UFO? Experts are studying a mysterious aluminum object that could date back to 250,000 years

L’affaire “Roswell” du Royaume-Uni : Un OVNI repéré dans la forêt de Rendlesham confirme bien la réalité du phénomène

Les chasseurs d’OVNI sont retournés dans le plus grand foyer extraterrestre du Royaume-Uni et ont découvert que les extraterrestres ciblent encore le site, selon des chercheurs dans le paranormal.

Le 26 décembre 1980, une patrouille autour de la RAF Woodbridge a signalé avoir vu des lumières qui semblaient se poser près de la forêt Rendlesham.

Ils se sont précipités sur le site, pensant qu’il s’agissait peut-être d’un avion humain écrasé, mais ils ont prétendu avoir trouvé un objet métallique rond et brillant avec une lumière colorée qui faisait peur aux animaux dans une ferme voisine.

Aujourd’hui, les enquêteurs paranormaux sont retournés sur les lieux du crime et ont repéré des activités plus étranges dans un endroit surnommé le Roswell du Royaume-Uni.

Au cours des 8 et 9 octobre, un groupe connu sous le nom de Ghostech Paranormal Investigationsa passé du temps dans la forêt de Rendlesham à la recherche d’activités extraterrestres.

À leur grande surprise, ils ont repéré ce qu’ils croyaient être des ovnis et ont même obtenu des images.

Jeff Young, enquêteur principal de Ghostech Paranormal Investigations, a déclaré à express.co.uk que les talkies-walkies ne fonctionnaient plus et que “pas un seul oiseau, écureuil, hibou, pas un seul animal sauvage” n’avait été vu pendant leur enquête, alors que les lumières d’un OVNI étaient visibles de loin.

M. Young a dit : “Le premier soir, nous avons réussi non seulement à voir les lumières par nous-mêmes, mais nous les avons aussi filmées.”

“Nous étions les seules personnes dans la forêt et nous avons dû marcher 5 kilomètres à travers la forêt pour atteindre l’endroit, il n’y a donc pas de routes ou toute autre explication pour ce que nous avions vu.”

“Sachant où nous avions vu les ovnis se déplacer à l’intérieur de l’arbre, la deuxième nuit, nous avons placé nos caméras face à ces zones, mais cette fois-ci j’ai marché un kilomètre vers le côté opposé pour pouvoir observer toute la zone ainsi que mon équipe se trouvant sur le site d’atterrissage afin que nous puissions mieux voir ces objets.”

“Cette fois, nous avons tous vu les ovnis se déplacer à travers l’arbre et nous les avons à nouveau capturés sur pellicule, mais cette fois-ci beaucoup plus clairement qu’auparavant.”

À ce stade, M. Young dit que des hélicoptères Apache planaient au-dessus des enquêteurs, qui semblaient suivre les lumières vives de la forêt.

Il a poursuivi : “Alors que nous observions les ovnis, un hélicoptère Apache Longbow est apparu au-dessus de moi, et il s’est ensuite dirigé vers l’endroit où le reste de mon équipe se trouvait sur le site d’atterrissage, l’hélicoptère nous a encerclés plusieurs fois, puis un autre l’a rejoint et un troisième a suivi.”

“On s’est alors rendu compte qu’ils suivaient aussi ces OVNIs ainsi que nous avec nos caméras.”

L’équipe a alors décidé de quitter la forêt car elle craignait d’être persécutée et de voir leurs preuves confisquées.

Après l’incident initial de la forêt de Rendlesham en 1980, les recrues de l’armée sont retournées sur les lieux le lendemain matin et ont trouvé un certain nombre de traces triangulaires sur le sol.

Un témoin de l’événement, l’officier à la retraite de l’armée de l’air américaine Steve Longero, a déclaré en Décembre 2016 : “Je pense que ce n’était pas quelque chose de ce monde.”

Il a dit de l’objet trouvé dans les bois : “D’après ce dont je me souviens, c’était comme une lueur rougeâtre, verdâtre, elle brillait vraiment comme une lumière rougeâtre.”

“Elle brillait vraiment, comme si quelque chose était vraiment chaud et qu’elle brillait.”

Il a également rappelé comment l’objet a disparu. Il a ajouté : “Au fur et à mesure que les gens se sont approchés de cette chose, elle s’approchait un peu plus de nous, puis elle s’est mise à aller de l’avant, puis vers l’arrière et tout à coup elle a disparu, comme dans Star Trek, c’était comme une vitesse de distorsion et nous étions tous là en mode ‘quoi?'”.

• Source: Express.co.uk, le 25 octobre 2018 – 
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Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid

The mystery of ’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed, continues to deepen. A new analysis argues that if it were a comet, it would have broken apart as it passed near the sun.

Ramin Skibba

Contributing Writer

Like a hit-and-run driver who races from the scene of a crash, the interstellar guest known as ’Oumuamua has bolted out of the solar system, leaving confusion in its wake. Early measurements seemed to indicate that it was an asteroid — a dry rock much like those found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Then by this past summer, astronomers largely came around to the conclusion that it was instead a comet — an icy body knocked out of the distant reaches of a far-off planetary system.

Now a new analysis has found inconsistencies in this conclusion, suggesting that ’Oumuamua may not be a comet after all. Whether it’s actually a comet or an asteroid, one thing is clear: ’Oumuamua is not quite like anything seen before.

The object was first spotted a year ago by scientists with the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. ’Oumuamua (a Hawaiian word meaning “scout”) appeared to be a rocky, elongated asteroid at first, a stubby cosmic cigar.

Other astronomers quickly joined in the hunt, measuring everything they could. (One team even trained radio telescopes on it to check whether it might be transmitting extraterrestrial broadcasts. It was not.) By last December, a team of astronomers published ’Oumuamua’s electromagnetic spectra, which can be used to probe what an object is made of. The researchers found that ices with organic material similar to those seen in comets in our solar system lurked just below ’Oumuamua’s surface; that ice could have survived a long interstellar journey.

They also looked at ’Oumuamua’s rotation. Many asteroids tend to spin around their long axis like an expertly thrown football. ’Oumuamua, by contrast, tumbled like an errant pass by Charlie Brown.

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De geschiedenis van de Black Knight Satellite, een object dat rond onze planeet cirkelt in een polaire baan, zou niet zo controversieel mogen zijn. De polaire baan is een baan die in de tegenovergestelde richting ligt van degene die onze planeet op natuurlijke wijze roteert. Deze polaire baan wordt gebruikt voor toezicht en noch de Verenigde Staten noch Rusland hadden de technologische mogelijkheid om satellieten in die baan en op die hoogte te brengen toen de Black Knight Satellite (vermoedelijk) in 1954 voor het eerst werd ontdekt.

Momenteel op de NASA-site:

• Op 7 september 1958 werd de eerste Black Knight Missile uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk gelanceerd vanuit het AustralischeWoomera en bereikte het een hoogte van meer dan 300 mijl; de tweede Black Knight Satellite wordt beschreven als een Britse satelliet die in 1959 op 12 maart ook in Australië werd gelanceerd en 350 voet hoogte heeft bereikt en een gewicht van 1000 pond had. 
• Op 28 februari 1959 werd de 1450-pond ARPA Discoverer I-satelliet met succes in een polaire baan gebracht door de USAF Thor-Agena A Booster van de Pacific Missile Range; maar stabilisatieproblemen maakte het moeilijk om de overname te volgen.
• Op 20 februari 1962 maakte de Amerikaanse astronaut, John Glenn, met succes een baan rond de aarde in de missie van Friendship 7 en werd zo de eerste Amerikaan in de ruimte. Hij was de vijfde persoon in de ruimte na de voorgaande 4 astronauten uit Rusland., die hem vooraf gingen.

• Geen enkele van de rapporten op de NASA-website geeft enige geloofwaardigheid dat deze Black Knight-satelliet verbonden kan worden met één van hun verkenningsactiviteiten in de ruimte, noch van die van Rusland en noch aan die van de Verenigde Staten uit die periode. De Black Knight Satellite weegt duidelijk veel meer dan 1000 pond en is veel groter. De meeste personenauto's wegen meer dan dat. We zijn er bijna 100% zeker van dat in 1958 geen enkel land de technologische mogelijkheid bezat om meer dan een paar honderd pond te lanceren en in een baan om de aarde te brengen en zeker niet in een polaire baan. De geschiedenis vertelt ons dat. 
• En dan zwijgen we nog van al die ruimteafval die we actueel terugvinden in een baan rond de aarde (meer dan 20.000 stukken). En toch is deze bijzondere satelliet er in geslaagd om niet te worden beschadigd door botsingen met dit rondzwervend ruimte afval, noch beschadigd door andere natuurlijke verschijnselen in de ruimte, zoals meteoren, zonnevlammen, ed.  
• Grumman Aircraft Corporation zou naar verluidt op 3 september 1960 met behulp van een trackingcamera een foto hebben gemaakt  van de Black Knight in een baan rond de aarde. Ik vind wel heel toevallige gelijkenissen met de Grumman F-14 Tomcat en de afbeeldingen van de Black Knight terug gevonden op het internet. De eerste vlucht van de F-14 Tomcat was in 1970 en hij ging met pensioen in 2006. 

Grumman F-14 Tomcat tijdens de vlucht

• Astronauten aan boord van Space Shuttle Endeavour namen in 1998 naar verluidt satellietfoto's van de Black Knight en deze foto's circuleren nog steeds op het internet met de uitleg dat het hier gaat om ruimtepuin van een vorige missie. Het  was een afgebroken brokstuk dat daar bleef rondzwerven.
• In 1954 beweerde de UFO-onderzoeker en gepensioneerde commandant van de luchtvaart Donald Keyhoe, in verschillende kranten,  dat het object van de US Air Force zelf was. Hij had twee satellieten ontdekt die rond de maan in de buurt van de aarde cirkelden. Later trok hij zijn verklaringen terug in.
• Naar aanleiding van deze verklaringen, analyseerde de auteur, Duncan Lunan, de herhaaldelijke radiosignalen die Nikola Tesla tijdens zijn radio-experimenten in 1899 had gehoord, en ook de lange echo's van onbekende oorsprong in 1928 verzameld door de amateur radio-operator, Jorgen Hals, Oslo uit Noorwegen. Hij beweerde dat de signalen kwamen van een buitenaardse sonde die sinds ongeveer 13.000 jaar geleden in een baan rond onze maan draaide. Deze sonde, zei hij, is voortgekomen van een ster uit het zonnestelsel Epsilon Bootis. Lunan trok later zijn verklaring in en beweerde dat hij rekenfouten had gemaakt toen hij de signalen decodeerde.
  
  

  Afbeelding van 2018

Jij zal deze foto's , in1998 op internet geplaatst, zeker ook al gezien hebben. Ik heb er vaak  over nagedacht. De eerste keer dat ik die foto's zag, herinnerde deze mij aan de film  Spaceballs. Het lijkt op Harry's vacuümschip, maar het mist wat stukken.

Het idee om zo'n duister en sinister object te benaderen in de geïsoleerde grenzen van de onmetelijkheid van de volledig onbekende ruimte beangstigt me een beetje. Indien dit echt al meer dan 13.000 jaar toertjes draait rond onze planeet, wie heeft dat daar geplaatst? Er kan misschien wel het lichaam van een overleden man of zelfs een vrouw binnen in zitten hebben... Desondanks denk ik nog steeds dat het niets meer is dan een afleiding is voor ons. Zo niet, dan zou er een duidelijke, betere en beknopte verklaring voor zijn.

Ik denk dat regeringen zich voorbereid hebben en ingecalculeerd om mensen te verliezen tijdens ruimtemissies en dat sinds het begin van de bemande ruimtevaart in de jaren 1950.  Het is altijd een mogelijkheid geweest. Ik denk dat de NASA van "nature" vele onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen veroorzaakt heeft die wij als ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten beschouwen. Zeker omdat alle regeringen nog steeds geheimen verbergen voor hun burgers. 

In 2018 kijken we naar de hemel, net zoals Nostradamus en Galileo, anderen vóór hen deden. Niet in de wereld om ons heen.

En blijft het voor ons geen droom, geen ultiem verlangen om eens andere intelligente wezens uit het heelal te ontmoeten?

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Must watch: UFO over Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.

The witness was vacationing in Lake Tahoe when he unknowingly filmed this UFO.
The UFO passes at an amazing speed from the right to the left of the screen.
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Source: Mufon

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Ruimtesonde Hayabusa2 oefent afdaling naar oppervlak van planetoïde Ryugu

Caroline Kraaijvanger

En daar zijn beelden van!

Eigenlijk had ruimtesonde Hayabusa2 deze maand al af moeten dalen naar het oppervlak van Ryugu om aldaar wat monsters te verzamelen. Maar zoals je eerder op Scientias.nl kon lezen, durfde de Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie (JAXA) zo’n afdaling nog niet aan; Ryugu is namelijk rijkelijk bedekt met voor Hayabusa2 gevaarlijke kiezels. De touchdown is dan ook uitgesteld naar januari 2019. Het geeft JAXA wat meer tijd om de afdaling voor te bereiden én te oefenen. Want zoals we eerder meldden, zouden er in oktober al twee generale repetities plaatsvinden.

Generale repetitie
En JAXA heeft woord gehouden. Beide generale repetities zijn achter de rug en goed verlopen. En wat nog mooier is: er zijn beelden van!

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Dropping down…! Sequential images taken during the approach to Ryugu in our second touchdown rehearsal, TD1-R1-A.

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Hierboven zie je beelden die tijdens de tweede generale repetitie zijn gemaakt. Ruimtesonde Hayabusa2 naderde het oppervlak van Ryugu tijdens deze generale repetitie tot een afstand van slechts 22,3 meter(!).

Landingsplaatsje
Op de beelden die Hayabusa2 tijdens de afdaling maakte, is ook de tot op heden meest veelbelovende landingsplaats op Ryugu te zien. Deze landingsplaats wordt door de Japanners aangeduid als L08-B. Zoals je op de foto hieronder kunt zien, is dit één van de weinige gebieden waarin vrijwel geen grote kiezels te vinden zijn. En dat is belangrijk; JAXA wil voorkomen dat Hayabusa2 tijdens de afdaling en bemonstering per ongeluk een kei raakt en beschadigd raakt. Het liefst had JAXA daarom een 100 meter groot landingsgebied zonder grote kiezels gehad, maar dat is op heel Ryugu niet te vinden. En daarom zullen we het met dit slechts 20 meter brede landingsplaatsje moeten doen.

Een deel van het gebied waarin Hayabusa2 straks monsters moet verzamelen, is op deze foto te zien.

Afbeelding: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST.

De afdaling naar het oppervlak wordt hoe dan ook uitdagend, zo benadrukt JAXA keer op keer. Want hoewel L08-B vrij is van grote kiezels, zijn er in de omgeving wel vrij grote keien te vinden die ontweken moeten worden.

Tijdens de generale repetities heeft JAXA een schat aan informatie verzameld. Een analyse van die informatie moet in januari bijdragen aan een geslaagde touchdown.

 Vergroting van de schaduw van het ruimtetuig

Bronmateriaal:

• "Sequential images captured during Ryugu approach operation" - JAXA

Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST

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Kepler heeft minder potentieel leefbare exoplaneten ontdekt, dan gedacht

Caroline Kraaijvanger

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Waar is komeet Lexell gebleven?

George Beekman

In de zomer van 1770 scheerde een komeet op een afstand van slechts twee miljoen kilometer langs de aarde. Maar niemand weet waar ‘ie sindsdien gebleven is.

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De Franse astronoom Charles Messier ontdekte de komeet Lexell op 14 juni 1770, in het sterrenbeeld Schutter. Een week later was de komeet met het blote oog te zien. En op 1 juli – toen de komeet het dichtst bij de aarde stond – was deze even helder als Sirius. Zijn coma – de nevelige gaswolk rond de kern van de komeet – was toen aan de hemel vijf maal zo groot als de volle maan. De komeet Lexell was de eerste en enige komeet die ooit zo dicht bij de aarde is waargenomen. En op 3 oktober verdween deze weer uit het zicht. Anno 2018 proberen astronomen nog steeds te achterhalen waar de komeet sindsdien is gebleven.

Radaropnamen van planetoïde 2010 JL33, gemaakt met NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar op 11 en 12 december 2010, toen deze planetoïde op 7 miljoen kilometer langs de aarde scheerde. Het rotsblok draait in 9,4 uur eenmaal om zijn as en zou de kern van komeet Lexell kunnen zijn.

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Kortperiodieke komeet
Na het verdwijnen van de komeet vroegen astronomen zich af wat voor baan de komeet had beschreven. Zoals gebruikelijk werd eerst aan een paraboolbaan gedacht, omdat men toen nog geen enkele komeet met een ellipsbaan kende en de komeet zich blijkbaar voor het eerst had vertoond. Maar een paraboolbaan voldeed niet. De Fins-Zweedse wis- en sterrenkundige Anders Johan Lexell vond de oplossing. Hij probeerde andere baanvormen en ontdekt dat alleen een elliptische baan rond de zon met de waarnemingen overeenstemde. Het meest nabije punt (perihelium) van die baan lag volgens zijn berekeningen bij de baan van Venus en het verste punt (aphelium) nabij de baan van Jupiter. De omlooptijd bedroeg 5,6 jaar. De allereerste kortperiodieke komeet was gevonden.

Silhouetportret uit 1784 van Anders Johan Lexell (1740-1784), de Zweeds-Finse wis- en sterrenkundige die aantoonde dat de later naar hem genoemde komeet in een ellipsbaan om de zon draaide.

Afbeelding: Wikipedia.

Jupiter als komeetregelaar
Maar ook deze oplossing leidde weer tot vragen. De komeet was in juli 1770 zeer helder geweest, dus waarom zou hij al niet tijdens een eerdere passage zijn waargenomen? Ook op deze vraag vond Lexell het antwoord. De komeet had aanvankelijk in een baan gedraaid die grotendeels buiten de baan van Jupiter lag, te ver om hem vanaf de aarde te kunnen zien. In 1767 leidde een passage op korte afstand van deze reuzenplaneet tot een drastische baanverandering. De komeet kwam toen in een kleinere baan met een omlooptijd van 5,6 jaar die hem drie jaar later dicht langs de aarde bracht en hem dus voor het eerst zichtbaar maakte. De passage langs de zon in maart 1776 bleef ongezien omdat de komeet toen, gezien vanaf de aarde, achter de zon stond. Maar in 1778 kwam Lexell met de waarschuwing dat de komeet zich misschien nooit meer zou vertonen. Doordat zijn omlooptijd de helft was van die van Jupiter, zou de komeet in augustus 1779 – na twee omlopen rond de zon – opnieuw zeer dicht langs Jupiter komen. Door de baanverandering die hiervan het gevolg zou zijn, kwam het perihelium ergens tussen de banen van Mars en Jupiter te liggen, ver weg van de zon zodat de komeet onzichtbaar bleef. Lexell kreeg gelijk, want ondanks naarstig zoeken was er in 1781 en 1782 geen spoor van de komeet te zien. En daarna ook niet, nooit meer. Andere astronomen bevestigden min of meer de bevindingen van Lexell. De komeet – die inmiddels de naam van Lexell had gekregen en niet die van zijn ontdekker – moest als verloren worden beschouwd.

William Robert Brooks (1844-1921), de Amerikaanse astronoom die in 1889 een komeet ontdekte waarvan even werd gedacht dat hij dezelfde was als komeet Lexell. Plaats en datum van de foto zijn onbekend.

Afbeelding: Smith Observatory Library.

Komeet 16P/Brooks onder de loep
Toch bleef het lot van komeet Lexell astronomen intrigeren. Op 6 juli 1889 ontdekte de Amerikaanse astronoom William Robert Brooks komeet 1889d, ofwel 16P/Brooks. De komeet bleek in ongeveer zeven jaar rond de zon te draaien en was dus evenals komeet Lexell een lid van de Jupiter-kometenfamilie. De Amerikaanse astronoom Seth Carlo Chandler berekende dat de komeet voorheen in een heel andere baan om de zon had gedraaid, met het perihelium nabij de baan van Jupiter en het aphelium buiten de baan van Saturnus, waardoor de komeet nooit voor ons zichtbaar kon worden. Een zeer dichte nadering tot Jupiter in 1889, tot op een vergelijkbare afstand als komeet Lexell, had die baan echter ingrijpend veranderd en wel zodanig dat hij evenals komeet Lexell in de buurt van de aarde kon komen. Deze baanverandering zou volgens de berekeningen van Chandler hebben plaatsgevonden in dat deel van de baan van Jupiter waar ook komeet Lexell zich in augustus 1779 bevond. En wat het meest opvallende was: enkele belangrijke grootheden van zijn baan leken wel heel sterk op die van komeet Lexell. Dat bracht Chandler tot het ‘overweldigende vermoeden’ dat deze komeet dezelfde was als komeet Lexell. Helaas gooide zijn Amerikaanse collega Charles Lane Poor in 1905 roet in het eten. Zijn berekeningen na twee nieuwe verschijningen toonden aan dat komeet 16P/Brooks hoogstwaarschijnlijk niet dezelfde was als komeet Lexell. Bovendien wees Poor erop dat behalve overeenkomsten in banen ook overeenkomsten in fysische eigenschappen belangrijk zijn en die waren in dit geval niet te bepalen. Komeet Lexell bleef zoek.

De Pools-Russische astronome Elena Ivanova Kazimirchak-Polonskaya (1902-1993) in 1934. Volgens haar zou komeet Lexell nu in zo’n 280 jaar in een baan om de zon kunnen draaien.

Afbeelding: Wikipedia.

Transneptunische baan?
In de jaren 1960 begon de Pools-Russische astronome Elena Ivanova Kazimirchak-Polonskaya, van het Instituut voor Theoretische Astronomie in Leningrad, de baanveranderingen van alle bekende kortperiodieke kometen te bestuderen. Elena simuleerde de veranderingen van de komeetbanen gedurende de periode 1660-2060 met een BESM-2, een vroege Sovjetcomputer die nog met vacuümbuizen werkte. Ze bestudeerde de belangrijke rol van de vier reuzenplaneten bij het veranderen van de baan, invangen en wegslingeren van kometen. In het kader van dit onderzoek werden ook de baanveranderingen van de verloren komeet Lexell bestudeerd, waarbij de invloed van alle planeten in rekening werd gebracht. Kazimirchak-Polonskaya vond dat de komeet vóór zijn eerste ontmoeting met Jupiter, in 1767, minstens een eeuw lang in een bijna cirkelvormige baan met een omlooptijd van tien jaar in de buurt van Jupiter om de zon had gedraaid. Na de tweede ontmoeting met Jupiter, in 1779, zou de komeet mogelijk in een elliptische baan op afstanden tussen 5 en 81 astronomische eenheden van de zon zijn gekomen, in een transneptunische baan die tot twee maal zo ver als Pluto reikte en een omlooptijd van 280 jaar had. Maar deze berekende waarden waren heel gevoelig voor zelfs heel kleine fouten in de oorspronkelijke positiemetingen. Het was daardoor ook mogelijk dat komeet Lexell via een hyperbolische baan het zonnestelsel had verlaten.

Grote kans op herontdekking?
Amerikaanse astronomen hebben nu opnieuw de lotgevallen van komeet Lexell bestudeerd. Met behulp van geavanceerde computerprogramma’s berekenden Paul Wiegert, Quan-Zhi Ye en Man-To Hui de baan en baanveranderingen van komeet Lexell vanaf het moment dat hij in 1767 voor het eerst rakelings langs Jupiter kwam. Daarbij werd rekening gehouden met de aantrekkingskracht van de zon, het stelsel aarde-maan en de zeven andere planeten. Zij vonden dat er een kans van 98 procent is dat de komeet zich momenteel nog steeds ergens in de omgeving van de banen van Mars of de aarde ophoudt. Het perihelium zou zich in ieder geval een stuk binnen de baan van Jupiter moeten bevinden en misschien zelfs binnen de baan van de aarde. In tegenstelling tot wat voorheen werd gedacht, zou er dus toch nog een (grote) kans zijn dat komeet Lexell zich een keer in onze buurt vertoont. Uitgaande van de schijnbare helderheid van de komeet tijdens zijn verschijning van 1770 berekenden de drie astronomen dat zijn absolute helderheid eertijds vier maal zo groot was als die van komeet Halley. Lexell behoorde daarmee tot de helderste ‘aardscherende’ kometen. De afmetingen van de kern van de komeet zou tussen de 4 en 22 kilometer liggen, waarmee Lexell tevens een van de grootste kometen was die zich in de buurt van de aarde heeft vertoond.

Jupiter met zijn Grote Rode Vlek, gefotografeerd in april 2014 met de Hubble Space Telescope. Deze reuzenplaneet heeft er voor gezorgd dat komeet Lexell zich één keer in de buurt van de aarde vertoonde.

Afbeelding: NASA, ESA, A.Simon.

Lexell als planetoïde?
Als komeet Lexell zich inderdaad ergens binnen de baan van Jupiter verschuilt maar inmiddels inactief is geworden, zou hij zich als een dode komeet of een planetoïde kunnen voordoen. Misschien is hij zelfs al gefotografeerd in het kader van programma’s waarmee objecten in de omgeving van de aarde worden opgespoord. Om daar achter te komen hebben Wiegert en collega’s de banen van NEO’s (Near Earth Objects) groter dan één kilometer onder de loep genomen en die teruggerekend naar 1770, het jaar waarin komeet Lexell langs de aarde kwam. Er werd één planetoïde gevonden waarvan de baan in 1770 heel veel leek op die van Lexell. Dat was 2010 JL33, een 1800 meter grote planetoïde die tussen Jupiter en Venus om de zon draait. Maar helaas blijkt die planetoïde toen niet op hetzelfde moment als komeet Lexell langs de aarde te zijn gekomen. Dit verschil kan veroorzaakt zijn door enkele nauwe passages langs Jupiter in de afgelopen tweehonderd jaar. Ander effecten die misschien een rol hebben gespeeld zijn de niet-gravitationele krachten die op de planetoïde kunnen werken. Dat zijn krachten die onder invloed van het zonlicht optreden en weliswaar heel zwak zijn, maar op lange termijn toch een niet te verwaarlozen invloed op de baan hebben. Ook dit effect hebben Wiegert en collega’s bestudeerd en na heel veel uitproberen vinden zij dat zulke krachten het tijdsverschil inderdaad kunnen verkleinen. Helemaal wegwerken lukt echter niet. De astronomen concluderen in hun artikel in het aprilnummer (2018) van de Astronomical Journal dat planetoïde 2010 JL33 en komeet Lexell hetzelfde object zouden kunnen zijn, maar dat de overeenkomst nog ‘verre van overtuigend’ is. Komeet Lexell is dus nog steeds niet teruggevonden, net zomin als de zeventien andere kometen die sinds Lexell spoorloos zijn verdwenen.

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Kom nog meer te weten over kometen, maar ook over sterren, planeten en andere hemellichamen met ZENIT. In het magazine ZENIT lees je elke maand het laatste nieuws over sterrenkunde, ruimteonderzoek, weer en klimaat.

Zo lees je in het novembernummer bijvoorbeeld alles over de spectroscoop, een bijzonder instrument dat niet meer weg te denken is binnen de moderne sterrenkunde. Verder: de ALMA-telescoop opent een nieuw venster naar het heelal, alles over komeet Wirtanen die eind dit jaar met het blote oog aan de hemel te zien zal zijn, en hoe je zandlawines op andere planeten kunt bestuderen in een centrifuge.

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Is dat een rookpluim op Mars?

Vivian Lammerse

Mars Express heeft een vreemde wolk gespot op de rode planeet.

De onbemande ruimtesonde Mars Express heeft wel een hele mysterieuze pluim gespot op de rode planeet. Zo is de sonde al ruim een maand in de ban van een langgerekte wolk, die rond de 20 kilometer hoge Arsia Mons-vulkaan zweeft.

Vulkaan
De locatie doet wellicht vermoeden dat het eigenaardige verschijnsel te maken heeft met vulkanische activiteit. Maar toch zijn de onderzoekers er vrij zeker dat dit niet het geval is; zo hebben wetenschappers nog nooit enige vorm van vulkanische activiteit op Mars ontdekt. Nee, de onderzoekers neigen eerder naar een waterijswolk. Zo is het bekend dat aan weerszijden van de zuidwestelijke flank van de Arsia Mons-vulkaan een seizoensgebonden, terugkerende wolk bestaande uit waterijs ontstaat. Deze is ook eerder waargenomen in 2009, 2012 en 2015. En dit is – helaas – een doodnormaal meteorologisch fenomeen op de rode planeet.

De langgerekte wolkenpluim op de rode planeet.

Afbeelding: ESA

Wolk
De foto hierboven is genomen met de Visuele Monitoring Camera (VMC) van de Mars Express. De sonde heeft de wolk de afgelopen weken wel honderden keren afgebeeld. De witte, langwerpige pluim strekt zich uit over zo’n 1500 kilometer ten westen van de Arsia Mons vulkaan, die zich dichtbij de evenaar van de planeet bevindt. Ter vergelijking: de kegelvormige vulkaan heeft een diameter van zo’n 250 kilometer.

Groot
De waterijswolk verandert gedurende de Martiaanse dag meerdere keren van uiterlijk. Zo groeit de wolk immens in lengte tijdens de ochtend, aangespoord door een wind die langs de vulkaan raast. Hierdoor loopt de wolkpluim bijna evenwijdig aan de evenaar en bereikt zo’n indrukwekkende grootte, dat deze zelfs voor telescopen op aarde zichtbaar kan zijn.

De vorming van waterijswolken is gevoelig voor de hoeveelheid stof die in de atmosfeer aanwezig is. En aangezien er in juni en juli een enorme stofstorm op de rode planeet woedde, kunnen de beelden belangrijke informatie opleveren over het effect van stof op de ontwikkeling van de wolken, en de variabiliteit ervan gedurende het jaar.

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• "Mars Express Keeps An Eye on Curious Cloud" - ESA

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History is full of various aviation mysteries that have gone unsolved. There are dozens upon dozens of cases of planes shooting up into the skies only to come back with fantastic stories of weirdness, or conversely to never come back at all. From missing flights like that of Amelia Earhart to encounters with UFOs, vanished aircraft over the Bermuda Triangle, and more, the skies have always been a mysterious place to venture into, with numerous unsolved mysteries to be found here among the clouds. One very odd case of an aviation mystery is a flight that supposedly disappeared into nothingness, only to reappear decades later halfway across the world with nothing but riddles and strange clues.

That is far from the end of the story, and according to the article decades later, on October 12, 1989, a plane came in out of the blue over Port Alegre, Brazil, where it proceeded to circle the airport several times before coming in for a landing and then simply sitting there on the tarmac. Throughout the whole surreal scene there was apparently no successful communications between air traffic control and the pilots of the mysterious craft, just a wall of quiet, so a team was put together by airport personnel to approach the idling plane that was crouched out there on the runway in total radio silence.

When the team warily approached the dormant aircraft, which sat there almost as if a beast ready to pounce, they pried the doors open, and at that point probably no one there had the slightest idea of the horror show that was awaiting them within that dim vessel. According to the tale, within the cramped confines of that aircraft there was not a single living person on board, but rather the macabre sight of every single passenger and crew member sitting there as skeletons, their empty eye sockets staring off into the abyss of whatever they had seen. Even the pilot, Captain Miguel Victor Cury, was a skeleton, his desiccated fleshless fingers still gripping the controls tight, and leaving everyone to wonder just how the plane had managed to land in the first place. Through this all, the planes perfectly working engines were still idling away, completely ignorant to the fact that 35 years had passed since the doomed aircraft had left its destination.

Upon this grim discovery, the airport officials apparently went about totally covering the whole thing up, and there was quite a bit of debate on what was going on. One researcher named Dr. Celso Atello has said that the case demonstrated a clear case of a portal or wormhole of some sort, saying that Flight 513 had “almost certainly entered a time warp, there is no other explanation.” According to the reports, the only thing the Brazilian government was willing to concede was that the flight had appeared out of nowhere and landed safely, but other than that it has refused to offer any further explanation or speculation. Retired physics professor Roderigo de Manha chimed in on this lack of transparency, complaining that the government had a duty to share what it had learned in the investigation, saying:

The public has a right to know everything about this plane and the government has a duty to tell them. If this plane did enter a time warp and there is evidence to prove it, the entire world should be told. Something like this could change the way we view our world and alter science as we know it. It is crime to keep information like this secret, especially from the relatives of the people who perished on Santiago Airlines Flight 513.

In the meantime, the Brazilian government has refused to offer up any more information of the case, and it has subsequently been left open to discussion and debate. Of course considering the source of this story and its spectacular nature there has been quite a bit of skepticism pointed its way, saying that it is all merely a clever urban legend and hoax, but what if it isn’t? Is there any truth to this tale at all, and if so what was going on here? How could a plane vanish and then reappear decades later, good as new, only to make a perfect landing while all of its occupants were skeletons? While this is most likely a good old-fashioned journalistic yarn, it is certainly curious nevertheless, and it joins the many aviation mysteries that have come before it.

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From the X Files –“Why Don’t Astronomers See UFOs”

As a NASA research scientist who worked for four years at NASA Ames Research Center in the Intelligent Systems Division, and now a professor of physics, Kevin Knuth attended the 2002 NASA Contact Conference, which focused on serious speculation about extraterrestrials. During the meeting a concerned participant said loudly in a sinister tone, “You have absolutely no idea what is out there!”

The silence was palpable as the truth of this statement sunk in. Humans are fearful of extraterrestrials visiting Earth. Perhaps fortunately, the distances between the stars are prohibitively vast. At least this is what we novices, who are just learning to travel into space, tell ourselves.

Are we alone? Unfortunately, neither of the answers feel satisfactory. To be alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect. On the other hand, if we are not alone and there is someone or something more powerful out there, that too is terrifying. And Why don’t astronomers see UFOs asks Knuth, an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physics and Informatics at the University at Albany. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Entropy.

Knuth writes: I have always been interested in UFOs. Of course, there was the excitement that there could be aliens and other living worlds. But more exciting to me was the possibility that interstellar travel was technologically achievable. In 1988, during my second week of graduate school at Montana State University, several students and I were discussing a recent cattle mutilation that was associated with UFOs. A physics professor joined the conversation and told us that he had colleagues working at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana, where they were having problems with UFOs shutting down nuclear missiles.

At the time I thought this professor was talking nonsense. But 20 years later, I was stunned to see a recording of a press conference featuring several former US Air Force personnel, with a couple from Malmstrom AFB, describing similar occurrences in the 1960s. Clearly there must be something to this.

With July 2 being World UFO Day, it was a good time for society to address the unsettling and refreshing fact we may not be alone. I believe we need to face the possibility that some of the strange flying objects that outperform the best aircraft in our inventory and defy explanation may indeed be visitors from afar – and there’s plenty of evidence to support UFO sightings.

The nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi was famous for posing thought provoking questions. In 1950, at Los Alamos National Laboratory after discussing UFOs over lunch, Fermi asked, “Where is everybody?” He estimated there were about 300 billion stars in the galaxy, many of them billions of years older than the sun, with a large percentage of them likely to host habitable planets. Even if intelligent life developed on a very small percentage of these planets, then there should be a number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy. Depending on the assumptions, one should expect anywhere from tens to tens of thousands of civilizations.

With the rocket-based technologies that we have developed for space travel, it would take between 5 and 50 million years for a civilization like ours to colonize our Milky Way galaxy. Since this should have happened several times already in the history of our galaxy, one should wonder where is the evidence of these civilizations? This discrepancy between the expectation that there should be evidence of alien civilizations or visitations and the presumption that no visitations have been observed has been dubbed the Fermi Paradox.

Carl Sagan correctly summarized the situation by saying that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” The problem is that there has been no single well-documented UFO encounter that would alone qualify as the smoking gun. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that many governments around the world have covered up and classified information about such encounters. But there are enough scraps of evidence that suggest that the problem needs to be open to scientific study.

When it comes to science, the scientific method requires hypotheses to be testable so that inferences can be verified. UFO encounters are neither controllable nor repeatable, which makes their study extremely challenging. But the real problem, in my view, is that the UFO topic is taboo.

While the general public has been fascinated with UFOs for decades, our governments, scientists and media, have essentially declared that of all the UFO sightings are a result of weather phenomenon or human actions. None are actually extraterrestrial spacecraft. And no aliens have visited Earth. Essentially, we are told that the topic is nonsense. UFOs are off-limits to serious scientific study and rational discussion, which unfortunately leaves the topic in the domain of fringe and pseudoscientists, many of whom litter the field with conspiracy theories and wild speculation.

I think UFO skepticism has become something of a religion with an agenda, discounting the possibility of extraterrestrials without scientific evidence, while often providing silly hypotheses describing only one or two aspects of a UFO encounter reinforcing the popular belief that there is a conspiracy. A scientist must consider all of the possible hypotheses that explain all of the data, and since little is known, the extraterrestrial hypothesis cannot yet be ruled out. In the end, the skeptics often do science a disservice by providing a poor example of how science is to be conducted. The fact is that many of these encounters – still a very small percentage of the total – defy conventional explanation.

The media amplifies the skepticism by publishing information about UFOs when it is exciting, but always with a mocking or whimsical tone and reassuring the public that it can’t possibly be true. But there are credible witnesses and encounters.

I am often asked by friends and colleagues, “Why don’t astronomers see UFOs?” The fact is that they do. In 1977, Peter Sturrock, a professor of space science and astrophysics at Stanford University, mailed 2,611 questionnaires about UFO sightings to members of the American Astronomical Society. He received 1,356 responses from which 62 astronomers – 4.6 percent – reported witnessing or recording inexplicable aerial phenomena. This rate is similar to the approximately 5 percent of UFO sightings that are never explained.

As expected, Sturrock found that astronomers who witnessed UFOs were more likely to be night sky observers. Over 80 percent of Sturrock’s respondents were willing to study the UFO phenomenon if there was a way to do so. More than half of them felt that the topic deserves to be studied versus 20 percent who felt that it should not. The survey also revealed that younger scientists were more likely to support the study of UFOs.

UFOs have been observed through telescopes. I know of one telescope sighting by an experienced amateur astronomer in which he observed an object shaped like a guitar pick moving through the telescope’s field of view. Further sightings are documented in the book “Wonders in the Sky,” in which the authors compile numerous observations of unexplained aerial phenomena made by astronomers and published in scientific journals throughout the 1700s and 1800s.

Evidence from government and military officers

Some of the most convincing observations have come from government officials. In 1997, the Chilean government formed the organization Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos, or CEFAA, to study UFOs. Last year, CEFAA released footage of a UFO taken with a helicopter-mounted Wescam infrared camera.

Declassified document describing a sighting of a UFO in December 1977, in Bahia, a state in northern Brazil. Arquivo Nacional Collection

The countries of Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom have been declassifying their UFO files since 2008. The French Committee for In-Depth Studies, or COMETA, was an unofficial UFO study group comprised of high-ranking scientists and military officials that studied UFOs in the late 1990s. They released the COMETA Report, which summarized their findings. They concluded that 5 percent of the encounters were reliable yet inexplicable: The best hypothesis available was that the observed craft were extraterrestrial. They also accused the United States of covering up evidence of UFOs. Iran has been concerned about spherical UFOs observed near nuclear power facilities that they call “CIA drones” which reportedly are about 30 feet in diameter, can achieve speeds up to Mach 10, and can leave the atmosphere. Such speeds are on par with the fastest experimental aircraft, but unthinkable for a sphere without lift surfaces or an obvious propulsion mechanism.

1948 Top Secret USAF UFO extraterrestrial document. United States Air Force

In December 2017, The New York Times broke a story about the classified Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which was a $22 million program run by the former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo and aimed at studying UFOs. Elizondo resigned from running the program protesting extreme secrecy and the lack of funding and support. Following his resignation Elizondo, along with several others from the defense and intelligence community, were recruited by the To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, which was recently founded by Tom DeLonge to study UFOs and interstellar travel. In conjunction with the launch of the academy, the Pentagon declassified and released three videos of UFO encounters taken with forward looking infrared cameras mounted on F-18 fighter jets. While there is much excitement about such disclosures, I am reminded of a quote from Retired Army Colonel John Alexander: “Disclosure has happened. … I’ve got stacks of generals, including Soviet generals, who’ve come out and said UFOs are real. My point is, how many times do senior officials need to come forward and say that this is real?”

There is a great deal of evidence that a small percentage of these UFO sightings are unidentified structured craft exhibiting flight capabilities beyond any known human technology. While there is no single case for which there exists evidence that would stand up to scientific rigor, there are cases with simultaneous observations by multiple reliable witnesses, along with radar returns and photographic evidence revealing patterns of activity that are compelling.

Declassified information from covert studies is interesting, but not scientifically helpful. This is a topic worthy of open scientific inquiry, until there is a scientific consensus based on evidence rather than prior expectation or belief. If there are indeed extraterrestrial craft visiting Earth, it would greatly benefit us to know about them, their nature and their intent. Moreover, this would present a great opportunity for mankind, promising to expand and advance our knowledge and technology, as well as reshaping our understanding of our place in the universe.

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• Ancient Stars 6-9 Billion Years Old in Milky Way’s Halo –“May Harbor Advanced Civilizations”
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• ‘Ghost Signals’ of Extraterrestrial Civilizations Haunt the Milky Way –Suggests the New Drake Equation (WATCH Video)
• “Odds That There has Never Been Another Civilization in the Universe One in Ten Billion Trillion” –A Joe Rogan Interview
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Saturn has 62 moons. Of those, 53 have been formally named while nine others are such recent discoveries that they haven’t yet received an official name. Titan, the largest of Saturn’s moons, is more massive than the planet Mercury and has a nitrogen-rich atmosphere similar to Earth’s. Enceladus, another moon, likely has an internal ocean as evidenced by the volcanoes of ice that plume from its surface into space and fall back to the surface as snow. Complex organic molecules have been detected in Enceladus, making it one of the prime candidates for finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system. There may be only nine formally recognized planets in our solar system, but there are 181 moons orbiting those planets, each with their own complexities and unique mysteries.

Saturn’s moon Dione is one of those mysteries. Dione is smaller than Earth’s moon, and exists in orbital resonance with Enceladus, meaning that it completes one orbit of Saturn for every two completed by Enceladus. This orbital resonance is likely the source of the geologic heat found in Enceladus, which reveals itself in the form of Enceladus’s dramatic ice volcanoes.  Despite being smaller than Earth’s moon, Dione proves that size isn’t everything in terms of astronomical weirdness. Data from Cassini shows that, along with an orbital relationship, Dione shares other similarities with Enceladus, most notably the presence of an interior ocean., but Dione isn’t simply a twin of Enceladus. According to a new study publishedin journal Geophysical Research Letters, the small moon has a mystery all its own. Streaking across its surface are bright white stripes unlike anything else seen in the solar system, and so far scientists don’t know what they are.

Dione.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Scientists have ruled out geologic causes for the stripes like tectonic activity. Instead, they say that whatever the stripes are made of, they’re likely draped across the surface like snow. What’s strange is how they’re draped. Other bodies in the solar system, including Saturn’s moon Rhea, show bright lines on the surface but none as straight and seemingly intentional as the lines on Dione. The lines are between six and sixty two miles long and three miles wide and perfectly straight. Not only are they perfectly straight, but they run parallel to Dione’s equator, a trait that scientists say is very unusual. They are unbroken, which scientists take to mean that they are a relatively new phenomenon and possibly part of an ongoing phenomenon in the Saturn system.

The authors of the study say that the cause of these mysterious lines is likely due to some off world influence:

We explored different ways of forming linear features on planetary surfaces and favor the draping of exogenic material across a planetary surface by encounters with either Saturn’s rings, co‐orbital moons, or close flyby of comets. This debris may introduce materials into the Dione system that could contribute to creating a more habitable Dione.

One of Cassini’s final images of Dione.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Recently, scientists demonstrated that one of the building blocks of life here on earth was probably formed in space and deposited here on Earth. With a liquid water interior and constant depositing of off-world material on Dione, it seems possible that some strange chemistry could make its way into the underground sea and begin the process of life. Of course, such life would be likely be microscopic and completely outside our ability to study it for many years to come. This does show that, once again, the more we learn about our corner of space, the more mysteries we uncover.

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Planet Mercury

Mercury, the least explored planet of the inner Solar System, is the target of BepiColombo, the ESA/JAXA mission that is going to reveal the secrets of the smallest of the rocky planets.

Watch the launch of #BepiColombo live on 20 October 2018 at 3:45 CEST: http://bit.ly/BepiColomboLaunch

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BepiColombo - orbit and timeline

• BepiColombo mission to Mercury is scheduled to launch on 20 October 2018 and to arrive at Mercury on 5 December 2025. The mission is a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). BepiColombo consists of two scientific orbiters: ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). BepiColombo will be launched by an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle (Ariane Flight VA245) from Ariane Launch Complex No. 3 (ELA 3) at Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, on 20 October 2018, at 01:45 UTC (19 October, at 22:45 local time).

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NASA's alien-hunter has gone dark and scientists aren't sure why

I suppose it could be true that nostradamus predicted the hoaxed moon landings but I'm not too sure myself. What do you think?

NASA Moon landing HOAX: Shock claim Nostradamus predicted Apollo 11 coverup

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I can't believe I actually SAW it and They are VERY real

On October 27, 2018 MrMB333 witnessed something in the night sky that can best be described as a black boomerang UFO which was bigger than a football field and it made NO sound.

He states that it was simply amazing, just astonishing to know that something like that exists.

Coincidentally his camera has recorded the object, though since it has been recorded in the dark, the images of the object were not clear but MrMB333 has tried to get a clearer picture of the object by adding various filters.

Also, the ISS had a strange light approach it as it flew over New Mexico, which he got on video too.

In the video below, MrMB333 gives a detailed explanation of the event he has observed and filmed.

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Giant Alien Structure Sticking Out Of Jupiters Upper Clouds Is Miles Tall! @NASA link Oct 2018, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of discovery: Oct 28, 2018

Location of discovery: Jupiters edge

NASA Source: 

• https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22688.jpg

This is a giant green structure sticking up from Jupiters outer edge. This structure is 100% evidence that aliens currently occupy Jupiters surface and underground areas. The clouds were probably made on purpose to hide the current civilization structures that would normally be visible. This structure is probably hidden from view most the times but its cloaking device was probably malfunctioning from some reason. I am certain that this is not the only structure to be sticking out from under the clouds of Jupiter. We must keep looking for more. Look at the beauty of this green emerald building. Yes, I believe it to be the top of building sticking out. The outer edges cause these structures to become more visible than if we were looking at them at the center of the planet...where they would be invisible to us. Excellent discovery by UFOmaniaof Youtube. Some are claiming this is a UFO, but from my perspective and its lines and position...this appears to be a structure connected to Jupiters surface. 

Scott C. Waring

Witnesses needed to help solve North Wales' greatest UFO mystery

Documentary planned which may shed light on decades old enigma, dubbed the 'Welsh Roswell'

By Steve Bagnal Journalist

The Berwyn Mountains

Witnesses are being sought to shed light on one of North Wales greatest mysteries.

A new documentary is in the pipeline investigating the Berwyn Mountains incident in 1974 and investigator Russ Kellett is asking if anybody who was there to come forward.

Dubbed the Welsh Roswell, at about 8.30pm on January 23, in 1974, people reported hearing a huge bang, earth tremors were felt amid claims of a brilliant light in the sky above the mountain range.

At the time families in the villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo were settling down to watch TV when an explosion was heard and the ground shook which measured 3.5 on the Richter scale.

Police received reports and arrived in the area and a RAF search and rescue team was scrambled from Anglesey.

In the 44 years since there has been a huge debate as to what exactly happened that night, with TV documentaries made and books written on the subject.

Some researchers have claimed a UFO landed or crashed, with further claims “bodies” were retrieved and taken away by soldiers.

Other theories suggest it was a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and the misconception of poachers on the hillside carrying lamps.

Documents seen by the Daily Post in 2008 showed many reports were coming into Gwynedd police that night that something out of the ordinary was occurring.

They included:

A witness who saw an object on the hillside said in a statement: “Saw bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire. Could see lights above and to the right and white lights moving to bottom. Light changed colour to yellowish white and back again.”

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• North Wales X File special - Berwyn Mountains 'UFO crash' map revealed

A message in a police log said: “There’s been a large explosion in the area and there is a large fire in the mountainside. I can see the fire where I am.”

Telex message to chief constable Gwynedd constabulary. 22.00pm approx 23/1/74: Saw bright green lights, object with tail – travelling west. Saw about Bangor direction – dropped down.

At approx 10pm on 23/1/74: Saw a circular light in the sky at an estimated height of 1,500 feet. This object exploded and pieces fell to the ground. Mr ...... estimates the pieces would have fallen into the sea between Rhyl and Liverpool.

Russ who has investigated the incident for years, said: “I have been investigating this for 25 years.

“I have been approached by a company in America to make a documentary, the Americans are fascinated by this.

“If there is anybody who may have witnessed what happened at the time or may have seen military or anything else, could they please get in touch with me.”

• Witnesses can contact Russ on 07368 417871.
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Military cover-up? Witnesses spooked by UFO encounter dubbed ‘BRITISH ROSWELL’

WITNESSES have described a bizarre UFO encounter dubbed the "British Roswell".

By Karl Grafton 

People reported seeing a huge craft and other lights, along with military planes and helicopters.

Other accounts include claims of an Apache helicopter landing with its cockpit on fire, weird "snow" and mystery men in white overalls.

The activity in Pentyrch, near Cardiff, on February 26, 2016, was explained by the authorities as an armed forces exercise code-named "Chameleon".

But many claim they saw unidentified lights which did not seem to belong to conventional military aircraft.

The incident echoes the most famous alleged UFO incident ever at a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico, when the US military was claimed to have captured a crashed flying saucer.

Recalling the events in Wales, witness Caz Clarke, said she could "categorically state it was no exercise".

She said: "I will take a lie detector anywhere for anyone. What I witnessed will stay with me for the rest of my life.

"What is more, the military knew they were coming and had a spotter plane in the air for two days waiting for 'the event'. When it came, four planes chased the green object while the spotter plane circled about six red oval objects which formed a pyramid shape.

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Google Earth blindspot is ‘HOSTING UFOs’ - whistleblower’s shock global conspiracy claim

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The story of an Ukrainian engineer about how he was abducted by a beautiful alien in 1989

At one time, various newspapers in our country, a reprint of history from the magazine “The World of the Unknown” for 1994. She was told by engineer A. Us from the city of Belaya Tserkov , that in Ukraine. The person has gone through the most unusual adventure in his life and was able to sincerely tell about his impressions and feelings.

The case is credible – many details of the narrative look so unconcerned. There were no intimate relationships here, but the aliens were very similar to people and seem to be endowed with similar emotions and relationships between themselves. Well, how much the Earthman could understand this.

Here is the story …

“In mid-September 1989, I gathered mushrooms near the village of Yablunovka. Having sat down to rest, I began to look through the newspaper, which I took with me from home. Suddenly a shadow of an oval cloud swept past me. I looked up and saw that a parachute descended from me in about a hundred meters on some strange spiral trajectory. Meters in 70 from the ground he began to descend strictly vertically

I am a skeptic and a realist by nature and therefore at first took a UFO for an earthly spacecraft. Moreover, after landing, the curtain of the front door of the apparatus immediately rose and from there came the “cosmonaut”, as it should be, in a spacesuit. Behind him came the robot (as it later turned out).

However, my error was short-lived, and I watched with amazement what was happening. The alien went to me. In his left hand he held a small object, painted in red and silver in color. Approached me, the stranger tilted his head, then touched his chest and unequivocally offered to go to the UFO. His face was ordinary, his skin was bronze, and his slightly curly hair reminded me of a Hindu. So I called him.

At the entrance to the apparatus stood a beautiful lady. It was a woman of indescribable beauty, a real Aphrodite.Her figure was dressed in overalls, on her head a small helmet (like the Old Russian soldiers) with a protruding strip, in the center of which either a diamond or an optical peephole was shining. Dark brown wavy hair fell on his shoulders. Very large dark blue eyes, small slightly upturned nose. On a silver chain on the chest hung a device, like the Hindu.

She stood a little embarrassed and smiled a bright, sunny smile. She folded her arms over her chest and leaned forward, then pointed to the door next to her and disappeared into the UFO. I climbed the “petal” and got into a small shower room. The Hindu instantly divided me to cowards and left, stuffing my clothes into a niche.

Immediately on all sides, foamy liquid poured onto me, a warm wind blew a minute later and the inner door opened.The Indian gave me slippers and a light blue robe, very light.

I did not have time to sit down, as the familiar goddess of beauty appeared. She came close to me, with a captivating smile, reached out her hand-like a woman, palm down – and called: “Geselia.” Then she introduced another stranger with a curly head and a dark blue face (I called him the Negro) and the Hindu.

The ship had fresh ozone air, and from somewhere from above came a muffled familiar music. Geselia was still standing in front of me, as if suggesting to admire her. Through a deep gown of a dressing gown it was evident that on a translucent bathing suit on one breast a lotus flower is drawn, and on the other a rose. The same light pinkish as her body. The face is light, without any trace of makeup.

She was slightly taller than me, about 180 centimeters (the Hindu was about 190, and the Negro was 210-220 centimeters). His voice was juicy and singing, the Hindu was soft and quiet, and Negro had a loud bass.

Having become acquainted, Gezelia with my help began to know the earthly world and my health. I was approached by an anthropoid robot about one and a half meters tall. His rotating eyes (like a chameleon) were embarrassed and even frightened. And when he took my hand, offering to sit in a chair, and the other tried to stick to my forehead some plates the size of a button, then I forcefully knocked him on the pear-shaped head. The robot lowered his hands and froze, and the Negro laughed with a thunderous bass.

The Hindu touched something on the robot, and he again turned his eyes. Then Geselia, collecting the fallen records, nalepila them themselves in several places, including on the chest. In one of the plates was a small cone, it was placed on the left hand. After the “mosquito bite” she was filled with blood. Then the robot approached and took the plates.

Then Geselia spread out my missed newspaper on the table and, with a finger in the name, said something. I read the name aloud. But she pointed a finger at each letter separately. I tried to explain – first in Ukrainian, then in Russian, German, Hungarian … Even in English, which I almost do not know. But the aliens were thrown in short phrases that sounded like no language I knew. Then I finally realized that I was visiting ATOPLANETAN. Real! A chill ran down my spine, but self-control kept me from stupid.

Again light music began to play, and I realized that my stay at a party was ending. I took a pencil and from memory I pictured the Solar system – the Sun and 7 planets. Geselia dorisovala five more. I asked which planet they came from. She drew another system (in my opinion, nine planets) in another galaxy and, placing her sheet next to mine, ran a line from one of those planets to one of ours.

Then I drew a line to the Moon, and from it to the Earth. On the moon, a huge diamond-type ship was depicted, and from it – a dozen lines to the Earth with UFOs of various shapes. Then she placed my watch (“Earth”) around the Sun globe twice and indicated the distance from their planet to ours. Then she carried the watch about a third of the revolution, ran a finger to the moon, took another turn of my watch and pointed to the point of the Earth where they are now.

I understood everything and wanted to ask something else, but her left hand fell into my hand. I lifted her to see the bracelet with some miniature devices or ornaments. Finger felt her quickening pulse, began to count, but Gezelia, apparently, understood everything differently, something loudly said, and all three aliens burst out laughing.

The woman took off her robe and came to me, took me by the head and, unfolding it, pressed her ear to her breast.Her heart clearly repelled our earth rhythm, but not 70, and 90-100 beats per minute. The temperature of her body was, as it seemed to me, a degree 42 degrees.

I moved away from her and stared at the half-naked body. Geselia was and is similar, and unlike the earthly woman.I admired her beauty, and she apparently realized that I was checking whether she was a living or a robot.

The beauty of Gezelia fascinated me. Around her head I noticed a glowing halo. The color of the blue eyes turned to greenish-yellow. She began to approach me, as if burning a fire. And when she touched me with her hand, I got out of the stupor and, pushing it, shouted: “After all, ma-ah!”

Geselia, jumping off like a cat, shouted something in a loud voice – apparently, “get out!”. What insulted her? I do not understand & until now: either the next experiment, or … the word “witch” – maybe in their language it meant some terrible insult. I thought that now I will have a rump.

The door opened, I flew out into the street, and the Hindu immediately returned my clothes. A minute or two later, Gezelia appeared. She tried to smile, but her face was agitated. She showed me to take my watch. I began to explain that I leave them to memory. Then she threw the clock, emphasizing that the friendly relationship was over, and disappeared into the UFO, still nodding to me in good-bye.

The door curtain slammed shut, there was a double click. A little bit of noise was heard from some mechanism, and the UFO began to gain noiseless noise. I climbed 150-170 meters, and I heard another double click. The petals formed in the tube, from which emanated a dark red glow. UFO was now not like a daisy, but a long blue jellyfish or, more precisely, a rocket. At an altitude of 250-300 meters a light blue cloud appeared, and the rocket disappeared.

After half an hour after the flight, I examined the landing site and noticed only the crushed grass and one imprint of the round support about a meter in diameter. I wanted to run to one of the nearest villages and call somewhere, but then the question arose: where? And he wandered to his basket of mushrooms.

I took it and went to the bus. A man approached me on the bus and said: “I saw everything.” I replied: “So what?” He paused, realizing that it was useless to prove all this. A month later I wrote a letter to the newspaper “Rodyanska Ukraine” and “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. I did not give my address – why?

And now I will supplement my description of the UFO. The range of its “petals” was about 15-19 meters. The ovoid apparatus is 8-10 meters high. Its outer diameter is 6-7 meters, and the inner diameter is 3-3.5 meters. Between the external and internal walls are mounted various equipment and, perhaps, there are also rest rooms.

And further. When I asked Gezelia what the cross means on one of the slides, where there were a lot of cars, she drew sketches of our car and KamAZ and immediately crossed them, and next she drew something like a diamond-type car, but without wheels. I did not understand, and then she took off her remote control (?), Pressed the button, and a piece of film came out from the back.

I saw a panoramic image of a part of a city. Houses with rhombic and oval windows in two or four floors, with a lot of towers, holding on themselves something like our radars. In the distance one could see a factory, even further from the pyramid … In the foreground there was a two-storey villa with a “locator”, and next to it – Gezelia with a girl of two or three years in her arms.

Immediately there was a man of two meters height and a boy of 12-15 years. Immediately – a car, but only rhombic and without wheels, as she painted me. A huge tree was growing nearby, a fountain flowed nearby … “

On this impression the eyewitness breaks off: he told everything that he remembered while he was in the alien apparatus.

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Could The Pyramids At Giza Predate Ancient Egyptian Civilization?

The  most mysterious ancient civilizations to ever develop on the surface of the planet is without a doubt, the great Ancient Egyptian Civilization.

The more we have ventured into the plentiful Egyptian History, the more have we been left perplexed by the complexity and advanced development of this ancient culture that developed along the Nile River.

The more we search, the more we learn how little we know.

Not long ago, I wrote about a discovery that shows just how old the Egyptian civilization really is, and where its roots come from.

Experts studying Egypt came across what is considered one of the oldest settlements on Earth, dating back to the Neolithic Period.

The discovery shows what Egypt was like before the “First Pharaoh’s.”

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities explained that the ancient city, thought to be more than 7,000 years old, “offers a unique opportunity to shed light on the prehistoric communities that lived in the Nile Delta before the reign of the first Pharaonic dynasty.”

But that is just one of the many amazing discoveries that have been made so far in Egypt.

The Pyramids

The Pyramids are perhaps the biggest mystery of them all. We don’t really know how they (the pyramids) were built, how the ancients transported massive blocks of stone, hundreds of kilometers across, nor do we know why the pyramids were built.

They did not serve as tombs, as there is plenty of evidence suggesting their purpose was a far greater one.,

Reports indicate that the Pyramids at Giza show evidence of a massive flood, but despite this, Egypt has not really had significant rainfall since a least 5,000 B.C.

Researchers trying to crack the mystery of the pyramids have found silt sediments rising up to fourteen fitt around the base of the Pyramids at Giza.

Furthermore, pieces of seashells, as well as Marine fossils, have been found in this sediment. The strange part is that once carbon dating was performed on the fossils and seashells, it showed experts they were nearly 12,000 years old.

One theory is that these objects were transported by the Nile River, which floods every year. However, the Pyramids are located as much as five miles away from the Nile and are raised on the so-called Giza plateau.

This means that it is very unlikely that marine fossils and seashells discovered at the Pyramids originated from the Nile.

The Sphinx, an even greater mystery

But if we explore the Giza plateau a bit more, we will come across the Sphinx, which curiously also shows clear evidence of water damage.-

One researcher who took particular interest in the Sphinx was Robert Schoch, who identified signs of water erosion at the Sphinx. The presence of water damage on the Sphinx, also backs up the theory that the Sphinx was a massive monument carved more than 10,000 years ago.

But the best part is that there is a scientific study titled GEOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF DATING THE GREAT EGYPTIAN SPHINX CONSTRUCTION which argues the massive Egyptian monument may be as much as 800,000 years old.

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Video – What If an Advanced Civilization of Humans Existed Thousands of Years Ago?

Many people wonder if ancient civilizations that were advances existed on Earth many years ago and experts do occasionally discover something that changes what we know about history. But what if 100,000 years ago an ancient advanced civilization had been on Earth? That would change everything. There have been many discoveries that possibly point to advanced civilizations being on Earth many thousands of years ago.

Which leads to the question of what do we know about history really, and what do we know about the human race in the past. Mainstream researchers have suggested that mankind has been on Earth for just a couple thousand years, but recent discoveries suggest otherwise.µ

Ancient Civilization Living In Africa More Than 100,000 Years Ago

There is evidence that suggests that an intelligent civilization may have lived in Africa more than 100,000 years ago. About 150 kilometers to the west of Port Maputo; there are the remains of a metropolis that is around 1500 square kilometers. Researchers suggest that this is an ancient city that may have been just a part of what could have been an even larger community, in total around 10,000 square kilometers, which is thought to have been built between 160,000 and 200,000 years before the birth of Christ.

The geology surrounding it is interesting thanks to a lot of gold mines that can be found within the vicinity. Researchers believe that this is where a missing civilization from the past may have lived and set up gold mining.

The Amazon May Have Been Home To Lost Civilizations

Some believe that there may have been an ancient civilization predating the Inca along with their ancestors in the remote regions of the Amazon.

With deforestations happening rapidly Google Earth has led to the finding of 210 geoglyphs at over 200 different sites in the Amazon in a strip of 250 kilometers by 10 kilometers. Similar to the Nazca lines, the anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and geometric designs have to be seen from the air to be appreciated. But the biggest question remains why?

Many remains of what do seem to be part of an unknown and ancient civilization have been seen lying beneath trees among the Amazon rainforest. Researchers think that 260 long avenues with long irrigation canals and fences, which appear to have been for holding livestock in, have been seen from the air. This discovery was near to the border of Brazil and Bolivia.

The Amazons Lost Pyramids Give Hint Of Prehistoric Civilization

There are many dense and tangled jungles in the Amazon that are home to many mysteries that may help to understand just how ancient lost civilizations may have lived many thousands of years ago. Researchers have the belief that the Pyramids of Paratoari are ridge spurs that are truncated, which take the form of a natural pyramid. However, others think that the structures were made a long time ago by a civilization that hasn’t been acknowledged by mainstream history.

Trips to the region have revealed a lot of evidence about the inheritance of Incas in the region, including petroglyphs, platforms, and roads that were paved. The pyramidal structures had first been identified by satellite photographs from NASA that had been released in 1976. The photographs got numerous researchers to go out into the Manu region of the tropical rain forest in southeast Peru to try to locate the structures and find out if they had been built by a lost civilization.

The Sphinx May Be 800,000 Years

Old One of the most enigmatic and mysterious of all monuments on Earth is the Great Sphinx which is found in Giza, Egypt. The construction is ancient, and it is something that has managed to baffle researchers ever since the monument was discovered. Until recently the Sphinx hadn’t been dated as there were no records ever found or talk in the past about it. Now, however, researchers from the Ukraine have come up with a new theory, which is somewhat provocative. They believe that the Great Sphinx may be around 800,000 years old and this theory is said to have the backing of science.

The two experts say that the starting point is the paradigm shift that was initiated by Schoch and West; this had been intended to do away with the orthodox view of Egyptology when referring to the remote origins of Egyptian civilization, along with physical evidence of there being water erosion at the monuments at Giza.

Complex Lifeforms May Have Existed Long Before Humankind Existed

However, there isn’t much by way of knowledge about the origins of life along with modern civilization. Recently a study was published with experts coming to the conclusion that very different life forms, which were complex, might have once lived on Earth a long time before humankind came into existence. It is said that there had been enough oxygen in the environment to allow complex cells to evolve. Some scientists believe that we aren’t the first complex life that has been on the planet. Another complex lifeform is said to have been in existence. However, they disappeared during the long history of Earth. Then lifeforms that were complex made a reappearance after a short time.

Complex lifeforms may have been on Earth 1.75 billion years ago. But if complex life had existed in the past on Earth, why do people believe that it is unlikely or improbable that advanced civilizations might have flourished?

Even if advanced alien civilizations had been in existence in the Solar System, maybe even on Earth billions of years ago, more than likely any trace or evidence of them would have been long gone, so more than likely no one is going to know for sure.

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The Extraterrestrial Cigar Shaped Craft, Discovered On A South Atlantic Island?

Google Earth has recently been the center of attention for many UFO Truth seekers after a mysterious object which appears to be some kind of crash-landed  alien craft, has been doing the rounds across the internet.  You can even see a trail behind it, which appears to show that the potential craft crashed through a nearby mountain – as of yet this has NOT been debunked!

Many leading UFO researchers have been using satellite mapping to zoom in and look at the alleged spaceship, near the 10,000ft tall Mount Paget. You can clearly see like an artificial trail coming from behind the huge crashed looking object.  Researchers have also suggested that the length of this object is in the region of 63 meters!!!

The nearby tracks suggest the irregular-shaped object had slid through the snow prior to arriving at the final resting place on the icy island, not far from Antarctica. It has been suggested that this is/was a huge block of ice, which fell off the mountain after an avalanche the day previous to this image being taken – but a 1,000 metres is long way for a huge piece of ice to travel, leaving a perfect trail behind it!

Since it was uploaded onto the internet, the video has been viewed more than 420,000 times, attracting almost 6,000 comments in just a week!

Many people have agreed that this could be an alien spaceship.

A Frank Lucas wrote:

“That definitely looks like something was airborne and definitely crashed into that mountain.”

Meanwhile James Carter said:

“The Georgia island object is definitely not anything we can explain from looking through satellite imagery.”

Another Youtube user, Tom Brown, suggested:

“This could actually be a rocket or the left overs of a rocket. It could also be a missile that was fired for testing purposes.

“It could even be a human-made airplane or aircraft of some sort.

“Governments all around the world do all kinds of testing with air crafts for modern warfare and the perfect place to hide one that didn’t work out would be on a small island that is near a continent no one is allowed to explore.”

South Georgia Island is part of the British Overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

(Picture: Google Earth)

There have also been many others who believe that this could be some kind of rock formation which has broken away from the mountain behind it.  Another government funded researcher Dave Petley, pro-vice-chancellor (research and innovation) at the University of Sheffield has stepped forward to claim the object broke off a nearby mountain and slid through the snow. On his blog, he wrote:

‘This is conventional landslide behavior on snow and ice covered surfaces, and we have seen other large isolated boulders travel long distances.’

Although this theory has not been confirmed either – interesting how government figures always confirm that it’s nothing ALIEN!?!?

Whatever this incredible look object it is, one thing is for sure that it needs far more research to be able to confirm exactly what it is. Ideally we need boots on the ground to look at this huge object face to face, although this is not the easiest part of the world to travel to.

Did the ‘mass’ slide down or out of the mountain?

U.I.P Summary

Now THIS is a very interesting story which has recently come about.  Of course this object could be a large piece of rock or ice that slid off the nearby mountain (before any self proclaimed UFO debunkers/trolls start abusing us!) HOWEVER just look at the shape of the huge object and the perfect trail it left behind it!

When you watch the video it almost appears as if the object has crashed through the mountain! Of course this could be something out of nothing, but it’s important for us to cover off these stories with you as nothing has yet been confirmed what it is and the elite like to debunk pretty much everything!

We are going to do some more research into this intriguing story.

MWV

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1. Sacsayhuamán

A plane glides over an ancient spider geoglyph in the Peruvian desert.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT CLARK, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

3. Egyptian Pyramids

The sun sets over the Giza necropolis on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.

PHOTOGRAPH BY EZEQUIEL SCAGNETTI, REDUX

4. Stonehenge

Bands of pink and purple streak the sky over Stonehenge at dawn.

PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIP KRAMER, GETTY IMAGES

5. Teotihuacán

Teotihuacán’s Pyramid of the Sun rises up against the cobalt sky in Mexico City.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT FRIED, ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

6. Easter Island

Moai dot the grassy hills of Easter Island, a Chilean territory located in the southeastern Pacific.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOCHEM D. WIJNANDS, GETTY IMAGES

7. The Face on Mars

NASA's Viking 1 orbiter took this photograph of Mars in 1976. Shadows in the rock formation create an illusion of a human face.

PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL

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Top 25 cities for UFO sightings across the US

The sci-fi series "The X-Files" popularized the saying "the truth is out there." And in the past 15 years, thousands of UFO sightings across the United States show a lot of people are still looking.

A new list of the top cities in the U.S. that have had UFO sightings from 2001-2015 has been published, with Phoenix topping the list, according to a story in the Syracuse New Times.

The data is pulled from the book "UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015," written by Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa. Published in March 2017, the book compiles "data and analysis for 100,000+ sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by individuals during the first 15 years of the 21st century."

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Costa noted that Phoenix may be the most prevalent place in the U.S. for UFO sightings, perhaps due to the Phoenix Lights phenomena two decades ago.

In 1997, there were two events that occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico. Thousands of witnesses say they saw a formation of five lights in a V-shape, producing no sound and a triangular formation of lights. The U.S Air Force claimed the second group of lights were flares dropped from a A-10 Warthog aircraft.

In addition to Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago and Portland round out the top five cities on the list.

Below is the list of 25 most sightings across U.S. cities.

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Dit spookachtige wezen is de unieke ‘Dumbo’-octopus - HLN.be

Bron: National Geographic, Gizmodo

De onderzoekers verkenden de Davidson Seamount, een onderzeese vulkaan op zo’n 130 kilometer voor de kust van Californië, toen dinsdag plots dit mysterieuze zeewezen verscheen, tot verrukking van de onderzoekers die hun enthousiasme hoorbaar niet kunnen onderdrukken. 

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Volgens Chad King, hoofdwetenschapper van de Nautilus, was het een unieke ervaring om de 60 centimeter lange octopus tegen te komen. “Het is erg bijzonder om er eentje in leven te zien. Zoiets zie je niet elke dag”, zegt hij. “Het is geen zeldzame soort, maar het is zeldzaam om er eentje tegen te komen. De kans is klein, omdat we op een klein plekje in de diepe oceaan zitten.”


Deze octopussen van het geslacht Grimpoteuthis, die omwille van hun bijzondere vinnen ook Dumbo-octopussen worden genoemd, leven in de Atlantische en Stille Oceaan op een diepte van zo’n 3.000 à 4.000 meter, waardoor ze moeilijk te bestuderen zijn. De meerderheid van hun dagen zweven de dieren net boven de zeebodem. Hier jagen ze op prooien als schaal-, schelpdieren en wormen en leggen ze hun eitjes.

Hoewel ze er schattig uitzien, zijn deze octopussen geen doetjes: wanneer ze een prooi te pakken krijgen, vormen ze met hun lichaam een ballon rondom de prooi om haar zo te verorberen.

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 VREEMDE LUCHTEN ZOALS MEN DIE NOG NOOIT ZAG ( VIDEO )

Het komt steeds vaker voor dat mensen vreemde luchten zien en daarbij opmerken dat ze nog nooit zoiets hebben gezien. 

Het komt voor in alle delen van de wereld en de kleuren rood en paars beginnen steeds vaker voor te komen. 

Alles wat de mainstream media doen is bijzondere kwesties afserveren als niets bijzonders, maar zonder daar een goede verklaring voor te (kunnen) geven.

We hebben gezien hoe ze uit pure noodzaak dan maar nieuwe wolkensoorten verzinnen waar je bij staat, maar feit is dat onze grootouders dergelijke luchten niet zagen.

Naarmate er meer vreemde luchten te zien zijn, zal het moeilijker worden om ook daar weer een geloofwaardige verklaring voor te kunnen vinden.

Bovenstaande zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden van het soort luchten zoals die door mensen worden waargenomen. Niet alleen zijn ze vreemd en onwerkelijk, men krijgt er ook een akelig gevoel bij.

Ze worden vaak omschreven als "scary skies", angstaanjagende luchten. 

Het is niet helemaal waar dat dit soort luchten niet eerder zijn voorgekomen, maar dan moeten we wel ver terug in de tijd, tot ver voor het begin van onze jaartelling. 

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

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

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

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

De doden waren niet langer heilig en werden in het water gegooid. De pakhuizen waren volgestouwd met graan en niemand verbouwde nog wat. Het vee werd alleen gelaten en zwierf rond en dwaalde naar vreemde weiden. Hun geblaat werd genegeerd en men slachtte het vee van de buurman.

Niemand bezat nog iets. De openbare registers werden heen en weer geschoven en vernietigd. En niemand wist meer wie er slaaf waren en wie meester. De plaag waarde door het land, de rivier was bloedrood en overal was bloed. Zij die dronken van de rivier moesten onmiddellijk overgeven. Het stof beet zich vast in de huid van zowel mens als dier. 

Door de gloed van de Verwoester was de aarde gehuld in een roodachtig licht. Het land was platgeslagen en verwoest door enorme hagelstenen die neer beukten op alles wat stond. Ze kwamen naar beneden in hete buien en achter hen aan kwam een soort vreemd gloeiend vuur dat over de aarde liep. 

De vis in de rivieren stierf, wormen, insecten en reptielen sprongen omhoog vanuit de aarde. De duisternis van een lange nacht spreidde een zwarte mantel over de aarde waardoor iedere lichtstraal werd gedoofd. Niemand wist wanneer het dag of wanneer het nacht was want de zon wierp geen schaduw". 

Dat was toen. Nu zijn de eerste tekenen zoals die in de Kolbrin bijbel worden beschreven voor eenieder duidelijk zichtbaar. 

De maker van de onderstaande video noemt de verschijnselen die zich de afgelopen maand voordeden op onze aarde dan ook niet voor niets: Something strange is going on, the end of the earth”. Dat zal het niet worden want ook vorige keren waren er mensen die het hebben overleefd. 

Heftig zal het wel zijn, een soort complete “reset” van onze planeet en alles wat er nu op leeft. 

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Bright UFO flying above Davenport, Iowa 24-Oct-2018

Here’s one new video of a bright unidentified flying object in the sky above Iowa. This was filmed on 24th October 2018.

Witness report: 

Included a video. The light was glowing and pulsating. Flying in abnormal directions 

Author (source: MUFON)

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The strange night in a Welsh field involving 'huge UFO lights, explosions and military planes'

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The European Space Agency (ESA) said on October 25, 2018, that its Mars Express spacecraft has acquired hundreds of images over a period of weeks of a curious cloud on Mars. ESA has tracked the cloud since September 13, as it hovers in the vicinity of the 12-mile-high (20-km-high) Arsia Mons volcano, close to Mars’ equator.

It looks and sounds as if this cloud could be volcanic, doesn’t it? Yet that would be highly unlikely, since scientists have never detected any form of volcanic activity on Mars; it appears to be a geologically dead world. ESA said the cloud isn’t volcanic. Instead, it’s driven by ordinary meteorological conditions, not unlike those found on Earth. ESA explained:

In spite of its location, this atmospheric feature is not linked to volcanic activity but is rather a water ice cloud driven by the influence of the volcano’s leeward [downwind] slope on the air flow – something that scientists call an orographic or lee cloud – and a regular phenomenon in this region.

The cloud extends about 900 miles (1,500 km) west of the volcano. As a comparison, the cone-shaped volcano has a diameter of about 155 miles (250 km); you can see a view of the region with labels here.

Mars experienced its northern winter solstice on October 16, bringing winter into Mars’ Northern Hemisphere and summer to its Southern Hemisphere. ESA said:

In the months leading up to this solstice, most cloud activity disappears over big volcanoes like Arsia Mons; its summit is covered with clouds throughout the rest of the Martian year.

However, a seasonally recurrent water ice cloud, like the one shown in this image, is known to form along the southwest flank of this volcano – it was previously observed by Mars Express and other missions in 2009, 2012 and 2015.

The cloud’s appearance varies throughout the Martian day, growing in length during local morning downwind of the volcano, almost parallel to the equator, and reaching such an impressive size that could make it visible even to telescopes on Earth.

The formation of water ice clouds is sensitive to the amount of dust present in the atmosphere. These images, obtained after the major dust storm that engulfed the entire planet in June and July, will provide important information on the effect of dust on the cloud development and on its variability throughout the year.

Follow the development of this cloud via the daily images sent by Mars Express

Bottom line: ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has acquired hundreds of images of a curious elongated cloud on Mars, on the leeward or downwind side of a volcano.

Via ESA

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UFO Expert Says NASA Will Discover Alien Life After About 5 Years

A government UFO investigator believes NASA could be less than ten years from discovering extraterrestrial life. He thinks that the space agency is on the right track.

Nick Pope, who formerly a Ministry of Defence UFO report investigator, believes NASA will discover aliens in the next 5 to 10 years.

The UFO expert says NASA will likely find proof of alien microbes or plants within the solar system.

However, the discovery of intelligent alien life could be the crowning glory for the American space agency.

The news comes after a group of 17 scientists urged the US space agency to search for extraterrestrial biosignatures on all of its future missions in space.

However, Mr Pope said that it was only a matter of time before efforts of NASA yield positive results.

He stated that discovering microbial or simple plant/animal life beyond our planet would be amazing, but the real prize would be finding other civilisations out there.

He claimed that NASA put more resources into finding technosignatures than biosignatures. He firmly thinks that it is only a matter of time before scientists find alien life, about five to ten years from now.

While Mr Pope thinks giving much attention to technosignatures is sensible but finding for biosignatures should never stop and should not ignore UFO data.

He also urges the space agency to prepare beforehand for the potential dangers associated with alien life discovery such as alien viruses and harmful bacteria as well as the possibility of hostile civilisations.

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“There are two goat figures and there is a plant, like a tree, between these figures. There are decorational motives around the tablet. These motives were mostly used by Assyrians in Syria. The tablet may be coming from Assyria, or may have been made here.”

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3,200-year-old ivory tablet found in Turkey’s eastern Malatya province has potential links to ancient Mesopotamian kingdom Assyria, excavation team sayshttp://sabahdai.ly/8sZK1s 

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3,200-year-old artifact linked to Assyria found in eastern Turkey

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According to Professor Frangipane, the carvings fashioned on the ivory tablet also bear a strong resemblance to similar artifacts that archeologists have discovered in both Syria and Iraq, and suggested that it may have once been used as a furniture decoration. However, at this time no link has been established between the artifact and these countries, and it may be that the artwork itself was prevalent at this time in different regions and that trade may have also influenced the art on the tablet.

“It might be a decoration of furniture. It is a beautiful work of art and it is important for the history of the mound. It is the same with the motives in Syria, Iraq and Nemrut [in southeastern Adiyaman]; there may be a trade relation between them.”

Excitingly, however, an ivory tablet of this kind has never been discovered in Turkey before, and Professor Frangipane has said that “these kinds of artifacts are found in Syria and Mesopotamia, but it is a unique piece for here.”

Excavations have been ongoing in the Arslantepe region of Turkey since 1961 and have been performed in a partnership between the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry and the Italian Archaeological Expedition of the Sapienza University of Rome. This area was once the birthplace of many great civilizations, including the Hittites, Romans, and Byzantines, so it makes sense that numerous ancient artifacts would be found here.

Now that the 3,200-year-old ivory tablet found in Turkey has been examined, it will be up to archaeologists to determine whether it is, in fact, Assyrian after all.

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‘NASA is lying’ HUGE ‘alien spacecraft’ spotted on ISS live feed sparks frenzy

A HUGE object spotted passing below the International Space Station has sparked a frenzy among conspiracy theorists online.

By Callum Hoare 

Video footage shows the bizarre anomaly that was spotted during NASA’s live feed from space. 

It shows a strange grey object appearing to float above Earth. 

The article appears to be shaped like an aircraft and moving south, though some believe it could be stationary on top of a mountain or the Luobubozhen facility in China. 

But the person behind the camera even speculates a figure can be made out inside the UFO.

“I think it is some sort of craft”

Anonymous source

“The craft has 90 degree sharp angles and looks to be intelligently designed," they said.

“I think it is some sort of craft, but cannot work out whether it is on the ground, or flying. 

“If it's on the ground its huge.”

According to the person who captured it, who wishes to remain anonymous, the clip shows: “A craft with a doorway and a being inside.”

They said: "At first I thought it was a cloud, but now I'm convinced its much more." 

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Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps, and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History Museum were soliciting reservations for the first space tourism mission, well before the modern era of Blue Origins, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic. All you had to do was supply your address and tick the box for your preferred destination, which included Venus

Today, Venus is unlikely to be a dream destination for aspiring space tourists. As revealed by numerous missions in the last few decades, rather than being a paradise, the planet is a hellish world of infernal temperatures, a corrosive toxic atmosphere, and crushing pressures at the surface. Despite this, NASA is currently working on a conceptual manned mission to Venus, named the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept — (HAVOC).

It is also geologically young, having undergone catastrophic resurfacing events. Such extreme events are caused by the build-up of heat below the surface, eventually causing it to melt, release heat, and re-solidify. Certainly a scary prospect for any visitors.

Hovering in the Atmosphere

Luckily, the idea behind NASA’s new mission is not to land people on the inhospitable surface, but to use the dense atmosphere as a base for exploration. No actual date for a HAVOC type mission has been publicly announced yet. This mission is a long-term plan and will rely on small test missions to be successful first. Such a mission is actually possible, right now, with current technology. The plan is to use airships which can stay aloft in the upper atmosphere for extended periods of time.

As surprising as it may seem, the upper atmosphere of Venus is the most Earth-like location in the solar system. Between altitudes of 50km and 60km, the pressure and temperature can be compared to regions of the Earth’s lower atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure in the Venusian atmosphere at 55km is about half that of the pressure at sea level on Earth. In fact, you would be fine without a pressure suit, as this is roughly equivalent to the air pressure you would encounter at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Nor would you need to insulate yourself, as the temperature here ranges between 20 degrees C and 30 degrees C.

The atmosphere above this altitude is also dense enough to protect astronauts from ionizing radiation from space. The closer proximity of the sun provides an even greater abundance of available solar radiation than on Earth, which can be used to generate power (approximately 1.4 times greater).

The conceptual airship would float around the planet, being blown by the wind. It could, usefully, be filled with a breathable gas mixture such as oxygen and nitrogen, providing buoyancy. This is possible because breathable air is less dense than the Venusian atmosphere and, as result, would be a lifting gas.

The Venusian atmosphere is comprised of 97 percent carbon dioxide, about 3 percent nitrogen, and trace amounts of other gases. It famously contains a sprinkling of sulphuric acid, which forms dense clouds and is a major contributor to its visible brightness when viewed from Earth. In fact, the planet reflects some 75 percent of the light that falls onto it from the sun. This highly reflective cloud layer exists between 45km and 65km, with a haze of sulphuric acid droplets underneath down to about 30km. As such, an airship design would need to be resistant to the corrosive effect of this acid.

Luckily, we already have the technology required to overcome the problem of acidity. Several commercially available materials, including Teflon and a number of plastics, have a high acidic resistance and could be used for the outer envelope of the airship. Considering all these factors, conceivably, you could go for a walk on a platform outside the airship, carrying only your air supply and wearing a chemical hazard suit.

Life on Venus?

The surface of Venus has been mapped from orbit by radar on the US Magellan mission. However, only a few locations on the surface have ever been visited, by the series of Venera missions of Soviet probes in the late 1970s. These probes returned the first — and so far only — images of the Venusian surface. Certainly surface conditions seem utterly inhospitable to any kind of life.

The upper atmosphere is a different story, however. Certain kinds of extremophile organisms already exist on Earth which could withstand the conditions in the atmosphere at the altitude at which HAVOC would fly. Species such as Acidianus infernus can be found in highly acidic volcanic lakes in Iceland and Italy. Airborne microbes have also been found to exist in Earth’s clouds. None of this proves that life exists in the Venusian atmosphere, but it is a possibility that it could be investigated by a mission like HAVOC.

The current climatic conditions and composition of the atmosphere are the result of a runaway greenhouse effect (an extreme greenhouse effect that cannot be reversed), which transformed the planet from a hospitable Earth-like “twin” world in its early history. While we do not currently expect Earth to undergo a similarly extreme scenario, it does demonstrate that dramatic changes to a planetary climate can happen when certain physical conditions arise.

By testing our current climate models using the extremes seen on Venus, we can more accurately determine how various climate forcing effects can lead to dramatic changes. Venus, therefore, provides us with a means to test the extremes of our current climate modeling, with all the inherent implications for the ecological health of our own planet.

We still know relatively little about Venus despite it being our nearest planetary neighbor. Ultimately, learning how two very similar planets can have such different pasts will help us understand the evolution of the solar system and perhaps even that of other star systems.

This article was originally published on The Conversation by Gareth Dorrian and Ian Whittaker. Read the original article here.

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