Climate change caused the demise of flourishing Ancient civilization

BY MIHAI ANDREI

Some 4,000 years ago, the Harappa culture thrived in the Indus River Valley of what is now modern Pakistan and northern India. They had big, prosperous cities, invented sewage centuries before the Romans, and established far-reaching trade routes to Mesopotamia. But in less than two centuries, their culture faded and their cities fell — and the main culprit may have been climate change.

An ancient well and bathing place at the Archaeological Site of Harappa. Image credits: Hassan Nasir.

The Indus Valley civilization was a primarily urban culture sustained by surplus agricultural production and commerce. They preferred urban settlements and built at least two major cities: Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, which were remarkably advanced for their time.

But things started to change around 2500 BCE. Shifting temperatures and weather patterns all over the Indus Valley caused a gradual dry-up of the summer monsoons, which made agriculture more and more difficult.

Liviu Giosan, a geologist at WHOI and lead author of the new paper, says this is what ultimately brought their demise and forced them to slowly retreat to smaller villages in the Himalayan foothills.

“Although fickle summer monsoons made agriculture difficult along the Indus, up in the foothills, moisture and rain would come more regularly,” Giosan says. “As winter storms from the Mediterranean hit the Himalayas, they created rain on the Pakistan side, and fed little streams there. Compared to the floods from monsoons that the Harappans were used to seeing in the Indus, it would have been relatively little water, but at least it would have been reliable.”

The end of an era

This isn’t a new theory, but evidence for these shifting patterns has been difficult to find in soil samples. So instead, Giosan and colleagues took to the ocean. They looked at microscopic fossils called foraminifera. Foraminifera are primitive “living fossils,” living from the Cambrian (542 million years ago) on to the present. They have a fossil commonly made of calcium carbonate, which means they often fossilize, especially in the environment of the Indus area. However, instead of looking for fossils, researchers looked one step deeper: they looked for DNA fragments.

“The seafloor near the mouth of the Indus is a very low-oxygen environment, so whatever grows and dies in the water is very well preserved in the sediment,” says Giosan. “You can basically get fragments of DNA of nearly anything that’s lived there.”

“The value of this approach is that it gives you a picture of the past biodiversity that you’d miss by relying on skeletal remains or a fossil record. And because we can sequence billions of DNA molecules in parallel, it gives a very high-resolution picture of how the ecosystem changed over time,” adds William Orsi, paleontologist and geobiologist at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, who collaborated with Giosan on the work.

This is an interesting type of indirect evidence: during winter monsoons, strong winds bring nutrients from the deeper parts of the ocean towards the surface, feeding a surge in plant and animal life — evidence of this surge is recorded in DNA sequences in sedimentary layers of the ocean floor. The DNA evidence revealed that winter monsoons seemed to become stronger, and summer monsoons weaker towards the later years of the Harappan civilization, corresponding with the move from cities to villages. It’s not clear exactly when and how quickly this process took place, but it was the end of an era.

“We don’t know whether Harappan caravans moved toward the foothills in a matter of months or this massive migration took place over centuries. What we do know is that when it concluded, their urban way of life ended,” Giosan says.

A lesson for today

This event signifies a very important warning for today. Unlike us, the Harappans didn’t bring this climate change on themselves — the source of this climate change actually came from very far away. A mini ice age settled in, releasing colder air from the Arctic into the Atlantic and subsequently, into northern Europe. In turn, this pushed the cold (but relatively warmer air) of northern Europe around, creating storms into the Mediterranean, which led to a surge in winter monsoons over the Indus valley — it was a remarkable series of domino pieces falling into place and sparking doom for the Harappan cities.

A similar process is happening today, and climate change is setting in motion a complex mechanism that will affect all areas of the globe.

“It’s remarkable, and there’s a powerful lesson for today,” he notes. “If you look at Syria and Africa, the migration out of those areas has some roots in climate change. This is just the beginning–sea level rise due to climate change can lead to huge migrations from low lying regions like Bangladesh, or from hurricane-prone regions in the southern U.S. Back then, the Harappans could cope with change by moving, but today, you’ll run into all sorts of borders. Political and social convulsions can then follow.”

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Deze mensen horen altijd en overal een bromtoon, maar niemand die weet waar het geluid vandaan komt - HLN.be

Bron: Trouw

Dirk van der Plas (57) noemt het niets minder dan een constante marteling. Hij formuleert bedachtzaam en zachtjes. Dan staat de man met donkergrijs kuifje op van de rode bank in zijn kleine woonkamer en knijpt zijn ogen halfdicht. “Ik hoor het nu heel hard.”

Wat precies? De brom. Voor veruit de meeste mensen klinkt het doodstil hier in het Groningse Saaksum, een pittoresk dorpje met zo’n honderd inwoners en omgeven door ­weiland. Nou ja, vogels hoor je, en op deze  ­zonnige dag ook het zachte geritsel van de ­bladeren van zijn walnootboom. Maar Van der Plas heeft de pech daarbovenop een snoeihard laagfrequent geluid te horen.

Lage tonen dus, iets wat zij die het horen als een constante bromtoon omschrijven. “Alsof hier voor de deur een vrachtwagen stationair staat te draaien. En niet minder zacht ook.” Veel van hen voelen de trillingen ook, alsof ze voor een grote luidspreker in een concertzaal staan. “En ik ervaar ook een soort elektrische prikkel tegen mijn oren, alsof iemand er een batterij tegenaan houdt.”

Inmiddels hoort en voelt bijna 10 procent van de mensen het gebrom soms, blijkt uit een rapport dat het Nederlandse RIVM onlangs uitbracht. Dat is veel. Van die mensen ondervindt ongeveer 2 procent ‘ernstige hinder’. En hun aantal groeit, zo toont een inventarisatie van alle meldingen die gemeentes binnenkregen de laatste jaren. Stichting Laagfrequent Geluid, waar Van der Plas voorzitter van is, kreeg vorig jaar 633 meldingen binnen – een record van zijn jonge stichting. Vier op de vijf melders slaapt er slecht door. Zij zijn verspreid over het hele land, al is de problematiek in sommige steden en regio’s groter dan elders.

Duister

Experts tasten nog bijna volledig in het duister over de oorzaken. Soms is er een duidelijke bron, maar vaak registreren zelfs de scherpst afgestelde microfoons helemaal niets. In die gevallen lijken de problemen niet te verklaren met een beter gehoor van mensen als Van der Plas. Daar moet iets anders aan de hand zijn. Ondertussen merken de meeste buren of visite er niets van. Eén buurman hoort het soms, vooral in de winter. Af en toe horen ze de brom tegelijkertijd aanzwellen, als ze samen koffiedrinken.

Het is fijn als er een duidelijke bron is. “We zagen veel casussen langskomen die gewoon te verhelpen waren”, zegt RIVM-onderzoekster Irene van Kamp. “Denk aan een woonschip dat zijn eigen elektriciteit opwekt met een zwaar dreunende dieselmotor. Die kun je dan beter isoleren, en dat kan veel klachten van omwonenden ineens doen verdwijnen.” In andere gevallen is het een warmtepomp waarmee de buren hun stroom opwekken in de tuin, of een cv-ketel die niet goed hangt. “Bij het Zuid-­Hollandse Nesselrode bleek wegverkeer de boosdoener.”

Lange geluidsgolven

De pech is dat lage tonen van windmolens, ­fabrieken of snelwegen zich door bijna niets ­laten stoppen. De lange geluidsgolven van lage tonen glijden moeiteloos door geluidswal en muurisolatie, en ook zogeheten ‘stil asfalt’ helpt alleen tegen ‘gewoon’, voor iedereen hoorbaar geluid. Dat maakt dat je soms heel ver moet fietsen om op de bron te stuiten. “En het maakt dat veroorzakers vaak niet weten dat zij mensen zo ver weg verstoren met ­gebrom”, zegt Van Kamp.

Maar vaak lijkt er überhaupt geen bron in de omgeving te zijn en dan begint de wanhoop pas echt. Van der Plas krijgt daar dagelijks mailtjes over. “Soms beginnen die met het woord ‘HELP’. Anderen moeten spontaan ­huilen, zodra ze voor het eerst op de site van mijn stichting kijken. Zij zien dat ze niet de enige zijn die het gebrom hoort. Ze beseffen: ‘Ik bén niet gek’.”

Van der Plas en zijn lotgenoten hebben drie problemen. Ten eerste natuurlijk het constante gebeuk in hun oren en lichaam. Maar ook dat de medische wetenschap hun tot op heden geen enkel zicht op oplossingen of uitleg kan bieden. En tot slot het onbegrip van hen die niets horen – de ruime meerderheid van de wereldbevolking.

Want dit probleem beperkt zich niet tot Nederland. In Canada woont biofysicus Glen MacPherson, werkzaam aan de universiteit van British Columbia. Hij heeft zelf last en richtte er een meldpunt voor op: thehum.info (the hum is Engels voor ‘de brom’). Iedereen kan op een wereldkaart precies aangeven waar hij ‘de stationaire vrachtwagen’ hoort. Die ­wereldkaart is inmiddels goed roodgekleurd van iedereen die dat deed. ‘We proberen ­daarmee zo goed mogelijk uit te zoeken wat de geplaagde regio’s gemeen hebben’, mailt MacPherson. ‘Dat antwoord is er nog niet.’

Omdat het dus moeilijk is de bron te ­vinden, en er vaak überhaupt geen geluid ­gemeten wordt, wijst Van der Plas in Saaksum op een andere mogelijke schuldige: straling. “Bijvoorbeeld van telefoonmasten of elektriciteitskabels.” Volgens hem zouden elektro-magnetische velden het binnenoor zo kunnen stimuleren dat iemand geluiden ervaart.

“Ook activeren die velden het brein wellicht op andere plekken, waardoor het gevoel van trilling ontstaat.” Hij wil dat er veel meer onderzoek komt naar straling als veroorzaker van de bromtoon. “Ik weet niet hoe het precies zou moeten werken – ik ben geen wetenschapper. Ik zoek gewoon naar mogelijke oorzaken.” Het zou wel verklaren waarom hij en anderen er in het hele land last van hebben, zegt hij.

Maar volgens MacPherson lijkt elektromagnetische straling geen gemene deler, zegt hij op basis van eigen experimenten. Daarvoor ging hij in een zelfgebouwde ruimte staan die alle straling buitenhield, waarop de brom in zijn oren onverminderd doorzong. Ook de ­Nijmeegse biofysicus Bernhard Englitz heeft vraagtekens bij het stralingidee. “Als straling zo hard staat dat het zenuwen activeert, ­verwacht je dat probleem ook in andere ­organen zoals het oog. Maar daar lijken deze mensen geen last van te hebben.”

Tinnitus

MacPherson houdt rekening met een paar ­mogelijke oorzaken. Misschien zorgt ­ondergrondse activiteit – lang doorzeurende aardbevingen, bijvoorbeeld – voor de gehoorde trillingen. Maar waarschijnlijker lijkt hem iets vergelijkbaars met tinnitus, de hoge piep die beter bekendstaat als oorsuizen. Dat is ‘intern geluid’ dat de hersenen dénken te horen. In de oren van tinnituspatiënten zijn de trilhaartjes beschadigd. Daardoor geven die minder ­signalen door aan de hersenen. Die gaan die leegte dan maar zelf invullen, waardoor het lijkt of er een constante piep aanwezig is.

Ook onderzoeker Englitz oppert dat een deel van de groep een variant van tinnitus zou kunnen hebben. “Door lang in hard en laag ­geluid te staan, beschadigt vooral het gedeelte van het oor dat dat lage geluid registreert. Dan kan het brein dat hiaat aan signalen daaruit zelf gaan inkleuren, waarop de persoon juist die lage toon constant hoort.” Een soort ‘brom-tinnitus’.

MacPherson heeft tegelijkertijd sterke twijfels en kanttekeningen bij zijn meest waarschijnlijke hypothese. De door hard geluid ­veroorzaakte tinnitus is van alle tijden, maar de bromtoon lijkt een recent fenomeen. En ­patiënten die lijden aan zowel tinnitus als de brom stellen dat deze twee totaal verschillend bij ze binnenkomen. Ook Van der Plas zegt vanachter zijn koffie dat zijn brom echt van buiten komt, terwijl hij tijdelijke oorsuis na een hard optreden van binnenuit ervaart.

Hij wil zelfs niets weten van de suggestie dat het iets als tinnitus kan zijn. “Dat leidt de aandacht af van onderzoek naar de echte oorzaken. En ik weet zeker dat het iets anders moet zijn. De bestuursleden van mijn stichting en ik horen de brom soms op dezelfde dagen harder worden. Maar we zitten verspreid over Nederland – Almere, Haarlem, Deventer en ik in Saaksum. Dan kán het dus niet in ons eigen hoofd zitten.” Voor dat laatste heeft ook biofysicus Englitz geen verklaring.

Bij Van der Plas begonnen de problemen op 22 november 2009. “Specifiek, ja. Bijna ­iedereen die er last van heeft, herinnert zich de precieze dag nog dat het begon. Zo intens is het.” Dan begint het zoeken. “Hoofdschakelaar in huis uitdoen, rondjes door de buurt ­fietsen, met de buren praten of zij ook last hebben.”

Al is dat praten voor veel mensen lastig, vervolgt hij. “Ze schamen zich. Zij horen iets waar de rest stilte ervaart. Ook in mijn dorp zullen sommigen me wel voor gekke gerritje hebben uitgemaakt.” Dat is een van de redenen dat zo weinig mensen ervan weten, stelt hij. “Gelukkig komt daar langzaam verandering in. Het helpt dat het RIVM onze problemen erkent.”

Cognitieve gedragstherapie

Niet elke instantie gaat er zo mee om. Gemeentelijke gezondheidsdiensten (ggd’s) handelen meldingen van een bromtoon vaak bot af, vindt Van der Plas. “Ze zeggen: ‘Het uitvoeren van een meting heeft geen zin, er wordt toch geen bron gevonden’. En bieden daarna cognitieve gedragstherapie aan om met de hinder te leren omgaan.” Dat steekt hem enorm. “Ze spreken je vaak belerend toe.”

Het helpt daarbij niet dat laagfrequent ­geluid niet verankerd is in milieuwetgeving. Voor hoger geluid bestaan duidelijke normen, gemeenten kunnen daarop handhaven. Voor het toegestane geluidsniveau van bromtonen bestaat geen bovengrens. Het is daarvoor nog te moeilijk te bepalen bij welke geluidssterkte die schadelijk zijn voor het lichaam.

Van der Plas heeft weinig hoop dat zijn klachten binnenkort verholpen kunnen worden. Hij zit er nu tien jaar chronisch vermoeid door in de ziektewet. Tussen zeven en acht uur gaat hij naar bed, om door de onvaste slaap net zo vermoeid weer wakker te worden. “Bij thuiskomst gisteren was de brom loeihard”, mailt hij een dag na het interview. “Dat is ­amper te overleven. Het feit dat geen enkele instantie dit oppakt, dat je er dus nergens mee heen kan, is zeer pijnlijk.”

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When it comes to the matter of UFOs, there’s one question that I get asked more than any other. Namely, “Have you ever seen a UFO?” Well, in the terms that most people think of UFOs, my answer to that question can only be a firm “No.” By that, I mean I have never seen a nuts and bolts-type object flying in the sky that baffled me. But, I did have one experience that some might suggest (and, indeed, have suggested) should cause me to change my stance. The story goes back more than a decade. Along with the late Rob Riggs (the author of several books, including In the Big Thicket), and several other friends and colleagues, on June 11, 2005 I headed out to Texas’ Big Thicket. It’s a large area of forestland that has a couple of weird legends attached to it: (a) the many and varied Bigfoot reports that have surfaced from the area; and (b) the Big Thicket’s resident “Ghost Lights,” as they have become known.

If, late at night, you have hung out in the Big Thicket’s Bragg Road (or Ghost Road and Ghost Light Road, as it’s known locally), you’ll know it’s very easy to mistake car headlights for something much stranger. But, that doesn’t take away the fact that there are far more than a few cases on record which stand the test of time. My very own late-night encounter in the area in 2005 was one of them. Here’s how I described the brief affair in my 2007 book, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter:

“We were on our way back to the vehicles to grab a bite to eat and some drinks when, as we entered a clearing in the trees, a basketball-sized bright light floated over us at a height of about 35 feet. It was moving from right to left, and sailed slowly, yet, purposefully on its journey. The ghost light was present for barely 10 seconds, but I managed to quickly capture the strange visitor on camera before it blinked out, never to return. Indeed, it all happened so fast that I almost convinced myself it had merely been a dream or the result of wishful thinking. But it was neither.  The photograph had clearly recorded the ghost light. And more importantly, several members of the group could be seen in the picture, too, as could the road and the surrounding trees. In other words, I had secured an almost perfectly framed image of one of the Big Thicket’s mysterious ghost lights.”

And that was about it, a brief view of…well…something. So, to return to the theme of this article (did I see a UFO?), it all very much depends on how you, me and anyone and everyone interested in the subject interprets the term “UFO.” What I saw in the Big Thicket in the summer of 2005 was certainly unidentified. I can’t say it was flying, though. It was more like it was slowly, gently floating. And I saw no evidence at all that it was an “object.” At least, not in the way the word is used by ufologists. Rather, it just appeared to be a light. I suppose, something along the lines of the equally-controversial matter of ball-lightning.

In view of all the above, some might say that I really did see a UFO. Others might even go so far as to claim I saw an alien spacecraft (but, if it was, it would have been a hell of a small one!). Me? All I can say for sure is that I saw a fairly significantly-sized ball of light – and for a very short time – that was briefly there and which was then suddenly gone. At a veryconsiderable stretch, I guess I could claim to have seen a UFO. But, I would be deceiving myself. All I can say for sure is that I saw an odd light.

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Solar storms have taken root as a modern boogeyman. Solar flares, or coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are fast approaching the top spot in many people’s minds as the probable cause for the collapse of society, the end-of-days, and the justification for buying that stupid shovel with the sharpened edge and the paracord wrapped around the handle (no, not the one they sell at Walmart, the nice one).  Maybe it’s due to all the technology we’re completely and hopelessly addicted to being the prime victims should a solar flare backhand us out of nowhere.

We’ve spent the last century stockpiling electronics and hurling satellites into orbit and putting increasingly more faith in those satellites and not a lot of time into insulating that network from the inevitable belch of solar radiation coming our way sometime soon. It would be pretty inconvenient, perhaps even society shattering, if that were all to get fried even for a day. But you know what else we’ve been stockpiling for a century? Bombs! We have so many bombs. If you tried to count how many bombs we have, you’d give up. Because it’s a lot.  And if you needed just one more push to get on the solar storm fear-hype-train, here it is. According to U.S. Navy documents from the Vietnam war, a solar storm in August of 1972 detonated 4,000 of the United States’ undersea mines. That’s right, solar storms are wielding heavy ordinance now.

In a recent paper published in the journal Space Weather, researchers dug up Navy records from the Vietnam War to asses the full extent of the solar storm’s impact. Here is a passage from the paper detailing the effect of the solar storm on Naval operations

The sudden detonation of a large number of U.S. Navy magnetic‐influence sea mines (designated as Destructors, DSTs) dropped into the coastal waters of North Vietnam only 3 months earlier…. Tucker…wrote that “… on 4 August (1972) TF‐77 aircraft reported some two dozen explosions in a minefield near Hon La over a thirty‐second time span…Ultimately the Navy concluded that the explosions had been caused by the magnetic perturbations of solar storms, the most intense in more than two decades

Further research suggested that the number was actually much higher:

Aerial inspections revealed additional evidence of detonations elsewhere along the coast. The wartime memoirs of a U.S. Navy Mineman‐Sailor, Chief Petty Officer Michael Gonzales, state that “During the first few weeks of August, a series of extremely strong solar flares caused a fluctuation of the magnetic fields, in and around, South East Asia. The resulting chain of events caused the premature detonation of over 4,000 magnetically sensitive DSTs (Destructor mines) … ”

The Destructor mine. These mines were launched into the ocean by aircraft, hence their aerodynamic features.

So, how did this even happen and what was the mechanism for the detonation? These undersea mines were equipped with magnetic sensors to trigger their detonation. When a solar flare hits Earth, it triggers a geomagnetic storm. the resulting fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetic field were sufficient enough to trigger the detonators.

And that’s not all. The August 1972 solar storm also damaged solar panels on satellites in space, caused a “mission-ending” power failure on one defense satellite, and caused Air Force sensors to register that a nuclear bomb had been detonated somewhere on Earth. I’m starting to connect nuclear false alarms and the old children’s story “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and I’m beginning to feel very anxious for some reason.

Due to this event, the Navy replaced the magnetic detonation systems on their undersea mines, and great strides have been made since then, in general, to insulate our technology against solar storms. But is it enough? We won’t know till we know, I guess. As a last note—because it wouldn’t be doom porn without bringing nukes up twice—this solar storm happened in 1972 and then the Navy stopped using those magnetic sensors, but we built a lot of nuclear warheads before 1972. I’m sure work has been done to stop a solar storm from triggering our nukes’ detonators (I have to be sure because otherwise I’ll never sleep again), but I think we, as a global society, should agree to begin every single news broadcast, from now on, with a reassurance that the sun can’t nuke us.

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Three pilots report Many UFOs Over Ireland, coast of Kerry Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 12, 2018
Location of sighting: Ireland
Source: 

• https://www.independent.ie/videos/irish-news/listen-the-moment-pilots-report-ufo-sightings-over-co-kerry-37519270.html

I am searching for some photos of these UFOs. They reported multiple UFOs, glowing flying twice the speed of sound one after another and that just incredible. We have to believe aircraft pilots...we put our families lives at risk when flying with them...trusting them to do their job well. They are trained pilots who have trained for everything...except this. Listen to this audio tape and just maybe it will open some eyes about the existence of aliens. 
Scott C. Waring

News states: 

At 6.47am on November 9, 2018, the pilot of a British Airways flight contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to report a mysterious object travelling at high speed, and to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing. She was told that no military exercises were taking place, and that there was nothing unusual showing up on radar.

The pilot responded: “OK. It was moving so fast.” The controller then asked: “Alongside you?” She described how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”. She said it was “a very bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed”. The pilot of a Virgin Airlines Boeing 747 then joined the conversation and said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory”. Shannon ATC asked if the pilots knew which direction the objects were heading.

The Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “11 o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right”, that then climbed away at speed. The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the sighting.

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Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth

Multiple Aircrafts Report UFO Sighting Over Ireland

Last Friday, the Irish Aviation Authority launched an investigation into the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) by a number of aircraft over the southwest coast of Ireland.

At around 6.47 a.m. on 9 November, the pilot of a British Airways flight, Speedbird94, contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask whether military exercises were taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing. Shannon ATC then asked if the pilots knew in which direction the objects were moving.

Another pilot said the speed of the object was astronomical, it was like Mach 2, or twice as fast as the sound.

In a statement, the agency said the following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of unusual air activity, the IAA submitted a report.

“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”

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HE RECORDED AN IMPRESSIVE UFO SIGHTING DURING A LIVE BROADCAST IN MEXICO

A video filmed this October 28 in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, around 4:23 am, caused a great debate on social networks.

The author of the video, Esteban Zavala, claims to have shared live on Instagram the strange event that was “happening”.

“I was driving back to San Diego, California, with my grandmother. We were having a normal conversation when suddenly she stays silent and starts pointing to the sky. I looked and there were five of these things about the houses and the beach.

I parked and immediately began to broadcast it live on Instagram, hence its quality, to save me future speculations on video editing, “writes Zavala in the description of the video posted on YouTube.

In the comments, the cybernauts express their astonishment before huge flying saucers that seem to have a row of white lights covering their side.

HERE IS THE ORIGINAL VIDEO:

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Einstein Reveals The Existence Of Aliens On Earth In This Document Written With Oppenheimer

Jay Jonson

This ice type was only discovered occurring naturally in March, trapped inside diamonds deep underground, and this latest study looks in detail at how exactly it takes shape – apparently in a way that's completely different to how water usually freezes into ice.

Based on a mathematical model devised by researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, there's a certain pressure threshold across which Ice VII will spread with lightning speed. This process of near-instantaneous transformation is known as homogeneous nucleation.

"This is a regime where the limits of our physical understanding are being tested," says one of the team, physicist Alex Chernov.

Scientists had already worked out that Ice VII could form under high temperatures coupled with intense pressure – around 100,000 times greater than normal atmospheric pressure – but experiments had shown it forming both homogeneously (almost all at once) and heterogeneously (from the surface inwards).

Up until now, that had physicists scratching their heads. This new research suggests a specific tipping point is the reason for the variations – as well as a difference in temperature between the liquid water and the ice crystals being formed.

These types of ice, or ice phases, also have different atomic structures in their crystals, which have a crucial impact on how the liquid water turns into solid ice. The researchers were able to determine that Ice VII initially forms in molecule clusters before spreading in nanoseconds across a body of water.

That's partly because there's no layer of heat at the point of nucleation – the point where the liquid turns solid – as there would be in ice that's freezing at normal pressures.

Molecular ordering of Ice VII

(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"There is no need for the slow process of latent heat removal and the interface velocity is controlled only by very fast molecular ordering at the interface," Chernov explains.

Now that we have a mathematical model that fits the experimental data, we can apply it in all kinds of other areas of research. The existence of Ice VII itself was theorised and created in a lab first before being found packed away in diamonds.

The new explanation of how Ice VII forms at a fundamental, molecular level could have implications for the study of memory storage, material synthesis, and much more, according to the team behind the new model.

It could also prove prove useful in our hunt for life on other planets. The existence of water is used as a key indicator of whether life can exist on planets other than Earth, but if that water is pressurised enough to get zapped into Ice VII, then there might not be any life left to find.

"Water on these ocean worlds, under bombardment from other planetary bodies such as meteors or comets, undergoes intense changes for which life might not survive," senior author and materials chemist Jonathan Belof told Physics Central.

It's another clue for working out if an icy planet might be habitable, as well as just a fantastically cool example of how the boundaries of physics keep getting pushed.

• The research has been published in Physical Review Letters.

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For The First Time, Scientists Have Captured 'Alien Ice' Crystallising on Earth

PETER DOCKRILL

Not all ice is the same. In distant realms far beyond this world's Slurpees, melting glaciers, and the Ice Bucket Challenge, water hardens into a solid state in strange ways that just aren't possible here on Planet Earth.

Now, for the first time, scientists have managed to catch one of these alien, otherworldly ices in the act as it crystallises – recording water freezing into a structure called Ice VII (aka 'ice seven') under extreme, controlled conditions in the lab.

"These experiments with water are the first of their kind, allowing us to witness a fundamental disorder-to-order transition in one of the most abundant molecules in the Universe," says geophysicist Arianna Gleason from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

But wait – if you're wondering what happened to Ices I through to VI already, you've got another thing coming. There are actually around 20 known crystalline phases of ice, and only two of them – hexagonal ice and cubic ice – occur naturally on Earth.

Hexagonal ice, also known as Ice Ih (ice one h), is the structure of pretty much all the frozen water humans ever come into contact with on Earth's surface, while cubic ice (Ice Ic, or ice one c) is thought to sometimes form in our planet's upper atmosphere.

Ice VII. Credit: Arianna Gleason

All the other kinds of ice would only occur in conditions involving extreme temperatures or pressures not found here on Earth. Sometimes scientists can replicate those parameters in the lab and artificially create foreign ice structures, while at other times they only exist in simulations, being too difficult to actually synthesise.

In the case of Ice VII, this incredibly dense form is thought to naturally occur when icy planetary bodies collide in space, bringing an insane amount of pressure to bear on any liquid water molecules caught in the squeeze.

To recreate the intensity of such a hypothetical clash, Gleason's team fired a laser at a layer of diamond adjacent to a small cell containing liquid water.

Doing so vaporised the diamond and generated an intense shock wave, compressing the water to a pressure some 50,000 times greater than the Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level and triggering the phase change from liquid to solid.

At the exact same instant, pulses from a strobing X-ray laser imaged the water as it underwent its transformation, providing the first record of Ice VII crystallising on Earth.

"It really is like a tiny rocket effect," Gleason told Sarah Lewin at Space.com.

"We discovered that we can transform the liquid into a solid just by moving the shock wave through. And during that tiny, short amount of time – it really is only a few nanoseconds, that's a billionth of a second – we probe with these ultrafast and brilliant X-ray pulses."

According to the team, this kind of laser setup could help scientists to capture some of the other mysterious ice structures at the moment of crystallisation – and the things we can learn from studying these molecular transitions aren't purely theoretical.

With Ice VII, for instance, knowing how ice crystals form on icy moons and comets could help us prepare for future space exploration to destinations like Jupiter's moon Europa, and help us understand why impact craters form the way they do on battered off-world landscapes.

According to planetary scientist Sarah Stewart from the University of California, Davis, who wasn't involved with the study, there's no shortage of demand for these kinds of insights.

"Looking at the fundamental materials that are everywhere in the Solar System to understand what happens under dynamic pressure," she told Space.com, "as a materials scientist, you eat this up."

• The findings are reported in Physical Review Letters.

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Duikers ontdekken bijzondere 'zeeworm' van duizenden organismen - HLN.be

Voor de kust van het Nieuws-Zeelandse White Island hebben duikers een gigantische zeeworm kunnen filmen. Het exemplaar van meer dan 8 meter lang bestaat uit duizenden kleine organismen en komt vooral voor in warme wateren. 

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Piloten opgeschrikt boven Ierland: “Zeer helder licht en razendsnel vliegend object” - HLN.be

Bron: AD.nl

Het incident gebeurde afgelopen vrijdag, tijdens een vlucht van het Canadese Montreal naar Londen, aldus nieuwszender BBC. 

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Harvard-experts over ‘vliegende sigaar’: “Wat als dit sonde van aliens is?”

De piloot vroeg omstreeks zeven uur ’s ochtends de verkeersleiding van het vliegveld Shannon of er een militaire oefening gaande was, nadat hij een voorwerp nabij had gespot dat zich “razendsnel verplaatste”. Dat bleek niet het geval.
Vervolgens meldde de piloot een “zeer helder licht” te zien en een voorwerp dat aan de linkerkant van zijn vliegtuig vloog en snel naar het noorden verdween.

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“Astronomische snelheid”

Een andere piloot zegt “twee felle lichten” te hebben gezien, die met hoge snelheid omhoog vlogen. Hij spreekt van iets met een “astronomische snelheid, bijna twee keer dat van het geluid”.

De piloot van een Virgin-toestel suggereert dat het mogelijk een meteoriet was die de atmosfeer binnenkwam. Volgens de man volgden meerdere objecten dezelfde baan.

De Ierse luchtvaartautoriteiten nemen de meldingen serieus, maar heeft nog geen verklaring. “De IAA heeft een rapport ingediend, nadat een aantal vliegtuigen melding heeft gemaakt van ongewone luchtactiviteit”.

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‘Oumuamua, that Hawaiian-named, cigar-shaped comet / asteroid / spaceship / planet fragment / something else and the controversy surrounding what exactly it is keeps getting more heated … now with personal attacks, rebuttals and more. Less than a week after many media sites reported that Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard’s astronomy department, said in a letter in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that ‘Oumuamua could be a spaceship or a “lightsail of artificial origin “from an alien civilization, his and his co-author’s intelligence and opinions were called into question by scholars in numerous fields.

llightsail

“Like most scientists, I would love there to be convincing evidence of alien life, but this isn’t it. It has already been shown that its observed characteristics are consistent with a comet-like body ejected from another star system. “And some of the arguments in this study are based on numbers with large uncertainties.”
— Dr. Alan Fitzsimmons, Queens University Belfast.

And …

“The thing you have to understand is: scientists are perfectly happy to publish an outlandish idea if it has even the tiniest *sliver* of a chance of not being wrong. But until every other possibility has been exhausted dozen times over, even the authors probably don’t believe it.”
— Astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack, North Carolina State

The Daily Galaxy contacted Dr. Loeb and he clarified the contents of the letter. Here are portions of his response:

“I was very surprised about the reaction of the media to our paper … It is exciting to live at a time when we have the scientific technology to search for evidence of alien civilizations. The evidence about `Oumuamua is not conclusive but interesting. I will be truly excited once we have conclusive evidence … The excess acceleration of `Oumuamua was detected at multiple times, ruling out an impulsive kick due to a break up of the object. The only other explanation that comes to mind is the extra force exerted on `Oumuamua by sunlight. In order for it to be effective, `Oumuamua needs to be less than a millimeter in thickness, like a sail. This led us to suggest that it may

be a light-sail produced by an alien civilization. I welcome other proposals, but I cannot think of another explanation for the peculiar acceleration of `Oumuamua.”

‘Oumuamua’s path through the solar system

Loeb’s co-author, Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, also responded. Here are portions of his answer/defense:

“It’s true that the Harvard paper suggesting that this object might be engineered, rather than simply the ten millionth rock from the Sun, has certainly provoked a lot of interest by the public. But one should keep in mind that the idea of alien company has perennially been interesting to the public … One-third of the public seems to think that we really are being visited by extraterrestrial tourists … It’s obviously far less interesting to suggest that Oumuamua might be no more than an insensible, random hunk of ice.”

Loeb is an adviser to Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative working to send a fleet of tiny laser-powered lightsails to the nearest star system. Is his study about ‘Oumuamua possibly just a justification for this project? Is his quest to find alien life blinding him to scientific principles? What does Harvard think about all of this attention from the UFO world?

One thing is for certain … the controversy circling ‘Oumuamua is far from over.

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Oh, Area 51, don’t ever change. America’s spookiest Air Force facility has a firm hold on the world’s imagination and continues to spark speculation conspiracy theories about UFOs and secretive weapons and aircraft. The latest Area 51 weirdness was reported this week by Tyler Rogoway at aviation blog The Drive and seems to suggest the classified operations show no signs of stopping in the skies above Groom Lake.

What exactly goes on in the desert?

Despite the fact that nearly all of this testing is highly classified, there is only so much the Air Force can keep a secret due to the fact that much of the armed service’s flight data remains open to the public. Aviation watchdogs poring over this data noticed a strange flight which took place on September 20th earlier this year, flying with no callsign – the first suggestion that something strange was going down. Even stranger? The flight flew a repeated loop directly over the secretive Area 51 facility in the middle of the night. After four hours, the aircraft headed southwest before disappearing.

The aircraft has been identified as a Boeing NKC-135 Stratotanker, usually used for in-flight refueling operations. This particular aircraft, identified with the serial 61-0320, is a highly modified tanker which has been particularly busy in 2018 flying missions out of Area 51’s host facility, Edwards Air Force Base.

Edwards Air Force Base is home to the 412th Test Wing which conducts testing on new Air Force technologies.

The flight’s entire path can be seen here. Note that on this flight data website, a glitch caused two separate flights to be combined into one. That other flight, ten hours later, saw the same aircraft fly over desolate, unpopulated areas in the desert before making a similar loop over the ocean west of Vandenberg Air Force base. That second flight featured the appropriately spooky callsign “GHOST 57.”

In all likelihood, this tanker was refueling highly classified and experimental aircraft flying out of Edwards – but that makes it no less mysterious and fascinating. Then again, why spend so much time in the air directly above Area 51? That airspace is usually restricted and test flights rarely enter. What was being tested in the remote Nevada desert?

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Glowing UFO Recorded Outside House On Harsh Windy Day, Argentina, Nov 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 8, 2018
Location of sighting: Santa Cruz, Argentina

This UFO was caught outside a home in Argentina during a wind storm and it may be the very cause of the weather being so harsh that day. UFOs are known for causing wind, lightning, thunder, hail and even tornadoes. Why is still unknown, but UFOs have been recorded during such events as if it was fun for them. During lightning storms...like the one back at Norte Dame Stadium and caused the game to halt for a while...small glowing firefly UFOs were seen zooming around on camera. Very rare and amazing video here. 
Scott C. Waring

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White Oval UFO Seen Over Forested Area Of Quebec, Canada ( November 10, 2018 ), VIDEO, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 10, 2018
Location of sighting: Forest of Quebec, Canada
Source: MUFON #96275

This UFO was caught hovering over a forest area of Quebec a few days ago. The person noticed it while driving and pulled over in time to catch it for a few more seconds. The objects shape closely resembles that of the Star Trek Voyager ship from the TV show. This UFO is white so is easily confused with a cloud, but its obvious that the object is a smooth hard white surface. The ship appears uneven because it was not made, but grown...bioengineering makes crafts for you, they grow and learn. This looks like just such a craft. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states: 

I was a trucker, I was coming back from Le Havre St-Pierre, at the exit of Mingan Point, my attention was attracted by an object in the sky, the more I approached more believed a kite that would have been on the beach, but it was not that! absolutely not. There was no wire, no noise, no smoking, it was almost moving, but it was almost stationary. I saw little wings and it was as big as a hot air balloon. I filmed some time, I do not know why I went my way? I recognized the truck that was last to mine, I spoke to the driver Richard, he also told me "but what was it? He was not caught taking a picture. He claims that it is not a known object. 

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Huge Interstellar Alien Craft Caught Near Orion Nebula M42

It seems as November is the month to spot interstellar alien craft near the Orion Nebula M42.

The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion.

M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth.

On November 7, 2018 Moonshot23 spotted a huge cigar-shaped UFO near the Orion Nebula M42 coming across his CMP screen as he was stacking images in his nebulosity program. “The three second between shots does stretch the object, I tested it out”, he said.

Last year on November 29, 2017 a sky-watcher from North Carolina was out collecting data on M42 Orion Nebula.

As he still was fine focusing his 8 in astrograph / Newtonian Telescope a giant cigar-shaped UFO appeared on his laptop screen which he captured in a single 30.2 second frame.

Just as he thought the thrill was over several other objects appeared on the laptop screen which he also captured in a 5 frame sequence at 30.2 second frames and it clearly shows the movement of the objects at the bottom of the frames.

Below the footage of the huge cigar-shaped UFO captured on November 7, 2018.

  

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Disc Shaped UFO Seen In The Skies Above Scotland

A strange disc-shaped object has been observed in the skies above Scotland, creating speculation that aliens operated the craft.

A regular person in Scotland spotted the black UFO, which sparked a debate as to whether it was evidence of extraterrestrial activity.

The video shows a cigar-shaped object hovering among the clouds and swopping up and down.

The footage was taken in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland and the one who took the video sent it to UFO investigation organization MUFON.

MUFON then uploaded the video to its YouTube page, leaving many viewers wondering whether it was real or not.

The person behind the video described the object as puck-shaped, an edged disc. He observed it moving from his left to right, and it looked like a cigar as it moved horizontally.

He further revealed that there were clouds above and below the mysterious object. When viewed from underneath, he clearly saw it was circular.

Many viewers think the video shows a real alien activity. Some others assume that the video has undergone MUFON authenticity check before posting, so it must be real.

A few others, meanwhile, were not so convinced. They were surprised MUFON put such video online.

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Daytime UFO over Gothenburg, Sweden

Check out this interesting footage of an unidentified flying object over Gothenburg, Sweden. Filmed earlier this month (November 2018).

Witness report: 

A strange flying object caught in the sky of Gothenburg.Huge like a building,moving and changing in shape

Author (Amirreza M @ Youtube)

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I was just a kid when I was introduced to the menacing and macabre world of the enigmatic Men in Black, those dark-suited ghouls that terrorize UFO witnesses and researchers alike. I eagerly began reading the disturbing-yet-compelling pages of John Keel’s now-classic title, The Mothman Prophecies, which told of distinctly strange goings-on at Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the mid-to-late 1960s. Come to think of it, “strange goings-on” may not be the correct terminology to use. Outright paranormal foulness and malignancy would be far more apt, methinks. A fiery-eyed winged-thing, surreal reports of contact with enigmatic alien entities on lonely, moonlit, tree-shrouded roads, occult phenomena plaguing the entire town by the dead of night, and lives manipulated and transformed in ways near-unimaginable were the order of the day. And then there was the brooding, predatory, and repeated manifestations of the dreaded MIB who, I got the distinct impression, were pulling the supernatural strings of just about all those myriad entities and unspeakable things that had chosen Point Pleasant as their targets.

For reasons I have never truly been able to fathom, from that very day onward I became particularly fascinated by the actions of the Men in Black, their silencing of UFO witnesses, their near-ethereal presence in our world, and, of course, their overwhelming and mysterious elusiveness. Who, or more likely what, were they? From where did they originate? What did they want of us? Why were they so deeply intent on silencing Flying Saucer-seekers? The further and deeper I dug into the subject, the more I found myself attempting to penetrate the veil of unsettling darkness and hostility that seemed to forever surround the MIB. In the immediate years that followed my reading of John Keel’s legendary study of Mothman, I sought out just about as many works on the MIB as was conceivably possible. And, at the absolute top of my list – in undeniably joint first-place – were Gray Barker’s 1956 title They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers and a small and overwhelmingly bizarre book titled Flying Saucers and the Three Men. The latter was penned in 1962 by a curious and undeniably paranoid character named Albert Bender, without who there simply would be no MIB puzzle. Period.

Barker, who had a flair for all-things dramatic, was the perfect person to address the MIB mystery – even though a self-admitted combination of embellishment, parable and exaggeration was his typical and controversial style. But, Barker would never have been in a position to do much of an MIB nature had it not been for the eccentric and occult-obsessed Bender, who, in 1953, was allegedly silenced by a trio of black-garbed, blazing-eyed entities from some strange netherworld after getting too close to the truth about Flying Saucers.

As time went on I also learned, unfortunately, that Barker would tell a tale purely for for effect. He was also someone who was willing to hoax, to fabricate, and to outright lie in the name of the M.I.B. In other words, reading Barker’s works requires one to be on one’s guard all of the time. His writings do contain facts, but there is a hell of a lot of fiction and lying there, too. All of that just has to have a bearing on the early days of M.I.B. lore and legend. Far less Mulder and Scully, and far more H.P. Lovecraft meets Devil Girl from Mars meets Bram Stoker, Flying Saucers and the Three Men presented the MIB not as government agents of the Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones variety, but as harshly cold and emotionless aliens who seemed to be as familiar with matters occult and nightmarish as they were with UFOs and faraway, fantastic worlds.

Appearing as well-dressed, pale-faced corpses, the terrible trio intimidated and terrified the obsessive-compulsive Bender to the point of near physical and emotional collapse. No wonder he quit Ufology and moved onto other things, such as focusing on the works of Austrian composer, Max Steiner, who was responsible for the soundtracks to the original of King Kongand Gone with the Wind. Indeed, in 1965, Bender established the Max Steiner Music Society, and left his old life firmly in the past. As for Barker, in 1984 it was ill-health, rather than the black-garbed ones, that took him before he reached sixty. Keel continued on for a quarter of a century after Barker, still caught up in – yet never, ever quite resolving – the conundrum of the three shadowy men from beyond the veil.

Of course, as my teens became my twenties, and then my thirties, my views on the MIB phenomenon changed, in some ways subtly, but in other ways far less so. But there was one thing that never did alter: My earnest wish to solve the puzzle of the true nature, origin and intent of the Men in Black. Since those days of my childhood, I have pursued the MIB on a scale that has easily far exceeded my quests for the truth about Bigfoot, the Chupacabras, and Roswell combined. My first book, A Covert Agenda, which was published in 1997, detailed a number of curious MIB-style encounters in the U.K. from the 1950s onward. My 2003 title, Strange Secrets, included a chapter on the little-known issue of government files on the Men in Black. Three years later, I penned On the Trail of the Saucer Spies, which was a full-length study of the secret surveillance of certain elements of the UFO research community by MIB-type characters in government. Then, in 2011, The Real Men in Black hit the bookshelves. This latter title from me specifically addressed the paranormal side of the MIB phenomenon. And, in that same year, I wrote a new foreword to an updated and expanded edition of Gray Barker’s 1983 book: M.I.B.: The Secret Terror among Us. Since then, I’ve written Men in Black, Women in Black, and The Black Diary. As well as a book on the ultimate Man in Black, the Slenderman. It has been a curious journey, to say the least…

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Ancient tombs found in Egypt? Old news. Mummies in the tombs? Old news. Mummified cats? Not as common, but still old news. Mummified scarab beetles? Now there’s something you don’t hear about very often. Throw in a sealed door that appears to never have been opened and you’ve got the makings of a great discovery in the Saqqara necropolis.

“The (mummified) scarab is something really unique. It is something really a bit rare. A couple of days ago, when we discovered those coffins, they were sealed coffins with drawings of scarabs. I never heard about them before.”

That explains the excited announcement last week by Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, of the discovery of seven tombs – three from the New Kingdom and four from the Old Kingdom – containing a wide variety of animal sarcophagi and wooden statues. The tombs were discovered in a partially excavated area on the edge of the pyramid complex dedicated to the mysterious King Userkaf, the founder of the Fifth Dynasty whose parents and queen are unknown. One of the tombs belonged to Khufu-Imhat, the overseer of the royal buildings in the royal palace. Another of the 4,500-year-old tombs has its door still sealed, meaning it may have escaped looting by grave-robbers. Mohamed Youssef, director of the Saqqara area says it will be opened soon.

Live (or at least it once was ) scarab beetle

However, the center of interest is the animal mummies, especially the scarabs – large dung beetles that were revered in ancient Egypt. (Large set of photos here.) Two of the mummified scarabs were found wrapped in linen and in very good condition inside a limestone sarcophagus with a decorated lid. More were found in a smaller sarcophagus. Mummified scarabs are extremely rare finds and these are not only the first in this area but the first anywhere that date back to the Fifth Dynasty.

Another tomb contained dozens of cat mummies, gold-covered statues of cats and a bronze statue dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet, who was apparently the world’s first cat lady. In addition to the feline collection, there were mummified crocodiles in crocodile sarcophagi, crocodile statues and painted wooden statues of cobras. And of course, the usual burial objects such as amulets, canopic jars and papyri baskets. The mummified cats could have been pets of the tomb owner but more likely they, the other animals and especially the scarabs were gifts for the gods.

Bastet

How many more tombs may have had unusual contents like these but were looted or destroyed? We’ll probably never know. However, it’s good that the Council of Antiquities has recognized their value – even if it’s just to attract tourists with money – and is doing its best to preserve these and future discoveries.

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UFO spotted by multiple pilots prompts investigation

Pilots saw bright lights "moving so fast" over Ireland Friday. They're not calling the sight aliens, but authorities are taking a closer look.

Space junk could explain what pilots saw over Ireland last week.

NASA/P.Spurny/Astronomical Institute

Pilots flying over Ireland on Friday reported seeing an unidentified flying object, or possibly objects, spurring an investigation into the UFO (or UFOs) by the Irish Aviation Authority.

The sighting was recorded over radio traffic between air traffic control in Shannon, Ireland, and multiple pilots. At 6:47 a.m. UTC, one British Airways pilot can be heard asking controllers if there were any military exercises taking place in the area. Air traffic control responds that no such exercises are visible on radar.

"It was moving so fast," the pilot says. "It [came] up on our left hand side and then rapidly veered to the north. We saw a bright light and then it just disappeared at a very high speed."

The pilot explains the team didn't fear the object was on a "collision course," but was just wondering what it could be.

At that point another pilot cuts in, saying his Virgin Airlines 747 also had encountered multiple meteors or some other sort of objects "making some kind of reentry."

"Appeared to be multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory," the pilot says. "They were very bright where we were."

The Irish Aviation Authority later told local media the reports were being investigated.

Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who also makes a habit of tracking space launches and the many bits of space junk that regularly burn up in the atmosphere, tweeted that he wasn't aware of any satellites known to be reentering at that time.  

But as McDowell himself has pointed out in the past, there are literally thousands of objects whipping around Earth. It's possible any number of them could have reentered the atmosphere and been responsible for what the pilots spotted.

Or, as one of the pilots suspected, it could have been a small meteor burning up in the atmosphere. Four major meteor showers are currently active, according the the American Meteor Society, including the Taurids, which are know to produce bright fireballs in the sky.

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Aliens? Mysterious UFO spotted by three pilots under investigation amid BIZARRE radar data

A MYSTERIOUS bright light spotted by three separate pilots has sparked an investigation from the Irish Aviation Authority - after an initial report could not explain the UFO sighting.

UFO investigation launched by Irish aviation officials after pilots flying BA and Virgin Airlines jets report seeing mysterious bright lights 'moving fast' above the country

• BA pilot on flight from Canada to London reported 'very bright light' over Ireland
• She said the object came up on the left side before it 'veered to the north'
• Pilot of Virgin Airlines jet saw 'multiple objects following same sort of trajectory'
• Irish Aviation Authority is investigating the UFO sightings after filing a report

By JULIAN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE

A UFO investigation is under way in Ireland after pilots flying BA and Virgin Airlines jets reported seeing mysterious bright lights as they crossed the country.

The Irish Aviation Authority launched the probe after sightings on November 9 at around 7.40am.

The pilot of British Airways flight BA94 from Montreal to London contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control after seeing the object on the left-hand side of her Boeing 787.

A UFO investigation is underway in Ireland after pilots flying BA and Virgin Airlines jets reported seeing mysterious bright lights as they crossed the country (stock image of a Boeing 787)

She asked whether military exercises were taking place, according to Airlive.

Air traffic control reportedly said nothing was showing on their radar systems, to which the unnamed pilot replied: 'OK. It was moving so fast.'

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She added that after approaching on the left side, it 'rapidly veered to the north'. She described it as a 'very bright light' that 'disappeared at very high speed'.

The pilot of Virgin Airlines flight VS76 from Orlando to Manchester then reported seeing a similar thing, the website reports.

The pilot of Virgin Airlines flight VS76 from Orlando to Manchester then reported seeing a similar thing, the website reports

He described it as a 'meteor or another object making some kind of re-entry' and said it was 'multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory – very bright from where we were.'

Both planes were flying in high level airspace - an altitude from between 28,500ft and 42,000ft.

Airlive says a third pilot also saw the bizarre lights and that the Irish Aviation Authority has filed a report with the sightings due to be 'investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process'. 

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Alien news: UFO sighting over Britain triggers ALIEN alert

A UFO has been spotted in British skies – triggering both puzzlement and a glut of online speculation aliens have been visiting Kent.

The Most Reputable UFO Blogs & Resources on The Internet

Any UFO enthusiast knows there’s no shortage of websites and UFO blogs dedicated to the search for alien life. But navigating through hoax sites and click-bait can be tiresome.

There’s also the issue of running into sites where the writers and researchers believe so strongly that every single thing moving in the sky must be aliens.

So where do you go for good unbiased information?

When I do research for my articles, I really put effort into finding reputable sources. Credibility is key. Here’s a list of the top sites I’ve found which provide the most reputable research on UFOs and aliens.

1. The Mutual UFO Network – MUFON

MUFON is by far one of the most reputable sites you can find. They have a global network of trained investigators who research UFO sightings and alien abduction reports around the world.

The MUFON organization has been around since 1969 and takes pride in applying the scientific method to their research.

MUFON approaches every report with an eye towards proving separating the hoaxes & misidentifications from the true mysteries.

If MUFON concludes that a sighting is unexplained, you can be confident they’ve honestly researched it to arrive at that conclusion.

2. The National UFO Reporting Center

Also known as NUFORC, The National UFO Reporting Center keeps a large database of UFO sighting reports. The reports are similar to the database kept on MUFON.

NUFORC was founded in 1974 and actually has a 24/7 hotline for reports.

While they don’t have investigators going out into the field to research reports, their report database is a treasure trove for those looking to find sightings similar to their own or to find multiple reports which corroborate a single event.

3. The UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania

For a more local twist, the UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania provides a real world take on unexplained phenomena.

They don’t post often, and while much of their information includes paranormal topics outside the realm of extraterrestrial life, it’s well-thought out and unbiased.

4. Weird News Section: Express.co.uk

When I first found out that Express had a ton of UFO articles, I was skeptical. Their headlines are total clickbait and they get a bad rap for that in the news world.

But, if you actually delve into the article and read beyond the headline, you’ll actually find a lot of down to earth reporting.

They’re not afraid to say when there’s a legitimate explanation about a particular sighting, though the headline may not lead you to believe that.

5. Huffpost UFO Section

The Huffington Post is a mainstream news outlet, so you know when they post a UFO story, it’s been vetted.

The section is relatively quiet, as a large agency such as Huffpost disqualifies a lot of stories if they can’t get good evidence and confirmation.

One of the nice things is that if you see a UFO sighting on this site, you can be certain people are talking about it all around the world.

6. Black Diamond Social Club

Also known as BDSC by their readers, Black Diamond Social Club is a site with varied topics.

While it’s mostly a men’s magazine, it has an impressive paranormal section that includes articles about UFOs and conspiracy theories.

BDSC is another one of those sites that spends a lot of time researching and weeding out fakes before they put their stamp of approval on it.

What UFO Blogs Do You Read?

I’m always looking for good quality research points. What do you read?

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TR3B Aircraft: The USA’s Most Secret Plane or Alien Spacecraft? Or Both?

With the exception of the flying disc, the triangular-shaped craft is one of the most common UFO shapes seen in the sky. Some believe it’s an alien spacecraft or a super-secret US Military plane known as the TR3B Astra, TR-3 Black Manta, or just TR3B for short.

The triangle UFO gained mainstream headlines in 1989. That year, a wave of sightings over Belgium began that lasted until 1992. The sightings included dozens of credible witnesses including law enforcement personnel.

Mainstream news outlets covered the story, which is odd even today. Even primetime documentary shows such as Unsolved Mysteries got in on the action.

The Belgian UFO Wave wasn’t the end of the triangle UFO. It seemed that the triangle TR3B was showing up everywhere.

It appeared during the Phoenix Lights incident in 1997 and in various other sightings on record from 2000 through 2018.

Is the Triangle UFO TR3B an Alien Spaceship?

If you’ve read any of my articles before, you already kinda know my answer to this one. We simply don’t know.

What we do know is these sightings have ranged all over Europe and the USA for over 30 years.

The range and timelines of these sightings provide some important distinctions. It’s fair to say these sightings may be of different objects and the entire thing is unlikely to be some massive hoax.

While a sighting here and there might be able to be proven fake, there are some that can’t be simply dismissed.

That being said, conclusive evidence the triangle UFOs are manufactured and controlled by aliens isn’t available either.

TR-3B: A US Military Plane that Officially Doesn’t Exist

The link between UFO sightings and top-secret military aircraft goes hand in hand. The triangle UFOs may actually be a surveillance aircraft built by the US military called the TR-3 Black Manta, or TR-3B for short (also knows as the TR3B Astra).

Officially, the TR-3B doesn’t exist. What’s interesting though, is there’s actually a 2004 patent for a triangular spacecraft. The image from the patent application looks almost exactly like photos taken of the TR3B spacecraft by sighting witnesses.

Sources claim the TR-3 Blank Manta is a nuclear-powered plane developed under the Aurora program. The name is pretty darn cool too.

The plane makes use of stealth and propulsion technology that can be traced back to the 1980’s. These technologies, however, weren’t made public knowledge.

Allegedly, the craft employs a propulsion system based on a fast-spinning mercury-based plasma. While some call it anti-gravity, it sounds more like the way modern gyroscopes can offset weight by maintaining a large angular momentum.

Final Thoughts on the TR3B Astra

In the world of UFOlogy, experimental aircraft are UFOs to the typical observer. The TR3B Astra may be a perfect example of this phenomena.

It’s impossible, however, to claim that all sightings of triangular UFOs going back to the 1980’s can be attributed to a single secret aircraft. Is it possible that counterparts in Europe may have been working on the same technology as the US? That would certainly explain the Belgian Wave of sightings that started it all.

But the scariest possibility isn’t aliens. It’s that our enemies may have leapfrogged us in technology and now fly over our skies uninhibited.

We must also consider that, perhaps, there may also be an extraterrestrial component. Even if the TR-3B is man-made, there are allegations that it contains reverse-engineered alien technology.

Such is the case with top-secret black budget projects. The secrecy surrounding the TR3B creates a flash pan for conspiracy theorists. It also happens to be the military’s best weapon for keeping them secret.

Sightings of the TR3B continue to this very day, and there’s no sign of it going away anytime in the near future.

Sources and additional reading:

Military.com: TR-3B Anti-Gravity Spacecrafts

CNN’s iReport: TR3B Or The USAs Most Secret Plane

Wikipedia: Black Triangle (UFO)

Outer Places: Revisiting the Belgian UFO Wave of 1989/1990

Google Patent Search: Triangular Spacecraft

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Cigar Shaped Space Ships: A Good Design or Not?

This past October, a cigar shaped object was been discovered hurdling through our solar system. Most likely an asteroid, the object is about 10 times as long as it is wide. It’s certainly an odd shape for an asteroid. Named “Oumuamua”, the object appears to have originated from far away outside our solar system and appears to be just passing through.

A Cigar Shaped Alien Ship?

While Oumuamua is almost certainly an asteroid, there are some who believe it could possibly be an alien ship. Even prominent mainstream scientists such as Stephen Hawking admit the possibility cannot be ruled out just yet. But if it was an alien ship, does the cigar shape even make sense? Is there any scientific theories or data that indicate a cigar-shaped craft would be the best geometry for an interstellar ship?

The elongated cigar shape has long been a staple of UFO sightings. Only a handful of more common geometries exist in the realm of ufology. But does the geometry meet the sniff test for space travel?

The Cigar Shape We Already Use

No, I’m not talking about the Goodyear Blimp. I’m talking about modern day rockets. The human race has relied on cigar shaped rockets for our meager space travel endeavors for decades. Sure, the rockets don’t remain in that shape once they exist the earth’s atmosphere, but they are cigar shaped nonetheless.

We design our rockets for low drag. In deep space, there is no atmosphere in space to create drag. A spacecraft might still, however, be slowed down by friction from cosmic dust and other particles. The oblong cigar-shape helps to minimize this. For especially long journeys lasting maybe for years or even decades, that lower friction could add up to significant savings.

Oblong Shape for Protection

Another benefit of the cigar shaped craft is protection from space debris. It’s critical that a craft uses as little mass as possible because it takes a lot to move mass over great distances. Low mass could mean a flimsy ship and nobody wants to be on one of those hurdling through space at Mach 30.

Assuming a cigar-shaped space vessel is moving through space like an arrow, engineers could place protective armor at the nose for protection while going lighter on the sides. Modern-day airplanes already use this idea in their nose construction.

What About Warp Speeds?

This is where it gets a bit complicated. The benefits of the cigar shaped spaceship begin to fade once we break past light speed. Since it’s impossible for anything to physically move faster than the speed of light, the only way for a warp engine to work is by bending the fabric of space itself. It would require a tremendous amount of energy.

A warp drive might be able to use an intense artificial gravity field to shrink the space in front of the ship while expanding the space behind it. The ship itself wouldn’t really move, but space would move around it. It would travel in its own little ‘gravity bubble’. In such a scenario, a cigar or oblong shape would have little benefit. In fact, the ship could be any shape imaginable with no detriment.

It’s safe to say that a cigar shaped spaceship would only be beneficial for space travel at sub-light speeds.

Manned vs. Unmanned Space Travel

Here’s another thing to consider. Human beings don’t do well in zero gravity for long periods. We lose muscle mass, bone density, and our immune systems shut down. In a zero-gravity environment, we’re literally dying. Without a way to create artificial gravity of some sort, humans simply can’t survive space flights lasting for years.

One way to create artificial gravity is by using a gravity field generation device. Currently, human beings don’t have this type of technology.

We could also construct rotating spaceships where artificial gravity is created by the centrifugal force of rotation. The design is known as a Stanford Torus and it’s basically a big spinning ring. This type of ship would provide reliable artificial gravity for long-term space voyages or even permanent colonization in space.

The rotating design could be used for even multi-generational space travel to migrate explorers over hundreds of years to a new solar system for example.

Unfortunately, as cool as the rotation spaceship is, it’s not cigar shaped. So where does that leave us with the viability of cigar shaped spacecraft? Is it really a good geometry for space travel? As usual, when it comes to complexities such as this, the answer is, “it depends”.

Bringing it All Together

For faster-than-light travel, a cigar shaped craft doesn’t really provide any benefit. It’s not bad. There’s simply no advantage to the shape. As it also turns out, a cigar-shaped spaceship doesn’t have a way to provide artificial gravity needed for humans to survive long-term in space.

So what’s the verdict?

For a long-term travel at less than the speed of light, a cigar-shaped craft would be good for unmanned missions. Robots don’t need artificial gravity. We must note, however, aliens might not have the gravitational requirements of human beings. So while an oblong craft may not be good for humans, it could be perfectly safe for an alien race in the right circumstances.

A cigar shaped ship will only be good for humans over long travel periods if we can develop an artificial gravity generator. Without it, humans will perish in a relatively short time in such a ship. Because of the connection between gravity & warp speed, once we have the technology to build an artificial gravity generator, we’ll likely already know how to build warp engines. At that point, we’ll be able to travel faster than the speed of light eliminating the benefit of the cigar shape anyway.

A rotating vessel is currently the only option for humans to travel for long periods in deep space. The cigar shape would be a death trap. Human beings in a cigar-shaped craft for many years would be doomed to waste away to nothing, eventually falling ill and dying as their immune system shuts down.

What do you think about space travel and our place in it? Would you want to take a journey in cigar shaped spaceship or a Stanford Torus? Let us know in the comments!

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The buried secrets of the deadliest location on Earth

By Matthew Ponsford

In the mid-1980s, as a group of American archaeologists pored over satellite images showing Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, they did not know what to make of one unexpected pattern: a near-perfect ring, about 200km across.

Cenotes, the blue water sinkholes that are a staple of Yucatan tourist brochures, dot this arid landscape, opening up seemingly at random as you trek across the vast flatlands of the Yucatan, a dogleg of low, dry forest on Mexico’s eastern edge. But seen from space, they cluster together to form a pattern: an arc, articulating nearly half a circle, as if a drawing compass had been stuck into the map on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and spun around until running out of land.

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The archaeologists had discovered the pattern, which encircles the Yucatecan capital, Merida, and port towns of Sisal and Progreso, while trying to understand what had become of the Mayan civilisation that had once ruled over the peninsula. The indigenous Maya had depended on the cenotes for drinking water, but the uncanny circular arrangement of the holes perplexed the researchers as they presented their findings to fellow satellite specialists at a scientific conference Selper in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1988.

For one scientist in the audience, Adriana Ocampo, then a young planetary geologist at Nasa, the circular formation sounded a klaxon she had been trained to anticipate.

Ocampo, now 63, explains that she saw not just a ring, but a bullseye.

This is something amazing

“As soon as I saw the slides that was my ‘Aha!’ moment. I thought ‘This is something amazing’. ‘This could be it’,” said Ocampo, now director of Nasa’s Lucy programme, which will send a spacecraft into Jupiter’s orbit in 2021. “I was really excited inside but I kept cool because obviously you don’t know until you have more evidence.”

Approaching the scientists, heart pounding, Ocampo asked if they had considered an asteroid impact – one giant and violent enough to have scarred the planet in ways still being revealed 66 million years on.

“They didn’t even know what I was talking about!” she laughed, three decades later.

In the mid-1980s, a group of archaeologists discovered that Yucatan’s cenotes formed a near-perfect ring, about 200km across

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Ocampo's chance encounter was the beginning of a scientific correspondence that would establish the foundations for what most scientists believe today: that this ring corresponds to the edge of the crater caused by an asteroid 12km wide, which struck the Yucatan and exploded with unimaginable force that turned rock to liquid.

Since the early ‘90s, teams of scientists from the Americas, Europe and Asia have worked to fill in the remaining blanks. They now believe the impact instantly created a crater 30km deep, causing the Earth to act like a pond after a pebble is dropped, rebounding up in the centre to create a mountain – just for a moment – reaching twice the height of Mt Everest, before crashing down. In the years that followed the cataclysmic impact, the world would have changed beyond recognition, with the plume of ash blocking the sky and creating perpetual night-time for more than a year, plunging temperatures below freezing, and killing off about 75% of all life on Earth – including almost all the dinosaurs.

Today, that centre point, the place where that imaginary compass stuck and the mountain once rose, is a buried a kilometre below a tiny town called Chicxulub Puerto.

Scientists believe that the ring corresponds with the edge of a crater formed by an asteroid impact that occurred 66 million years ago

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When I visited that settlement of a few thousand people, low-rise houses painted yellow, white, orange and ochre surrounded a type of modest town square that makes up the area’s many photogenic but unremarkable Yucatecan villages. The town has had so little publicity that the few dinosaur-lovers who do try to make their way in pilgrimage along the Yucatan's long, twisty roads between prickly scrubland forest often end up lost in another nearby town called Chicxulub Pueblo, half an hour’s drive inland.

Without that impact, humanity might well have never existed

Even if they reach the correct town, located 7km east along white-sand coastline from the popular holiday resort of Progreso, there are few indications that this was the scene of one of the most consequential and disastrous acts of the last 100 million years of Earth's history. Stroll around the main square and you'll catch sight of paintings of dinosaurs by local children. There is a playground nearby where climbing frames and slides are topped with hard plastic sauropods in primary colours. The only monument, in front of the church on the main square, takes the form of a cartoonish bone, made from concrete, laid in front of an altar like plinth depicting dinosaur species.

Until Ocampo's findings were published in 1991, this area of the Yucatan had been the subject of little international interest. Today, there is a museum, opened in September 2018 between Chicxulub Puerto and the Yucatan capital Merida, 45km to the south). The Museum of Science of the Chicxulub Crater, a joint project by the Mexican Government and the country's biggest university, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), aims to take people back to the moment, 66 million years ago, when the 12km asteroid changed world history, ending the reign of the giant beasts that had lasted hundreds of thousands of years. And by boosting local awareness of the cataclysmic events that took place here, the museum hopes to begin the process of bringing tourists to explore the Yucatan’s prehistoric past, which overlaps with popular Mayan historical destinations like Chichen Itza and the party city of Cancun.

It is believed that the asteroid impact would have wiped out 75% of all life on Earth, including almost all of the dinosaurs

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Chicxulub Puerto and its surrounds deserve to be better known worldwide, says Ocampo, who was born in Colombia but moved as a child to Argentina, arriving in the US at age 15. The asteroid, although bringing unimaginable violence to this area, benefitted one species above all others: humans, who, millions of years later, would evolve into the ecological gap created by the destruction of the world's biggest predators.

Without that impact, humanity might well have never existed.

“It gave us a leg up to be able to compete, to be able to flourish, as we eventually did,” she said.

Ocampo's discovery came at the end of a decade-long quest for the location of the asteroid impact. The key to her ‘Aha! moment’ had been an intuition she’d picked up after working with a legendary figure in space science, Eugene Shoemaker. Shoemaker – the pioneering American geologist who is credited as one of the founders of the field of planetary science and remains, 21 years after his death, the only person whose ashes are buried on the Moon – had instructed her that near perfect circles were unlikely to have been caused by other terrestrial forces, and could provide clues to Earth’s geological development.

The small, coastal town of Chicxulub Puerto is believed to be the centre of the impact crater

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The idea that a giant asteroid had wiped out the dinosaurs was proposed by Californian father-son duo Luis and Walter Alvarez in the early 1980s. “But, then, it was extremely controversial,” Ocampo said. What she did was to place one of the final connecting jigsaw pieces that began linking scattered ideas between scientists who were working independently with fragments of information, often on overlapping investigations.

Without that impact, humanity might well have never existed

For example, as early as 1978, geophysicist Glen Penfield, working alongside Antonio Camargo-Zanoguera for Mexico’s national oil company Pemex, had flown out over the Caribbean waters that lap the shore at Chicxulub Puerto. Using a magnetometer, he scanned the waters looking for signs of oil, instead finding the underwater half of the huge crater. But that evidence belonged to Pemex, so was not made available to the scientific community.

In fact, the first person to connect the Yucatan ring with the Alvarez asteroid theory was a Texan journalist named Carlos Byars who wrote an article for the Houston Chronicle in 1981 asking if the two were linked. Byars later shared his theorywith a grad student named Alan Hildebrand, who then approached Penfield after examining a rock layer in Haiti, and it was the two of them who determined that the crater wasn’t a volcano, but an asteroid impact. “[Byars] gets the credit for being the first to put the pieces together – a newspaperman!” Ocampo said. “It’s an amazing story when you put all the pieces together.” 

Texan journalist Carlos Byars was the first person to connect the Chicxulub Crater with the theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs

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But the story is not simply one of history, it could also give us insight into life beyond Earth. Lessons learned in the asteroid crater have informed research by Nasa’s Curiosity rover, which touched down on Mars in 2012 and has spent the last six years investigating the Martian environment and geology.

Debris discovered from asteroid impacts on Mars compared with ejecta from the Chicxulub Crater shows similarities that indicate that Mars must once have had much thicker an atmosphere than it does now – one closer to the atmosphere that supports life on Earth. “It’s important for us to know what happened in the past to be prepared for the future,” Ocampo said. “It provides a really good insight into what has happened in the geological evolution of Mars.”

The Chicxulub Crater has been nominated for recognition as a Unesco World Heritage site

(Credit: Reinhard Dirscherl/Alamy)

But, in the Chicxulub Crater, much of the incredible knowledge remains buried below ground, rarely recognised by visitors or locals despite the opening of the museum and Mexico’s application to have the crater recognised by Unesco. There is precious little for visitors to see as the impact was so long ago. Tourists who do visit one of the few remnants – the stunning cenotes, where you can swim among fish and dangling tree roots – may be unaware that these geological features exist only because the soft limestone they are made of was forced to the surface from deep underground by the impact. Over thousands of years, dripping water has carved out the sinkholes.

It is a unique place in our planet – It truly is

Ocampo has visited the peninsula numerous times since her discoveries there in the late 1980s, but when asked if people are aware of the importance of this place, she responds unhappily.

“The short answer is no,” she replied. “We need to do better. We need to educate, we need to make them aware of the extraordinary ground that they are living on.”

“They [local people and authorities] are trying to raise the knowledge base and it would be wonderful to help,” said Ocampo, who is also a proponent of planetary science education in Latin America. “It is a unique place in our planet. It truly is.”

“It should be preserved as a World Heritage site.”

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Vertelt David Attenborough sprookjes in plaats van de harde waarheid? Discussie over nieuwe natuurreeks - HLN.be

Bron: AD.nl

De BBC zond gisterenavond de eerste aflevering uit van een nieuwe vijfdelige serie van Sir David Attenborough. Die laat de leeuw, chimpansee, tijger, wolf en keizerspinguïn zien in de spectaculaire visuele pracht die we van de maker van ‘Planet Earth’, ‘Life’ en ‘Blue Planet’ kennen. In de weerbarstige natuur worstelen de koningen van het dierenrijk om te overleven en om hun jongen groot te brengen. Maar hun werkelijk grootste bedreiging - de mens - is in documentairereeks ‘Dynasties’ niet te zien.

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“Kijkers haken af op waarschuwingen voor de menselijke destructie van de natuur”, verklaart de wereldberoemde filmmaker in een interview met The Guardian. Attenborough (92) noemt de bedreigingen wel, maar waakt er bewust voor om alarm te slaan en kijkers op hun eigen verantwoordelijkheid voor het milieu te wijzen. “Moet je bij elke bedreigde diersoort zeggen: ‘let op, ze zijn in gevaar’? Hoe vaak kun je dat doen zonder dat mensen afknappen?” Zijn films zijn juist bedoeld om kijkers even te laten ontsnappen aan Trump, de brexit en ander negatief nieuws, verklaart hij.

“Verraad”

Het levert hem snoeiharde kritiek op van de bekende Britse zoöloog George Monbiot. “David Attenborough pleegt verraad aan de levende wereld die hem dierbaar is”, schreef Monbiot in The Guardian. “In het licht van de verbijsterende ineenstorting van de dierenpopulaties is zulk escapisme niet uit te leggen.” Het Wereld Natuur Fonds waarschuwde twee weken geleden dat de natuur in zo’n schrikbarend tempo verloren gaat dat nu de mensheid zelf wordt bedreigd. In minder dan vijftig jaar tijd is 60 procent van de wilde zoogdieren, vogels, vissen en reptielen op aarde verdwenen.

Door zogenaamd ongerepte natuur te laten zien, scheppen filmmakers als Attenborough een vals beeld van veiligheid en overvloed, betoogt Monbiot. “Hun camera stelt ons gerust dat er nog uitgestrekte gebieden zijn waar de natuur floreert. Dat leidt ertoe dat mensen achteroverleunen in plaats van in actie komen.”

Oneens

De Nederlandse natuurfilmer en ecoloog Ruben Smit is het hartgrondig oneens met die kritiek. “Als je met een opgeheven vingertje te werk gaat, krijg je een moralistische film waar niemand naar kijkt. Ik geloof erin dat je mensen eerst moet verwonderen. Dan kun je ze wijzen op de waarde van de natuur en wakker schudden: dit staat op het spel.”

Zijn films ‘De Nieuwe Wildernis’ over de Oostvaardersplassen en ‘Wad’, maakte hij volgens de school van Attenborough. In ‘Wad’ zijn geen mensen, vissersboten of boorplatformen te zien. Pas aan het einde, in de aftiteling, vertelt hij over de bedreigingen van de Waddennatuur. “Dat leverde mij ook kritiek op. Maar ik geloof oprecht dat de boodschap harder binnenkomt als je net negentig minuten ademloos hebt zitten kijken naar mooie beelden. Met anderhalf uur beelden van dode vissen, plasticsoep en zeehondjes die worden doodgeknuppeld, trek je geen kijkers.”

Realiteit

Monbiot, vroeger zelf filmmaker bij de BBC, liep ook steevast tegen een muur als hij voorstelde een documentaire te maken over ‘de milieurealiteit’. Maar juist levende legende Attenborough, die als belichaming van de Britse omroep wordt gezien, had zijn macht volgens hem moeten aangrijpen om kijkers wél op die realiteit te wijzen.

Overigens wordt Attenboroughs oceanendocumentaire ‘Blue Planet II’ beschouwd als startpunt van de protestbeweging tegen de plasticsoep, die heeft geleid tot een Europees verbod op wegwerpplastic. Fundamentele problemen als overconsumptie - waar tv-kijkers zelfs iets aan kunnen doen - gaan natuurfilmers volgens Monbiot echter steevast uit de weg. “Met dank aan David Attenborough weten veel mensen nu behoorlijk veel over de natuur. Maar zij zijn nog altijd verbijsterend onwetend over wat er met de natuur aan het gebeuren is.”

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According to a report published by The Mutual UFO Network a Montana witness near Great Falls reported that a contact on the Malmstrom Air Force Base described a 10-minute power outage after a circular-shaped object “over a half-acre in size” hovered over the base” on January 24, 2018.

“My base contact described the object only as black,” the reporting witness stated. “If contacted, Malmstrom AFB will confirm the power outage but nothing more. Investigators are on their way. Last sighting was in May 2017. This source is reliable and confirmed as am I.”

The witness describes himself as a retired police detective “not given to exaggerations.”

The filed report indicates the object was black in color with no structural features. The object size was larger than 300 feet. No exterior lights. No emissions. The object was hovering at less than 500 feet in altitude. The object was over one mile away from the witness. No landing was observed.

Investigators contacted the media relations department at Malmstrom and did not receive a reply. The power outage may have been limited to the launch site area and not the entire base. '

MUFON CAG Investigator Marie Cisneros and Montana State Director John Gagnon closed this case as Information Only.

“Ruled out for astronomical or weather anomalies,” Cisneros and Gagnon stated in their report. “Ruled out for bolides or fireball activity. Ruled out for obvious hoax.

“Our conclusion: Unidentified object. Size, shape, flight pattern and path does not fit with known conventional aircraft. Because this was reported by someone other than the witness, this case has to be filed as an Information Only unless further information is forthcoming by the witness.”

Malmstrom Air Force Base is in Cascade County, Montana, adjacent to Great Falls. It is the home of the 341st Missile Wing (341 MW) of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). As a census-designated place, it has a population of 3,472.

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UFO reported streaking across Irish skies on Friday morning

Pilots saw bright lights streaking across the sky at an ‘astronomical’ speed

Ronan McGreevy

If aliens are visiting Earth they have proved to be very elusive.

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The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) is investigating an unidentified flying object (UFO) which streaked across the sky on Friday morning and disappeared.

Several commercial aircraft reported seeing at least one bright light with one pilot stating that the UFO was going at an “astronomical” speed of at least Mach 2 (2,500 km/h), which is twice as fast as a commercial jetliner.

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The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating a unusual sightings by a number of pilots of commercial aircraft while in contact with Shannon Air Traffic Control last weekend.

If there are little green men and women visiting Earth for the first time, they have proved to be very elusive.

The British Airways 787, call sign Speedbird 94, radioed Shannon Air Traffic Control at 6.47am asking if there were any military exercises off the west coast of Ireland.

A pilot recounted: “It was moving so fast. It appeared on our left hand side and rapidly veered to the north. We saw a bright light and it then just disappeared at a very high speed.

“We were just wondering. We didn’t think it was likely political. We were just wondering what it might be”, she added. 

A Shannon air traffic controller responded: “There’s nothing showing on either primary or secondary (radar)”.

A pilot from a Virgin Airlines plane, callsign Virgin76, came on to air traffic control and suggested it might be a “meteor or another object making some kind of re-entry. There appeared to be multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory. They were very bright from where we were.”

The pilot also confirmed that he he had seen “two bright lights that seemed to bank over to the right and climb away at speed at least from our perspective.”

A third pilot responded: “Glad it wasn’t just me”.

An IAA spokesman said the authority is investigating the incident and will file a report. “This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrance investigation process.” The spokesman added that it was unlikely to be aliens from another planet.

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Audio: Close encounter with UFO off Irish coast leaves pilots ‘wondering’

By Catherine Shanahan
Health Correspondent

The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) by a number of aircraft off the south-west coast of Ireland last Friday.

At approximately 6.47am on November 9, the pilot of a British Airways flight, call sign Speedbird94, contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing.

There were no military exercises underway.

Shannon ATC replied: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].”

The pilot responded: “OK. It was moving so fast.”

The controller then asked: “Alongside you?”

The BA pilot, flying from Montreal to Heathrow, describes how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”.

She said it was “a very bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed”.

She said they were “wondering” what it could be, that it did not seem to be on a collision course.

The pilot of a Virgin Airlines Boeing 747, call sign Virgin76, then joined the conversation and made reference to a meteor or another object re-entering the earth’s atmosphere and said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory”.

He said they were very bright “where we were”.

Shannon ATC than asked if the pilots knew which direction the objects were heading. The Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “11 o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right”, that then climbed away at speed. Shannon ATC told the pilot it would pass that information on. Shannon ATC then told Speedbird94 that “other aircraft in the air have also reported the same thing so we are going to have a look and see”.

Another pilot said the speed of the UFO was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2”, or twice the speed of sound.

The Virgin Airlines flight, from Orlando to Manchester, can carry 455 passengers, while the 787 has 214 seats. A third aircraft, a Norwegian Air 737 travelling from Stewart, New York, to Shannon, which can carry 200 passengers, was also party to the conversation.

The BA flight was passing over Kerry at the time, while the other two flights were off the south-west coast, heading eastbound, and in high-level airspace, which extends from 24,500ft upwards.

The Irish Examiner contacted the Irish Aviation Authority to ask if it was investigating the UFO. 

In a statement, the authority said: “Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of unusual air activity, the IAA has filed a report.

“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”

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Investigation launched after several pilots report close encounter with UFO (AUDIO)

The UFO was first spotted by a baffled British Airways pilot last Friday (November 9) at approximately 6:47am local time while flying over the south-west coast of Ireland.

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Very interesting report on Shannon high level Friday 9 November at 0630z with multiple aircraft with reported sightings of a UFO over County Kerry. Skip to 17 minutes to listen reports on @liveatc http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018-0630Z.mp3 … #Aviation #UFO #Ireland

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The pilot was flying a Boeing 787 from Heathrow to Montreal when he made a call to Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace.

You can listen to the archived recording of the call from 17 minutes here.

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018-0630Z.mp3

ATC said there were no military exercises underway and added: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].”

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“OK. It was moving so fast,” the pilot replied. “Alongside you?” asked the controller. The pilot went on to describe the UFO that appeared along the left side of the aircraft and then “rapidly veered to the north.”

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The pilot said they saw “a bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed.” She said that she did not believe it to be on a collision course but was “wondering” what it could be.

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A Virgin Airlines Boeing 747 pilot then joined the conversation to suggest that a meteor or some other object was re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. The pilot said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory,” and that they were “very bright where we were.”

When Shannon ATC asked the pilots which direction the objects were heading, the Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “eleven o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right,” that then climbed away at speed. “Very interesting, that one,” said the pilot.

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After a third pilot chimed in to say “Glad it wasn’t just me,” and reported a UFO that was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2,” (2,500kph or twice the speed of sound), Shannon ATC told the BA pilot that “other aircraft in the air have also reported the same thing so we are going to have a look and see.”

The Irish Aviation Authority said they had filed a report of the “unusual air activity” following reports from a “small number of aircraft on Friday.”

“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process,” read the IAA statement to the Irish Examiner.

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Earth is rich in water, and has been for a few billion years, but scientists are still debating just where all that life-sustaining liquid came from. At least some of it was thought to have been brought here by comets or asteroids, but that idea still falls short in explaining how so much water ended up on Earth’s surface – and deep below, as well. Now, a team of scientists at Arizona State University (ASU), led by Peter Buseck, has come up with a new proposal. The new peer-reviewed paper was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets on October 9, 2018.

The new research suggests that Earth’s water came from both rocky material, such as asteroids, and from the vast cloud of dust and gas remaining after the sun’s formation, called the solar nebula.

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Earth’s ocean water is similar to that found in asteroids. That’s one reason scientists have long thought that most earthly water came from an asteroid bombardment in the days of the early solar system. The ratio of deuterium– a heavier hydrogen isotope – to normal hydrogen is a unique chemical signature in various water sources. In the case of Earth’s oceans, the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio is close to what is found in asteroids. But, according to Steven Desch, also at ASU and one of the team members:

It’s a bit of a blind spot in the community. When people measure the [deuterium-to-hydrogen] ratio in ocean water and they see that it is pretty close to what we see in asteroids, it was always easy to believe it all came from asteroids.

Jun Wu at ASU is lead author of the study. He added:

The solar nebula has been given the least attention among existing theories, although it was the predominant reservoir of hydrogen in our early solar system.

The hydrogen in Earth’s oceans may not represent the hydrogen throughout the planet as a whole, however. Samples of hydrogen from deep inside the Earth, close to the boundary between the core and mantle, have notably less deuterium – indicating that this hydrogen may not have come from asteroids, after all. The noble gases helium and neon, with isotopic signatures inherited from the solar nebula, have also been found in the Earth’s mantle.

How to explain these differences? The researchers needed to develop a new theoretical model of Earth’s formation to answer that question. According to the model, Earth was the largest of many planetary embryos – aka protoplanets – in the early solar system.

Essentially, their model shows large, waterlogged asteroids eventually forming into planets like Earth through collisions.

The surface of the very young Earth was initially an ocean of magma. Hydrogen and noble gases from the solar nebula were drawn to the planetary embryo, forming the first atmosphere. Nebular hydrogen, which contains less deuterium and is lighter than asteroidal hydrogen, dissolved into the molten iron of the magma ocean.

Hydrogen was then drawn toward the center of the Earth – a process called isotopic fractionation. Hydrogen was delivered to the core through its attraction to iron, while much of the heavier isotope, deuterium, remained in the magma which eventually cooled to form the mantle. Impacts from smaller planetary embryos and other objects continued to add additional water and mass until Earth reached its final size.

The end result was that Earth had noble gases deep in its interior, with a lower deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio in its core than in its mantle and oceans. Most of Earth’s water did come from asteroids, but some also came from the solar nebula. As Wu noted:

For every 100 molecules of Earth’s water, there are one or two coming from the solar nebula.

So what about comets, since they have so much water-ice in them? According to Desch:

Comets contain a lot of ices, and in theory could have supplied some water. But there’s another way to think about sources of water in the solar system’s formative days. Because water is hydrogen plus oxygen, and oxygen is abundant, any source of hydrogen could have served as the origin of Earth’s water.

Also, comets have higher deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) ratios, so they are actually not good sources for Earth’s water. The D/H ratio of hydrogen gas in the solar nebula was only 21 ppm, too low to have supplied most of the water on Earth. Asteroids are a much better match, along with the solar nebula.

Finally, the new results have implications for rocky exoplanets orbiting other stars. Many such worlds have now been discovered, and if there is a greater chance for some of them to also have liquid water, that also increases the chances of those planets being habitable. According to the researchers:

Our results suggest that forming water is likely inevitable on sufficiently large rocky planets in extrasolar systems.

Bottom line: The origin of Earth’s water has been debated for a long time, but this new study points to a source – the solar nebula, or cloud of gas and dust left after the sun’s formation – that had been previously mostly overlooked. The new work, based on computer modeling, may have implications for rocky worlds orbiting distant stars.

Source: Origin of Earth’s Water: Chondritic Inheritance Plus Nebular Ingassing and Storage of Hydrogen in the Core

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New Research Suggests Octopuses Have Extraterrestrial Origins

 By: Zoe Blarowski

Octopuses are known to be intelligent, advanced creatures, able to create their own shelter, change color in an instant and even adapt well to climate change.

In a new study, a group of 33 international scientists suggest these unique traits may have an unearthly origin. They investigated the theory that octopuses may have evolved from life forms that came to earth on ancient comets.

This isn’t a new concept. Scientists have been grappling with the origins of life on our planet for centuries. And this study adds an intriguing look into the theory of panspermia, that suggests the evolution of life on Earth has, and continues to be, influenced by the arrival of organisms from space.

The study has faced some criticism, but the scientists have also supported their claims with well-established research. Let’s take a closer look at their findings.

THE THEORY OF PANSPERMIA

In the 1980s, astronomer Fred Hoyle teamed up with astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe to propose that life didn’t originate on earth. In fact, life was seeded on our planet by comets carrying space-hardy bacteria, viruses and perhaps even fertilized eggs and plant seeds. This concept is scientifically known as “panspermia”.

The earliest microbial life found on Earth was discovered in Canadian rocks and is estimated to be about 4.1-4.23 billion years old. This was during the Hadean epoch, when the earth was still forming its core and crust, as well as its atmosphere and oceans. Our planet had frequent and violent collisions with asteroids and comets during that period, and the surface was still extremely hot and unstable.

The study’s researchers propose that it was impossible for life to have formed on Earth during this time. The first microbes found in Canada were most likely delivered by comets and meteorites that impacted with our planet, and these microbes went on to become the basis of terrestrial life on Earth.

WHAT CAN ACTUALLY SURVIVE ON A COMET?

Comet-hopping life forms may sound far-fetched, but research is starting to show this may be a distinct reality. Evidence has found that comets would have contained vast amounts of water in their interiors when they were first formed billions of years ago at the dawn of our solar system. These protected, watery environments would have provided ideal conditions for early bacteria and viruses to grow and multiply.

The discovery of a wide variety of ancient organic particles in comets also supports this theory. Organic particles are important precursors for the creation of molecules that are the foundation of life, such as sugars, amino acids and DNA bases.

Once comets had cooled down and after millions of years in space, evidence suggests the primitive bacteria and viruses living on them became embedded in rock, carbonaceous material or ice. This effectively protected them from the intense radiation and sub-zero temperatures encountered in space.

Although not proven, it is also possible that more complex life forms, such as fertilized eggs and plant seeds, could also have survived in similar conditions.

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WHAT OCTOPUSES CAN TELL US ABOUT EVOLUTION

Octopuses are actually related to slugs and snails. They belong to a group of mollusks known as cephalopods that developed about 500 million years ago during what’s known as the Cambrian Explosion. This was a time when life in the earth’s oceans went through a dramatic stage of diversification and evolution, and most of the ancestors of modern life were born.

The new study, titled “Cause of the Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic?”, investigated panspermia and how it may relate to the Cambrian Explosion, and the rise of life forms like octopuses. They made a few important conclusions.

1. Virus-bearing comets fueled the Cambrian Explosion.

Viruses are the smallest living organism on earth, and they reproduce by attaching themselves to a host cell in another living organism and inserting their own genetic material into the cell. This changes the genetic structure of the host cells, which can cause disease in the host.

This also means that a viral infection can alter the host’s genetic code, and potentially change its course of evolution. Retroviruses are a specific type of virus that first appeared and multiplied just before the Cambrian Explosion.

And the researchers believe these retroviruses came from cometary bombardment the Earth was experiencing around the same time. As the comets broke up and left debris trails in the Earth’s atmosphere, dormant retroviruses were released and spread across our planet’s surface.

This wide-spread introduction of new genetic material in the form of viruses affected the development of life in our planet’s oceans, and potentially all land-dwelling life forms that came later.

2. Octopuses appeared too abruptly to have evolved on Earth.

The introduction of interstellar viruses may have increased the genetic diversity of life on our planet, but octopuses have some unique genetic traits that simply don’t make sense from an evolutionary stand point.

Genetically, octopuses are significantly different than most other life forms on Earth. Their large brains, sophisticated nervous systems, flexible bodies and ability to instantly switch color and shape are still very unique compared to other modern life forms.

And these striking traits appeared very suddenly on the evolutionary scene about 270 million years ago. The research group concluded that this sudden “great leap forward” would be impossible in such a short time frame.

“Thus the possibility that cryopreserved squid and/or octopus eggs, arrived in icy bolides several hundred million years ago should not be discounted,” the researchers say.

HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO LIFE ON EARTH TODAY?

We may never know whether or not octopus eggs actually arrived on Earth from outer space, but the theory of panspermia does hold the potential for a radical shift in our world view.

The research group concluded their study by discussing the need to change from our outdated view of life originating exclusively on Earth to one incorporating “cosmic biology,” which recognizes the scientific evidence that life on our planet may have been, and continues to be, influenced by organisms that arrive from outer space.

They also point out the vast number of Earth-like planets and other life-friendly planetary bodies that exist in our galaxy, and the potential for billions of exchanges of material between them through meteorites, cometary bolides and even space dust.

“One is thus forced in our view to conclude that the entire galaxy (and perhaps our local group of galaxies) constitutes a single connected biosphere,” the researchers write.

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Baalbek In Lebanon: Megaliths Of The Gods Full Lecture, Why We Can't Build Them Today, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of video: Nov 2018

This is a video by the famous Brian Forester. His analyses of different ancient structures, shapes, configuration are very thought provoking. He says these structures are impossible to have been made with primitive tools and methods. I have to agree, even with todays advanced technology, I highly doubt that we will ever see an actual 100% replica of the great pyramids ever built in our lifetime. The blocks of stone are too big, too heavy and too solid. Todays tech and machines are not use to such incredible weights and sizes. 

To build an Egyptian pyramid that matches in every way to the original...whole new tools, transportation, machines and methods would have to be invented. Today in 2018, we just couldn't do it. 
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Bright UFO Captured Over Kent, England. November 3, 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 3, 2018
Location of sighting: Kent, England

Glowing lights are once of the types of UFOs often seen during UFO encounters. I myself have seen more than my share. This has a shape of a AI drone ship. One that can travel at incredible speed and not have to worry about passengers, however aliens can see, hear, smell, feel the wind and even monitor a humans thoughts and  things when using this drone to interact with its surrounds. 
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Video states:

This footage was was filmed by Pete Tyas at 06:30am in the town of Deal in Kent, England. We can see this bright object moving silently through the early morning sky. Also it looks like the object has dropped something but it could be a star but there is no doubt about the bigger craft.

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Linda Moulton Howe: Extraterrestrials Are Likely Someone Else's Machines via Artificial Intelligence (Video)

Linda Moulton Howe starts off with Elon Musk’s comments to American governors at a meeting in Rhode Island: “Artificial Intelligence is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization and I don’t think people really appreciate that.” With video and images, Linda will lay out the emerging problems of applying A. I. to robots, especially those under development for military applications with weapons, and those problems include the potential for robots to lethally turn on their human makers.

As humanity is rapidly moving to depend on A. I. robot support, people in the UFO/E.T. abduction syndrome have been saying for decades that some of the beings they have dealt with were clearly Someone else’s programmed androids and robots.

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The Tunguska Object and other mysteries before 1917. KGB and UFOs in the USSR.The most important UFO cases of the Soviet Union. UFOs over the Caucasus, Siberia, Russia’s North and Far East: then and now.

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Une pyramide engloutie en Bretagne !

Par Serge  Grispoux

Sur les fonds du littoral breton, on ne trouve pas que des épaves, mais aussi de bien curieux mégalithes qui semblent bien ne pas avoir été déposés par hasard à une profondeur d’une vingtaine de mètres. Une étrange pyramide engloutie se dresse ainsi dans les profondeurs du golfe du Morbihan. Sa position et des marques découvertes sur les rochers environnants prouvent que son origine n’a rien de naturel. Sa présence tendrait à conforter l’hypothèse d’une montée des eaux beaucoup plus importante qu’il est communément admis, il y a environ 5000 ans…

Il est des secrets qui dorment sous nos yeux, jusque devant nos portes, oubliés de tous, sortis de la mémoire collective à tel point que personne n’est en mesure aujourd’hui de retrouver leur origine…

C’est le cas en Bretagne sud, dans le golfe du Morbihan, une petite mer intérieure (traduction littérale de Mor-Bihan) de 15 km de long sur 12 km de large, parsemée d’une myriade d’îles et d’îlots, ne communiquant avec l’océan que par un goulet de 900m de large, se remplissant et se vidant toutes les six heures au rythme des marées en engendrant de redoutables courants pouvant dépasser 15km/h. Là, les tombants, dont la profondeur n’excède guère 25 m, sont d’une extraordinaire richesse en faune et en flore.

C’est là, le long des tombants de la pointe Sud-Ouest de l’île Longue, non loin de l’accès du golfe à la mer libre, que j’ai découvert une énigme à laquelle personne, jusqu’à présent, n’a pu fournir d’explication.

Là, en un lieu nommé ”les Gorets”, j’ai fait la découverte d’une curieuse pyramide monolithique, sous une vingtaine de mètres d’eau. Elle semble taillée dans le granit et possède trois faces sur une base triangulaire (c’est un tétraède). Les faces sont lisses, les angles sont vifs et elles sont d’inégales surfaces. La plus grande, orientée vers l’Ouest, est parallèle au tombant. La base de la pierre est située, par marée haute de coefficient moyen, à 23m de la surface. Sa hauteur est de 1,70m. La roche est rougeâtre, peut-être du granit rose ou du porphyre ? Je l’ai mesurée pour en calculer le volume puis le poids : celui-ci doit être d’environ 1,4 tonne. Une prospection au détecteur de métaux dans les alentours n’a rien donné : pas de trésor, ni de métal en vue !

Que fait à cet endroit cette bizarre structure ? Trois hypothèses ont été émises quant à la présence de ce monolithe en ce lieu et à cette profondeur. J’ai d’abord pensé à une pierre taillée tombée d’un bateau. Nous savons en effet que les anciens transportaient par voie d’eau des blocs découpés destinés à des constructions lointaines. Mais le fait que cette pierre pointue (les angles au sommet sont inférieurs à 90°) me semble mal convenir à une bâtisse, il est peu vraisemblable qu’elle soit tombée la pointe bien orientée vers le haut, la plus grande face exactement parallèle au tombant.

La deuxième hypothèse me fut suggérée par David, un ami moniteur local. ”Tu sais, m’avait-il dit, c’est probablement une formation géologique naturelle. Les roches en cristallisant donnent parfois ce genre de structure. Regarde par exemple la Chaussée des Géants en Irlande”. Certes, mais ce sont des roches éruptives comme le basalte qui forment naturellement ces constructions géométriques. Or notre pyramide semble en granit qui n’est pas d’origine volcanique. D’ailleurs, le volcanisme récent est inexistant dans le vieux massif armoricain et il n’y a nulle part, en surface, de monolithe de ce genre. Les roches, érodées, sont arrondies.

La troisième hypothèse était que cette pierre, appartenant au substrat, avait été taillée par la main de l’homme pour en faire un amer, marquer un lieu sacré ou Dieu sait quoi d’autre. Car n’oublions pas que nous sommes en plein cœur d’une région extrêmement riche en monuments mégalithiques. Les célèbres menhirs des alignements de Carnac ne sont, à vol d’oiseau, qu’à 14 km. Bien plus près, à environ 1 200 m, le tumulus de Gavrinis abrite une allée couverte ornée d’énigmatiques gravures. Mieux encore, en face de Gavrinis se trouve l’îlot d’Er-Lannic. Celui-ci, classé réserve ornithologique, possède sur sa pente sud-est deux cromlechs (un cromlech est un ensemble de menhirs-pierres dressées disposés en forme de fer à cheval). Le premier, parfaitement visible quand on passe en bateau, est semi-immergé. Quant au second, il est complètement recouvert par en moyenne 3 à 4 m d’eau. Il ne se laisse entrevoir que par grande marée basse. Preuve indubitable que le niveau des eaux a monté dans le golfe depuis l’érection de ces monuments. Des fouilles effectuées par des archéologues et des plongeurs locaux ont permis tout d’abord de faire un relevé précis de ces alignements puis de dater leur édification à 3 500 av. JC, période d’apogée du Néolithique en Armorique. Notre pyramide pourrait donc faire partie de cet ensemble de constructions préhistoriques.

Problème : les eaux du golfe, d’après les spécialistes, ont dû monter de 7 à 8 m depuis 5500 ans. Or la pyramide est à -23m ! Donc, soit le niveau de la mer s’est beaucoup plus élevé que ce que l’on pense, soit le monolithe est beaucoup plus ancien et aurait été recouvert lors de la fonte des glaciers mettant un terme à la glaciation de Wurm. C’est-à-dire au plus tard vers 8000 av. J.C.! Pourtant les archéologues nous ont appris que les plus vieux mégalithes bretons datent d’environ 4500 av. J.C. Nous étions donc loin du compte !

Quelques années passèrent depuis cette curieuse découverte. Une observation plus attentive me permit de constater que la pyramide n’appartenait pas au substrat mais était ”simplement” posée sur le sol rocheux de surface inégale, créant ainsi des cavités abritant congres ou homards. Posée oui, mais par qui et pourquoi ?

J’en étais là de mes interrogations quand, passant fin juillet faire gonfler mon bloc au Crouesty (grand port de plaisance situé près de l’entrée du golfe), Martial ami de longue date, me fit une confidence qui m’intrigua : ” j’ai trouvé, il y a peu, près de la pyramide, un triangle gravé sur la face plate d’une roche, tu devrais allez voir”.

Confiant en sa parole et en son œil exercé (il avait déjà découvert, dans la même zone, en faisant des baptêmes, un  petit muret d’un demi-mètre de haut dissimulé dans les algues) je mouillais, début août, mon bateau aux Gorets et plongeais. Suivant ses indications je ne tardais pas à trouver, à cinq mètres (distance mesurée) de notre monolithe une pierre portant, grossièrement gravé, le dessin d’un triangle ! Coïncidence ?

Je le nettoyais  puis revenais le mesurer. Il était représenté pointe vers le bas, son plus grand côté faisant 43cm, les deux autres respectivement 36 et 28cm. Etant dessinateur de métier, j’en traçais un plan à l’échelle ¼. Je mesurais son angle au sommet : 85°, presque un angle droit. Mais aussi pratiquement le même angle au sommet de la grande face de la pyramide, celle qui est parallèle au tombant ! Là les coïncidences devenaient trop nombreuses pour que ce soit seulement le hasard. Il s’agissait dès lors de raisonner logiquement.

Pour moi ce triangle sommairement gravé le fut pour indiquer à ceux qui allaient amener la pyramide que c’était là l’endroit où la placer. Il s’agissait d’un emplacement bien précis, ne devant rien au hasard (il n’y a que 5m de la gravure à la pyramide), mais dont nous ignorons la signification.

N’oublions pas qu’il y a, sur l’extrémité Sud de l’île Longue, donc à quelques dizaines de mètres de la pyramide, une allée couverte (propriété privée, la visite en est interdite) dont les parois sont recouvertes des mêmes mystérieuses gravures que celles du cairn de Gavrinis datant de 3700 av. J.C et situé à 1000m de là. Gravures qui à ce jour n’ont jamais pu être interprétées. On ne sait d’ailleurs pratiquement rien sur le peuple qui a couvert de monuments mégalithiques toute cette région de Bretagne Sud. N’ayant pas d’écriture ils n’ont laissé de leur présence que ces énormes blocs de pierre érigés en menhirs, dolmens, allées couvertes ou cairns.

Songeons que le grand menhir (pierre dressée) de Locmariaquer, situé à la pointe Ouest de l’entrée du golfe, aujourd’hui abattu et cassé en quatre morceaux, faisait 20m de long et pesait 300 tonnes ! (A titre comparatif, l’obélisque de la Concorde à Paris pèse 200 tonnes). Il fut érigé vers 4500 av. J.C., soit 2000 ans avant les pyramides d’Egypte, et auparavant déplacé sur 17km ! Il fallait à un peuple capable d’un tel exploit une organisation sociale élaborée, avec des décideurs, des concepteurs, des cadres et de la main-d’œuvre. Il avait également besoin d’une intendance pour outiller, loger, nourrir tout ce monde. Et tous ces gens avaient surtout une foi profonde envers leurs dieux, car tous ces édifices avaient selon toute vraisemblance, un but religieux.

Déplacer une pierre pyramidale d’un peu plus d’une tonne pour l’installer en un endroit pré-déterminé ne devait donc pas leur poser de gros problèmes. Reste celui de la profondeur à laquelle reposent pyramide et triangle. Certes nous avons la preuve que le niveau de la mer s’est élevé au cours des siècles : face à Gavrinis se trouve l’îlot d’Er-Lannic. Il possède sur sa pente Sud-Est deux cromlechs, ensemble de menhirs disposés en demi-cercle. Le premier parfaitement visible est semi-immergé. Le second est complètement recouvert par 3 ou 4m d’eau. D’autres sites en Bretagne ont également les ”pieds dans l’eau” : dolmen de Kerroyal au fond du golfe, menhir de Penglaouic à Loctudy, allée couverte de Guinirvit en Finistère Nord, etc…

Cette montée des eaux, appelée ”transgression flandrienne”, est due à la fonte des glaciers du Nord de l’Europe à la fin de la glaciation de Wurm il y a 10-12000 ans. Mais elle ne dépasse pas, aux dires des hydrologues, 7 à 8m en 5500 ans. Les géologues nous apprennent aussi que la Scandinavie, libérée du poids de ses glaces, s’élève lentement depuis 10 000 ans et que par contre-coup la péninsule armoricaine s’abaisse sensiblement. Ce phénomène, appelé ”mouvement épirogénique”, accentue encore l’importance de l’ennoyage des estuaires et des plaines basses du littoral breton.

Alors, pour que la pyramide ait été placée là où elle est, c’est à dire à plus de vingt mètres de la surface actuelle, il n’y a que deux possibilités :

• soit le niveau des eaux dans ce qui deviendra le golfe du Morbihan, est vers 5000 av. J.C. (en admettant que notre pierre fasse partie des tous premiers mégalithes) beaucoup plus bas que ce qui est généralement admis et que donc la montée des eaux a été plus importante et plus rapide que ce que nous pensons.
• Soit la pyramide est beaucoup plus vieille et a été positionnée vers la fin de la dernière glaciation, c’est à dire vers 8000 av.J.C. ! C’est ce que pense le plongeur- spéléo Francis Le Guen qui lui, a trouvé un petit dolmen par 25m de fond en Finistère Nord. Mais dans ce cas quelle population aurait été capable à cette époque, d’une telle réalisation ?

Pour ma part je pencherais plutôt pour la première hypothèse. Seules les rivières de Vannes et d’Auray serpentaient dans la plaine cernée de mamelons rocheux qu’était alors le golfe. Elles ne devaient pas être très profondes et peu soumises à la marée, la mer libre étant beaucoup plus loin, au delà de Houat et peut-être de Belle-Ile. Aujourd’hui le fond moyen de cette zone est d’environ -25m. Si on admet une profondeur des deux rivières à l’époque de 4 à 5m on a donc un rivage dans les -20m actuel ce qui nous place la pyramide en bordure du flot, mais à sec.

Quand à savoir qu’elle était l’utilité réelle de notre pyramide c’est un mystère dont je laisse la résolution aux archéologues. Mais je pense qu’une extension des recherches sous-marines dans le golfe du Morbihan, malgré les difficultés (courant, trafic), pourrait nous apporter d’autres intéressantes découvertes. 

Attention !

Si vous désirez plonger dans le golfe, sachez que c’est une zone dangereuse pour le néophyte. Les courants y sont violents et changeants ; le trafic en été y est intense. Il est donc grandement préférable de s’adresser aux très sérieux clubs locaux.

Bibliographie : 

Giot P.R.  La Bretagne des Mégalithes   Ed. Ouest France ; Lecerf Y.  Mémoire de pierres  Ed. Cloître ; Lecerf Y.  La Bretagne préhistorique  Ed. Skol Vreizh ; Mohen J.P. Pierres vives de la préhistoire  Ed. Odile Jacob ; Politzer A. er M. Des Mégalithes et des Hommes Ed. Coop Breizh

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