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

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This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California

This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California

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Scientists Just Detected Some Very Odd Noises Coming From An Antarctic Ice Sheet

Scientists Just Detected Some Very Odd Noises Coming From An Antarctic Ice Sheet

An ice sheet  in Antarctica

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Though photographs may present the barren landscapes of Antarctica as eerily calm and peaceful, at least when no storms are raging, the largely lifeless continent and the ice shelves surrounding it produce a medley of bizarrely beautiful sounds. As noted by Earther, the frozen region’s ambient sounds include the Rice Crispies-like crackle of melting ice releasing long-trapped air bubbles to the steady groans, screeches, and pops of massive floating ice sheets shifting and breaking apart as they buckle under the weight of fresh snow in the winter or melt during the summer.

The only catch is that you might not be able to hear all the notes in this spectacular natural symphony if you’re listening with human ears, because many occur on timescales or at frequencies that are not compatible with our auditory abilities. But if you have the right equipment to first capture and then remix the acoustic waves, a whole new soundtrack can be revealed. On top of being really cool to listen to, these recordings help scientists better understand the climatological and geologic processes that shape the Antarctic.

In an astounding new example, a team led by Julien Chaput of Colorado State University and the University of Texas, have revealed how the "songs" created by vibrations in the Ross Ice Shelf can be used to continuously monitor the changing conditions within the ice mass' top five meters (16.4 feet).

“Deploying sensitive seismographs across Earth’s largest ice shelf (the Ross Ice Shelf) for 2 years, we discovered that the shelf nearly continuously sings at frequencies of five or more cycles per second, excited by local and regional winds blowing across its snow dune-like topography,” they wrote in their paper, now published in Geophysical Research Letters. “We find that the frequencies and other features of this singing change, both as storms alter the snow dunes and during a (January 2016) warming event that resulted in melting in the ice shelf’s near surface.”

The Texas-sized ice shelf floats on the Southern Ocean, fused to the mainland off western Antarctica. From this position, the shelf – itself composed of glacier ice that spilled out from the interior of the landmass – acts as a buttress to lessen the flow of ice melt that occurs each warm season. Climate change-driven increases in temperatures have already caused other ice shelves to thin and recede, resulting in sea level rise from unblocked glacier drainage. Currently holding back enormous glaciers that would contribute 5 meters (16.4 feet) of sea level rise if introduced into the water, researchers are anxious for ways to measure the integrity of the Ross Ice Shelf. 

As part of that endeavor, Chaput and his colleagues had buried 34 extremely sensitive seismographs under the snow on the ice’s surface and analyzed the vibrations recorded between late 2014 and early 2017.

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Installation of a seismic station near the northern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, with a solar halo created by fine ice crystals created by spray from the nearby Southern Ocean.

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Soon into the project, the team realized that the snowy coating on the shelf is, in fact, vibrating nearly constantly from the effects of heating and wind. And, similar to a musical instrument, different tones are created when different forces act upon it.

"It's kind of like you're blowing a flute, constantly, on the ice shelf," Chaput said in a statement. "Either you change the velocity of the snow by heating or cooling it, or you change where you blow on the flute, by adding or destroying dunes," he said. "The response of the ice shelf tells us that we can track extremely sensitive details about it." 

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Mercury capsule exhibit to preview Cosmosphere satellite location

Mercury capsule exhibit to preview Cosmosphere satellite location

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The Mercury spacecraft "Liberty Bell 7," seen here on exhibit at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, will be the early centerpiece of a new exhibit at the museum's satellite location in Overland Park opening in February 2019. µ

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 — The historic capsule that carried the second American to fly into space is set to land in the second most populous city in Kansas in early 2019.

"Liberty Bell 7," the Mercury spacecraft that was piloted by NASA astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom on a 1961 suborbital spaceflight, will be the early centerpiece of a new exhibit by Cosmosphere Innovation Space at Bluhawk in Overland Park. The Innovation Space is the planned satellite facility for the Cosmosphere International SciEd Center and Space Museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, which hosts the largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian space artifacts in the world.

Bluhawk is a $750 million, 277-acre mixed-use development that in addition to the Cosmosphere will feature an indoor multi-sport complex, hotel and restaurant and retail marketplace.

"We have an exceptional plan that meets the needs of Cosmosphere, Bluhawk and the public, which is eager to see tremendous exhibits like Liberty Bell 7 as soon as possible," said Jim Remar, president and CEO of the Cosmosphere, in a statement. "Opening a temporary Cosmosphere location in early 2019 is a big win for all parties as we continue forward with the plans for our satellite location."

Since June 2016, Liberty Bell 7 has been on display at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, where it has been a part of the "Beyond Spaceship Earth" exhibit. Before that, the Cosmosphere shipped the space capsule overseas for an exhibit at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn.

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An artist's concept of Cosmosphere Innovation Space at Bluhawk in Overland Park, Kansas.

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Launched on July 21, 1961 on Grissom's 15-minute Mercury-Redstone 4 mission, Liberty Bell 7 sank due to a premature hatch jettison soon after splashing down. It remained on the ocean floor for 38 years until July 1999, when it was recovered by a private expedition organized by Discovery Channel and the Cosmosphere. The museum's SpaceWorks division restored the spacecraft before sending it on a six-year nationwide tour.

Liberty Bell 7 is slated to return from Indiana to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson in mid-December.

The capsule's new temporary exhibition will give visitors to Bluhawk the chance to learn more about space history and the role the Mercury spaceflights played in the United States winning the space race with the former Soviet Union.

"We are very pleased that Overland Park residents and visitors will have an early look at this historic exhibit and others," said Doug Price, president of Price Brothers, the developer of Bluhawk. "This new exhibition is a great venue for the Cosmosphere to test new ideas while we are developing extensive plans for its new satellite location."

The Liberty Bell 7 exhibit at Bluhawk is scheduled to open in February 2019. It will be followed a few months later by an exhibit devoted to Mission Control, featuring consoles restored by the Cosmosphere and used in the filming of the movie "First Man." Other displays are anticipated to rotate on a regular basis.

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A conceptual aerial view of the Bluhawk development in Overland Park, Kansas, including Cosmosphere Innovation Space. (Bluhawk)

Cosmosphere Innovation Space is planned as a 60,000 square foot facility located at 159th Street and U.S. Highway 69 in Overland Park. The Bluhawk site is not intended as a substitute for the Hutchinson museum, but will expose more people to the Cosmosphere brand, allow them to experience the SciEd Center's approach to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and see artifacts currently not on display due to space limitations.

Cosmosphere Innovation Space is part of the first phase of Bluhawk, scheduled to break ground in 2019 and open the following year.

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Une mystérieuse explosion s’est produite sur Mars

Une mystérieuse explosion s’est produite sur Mars

La NASA cacherait, aux yeux du monde, l’existence de la vie sur Mars. Récemment, une énorme explosion s’est produite sur la planète rouge, ravivant de nombreuses théories …

La NASA a été au centre de nombreuses théorie du complot au cours de ces derniers mois. En septembre, le Rover Curiosity, de l’agence spatiale américaine, a subi une mystérieuse anomalie qui a provoqué une panne complète de son système.

Quant au rover Mars Opportunity, il est hors ligne depuis des mois après qu'une énorme tempête de poussière ait envahi la planète rouge à la fin du printemps.

Après cette multitude de pannes, toutes plus étranges les unes que les autres, une activité étrange a été photographiée à la surface de la planète rouge.

Une série de clichés semble montrer un panache de fumée provenant peut-être d'un volcan à la surface de la planète rouge. Toutefois, aucun rapport de la NASA n’y fait référence.

Les théoriciens du complot pensent que la vérité est soigneusement dissimulée au monde entier.

Tyler Glockner a utilisé sa chaîne YouTube pour informer ses abonnés de cette nouvelle sensationnelle. Sa vidéo a déjà enregistré plus de 320 000 visites.

« Il y a eu une explosion - je ne sais pas s'il s'agissait d'un volcan ou de quelque chose d’autrequi a explosé », a-t-il déclaré sur sa chaîne baptisée secureteam10.

Les internautes qui suivent cet ufologue semblent être d’accord avec lui.

« Le gouvernement doit commencer à dire la vérité sur ce qui se passe vraiment dans l'espace », affirme l’un d’eux.

Un autre a ajouté : « Si cela est véridique, cela pourrait être énorme - je pensais que Marsn’avait aucune activité volcanique. »

Un troisième s'est écrié : « La NASA n'a définitivement plus aucune crédibilité ».

Ces images constituent-elles une preuve que Mars est habitée par une quelconque civilisation ? Ce genre d’hypothèse semble difficile à croire et pourtant ces images ne peuvent que nous faire douter …

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‘NASA is hiding life on Mars’: Here’s what’s really going on in red planet ‘explosion’ IMAGES

‘NASA is hiding life on Mars’: Here’s what’s really going on in red planet ‘explosion’ IMAGES

‘NASA is hiding life on Mars’: Here’s what’s really going on in red planet ‘explosion’ IMAGES

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Conspiracy theorists went into overdrive after spotting a ‘mysterious plume of smoke’ near a dormant Martian volcano, with many claiming this as proof that alien life exists on the red planet and we’re being lied to here on Earth.

Allegations of a NASA-led cover up spread like wildfire online, with popular conspiracy theory YouTube channel secureteam10 producing an eight-minute long exposé entitled, ‘Something MAJOR Happened On Mars.. Are They Hiding It?’

"There was an explosion – I don't know whether it was a volcano or something detonated," Tyler Glockner of secureteam10 told his audience, during a video which has amassed almost 390,000 views since publication on October 20.

One commenter on the video drew upon his welding experience to lay bare the terraforming operations already underway on Mars, citing craters formed by lightning strikes as evidence of alien technology reshaping the planet’s atmosphere. “Too many coincidences here to ignore any more. NASA needs to stop being the police of the scientific community.”

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“NASA is a BS agency, staffed by self-sanctimonious liars. Mars is a living planet, as anyone who has studied Mars for the last 50 years [knows],” another commenter agreed.

This secureteam10 video was then picked up by a British tabloid, which fanned the conspiratorial flames while connecting the disparate dots of NASA’s clever ruse: the Mars Curiosity Rover suffered a mysterious glitch, rendering it offline for months after a huge dust storm in late Spring; the Hubble and Chandra telescopes were recently put in “safe mode” allowing for only basic functionality; and NASA was conspicuously silent about the 2,000km-long plume of smoke stretching across Martian skies. Wake up, sheeple!

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Reddit was also abuzz, though the comments were more climatological than conspiratorial, discussing atmospheric conditions that might lead to such cloud formations. To spoil the fun and settle the debate, RT.com contacted the ESA for an explanation of the contentious images of the red planet.

“No ground or space based observations of Mars or its atmosphere have produced any credible evidence for active volcanism occurring in the present day or recent history,” party-pooper and planetary scientist Elliot Sefton-Nash, who works on several ESA projects including Mars Sample Return, ExoMars and Mars Express, told RT.com.

“Observations made on 24th September by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show a cloud oriented approximately east-west and around ~2,000km long, as well as the shadow that it cast onto the Martian surface below.”

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“Clouds are known to form seasonally in this region, and are associated with the volcanoes because their topography influences atmospheric conditions,” he continues. “This is a well documented phenomenon and several scientific articles exist documenting and explaining the process and highlight the seasonal regularity of the occurrence in this region.”

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For comparison, Sefton-Nash highlighted a very similar cloud caused by these topographical forces at Arsia Mons, observed in 2015 (in higher resolution) by the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission.

Right now, the ESA is concentrating on Mercury, which is posing some interesting questions about the formation of our Solar System.

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"We have a problem with #Mercury..." because it’s falling out of our overall understanding of the Solar System. We don't understand how such a planet could have formed and evolved, so we not only need to send outstanding instruments there: we send a full laboratory #BepiColombo

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WOW, incredible close up images now in from the remote cameras at the launch site during yesterday’s #BepiColombo launch. Enjoy! 📷 http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/content/search?

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Something Big Is Coming! NASA's Planetary Defense Budget Suddenly Increased

Something Big Is Coming! NASA's Planetary Defense Budget Suddenly Increased

Something Big Is Coming! NASA's Planetary Defense Budget Suddenly Increased

Recent developments at NASA have revealed that the proposed budget for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination office (PDCO) has increased by 90 million dollars.

Our current political climate consists of a budget that is stretched to its’ maximum. This fact about the current budget makes this significant increase for the PDCO a strange occurrence. The PDCO is only two years old and oversees finding near-Earth objects such as asteroids that could cause harm to the planet. The PDCO is important because one hit from an asteroid could significantly damage Earth and its’ inhabitants. In years past, NASA has consistently stated that there is no serious threat. This significant increase in the budget brings into question this assumption.

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Humanity is unprepared for a catastrophic event

A recent Politico article stated that the Trump administration increased the PDCO budget because humanity is unprepared for a catastrophic event, such as an asteroid impact. The significant increase is, according to the Trump administration, a defensive measure rather than a reaction to an imminent threat.

According to NASA, there are more than 25,000 asteroids near us of 140 meters in size at a minimum. Additionally, there are plenty of other near-Earth objects that could be a threat to our planet. The PDCO has stated that it plans to be prepared in case an object is threatening.

Russia: Asteroid will surely hit Earth sometime in the 2030s

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The asteroid Apophis was discovered on June 19, 2004.

NASA has insisted there is no current threat to be worried about. The PDCO states that such an event would, however, be devastating, and that preparation is vital to ward off an attack or to prepare government agencies and the public if such a threat cannot be stopped. For example, the head of the Russian space agency has recently stated that a large asteroid named Apophis will surely hit Earth sometime in the 2030s. The PDCO recognizes this and asserts that now is the time to either stop this asteroid from hitting Earth, or to be prepared when it does.

Does the shutdown of multiple satellite telescopes and earthbound telescopes have anything to do with the sudden increase in budget? Do they want to protect humanity from something we don't know yet? Or is this a normal increase because you want gold-plated toillets?

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This planetary nebula has 2 ultra-close stars at its heart

This planetary nebula has 2 ultra-close stars at its heart

A planetary nebula isn’t related to planets. It’s an old star, sloughing off its outer layers. Now astronomers have spied 2 ultra-close stars at a planetary nebula’s heart. The pair orbits in only 3 hours!

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The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the planetary nebula M3-1. Its central star is a binary system – 2 stars orbiting a common center of gravity – extremely close together, moving around each other very fast.

Image via David Jones/Daniel López (IAC)/RAS.

An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably, the stars could drive a nova explosion, an entirely unexpected event based on our current understanding of binary star evolution. The team, led by David Jones of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Universidad de La Laguna, reporttheir findings in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.

Planetary nebulae are the glowing shells of gas and dust formed from the outer layers of stars like our own sun, which they throw off during the final stages of their evolution. In many cases, interaction with a nearby companion star plays an important role in the ejection of this material and the formation of the elaborate structures seen in the resulting planetary nebulae.

The planetary nebula M3-1 is located in the constellation of Canis Major, at a distance of roughly 14,000 light-years from Earth. M3-1 was a firm candidate to host a binary central star, as its structure with prominent jets and filaments is typical of these binary star interactions.

Using the telescopes of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, Jones’s team looked at M3-1 over a period of several years. In the process they discovered and studied the binary stars in the centre of the nebula. Brent Miszalski, researcher at the Southern African Large Telescope, and co-author of the study, commented:

We knew M3-1 had to host a binary star, so we set about acquiring the observations required to prove this and to relate the properties of the nebula with the evolution of the star or stars that formed it.

The two stars are so close together that they cannot be resolved from the ground, so instead the presence of the second star is inferred from the variation of their observed combined brightness – most obviously by periodic eclipses of one star by the other which produce marked drops in the brightness. Henri Boffin, researcher at the European Southern Observatory in Germany, said:

When we began the observations, it was immediately clear that the system was a binary. We saw that the apparently single star at the center of the nebula was rapidly changing in brightness, and we knew that this must be due to the presence of a companion star.

The team discovered that the central star of the planetary nebula M3-1 has one of the shortest orbital period binary central stars known to date, at just over three hours. The ESO observations also show that the two stars – most likely a white dwarf with a low-mass main sequence companion – are almost touching.

As a result, the pair are likely to undergo a so-called nova eruption, the result of the transfer of material from one star to the other. When this reaches a critical mass, a violent thermonuclear explosion takes place and the system temporarily increases in brightness by up to a million times. Paulina Sowicka, a Ph.D. student at the Nicolas Copernicus Astronomical Center in Poland, said:

After the various observing campaigns in Chile, we had enough data to begin to understand the properties of the two stars – their masses, temperatures and radii. It was a real surprise that the two stars were so close together and so large that they were almost touching one another. A nova explosion could take place in just a few thousand years from now.

Theory suggests that binary stars should be well separated after the formation of a planetary nebula. It should then take a long time before they begin to interact again and events such as novae become possible.

In 2007, astronomers observed a different nova explosion, known as Nova Vul 2007, inside another planetary nebula.

Jones commented:

The 2007 event was particularly difficult to explain. By the time the two stars are close enough for a nova, the material in the planetary nebula should have expanded and dissipated so much that it’s no longer visible.

The new event adds to the conundrum, said Jones:

In the central stars of M3-1, we’ve found another candidate for a similar nova eruption in the relatively near future.

The team now hopes to carry out further study of the nebula and others like it, helping to shed light on the physical processes and origins of novae and supernovae, some of the most spectacular and violent phenomena in the universe.

Bottom line: Astronomers have spied 2 ultra-close stars at the heart of a planetary nebula called M3-1. The two stars are almost touching and orbit each other in only 3 hours!

Source: The short orbital period binary star at the heart of the planetary nebula M 3-1

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Open Minds UFO Radio: Nick Pope – Renewed Government Interest in UFOs

Open Minds UFO Radio: Nick Pope – Renewed Government Interest in UFOs

Open Minds UFO Radio: Nick Pope investigated UFOs for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) for several years in the early 1990s. He was skeptical about the phenomenon when he began looking into the matter. However, after having reviewed several credible cases Nick concluded that there was UFOs pose a real mystery, and unidentified vehicles in our airspace could pose a threat to national security. Since he has left the MoD, Nick has authored a book on the UK’s most credible and famous UFO case, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World’s Best-Documented UFO Incident. He is also a journalist and media commentator.

In this episode, we discuss the renewed interest the U.S. government appears to be showing in the UFO topic since the revelation that the Pentagon has its own UFO research program, that allegedly continues to this day. We discuss the fact that several individuals have addressed congressional subcommittees recently, and what that means to the future of government involvement in UFO research. Nick gives his unique perspective a being one of the few who has worked on a government-sponsored UFO research program.
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UFO Recorded On Video In Clear Daylight Above Mexico City

UFO Recorded On Video In Clear Daylight Above Mexico City

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A worker in Mexico observed an unidentified flying object in broad daylight.

The mysterious craft was seen travelling in the sky above Mexico City, and the witness captured the strange aerial activity on video.

As the UFO was moving across the sky, a couple of metres off the ground, it emanated a blurry field that was commonly reported from UFO enthusiasts.

Many viewers of the video believe the latest UFO sighting is substantial evidence of the existence of space aliens visiting Earth and it would have been definitive proof of the existence of extraterrestrials had the camera quality been better.

YouTube user Carlos Sanchez originally captured the video and conspiracy theorists around the internet quickly picked it up.

Some UFO hunters believe it is a genuine sighting of an alien spacecraft.

The dark craft reportedly came right out into the open, and a worker noticed it when they came outside for their break.

Some observers said that the UFO somewhat tilted as it moved, which was what many unidentified flying objects did to control their direction.

Unfortunately, the video looks blurry.

Some UFO enthusiasts think the video would be definitive proof of the existence of space aliens has it been an iPhone 7 or 8 being used.

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How SETI uses off-the-shelf AI to search for extraterrestrial life

How SETI uses off-the-shelf AI to search for extraterrestrial life

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The Purported Plumes of Jupiter's Moon Europa Are Missing 'Hotspot' Engines

The Purported Plumes of Jupiter's Moon Europa Are Missing 'Hotspot' Engines

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NASA's Found a Weird, Rectangular Iceberg in Antarctica

NASA's Found a Weird, Rectangular Iceberg in Antarctica

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Asteroid or Comet? Weird Blue Space Rock 'Phaethon' Gets a Close-Up

Asteroid or Comet? Weird Blue Space Rock 'Phaethon' Gets a Close-Up

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Filer’s Files 42 – 2018 The War Over Human’s Soul - PART I

Dundee, Scotland disc in trees on October 15, 2018
Dundee, Scotland disc in trees on October 15, 2018

Filer’s Files 42 – 2018 The War Over Human’s Soul - PART I

October 22, 2018

In special reports, this week’s files cover: Secrets of the Saucer Scientists, Aerospace Research & Development. Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, A Picture We May Not Wish to Gaze Upon by David Jacobs, PhD, The War Over Human’s Soul, China May Have a Devastating Hypersonic Advantage

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Maine. Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Greece. Netherlands, Spain, and Scotland the United Kingdom.

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

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Secrets of the Saucer Scientists

Photo of Oberth and Von Braun      

William F. Hamilton III writes, “In all probability the first saucer scientists were rocket scientists. Without a doubt one of these great men was the pioneering rocket scientist, Professor Hermann Oberth was a writer, scientist, and visionary from Austria-Hungary whose paper.” The Rocket into Interplanetary Space was published in 1923 and served as an inspiration to the rocket designers that followed. Influenced by Verne’s books and ideas, Oberth constructed his first model rocket as a school student at the age of 14. In his youthful experiments, he arrived independently at the concept of the multistage rocket. By 1917, he showed how far his studies had reached by firing a rocket with liquid propellant in a demonstration to Hermann von Stein, the Prussian Minister of War.

 Werner von Braun read Oberth’s work in 1925 and joined him in rocket experiments in 1930. Oberth is considered the Father of Rocketry. 

In letters to Donald Keyhoe, Oberth mentions his belief that saucers are spaceships manned by superior beings. He says that the marvelous aerodynamics of the saucers is accomplished by generating an artificial gravity field. This is the famous G-field theory. The saucers create their own gravitational fields which enables them to hover motionless above the earth, accelerate at tremendous speeds, or execute violent turns that would cause ordinary aircraft to disintegrate. Even with swift changes of speed and direction, the passengers would feel no effect. It would also explain the silence of UFOs in flight as the artificial G-field would drag the surrounding air along with it. And, because the air is not flowing pass the hull, it would eliminate heating caused by friction.

Statements have been made that saucer behavior defies the laws of physics. It seemed impossible that a manned craft could execute such tremendous accelerations from a hovering position to a high-speed linear velocity or in high-speed acute-angled turns. Inertial forces caused by such accelerations would tear apart an aircraft frame. And, often, the picture came to mind of a human pilot ending up flat as a pancake against the cabin wall. Gerald Heard, in his book, “Is Another World Watching?” hypothesized that the saucers were being flown by insects because only insects could survive those wrenching turns. All of these concerns evaporate when one considers the physics of G-field propulsion.

Aerospace Research & Development.

David Mathes writes, I cannot speak to what you may have seen. Let me talk in general terms about aerospace R&D. When new and improved effects or technologies are developed, the services all take a look at and see how it fits with present inventory. In the case of an airframe or propulsion improvement, one would take that technology and do studies applying the new principles to missions involving scouting, intelligence,  gathering, interceptors, fighters and bombers.

One would do trades which include scaling the power, propulsion and airframe in a SWaP-C analysis (Size, Weight, Power and Cost). Scaling tradeoffs would be made in theory, modeling, simulation and experiment to find stable configurations and survivable solutions. Velocity and acceleration numbers would matter. Jolt/jerk (acceleration change) would be calculated as well as higher order derivatives especially for changes in angular momentum which includes pitch, roll and yaw

SU 57 Russian Stealth Fighters

There have been past efforts, notably the Russians (see Jane’s Aircraft in the late 1980s, early 1990s) to use a combination of technologies to extend the performance specifications of aircraft. One notable jet-powered craft was an inflatable saucer design with four ballutes internally. The surface material was not defined but look liked aluminum. The craft appeared to be designed for swift transit over a long range. But the lighter than air components would be usefully useable only to about 10k ft. Even so, the craft could be used in a variety of ways. Fighter versions of B-1 and B-2 are possible. Keep in mind that with less lift, more thrust is required to maintain a velocity.  For me, the most interesting engine is the transonic engine. No more violent transition to Mach velocities.

Dream Chase

The U.S is developing a new ‘Shuttle to carry seven astronauts, called Dream Chaser that can pay for itself by carrying astronauts to the International Space Station rather than paying Russia millions for each trip. Best David Mathes

Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings

The “”Westchester Boomerang” was a UFO reported by hundreds of people in New York State and Connecticut between 1983 and 1986 and described by most witnesses as a hovering, immense V-shaped series of flashing lights connected by a dark structure. UFO investigators Imbrogno (Crosswalks Across the Universe) and Pratt write in detail about the “close encounters” of some 900 people who filled out “witness forms.” (Famed UFO author Hynek died in 1986, “as the book was being written,” but the authors maintain that he participated in the investigation and include the transcript of a Hynek interview with a witness.) They note a “feeling” common to the witnesses: “They felt as if the object or whatever intelligence that was behind it was trying to communicate with them in some way.” After a two-year analysis, the authors conclude that there is “no conventional explanation for the Hudson Valley UFO.” The illustrations include photos, drawings and sequential frames from a videotape of the lights.

The sightings of the craft were mostly in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The craft was virtually silent, and measured between 300 to 900 feet across. The craft was seen hovering over busy highways, rivers and lakes. It was often seen over the Hudson River. It was reported by pilots, air traffic controllers, doctors, lawyers, police, fireman, women, and computer operators. The craft appeared to have structural girder and cross beam construction like a truss bridge.

Bruce Cornet reports, Michael Schratt presents one of the most detailed and well-illustrated accounting of the Hudson Valley or Westchester Boomerang I have seen.  Perhaps his diagrams and schematics are more imagination than factual.  He documents in this video the thousands of sightings which occurred over the Hudson Valley between 1982 and 1989.

The March 24, 1983 sighting was spectacular with hundreds of witnesses from Westchester and Putnum seeing the craft. Police switchboards where jammed with frantic calls from local residents between 8:30 and 1o;30 PM. The TV show sightings ran a special on the sightings. At the intersection of  Routes 202 and 35, traffic was halted in a tangled jam as motorists stopped, got out of their cars and looked at the object. Motorists stopped on the Taconic Parkway in groups to observe the hovering object. A slow moving silent V shaped craft with multi-colored lights was flying low just above the treetops. It cruised in a looping pattern over Yorktown, Somers and Carmel for more than an hour.

Rarely has this enormous craft been seen since, yet I have documented a much smaller version, which I call the Manta Ray.  His diagrams closely resemble the B-2 Bomber, but his description of its construction from eye witness reports is nothing like the military copy cat. Surprised this video has only received 8,179 views since January 7, 2017.  Why so little public interest? It is well worth seeing. Thanks to Bruce Cornet Hudson Valley UFO Sightings Revisted (Michael Schratt Talk Danbury Library)

A Picture We May Not Wish to Gaze Upon by David Jacobs, PhD

 The abduction phenomenon is something so strange, so unusual; it is very difficult to gain an understanding of it. When I was a UFO researcher strictly examining the outside shells of anomalous objects in the sky, most people thought the abduction phenomenon was purely and totally psychological. Even though there was, of course, the Barney and Betty Hill case. The Hills were obviously not 1950s-style contactees. One was required to have a lot of evidence to accept the idea that not only were there complex individuals inside the UFOs, but they were kidnapping humans. Furthermore, the Barney and Betty Hill case had embarrassing elements in it, such as a sperm sample taken from Barney, and a needle put in Betty’s navel (which she said was a pregnancy test, although it almost certainly was not). When more abduction cases were reported and researchers began to study them, the Hill case provided a model for understanding what was happening. What happened to the Hills, and to others, seemed to suggest an experimental model; this was a learning situation. Aliens were running tests on humans to understand our physiology and our mental processes. The experimental model fit and there was little reason to doubt it. The model became so strongly accepted it seemed to explain most of the evidence from 1966 to the early 1990s. I fully accepted this model in the first seven years of my abduction research. Then as the evidence mounted, I realized the experimental model was not holding. The evidence did not explain how this could be an experiment when they are doing certain procedures on people repeatedly around the world. For example, how many times does one have to run an experiment to learn that when people see horrible scenes of death and destruction, they experience anxiety?

Rather than an experimentally-based endeavor, the evidence began to conform more to a “program” model. As a program it has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it is goal-directed. The ultimate objective of this program has eluded both Budd Hopkins and me. We do not know why this phenomenon is happening. But, we have an enormous amount of information about what is happening, how it is happening, what the plans are, and how they have been developing it over the years. It is something I find extremely disquieting. From the beginning, this program had many facets. One was a strong reproductive aspect, and another was a neurological feature. Budd Hopkins had discovered egg harvesting and sperm extraction taking place in sterile-looking environments.

David Jacobs

Oftentimes I found these procedures were accompanied by a strange procedure in which an alien might stare into an abductees’ eyes from a distance of a few inches away or closer. The abductee is unable to avert his or her gaze. They feel something happening inside of their minds. They “see” both static and flashing images. Emotions are generated of one sort or the other. Memories are looked at. A whole world of neurological patterns is happening in their minds while this kind of neural engagement is occurring—which I unfortunately called “Minds can” in my book Secret Life. I have regretted using that term ever since, because it sounds so “science fiction-y” but, in a sense, everything is “science fiction-y” about this phenomenon.

The taking of sperm and ova, the insertion of embryos into the woman, and the extraction of fetuses from her, are also commonly reported aspects of abduction activity. After these types of procedures, a small alien might take an abductee into a room filled with tanks containing a liquid in which

fetuses are suspended—an incubatorium. When a woman is shown these tanks she is led to believe this is a gestation area in which the fetuses are growing and some of them might be hers. Budd Hopkins also first discovered the “baby presentations” in the early 1980s. These entail aliens taking an abductee into another room onboard a UFO and having the abductee hold one or more babies in sequence. Sometimes abductees are required to feed the babies. Thanks to the Journal of Abduction Research http://jar-journal.org/Files/JAR_2007_Q1.pdf

The War Over Men’s Souls

Brett Alen reports that in 30 years of researching the paranormal, I always believed there had to be some correlating unifying theory to both ghosts and UFOs. My research into the paranormal has proven one thing… spirit orbs I once thought were hooey, are very real. They appear to be the manifestation of the human soul after we die; only visible to ultraviolet and infrared non-filtered cameras. To days cameras pick them up because it is much cheaper to manufacture them without such filters. This is why both UFOs (who the ancient s said were “spirit” gods who could take human form-cloaked in the UV and IR) and ghosts can be captured by today’s technology, when not visible to the human eye. The ancient Mesopotamia bible spoke of both spirits and the soul. Nearly every ancient civilization makes reference to the soul; Egypt built a technological civilization around them. They were quite obviously doing something with high voltage; Tesla coils and  particle accelerators, to harness and launch the soul. From the Zoroastrians, to Mesopotamia, even the Maya and pre-Columbians, all had this knowledge.

My work with spirit orbs, both in my own haunted study location, and in photos sent to me by friends, shows obvious faces show up in these orbs. I believe even the Mayan calendar round was a spirit orb, as they also knew that night was “the realm of the dead.” But perhaps UFOlogists and NASA/CIA insider John Lear puts it all in perspective when he claims there was a soul capturing and processing machine that the alien’s operate on our moon. In fact NASA’s recent bombing of the Moon may have been to destroy one such structure.

Recent photos captured over my own home, on a lake where some 4000 graves were opened may also vindicate his claims. A bright light on a rectangular UFO was seen with what the ancients referred to as a GATE hanging off the end of the rectangle. I believe the craft was sweeping the area for “lost souls.” If this is not true, why are there so many references to the soul in ancient cultures. In our own Bible there are 457 references to the soul and Christians are promised to go to heaven when the body dies. The soul or the spirit of humans is immortal. However the soul can be lost Mark 8-36 states, “What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” 

“We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against ‘principalities,’ against ‘powers,’ against the ‘rulers of darkness of this world’ , against ‘spiritual wickedness’ in high places” Eph 6-12

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. There are red orb seen all over the world and in Egypt they are often called serpent of the dragon. In the Solomon Islands, dragon orbs can be seen going in and out of the sea where battles are  fought. Often in war UFOs and Foo Fighters are everywhere. Why is the human soul so important? It is disturbing, but your own search will surely lead you to the same conclusion.

Extraterrestrials once called Angels are here for one thing, the soul. How many reports come back from abductees saying the aliens seemed to be interested in my soul. It’s as if they separated me from my soul; because they did?. The scary part is I came to this conclusion before over hearing of John Lear or his claim. In the 90s I had a very strange visitor who refused to identify himself, only that we worked with a group that was aware of my work; and if I was deemed worthy, they might release to me the answers. He interviewed me, a journalist and media professional, about my world views on religion, aliens and the paranormal. Since that time, although seeing them since youth, I have seen many more UFOs, and many red orbs. There is a long list of UFOlogists who have come to these same unorthodox conclusions. On Sunday 21st, March 2004, John Lear (who brought the world Bob Lazar, at first scoffed at, but now being validated).Lear has flown all types in all types of aircraft and has 19,000 flying hours. While on the Art Bell Show he delivered some very disturbing information.

Cube on Moon

Lear stated on Coast 2 Coast AM, that a massive cube has been found on the moon, and that this cube is responsible for not only holding human souls here on Earth, but that after you die, the cube pulls your soul to it, and then erases your memory, and reinserts your soul into a new baby to repeat the process over again.

 Our moon was brought here from another star system long ago, as part of the experiment. Earth was taken over about 200 thousand years ago, humanity was genetically engineered race, but it is the souls of light that are the real reason for all of this. The souls of light are used as food by the Reptilians. They need a constant supply of emotional food to enable them to do anything. Without a fuel source, negative souls are dead in the water, and are completely powerless. On the Day of Judgment it is the soul (nafs) which will appear before Allah as stated in the Holy Quran:“And every soul comes, with it a driver and a witness” (50:21).

This soul (nafs) will enter into hell or heaven. In short, since soul is the essence of man, everything that is given in this earthly life is given to the soul, and so too will be the rewards and punishment of the Hereafter. “To Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth.” Mankind is an alien controlled experiment. All religions were created by the aliens to give us a set of rules and regulations to live by so that we wouldn’t hurt ourselves. The secret government knows about this experiment but is hiding it from us. This experiment has something to do with the soul. The aliens refer to us as containers. The aliens are busy collecting the souls of the sixty million aborted babies since Roe vs. Wade with Planned Parenthood killing most. There is a cube on the Moon with an antenna. The antenna sends and receives souls.

The two mile high tower on the Moon may house the antenna.

When there is a major disaster like 911 the aliens send down giant soul collectors to recover the souls. From the assignation of Kennedy, from Forestall to the Anunnaki, everything has been orchestrated to keep this information silent, and those who do try to decimate it, usually end up dead. This is either by design or there is a fault with the cube. This cube falls right in line with what I’ve said before. Check it out.

Our Moon was towed here and placed in orbit around the Earth by a very large space  machine. There was a time in the recorded history of man when the Earth had no Moon. The Moon has an atmosphere which contains clouds. The Moon does not revolve which proves it is artificial. US astronauts went to the Moon,  saw all the alien machinery and structures and were told to keep silent about it by NASA.

John Lear says it is NASA itself that is doing the tampering with signals to the Mars rovers.. NASA knows that Venus is a normal planet just like Earth. Venus has beings that are similar to us. We already have bases on the Moon and Mars but for anyone to go there it is a one way trip. NASA knows there are spaceships in the rings of Saturn. If mankind gets too close to discovering the experiment it will be cancelled and started all over again. A sort of cleansing that happens on Earth every 25,000 years.

John Lear, a retired airline captain logged over 19,000 hours of flight time. He is the son of Lear Jet inventor Bill Lear and flew over 100 different airplane designs. John accumulated 17 aviation world records and claimed to have flown CIA missions in Central and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa between 1966 and 1983.. John met Bob Lazar in 1988; the scientist/physicist who broke the story of Area 51 and the US back-engineering ET craft at S-4 near the infamous Area 51. Lazar and Lear made startling claims of an element 115 that powered alien craft; an element now proven to exist. In March 1989, Lazar took Lear to our government’s Rachel Nevada’s facility where they observed the flight of a flying saucer at the exact time and place Lazar said it would occur. Two weeks later, security forces caught Lear, Lazar and 3 others. The next day, Lazar lost his job over his breach of security. John Lear has lectured and learned incredible information about life in our Solar System; alien structures on the Moon; cities on Mars and even huge ET ships mining the rings of Saturn, and n much more. John Lear passed away in 2009. Thanks to Bret Allen

 China May Have a Devastating Hypersonic Advantage


The Starry Sky-2, which is an experimental design known as a wave rider – for its ability to ride on the shock waves it generates – completed its first test flight on Friday at an undisclosed location in northwest China, the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics said in a statement issued on Monday.

The aircraft was carried into space by a multistage rocket before separating and relying on its own power. During independent flight it conducted extreme turning man oeuvres, maintained velocities above Mach 5.5 (five-and-a-half times the speed of sound) for more than 400 seconds, and achieved a top speed of Mach 6, or 7,344km/h (4,563mph), the statement said.

hypersonic missile test.

Mike Ward: China is getting more dangerous by the minute.

On Friday, astonishing footage was revealed showing strange plumes of light over Beijing skies – a phenomenon created by a secret hypersonic missile test.

Though Chinese officials haven’t confirmed this latest round of testing, the writing is on the wall…

Beijing has already released footage and boasted that its new aircraft could deliver nuclear missiles at such high speeds that they’d be nearly impossible to defend against.

These new weapons can move through the sky at speeds up to 15,300 mph – 20 times faster than the speed of sound – and can strike anywhere on the globe within minutes or even seconds, rendering current nuclear weapons completely useless.

And the Pentagon reported to Congress earlier this year that China has piloted 20 times more hypersonic flight tests than the U.S. Make no mistake: China’s stealthy test marks a disturbing escalation in this arms race. You need to be prepared for this. Thanks to Mike Ward Strategic Tech Investor.

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Filer’s Files 42 – 2018 The War Over Human’s Soul - PART II

Filer’s Files 42 – 2018 The War Over Human’s Soul - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

California Object

Manahtten Beach — This was bright and reflective. Stationary over the Pacific Ocean flying low west of LAX airport on .

Slowly headed north in a straight line and then disappeared. I took pictures and a witness was there next to me.
It was definitely not a drone. This is too far away and still was able to see that this was a UFO..

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Beverly Hills — While I was walking in the open-air Beverly Connection shopping complex, on Octoberr16, 2018, I noticed, to the south, what I initially thought was Venus but I realized it seemed too bright to be Venus. It was round, white, bright, and stationary. It was 6 pm, and the sun was to the west of the object. Then, another object came into view from the west, flying almost directly east. Its position was 5-10 degrees below the first object. It had three white and yellow pulsating lights from high illumination, to low in one second. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Lights

Jacksonville — I was outside on my porch doing my nightly sky watching on October 12, 2018, and turned around and there were 30 to 40 white orbs flying in a boomerang formation as they towards the south. I held my hand out and some of the orbs moved out of formation then went back to their spots again. We were a bit startled at first as I was not expecting to see them. They were just above the tree tops. A bit later an all black boomerang shaped object flew over me fast heading north. I saw another one a couple days before the hurricane hit as well. that It was round in shape and reflected light on the edges. Just within the past couple weeks are the first encounters with them so close to me. I feel honored that they are doing this for me as I asked of them.

 Key Largo – On October 11, 2018, I work at a sailing resort and take care of the property from 2 a.m. until 7 a.m. as I take care of the docks. I monitor Miami arc and the app. Plane finder to watch what flies overhead. This craft was not on radar. Moved very slow until overhead. I took my photos then it accelerated at amazing speed to the northwest. No sound at all.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Maine Object

Bethel –There are several reports across the, Albany, Lovell and Waterford of two military jets chasing a sphere with blue lights. The jets were flying very low and reported to suddenly change directions. The planes were low enough to shake resident’s houses. Earlier on Wednesday two military helicopters landed at our local airport that don’t normally use the airport. The helicopters were in tight formation. Some posts on social media have been removed. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Nevada Triangle

Battle Creek — While scanning earth for artifacts after reading about an old crash story I saw this triangle on Octoberr13, 2018. I believed it to be cattle ranch but on further looks believed it may be tourist fake. After realizing after a month of research it can’t be, I became scared. The only American I reached was Kristen Desilva. She then suggested George Knapp. He never responded and next day deserve had blocked me. The object shows water drainage proving it is part of the landscape. Water drains around it and across it. Soil looks to have come from lakebed. Explaining lack of vegetation due to salt content. Three phase power line to site is way too much power for a mini ranch not to mention expensive to install. Object is visible in the very first Google map from us geological survey sight proving it existed pre satellite maps. Shape can be seen in some hikers photos of region proving it isn’t a Google Easter egg. What appear to be two large HVAC units sit on a building. Far too much air handling for a small building. There is even a perfect circular puddle visible on top. Everything points to being the crash site of the ELY sighting. My belief is Area 51 is far away as a slight of hand to prevent expanded searching. The lack of security here is to serve as to not draw attention, or maybe this is just weird large equilateral triangle in sand, who builds a triangular 1069 meter triangle, before it could be seen from above! Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Dark Metallic Square

Medford — Several objects I first thought were birds but then. I observed reflections from object. I was in my bathroom and looked out of my skylight and observed what I thought was a group of birds circling in sky on October 18. 2018.

I am a bird watcher. When I realized they were silver and reflecting light.  First a couple then several more joined then they appeared to disappear and reappeared circling faster and faster then they left viability at extremely high rate of speed.

Millville — This is the scariest thing that has ever happened to me when I saw a UFO with orbs of light on the ground on October 13, 2018. I’m reporting it because I want to see if anybody else saw anything in my area. I live in southern New Jersey about halfway between Philadelphia and Atlantic City. This sighing happened at 1145 PM, I went out on my front porch when I start to notice movement across the four way stop about 20 yards in the distance. To me it looked like white looking mist moving across the road in a periodic nature. Also in the woods was metallic banging and movement sounds. Where the woods are across the street is just wilderness for miles until you hit the Delaware Bay.

Right after that happens this white light rises up out of the woods and just sits there for about 3 minutes. It just looked like a ball of light from that distance when it started to move it moved right towards me. This thing moved at a slow steady rate until it’s literally about 500 yards from my face. It was a dark metallic almost plate or square looking object with the lights underneath flashing red upside down double v  shaped patterns.

It scared the living hell out of me. It looked unlike any aircraft I’ve ever seen before. There always wasn’t any sound except for a slight electric charge I felt in the air. While it was flying at increasing speed away from me the other phenomenon I experienced first the mist free flowing forms crossing the street. I notice voices what feels like all around me. A lot of orb lights were moving around in the woods and street. The lights were looking. The lights almost looked like people I couldn’t see where holding flashlights while they walked but I just couldn’t see who or why was holding it.

I was focusing on the orbs so when I looked back for the craft it was already gone. That’s when there was this loud scrapping noise of metal on metal which scared me. These really were ufos. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Mexico Object

 Driving into Albuquerque nm on Route 40 we observed a white/blue object in the NE sky on Octoberr15, 2018. I thought it was a star but upon going through the city we could see that it was in the shape of an inverted pyramid,

Driving further east as the sun was setting we noticed that it was reflecting sunlight and was stationary. It changed from a bright white to a light blue then orange as the sun set so it was reflective, We are wondering if there were any other reports that day.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

South Carolina Object

Rock Hill — It was really clear, bright and beautiful Saturday afternoon on Octoberr13, 2018. I was sitting outside when I just happened to look up to see this white object heading my direction. I first thought it was a very odd balloon, but then it changed its shape right before it got just about directly over my home. It slowed down, stopped and hovered for a few minutes the first time and then  3 minutes the second time. It started slowly moving towards the back of my home directionally then it stopped again and hovered. A few seconds later a commercial airplane flew by and the object just stayed locked in position. During this time my dog was going bananas barking nonstop. I did have some ringing in my ears and nauseous.. Before it turned and started heading East. Upon reviewing the footage there were 3 different sphere shaped things Thanks to MUFON CMS

Utah Object

Kayenta – On Octoberr15, 2018 I gassed up in Santa Clara and drove Highway 91 west through the Piute Indian Reservation and just before the Summit Highway I saw the UFO.  I thought it was a comet at first but it kept the same altitude and speed. I would guess attitude at 7 to 10 thousand feet and about 3 miles south of me, kind paralleled the highway. It was a bright spot with an orange tint, with a single white trail about 8 times length of UFO with space between them. I started taking pictures with cell phone and stopping at the summit I got two pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Virginia Lights

Richmond — While at work I occasionally go outside to smoke like I did on Octoberr17, 2018.. It was about a year ago when I first saw the strange object in the sky. I could clearly see there were no wings on it and it wasn’t making any sound at all. Plus, it seemed to be moving too slowly to stay in the sky if it was a plane. It looks like a airplane fuselage moving at the speed of a blimp. I have seen them on 4 or 5 different occasions and it has always been in the evening around 6-7pm. The objects are usually moving west to east except today it was moving south to north. The object appears to be white cigar shaped and the size of a tic-tac. It makes no sound or contrail and moves in a slow straight line. It is visible until it goes behind a building or trees and out of view. A couple of times a second one has appeared shortly after the first has gone out of sight. CNS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Disc

 Sydney — I took this picture from my window at a hotel I was staying at in Sydney Australia on September 24, 2018.

I sent it to my partner it wasn’t too much later in the day my partner called and said to zoom in on the image. i then noticed this yellow shape in the clouds as she had told me I noted the planes. Sydney was over cast yesterday.Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada ‘Objects

Spruce Grove — Spotted Saturday at 7:30 pm September 29, 2018, at my buddies just about to get out of the hot tub, he went inside and all of a sudden I noticed these things… they were travelling west to the east. really not sure what these are, They were dead quiet for how many of them there were. They had no visible wings or tail and moved across the sky too quick. The objects were way too big at the altitude they were at (above the clouds) to be a flock of birds. I finally caught them just before they went behind the clouds and you can even see them a bit through the clouds before losing them on my Samsung. Thanks to MUFON CMS

France Orb

 Paris — First of all I’m not supposed to be driving and filming at the same time but I just wanted to show my wife how beautiful the weather is in Paris on April 21, 2018.

I was driving from the 16th district of Paris France to the 15th and when I passed over the bridge of Garigliano in front of France television I turned the camera in the direction of the Eiffel Tower and I noticed this orb. It was very bright and staying stationary over Paris.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Greece Delta Craft

 Athens — Chevron/delta shaped black craft with soft orange glow in places underneath craft. My girlfriend and I were staying in the rooftop apartment in Kos Perdis family resort in Kos town It was 1:30 am on the September 7, 2018, and had made the bed outside so we could sleep under the stars. We had a clear view of the sky. chatting, and said, “Would you come with me if aliens would beam us up?” Five streaks of light above us which were red/orange glow, theses moved very fast. Moving from north to south was very easy to define the front edge of the craft having a triangle/swept wing front and was completely silent, steady and constant in motion. As it was dark we could see a faint orange glow on the underbelly of the craft. Photo is a depiction/ Thanks to MUFON CMS

Netherlands Triangle

 Volendam — One evening in 1988 my brother and I were playing outside on September 25. I was on a skateboard while my brother’s bike pulled me forward. I looked up and saw a similar to the Phoenix boomerang ufo flying up only 1 meter above the rooftops. We were less than 20 yards away from it, in astonishment I shouted my brother’s name and said “Look!!!” It was a boomerang shaped UFO,, with lights surrounding its edges that were clearly turned off. The boomerang ufo floated without making any noise in a straight line over the houses to the east over the city. We tried to chase it to no avail, the two of us running back in complete panic back to our parents house while screaming “ufo ufo UFO.” .she said ” Yeah right, and  doesn’t believe us.”  My father was showing more compassion by saying “Well it could be that they saw something right.” We saw a 10 yard small pitch black boomerang .CMS

  Spain Orb

 Valencia — The 15th of September of 2018 a blue static orb was seen floating above the Parc Benicalap, in the city of Valencia, Spain.

A blue static orb was seen floating in the sky that was very large.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/Scotland Disc

 Dundee – I took 3 pics the middle one caught something weird.

It appears to be some sort of a disc in the trees.

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VIDEO. Net een horrorfilm: grootste ijsvlakte ter wereld maakt buitenaards geluid - HLN.be

VIDEO. Net een horrorfilm: grootste ijsvlakte ter wereld maakt buitenaards geluid - HLN.be

Zet je geluid aan!

Bron: AGU

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Onderzoekers ontdekten dat het grootste ijsplateau ter wereld, de Ross-ijsvlakte in Antarctica,  een vreemd geluid maakt. De buitenaardse klanken zouden kunnen helpen met hun onderzoek naar de klimaatsverandering.

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Shape Shifting UFO Caught Following Space Station On Live Cam, Oct 24, 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Shape Shifting UFO Caught Following Space Station On Live Cam, Oct 24, 2018, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Oct 24, 2018
Location of sighting: Earth orbit at space station
Source: NASA Live cam

I was watching the live cam and noticed this UFO in the far distance. The UFO moved slightly and changed shape from a round appearance to a long cigar shape. Its also odd that a new NASA red screen kept popping up about 6 times during the sighting. I believe the new color indicated an emergency that needs dealt with...a UFO. It may be a new AI system for detecting anomalies flying past. 

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Bilderbergclub heeft zinnen gezet op de kosmos. Wat vertelt deze sinistere groep ons niet over buitenaards leven?

Bilderbergclub heeft zinnen gezet op de kosmos. Wat vertelt deze sinistere groep ons niet over buitenaards leven?

Bilderbergclub heeft zinnen gezet op de kosmos. Wat vertelt deze sinistere groep ons niet over buitenaards leven?

Schrijfster en journaliste Cristina Martin Jimenez heeft zich uitgebreid verdiept in de Bilderbergclub, die volgens haar aanstuurt op een samenleving met één enkele religie, één gemeenschappelijke munt en een wereldregering.

Jimenez heeft ontdekt dat de sinistere club nu haar zinnen op de ruimte heeft gezet.

Haar onderzoek heeft geresulteerd in een revolutionair, uniek en controversieel boek, getiteld ‘Hijos del Cielo’ oftewel kinderen van de hemel.

Ze merkte op dat er allerlei krachten actief waren om de publicatie van haar boek tegen te houden. “Maar ik ben niet bang voor hen,” zei ze in een interview met Epipress.

Een eerder boek van haar was jarenlang niet verkrijgbaar.

Buitenaardse schepen

De Bilderbergclub is vastbesloten om te investeren in de ruimte en de kosmos te verkennen. Zij is er zeker van dat buitenaardse schepen met daarin superieure wezens de aarde hebben bezocht.

Dat terwijl ze ons jarenlang hebben voorgelogen over alles wat er in de lucht gebeurt en mensen die over UFO’s spraken belachelijk hebben gemaakt en in diskrediet hebben gebracht, aldus Jimenez.

Het blijkt dat er altijd een speciale band is geweest tussen de aarde en deze wezens, die sterk, knap en intelligent zijn; heel anders dan het stereotiepe beeld in de samenleving, legde ze uit.

We danken alles aan deze superieure wezens, die ook wel ‘goden’ werden genoemd en die in ruimteschepen ‘feller dan de zon’ neerdaalden vanuit de hemel. Dankzij hen konden we evolueren, zei ze.

Nieuwe wereldoorlog

De Bilderbergers zitten volgens haar ook achter de financiële crisis van 2008. “Zij hebben dit systeem gecreëerd, waarbij van tijd tot tijd economische crises ontstaan.”

Ze zei verder dat de nieuwe wereldoorlog al gaande is. Het is een subtiele en discrete oorlog, die de cultuur aanvalt.

Het is ook een economische en psychologische oorlog die hier en daar nog klassieke oorlogstinten heeft, zoals we in Syrië zien, klonk het.

Bilderberg wil een wereldregering in particuliere handen vestigen door de emoties en gevoelens van mensen te manipuleren in een samenleving die wordt bedwelmd door de grote techbedrijven, die ook van Bilderberg zijn, zei Jimenez.

Rotte fundamenten

Ze voegde toe dat sommigen beginnen in te zien dat deze manipulatie uit de hand is gelopen.

David Rockefeller, de vader van Bilderberg, was al in 1947 van plan om regeringen te vervangen door een privémacht. Ook Paul Warburg had het over een wereldregering.

Het Marshallplan, het omvangrijke ‘hulpplan’ dat na de Tweede Wereldoorlog in werking trad, is volgens de journaliste bedacht door de Amerikaanse elites en de Bilderbergclub om Europa te onderwerpen.

Jimenez zei dat de VN is opgericht om alvast te experimenteren met een soort wereldregering. “De VN is opgebouwd op rotte fundamenten, op het terrein van de Rockefellers,” zei ze.

Pedofiele priesters

In 1957 zag Bilderberg hoeveel invloed je op mensen kunt uitoefenen door middel van religie.

Ze wees erop dat veel machtsgroepen die met Bilderberg verbonden zijn, in de katholieke kerk zijn geïnfiltreerd en dat veel pedofiele priesters leden zijn van deze manipulatieve groepen.

Steeds meer mensen doorzien de plannen van Bilderberg, zei ze. Er is een informatieoorlog gaande en iedereen die tegen de gevestigde orde is wordt genadeloos hard aangevallen.

In de VS is dat Trump en in Europa gaat het om Polen, Hongarije en Italië, waar regeringen rebelleren tegen de oude garde, besloot ze.

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Weird Square Iceberg in Antarctica ‘Something hidden in plain sight?’

Weird Square Iceberg in Antarctica ‘Something hidden in plain sight?’

NASA’s project Operation Icebridge, studying climate conditions in Antarctica, captured a weird square iceberg during a flyover of Antarctica.

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According to NASA twitter: From yesterday's IceBridge flight: A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.

The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf.

Yes NASA that is indeed very weird; it just split from the edges of ice shelves and there it is… a perfect square iceberg.

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It looks almost as if the iceberg was sliced with a laser. This square iceberg with its perfect 90 degrees corners just does not fit in the surrounding area if you compare it with other icebergs.

It is known that there are secret bases and underwater bases in Antarctica. Could it be that this weird iceberg is more than just an iceberg, something hidden in plain sight?

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Former Air Force sergeant who claimed he saw NASA photos of alien base on far side of moon dies after tractor trailer hit his bike

Former Air Force sergeant who claimed he saw NASA photos of alien base on far side of moon dies after tractor trailer hit his bike

  • Karl Wolfe, 74, died last week in upstate New York when he was struck by a truck
  • He was a retired Air Force sergeant and later became a self-help consultant
  • Wolfe previously claimed he saw secret orbital photos of of moon in 1960s
  • Photos revealed a large base of alien origin on the far side of moon, Wolfe said

A former Air Force sergeant who claimed to have seen top-secret photos of an alien base on the far side of the moon has died in a bicycle crash.

Karl R. Wolfe was killed in the crash on October 10 in Lansing, New York, after he was struck from behind by a tractor trailer traveling southbound on North Triphammer Road near Sharon Drive. He was 74.

Wolfe was rushed to Cayuga Medical Center where he later died from injuries sustained in the crash.

Although the crash is under investigation, no charges have been filed and the Tompkins County Sheriff's office did not release the name of the tractor trailer driver, the Ithaca Journal reported. 

Karl R. Wolfe (above) was killed in the crash on October 10 in Lansing, New York

Karl R. Wolfe (above) was killed in the crash on October 10 in Lansing, New York

In 2001, Wolfe gained fame when he came forward with claims that he had he had seen photographic evidence of an alien structure on the far side of the moon.

In a video interview, Wolfe said that in the mid-1960s, he had a top secret clearance and worked for Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.

Wolfe said his job was working as a electronic technician in photographic surveillance labs, and he spent most of his time working on machines that processed surveillance footage of Vietnam. 

One day, Wolfe recalled that his superior told him to report to an NSA facility on the base to help with an issue with equipment used to process imagery from the first lunar orbiter mission.

Wolfe said he reported to the facility, which he described as a large hangar-type building with many foreign citizens in civilian clothes, accompanied by interpreters - a surprising sight to the military man.

The former airman recalled that he was alone in a darkroom with another Airman second class, when the other enlisted man said: 'By the way, we've discovered a base on the back side of the moon.'

The far side of the moon is seen in a 1972 photo taken by Apollo 16. Wolfe said that he saw an alien moon base in photos taken by the first lunar orbiter

The far side of the moon is seen in a 1972 photo taken by Apollo 16. Wolfe said that he saw an alien moon base in photos taken by the first lunar orbiter

Wolf (above) was working as a photo technician for the Air Force when he says he was called in to repair equipment that was used to process images from the first lunar orbiter

Wolf (above) was working as a photo technician for the Air Force when he says he was called in to repair equipment that was used to process images from the first lunar orbiter

'I said, 'Whose? What do you mean?'' Wolfe recalled. He said he was fascinated by the statement but was fearful that someone would walk in on their conversation.

Then, Wolfe said, the Airman showed him a photo mosaic assembled from multiple passes by the lunar orbiter.

'He pulled out one of these mosaics, and showed this base which had geometric shapes - there were towers, there were spherical buildings, there were very tall towers and things that looked somewhat like radar dishes, but they were very large structures,' Wolfe said. 

'Every day when I went home I thought, 'I can't wait to hear about this on the news,'' Wolfe said.

After serving in the Air Force, Wolfe attended the University of Buffalo with a dual major in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Electronics Engineering.   

Wolfe went on to become a self-help consultant. He never married, and had no children. 

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What are hole-punch clouds?

What are hole-punch clouds?

Ever seen one of these? People sometimes report them as UFOs. They’re called hole-punch clouds, and jets make ’em. The connection between hole-punch clouds, jets and snowfall, here.

Image via Patricia Evans

Patricia Evans spotted this hole-punch cloud in November 2015 from a restaurant parking lot.

You’re probably familiar with contrails, the wispy strands of clouds made by jet exhaust high in the sky. But if you’ve ever seen a hole-punch cloud, sometimes called a fallstreak hole, you’ll be surprised by their strange appearance. They look like strange clearings in an altocumulus cloud layer, often circular patches of clear sky, surrounded by clouds. Sometimes people report them as UFOs. Airplanes create hole-punch clouds – but just how do they do it?

According to weather.com, an altocumulus cloud layer is:

… composed of small water droplets that are below freezing called ‘supercooled water droplets.’ If ice crystals can form in the layer of supercooled droplets, they will grow rapidly and shrink or possibly evaporate the droplets completely.

Studies, including this one by Andrew Heymsfield and collaborators, have shown that aircraft passing through these cloud layers can trigger the formation of the heavier ice crystals, which fall to Earth and then leave the circular void in the blanket of clouds.

They concluded that aircraft propellers and wings cause the formation of those initial ice crystals. There are zones of locally low pressure along the wing and propeller tips which allow the air to expand and cool well below the original temperature of the cloud layer, forming ice crystals.

Rick Trent in Paradise, California caught this hole punch cloud on November 8, 2016.

Rick Trent in Paradise, California, caught this hole punch cloud in November 2016.

Image via Andrew Heymsfield. Used with permission.

Image via Andrew Heymsfield. Used with permission.

Houston, Minnesota. Photo via Jamie Vix.

Houston, Minnesota.

Photo via Jamie Vix.

Andrew Heymsfield of the National Center for Atmospheric Research spoke with EarthSky some years ago, when his study first appeared. He told us:

This whole idea of jet aircraft making these features has to do with cooling of air over the wings that generates ice.

His team found that – at lower altitudes – jets can punch holes in clouds and make small amounts of rain and snow. As a plane flies through mid-level clouds, it forces air to expand rapidly and cool. Water droplets in the cloud freeze to ice and then turn to snow as they fall. The gap expands to create spectacular holes in the clouds. He said:

We found an exemplary case of hole-punch clouds over Texas. From satellite imagery you could see holes just pocketing the sky, holes and long channels where aircraft had been flying at that level of the cloud for a while.

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Hole-punch cloud. Image via NOAA.

Another hole-punch cloud via NOAA.

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Hole-punch cloud via Editor B.

Heymsfield used a weather forecast model developed at NCAR – and radar images of clouds from NASA’s CloudSat satellite – to explain the physics of how jet aircraft make hole-punch clouds.

Heymsfield’s team found that every measurable commercial jet aircraft, private jet aircraft and also military jets as well as turbo props were producing these holes. He said a hole-punch cloud expands for hours after being created. Major airports, where there’s a lot of aircraft traffic, would be a good place to study cloud holes. He said:

What we decided to do was look at major airports around the world, especially where there’s low cloud cover and cold clouds in the wintertime, and found that the frequency of occurrence suitable for this process to occur is actually reasonably high, on the order of three to five percent. In the winter months, it’s probably two to three times higher, 10 to 15 percent.

Image via Andrew Heymsfield. Used with permission.

Image via Andrew Heymsfield. Used with permission.

He said people who look out their airplane window in flight can see for themselves how the wing changes a cloud.

When an aircraft lands or takes off sometimes – especially in humid, tropical areas – you see a little veil of clouds over the wings of the aircraft. And basically, what’s happening over the wings of the aircraft, there’s cooling. And the cooling produces a cloud.

It’s basically a super-cooled cloud. It’s just like a fog you see at the ground except that its temperature is zero degrees centigrade [32 degrees Fahrenheit]. So in that process of expanding, the air expands over the wing and cools. And that cooling can be as much as 20 degrees centigrade [68 F].

The cooling of air over the wings generates ice, said Heymsfield.

About the Texas incident where satellite imagery showed many hole-punch openings and channels, Heymsfield said:

What we found was that there were about a hundred of these little features. We decided to, first of all, identify their location and see if we could link them to particular aircraft. Then the second thing we did was say, okay, why do these long channels last for the period of time it would take for a satellite to take a snapshot of them? We got high-time-resolution satellite imagery and were able then to track these features, these holes, and watch them develop with time, watch how they developed.

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November 1, 2-14. Caledonia, Wisconsin. Photo credit: Lisa Anderson

Hole-punch clouds over Caledonia, Wisconsin.

Photo via Lisa Anderson.

Bottom Line: Scientists have found that, at mid-altitudes, jet aircraft can punch holes in clouds and make small amounts of rain and snow. These are the strange hole-punch clouds that are sometimes reported as UFOs.

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Massive volcano eruption just happened on Mars?

Massive volcano eruption just happened on Mars?

Massive volcano eruption just happened on Mars?

The following photos are sourced from the ESA picture stream on Flickr between 2018-09-05 and 2018-10-20.

Here is the link to the source photos: ESA Photostream

Officially the volcanos' last eruption was over 50 million years ago...

The pictures depict an at least 750km long plume above the Arsia Mons volcano cross vast parts of the red planet:

Atmosphere Mauna Loa

Atmosphere Of Earth Mauna Loa

Moon January 2018 Lunar Eclipse Solar

A similar anomaly was photographed by India's Mangalyaan probe back in January 2015:

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Source: www.isro.gov.in/...

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NASA Tests Astronaut Survival Systems for Orion Splashdowns

NASA Tests Astronaut Survival Systems for Orion Splashdowns

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AN ALIEN SATELLITE IS IN RETROGRADE ORBIT AROUND EARTH

AN ALIEN SATELLITE IS IN RETROGRADE ORBIT AROUND EARTH


By: Gaia Staff 

There are currently more than 100,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, from space junk, to high tech probes transmitting signals back to Earth. But one of these satellites is thought to be of extraterrestrial origin and has been circling our planet, prior to the launch of Sputnik. This mysterious spacecraft is known as the Black Knight satellite, alleged to be of alien provenance and covered up by NASA for more than 60 years.

While most man-made satellites orbit in prograde, due to the ease and fuel efficiency of using the Earth’s natural gravitational pull, the Black Knight is said to orbit in retrograde, adding to its curious nature. But is it actually an alien satellite monitoring our planet, or simply a thermal space blanket like NASA has claimed photo evidence of it to be?

TESLA AND THE BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE

Recently, a series of fast radio bursts was picked up by Stephen Hawking’s Breakthrough Listen Initiative, which some have speculated could be coming from the technology of an advanced, extraterrestrial species. This wouldn’t be the first time a scientist picked up signals from the cosmos and believed it to be of alien origin. Nearly a century ago, Nikola Tesla claimed to have recorded electrical signals at his laboratory in Colorado Springs that were of intelligent nature.

Tesla had been working on the technology for his Wardenclyffe Tower, when he noticed signals which were not of earthly origin and could be ruled out as being weather-related. He believed the signals were being transmitted from a civilization on Mars, so he developed a device to send signals back out to make contact. Tesla was arguably the most well-versed in radio signal transmission at the time, having pioneered the technology, so it’s hard to imagine he would have been confused by any earthly interference.

No one knows exactly what those signals were, but some believe they may have been a transmission from the Black Knight satellite. Not long after Tesla’s reception, an amateur radio operator in Norway named Jørgen Hals, recorded transmissions called Long Delayed Echoes, or LDEs. Stanford professor, Ron Bracewell, proposed the idea that these echoes were the product of an alien satellite picking up radio signals from Earth and rebroadcasting them back, creating a delay of several seconds. Some speculate that the Black Knight could be this theoretical transmitter, known as a Bracewell probe.

In the early 1970s, a man named Duncan Lunan reinterpreted and examined these LDEs, concluding they were too strong to simply be echoed radio signals from Earth. Lunan said he translated the signals and, to his surprise found a map of Epsilon Boötis, a binary star in the Boötes system. Although Lunan doesn’t like his interpretation of the LDEs associated with the conspiracy surrounding the Black Knight, there are similarities in nature and timeliness.

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IS THE BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE REAL?

In 1954, a few news reports claimed the U.S. Air Force had discovered two satellites orbiting the Earth. With the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, not launching for another three years, the discovery was surprising. But the Air Force was not the only government agency to notice the satellites. The Venezuelan Communications Ministry also noticed their presence a few years later while tracking Sputnik. The ministry noted that these satellites were moving from east to west, in retrograde orbit. Aside from the fact that there were only a few artificial satellites in orbit at the time, none would have been in retrograde orbit.

In 1954, Donald Keyhoe claimed found a satellite was found to orbiting Earth. Keyhoe was originally a marine naval aviator who later became the most prominent name in ufology, establishing the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, or NICAP. Keyhoe’s claim was picked up by the San Francisco Examiner and St. Louis Post Dispatch. According to the articles, Keyhoe said that the Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Talbott, was aware of the satellites and had even witnessed a ‘silvery, disc-shaped object’ in the sky. Though, Talbott dismissed these claims.

Another confounding characteristic of the Black Knight was the fact that it was circling the Earth in polar orbit, a feat not accomplished by man-made satellites until 1960. This type of orbit is typically used for mapping, reconnaissance, and tracking, and often it is done in a sun-synchronous orbit so that each time the satellite passes a particular spot, it is the same time of day. The combination of retrograde and polar orbits makes this type of satellite stick out especially in the late 50s/early 60s when satellite technology was in its nascent phases. And it wasn’t just military entities who photographed an unidentified satellite, but also the Smithsonian Observatory at Harvard as well as the Gruman Aircraft Corporation in New York.

But the story of the Black Knight gets even more bizarre with the French Space Commission’s observation of the satellite while Jacques Vallée was on staff. Despite excitement and intrigue by Vallée and his colleagues, a senior member of his team deleted their imaging of the satellite, for reasons unknown. While Vallée said he believed it was out of embarrassment for the commission’s inability to identify the orbiting object, it was becoming increasingly common for agencies around the world to notice the unidentified satellite, without explanation.

The Black Knight Satellite

The Black Knight Satellite –

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NASA’S BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE EXPLANATION

There are several pictures circulating the internet of what is thought to be the Black Knight. These pictures, according to NASA, are images of a thermal cover dropped during a spacewalk or during some type of extra-vehicular activity on the ISS. During this expedition, one astronaut purportedly finished his mission early and was asked to cover the space station’s trunnion pins with thermal covers. The astronaut was asked to complete this as a free-floating task, despite not having the cover properly attached, inevitably losing track of it as it floated off.

When asked later which pin he lost the cover to, he said he could not remember and that he was too upset with himself to think about it. NASA maintains that the photographs most people point to as evidence of the black knight are images of this thermal cover. There is also a video of the astronauts inside the space station filming and photographing the cover as it floats off.

It is entirely possible that NASA’s claims are true. There are plenty of similarities between the thermal cover and the images believed to be the Black Knight. There aren’t however, sufficient explanations of sightings and documentation of the satellite from the 1950s and 60s by numerous government and scientific agencies.

In 1963, while orbiting Earth, astronaut Gordon Cooper reported seeing a glowing green light ahead of his Mercury 9 module. He reported it to the Australian Space Command, who were able to track it. Oddly enough, when Cooper returned to Earth he was not allowed to talk about the light and it wasp officially reported he had suffered hallucinations from an excess of carbon dioxide in his cabin.

Despite NASA’s attempt to explain what Cooper saw with a more mundane explanation, he continued throughout his life to divulge stories that detailed his experiences with UFOs and other unexplained phenomena. He often spoke of attempted government cover-ups regarding UFOs and unexplained activity, so it could be probable he saw the Black Knight realizing its existence was deliberately being withheld from the public.

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NASA's first image of Mars from a cubesat

NASA's first image of Mars from a cubesat

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One of NASA's twin MarCO spacecraft took this image of Mars on October 2 -- the first time a CubeSat, a kind of low-cost, briefcase-sized spacecraft -- has done so.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's MarCO mission was designed to find out if briefcase-sized spacecraft called CubeSats could survive the journey to deep space. Now, MarCO - which stands for Mars Cube One - has Mars in sight.

One of the twin MarCO CubeSats snapped this image of Mars on Oct. 3 - the first image of the Red Planet ever produced by this class of tiny, low-cost spacecraft. The two CubeSats are officially called MarCO-A and MarCO-B but nicknamed "EVE" and "Wall-E" by their engineering team.

A wide-angle camera on top of MarCO-B produced the image as a test of exposure settings. The MarCO mission, led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, hopes to produce more images as the CubeSats approach Mars ahead of Nov. 26. That's when they'll demonstrate their communications capabilities while NASA's InSight spacecraft attempts to land on the Red Planet. (The InSight mission won't rely on them, however; NASA's Mars orbiters will be relaying the spacecraft's data back to Earth.)

This image was taken from a distance of roughly 8 million miles (12.8 million kilometers) from Mars. The MarCOs are "chasing" Mars, which is a moving target as it orbits the Sun. In order to be in place for InSight's landing, the CubeSats have to travel roughly 53 million miles (85 million kilometers). They have already traveled 248 million miles (399 million kilometers).

MarCO-B's wide-angle camera looks straight out from the deck of the CubeSat. Parts related to the spacecraft's high-gain antenna are visible on either side of the image. Mars appears as a small red dot at the right of the image.

To take the image, the MarCO team had to program the CubeSat to rotate in space so that the deck of its boxy "body" was pointing at Mars. After several test images, they were excited to see that clear, red pinprick.

"We've been waiting six months to get to Mars," said Cody Colley, MarCO's mission manager at JPL. "The cruise phase of the mission is always difficult, so you take all the small wins when they come. Finally seeing the planet is definitely a big win for the team."µ


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Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study

Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study

By Marlowe HOOD
Paris (AFP) 

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Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth billions of years ago, researchers reported Monday.

In some locations, the amount of oxygen available could even keep alive a primitive, multicellular animal such as a sponge, they reported in the journal Nature Geosciences.

"We discovered that brines" -- water with high concentrations of salt -- "on Mars can contain enough oxygen for microbes to breathe," said lead author Vlada Stamenkovic, a theoretical physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

"This fully revolutionises our understanding of the potential for life on Mars, today and in the past," he told AFP.

Up to now, it had been assumed that the trace amounts of oxygen on Mars were insufficient to sustain even microbial life.

"We never thought that oxygen could play a role for life on Mars due to its rarity in the atmosphere, about 0.14 percent," Stamenkovic said.

By comparison, the life-giving gas makes up 21 percent of the air we breathe.

On Earth, aerobic -- that is, oxygen breathing -- life forms evolved together with photosynthesis, which converts CO2 into O2. The gas played a critical role in the emergence of complex life, notable after the so-called Great Oxygenation Event some 2.35 billion years ago.

But our planet also harbours microbes -- at the bottom of the ocean, in boiling hotsprings -- that subsist in environments deprived of oxygen.

"That's why -- whenever we thought of life on Mars -- we studied the potential for anaerobic life," Stamenkovic.

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The new study began with the discovery by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover of manganese oxides, which are chemical compounds that can only be produced with a lot of oxygen.

Curiosity, along with Mars orbiters, also established the presence of brine deposits, with notable variations in the elements they contained.

A high salt content allows for water to remain liquid -- a necessary condition for oxygen to be dissolved -- at much lower temperatures, making brines a happy place for microbes.

Depending on the region, season and time of day, temperatures on the Red Planet can vary between minus 195 and 20 degrees Celsius (minus 319 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit).

The researchers devised a first model to describe how oxygen dissolves in salty water at temperatures below freezing.

A second model estimated climate changes on Mars over the last 20 million years, and over the next 10 million years.

Taken together, the calculations showed which regions on the Red Planet are most likely to produce brine-based oxygen, data that could help determine the placement of future probes.

"Oxygen concentrations [on Mars] are orders of magnitude" -- several hundred times -- "greater than needed by aerobic, or oxygen-breathing -- microbes," the study concluded.

"Our results do not imply that there is life on Mars," Stamenkovic cautioned. "But they show that the Martian habitability is affected by the potential of dissolved oxygen."µµ


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Proof of life: how would we recognise an alien if we saw one?

Proof of life: how would we recognise an alien if we saw one?

Samuel Levin

is a postgraduate student in zoology at the University of Oxford.

Edited by Pam Weintraub

<p>An 'octomite', or a speculative alien produced by natural selection.  <em>Courtesy Helen Cooper/Cambridge University</em></p>

An 'octomite', or a speculative alien produced by natural selection.

Courtesy Helen Cooper/Cambridge University

What would convince you that aliens existed? The question came up recently at a conference on astrobiology, held at Stanford University in California. Several ideas were tossed around – unusual gases in a planet’s atmosphere, strange heat gradients on its surface. But none felt persuasive. Finally, one scientist offered the solution: a photograph. There was some laughter and a murmur of approval from the audience of researchers: yes, a photo of an alien would be convincing evidence, the holy grail of proof that we’re not alone.

But why would a picture be so convincing? What is it that we’d see that would tell us we weren’t just looking at another pile of rocks? An alien on a planet orbiting a distant star would be wildly exotic, perhaps unimaginably so. What, then, would give it away as life? The answer is relevant to our search for extraterrestrials, and what we might expect to find.

Astrobiology – the study of life on other planets – has grown from a fringe sub-discipline of biology, chemistry and astronomy to a leading interdisciplinary field, attracting researchers from top institutions across the globe, and large sums of money from both NASA and private funders. But what exactly is it that astrobiologists are looking for? How will we know when it’s time to pop the Champagne?

One thing that sets life apart from nonlife is its apparent design. Living things, from the simplest bacteria to the great redwoods, have vast numbers of intricate parts working together to make the organism function. Think of your hands, heart, spleen, mitochondria, cilia, neurons, toenails – all collaborating in synchrony to help you navigate, eat, think and survive. The most beautiful natural rock formations lack even a tiny fraction of the myriad parts of a single bacterial cell that coordinate to help it divide and reproduce. 

And living things, unlike dirt and wind, appear to be trying to do things – eat, grow, survive, reproduce. If you’ve ever tried to squish a resilient bug, you know that it doesn’t require a complex mind for an organism to appear to want to survive. Or for a squirrel to ‘want’ to jump from one branch to the next. Or for a plant to ‘try’ to reach towards the Sun and soak up nutrients from the soil. Not only do living things have many intricate parts, but all of those parts have the same, common purpose ­– survival and reproduction. This combination of complex design and apparent purpose, also known as adaptedness, defines life. When we look at that photo of an alien, it’s exactly this adaptedness that would make us go: ‘Aha!’ We would see, clearly, the difference between a disappointing pile of rocks and an exciting alien – design. This is good news, because there’s only one way to get such design: natural selection.

Panoramic view of the Payson outcrop

Scene from a desert planet: a panoramic view of the Payson outcrop near the Opportunity rover’s landing site. With its ocean long gone, Mars may yet have liquid reservoirs underground, and spacecraft have seen signs of surface flows. Life, if it ever existed, most likely followed the water. 

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/Cornell)

Natural selection occurs whenever you have a collection of things (cells, replicators, birds, an imaginary species we’ll call ‘Glipgloops’) that have three properties: variation, heredity and differential success. For example, some of the Glipgloops we posited have longer eyestalks than others (variation). Long-eyestalked Glipgloops have long-eyestalked babies (inheritance of the variation). And Glipgloops with long eyestalks can see out of their methane holes better and therefore have more babies (differential success linked to that variation). The result is that, over time, Glipgloops evolve to have elongated eyestalks.

This is the process by which the apparent design in nature is generated: in every generation, at every instant, individuals with traits linked to better reproduction are being ‘selected’. As a result, over time, populations consist of individuals who appear designed for the purpose of reproducing. It’s exactly because the selection criterion is always the same that design can develop. Imagine a car that was constructed using a different blueprint at every step – well, you likely wouldn’t end up with a car. It’s natural selection’s unwavering mantra – the contribution of genes to future generations – that allows for design to appear without a designer.

In fact, the selection criterion is so consistent, that an organism cannot be designed for anything other than contributing genes to future generations. This is why we don’t get organisms who sacrifice for the good of their species. In general, organisms are selfish – reproducing yourself at the expense of others is a great way to pass on genes. We do sometimes see sacrifice and cooperation in nature – but only when the benefits of cooperation come back to you, or the sacrifice benefits relatives. Relatives share genes, so a bee can sacrifice for the queen (its mother), if it means she’ll produce 100 more sisters, each carrying half the bee’s genes. The calculus of which traits lead to more genes, and exactly when and how much to sacrifice, is precise and rigid. This is why evolutionary biologists can make mathematical models that correctly predict how many helpers a bird should allow at her nest, and how often wasps should cannibalise their siblings. But this algorithmic rigidity of natural selection also comes in handy for the astrobiologist.

Curiosity’s study of a formation called Whale Rock revealed evidence of flowing water, one of the main clues scientists look for to assess whether a site was once habitable.

 (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Athread should be revealing itself: life is special because of its apparent design. The only way to get design without a designer is natural selection. Therefore, aliens must be the product of natural selection. And natural selection follows certain rules, and can produce only certain kinds of organisms. Thus, astrobiologists can use the theory of natural selection, and the mathematics of evolution, to make predictions about aliens.

Are there exceptions? We can’t get complex life, even something as simple as a bacterium, without natural selection. Even a postorganic, computer-based alien would ultimately be the product of a product of natural selection. But let’s consider a borderline case. Imagine a collection of replicating molecules, like tiny naked genes, on an alien planet. If these replicators made copies of themselves (inheritance), but replicated perfectly every time (no variation or differential success), you wouldn’t get natural selection.

Would this be life? Maybe, but it wouldn’t be very exciting. For one, without variation, the molecules can never change, or become more adapted, or evolve into anything more interesting or complex. Finding bacteria or bears on a distant planet would suggest that the universe might be teeming with life of all shapes and sizes. These replicators wouldn’t suggest anything. Even more problematic, their existence would likely be fleeting – without natural selection, they wouldn’t be able to cope with changes on their planet, and so would disappear before we found them.

The argument from natural selection is robust, even at the boundaries. This frees us up to use the same evolutionary tools we use on Earth to make predictions about life elsewhere.

Previous work in astrobiology has extrapolated from what’s happened on Earth, potentially limiting our vision to certain special features, such as DNA or carbon-based life, that won’t hold on other planets. Natural selection, on the other hand, is universal. It doesn’t depend on DNA (remember, Charles Darwin knew nothing of genes) or carbon chemistry or the presence of water. It’s incredibly simple – it just requires a few ingredients – and it’s the only way to generate life.

A mental image of that prized photo, showing entities apparently designed to fit their surroundings, is beginning to form. We can’t say whether the grainy picture of the alien will have eyes, or limbs, or be green. That’s not the kind of prediction good evolutionary theory can make. But natural selection tells us that its forms, goals and evolutionary pathways are constrained.

One example posed by our team in the sketch above is what we playfully call ‘the octomite’ – a conglomerate of once-separate entities now working together to survive, reproduce and evolve. How would we recognise an alien? It would include a hierarchy of entities, with the interests of each lower level aligned with components in levels above. The photo we envision would show division of labour, with various parts specialising in various tasks in a mutually dependent way.

This work of incorporating evolutionary theory into our astrobiological toolkit is only just beginning. What else can Darwin tell us about aliens? Presumably quite a lot. The photo, if and when it comes, will be something entirely exotic to the naked eye. But to the student of evolutionary biology, it might look surprisingly familiar.

More evidence of water on Mars: Close-up views show features like those left on Earth after water evaporates. 

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

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In 1996, even closer microscopic views inside a Martian meteorite led to claims of fossil life—which today are mostly discounted. 

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Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua's Surprise Arrival Still Thrills Scientists One Year Later

Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua's Surprise Arrival Still Thrills Scientists One Year Later

Artist's illustration of 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar asteroid.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO

A year ago, astronomers spotted a strange object barreling through our solar system on a very weird path — the first discovery of an interstellar object, now called 'Oumuamua, which means "messenger from afar" in Hawaiian.

During the abrupt flyby, scientists made frantic observations of the object before it passed out of range of even the most-powerful telescopes. Ever since then, 'Oumuamua has provided scientists a seemingly endless supply of questions, with most answers still very much up in the air.

Astronomers got their first glimpse of 'Oumuamua on Oct. 19, 2017, through the Pan-STARRS1 telescope based in Hawaii, which is fine-tuned to catch temporary phenomena like passing comets. Right away, scientists knew this wasn't your average comet; its path was way too strange. They'd caught sight of the object on its way out of our solar system, so scientists are still trying to figure out where its journey began. ['Oumuamua: The Solar System's 1st Interstellar Visitor Explained in Photos]

'Oumuamua has also endured a bit of an identity crisis during its first year in the scientific literature. At first, astronomers thought it was a comet. Then, they realized there was no cloud of gas and dust enveloping the object, so they reclassified it as an asteroid. But that proved problematic when they realized it was moving faster than an asteroid ought to be, as if getting a little boost of speed from volatile materials evaporating off its surface, like those that form a comet's surrounding cloud.

Another puzzle is the object's strange shape: long and thin, something like six times longer than it is wide. That's unlike most cosmic objects, which are generally lumps. It's also spinning strangely, tumbling end over end like a stick tossed for a cosmic dog. Some of the hypotheses to explain that elongated shape are that 'Oumuamua had a messy run-in with an asteroid or that the incredible gravitational pull of a giant planet stretched the object.

Because they can't gather any more data about 'Oumuamua, scientists have turned their attention to spotting another such interstellar visitor, hoping to find one sooner rather than later. (Researchers have said the objects should be pretty common, and scientists had in fact been waiting for a flyby like 'Oumuamua's for decades.)

But regardless of the mysteries scientists may never be able to solve with the observations they did gather in time, one thing about 'Oumuamua is nearly certain: It's not an alien spaceship broadcasting back to its creators. Yes, they checked.

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Salty Martian Water Could Have Enough Oxygen to Support Life

Salty Martian Water Could Have Enough Oxygen to Support Life

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Mars may yet hold life in salty subsurface waters

Mars may yet hold life in salty subsurface waters

 BY MIHAI ANDREI

In its current form, Mars isn’t the best place to host life — but some of its subsurface oases may be pretty welcoming, a new study reports.

Credits: NASA.

In order to sustain life, a planet (or any celestial body) must fulfill quite a lot of conditions. You need sufficient gravitational pull, an atmosphere with a specific chemical makeup, a Goldilocks temperature — and that’s just the start of it. All in all, the stars need to align just right to provide the necessary conditions for life to evolve.

Mars definitely fulfills some of those requirements. It’s a rocky planet, lies at a reasonable distance from its star, and shows signs of hosting water. Its atmosphere, however, isn’t conducive to life as we know it. Aside from being very thin (just 6% the density of Earth’s atmosphere on average), it comprises 96% carbon dioxide and only contains traces of free oxygen. Due to the scarcity of oxygen, Mars has been assumed to be incapable of producing environments with sufficiently large concentrations of O2 to support aerobic respiration, researchers write in a new study.

However, there are some places where Mars could, in fact, host life: underground. But the story isn’t that straight-forward.

Here on Earth, oxygen and life go hand in hand. Photosynthesis evolved at least 2.3 billion years ago, and aerobic (or oxygen-breathing) life evolved with it. We haven’t seen any sign of that on Mars, however. Furthermore, life requires liquid water — and with an average surface temperature of -81 degrees Fahrenheit (-63 Celsius), liquid water is a scarce commodity on the red planet. There’s no clear evidence that liquid water exists (or could exist) on Mars’ surface, but there are some hints that liquid water could exist underground, in the form of brine (very salty water).

Water mixed with salt freezes at lower temperatures than freshwater. While pure water will freeze at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 Celsius), salty water will still be liquid at that temperature. But salt also reduces the amount of oxygen that water can store, while low temperatures increase the amount of oxygen. So salt, temperature, and oxygen are trapped in a constant push and tow.

To study this dance, Vlada Stamenković and colleagues calculated how much molecular oxygen could be dissolved in subsurface Martian liquid brines. They found that molecular oxygen concentrations are particularly high in the polar regions, and remarkably, some of them could even contain enough oxygen to support aerobic life.

These findings also fit with surface observations, particularly oxidized rocks observed by rovers exploring Mars’ surface.

“That’s the thing of habitability; we never thought that environment could have that much oxygen,” says Stamenković, a planetary scientist and physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

This completely changes our understanding of the potential for life on current-day Mars, he adds. Of course, it doesn’t mean that there is life on Mars — but the fact that could be is already pretty exciting.

  • The study has been published in Nature Geoscience.

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NASA treft op Antarctica perfect rechthoekige ijsberg aan - HLN.be

NASA treft op Antarctica perfect rechthoekige ijsberg aan - HLN.be

Bron: LiveScience, NASA

De rechthoekige ijsplaat: een geheime militaire basis, of een gril van Moeder Natuur?

 NASA  De rechthoekige ijsplaat: een geheime militaire basis, of een gril van Moeder Natuur?
 Wetenschappers van NASA hebben op de zuidpool een opmerkelijk fenomeen gespot. Tussen een chaotische wirwar van drijvend ijs, zagen ze plots een perfect rechthoekige ijsberg drijven. Een geheime militaire basis, of een gril van Moeder Natuur?

De natuur is vaak rommelig, onregelmatig en asymmetrisch. Rechte vormen en hoeken van 90 graden zijn eerder zeldzaam. Toch is deze plateauvormige ijsberg volkomen natuurlijk. De foto werd gemaakt tijdens NASA’s IceBridge-project. Daarbij worden de poolgebieden jaarlijks vanuit de lucht gefotografeerd en in kaart gebracht om te zien hoe de gigantische ijsplaten en het zee-ijs zich door de jaren heen ontwikkelen.

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Deze perfect rechthoekige ijsberg dobberde rond in de buurt van de Larsen C-ijsplaat, een berg van 150 kilometer lang en 55 kilometer breed die vorig jaar losscheurde op de zuidpool en onlangs begon weg te drijven.

Dat de ijsplaat zo mooi afgelijnd is, komt niet omdat iemand het ijs heeft zitten snoeien. “Wellicht is ze nog maar recent afgebroken van een groter geheel”, vertelt Kelly Brunt van de universiteit van Maryland. “Onder invloed van de wind en de zee zal het strakke lijnenspel van deze plaat snel minder scherpe vormen aannemen.” De grootte van de plaat is niet gemeten en is alleen op basis van een foto moeilijk in te schatten, maar Brunt vermoedt dat ze minstens 1,6 kilometer breed is.

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Controversy Ensues Over Possible Volcanic Eruption on Mars

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Controversy Ensues Over Possible Volcanic Eruption on Mars

If it looks like a volcanic eruption and acts like a volcanic eruption, is it a volcanic eruption … even if it’s on Mars, which hasn’t had an eruption at this particular volcano in at least 50 million years and hasn’t had a lava flow anywhere in at least 2 million years? That question is currently being hotly debated by astronomers and conspiracy theorists after many people looking at recent pictures from the European Space Agency’s Mars webcam on board its Mars Express orbiter spotted what looks like a volcanic plume over Arsia Mons, a volcano on the Tharsis bulge near the Martian equator. Is it a volcano or is it something else? Is it being covered up or is it something else?

Let’s start by saying that no one questions that something DID happen on Mars over the Arsia Mons volcano and it WAS photographed by the webcam on the ESA’s Mars Express orbiter. The pictures being referenced appear to be from 9-5-2018 to 10-20-2018. Further investigation by Forbes found that NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey mission also picked up clouds over Arsia Mons in September 2018. Those photos didn’t cause the same controversy in the conspiracy community since the looked more like fog than a volcanic plume.

Photo of plume

(ESA)

Speaking of the conspiracy community, multiple sites picked up the photographs, called it a volcanic eruption and speculated it was being covered up with their evidence being the recent shutdown of the solar observatory in New Mexico, shutdowns of other observatories and the conspiracy theorists’ inherent distrust of NASA. Those shutdowns have been explained (the one in New Mexico  was due to a criminal investigation and possible threats) and one wonders why a ‘solar’ observatory would be shut down over a Martian eruption. The answer is point three – they don’t trust NASA.

For those who do trust NASA, at least occasionally, it sent Tanya Harrison, Director of Research for Arizona State University’s Space Technology and Science Initiative and a Science Team Collaborator on the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity, to Twitter to explain the plume.

“It’s not a plume of smoke, but rather water ice clouds condensing out over the summit of the Arsia Mons volcano. We see them quite often over this particular volcano.”

She also showed another view of the Arsia Mons from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in October showing ice clouds and explained further:

“We see these clouds hang out over the summit of Arsia for weeks at a time during this time of year, every year. It’s a combination of its high elevation and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere at this time of year causing the clouds to form.”

Another view of Arsia Mons couds 

(NASA)

A report about the plume in Forbes agrees with Harrison, referencing similar plumes in 2015 and a 2005 study in the Journal of Geophysical Research about “persistent water ice clouds on the flanks of Arsia Mons Volcano.” Jacob Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, gives the accepted volcanic history of Arsia Mons in a 2017 study:

“We estimate that the peak activity for the volcanic field at the summit of Arsia Mons probably occurred approximately 150 million years ago—the late Jurassic period on Earth—and then died out around the same time as Earth’s dinosaurs. It’s possible, though, that the last volcanic vent or two might have been active in the past 50 million years, which is very recent in geological terms.”

And yet … the distrust of all things NASA leads to the current questioning of all things Arsia Mons. Perhaps the real question we should be asking is this: if this truly is the first recorded volcanic eruption on Mars in 50 million years, wouldn’t NASA and the ESA be shouting just as loudly … not to mention fighting over whose discovery it was?


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Bedroom Encounters With Something Terrifying

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Bedroom Encounters With Something Terrifying

One of the strangest cases in my files comes from a woman who, back in the 1990s, had a series of experiences that left her seriously ill, and which took her several months to fully recover from. Alison, of Texas was seventeen when, in late 1998, she began to feel ill. The first symptom was a rapid loss of weight: around ten pounds in less than a month – which is definitely not a good thing. Given her age at the time, it’s perhaps not unreasonable that Alison’s mother tactfully asked if all was okay with her. When her mother brought up the issue of her weight loss, Alison became noticeably defensive, but denied that she had anorexia or bulimia.

Nothing more was said: Alison continued to have a healthy appetite, despite continuing to steadily lose weight. It was around ten days later, however, that Alison’s mother became deeply worried: early on a Sunday morning Alison screamed for her mother, who quickly came running to her bedroom. To her horror, she saw Alison laying on the bed, her face deathly pale. When her mother tried to help Alison to sit upright, Alison’s eyes rolled into her head and she fainted. Luckily, the pair lived only a few minutes’ from the local hospital and so Alison’s mother got her into the car and raced to the emergency room. In no time, she was being examined.

As Alison – who regained consciousness in the car, but who felt weak and dizzy – rested, a doctor asked her mother about Alison’s general health. She explained that Alison had lost a lot of weight in the last few weeks. Maybe not surprisingly, the doctor too asked questions about anorexia and bulimia. When Alison recovered, the pair left the hospital, with the doctor suggesting to Alison’s mother that she keep a very close eye on her daughter, and – if she had any more fainting spells – to take her to their regular doctor. They were wise words: Alison fell sick on three more occasions, and as her weight began to plummet: a final total of approximately twenty pounds in around six weeks. She was admitted to hospital and watched very carefully.

Tests showed that, physically, Alison was exhibiting all the physical signs associated with early anorexia. But, there was always someone with her when she ate her meals in her hospital room – and at home, too. In fact, she was eating eagerly. On top of that, Alison’s mother sat with her for hours after eating each meal – on the suggestion of one of the doctors, to make sure she didn’t make herself ill, bulimia-style, by vomiting up her meals. Further tests were run but no answers were to be found. At least, not by conventional medicine.

At the height of her illness, when Alison even started to take on a jaundiced look, she confided in her mother that there was something she had not told her – or the doctors. Alison’s mother feared, initially, that her daughter was going to say she had been using and abusing hard drugs. But, no. Alison said that four or five days before she began losing weight, she woke in the dead of night to see a pale-faced woman, attired in a long and black, hooded robe, standing next to the bed. The woman was very tall – around six-foot-three or –four. Her skin was white, and her eyes were staring and bulging. Alison found herself unable to move as the woman closed in on her, looming over the bed as Alison struggled to move. The woman gave a loud, satisfying groan at the very same time that Alison suddenly felt ill and cold. The woman retreated into the darkness of the bedroom and vanished.

Alison put the whole thing to a bad dream – and told her mother that she didn’t think any more about it. That is, until the pale hag returned the next night, and the next night, and…well, you get the picture. Alison’s mother listened, in fear and dread, as her daughter told her how, every night for weeks, the woman appeared in the bedroom. And, all the time, Alison was getting sicker and thinner. Alison even claimed to have seen the woman in her hospital room – as if, said Alison, the Woman in Black knew where she was at all times. Alison confided one other thing in her mother: four or five nights before the woman first appeared, Alison and two of her friends had been playing with an old Ouija-board. Alison’s mother was more terrified than she was angry – after all, she only wanted to get her daughter well, not pass judgment when she was severely ill.

As luck, or fate, would have it, Alison’s mother had a friend, Jennifer, who worked in the field of alternative medicine and who also had deep knowledge of the world of the supernatural. Jennifer agreed to perform a cleansing of not just the family home, but also of Alison herself. Since the pale, supernatural woman only ever appeared at night, Jennifer said it would be a good idea for her to sit in the bedroom while Alison slept – to ensure that if the woman did appear she would be ready to deal with her.

Jennifer arrived the following evening, armed to the teeth with just about everything she needed to ensure that the evil entity in the home would be banished for good. Jennifer’s weapons included sea salt – which is said to have the ability to prevent supernatural creatures from crossing certain thresholds, including doorways to rooms. So, Jennifer scattered more than liberal amounts of sea salt at the front- and back-doors of the home, in front of Alison’s bedroom, and across the window-sill in her room. That was followed by the use of sage. Traditionally, and for centuries, sage has been seen as both a powerful protector and a cleanser. So, Jennifer did what she does best: she performed a lengthy cleansing program that went on for several hours, and ensuring that the smoke reached all corners of the home. Then, it was a case of watching and waiting.

Alison’s mother stayed in the living-room, at the suggestion of Jennifer – who sat by Alison’s bed, ready for just about anything. The black-garbed woman did not put in an appearance, but there were two inexplicable things that did happen that night: Alison’s bedroom was briefly filled with an odor like rotting meat, and, for a few moments, rapid scratching noises were heard on the walls of the bedroom. Alison and Jennifer held hands tightly, and prayed that the hideous thing would leave – and leave now. By all accounts, the rituals worked. The eerie woman was never seen again and over the course of five or six weeks Alison’s health returned to normal. Today, and now in her late thirties, Alison is convinced that whatever the woman was, she was feeding on her, something which led to the weight loss and anorexia-like side-effects and symptoms. To this day, Alison keeps both sea salt and sage in her home – which, today, is in Arizona.

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Perfectly Square Iceberg Has Many People Baffled and Worried

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Perfectly Square Iceberg Has Many People Baffled and Worried

If you’ve seen the movie “Titanic,” you know that icebergs are not ice cubes. Apparently, Netflix isn’t available in Antarctica because a plane operated by NASA to scan the ice photographed a berg that looks more like a tombstone or a sheet cake or a frozen Christmas present … in other words, it’s nothing like a chunk of the Larsen C ice shelf it broke off of. Is it real or are the scientists stationed in Antarctica killing time with picks, chainsaws and tape measures?

The iceberg suspected of sinking the Titanic

“What makes this one a bit unusual is that it looks almost like a square.”

In an interview with LiveScience, Kelly Brunt, an ice scientist with NASA and at the University of Maryland, described the block of ice spotted by a plane belonging to NASA’s Operation IceBridge fleet – a project whose purpose is to measure annual changes in the thickness of Antarctica’s ice and glaciers in order to predict future break-offs and meltings caused by climate change. The planes give a closer and quicker look at these occurrences than the IceSat satellites. Should we be worried that the ice is suddenly breaking off in such neat and precise rectangular cuboid bergs?

“We get two types of icebergs: We get the type that everyone can envision in their head that sank the Titanic, and they look like prisms or triangles at the surface and you know they have a crazy subsurface. And then you have what are called ‘tabular icebergs.'”

Despite the predictable Internet panic when NASA posted photos on its NASA ICE #IceBridge Twitter feed, Kelly assures the masses that this mass is rare but normal. For the non-scientists (much appreciated, Kelly), she likens the cuboid iceberg calving process to a long fingernail that cracks off with a clean, straight edge on at least three sides. Also like a fingernail, the tabular iceberg is much wider than it is thick. This one is a mile across and, while it probably looks like a fun place for Antarctic scientists to blow off frozen steam playing mobile hockey, she warns that it’s unstable and moving away from the Larsen C ice shelf into the Weddell Sea.

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That explanation sounds believable despite the dubious comments on various websites that it’s was actually caused by aliens, secret experiments or bored scientists. Whatever the case, let’s hope funding continues for cryospheric (ice-related) research projects like NASA ICE and Operation IceBridge. It may not be disaster movie-worthy but it’s critical to predicting how many of us will be underwater in a few years.

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Drained Dry by the Black Eyed Children

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Drained Dry by the Black Eyed Children

Last week, I was on Dave Schrader’s Darkness Radio show. Although the show was on alien abductions, we also touched on the matter of the Black Eyed Children. Dave asked me about some of the stranger and creepier BEC accounts I have in my files – which amount to quite a few. We discussed several such cases, but there’s one which I didn’t touch on, and that is one of the weirdest of all.. It’s the account of a man named Martin, who lives just outside of Tecumseh, Oklahoma. Martin’s encounter with a pair of Black Eyed Children went down in March 2011. Fortunately, I was able to interview Martin personally just a few weeks after his experience. Martin was at home alone when he had just about the worst encounter was possible.

In terms of Martin’s encounter, it occurred two days after he returned home. As a truck-driver, he had been on the road for two weeks and was looking forward to a few days of relaxation and fun. He got neither. On his first night back, Martin planned on watching a bunch of shows he had recorded while he was away on the road.  The evening began in completely normal fashion: he made himself a big sandwich, cracked open a cold beer and watched his shows. Normality was about to go out of the window. Around 8:30 p.m., there was that knock on the door, the kind of which so many witnesses to the BEC have now experienced, but surely wished they hadn’t. Martin didn’t even bother looking through the spy-hole: he assumed it was his immediate neighbor, Rex, who would take in any packages from the likes of UPS, Amazon and FedEx that might have been left on Martin’s doorstep while he was away. Sadly for Martin, as he opened the door, he instantly realized it was not Rex.

Martin got the shock of his life when he was confronted by a boy and a girl – both around eleven or twelve years of age and with large, black, eerie-looking eyes. The girl was dressed in jeans and a long-sleeved black top, while the boy had the almost-ubiquitous black hoodie. Both looked sickly and scrawny and is if they needed a hearty meal in them. Little did Martin know that this was exactly what they were there for. Hardly a fan of the supernatural, Martin had never heard of the BEC phenomenon and could only stand and stare at their curious faces, assuming at first that this was some kind of joke. But, the Black-Eyed Children were certainly not laughing. They stood together, hand in hand, looking at Martin with expressions on their faces that were, paradoxically, lacking in emotion but which also gave off airs of highly charged malevolence.

Echoing Brian Bethel’s encounter back in the 1990s (which largely began the BEC phenomenon and debate) , Martin said that when the girl said they were homeless and needed something to eat, it all seemed very much like a ruse – as if they had spoken the words time and time again. It was like a carefully-crafted scheme on their part. Most disturbing of all, for a few moments Martin felt transfixed – almost hypnotized – by those large, black eyes. Indeed, he told me that he could not understand why he did not quickly shut the door at the sight of those terrible eyes. Martin could only say that it was if he was somehow being prevented from shutting the door on the pair. One might be justified in saying Martin had been placed in a state of full-blown mind-control.

The girl repeated: “We need to eat. May we come in?” Martin said that he recalls her words accurately, and he felt that the girl’s use of the term “may we?” (instead of “can we?”) sounded like “how people talked way back.” There is one missing portion from Martin’s story: he cannot recall how the pair got into his house. He recalls inviting them in – “it felt like I said it in a dream” – but, the next thing he remembers is seeing the pair standing in front of him, while he was sat on his living-room couch. The girl said just one word: “eat.”

At that point, Martin suddenly felt deathly ill. It was, he said, as if he “hadn’t eaten in days.” He explained that it was as if he himself was suddenly starving, but it was the children who needed to eat. The pair stared intently at Martin, who found himself getting weaker and weaker. And weaker still. “Crashing” might be a more ideal term to use: Martin found himself barely able to move. Not because he was being prevented from moving, but because physically-speaking he simply did not have the energy to even stand up. It was, Martin said, as if he was himself being eaten alive by the paranormal pair of ghoulish things in his midst.

After a few minutes, both the girl and the boy turned and left, still holding hands. Martin finally managed to crawl to his bedroom, where he lapsed into a deep sleep. He did not wake until well into the following afternoon. For the next three four or days, the overwhelming weakness – made worse by bouts of dizziness and a bad taste in his mouth – kept him in his bed. It was almost a week later before he finally felt fully back to normal. While Martin has no idea as to what the BEC were or are, he believes they were not human and, somehow, had drained him of energy.

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UFO Probe Seen Flying Over Wild Pigs In Texas On Animal Cam, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Probe Seen Flying Over Wild Pigs In Texas On Animal Cam, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: 1-1-2011, but reported today.
Location of sighting: Texas, USA
Source: Mufon #95803

Animal cams are awesome at catching fast glimpses into nature, but the fact that they also record in infrared makes it even more special, because the human eye cannot see in infrared without the technology. Here a donut shaped UFO is flying over a pig and the UFO clearly is round with a large hole inside of it. That donut shape does not fit any insect, bat, bird or animal known to man. Therefore it is a UFO. Small UFO probes often are used to come closer to the ground so that the chances of being seen are much smaller. Also they are sent to observe, record and learn about life on Earth...all life, not just us boring humans. 

Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states: 

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UFO seen in clear daylight over Mexico is PROOF of aliens - shock claim

UFO seen in clear daylight over Mexico is PROOF of aliens - shock claim

A UFO was spotted in broad daylight over Mexico and the strange craft was seen by thousands of people across the central American country’s capital.

The strange craft was seen moving over thew sky of Mexico City, and several people captured the sight on video.

As the UFO moves through the air, a few hundred metres off the ground, it emanates a blurry field which is commonly reported from alien enthusiasts.

Many believe this latest sighting is strong evidence of the existence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth and, had the camera quality been better, it “would be definitive proof of the existence of aliens”.

The video was originally captured by a YouTube user known as Carlos Sanchez, but was quickly picked up by conspiracy theorists around the internet.

Prominent UFO hunter Scott C Waring who believes it is a genuine sighting of an alien spaceship.

Mr Waring writes for his blog UFO Sightings Daily: “This dark craft came right out into the open and was seen when a worker came outside for his break.

“The UFO tilted some as it moved, which is what many UFOs do in order to control their direction.

“Just sad he had such a bad camera. Looks like he is using an old phone to record it.

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UFO seen in clear daylight over Mexico is PROOF of aliens - shock claim
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“Had it been an iPhone 7-8 this video would be definitive proof of the existence of aliens.

“I also notice that there is a blurry field around it, just as thousands of UFO reports also describe.”

Mexico is a hotspot for UFO sightings.

Earlier this year, a video showing a smoking crater next to a motorway lead to speculation it could be a UFO crash site.

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The huge 26 feet across burning pit was filmed by shocked onlookers as a thick mist rose into the air by the Torreón to Saltillo highway in the state of Coahuila in north east Mexico.

The pit was said to be as deep as it was wide and, according to reports, no evidence has been found as to what caused it.

Online theories have ranged from a crashed spaceship or a meteor falling to Earth.

One YouTube poster said: "Looks like a UFO landed and took off before anyone could see, leaving a crater.”

{ https://www.express.co.uk/ }

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HERE’S WHAT EXPERTS THINK OF STEPHEN HAWKING’S POSTHUMOUS PREDICTIONS ABOUT AI, GENE HACKING, AND RELIGION

HERE’S WHAT EXPERTS THINK OF STEPHEN HAWKING’S POSTHUMOUS PREDICTIONS ABOUT AI, GENE HACKING, AND RELIGION

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Hawking Claims

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking passed away earlier this year, but his final book, “Brief Answers to the Big Questions,” only came out this week.

In it, Hawking makes a number of bold claims about the future of gene editing, artificial intelligence, and even religion. Here’s how experts evaluate his predictions.

Superhuman Overlords

Hawking raised eyebrows when he claimed that powerful people will hack their genes to become smarter, stronger, and longer-lived. Eventually, he writes in his new book, the rest of us will “die out, or become unimportant.”

Many geneticists already see this as inevitable. Some fear that people will use CRISPR to edit their genes before the technology is deemed safe, so they advocate new laws to protect non-augmented humans.

“We’re probably going to need new international oversight structures, so that we don’t realize these dystopian ‘Brave New World’ examples,” said George Daley, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, at the International Summit on Human Genome Editing in 2015.

Killer AI

During his lifetime, Hawking was vocal about his fear of powerful AI. He reiterates his reservations in this book, writing that ignoring the threat of super-powerful AI could be humanity’s “worst mistake ever.” It could destroy us with weapons “we cannot even understand,” he wrote.

There’s some debate on this point. Many technologists, including eccentric billionaire Elon Musk, agree that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity.

But others play it down. “[There’s] no reason right now to be worried about self-conscious AI algorithms that set their own goals and go crazy,” Stanford machine learning lecturer Richard Socher told Fortune. And a poll of AI researchers found that most believe it will take at least 25 years to create an AI superintelligence — so at least we have a little time to prepare.

No Gods, No Masters

Hawking also came out swinging at religion in the book. “Belief in the afterlife is just wishful thinking,” he writes, adding that there’s “no possibility” of God.

Many scientists certainly agree with Hawking on this claim, though not all. A 2015 survey found that many researchers around the world are religious, but in most countries, scientists are by and large less religious than non-scientists.

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The Next Battleground: What Do We Really Know About What Adversaries Do in Space?

The Next Battleground: What Do We Really Know About What Adversaries Do in Space?

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Rocket Lab selects Wallops Flight Facility for US launch site

Rocket Lab selects Wallops Flight Facility for US launch site

by Staff Writers
Wallops Island VA (SPX) 

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US orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has today confirmed it will build its first US launch pad for the Electron rocket at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, USA. The site will be Rocket Lab's second dedicated launch complex and builds on Rocket Lab's existing ability to launch up to 120 times annually from the world's only private launch site, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, in New Zealand.

Launch Complex 2 will be capable of supporting monthly orbital launches and is designed to serve US government and commercial missions. The site brings Rocket Lab's global launch availability across two launch complexes to more than 130 missions per year. The option to select from two launch sites adds an extra layer of flexibility for small satellite customers, offering an unmatched ability to rapidly deploy space-based assets with confidence and precision from a preferred location.

"Accessing space should be simple, seamless and tailored to our customers' missions - from idea to orbit. Launching from a second pad builds on Rocket Lab's ability to offer the small satellite industry unmatched schedule and launch location flexibility," said Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck.

"Having proven the Electron vehicle with a successful orbital launch this year, we're thrilled to expand on our ability to provide rapid, reliable and affordable access to orbit for small satellites.

"We've worked closely with the experienced and welcoming teams from Virginia Space and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops to design a pad and processes that will enable an agile and streamlined approach to small satellite launch on US soil," he added.

Rocket Lab will work with Virginia Space to construct dedicated pad infrastructure at the site, tailored to the Electron launch vehicle. In addition to the pad, Rocket Lab will develop a Launch Vehicle Integration and Assembly Facility in the Wallops Research Park to support the simultaneous integration of up to four Electron vehicles.

The facility will also contain a control room with connectivity to LC-2, as well as dedicated customer facilities. This new facility, combined with the purpose-built gantry located at LC-2, will provide significant and dedicated vehicle processing capability and flexibility to meet Rocket Lab's high launch cadence.

Through construction and day-to-day operations, Rocket Lab expects to create around 30 jobs immediately to directly support Launch Complex 2, with this number predicted to increase to approximately 100 as launch frequency increases. The development of Launch Complex 2 will also see Rocket Lab continue to expand Electron rocket production at the company's headquarters in Huntington Beach, California, to supply complete launch vehicles for government and commercial customers.

"We are honored to be Rocket Lab's selection for Launch Complex 2," stated Dale Nash, CEO and Executive Director of Virginia Space. "There is an incredible synergy between Virginia Space and Rocket Lab and we are proud to support their missions launching from U.S. soil. We'd like to thank Rocket Lab for their confidence in our team. Virginia Space and MARS employees are standing ready to do everything we can to ensure successful, safe and timely launch missions for Rocket Lab just as we do for every customer of the Spaceport."

Bill Wrobel, director of NASA Wallops, said, "Wallops has more than 70 years of experience successfully supporting missions using suborbital as well as small and medium-class orbital launch vehicles. We look forward, along with our partner Virginia Space and its Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, to supporting Rocket Lab's Electron missions and expanding commercial launch operations from Wallops."

Four spaceports were shortlisted to become Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2, including Cape Canaveral, Wallops Flight Facility, Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska and Vandenberg Air Force Base. Wallops Flight Facility made the final cut thanks to high flight frequency available from the site, as well as rapid construction timelines that will see Rocket Lab target the first Electron launch from US soil Q3 2019.

Rocket Lab continues to assess additional launch sites in the US and internationally to provide additional launch flexibility for small satellite customers. The company also maintains agreements with Cape Canaveral in Florida and Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska to conduct launches from existing pads as required.

Related Links
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Rocket Science News at Space-Travel.Com

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A+E’s ‘Project Blue Book’ Thinks the Truth Is Still Out There

A+E’s ‘Project Blue Book’ Thinks the Truth Is Still Out There

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UFO sightings may be falling, but Congress is still paying attention

UFO sightings may be falling, but Congress is still paying attention

Renewed US interest could produce some fascinating hearings, but the focus should be on the quality not just the quantity of reported sightings

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 The terms UFO and ‘flying saucer’ are both wrongly, regarded as being synonymous with ‘extraterrestrial spacecraft’. Photograph: Jim West/Rex/Shutterstock

There’s renewed interest in the UFO phenomenon and it’s coming from an unexpected source: the United States Congress.

The Senate Armed Services Committee is looking into a 2004 incident where US Navy pilots flying with the USS Nimitz strike group encountered, chased and filmed fast-moving unidentified objects. Reliable sources say at least two of the military pilots involved have already been interviewed, and a radar operator was subsequently invited to get in touch.

In parallel, the House Armed Services Committee is taking an interest. Records from April show the committee received a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) briefing on the Pentagon’s UFO project, the cryptically-named AATIP. We know so little about AATIP that there’s even dispute over whether the acronym stands for Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program or Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. The very existence of the project caused a sensation, because until the New York Times broke the story in December 2017, the US government claimed it had not investigated UFOs since the 1960s when sightings were looked at in a study called Project Blue Book.

As noted in the Guardian recently, data from two civilian UFO research organisations show that the number of reported sightings has fallen in recent years. However, there’s no single, global focal point for reports (the Ministry of Defence stopped investigating UFOs in 2009) and statistics will never tell the full story.

It would be better if the phenomenon were assessed and judged not on numbers alone, but by focusing on cases where we have compelling evidence: independently submitted reports from pilots on different flights; visual sightings corroborated by radar; photos and videos regarded as genuinely intriguing by intelligence community imagery analysts. Irrespective of the methodology we use to assess the phenomenon, how can we do so in an even-handed way when the subject has so much pop culture baggage?

A first step in reframing the debate might be changing the language. The term “UFO” has become as obsolete and baggage-laden as the now largely-defunct “flying saucer”. Both are widely, but wrongly, regarded as being synonymous with “extraterrestrial spacecraft”, when self-evidently all the phrase should mean is something in the sky that the observer cannot identify. When the question “do you believe in UFOs?” is misinterpreted as “do you think we’re being visited by aliens?” then we clearly have a problem.

We addressed this in the MoD in the 1990s by replacing “UFO” with “UAP”, for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It got us increased funding and made a few senior officials take the matter more seriously, because they felt we were looking at a science problem, not a science fiction mystery.

Years later, in 2011, I was one of the briefers at a private gathering in Washington DC, chaired by Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta, who has a longstanding interest in the issue. It was reminiscent of an episode of The X-Files and there was even a former CIA director sitting at the back, playing no part in the discussion, but silently taking notes. I briefed attendees on the MoD’s use of the term “UAP” and the message clearly hit home.

During Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, for which Podesta was the campaign chair, she occasionally discussed UAPs and in one interview on the Jimmy Kimmel show she corrected the host for using the term “UFO”. We have yet to learn what Donald Trump thinks about UAPs, but his enthusiasm for a Space Force has certainly created a few conspiracy theories.

When it comes to UAPs, truth really is stranger than fiction. It turns out that AATIP was largely the brainchild of the then Senate majority leader Harry Reid, and that much of the work was contracted out to Bigelow Aerospace, run by former budget hotel magnate (and believer in extraterrestrial visitation) Robert Bigelow. A 2009 letter from Harry Reid about AATIP reads like science fiction in places.

Now, some of the people formerly involved with the project – including the DIA official who ran it, Luis Elizondo – have joined a Public Benefit Corporation called To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, fronted by Tom DeLonge, the former vocalist/guitarist and founder of pop punk band Blink-182. Their mission statement talks about creating a consortium “to explore exotic science and technologies … that can change the world”.

If current US Congressional interest evolves into formal hearings, either specifically on AATIP, or on UAPs more generally, I hope they can get past debates about terminology, and avoid getting bogged down in statistical analyses. I have made clear my willingness to testify on the basis that my experience with the MoD might be relevant.

Focusing on the quality of reports and not simply the quantity should result in a far more meaningful assessment of the phenomenon. Irrespective of the outcome, these might turn out to be the most fascinating Congressional hearings in history.

• Nick Pope worked at the Ministry of Defence for 21 years. From 1991 to 1994 he was posted to a division where his duties included investigating UAP sightings to determine whether they had any defence significance.

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Why We Might Miss Extraterrestrial Life Even If It's Staring Us in the Face

Why We Might Miss Extraterrestrial Life Even If It's Staring Us in the Face

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Extraterrestrial Life Could Be Purple

Extraterrestrial Life Could Be Purple

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Argentijnse nieuwsuitzending onderbroken door aliens? Dit object verscheen plotseling in beeld

Argentijnse nieuwsuitzending onderbroken door aliens? Dit object verscheen plotseling in beeld

Argentijnse nieuwsuitzending onderbroken door aliens? Dit object verscheen plotseling in beeld

Een nieuwsuitzending op de Argentijnse tv werd afgelopen week onderbroken toen plotseling een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object in beeld verscheen.

Tijdens het programma Mananas Argentinas op zender C5N was de skyline van Buenos Aires te zien op een enorm scherm.

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Terwijl presentatrice Mariela Fernandez praatte over het weer en de smog in de lucht, doemde opeens een UFO op.

Het leek te gaan om een zilveren bol, die van rechts naar links door het beeld bewoog en uiteindelijk uit beeld verdween.

Onder de indruk

Fernandez was zichtbaar onder de indruk van het object, dat hoger en hoger klom. Ze riep uit dat het geen vliegtuig was, terwijl haar collega Diego Angeli suggereerde dat het een UFO was.

De laatste tijd worden vaker UFO’s gezien tijdens nieuwsuitzendingen. Eerder werden tijdens uitzendingen in Oregon, Milwaukee en Buffalo onverklaarbare dingen gezien in de lucht.

Wat kan het geweest zijn?

Bekijk de beelden hieronder:

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Alien Life May Be Purple

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Alien Life May Be Purple

Prince would love this news. A new study claims that the first life on Earth may have been (get ready, Oprah!) the color purple and the same science behind this indicates that alien life forms, if they exist, could be a matching hue. Sorry all you greys, tall whites and green Reptilian fans! Might this be linked to the mysterious purple skies recently in Ohio and Florida?

Microbiologist Shiladitya DasSarma of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and postdoctoral researcher Edward Schwieterman at the University of California, Riverside, are the authors of the study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology with the self-explanatory title: “Early evolution of purple retinal pigments on Earth and implications for exoplanet biosignatures.” Their “Purple Earth” hypothesis is based on the proposition that the purple-pigmented molecule called retinal may have enabled early life forms to create energy from sunlight before they went green with chlorophyll and photosynthesis.

The key to the Purple Earth hypothesis is the Great Oxygenation Event which designates the planet’s atmospheric switch 2.4 billion years ago from carbon dioxide and methane to primarily oxygen. Prior to this, DasSarma and Schwieterman speculate that retinal, a purplish molecule that is simpler than chlorophyll, was the primary energy enabler, then retinal and chlorophyll existed together before chlorophyll and photosynthesis generated enough oxygen to convert the entire atmosphere over to one more suitable for green plants. If we could travel back to that time, we’d see that the plants were purple because retinal molecules absorb green and yellow light and emit a mix of blue and red light that appears purple.

If the Purple Earth hypothesis is true, then it could happen on other planets that may be similar to Earth. To find them, the study says that astronomers need to start looking for planets with a “green edge” — since retinal reflects green infrared light – rather the “red edge” they currently seek because chlorophyll molecules reflect infrared red light. That would mean that any alien life utilizing retinal would be purple, including human-sized life forms. Can we deal with real Smurfs?

An example of a purple sky?

Did aliens have anything to do with the purple sky seen last week in northern Ohio and in Florida after Hurricane Michael? Videos of both show definite purple sky that’s more than just purple rain. Fortunately, local meteorologists calmed panicky skywatchers by explaining that there was nothing alien about it – the purple sky was the result of a phenomenon called scattering. A red sunset hits the blue sky and scatters the shorter blue wavelengths, creating purple – a color we should see every night but don’t because of the way our eyes adjust to different minor wavelengths.

Will our purple alien friends have the same problem? What color will they see us? Let’s hope it’s not the same as their favorite food.

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New French Film Explores Alien Abduction

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New French Film Explores Alien Abduction

A new French film about alien abduction (among other things) was screened last week at the BFI London Film Festival. Directed by a man simply known as Quarxx, the film, All the Gods In the Sky, has yet to secure a distribution deal, but, when it does, audiences should be prepare to be disturbed. Apparently, it was inspired by a photograph of a boy who lay next to his dead sister for three weeks.

The official synopsis is as follows:

“30-year-old factory worker Simon lives a solitary existence on a decrepit farm in the remote French countryside. Devoting his time to caring for his sister Estelle, who was left severely disabled when a childhood game went horribly wrong, Simon is plagued by guilt and depression. But he sees a way out, looking to otherworldly forces as a means of liberating both himself and his sister from the corporeal prisons in which they are confined.”

Pretty vague. So where do aliens come into all of this?

In her review for SciFi Now, Katherine McLaughlin notes that the film’s protagonist, Simon (Jean-Luc Couchard), is “convinced he was abducted by aliens who are still trying to contact him.” These aliens are, we can infer, “all the gods in the sky,” of the title and are regarded by Simon as a force of potential salvation for he and his disabled sister who wish to be freed from the heavy shackles of their Earthly existence.

McLaughlin describes the film as “Genuinely bleak and upsetting in places [and] intent on both shocking audiences and inspiring awe.” Melanie Gaydos, in the role of Simon’s sister, Estelle, delivers a “superb and committed” debut film performance, writes McLaughlin in her review, and adds that first-time director Quarxx “ups the disorientation levels and adds wonder to all the melancholy, unpleasantness and despair with remarkable, otherworldly imagery.”

Ultimately, however, the weighty themes are spread a little too thin for McLaughlin’s tastes, as she concludes of the film:

“Touching upon trauma, the pressures of caring for someone, disability, poverty and stolen childhoods [and, yes, alien abduction] in an ambitious and imaginative way Quarxx occasionally reaches a bit too far. Some of the narrative threads feel a little undercooked and unnecessary even if they are affecting and visually intriguing.”

As previously stated, All the Gods In the Sky is yet to secure a distribution deal, but it seems likely that it will be available on some platform or another sometime in 2019. In the meantime, if you’re intrigued at the notion of UFOlogical themes being incorporated into an arthouse film, you should check out the brilliant Under the Skin, which I count among my favorite UFO movies.

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Four Mysterious Giant Planets Found Where They Shouldn’t Exist

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Four Mysterious Giant Planets Found Where They Shouldn’t Exist

Whenever we think we’ve got a good grasp on how things work out in space something comes along and tells us otherwise. In this case it’s our models of how planets and star systems form. Astronomers in Chile recently discovered four enormous gas giants in a star system that should be far too young to have formed these massive planets.

CI Tau is a baby. It’s only two million years old and still surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, the swirling mass of dust that will eventually form into planets as gravity and time continue to work their weird magic on the system. The strange thing is that in this protoplanetary disk are conspicuous gaps, and in those gaps are already-formed massive gas giants. Scientists have no idea how they got there.

Protoplanetary Disk

Protoplanetary disk.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech

One of the planets, the closest to CI Tau was already known to astronomers. This monster of a planet—known as CI Tau b— is about 10 times the size of Jupiter and orbits CI Tau once every nine days. When astronomers discovered CI Tau b, it was the first so-called “hot Jupiter” ever discovered around such a young star. Hot Jupiters are gas giants that orbit their star at very close distances and very high speeds. CI Tau b is closer to its sun than Mercury is to ours.  Hot Jupiters already seem to defy assumptions about how solar systems form, and finding one around such a young star was even stranger. The other hot Jupiters found belonged to star systems hundreds of times older than CI Tau b. Now it turns out that this anomaly of a planet has three other neighbors that are even more surprising and strange.

Hot Jupiter

What a hot Jupiter might look like.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT/Principia College

The discovery of the three new planets was detailed in a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The next planet out from CI Tau b is about the size of Jupiter, and orbits CI Tau at a distance of 13 AU (Astronomical Units, one AU is the distance from Earth to the sun, about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers). Further out are the two most mysterious planets in the system. These are both about the size of Saturnand they orbit at distances of 39 and 100 AU. Yet another thing that makes this system so strange is that the outermost planet is 1000 times further away that the innermost planet, a variance in distance that is hardly ever seen in star systems.  At such extreme distances it’s supposed to take a very long time for Saturn-sized planets to form. According to Professor Cathie Clark, lead author of the paper:

“Saturn mass planets are supposed to form by first accumulating a solid core and then pulling in a layer of gas on top, but these processes are supposed to be very slow at large distances from the star. Most models will struggle to make planets of this mass at this distance.”

More observations of these bizarre planets will be required to even being to make sense of how they formed. Regardless of what we find,it will likely further challenge our assumptions of how planets are formed. Especially if we find an alien planet manufacturing factory hiding in the protoplanetary disk. Likely? No, not at all. But it would be pretty cool.

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