve found such compounds in meteorites and in space before. They might not be as rare as we tend to believe. However, we’d never seen them together in a single alien sample before these two bits of space rock were first analyzed.

That made the meteorites really special, so they were preserved at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Keen to find out more, an international team of researchers has recently sampled the organic compounds locked away in these meteorites’ 2-mm long salt crystals using an X-ray beamline and microscope, as well as other chemical experiments.

Along with traces of liquid water, they report finding organogenic elements like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, along with more complex organic compounds such as hydrocarbons and amino acids. In other words, we’ve found the fundamental building blocks of life as we know it right next to water — in a space rock.

“This is really the first time we have found abundant organic matter also associated with liquid water that is really crucial to the origin of life and the origin of complex organic compounds in space,” says study lead author Queenie Chan.

“We’re looking at the organic ingredients that can lead to the origin of life.”

After discovering this exciting chemical cocktail, the next step was to see where the meteorites came from, and where they inherited their organic matter. Their complex chemistry (in comparison to other meteorites) makes it unlikely that they’re simply left-over bits from the creation of the Solar System. Instead, the team narrowed their search to an ancient ocean world — similar to today’s Enceladus or Ceres. Water and ice plumes (which are relatively commonly-seen on such bodies) shooting out into space could have doused the meteorites, locking the planet’s organic compounds in the salt crystals.

Encased in the salt crystals, such biomolecules could safely make it across the cosmos. Even microscopic life could survive on a space-cruise within a similar system, the team says. Once in space, all kinds of things could happen to help spread these seeds of life around — collisions between asteroids, for example, would push them along or shatter them into even more ‘seeds’. After making it to a planet, such rocks could jump-start life on the surface.

“Everything leads to the conclusion that the origin of life is really possible elsewhere,” Chan adds. “There is a great range of organic compounds within these meteorites, including a very primitive type of organics that likely represent the early solar system’s organic composition.”

Next, the team plans to look at other crystals embedded in the meteorites that haven’t yet been analyzed. Who knows what we may find? Maybe a tiny alien bacterium swimming around?

The paper “Organic matter in extraterrestrial water-bearing salt crystals” has been publishedin the journal Science.

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Japanse astronaut bezorgd over groeispurt van zo maar even negen centimeter in drie weken - HLN.be

Bron: ANP, Belga

Norishige Kanai schreef op sociale media dat hij bang is dat hij niet meer in een Sojoezraket past als hij in juni terug naar aarde moet komen, meldt de BBC. Astronauten groeien gemiddeld 2 tot 5 centimeter als ze in de ruimte zijn. Dat komt doordat er geen zwaartekracht is die de rugwervels op elkaar drukt. “Ik groeide als een plant in slechts drie weken. Niet meer sinds de middelbare school”, schreef Kanai. Een Sojoezraket heeft plaats voor acht personen. Als astronauten te lang worden, kan dat een probleem opleveren.

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De Amerikaan Scott Tingle, de Rus Anton Tsjkaplerov en de Japanner Norishige Kanai vormen het nieuwe gezelschap van drie ruimtevaarders die al in september zijn vertrokken naar het ISS: de Rus Aleksandr Missoerkin en de Amerikanen Mark Vande Hei en Joseph Acaba. Voor de 52-jarige Tingle en de 40-jarige Kanai is het een eerste missie. Hun 43-jarige Russische collega heeft in totaal al een jaar in de ruimte doorgebracht. 

De drie nieuw aangekomen astronauten zullen naar verwachting ongeveer vier maanden wonen en werken in de spacemeccano. Ze zullen 51 wetenschappelijke experimenten uitvoeren, en maken druk aankomend en vertrekkend verkeer mee. Voor februari staat een ruimtewandeling ten behoeve van het Russisch segment op de agenda.

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Norishige Kanai.

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