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Harvard's top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us - and he doesn't care what his colleagues think

Since publishing his controversial paper, Avi Loeb has run a nearly nonstop media circuit, embracing the celebrity that comes from being perhaps the most academically distinguished E.T. enthusiast of his time. This has some of his peers grumbling.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Before he started the whole alien-spaceship thing last year, the chairman of Harvard University's astronomy department was known for public lectures on modesty. Personal modesty, which Avi Loeb said he learned growing up on a farm. And what Loeb calls "cosmic modesty" - the idea that it's arrogant to assume we are alone in the universe, or even that we're a particularly special species.

You can find a poster for one of these lectures in Loeb's office today, though it's a bit lost among the clutter: photos of Loeb posing under the dome of Harvard's enormous 19th-century telescope; thank-you notes from elementary schoolchildren; a framed interview he gave The New York Times in 2014; his books on the formation of galaxies; his face, again and again - a bespectacled man in his mid-50s with a perpetually satisfied smile.

Loeb stands beside his desk on the first morning of spring courses in a creaseless suit, stapling syllabi for his afternoon class. He points visitors to this and that on the wall. He mentions that four TV crews were in this office on the day in the fall when his spaceship theory went viral, and now five film companies are interested in making a movie about his life.

A neatly handwritten page of equations sits on the desk, on the edge closest to the guest chairs.

"Oh, this is something I did last night," Loeb says. It's a calculation, he explains, supporting his theory that an extraterrestrial spacecraft, or at least a piece of one, may at this moment be flying past the orbit of Jupiter.

Since publishing his controversial paper, Loeb has run a nearly nonstop media circuit, embracing the celebrity that comes from being perhaps the most academically distinguished E.T. enthusiast of his time - the top Harvard astronomer who suspects technology from another solar system just showed up at our door. And this, in turn, has left some of his peers nonplussed - grumbling at what they see as a flimsy theory or bewildered as to why Harvard's top astronomer won't shut up about aliens.

What you can't call Loeb is a crank. When astronomers in Hawaii stumbled across the first known interstellar object in late 2017 - a blip of light moving so fast past the sun that it could only have come from another star - Loeb had three decades of Ivy League professorship and hundreds of astronomical publications on his résumé, mostly to do with the nature of black holes and early galaxies and other subjects far from any tabloid shelf.

So when seemingly every astronomer on the planet was trying to figure out how the interstellar object (dubbed 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "scout") got to our remote patch of Milky Way, Loeb's extraordinarily confident suggestion that it probably came from another civilization could not be easily dismissed.

"Considering an artificial origin, one possibility is that 'Oumuamua" - pronounced Oh-mooah-mooah - "is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment," Loeb wrote with his colleague Shmuel Bialy in Astrophysical Journal Letters in November - thrilling E.T. enthusiasts and upsetting the fragile orbits of space academia.

" 'Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship, and the authors of the paper insult honest scientific inquiry to even suggest it," tweeted Paul Sutter, an astrophysicist at Ohio State University, shortly after the paper published.

"A shocking example of sensationalist, ill-motivated science," theoretical astrophysicist Ethan Siegel wrote in Forbes. North Carolina State University astrophysicist Katie Mack suggested Loeb was trolling for publicity. "Sometimes you write a paper about something that you don't believe to be true at all, just for the purpose of putting out there," she told the Verge.

Most scientists besides Loeb assume 'Oumuamua is some sort of rock, be it an asteroid ejected from some star in meltdown hundreds of millions of years ago, or an icy comet wandering the interstellar void. But it's moving too fast for an inert rock, Loeb points out - zooming away from the sun as if something is pushing it from behind. And if it's a comet spewing jets of steam, the limited observations astronomers made of it showed no sign.

Loeb argues that 'Oumuamua's behavior means it can't be, as is commonly imagined, a clump of rock shaped like a long potato, but rather an object that's very long and no more than 1 millimeter thick, perhaps like a kilometer-long obloid pancake - or a ship sail - so light and thin that sunlight is pushing it out of our solar system.

And while he's not saying it's definitely aliens, he is saying he can't think of anything other than aliens that fits the data. And he's saying that all over international news.

"Many people expected once there would be this publicity, I would back down," Loeb says. "If someone shows me evidence to the contrary, I will immediately back down."

In the meantime, he's doubling down, hosting a Reddit AMA on "how the discovery of alien life in space will transform our life," and constantly emailing his "friends and colleagues" with updates on all the reporters who are speaking to him.

In a matter of months, Loeb has become a one-man alternative to the dirge of terrestrial news.

"It changes your perception on reality, just knowing that we're not alone," he says. "We are fighting on borders, on resources ... It would make us feel part of planet Earth as a civilization rather than individual countries voting on Brexit."

So now he is famous, styling himself as a truth-teller and risk-taker in an age of overly conservative, quiescent scientists.

"The mainstream approach [is] you can sort of drink your coffee in the morning and expect what you will find later on. It's a stable lifestyle, but for me it resembles more the lifestyle of a business person rather than scientists," he says.

"The worst thing that can happen to me is I would be relieved of my administrative duties, and that would give me even more time to focus on science," Loeb adds. " All the titles I have, I can dial them back. In fact, I can dial myself back to the farm."

Loeb grew up in an Israeli farming village. He would sit in the hills and read philosophy books imagining the broader universe, he says, a fascination that led him into academia and all the way to 'Oumuamua.

"I don't have a class system in my head of academia being the elite," he says, as he leads a reporter into the locked chamber of the Great Refractor - an enormous 19th-century telescope where he sometimes does photo ops. "I see it as a continuation of childhood curiosity - trying to understand what the world is like."

He joined Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study in the late 1980s ("Where Einstein used to be," he notes) and later took a junior position in Harvard's astronomy department, where "for 20 years no one had been promoted from within ... They tenured me after three years.")

As he tells it, his life story sounds like a cerebral version of "Forrest Gump" - Loeb always singemindedly pursuing his science and intersecting with the giants of the field, whom he regularly name-drops. Stephen Hawking had dinner at his house. Stephen Spielberg once asked him for movie tips. Russian billionaire Uri Milner once walked into his office and sat on the couch and asked him to help design humanity's first interstellar spaceship - which he is now doing, with a research budget of $100 million and the endorsement of Mark Zuckerberg and the late Hawking.

Loeb mentions casually that when he was 24 years old he got a private audience with the famed physicist Freeman Dyson - and then pauses for effect beneath the 20-foot shaft of the Great Refractor, grinning until he realizes the reporter doesn't know who Freeman Dyson is.

At midday, Loeb leaves the telescope and his office and descends to a bare white classroom to introduce the basics of astrophysics to a dozen new students.

If he's mastered the national news interview by now, his lecture begins a bit stilted. He looks down at the table as he speaks. He asks the freshmen at this most prestigious of universities to go around the table and list their hobbies.

Ten minutes later, Loeb goes off script.

"Did anyone hear the name 'Oumuamua?" he asks. "What did it mean?"

Almost everyone nods, and freshman Matt Jacobsen, who came to Harvard from an Iowa farm town, volunteers quietly: "There was speculation that it was from another civilization."

"Who made that speculation?" Loeb asks, smiling.

There's an awkward silence in the room, and then Jacobsen cries, "Was it you? Oh my gosh!" and the professor smiles wider.

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Ten Earthquakes Strike the Coast of Northern California in Less Than 24 Hours | Is the “Big One” Coming?

Ten earthquakes of preliminary magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.5 struck off the coast of Northern California between Saturday and Sunday, the United States Geological Survey reports.

The series of earthquakes rumbled beneath the Pacific Ocean, between 3 miles and 27 miles west of Petrolia in Humboldt County.

The first earthquake struck early Saturday morning at a magnitude of 4.3, while a second earthquake, of 3.2 magnitude, rumbled about 30 minutes later. Three additional earthquakes hit between 4:30 p.m. and 5:38 p.m. Saturday in the same area, registering magnitudes between 2.9 and 3.6, USGS reported. A 3.0-magnitude earthquake struck that night, at 11:37 p.m.

The geological activity continued into Sunday. USGS reported four earthquakes near Petrolia between 2:18 p.m. and 4:05 p.m. The earthquakes ranged in magnitude from 3.4 to 4.5.

More than 240 people, from Mendocino to McKinleyville, said they felt the 4.5-magnitude earthquake that struck Sunday at 2:18 p.m., according to the USGS’s online “Felt Report” page.

There was no initial word on damage or injury resulting from the quakes. The National Weather Service office in Eureka said Sunday afternoon there was no tsunami danger.

If you live in California, you’ll know the Big One is coming: 

a powerful earthquake of up to magnitude eight is headed for the state. Energy has been building up along the San Andreas Fault for more than a century. No-one knows exactly when or where, but that one day that energy will be unleashed.

It might strike at the heart of San Francisco, last devastated by a Big One in 1906. Or maybe it will tear through southern California like the magnitude 7.9 quake that hit in 1857 and ruptured some 225 miles of the San Andreas Fault.

More than 100 years on, it’s hard to predict exactly how hard the next Big One will hit. John Vidale, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center and affiliate professor at the University of Washington, told Newsweek it won’t look like in the movies—cities won’t collapse into rubble and tsunamis probably won’t sweep through California. But without adequate preparations, the Big One could “cripple” the finances of a state that just became the fifth largest economy in the world.

What exactly is a “Big One,” and where could such an earthquake hit?

A tectonic boundary between the North American and the Pacific plates cuts through California. It’s a big fault where the two sides are moving three or four centimeters a year sideways. Strain builds up for one or two hundred years along that boundary, and then finally that strain becomes so great that the fault can’t take it anymore. It breaks and moves 15 ft or so all at once, causing an earthquake.

There’s three, four, five sections, to this fault—and many other faults running in parallel—but we worry about a Big One striking in the north or in the south of the San Andreas. There’s a part between north and south in central California that seems act like a buffer. There’s some chance a rupture could go end-to-end, but we think it’s either unlikely or that it just doesn’t happen.

How often do these massive earthquakes hit?

It’s every few hundred years. The earthquakes that have happened in the meantime are still devastating to a local area, but instead of magnitude eight, they’re more like magnitude seven. It’s a logarithmic scale, so an eight has about 30 times more energy than a magnitude seven.

Don’t smaller quakes help to dissipate some of the energy that’s building up deep underground?

Those little earthquakes let out only a tiny amount of energy compared to the big ones. It would take 10 magnitude seven earthquakes to let out the strain of a magnitude eight. We don’t have that many, so those little earthquakes hardly slow the big ones at all.

Does that mean the next big one is inevitable?

That’s right. When we look at the history of the fault, we can see these big earthquakes have happened many times over the last few thousand years, so yeah, it’s an inevitability. We just don’t know if it’s going to be now or two hundred years from now.

What kind of impact would a northern or southern California Big One have?

The impact of the northern big one would be tremendous—I mean the San Andreas runs right through San Francisco. It’s quite a lot closer to San Francisco than it is to Los Angeles.

Downtown San Francisco is vulnerable—some of the oldest buildings survived the shaking back in 1906, but that doesn’t mean they’d be safe in the next earthquake by any means. Many of the buildings are built close to the fault and on kind of soft ground that might liquify.

A southern Big One would likely strike a little further away from the heart of Los Angeles, so the impact might be smaller. On the other hand LA has a lot more stuff to break than San Francisco—a lot of it is pretty old. So I think the net expectation is similar north and south. The fault is further away in the South, but it’s also riper, more ready, to go than the one in the north.

More generally, there’s a lot of disasters that come from the strong shaking of an earthquake. It would certainly cause landslides, and conceivably chemical spills. We’re also concerned about fires.

What about tsunamis?

Tsunamis aren’t a big worry here. For an earthquake to make a tsunami it would have to be offshore—not be on the main part of the San Andreas. The ground would move sideways, not so much vertically as in other places, and it’s hard to make a big wave moving sideways. But a lot of other things could happen.

When the Tōhoku earthquake hit Japan in 2011, it caused a disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Are there are any nuclear reactors at risk from a Big One in California?

Not around here—there’s one up by San Onofre but it’s been turned off. There’s been a lot of debate about nuclear reactors. Engineers argue they can make reactors safe, but there have been enough accidents over the years that for safety’s sake they are tending not to build them in most places anymore.

If infrastructure doesn’t rebound, what effects will this have on California?

It’s certainly in the realm of possibility that the earthquake causes something that cripples the economy for a long time. Nobody expected the Fukushima reactor to be a dominant problem in Japan’s 2011 earthquake, for example. There’s always a small chance of some very serious unexpected problems.

It’s also possible that a big earthquake might have less effect than we expect. It’s just very hard to predict.

The Big One is worrisome for the government because it disrupts a large area. But for individuals, the moderate-size earthquakes that are right under our feet are often the worst threat.

Los Angeles, for example is filled with faults, and many of them could have a magnitude seven earthquake. A magnitude seven on a smaller fault might well do more damage than the Big One on the San Andreas. The Big One is only part of the danger here.

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NASA-wetenschappers verbijsterd: mysterieus eiland doemt op uit oceaan en krioelt nu al van leven - HLN.be

Bron: CNN, space.com

In 2015 steeg tussen de twee eilanden van Tonga door een vulkaanuitbarsting onder het wateroppervlak plots een nieuw vulkanisch eiland op uit de Stille Oceaan. Het plekje grond heeft nog altijd geen officiële naam, maar Tongalezen noemen het ‘Hunga Tonga’.

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De afgelopen 150 jaar werden nog maar drie dergelijke ‘nieuwe’ eilanden geregistreerd, dus Hunga Tonga is een grote speeltuin voor wetenschappers. Onderzoekers van NASA zakten onlangs af naar het eiland om er de ondergrond, de fauna en de flora te gaan bestuderen. “We waren net enthousiaste schoolkinderen”, zegt Dan Slayback van het Goddard Space Flight Centre van NASA.

Veel leven en mysterieuze modder

Amper vier jaar nadat Hunga Tonga uit de oceaan rees, krioelt het eiland van het leven. In geen tijd begon er vegetatie te groeien en honderden verschillende soorten zeevogels maken hun nest langs de kliffen. Maar het is vooral de lichtgekleurde, kleiachtige modder die de onderzoekers fascineert: “De modder is heel kleverig, we weten niet goed wat het juist is”, zegt Slayback. “Ik weet nog altijd niet waar die modder vandaan komt.”

Eiland zal snel weer verdwijnen

Vraag is hoelang Hunga Tonga nog boven water zal blijven, want het duurt meestal slechts enkele maanden voor dergelijke nieuwe eilanden weer weg eroderen. Volgens Slayback ziet het er niet goed uit: “Het eiland erodeert veel sneller dan gedacht door de regen.” Maar voor Hunga Tonga opnieuw in de oceaan verdwijnt, verzamelen Slayback en zijn collega’s nog zo veel mogelijk informatie.

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De magnetische noordpool verschuift in sneltempo naar Rusland, en dat heeft gevolgen - HLN.be

Bron: De Morgen, National Geographic, The Guardian

De magnetische noordpool is het punt waarnaar een kompas altijd wijst en niet te verwarren met de geografische noordpool. Het geografische noorden blijft altijd op hetzelfde punt liggen, loodrecht tegenover de zuidpool. Het magnetische noorden is een krachtveld ten noorden van Canada dat zich constant beweegt, het beïnvloedt het aardmagnetisch veld rond de aarde. Maar nu het krachtveld plots heel wispelturig wordt, dreigen wij er ook de gevolgen van te dragen.

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Het magnetische noorden verschuift normaal met ongeveer 15 kilometer per jaar, maar de laatste twee jaar is de pool telkens met zo’n 55 kilometer verschoven. Naar de oorzaak van die plotse beweging is het gissen, maar een heel beweeglijke noordpool kan wel voor problemen zorgen.

Langeafstandsvluchten

De magnetische noordpool is belangrijk voor bijvoorbeeld de scheep- en luchtvaart. Hoewel GPS met satellieten de magnetische noordpool voor een groot deel overbodig heeft gemaakt, blijft hij wel belangrijk als back-up. Vooral bij langeafstandsvluchten kan een ontregelde noordpool grote afwijkingen veroorzaken. “Mocht men er geen rekening mee houden, zou men er snel 100 kilometer naast zitten”, vertelt de Leuvense geoloog Manuel Sintubin aan De Morgen.

Ook kompassen in elektronische apparaten hangen vaak af van magnetisme en zelfs het Amerikaanse leger gebruikt het magnetische noorden voor bijvoorbeeld parachutesprongen. Wetenschappers zijn dus genoodzaakt snel in te grijpen.

Britse en Amerikaanse wetenschappers brengen de magnetische polen in kaart met het World Magnetic Model (WMM). Het WMM krijgt doorgaans om de vijf jaar een update, maar nu zijn de wetenschappers genoodzaakt om de update al een jaar vroeger door te voeren. Door de shutdown in de VS liet die update even op zich wachten, maar gisteren werd het nieuwe WMM dan toch de wereld in gestuurd.

Poolwissel

Sommige wetenschappers zien in de verschuiving een voorbode van het omkeren van de magnetische polen van de aarde. Daardoor zou de magnetische noordpool de magnetische zuidpool worden en omgekeerd. Dat kan verregaande gevolgen hebben, onder meer voor het stroomnet en voor onze communicatiesystemen. Het zou ook het leven aan de aardoppervlakte blootstellen aan hogere dosissen straling van de zon en de ruimte doordat ons magnetisch veld erdoor verzwakt.

Dat omkeren is iets dat normaal gezien om de 200.000 tot 300.000 jaar gebeurt. De recentste ommekeer dateert echter al van 780.000 jaar geleden, waardoor sommige wetenschappers denken dat het niet lang meer zal duren eer er een nieuwe aankomt.

Hoe snel de ommekeer exact gaat? De wetenschap krijgt het voorlopig niet preciezer dan “in een paar duizend jaar”, maar de gevolgen zijn wel de hele tijd te voelen. “Er wordt algemeen aanvaard dat tijdens de ommekeer het magnetische veld verzwakt tot 10 procent van zijn volledige potentieel”, aldus Brad Clement van de Florida International University. “Als het verzwakt is, draaien de polen ongeveer 180 graden, waarna het magnetische veld weer sterker wordt in de omgekeerde richting. En dat kan dus duizenden jaren duren.” 

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Last month a drone owner captured the amazing footage of a UFO fastwalker over Utah near Area51. Now a similar event has happened in Spain.

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Waarom het magnetische noorden zich almaar sneller (richting Rusland) verplaatst

Bron: THE GUARDIAN

Het magnetische noorden is de voorbije decennia zo snel verplaatst dat vroegere schattingen volgens wetenschappers niet meer volstaan voor een precieze navigatie. Daarom hebben ze, een jaar vroeger dan gepland, een update gegeven over de exacte locatie. Wat blijkt: het magnetische noorden schuift almaar meer op richting Rusland. Voor de complotdenkers: ene Vladimir Poetin heeft hier niets mee te maken.

Volgens de wetenschappers verplaatst het magnetische noorden zich ongeveer 55 kilometer per jaar en werd de internationale datumgrens in 2017 overschreden. “Het noorden schuift op van het Canadese Noordpoolgebied naar het Russische Siberië.

Maar waarom is die verplaatsing zo belangrijk voor ons? “Het kan problemen veroorzaken met de kompassen in onze smartphones en andere consumentenelektronica. Ook vliegtuigen en schepen vertrouwen deels op het magnetische noorden als navigatiemiddel”, aldus geofysicus en hoofdonderzoeker Arnaud Chulliat van de universiteit van Colorado. Gps-systemen worden niet beïnvloed omdat zijn werken op basis van satellietgegevens.

Het Amerikaanse leger gebruikt het magnetische noorden voor navigatie en de namen van start- en landingsbanen voor vliegtuigen zijn gebaseerd op hun verhouding ten opzichte van het magnetische noorden. Als dat verandert, moeten ook de namen aangepast worden.

Turbulentie

Normaal gezien wordt de locatie van het magnetische noorden eens om de vijf jaar geüpdatet, maar door de snelle verschuiving zagen de wetenschappers zich genoodzaakt de aanpassing al een jaar vroeger dan gepland te doen.

Sinds de eerste meting in 1831 is het magnetische noorden al ruim 2.300 kilometer opgeschoven richting Rusland. Sinds 2000 is de snelheid gestegen van ongeveer 15 kilometer naar ongeveer 55 kilometer per jaar. De oorzaak daarvoor is turbulentie in de buitenste kern van onze aarde. Daar bevindt zich een hete, vloeibare “oceaan” van ijzer en nikkel waarvan de beweging een elektrisch veld tot stand brengt. “Dat kunnen we magnetisch weer noemen”, aldus geofysicus Daniel Lathrop.

Noord wordt zuid en andersom

Opmerkelijk: het magnetische zuiden beweegt trager dan het noorden. Over het algemeen bekeken wordt het magnetische veld van de Aarde zwakker. Volgens experts zou het na verloop van tijd uiteindelijk zelfs omkeren en zal het magnetische noorden het zuiden worden en andersom. In de geschiedenis van de Aarde is dat al meermaals gebeurd, al was de laatste keer wel meer dan 780.000 jaar geleden. Wanneer de volgende “flip” staat te gebeuren, kunnen de experts niet exact zeggen. “Binnen een 1.000-tal jaar?”

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Mothman is the colloquial name given to the winged humanoid creature that reportedly appeared in Point Pleasant, West Virginia during 1966 and 1967. Besides the true strangeness of the mothman sightings, the point pleasant case is forever accented by the collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967 that claimed the lives of 46 people, solidifying the mothman as a bringer of bad omens in modern American folklore.  In 2017, mothman sightings began again, this time in Chicago, Illinois. Lon Strickler, owner of the website Phantoms and Monsters, collected 55 reports from the Chicago area during that period. Further investigation uncovered mothman sightings around lake Michigan dating back to 1981. The reports described a large winged humanoid, with a face of some kind, and glowing red eyes. Described as either a bat-like or insect-like creature, the sightings matched the original descriptions of the mothman first seen in Point Pleasant. Now it seems like this creature or specter or hoax or guy-with-a-jetpack is back again. Recent reports have come out of a very similar creature in Indiana on the same highway that ran over the doomed Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Mothman Statue in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Credit: Jason W (CC-BY-2.0)

According to Lon Strickler who compiled the 2017 Chicago reports, the witness (identified by the initials TH) contacted him via telephone in January and described a sighting near Muncie, Indiana, just south of the Prairie Creek Reservoir. Muncie is just about halfway between Point Pleasant, West Virgina and Chicago, Illinois. According to TH, the sighting occurred on December 26, 2018. he and his wife were driving on U.S. 35 when he saw a “huge winged humanoid” fly overhead. According to the report:

TH is a military veteran, hunter, trapper and farmer who lives in the immediate area. His knowledge of military flying craft, wildlife and his keen sense of observance was apparent while I talked to him. The winged being that he was observing was unlike anything he had ever seen before. The creature was flying just above treetop level and was easily visible to the witness. His reaction was to slam on his brakes in wonderment, exclaiming to his wife ‘do you see that?’ His wife was shaken by the sudden stop and was unable to react fast enough to see the winged being.

TH stated that the being was humanoid in shape with an obvious ‘face.’ The body had a length of approximately 6-7 feet, with bat-like wings that were extremely wide. The being was dark-colored, and seemed to glide at a steady speed. He never noticed the flapping of wings while watching the creature.

Strickler also noted that the witness’ wife said that TH was “truly affected” by the encounter and constantly wanted to discuss the incident with her, yet had told no one outside his family. After hearing of other reports, he contacted Strickler with his own account.

The deep emotional imprinting is common with mothman sightings. If it is some sort of omen than that would make sense, of course. Whether this is an actual sighting of a winged, humanoid, supernatural creature is obviously pretty hard to prove even if it’s not simply a made up story. Witness testimony is notoriously unreliable. However, it should be noted that soon after this incident the great lakes region of the U.S was hit with the “polar vortex,” plunging temperatures into the -40 degree Fahrenheit range. According to the BBC, the cold snap was responsible for at least 22 deaths. Was the mothman again signalling bad times ahead? Likely not, but still it’s a weird sort of coincidence.

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IT’S AN OARFISH! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! Okay, well not specifically because of the oarfish, but because of what it maypresage, of course. When the stinking, rotting carcasses of these mysterious and massive fish wash ashore, bad things tend to happen. At least, that’s according to numerous examples of folklore and legends from around the world which say that the oarfish can predict catastrophic natural disasters. Where is the next big one set to strike?

Hopefully not Fukushima again.

If oarfish legends are true, Japan. Japanese netizens have been taking to social media to speculate and digitally gesticulate about what this deep sea harbinger may mean for the land of the rising sun. The body of the fish was found tangled in a fishing net on January 28 near the city of Imizu along Japan’s northwest coast and quickly taken to a nearby aquarium for analysis. The fish measured 4 meters in length. Shortly thereafter, two more dead oarfish were found on nearby beaches, prompting some Japanese social media users to predict the worst.

However, Hiroyuki Motomura, a professor of ichthyology at Kagoshima University, says there’s nothing to worry about and the legends about oarfish are just that. “I have around 20 specimens of this fish in my collection so it’s not a very rare species, but I believe these fish tend to rise to the surface when their physical condition is poor, rising on water currents, which is why they are so often dead when they are found,” Motomura told AsiaOne.com. “The link to reports of seismic activity goes back many, many years, but there is no scientific evidence of a connection so I don’t think people need to worry.”

Oarfish can measure up to 11 meters (36 feet) in length.

Naturally, science blogs around the internet are clamoring to report on the oarfish in the name of “ANOTHER MYTH SMASHED!” as they do. Most scientists discount the belief that dead oarfish foreshadow oncoming natural disasters, although there is some anecdotal evidence of these incidents lining up. Of course, there are plenty of more examples of dead oarfish without any catastrophic earthquakes, so make what you will of these supposedly supernatural fish corpses.

Time will tell for Japan. Let’s hope this one is just a myth.

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Alien Ship Found In Moon Crater Looks Like Flyable Condition, Feb 2019, NASA Link, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Feb 5, 2018

Location of discovery: Earths moon, between Von Karman crater and Davvison Craters.

Source photo: 

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I found this structure in the center of a crater on Earths moon. The structure closely resemblers a ship from the Transformers movie. The craft is triangle in shape, but with a lot of odd bulges. The object is very shine, more so than anything in its surrounding area, which tells me its metallic. Also there is a shadow going across its front...its not broken, its front is lower so there is a shadow making that part of the alien ship darker. This is odd, I literally stared at this for 15 minutes trying to determine what it is, how old it might be and why its at the center of the crater. It seems it landed in the center of the crater to hide from Each telescopes....also it doesn't seem to be too old, under 250,000 years because there is not a thick layer of surface dust covering it...which would significantly reduce the shininess of the metallic surface. 

 

I feel this craft may still be salvageable and possible could be used to transport humans to other planets in the Milky Way. This way if we spread our selves around...more of a chance our species will survive longer. 

Scott C. Waring

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Airplane passenger Records UFO over Phoenix, Arizona, VIDEO, Feb 2019, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 2019

Location of sighting: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

 

This is an alien drone that flew within a few meters of the airliner, stopped to scan, the shot off instantly. Notice in the video, the UFO does appear to stop for a 1-2 seconds and take off. What did it do for that time? Record of course...record data, scan the aircraft and its occupants, or just recorded the people looking out the windows, but it was there for a purpose. To gather data. These UFOs are out there 24/7 doing flybys of anything in the air and recording data about them. 

 

These smaller UFOs are more common than you think and if you have aircraft flying nearby, just record an hour of footage of aircraft flying over head and I'm sure if you look at the footage and slow it down, you too will see the same shape UFO shooting past an aircraft...I did several time in my videos on my channel. I will place a video below of a UFO flyby I personally caught here in Taiwan. 

 

Scott C. Waring

 

Eyewitness states: 

Object appears to quickly change direction in time lapse video.

UFO I caught in Taiwan near jet back in 2013.

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Why Is Nikola Tesla Literally Erased From History Books?

Did Nikola Tesla’s Strange Obsession With UFOs, Antigravity and Aliens get him banned from History books? Did these crazy ideas get him banned from history? It seems that whenever someone talks about Nikola Tesla they wonder how did he go unnoticed in history books? Why was his legacy pushed out of society? And why is literally erased from history?

WHY IS HIS LEGACY PUSHED OUT OF SOCIETY?

Tesla was a man far ahead of his time, and his countless inventions are evidence that this man was, in fact, the most incredible inventor to ever live on Earth. If it weren’t for this man, things like smart phones, radio, remote controlled devices, etc… would be something completely unknown to us.

But a part of these ‘conventional’ intentions, Tesla had quite a few that seem to have come straight out of a science fiction movie script. UFO’s, Antigravity and Alien beings were anything but unfamiliar for Tesla who even claimed to have contacted beings not from Earth while working on one of his projects.

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe, there is a core from which “We” obtain knowledge, strength, and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know it exists. – Nikola Tesla

This also explains the principles of the Faraday cage, which is used in high voltage research laboratories to protect humans and the electro-sensitive equipment from damage.

According to UFO reports, the inside of these “vehicles” is composed of circular channels or columns which go through the center of the craft. These serve, as a superstructure for the rest of the disk-shaped object and carry a high voltage and a high-frequency coil. It is believed to be a resonant transformer which gives electrostatic and electromagnetic load to the craft and its polarity. The coil inside the craft is what we know today as a Tesla Coil invented by Nikola Tesla in 1891.

Nikola Tesla said: “There is a difference between progress and technology, progress benefits mankind. Technology does not necessarily do that.”

ALIENS, TESLA, AND THE FIRST MAN-MADE FLYING SAUCER

One night, when he was alone in the laboratory, Tesla observed what he cautiously referred to as electrical actions which definitely appeared to be intelligent signals. The changes were taking place periodically and with such a clear suggestion of number and order that they could not be traced to any cause then known to him.

This incident was the first of many in which Tesla intercepted what he felt were intelligent signals from space. At the time, it was surmised by prominent scientists that Mars would be a likely haven for intelligent life in our solar system, and Tesla at first thought these signals may be originating from the red planet.

While in Colorado Springs, Tesla intercepted strange radio signals that spread through the media incredibly fast. Tesla observed unusual signals from his receiver; Tesla concluded that these signals might actually be signals that have originated somewhere in space. He mentioned these signals in a letter to reporter Julian Hawthorne at the Philadelphia North American on 8 December 1899 and in a December 1900 letter about possible discoveries in the new century to the Red Cross Society where he referred to messages “from another world” that read “1… 2… 3…”.

But Tesla was not the only one who was able to intercept these mysterious signals. Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi, was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi’s law and a radio telegraph system. Guglielmo Marconi also intercepted signals originating from space a few years after Tesla; researchers have since claimed that Tesla and Marconi intercepted the same signals.

THE PERFECT UFO: MADE BY TESLA

The methods used in the design of the flying saucer matched the descriptions of those who claimed to have seen a from the UFO inside: with a discoidal capacitor with sufficient size to provide enough thrust to fly, while other small capacitors allowed to control the direction of the flying saucer, to which he added a gyroscopic stabilization system and an electric “drive” control. And if all of that isn’t enough, Tesla had more; the interior of the ship was equipped with flat screens and external video cameras for the pilot’s blind spots.

Tesla’s UFO has eyes, and these were made of electro-optical lenses, arranged in quadrants, allowing the pilot to see everything. Screens and monitors are placed on a console where the browser can observe all areas around the vehicle, and Tesla’s incredible invention included magnifying lenses, which could have been used without changing positions. Basically, it is an incredibly well-designed aircraft, one that we could actually manage to build today. Or have we already built it? What happened to this invention? Why are we not flying into space with Tesla’s incredible invention?

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Third Snowy Pyramid Recently Discovered in Antarctica Could Rewrite History (Video)

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The Milky Way’s outer disk may actually be warped and twisted

BY TIBI PUIU

For thousands of years, humans thought that Earth was at the center of the universe. It was only in recent centuries that it became an established scientific fact that Earth orbits the sun, and later that the solar system — along with hundreds of billions of other stars — orbits a common galactic center. Until very recently, it has been very difficult for scientists to visualize what the Milky Way looks like given that we are embedded inside it.

Artist impression of a warped Milky Way.

Credit: CHEN Xiaodian.

Thanks to observation, reconstruction, and comparison to other galaxies, researchers have a fairly accurate idea of what our galaxy looks like. If you were to travel outside the galaxy and look down upon it from above, what you’d see is a barred spiral galaxy with two spiral arms called Scutum–Centaurus and Carina–Sagittarius. But, the spiral disk is anything but stable, new research from China shows. The new study found that the farther away you travel from the galactic core, this disk becomes increasingly warped and twisted.

The Milky Way’s S-like appearance at its edges is due to the fact that gravity becomes weaker the farther you are from the galaxy’s inner regions. Since hydrogen atoms in the far outer disk are no longer confined to a thin plane, they get warped.

There were many challenges in this study. One of them is establishing distances from the sun to the Milky Way’s outer disk when you don’t know what the disk actually looks like yet. The research team at the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), led by Chen Xiaodian, had to employ a new catalog of variable stars known as classical Cepheids. Such stars are hot and massive – five to twenty times the mass of our sun and up to 100,000 times as bright. They also pulsate radially for days to months at a time — and this period of pulsation can be combined with the Cepheid’s brightness to reliably establish its distance from the sun.

A 3D distribution of the classical Cepheids in the Milky Way’s warped disk.

Credit: CHEN Xiaodian.

Because they are so bright, Cepheids can be clearly seen millions of light years away and can be easily distinguished from other bright stars in their vicinity, making them indispensable tools in any astronomers’ kit. For instance, it’s thanks to Cepheids that Edwin Hubble and Milton L. Humason were able to prove that the Universe is in a state of expansion. Now, Cepheids have proven their worth once more, establishing an important physical characteristic of the Milky Way’s disk.

“Somewhat to our surprise, we found that in 3D our collection of 1339 Cepheid stars and the Milky Way’s gas disk follow each other closely. This offers new insights into the formation of our home galaxy,” says Prof. Richard de Grijs from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and senior co-author of the paper. “Perhaps more importantly, in the Milky Way’s outer regions, we found that the S-like stellar disk is warped in a progressively twisted spiral pattern.”

The same twisted spiral patterns have been seen before in more than a dozen other galaxies. Combined with these observations, the study’s results suggest that the likely culprit for the Milky Way’s warped spiral pattern is torque from the massive inner disk.

“This new morphology provides a crucial updated map for studies of our galaxy’s stellar motions and the origins of the Milky Way’s disk,” says Dr. DENG Licai, senior researcher at NAOC and co-author of the study published in Nature Astronomy.

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We snappen steeds minder van hoe planeten ontstaan (en drie andere lessen na de ontdekking van vierduizend planeten)

Bijna vierduizend planeten zijn er al ontdekt en ruimtesonde Tess is net begonnen aan een nieuwe zoektocht. Al die werelden leveren voorzichtige inzichten op over hoe de aarde ontstond en of we alleen zijn in de kosmos. De belangrijkste lessen.

George van Hal

Een planeet zo heet dat hij letterlijk verdampt. Stevige werelden van harde rots. Plekken waar je net als in sciencefictionklassieker Star Wars aan de hemel niet één, maar twee ‘zonnen’ ziet. Zware superaardes, verstopt achter dikke sluiers van gas. En stelsels zo propvol planeten dat leven er van de ene naar de andere bol zou kunnen liften.

De buitenaardse plekken die astronomen de afgelopen jaren hebben ontdekt zijn gevarieerd en, bovenal, talrijk. Eeuwenlang, tot begin jaren negentig, kenden we er maar acht (of negen, als je het Pluto-fans vraagt): Venus, Aarde, Jupiter, enzovoort. De planeten die draaien om onze eigen zon. Maar sinds de ontdekking van de eerste planeet om een ándere ster gaat het hard. Duizenden van die zogeheten exoplaneten kennen we inmiddels, een definitief bewijs dat het heelal krioelt van de exotische werelden. De inzichten uit die hausse aan vondsten helpen bij het zoeken naar antwoorden op de grote levensvragen. Vragen als: waar komen we vandaan? En: hoe is de aarde ontstaan?

Bovendien zijn er tientallen werelden ontdekt in de zogeheten ‘leefbare zone’ rond hun moederster, de afstand waarop oppervlaktewater vloeibaar is en leven wellicht mogelijk. Dat voedt de hoop dat we ook op de grootste van de grote vragen antwoord krijgen: de vraag of we eenzaam door een kille kosmos dobberen, of dat leven ook elders in dit heelal wortel heeft geschoten.

Nu de belangrijkste exoplaneetjager van onze tijd – ruimtetelescoop Kepler – definitief met pensioen is gegaan en zijn opvolger (ruimtesonde Tess) net begonnen is met een nieuwe zoektocht, blijkt dat de inzichten die al die nieuwe werelden ons gaven verrassender zijn dan gedacht. Een overzicht van de belangrijkste lessen van, door en over planeten.

Beeld Vilain & Gai

Les 1: De nieuw ontdekte planeetstelsels lijken totaal niet op ons eigen zonnestelsel.

Het gaat er behoorlijk braaf aan toe in dat zonnestelsel van ons. Acht planeten, overzichtelijk gerangschikt. Rotsachtige werelden als Mars en de aarde staan vlak bij de zon, gasreuzen als Jupiter en Uranus zweven verderop in de kosmische leegte. Stuk voor stuk draaien die planeten keurige, vrijwel cirkelvormige banen. Af en toe kletst ergens met grote vaart een verdwaald stuk ruimtesteen op een planeet, maar verder is het hier goed toeven. Een kosmisch bedevaartsoord waarin de mensheid rustig tot wasdom kon komen.

Nee, dan de rest van het heelal. Dat zit tjokvol extreme werelden. Neem nu planeet Kelt-9b, een reusachtige gasplaneet die zó dicht op een loeihete ster zit dat hij letterlijk aan het verdampen is. Of kijk naar Wasp-12b, een gasmonster grofweg tweemaal zo groot als Jupiter. Die wordt door de gigantische zwaartekracht van zijn ster uitgerekt tot een soort planetair mega-ei. Al net zo gezellig gaat het eraan toe op PSR B1257+12 A (en B en C, overigens), planeten die draaien om een pulsar, een extreme ster die de oppervlakten van zijn metgezellen dag in dag uit bekogelt met een stralingsdosis die een mens direct tot stof zou reduceren. En dan hebben we het nog niet gehad over HD 189733b, waar het – nee, echt – gesmolten glas regent. Van opzij. Dan kun je toch beter op aarde zitten.

Planeten zoals Kelt-9b en HD 189733b zijn gasreuzen die in tegenstelling tot bijvoorbeeld Jupiter niet in de uiterwaarden van een planeetstelsel bivakkeren, maar vlak bij hun moederster. Met alle gevolgen van dien.

En dat soort hete Jupiters zijn lang niet de enige nieuwe planeetsoort die astronomen de afgelopen jaren ontdekten. ‘De belangrijkste les die we hebben geleerd, is dat de diversiteit aan planeten in de kosmos enorm is’, zegt exoplaneetonderzoeker Ignas Snellen van de Universiteit Leiden.

Kijk maar naar de zogeheten superaardes: rotsachtige werelden die een slag groter zijn dan onze eigen planeet en die in ons eigen zonnestelsel nergens te bekennen zijn. Of sub-Neptunussen, grofweg even groot als superaardes, maar dan met een fikse toef gas om hun stenen kern. ‘Vroeger dachten we dat planeten met weinig massa automatisch rotsplaneten worden en dat zwaardere planeten met hun sterkere zwaartekracht gas aantrekken en dus onherroepelijk gasreuzen worden’, zegt Snellen. ‘Dat blijkt niet zo te zijn. Er zitten vele subtiele schakeringen tussen.’

Al die nieuwe planeettypen suggereren bovenal dat het zonnestelsel niet de gouden standaard is waar we hem jarenlang voor hielden, een blauwdruk op basis waarvan we andere planeetsystemen kunnen begrijpen. Astronomen hebben zelfs nog nergens een stelsel gevonden dat op het onze lijkt. ‘Collega’s speculeren hardop dat het zonnestelsel heel zeldzaam is’, zegt Snellen. ‘Dat vind ik erg voorbarig.’

Ook astronoom Carsten Dominik, verbonden aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, vindt het ‘te vroeg’ om te concluderen dat het zonnestelsel een uitzondering is. ‘We kunnen een planeetstelsel als ons zonnestelsel nu nog niet zo makkelijk detecteren’, zegt hij. ‘Onze gegevens zijn dus vertekend.’

Planeten dichter bij hun ster zijn nu nog gemakkelijker te vinden, onder andere doordat ze vaker voor hun ster langskruisen. Dat veroorzaakt geregeld terugkerende dipjes in de lichtsterkte van de ster, die astronomen door hun telescopen kunnen zien – alsof even een vuurvliegje voor een zaklamp langs vliegt en zo een fractie van het licht blokkeert.

Binnenkort komt daar dankzij de zogeheten Gaia-missie verandering in. Die levert astronomen een gedetailleerde 3D-kaart van ons thuissterrenstelsel, de Melkweg. Daarin kun je van miljoenen sterren de positie en snelheid vinden. Zo kunnen astronomen sterren ontdekken die flink wiebelen doordat een planeet er met zijn zwaartekracht aan trekt. ‘Dat wiebelen is in de Gaia-gegevens beter te zien wanneer zo’n planeet verder weg staat’, zegt Snellen.

Wel duurt het nog even voordat we de eerste verre planeet op die manier vinden. De meeste doen minimaal een jaar of tien over een rondje om hun moederster. ‘Gaia is nu pas twee jaar aan het meten’, zegt Dominik. ‘We moeten dus nog even geduld hebben.’

En zelfs dan is zoeken naar een exacte kopie van het zonnestelsel vermoedelijk een kansloze missie, zegt Snellen. ‘Een man van in de 40, zoals ik, is niet zeldzaam. Maar als ik op zoek ga naar een exacte kopie, met precies dezelfde oogkleur, lengte, gewicht, enzovoort – dan wordt het ineens heel lastig.’ Net als de mens is ieder planeetstelsel waarschijnlijk uniek.

Les 2: Tijdens de planetaire puberteit blijven werelden niet braaf op hun plek zitten.

Lang dachten we dat kosmische kolossen zoals het zonnestelsel vredige plekken waren, waarin alles rustig verliep. Planeten ontstaan op de plek waarop we ze in het zonnestelsel vinden:  grote gasreuzen ver weg, kleine rotsplaneten dichtbij. En daarna blijven ze daar de rest van hun leven staan.

Dat beeld staat sinds de vondst van duizenden exoplaneten op z’n kop. Boosdoeners zijn de ‘hete Jupiters’: grote gasreuzen die zo dicht bij hun moederster staan dat ze er bijna op schoot zitten. En dat betekent dat grote planeten dicht bij hun ster kunnen ontstaan óf dat ze na geboorte alsnog heen en weer kunnen schuiven.

Zo’n planetaire puberteit, waarin jonge planeten tegendraads aan de wandel gaan, staat sinds kort in de boeken. Dat zware planeten ver weg ontstaan, lijkt namelijk onontkoombaar: verder weg is meer ‘spul’ beschikbaar. Net zoals een grammofoonplaat aan de buitenkant de meeste vierkante centimeters vinyl heeft. Verder weg is het ook kouder, zodat je gratis waterijs en bevroren CO₂ als extra bouwblokjes krijgt. En je wint daar dan ook nog eens gemakkelijker het wedstrijdje gravitationeel touwtrekken met de ster. Terwijl de ster het stof met zijn zwaartekracht stevig in de schijf trekt, wil een beginnende planeet het er juist uit zuigen om een bolletje te maken. Dat win je makkelijker op een afstandje.

Hoewel zware planeten die dichter op een ster ontstaan niet uitgesloten zijn – ‘daarvoor zien we in computersimulaties wel opties’ – is dat dus vermoedelijk zeldzaam. Dominik: ‘Het zal véél vaker gebeuren dat een zware planeet verder weg ontstaat en daarna naar binnen beweegt.’

Dat bewegen van planeten, ‘migreren’ zeggen astronomen, heeft ook in ons zonnestelsel plaatsgevonden. Geïnspireerd door wat ze in verre planeetstelsels zagen, besloten astronomen onze lokale geschiedenis te simuleren. Al snel bleek dat de grote gasreuzen in het jonge zonnestelsel driftig heen en weer schoven, al keerden ze hier uiteindelijk weer terug naar hun oorspronkelijke deel van het stelsel.

Ook in andere planeetstelsels zien astronomen de sporen van dat chaotische geschuif. Snellen: ‘Hete Jupiters draaien vaak de verkeerde kant op, in vergelijking met andere planeten. Gasreuzen die iets verder weg staan, maar nog steeds relatief dicht op de ster zitten, hebben juist elliptische banen. Dat moet wel het gevolg zijn van het geweld waarmee ze ooit naar binnen zijn geschoven.’

Het lijkt erop dat dergelijke verplaatsingen vaste prik zijn in de chaos van jonge sterrenstelsels. Die planetaire puberteit duurt meestal tien à honderd miljoen jaar. Op een plek als het zonnestelsel, dat met zijn vijf miljard jaar al eventjes mee gaat, is alles inmiddels rustig. ‘Een stelsel dat continu zo chaotisch blijft als in het begin, trekt zichzelf namelijk onherroepelijk aan stukken’, zegt Dominik. Ook bij planeetstelsels komt stabiliteit dus met de jaren.

Les 3: We snappen nog steeds niet goed hoe planeten ontstaan.

Astronomen verbonden aan de European Southern Observatory legden afgelopen september een bommetje onder ons beeld van hoe planeten ontstaan. Ze bekeken honderden stofschijven waarin planeten ontstaan met radiotelescoop Alma en zagen tot hun schrik dat er véél te weinig materiaal in zat om planeten te maken, zo schreven ze in het vakblad Astronomy & Astrophysics. ‘We moeten onze theorieën over planeetvorming herzien’, zei de Nederlandse astronoom Gijs Mulders (University of Chicago), niet bij het onderzoek betrokken, vervolgens tegen het vakblad Science.

Jarenlang gingen astronomen ervan uit dat werelden zoals de aarde, Jupiter, Kelt-9b en HD 189733b ontstonden in stofschijven waar ronddwarrelende stofkorreltjes en andere kleine deeltjes onder invloed van zwaartekracht aan elkaar plakten. Als een soort rollende sneeuwbal voegt steeds meer kosmisch ‘spul’ zich bij de vormende planeet, waardoor hij uiteindelijk kan uitgroeien tot planetaire proporties. Alleen staat die sneeuwbaltheorie door de recente waarnemingen nu plots op losse schroeven: het is lastig grote ballen draaien als je maar een klein beetje sneeuw hebt.

‘Gelukkig zijn er wel uitwegen’, zegt Ignas Snellen, die het artikel ‘heel belangrijk’ noemt. De auteurs beschreven die overigens zelf al in hun vakartikel. Allereerst zouden planeetkernen sneller kunnen groeien dan gedacht. Radiotelescoop Alma, een verzameling van 66 samenwerkende schotels in de Atacamawoestijn in Chili, is vooral goed in het zien van klein stof. Grotere korrels vanaf grofweg een centimeter ontsnappen daardoor aan zijn aandacht. ‘Dan denk je dus dat er te weinig materiaal is’, zegt Snellen. Het kan daarnaast ook nog dat het stof en gas in de schijven steeds wordt aangevuld, vanuit een nog onbekend reservoir, zodat je er bij één momentopname steevast te weinig aantreft. ‘Over dit soort ideeën wordt de komende tijd veel gediscussieerd, totdat we snappen hoe het zit. Zo werkt dat in onze wereld.’

Het artikel past bovendien in een trend, zegt Snellen. ‘Hoe meer waarnemingen we doen, hoe minder we begrijpen van hoe planeten zich vormen’, zegt hij. De stortvloed aan gegevens over exoplaneten en metingen aan de stofschijven waarin ze ontstaan maakt de vraagtekens almaar groter. En dat terwijl het vraagstuk zo cruciaal is: hoe planeten ontstaan, en welke materialen daarbij een rol spelen, raakt direct aan hoe onze eigen planeet, de aarde, werd gevormd. En waar de basisbouwstenen van het leven vandaan komen.

Een van de grootste raadsels waar astronomen mee worstelen is waarom planeten het vormingsproces überhaupt overleven. Nadat stofdeeltjes zijn samengeklonterd tot grotere objecten, bereiken ze rond een paar millimeter een kritische grens. ‘Vanaf dan zouden ze door interactie met de rest van de stofschijf moeten afremmen en in de ster moeten vallen’, zegt Snellen. Pas als ze een stuk groter geworden zijn - bollen met een diameter van een meter of tien - zijn de jonge planeten de stofschijf de baas. Snellen: ‘Maar daar tussenin snappen we er dus niet zoveel van.’

Ideeën zijn er wel. ‘We denken dat kleine deeltjes zich gaan gedragen als een soort peloton bij het wielrennen’, zegt Carsten Dominik. ‘Op die manier hebben ze minder last van het gas eromheen.’ Alleen is het daarvoor dan wel weer noodzakelijk dat er voldoende korreltjes voorhanden zijn, dat de dichtheid van de schijf hoog genoeg is. Of dat het geval is bij de stofschijven die astronomen tot nog toe hebben gezien, is nog een open vraag.

Voorlopig snappen astronomen nog niet waar al het materiaal voor de aarde (en andere planeten) vandaan komt én waarom ons thuis in zijn tienerjaren niet plotseling de zon in is gekukeld. Dat maakt ons bestaan tot een prachtig raadsel dat naar verwachting nog wel even op een oplossing moet wachten.

Les 4: De kans is groot dat ergens een planeet bestaat met buitenaards leven.

‘Ik zal je één ding vertellen over het heelal’, zegt astronoom Ellie Arroway in een beroemd geworden scène uit sciencefictionfilm Contact (1997). ‘Het heelal is een behoorlijk grote plek. Het is groter dan iemand ooit gedroomd heeft. Dus als wij alleen zijn… dan voelt dat als vreselijke ruimteverspilling. Toch?’

Het is grofweg die redenering die alien-optimisten bezigen wanneer ze stellen dat het onvoorstelbaar lijkt dat de aarde in dit uitgestrekte heelal – dat naar verwachting gevuld is met miljarden en miljarden planeten – de enige plek zou zijn waar leven voorkomt. En dat idee heeft, sinds de meting van de eerste exoplaneet, alleen maar aan kracht gewonnen.

‘Toch hebben we uit het exoplaneetonderzoek strikt gesproken nog niets nieuws geleerd over het bestaan van buitenaards leven’, zegt Ignas Snellen. ‘Of nou ja… we weten natuurlijk wél dat rotsachtige planeten zoals de aarde op veel plekken voorkomen.’

Snellen vermoedt zelfs dat het de meest voorkomende planeetsoort in het heelal is, al zijn deze met de huidige methoden nog lastig te vinden. ‘Maar wanneer het technisch wel kan, vinden we ze eigenlijk altijd ook’, zegt hij.

Neem bijvoorbeeld Proxima b, de rotsachtige planeet die rond Proxima Centauri draait, de ster het dichtst bij de zon, op een afstand die vloeibaar water mogelijk maakt. Of, een stukje verderop, de rotsachtige superaarde die astronomen in november ontdekten rond de Ster van Barnard. Het zijn plekken waar leven overigens niet erg waarschijnlijk is. Zo is het op de planeet van Barnard zo’n 170 graden onder nul. Terwijl potentieel leven op Proxima b dankzij heftige steruitbarstingen continu wordt bestookt met naar aardse begrippen dodelijke straling.

Iets hoopvoller is het zogeheten Trappist-systeem, waar drie planeten in de leefbare zone draaien, de afstand waarop vloeibaar water mogelijk is. ‘Daar zou leven dus kunnen bestaan’, zegt Carsten Dominik. ‘Althans: als die planeten bijvoorbeeld een atmosfeer hebben.’

Kijk puur naar de astronomische feiten en je kunt bijna niet anders dan optimistisch zijn. Dominik: ‘We hebben tot nog toe geen enkele showstopper gezien die zegt dat leven minder vaak zou voorkomen dan gedacht.’ Planeten komen voldoende voor, naar verwachting óók om vriendelijkere sterren dan Proxima Centauri. Van die planeten zal een fractie vloeibaar water hebben. En daarvan zal een fractie naar verwachting leven bevatten. ‘Hier op aarde is het leven binnen een paar honderd miljoen jaar ontstaan’, zegt Snellen. ‘Waarom zou dat dan elders niet net zo gaan?

Naar dat leven zijn astronomen als Snellen en Dominik daarom hard op zoek. Het zou zelfs kunnen dat het in de buurt zit. Voor een bevestiging is het wel wachten op de volgende generatie telescopen. De geplande opvolger van Nasa’s ruimtetelescoop Hubble, de James Webb Space Telescope, kan bijvoorbeeld kijken of de planeten rond Trappist een atmosfeer hebben. En de Extremely Large Telescope, die ESO nu in Chili bouwt, kan speuren naar water op Proxima b.

Als leven echter zeldzamer is – zelfs als het bijvoorbeeld ‘slechts’ een op de duizend keer voorkomt – dan moeten we voorlopig geduld hebben. ‘Of je moet andere technieken gebruiken waarmee je nu al veel verder het heelal in kunt kijken’, zegt Dominik. ‘Dan wordt het toch speuren of je radiosignalen van intelligente beschavingen kunt opvangen.’

Die missie heeft tot nog toe geen succes gehad, al is dat ook weer niet zo vreemd. Het heelal is, zoals Ellie Arroway in Contact zei, nu eenmaal best wel groot. Je moet dan ook niet vreemd opkijken als het zoeken naar een planeet met leven in die kosmische hooiberg wat langer duurt dan gehoopt.

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Deze topastronoom van Harvard denkt dat hij een ruimteschip heeft gezien - HLN.be

George van Hal 

Bron: de Volkskrant

Avi Loeb gelooft er wel in. Op 19 oktober 2017 kreeg de mensheid voor het eerst bezoek van aliens. Op dezelfde dag dat in Florence een bezoeker van de Santa Croce-basiliek dodelijk wordt getroffen door een vallend stuk steen, en in Nederland presentator Frits Bom overlijdt, krijgt een telescoop op Hawaï een bizar voorwerp in zijn vizier. Een lang ding, zo’n honderd tot duizend meter. Niet bolvormig, zoals we gewend zijn van de kometen en asteroïden die door het zonnestelsel zoeven, maar langgerekt. Een kosmische scherf of, zo fluistert men op internet al snel: een soort ruimteschip.

Het voorwerp krijgt de Hawaïaanse naam ’Oumuamua, grof vertaald: boodschapper van ver. Journalisten en bloggers noemen hem vanwege zijn vorm liefkozend ‘kosmische komkommer’ of ‘ruimtesigaar’. Maar het opvallendst is de naam die hij van astronomen krijgt: Interstellar 1, de allereerste in een nieuwe categorie, een bezoeker van buiten ons zonnestelsel.

’Ik denk dat ’Oumuamua gemaakt is door een buitenaardse beschaving.’ Aan het woord is geen complotdenker of ufo-gelovige –  Loeb is hoofd van de sterrenkunde-afdeling van Harvard, een van ’s werelds meest prestigieuze universiteiten. Daarnaast is hij directeur van het interdisciplinaire Black Hole Initiative en baas van het instituut voor theorie en berekening aan het Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics.

Een mooi cv, maar Loeb staat ook bekend om zijn uitgesproken ideeën en grote interesse in intelligent buitenaards leven. Zo vroeg hij zich in 2017 hardop af  of de mysterieuze snelle radioflitsen die zijn collega’s in de ruimte waarnemen signalen zouden kunnen zijn van aliens. Ook zit hij in de adviesraad van het Breakthrough Starshot-project van de Russische miljardair Yuri Milner, dat met kleine ruimteschepen naar Proxima Centauri, de ster die het dichtst bij de zon staat, wil vliegen. Op die manier hopen ze op planeet Proxima Centauri b te ontdekken of daar buitenaards leven zit.

Dat juist hij in ’Oumuamua de invloed van buitenaardsen herkent, past dus in een patroon. ’Ik heb meerdere onderzoeken over ’Oumuamua gepubliceerd. Daaruit bleken allerlei vreemde feiten’, zegt Loeb. Zo zag hij hoe de helderheid van het object aan de hemel gedurende acht uur geregeld met een factor tien tot dertig veranderde. Dat betekent dat het voorwerp niet rond is, zegt hij, maar het hoeft ook geen langgerekte sigaar te zijn zoals iedereen lijkt te denken. ‘Onze analyse laat zien dat het meer op een pannekoek lijkt die om z’n lengteas draait.’

Een platte pannekoek van buiten het zonnestelsel… heeft u het soms over een vliegende schotel?

’Ik geloof niet in ufo’s, maar ik denk wel dat ’Oumuamua een overblijfsel is van een buitenaardse beschaving. We ontdekten een rare afwijking in zijn baanbeweging, eentje die je niet kunt verklaren door de aantrekkingskracht van de zon. Dat zie je wel vaker bij een komeet, wanneer het ijs op het oppervlak verdampt. Dan krijg je een soort raket-effect. Maar ’Oumuamua is geen komeet. Hij heeft niet de kenmerkende staart van een komeet en ruimtetelescoop Spitzer vond in de buurt van het object niet de koolstofmoleculen die je bij een komeet zou verwachten.

’De vraag is dus: waar kreeg hij dat extra zetje dan door? Het enige dat ik kan bedenken is stralingsdruk. ’Oumuamua kan een lichtzeil zijn. Net zoals een zeil op een boot vooruit wordt geduwd door deeltjes in de lucht, krijgt een lichtzeil vaart wanneer lichtdeeltjes erop botsen. Die technologie hebben we op aarde ook, maar staat hier nog in de kinderschoenen. Het kan dus best dat een buitenaardse beschaving, die meer tijd heeft gehad om die technologie te ontwikkelen, ’Oumuamua heeft gemaakt.’

Dat is niet iets dat je snel uit de mond van een wetenschapper verwacht…

’Het is natuurlijk nog speculatie. Maar het zou goed kunnen kloppen. Sommige collega’s zeggen: o, maar voor elk van deze vreemde eigenschappen kunnen we wel een excuus vinden of een ingewikkelde verklaring. Mij doet dat denken aan de volgende analogie: stel dat je een mobiele telefoon meeneemt naar een holbewoner. Die zal denken dat de telefoon een soort gekke steen is. Net zo zijn wij vanuit het verleden gewend om te denken in termen van kometen, asteroïden –  stenen uit de ruimte, dus. We zijn vooringenomen.

’Maar in de wetenschap moeten we juist naar het bewijs kijken, zonder vooroordelen. Het is daarom jammer dat we niet meer meetgegevens hebben. Gelukkig verwachten we dat de geplande opvolger van de telescoop die ’Oumuamua vond, daarin veel kan betekenen. Die moet over drie jaar operationeel zijn en kan meer interstellaire voorwerpen ontdekken.’

Moeten astronomen er bij alles rekening mee houden dat het gebouwd kan zijn door aliens?

‘Ja, zolang dat logisch is op basis van het bewijs. Wat mij betreft is het bestaan van buitenaardse beschavingen helemaal geen speculatie. Het is een logische extrapolatie, gebaseerd op twee feiten. Allereerst het feit dat wij bestaan. En ten tweede het feit dat in de Melkweg veel planeten zijn met condities die vergelijkbaar zijn met die op aarde. We denken dat ongeveer een kwart van de sterren een planeet heeft zoals de aarde, met de mogelijkheid van vloeibaar water. Dat zijn in totaal miljarden planeten. Als je dan steeds weer de dobbelsteen gooit, is de kans heel klein dat het maar één keer raak was, dat wij alleen zijn in de kosmos.’

Toch voelt praten over complete beschavingen van intelligente buitenaardse wezens wel heel speculatief.

’Het bestaan van buitenaards leven is een hypothese als alle andere. We moeten daarover oordelen op basis van meetgegevens en feiten. Dat zou mainstreamastronomie moeten zijn. Maar in ons vakgebied heerst een taboe op dit onderwerp. Het doet mensen denken aan sciencefiction, roept het beeld op van ufo’s. Dat zou niets moeten uitmaken.

’Het is ook een beetje scheef. In de snaartheorie (een wiskundig bolwerk dat natuurkundigen optuigden in de hoop alle natuurkunde in één enkele beschrijving te vangen, red.) heeft men het bijvoorbeeld over het bestaan van meer dimensies of zelfs parallelle werkelijkheden. Daar is werkelijk geen enkel bewijs voor en tóch is het mainstream geworden. Voor het bestaan van buitenaardse beschavingen is maar een kleine extrapolatie nodig. En daar mag je het in serieus gezelschap dan ineens niet over hebben. Dat is toch compleet belachelijk?

‘Ik denk dat we hier vooral te maken hebben met een sociologisch effect. Niet met iets dat gebaseerd is op feiten. Men heeft oogkleppen op.’

Zien ze door die oogkleppen nog meer over het hoofd?

’Jaren terug schreef ik al vakartikelen over mogelijke aanwijzingen voor het bestaan van buitenaardse beschavingen – technologische handtekeningen waar we te weinig naar zoeken. Zo liet ik zien dat wanneer je een stad als Tokio verplaatst naar de rand van het zonnestelsel, je hem met ruimtetelescoop Hubble nog gewoon kunt zien.

‘Ik vroeg vervolgens aan een astronoom die veel objecten aan de rand van het zonnestelsel had ontdekt, of hij weleens had gekeken of die voorwerpen kunstmatig licht uitzenden. Hij zei: nee, waarom zou ik dat moeten doen? Het is toch duidelijk dat ze alleen zonlicht weerkaatsen? Zo vooringenomen zijn sommige astronomen dus in de praktijk.’$

Bent u niet bang voor reputatieschade doordat u zoveel praat over aliens?

‘Ik ben niet bang voor de publieke opinie. Als iets klopt, zullen mensen dat uiteindelijk inzien. Ik ben directeur van twee instituten en hoofd van de afdeling sterrenkunde. In mijn instituten heerst een gezonde, open en wetenschappelijke sfeer, waar mensen risico’s mogen nemen. Toen ik jonger was en minder baanzekerheid had, werkten dit soort ideeën me soms wel een beetje tegen. Dat probeer ik jonge onderzoekers te besparen.’

In de wetenschap moet je een hypothese ook kunnen weerleggen. Kunnen we bewijzen dat er géén buitenaardse beschavingen bestaan?

’Nee. Deze zoektocht gaat eeuwig door. Als je op zoek gaat naar signalen zijn er zó veel mogelijkheden. Zelfs als je alleen kijkt naar elektromagnetische straling, zoals radiosignalen of licht, dan kunnen die net als de zenders op je radio allerlei frequenties hebben. Ook zenden ze misschien maar kort uit, zodat je het net mist. Wil je daarvoor compenseren, dan moet je steeds op een andere manier zoeken. We kunnen dus nog wel even doorgaan, ook als het bewijs uitblijft.

’Belangrijk is wel dat je alles kunt blijven toetsen aan waarnemingen. Natuurkunde is een dialoog met de natuur, geen monoloog. Zoals bij ’Oumuamua: ik kan mijn vermoeden dat het een buitenaards apparaat is nog niet sluitend bewijzen, maar we weten hoe we aan meer meetgegevens moeten komen.’

Als we uiteindelijk intelligent buitenaards leven vinden… wat dan?

‘Dan hebben we de belangrijkste ontdekking uit de geschiedenis van de mensheid gedaan. Belangrijker dan de eerste mens die een rondje om de aarde vloog. Belangrijker dan de ontdekking van Amerika. Het zou ons ineens op een kosmisch podium plaatsen, laten zien dat we allemaal voor hetzelfde team spelen. Dat we onze verschillen zo snel mogelijk moeten overstijgen. Ik wil dat tijdens mijn leven graag nog meemaken.’

Lees ook

• Buitenaards leven doorkruist Melkweg mogelijk liftend op ‘kosmische Ark van Noach’. Denk daarbij overigens niet aan grijze mannetjes met griezelig langgerekte gezichten, maar aan bacteriën, eencelligen of onverwoestbare extremofielen. Astronomen van Harvard kwamen vorig jaar met nog een andere opmerkelijke publicatie over ruimtesigaar ’Oumuamua.
• De kans is groot dat ergens een planeet bestaat met buitenaards leven. En nog drie andere lessen die astronomen leerden na bestudering van bijna 4000 exoplaneten. 

Nu we bijna vierduizend planeten hebben ontdekt, hebben we vooral geleerd dat we blij moeten zijn dat we niet op een planeet wonen waar het van opzij gesmolten glas regent. We maken een tour langs de meest extreme en bijzondere bestemmingen in de kosmos.

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“Maan vormde zich uit materiaal van de aarde” -  HLN.be

Bron: NASA

De wetenschapper, Kevin Righter van NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, baseert zich op experimentele proeven en analyses van stalen die de Apollomissies bijna 50 jaar geleden meebrachten naar onze planeet. Na de enorme clash zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar geleden tussen de toen nog jonge aarde met een hemellichaam ongeveer zo groot als Mars werd de maan gevormd. Maar niet uit materiaal van Theia, dat door de impact in een baan rond de aarde zou zijn geslingerd, wél uit materiaal van de aarde zelf.

De studie simuleerde het proces van de maanvorming met behulp van veertien vluchtige, metaalminnende elementen die gevonden werden in monsters van de Apollomissies. Uit de simulatie kwam een “sterke” correlatie naar voren tussen negen van de veertien gebruikte elementen van de aarde en die van een gesimuleerde maan gemaakt uit materiaal van de aarde. Hetzelfde gold niet voor een maan gemaakt uit het vermeende ruimtegesteente Theia, met de omvang van Mars ongeveer.

Er is nog aanvullend onderzoek nodig om de hypothese van Righter te bevestigen, maar zijn studie vult alvast enkele gaten die er al sinds de jaren 70 in de wetenschappelijke data hierover zijn.

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Antarctica is a place with so much ice and snow that they seem to go on forever. Animals, such as seals and penguins, have adapted to the freezing cold temperatures. However, millions of years ago, it wasn’t the blistering cold and icy continent that it’s known for today. Around 250 million years ago, Antarctica was full of forests and rivers with various species wildlife living there, including reptiles. As a matter of fact, the temperature on the continent hardly ever dipped below the freezing mark.

In addition to the nice weather and vast wildlife that thrived on the continent millions of years ago, a new species has been discovered that once lived there. Researchers uncovered the fossil of an iguana-sized reptile that was an early relative of the Antarctic dinosaurs. During a 2010-2011 expedition, the incomplete skeleton was taken from Graphite Peak in the Transantarctic Mountains. The fossil contained parts of its skull, backbone, and limbs.

The small creature was said to have been a carnivore that ate bugs, amphibians, and other early mammal relatives. It has been named Antarctanax shackletoni which translates to “Antarctic king” (for Antarctanax) and in honor of the Antarctic explorer named Ernest Shackleton (for shackletoni).

Dr. Brandon Peecook, who is the lead author of a study on the discovery as well as a paleontologist at Field Museum, said, “Antarctanax shackletoni was an archosaur, an early relative of crocodiles and dinosaurs.” He went on to say, “On its own, it just looks a little like a lizard, but evolutionarily, it’s one of the first members of that big group. It tells us how dinosaurs and their closest relatives evolved and spread.”

Approximately two million years prior to the Antarctanax shackletoni roaming Antarctica, the Earth suffered a huge mass extinction which killed off 90% of all animals on the planet. After the mass extinction, archosaurs (which included dinosaurs) experienced a lot of growth around the planet. Dr. Peecook explained, “Before the mass extinction, archosaurs were only found around the equator, but after it, they were everywhere.” This would indicate that Antarctica was an area where evolution and diversity happened quite fast following the end-Permian mass extinction.

• Click here to see a picture of the fossil as well as an artist’s illustration featuring several ancient creatures including theAntarctanax shackletoni.

The fossil as it was discovered.

While the exploration of the continent of Antarctica is still in its early stages, it’s very possible that more new and unique creatures will be discovered from millions of years ago. In relation to the process involved with exploring the continent, Dr. Peecook explained, “Antarctica is one of those places on Earth, like the bottom of the sea, where we’re still in the very early stages of exploration. Antarctanax is our little part of discovering the history of Antarctica.”

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Iran is disappearing underground: While Tehran is sinking, giant sinkholes swallow parts of western Iran

Tehran is sinking… And now gigantic holes as deep as 60 meters (197 feet) are appearing in western Iran. And that’s not because of missiles or meteors… No, no! They are the result of excessive water pumping.

A few weeks ago, new satellite measurements showed that Tehran was sinking about 10 inches (25 centimeters) per year.

Giant holes form in Iran due to excessive water pumping.

Pic via Youtube video

These gigantic holes in Iran were not caused by missiles or meteors.

Pic via Youtube video

A side effect of such impressive subsidence is the sudden appearance of giant cracks and sinkholes in some areas that may end up with some parts of Iran completely disappearing from world maps.

Ground collapse in western Iran.

Pic via Youtube video

Huge cracks in desertic western Iran.

Pic via Youtube video

The same sinkhole phenomenon is observed around the shrinking Dead Sea, leaving huge craters and cracks in its wake, now forming at a rate of nearly one-two a day.

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Pill-Shaped UFO Seen Pulsating In The Skies Above NC

A UFO appearing in the sky just outside Greensboro, North Carolina was captured on video, which was also posted on social media. Moments after it made available online, the UFO sighting video has sparked an ongoing debate with many claiming to have seen the same random flashing object.

The 5-minute video, which was posted on Saturday, shows a pill-shaped object soaring through the sky and making a series of flashes.

The video, which is magnified and slowed down, has been viewed thousands of times and several YouTube channels devoted to UFOs and unsolved mysterious picked it up.

It is credited to YouTube username SpaceBret, also known as Bret Jones, who reveals in the video that the strange object was spotted on January 25 while he was trying to record birds outside Greensboro on video.

He claims that he noticed a mysterious flashing light in the sky close to an airplane. The UFO was moving slowly across the sky, slightly slower than the planes flying around, according to uploader Jones, who did not think he captured it at all.

He decided later to magnify and slow down the footage by 900 percent, which appears to reveal a glinting pill shaped object producing flashes from its two ends.

When Bret saw it, it just blew him away because it wasn’t what he expected at all. And until now, he does not have an idea of what it is.

One person has suggested that it is a Mylar balloon with string or WiFi extender antenna balloon because, at one point in the video, it looks like the UFO has a tether.

However, Jones does not agree with the suggestion as it cannot explain the flashing and vanishing. He also believes that the tether might be some kind of fuel ejected from the object.

Several people claim to have seen the same UFO. Julia Hejnar posted on YouTube that she saw the same object in Winston Salem in the late afternoon of the 25^th. She said that the object also blinked out.

Another viewer SkyHound said that he had seen the flash at night for the past year now. He explained that he clearly knows the difference between helicopter, planes, meteorites, iridium flares, satellites, etc. but this is different. He added that the object appears to flash extremely bright with no pattern and it even occasionally fades out into a dull red light.

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UFO over Georgia: Are aliens really observing us or optical illusion?

by Susan Leighton

A UFO was spotted flying over Conyers, Georgia last week. Square in shape and black in color the mysterious object appeared to be the size of a 727. Is this proof that aliens are observing us?

A UFO was reported to the Mutual UFO Network a.k.a. MUFON on Jan. 30. It was seen flying over Conyers, Georgia which is a suburb of Atlanta. Footage of the object was captured on a cell phone.

Watching this unknown aircraft is eerie. From the eyewitness account, the UFO was the size of a 727. Plus, it looks like nothing that is currently flying around in our skies.

At first, if you slow the video down, you might think that it is a plane pulling a banner. Football fans know that the Super Bowl is being held in the state so that wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility.

However, that illusion is quickly stripped away. According to UFO Sightings Daily, this Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) isn’t alone. Another silvery object can be seen hovering above the black square. Which makes you wonder if it is an escort of some kind.

Before we jump to any conclusions, I must point out that Dobbins Air Reserve Base is in the vicinity and so is Lockheed. It has been rumored that Dobbins is a test site for “plasma and anti-gravity aircraft along with experimental vehicles and weapons.” However, it is also in the middle of a city on the outskirts of Atlanta.

If you are dealing with propulsion systems of that nature would you really be putting them on display? Or if you were doing test runs perhaps you want the general public to think that UFOs are in the vicinity so that can be a ruse for what is really going on.

Either way, both of those theories seem unlikely. Take a look at the video and see what you think the strange craft could be.

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Oddly enough, there have been other sightings of this very specifically shaped craft in the U.S. Maybe this one will have to go into the file for the unexplained.

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Left to right: Leah Tether, Laura Chuhan Campbell, Michael Richardson, and Benjamin Pohl with the books in Bristol Central Library’s Rare Books Room. The team of experts investigating further if the pieces hold any secret about the legends of Arthur, Merlin, and the Holy Grail.

 ( University of Bristol )

If you’ve seen any of the many movies about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, you probably think you know the basics of the story … until you see another one. Throw in Monty Python and the whole legend and/or possible true account starts to get blurry. While the battles and loves of the Arthurian mortals are somewhat believable, the tales of the magician/wizard Merlin stretch the credibility of the stories. Now, some newly discovered manuscript pages dating back to the 13th century add a little more detail to the wizard who all future movie wizards are based on.

“These fragments of the Story of Merlin are a wonderfully exciting find, which may have implications for the study not just of this text but also of other related and later texts that have shaped our modern understanding of the Arthurian legend.”

"How Arthur by the means of Merlin got Excalibur, his sword of the Lady of the Lake", illustration for Le Morte Darthur.

(Lagad Zoltec / Public Domain )

Dr. Leah Tether is the President of the International Arthurian Society (British Branch) in the Bristol University Department of English and a leading scholar in the field, which explains why she was the person Michael Richardson, a colleague from the university’s Special Collections Library, called when he found seven odd parchment fragments among the pages of the works of the French scholar and reformer Jean Gerson which were printed in Strasbourg, France between 1494 and 1502. According to the Bristol University press release, Richardson recognized the name “Merlin” on the fragments and took them immediately to Tether.

The Gerson books, while published in the late 15th century, were not bound until the 16th century when they somehow were transferred from Strasbourg to Bristol. It’s believed the older pages were considered to be waste paper and were being reused as “pastedowns” – the sheets stuck to the inside of the covers used to connect the pages to the binding. That could explain why the pages are in fragments and an eighth is missing.

Tether recognized the pages as belonging to a 13th century Old French sequence of texts known as the Vulgate Cycle or Lancelot-Grail Cycle. The seven pages or leaves are continuous and come from a section of the Estoire de Merlin narrative known as the ‘Suite Vulgate de Merlin’ (Vulgate Continuation of Merlin). They recount the narrative of the Battle of Trèbes in which Merlin gives a speech to motivate the knights and then leads them into battle using a special sword belonging to Sir Kay (Cai), a superhuman knight whose sword radiated heat from his hands (or breathed fire) and whose inflicted wounds would not heal. They defeat the forces of King Claudas and then stay in the kingdom of Benoic where Merlin interprets dreams and falls in love briefly with a woman named Viviane before rejoining Arthur.

The fragments add some meaty details to this tale and some differ from previously discovered accounts. A number of names of the battle leaders have been changed and the wounds King Claudas suffered are different. Otherwise, it’s similar enough that Tether recognizes it as an important early account of the part Merlin played in the Arthurian legend.

“There are many more differences, too, but because of the damage to the fragments, it will take time to decipher their contents properly, perhaps even requiring the use of infra-red technology. We are all very excited to discover more about the fragments and what new information they might hold.”

During the 12th century, Arthur's character began to be marginalized by the accretion of "Arthurian" side-stories such as that of Tristan and Iseult, by John William Waterhouse. 

(Luca Z. / Public Domain )

What more will they find? The truth about whether Merlin really was a cambion – the child of a human mother and an incubus father? Was he really killed by the Lady of the Lake? The location of the Holy Grail? Details on the Knights who say “Ni!”? The real story of the Rabbit of Caerbannog?

Why did Merlin break up with Viviane … or did she dump him for a younger wizard?

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Metamaterials Not From Earth

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Astronomers spot mysterious long 'trash bag' object floating above Earth

The unidentified object comes close to the Earth but swoops around to go further away than the Moon

Andrew Griffin

A mysterious "empty trash bag" object has been spotted floating above Earth.

The satellite is thought to be several metres across but is extremely lightweight, the astronomers who spotted it say.

The object is probably a piece of light material, such as metallic foil, that has been left over from a rocket launch. But it is not clear what rocket launch the object known as A10bMLz could have been launched from.

At the moment, the object is on a strange, highly elliptical orbit. Sometimes it comes as close as 600 kilometres from the Earth – but it swings around to be 1.4 times as far out as the Moon.

Because of its small mass, A10bMLz is very susceptible to radiation pressure from the Sun. That means its orbit changes "chaotically" on a scale of days to weeks, according to the London-based Northolt Branch Observatories (NBO) that analysed it.

It means that it is impossible to fully predict where it might be flying. It is being buffeted around in space like a plastic bag might be in the wind.

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The object could re-enter Earth's atmosphere within a few motnhs, for instance, or might continue to fly around the Earth.

Such "empty trash bag" objects have been spotted before. But this is the first one that has ever been seen drifting at such a distant orbit.

The object was first seen by Hawaii's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope. Further analysis by the NBO confirmed that the object was very light but relatively wide, as well as its strange orbit.

WHAT IS AN 'EMPTY TRASH BAG OBJECT'? 

Empty trash bag objects, or ETBOs, tend to have unpredictable orbit patterns. 

The objects are often very light-weight, with a mass of less than one kilogram, but stretch several meters across. 

In the case of A10bMLz, it's likely a piece of metallic foil gone astray. 

Astronomers have said it can be difficult to judge where ETBOs will drift next because, like a plastic bag, they have trajectories that 'zig and zag in unpredictable ways.'

Empty trash bag objects have been spotted many times by astronomers.  

The Earth satellite, referred to as 'A10bMLz,' was first spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Hawaii, on Friday. Northolt Observatories found that the object (pictured) is 'extremely light-weight' but several meters across

A10bMLz was moving in an unusual retrograde orbit, instead of prograde orbit. It's orbiting 600 km above the Earth's surface but drifted as far as 1.4 times out from the moon

Empty trash bag objects have been spotted by astronomers many times before, but A10bMLz surprised Northolt Branch Observatories due to its very distant and unpredictable orbit

WHAT IS SPACE JUNK?

There are an estimated 170 million pieces of so-called 'space junk' - left behind after missions that can be as big as spent rocket stages or as small as paint flakes - in orbit alongside some US$700 billion of space infrastructure.

But only 22,000 are tracked, and with the fragments able to travel at speeds above 27,000kmh (16,777 mph), even tiny pieces could seriously damage or destroy satellites.

However, traditional gripping methods don't work in space, as suction cups do not function in a vacuum and temperatures are too cold for substances like tape and glue.

Grippers based around magnets are useless because most of the debris in orbit around Earth is not magnetic.

Around 500,000 pieces of human-made debris (artist's impression) currently orbit our planet, made up of disused satellites, bits of spacecraft and spent rockets

Most proposed solutions, including debris harpoons, either require or cause forceful interaction with the debris, which could push those objects in unintended, unpredictable directions.

Scientists point to two events that have badly worsened the problem of space junk.

The first was in February 2009, when an Iridium telecoms satellite and Kosmos-2251, a Russian military satellite, accidentally collided.

The second was in January 2007, when China tested an anti-satellite weapon on an old Fengyun weather satellite.

Experts also pointed to two sites that have become worryingly cluttered.

One is low Earth orbit which is used by satnav satellites, the ISS, China's manned missions and the Hubble telescope, among others.

The other is in geostationary orbit, and is used by communications, weather and surveillance satellites that must maintain a fixed position relative to Earth. 

Empty trash bag objects have been spotted by astronomers many times before, but A10bMLz surprised them due to its very distant orbit, Northolt Branch Observatories said.  

Predicting the artificial satellite's trajectory is currently impossible. Astronomers believe the object may burn up upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere within a few month

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Sightings with no rational explanations

Remember the Malaysian Airlines plane MH370 which disappeared but left behind a mystery that has still not been solved?  In a 2014 poll on the MH370 disappearance, five per cent of American respondents said they believed it had been affected by “alien activities”’. For many people, MH370’s inexplicable disappearance brought to mind one of the most famous and perhaps saddest mystery cases which grabbed worldwide media attention—that of Frederick Valentich, a young Australian pilot. Significantly, it was this case in particular which is credited with starting off a whole series of visual, radar, and filmed recordings of unidentified, unexplained flying objects or UFOs.

Fifty minutes after he had taken off on a solo flight across Bass Strait to King Island in a Cessna 182 aircraft, Frederick Valentich radioed, “It’s approaching from due east of me… It seems to be playing some sort of game. Flying at speed I cannot estimate…It is flying past. It has a long shape… coming for me right now… It has a green light and sort of metallic light on the outside…” Frederick was reporting to the Melbourne air flight service controller after he radioed a request for confirmation of a large craft with “four bright lights” and was informed that there were no reported aircraft in the area. “…. The thing is orbiting on top of me… Proceeding King Island…Unknown aircraft now hovering on top of me…” and Frederick signed off. A loud metallic sound was heard at ground reception for 17 seconds and then communications went dead. No sign of either Frederick Valentich or his plane was ever found, and the mystery, like that of MH370, remains unsolved to this day.

More recently, just a few weeks ago, the International Business Times carried a report with an intriguing headline: “Mountain collapses in Russia: Conspiracy theorists put forward UFO crash possibilities”. Russian president Vladimir Putin, said the report, has apparently asked soldiers to investigate a creepy incident where a mountain in Siberia collapsed completely due to unknown reasons… popular conspiracy theory YouTube channel ‘Secureteam10’ run by UFO researcher Tyler Glockner has suggested that the unexpected collapse of the mountain might be due to a UFO crash.

The video uploaded by Secureteam10 soon went viral, and quickly racked up more than 4,00,000 views, according to the IBT report. After watching the videos, most of the people claimed that the mountain collapse could be the result of an alien space ship crash. Some other people claimed that these events could be the aftermath of earth’s magnetic pole shift. However, Express.co.uk  reported that Alexey Maslov, head of Verkhnebureinsky district where the incident happened said: “We are trying to find the explanation for this incident. I insist that it was a meteorite.” This incident stirred yet again the age old, undying debate between known, explainable physical phenomena and the phenomena of unexplained strange happenings. Such extraordinary occurrences often tend to fall between the supernatural and extraterrestrial theories as a possible key to the mystery.  

The extraterrestrial “explanation” category is exceptionally fascinating. While the earliest “strange” sightings, believed to be more than 47,000 years old, seem to be carved on a granite mountain and rocks on an island in Hunan Province in China, one of the first written accounts of a strange sighting in the sky is part of an Egyptian papyrus—more than 3,400 years old—belonging to the period of Pharaoh Thutmose III, who ruled around 1504 to 1450 B.C.! Just like the references in the Mahabharata, excerpts from the ancient Egyptian account are worth reading. As I’ve written earlier, such sightings “with no single rational explanation” and often made by people of unimpeachable integrity in different parts of the world—Nicholas Roerich, the famous Russian painter with such close connections with India, Sir Francis Chichester, the well known flier, sailor and navigator, Jimmy Carter, former President of the USA—to name a few personalities of recent times—have continued down the centuries, right up to our present times.                                      

Significantly, the majority of sightings has not come from illiterate, gullible people or people of unsound mind or prone to hallucinations. Experienced Air Force and private airline pilots, air traffic controllers, Captains of ships on the sea, professors, policemen, and other highly qualified, highly respected personages are amongst the witnesses. There have been single sightings but more of sightings by several people at the same time and sometimes even hundreds or thousands of people watched.

UFOs have been photographed quite extensively and the photographs subjected to thorough scrutiny for “fraud” but were almost always found to be genuine.  Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. President sighted a UFO on January 6, 1969, when he was Governor of Georgia. The former President was quoted by the “National Enquirer” as saying, “I am convinced that UFOs exist because I’ve seen one…It was a very peculiar aberration but about 20 people saw it… It was big; it was very bright; it changed colours; and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for 10 minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was…”

Some UFO witnesses have described personal contact with ‘occupants’ of strange crafts and even reported being detained.  The book Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds by Brad and Sherry Steiger provides very informative reading. But as author and paranormal researcher Stephen Wagner rightly questions, “To account for the sheer number and variety of aliens and craft reported over the decades, the Earth would have to be visited by dozens of races from dozens of planets outside our solar system. Is this likely? What are these creatures and where do they really come from? Other dimensions? Our own imaginations and subconscious? …science has so far brought us knowledge of only the thinnest surface of our true reality. I suspect that the answers and explanations are, for the present, beyond our understanding…”

And whether they are physical, psychological, interdimensional, or something else in nature, emphasises Wagner, they cannot and should not be ignored… they should be reported, explored, and examined—objectively—to the fullest extent possible. How else, he asks, are we going to get to the bottom of it all? And that should include the numerous documented but not often reported UFO sightings in India as well.

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Une mission spatiale secrète aurait été envoyée vers le vaisseau extraterrestre Oumuamua !

Dans cette vidéo : Alors que les astronomes débattent de l'hypothèse de l'engin spatial Oumuamua, un initié et lanceur d'alerte affirme qu'une mission spatiale secrète a été envoyée pour l'explorer... ▼▼Suite ci-dessous▼▼

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Titan is Saturn’s largest moon and, in many ways, seems more like a planet than a moon. It is eerily Earth-like, yet a very different world from Earth, with extreme cold and rivers, lakes and seas of liquid methane/ethane. Also, Titan is the only moon in the solar system that has a thick atmosphere, and, in that way, too, it’s reminiscent of the major planets in our solar system. Titan’s atmosphere is composed primarily of nitrogen, like Earth’s. Just how Titan’s atmosphere developed has been one of the long-standing mysteries of this bizarre world. 

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A new peer-reviewed study sheds some light on this question. The study was published online in The Astrophysical Journal on January 22, 2019. The study – from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) – suggests that the nitrogen in Titan’s atmosphere originated from the “cooking” of organic material in the interior of the moon. Kelly Miller, a research scientist in SwRI’s Space Science and Engineering Division and lead author of the study, provided some background:

Titan is a very interesting moon because it has this very thick atmosphere, which makes it unique among moons in our solar system. It is also the only body in the solar system, other than Earth, that has large quantities of liquid on the surface. Titan, however, has liquid hydrocarbons instead of water.

A lot of organic chemistry is no doubt happening on Titan, so it’s an undeniable source of curiosity.

The main theory about Titan’s atmosphere has been that ammonia ice from comets was converted, by impacts or photochemistry, into nitrogen to form Titan’s atmosphere. While that may still be an important process, it neglects the effects of what we now know is a very substantial portion of comets: complex organic material.

Miller’s study was inspired by a mission to a very different object – comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – studied in detail by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. It turned out that the composition of the comet was about 1/2 ice, 1/4 rock and 1/4 organic material. The comet’s composition could be significant in terms of figuring out how Titan’s atmosphere came to be, according to Miller:

Comets and primitive bodies in the outer solar system are really interesting because they’re thought to be leftover building blocks of the solar system. Those small bodies could be incorporated into larger bodies, like Titan, and the dense, organic-rich rocky material could be found in its core.

How exactly does all this apply to Titan? Miller compared thermal models of Titan’s interior to data from organic material in meteorites. The idea was to see how much gaseous material could be produced from meteorite impacts into Titan when it was first forming.

The result was that about half of the moon’s nitrogen and perhaps also most of its methane could be accounted for in this scenario. The organics would be “cooked” into Titan as it was forming a few billion years ago.

While primarily nitrogen, Titan’s atmosphere also contains about 5 percent methane, which can form organic compounds. Those organics are all over Titan today – both in the atmosphere (as haze) and coating the surface (including massive “dunes” of organic material).

But Titan’s atmospheric methane supply still needs to be replenished somehow since the gas breaks down over time, and scientists are still not sure how that happens. On Earth, most methane comes from biology, but on Titan – given the extreme conditions – it is more likely to be primordial methane left over from when the moon first formed, similar to that found in the atmospheres of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune.

Some scientists, however, do think that primitive life of some kind is possible on Titan, perhaps in its methane/ethane lakes and seas or in the subsurface water ocean.

Bottom line: Titan’s thick nitrogen atmosphere is unique among moons in the solar system. The nitrogen may have been “cooked” inside Titan.

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Several meteorites have been found in western Cuba after a huge meteor was seen by many – in broad daylight – on Friday, February 1, 2019. People in southern Florida also saw the meteor, as this space rock traveled over West Palm Beach, above the Florida Keys, and then to Viñales, a town in Pinar del Río, Cuba.

The event occurred at around 1:16 – 1:17 p.m. EST on Friday, February 1, 2019. Residents of Viñales, Cuba saw a very long smoke trail that lasted more than one minute, while the meteor itself was described as extremely bright, with amyellow-orange color, and lasted more than at least four seconds.

Several Cuban residents reported finding black rocks showing the characteristic fusion crust seen in ordinary chondrite meteorites.

Astronomers estimate that the space rock that disintegrated over Cuba was at least a few meters in diameter – likely, van-sized – before entering Earth’s atmosphere. That’s a lot smaller than the house-sized asteroid that entered Earth’s atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia – also in February- in 2013. The shock wave from the Chelyabinsk event broke windows in six Russian cities and sent some 1,500 people to seek medical treatment, mostly from flying glass.

One of the witnesses of the Cuba meteor was Juan Alberto Pérez Pozo, who, immediately after seeing the amazing meteor, started recording the smoke trail and was able to capture the huge sonic boom at 0:46 on this video:

Meteorological satellites also recorded the event:

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The bright yellow-orange color seen in the meteor suggests the space rock probably contained sodium. A similar composition was also seen in the Chelyabinsk meteorites, which were later recovered in a lake.

Reports indicate the sonic boom of the Cuba meteor also shattered windows, much as the Chelyabinsk meteor did; however, the Cuba event was at a smaller scale.

A web cam in Fort Myers, Florida, captured the meteor as it was descending towards Cuba:

This map shows the trajectory of the huge meteor:

Here’s another view of the meteor’s flash, seen from a satellite:

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Other small asteroids passed very close to Earth in the past few weeks, including asteroid 2019 BZ3,  a 23-foot  (7-meter) space rock that came at just 0.1 or 10 percent of the Earth-moon distance, on January 27, 2019.

Good-sized meteors do strike Earth’s atmosphere frequently. Fortunately, Earth’s atmosphere causes most of these space rocks to disintegrate. According to astronomers who study asteroids, Earth is in no imminent danger of collision with any large, dangerous asteroid.

Bottom line: A small space rock exploded in midair over Cuba, and pieces of it (meteorites) have been found.

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Book of Enoch: “Fallen angels are imprisoned in Antarctica” (Video)

On March 14, Israel News Live published a story entitled "The fallen angels imprisoned in Antarctica and are still alive." The commentator, Steven Ben-Nun, analyzed Enoch's apocryphal book, which describes the experiences of Enoch, Biblical figure, who was taken to heaven to witness and play a key role in a greater heavenly conflict.

Enoch became the chief intermediary between the two sides of the conflict between the "fallen angels" and the "right angels" who served a deity known as "the Lord." There were multiple problems in the conflict, such as fallen angels, interbreeding and / or performing genetic experiments on humanity, and transmitting knowledge and technologies forbidden to human civilization still in development.

The Book of Enoch begins with the arrival of 200 Fallen Angels in the area of ​​Mount Hermon, which borders modern Lebanon and Syria. The Fallen Angels began to cross and / or genetically modify the local inhabitants.

6.1 And it came to pass that when the children of men were increased, beautiful and beautiful daughters were born to them in those days.

6.2 And the angels, the children of heaven, saw them and wished them. And they said to one another, "Come, let us choose for us wives, for the children of men, and beget children for us."

6.6 And they were altogether two hundred, and they came down upon Ardis, which is the top of Mount Hermon. And they called to the mountain of Hermon, because in it they swore and bound one another with curses.

While the fallen angels had established an outpost on Mount Hermon, it was Antarctica that would be removed for finally after losing the celestial battle with the just angels, according to Ben-Nun's analysis of the Book of Enoch.

Ben-Nun quotes passages from the Book of Enoch that are very suggestive of Antarctica, as well as the place where Enoch was taken to witness heavenly events:

18.5 And I saw the winds on the earth that hold the clouds and I saw the ways of the angels. I saw the end of the Earth; The firmament of Heaven above.

18.6 And I went southward, and it burned day and night, where there were seven mountains of precious stones, three toward the east and three toward the south.

18.7 And those from the east were of colored stone, and one of pearls, and another of healing stone; And those of the south, of red stone.

18.8 And the means reached Heaven, like the throne of the Lord, from Estibio, and the top of the throne was sapphire.

What is interesting in the previous passage is that Enoch refers to a place that "was burning day and night." Ben-Nun believes that this fits the description of Antarctica during the southern hemisphere's summer season when there are 24 hours of sunlight.

As for the seven mountains, this seems to refer to Mount Vinson in the Sentinel Range of Antarctica, according to Ben-Nun. It also refers to six nearby mountains in the range that could qualify as the mountains described in the Book of Enoch.

Mt Vinson is the highest mountain in Antarctica, and is towards the center of the Sentinela Range. It would have stood out so spectacularly with its snow-capped peaks in antiquity, as it does today.

All this leads to an intriguing question. Is Goode himself a modern Enoch who is given a key role in witnessing and mediating between different human and extraterrestrial factions as the Sphere delegate that is the Alliance, which seems to be functionally identical to the omniscient deity described in the Book of Enoch? If so, this would suggest that Enoch himself was an extraterrestrial contactee of the Sphere Alliance Being or a similar group 13,000 years ago.

If the Pre-Adamite / Fallen Angels are awakened / liberated, then there will certainly be a need to deal with them and their hybrid springtime about what roles they should play while humanity awakens to the truth of their history, and manipulation by multiple extraterrestrial groups and elite families.

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Verborgen 13e-eeuwse teksten vertellen verhalen over Merlijn de tovenaar en koning Arthur beetje anders - HLN.be

Waarom de kostbare documenten nooit eerder werden ontdekt? Ze werden als boekenkaft gebruikt van een 16e-eeuws boek, aldus de bibliothecaris van de universiteitsbibliotheek Michael Richardson. Oude teksten werden vroeger wel vaker hergebruikt om boeken te binden. Richardson was eigenlijk op zoek naar middeleeuwse teksten voor enkele studenten toen hij op de bijzondere vondst stootte.

Toveren kan hij niet, maar de bibliothecaris voelde zich alvast betoverd nadat hij ontdekte dat de zeven onbekende handgeschreven perkamenten over Merlijn de tovenaar, koning Arthur, vrienden én vijanden handelden.

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De verraste bibliothecaris herkende al snel enkele namen uit het tijdperk van koning Arthur en verwittigde bevoegde collega’s. Het team ontdekte dat de teksten oorspronkelijk deel uitmaakten van een vierdelige editie van de Oudfranse reeks van Jean de Gerson, een befaamd theoloog en kanselier van de Universiteit van Parijs. De reeks zou een eeuw later deel uitmaken van de “Lancelot-Graalcyclus”, een 13e-eeuwse tekst over de zoektocht van de ridder Lancelot naar de Heilige Graal. Vermoedelijk baseerde de al even bekende Sir Thomas Malory zijn verhalen over koning Arthur en zijn ridders (Le Morte d’Arthur) op de verhalen van zijn 13e-eeuwe voorganger.

“De verhalen in de Bristol-fragmenten zijn echter niet precies hetzelfde als de klassieke verhalen, zoals wij ze kennen, van koning Arthur”, aldus Leah Tether, Brits onderzoeksdirecteur van de International Arthurian Society. De fragmenten van Thomas Malory, die tussen 1494 en 1502 werden gedrukt in Straatsburg, bevatten subtiele maar significante verschillen”, vervolgt ze. “Deze fragmenten uit het verhaal van Merlijn en koning Arthur zijn een wonderbaarlijk spannende vondst die mogelijk gevolgen heeft voor het onderzoek. Niet enkel voor de interpretatie van dergelijke teksten, maar ook voor ons moderne begrip van de Arthur-legende.”

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Tot nu toe bestudeerden de onderzoekers slechts een fractie van de teksten. Zo konden ze alvast ontcijferen dat de tekst handelt over de strijd met de fictieve Frankische koning Claudas. Merlijn plande die aanval zorgvuldig, maar in werkelijkheid was de veldslag gruwelijker dan verwacht waarbij de manschappen van koning Arthur en vrienden heel wat tegenslagen te verwerken kregen.

In het heetst van de strijd zou Merlijn zelf met een vaandel met daarop een draak die vuur spuwt ten strijde zijn getrokken. Na heel wat escapades en beproevingen richt Merlijn zich met enkele wijze woorden tot de troepen waarna ze eindelijk zegevieren.

Koning Claudas zou volgens de gevonden teksten gewond geraakt zijn, maar hoe dat gebeurt, blijft onbesproken. In de klassieke vertellingen van Sir Thomas Malory staat echter te lezen dat hij in zijn dij geraakt wordt, een metafoor voor impotentie. “Er zijn veel meer verschillen, maar vanwege de schade aan de fragmenten, zal het tijd kosten om de inhoud correct te ontcijferen”, aldus Leah Tether.

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In 1989, Ed Conroy, a San Antonio, Texas-based journalist, wrote a book titled Report on Communion. It was an independent study of Whitley Strieber and his incredible experiences, as told in Strieber’s 1987 best-seller Communion. In taking on the project, Conroy didn’t realize what he had got himself into. At least, not at first he didn’t. What began as an impartial investigation into Strieber’s claims, soon mutated into something very different: Conroy found himself under similar intimidation to that which would eventually hit the Strieber family. Weird phone calls, secret surveillance and – even – visits from our old friends, those mysterious black helicopters, whose crews keep more than a careful watch on alien abductees, abounded.

It was in the latter part of 1986 that Conroy was given a copy of the original manuscript of Communion. Initially, at least, Conroy didn’t display too much enthusiasm for the book. That is, until he read the book – as well as various other books from Strieber, too, including the truly chilling 1984 book, Warday, which is a hair-raising tale of a disastrous, limited nuclear exchange between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Conroy was now interested; very interested. Conroy was clearly destined to dig further, which he did. That Strieber was from San Antonio and Conroy worked there, made things easier, too. Conroy did an extensive interview with Strieber in April 1987, followed by a face to face meeting three months later. Conroy was, initially, planning to write an article or several on Strieber. He quickly realized, though, that there was enough material for a book – a book that would address the many and various intricacies from a detached, open-minded perspective. Conroy was destined not to remain detached though, and particularly so when he too was caught up in a definitive maelstrom of mystery and conspiracy.

On one occasion, at the height of his research into Strieber’s story, Conroy encountered in his very own bedroom what he described as “a kind of shadow man, completely black, poised in the classic pose of Rodin’s ‘The Thinker.’” This sounds very much like what, today, are known as the Shadow People – malevolent, supernatural entities that have clear and undeniable links to the equally sinister Men in Black, who have nothing to do with the government (despite what the phenomenally successful Men in Black movies might suggest…) and everything to do with the UFO phenomenon itself. Strange noises plagued Conroy, waking him from a dead sleep, almost in a manipulative, playful fashion, but which bordered upon the unsettling. Then, there was the matter of those infamous copters.

It was one particular morning in March 1987 that Ed Conroy found himself a target of whoever it is that flies the mysterious helicopters. It appeared to be a Bell 47, said Conroy, and it lacked an identifying markings – which is very curious, but absolutely typical of the helicopters of the phantom type. Notably, said Conroy: “What was remarkable about this particular helicopter was the inordinate amount of attention it seemed to be paying to my building.” In no time, and shortly after the Bell 47 finally exited the area, a totally black helicopter was on the scene too. Follow-up visits occurred – something which prompted Conroy to contact the Federal Aviation Administration for answers. No luck there. Things got even more intense in 1988 when Conroy was practically seeing helicopters here, there and everywhere. And particularly, again, in the direct vicinity of his apartment, including the huge, double-rotor, military Chinooks. Conroy even saw some of the helicopters vanish – as in literally vanish. Some kind of stealthy, cloaking technology, perhaps?

Then, in June 1988 something else happened: while Conroy was out of town, someone changed the message on his answerphone, in his apartment. And it was changed again. And again. Clearly, someone was screwing with Conroy – perhaps even trying to plunge him into states of paranoia and fear. On top of that, Conroy started to hear strange clicking noises on his phone. Weird, unintelligible voices would call, saturated in electric static and which echoed the tactics of the Men in Black when, in the 1960s John Keel was investigating the infamous wave of “Mothman” sightings in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Such are the strange situations that can occur when we delve into the UFO puzzle.

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On January 28, 2019 something strange happened over Washington and Mt. Vernon. Many people witnessed what they call "fallstreak holes" in the sky.

Now it is said that a "fallstreak hole" form in high altitude clouds when the temperature drops below 00 C but the water droplets in the cloud do not freeze, they remain in a super cooled liquid state. When suddenly a disturbance occurs, per perhaps a plane flies by, the sub-zero water droplets begin to crystallize in a wave expanding outwards from the point of the disturbance with as a result the ice crystals billow from the resulting "hole."

So far a reasonable explanation for the strange "holes' in the clouds. But what if such a "hole" in the clouds has been caused by something else.

On the same day, a person has not only photographed two enormous "holes' in the sky over Mt. Vernon WA but he saw two large objects moving approx. 150 mph; then turning sharply and ascended above the clouds and the clouds dispersed.

Huge "UFO" hole Mt. Vernon - January 28, 2019.

He made the following statement:

Huge "UFO" holes Mt. Vernon - January 28, 2019.

Huge "UFO" holes Washington - January 28, 2019.

In summary: It appears that these "holes" are not only caused by a natural phenomenon but by cloaked or de-cloaked UFOs too. At the moment a UFO shoots up into the sky, going through the cloud layer before disappearing above the clouds, it leaves a huge hole and a boom can be heard.

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Meteoriet die tijdens maansverduistering op de maan insloeg, was zo groot als een strandbal

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De ruimtesteen raakte onze natuurlijke satelliet met een snelheid van zo’n 47.000 km/u.

Vorige week maandag was er op veel plekken op de wereld, waaronder België en Nederland, een totale maansverduistering te zien. Geschat wordt dat één op de vier mensen op aarde het bijzondere verschijnsel kon meemaken. Maar de maansverduistering was niet het enige wat men kon aanschouwen. Want terwijl miljoenen mensen hun ogen hadden gericht op de ‘bloedsuperwolfmaan’ merkten sommigen ook een mysterieuze lichtflits op. Was dit een meteoriet die op de maan insloeg? Hoewel experts in de eerste plaats wat sceptisch reageerden, kwam twee dagen later het verlossende antwoord: de maan was inderdaad tijdens de verduistering ook geraakt door een meteoriet!

Ruimtesteen
Hoewel de maan eigenlijk permanent wordt geraakt door los slingerende ruimtestenen – geschat wordt dat er elk uur wel een klein stukje ruimtesteen op het onbeschermde oppervlak van de maan terecht komt – was het toch erg bijzonder, aangezien miljoenen mensen getuige waren. Dat er tegelijkertijd zowel een maansverduistering, als een meteorietinslag plaatsvond, is natuurlijk op zich al een uitzonderlijke gebeurtenis. Maar daarnaast hebben honderduizenden mensen het event ook nog eens op beeld vastgelegd. En dit bood een unieke kans om de impact op de maan in groot detail te bestuderen.

Precieze locatie van de impact op het maanoppervlak (rode stip).

Afbeelding: Jorge I. Zuluaga

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Een analyse van de beelden door een Colombiaans en Dominicaans onderzoeksteam onthult de eerste aanwijzingen over de oorsprong en aard van het object dat op de maan insloeg. Zo zeggen de onderzoekers dat de waargenomen lichtflits geproduceerd werd door een meteoriet ter grootte van een strandbal (30-50 cm). De ruimtesteen was zo’n 20 tot 100 kilo zwaar en stortte neer op onze natuurlijke satelliet met een snelheid van ongeveer 47.000 km/u. De impact creëerde een wolk van warm, helder materiaal dat zich snel uitbreidde en in minder dan een derde van een seconde weer verdween. Als deze bevindingen kloppen, heeft de inslag waarschijnlijk gezorgd voor een een krater met een diamater van meer dan tien meter. Een toekomstige ruimtesonde zal dit moeten gaan controleren.

De onderzoekers benadrukken het belang van de samenwerking tussen wetenschappers en amateurs in de kwestie. “Sociale media en de gemakkelijke toegang tot technologie hebben de mensheid dichter dan ooit te voren bij wetenschap gebracht,” zegt onderzoeker Karls Peña. “Inspanningen zoals deze, waarbij wetenschappers en amateurs van verschillende plaatsen samenwerken om de menselijke kennis uit te breiden, is een effectieve manier om de wetenschappelijke interesse onder jongeren aan te wakkeren.” In de komende weken en maanden wordt verwacht dat ook andere wetenschappers met informatie over de meteorietinslag op de proppen komen. Deze zullen de bevindingen van de Colombiaanse en Dominicaanse astronomen moeten verifiëren.

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Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: Fritz Pichardo in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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Underwater Extraterrestrials: Declassified Russian Navy Records Say They’re Real!

Unidentified submerged objects (USOs) are not as famous as UFOs although they are often encountered, according to declassified Russian Navy records. The common trait of all USO phenomena is that they involve unexplained and technologically advanced objects, far superior to anything we’ve ever built.

The recently declassified documents contain Soviet era reports detailing many cases of possible USO encounters. Former naval officer and Russian UFO researcher Vladimir Azhazha believes these documents are of great value. One of the most interesting cases he examined involved a nuclear submarine on a combat mission in the Southern Pacific. During the routine operation, the submarine detected six unknown objects traveling information at speeds in excess of 230 knots (265+ mph). In comparison, the fastest submarine was the Soviet K-222, which reached about 44 knots (51 mph).

The submarine’s sonar determined the objects were heading straight for it so the captain gave the order to surface. The USOs followed them to the surface then flew away. Similar instances have been reported in the region of the Bermuda Triangle, as retired submarine commander Yuri Beketov recalls. Onboard instruments often malfunctioned, indicating the presence of strong interference. Many believe this is a clear sign of USO/UFO presence.

“On several occasions, the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots or 265 mph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development”, said Beketov.

Both UFOs and USOs seem to concentrate wherever military operations occur, indicating their interest in humanity’s military arsenal.

Another USO hotspot is Lake Baikal in Russia. The world’s deepest freshwater lake has always had a certain mysterious nature and fishermen tell tales of lights being spotted in its deep waters. Multiple folk tales describe swimmers being dragged down by creatures lurking beneath Baikal’s calm waves.

Another of the Russian documents described the encounter between a group of military divers and several humanoid beings in silver suits. The divers were training in Lake Baikal at a depth of 150 feet (50 meters) when they came upon a group of unknown creatures. The divers went deeper in the pursuit of the humanoids. Three men were killed, while the other four were severely injured.

Vladimir Azhazha believes the issue should be thoroughly investigated. “I think about underwater bases and say: why not? Nothing should be discarded,” says Azhazha. “Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So it’s very important to analyze what they encounter there.”

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The Link Between Pharaohs and ETs – The Alien Artifacts Discovered in Jerusalem! (2019)

The Link Between Pharaohs and ETs – The Alien Artifacts Discovered in Jerusalem!

The discovery of several remarkable relics could change the way we perceive ancient history. The artifacts were allegedly discovered in a former house belonging to Sir William Petrie, hidden in a secret chamber behind a bookshelf. A pioneer archaeologist, Sir Petrie excavated many of the most important ancient Egyptian archaeological sites.

His most famous findings are housed in the Petrie Museum in London but it seems he kept his most important ones to himself. It is believed he found them inside a secret chamber inside the Great Pyramid in Giza.

Among the many items found in the secret room were two small mummified bodies with long, slender arms and elongated heads with large eye sockets. Could these be the remains of extraterrestrial beings?

Another interesting relic was a disk-shaped gold object the size of a small plate. The object had a transparent top and an intricate mechanism inside. Unknown symbols were etched into its sides and they do not appear to be Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Last but not least and perhaps the most shocking is an item similar to a pharaoh mask. However, instead of the typical human face we might expect on such an item, this mask features a head that is identical to what we call ‘gray aliens’. The left side of the mask contains symbols that could very well be depicting alien encounters and what appears to be a spaceship.

Could these relics be the sought-after connection between the ancient Egyptians and an alien civilization? Strangely enough, Petrie mysteriously abandoned his efforts in Egypt and spent the remainder of his days excavating sites in Palestine. Perhaps he had uncovered clues that led him there.

It’s higly unlikely we’ll ever see these relics again as sources claim that shortly after their discovery, the artifacts were supposedly taken by representatives of the Rockefeller Museum.

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Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

It's no news that the pole is moving; long-term records from London and Paris (kept since 1580) show that the north magnetic pole moves erratically around the rotational north pole over periods of a few hundred years or longer, Ciaran Beggan, a geophysicist with the British Geological Survey who is involved in WMM updates, told Space.com in an email. He cited a 1981 study from the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.

But what's really catching attention is the acceleration in movement. Around the mid-1990s, the pole suddenly sped up its movements from just over 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year to 34 miles (55 kilometers) annually. As of last year, the pole careened over the international date line toward the Eastern Hemisphere.

The chief cause of the movement comes from the Earth's liquid-iron outer core, which is also called the "core field." Smaller factors also affect the movement. Those influences include magnetic minerals in the crust and upper mantle (especially for local magnetic fields) and electric currents created by seawater moving through an "ambient magnetic field," according to the 2015 report of the WMM.

"One of the reasons we can update the map is that the European Space Agency launched a set of highly accurate magnetic-field satellites in 2013," said Beggan, referring to Swarm.

"We have a superb data set from which we can make very good magnetic-field maps and update them every six to 12 months," Beggan added. "We noticed that the specification of the WMM was not being met in the high-latitude region around the pole, as the error exceeded 1 degree of grid angle on average. This triggered us to examine whether it was worth issuing a new update."

June 2014 magnetic field resolution results.

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Changes in Earth’s magnetic field from January to June 2014 as measured by the Swarm constellation of satellites. These changes are based on the magnetic signals that stem from Earth’s core. Shades of red represent areas of strengthening, while blues show areas of weakening over the 6-month perio

Earth's magnetic field could flip sooner than expected

Flipping out

What's more, the core field appears to be weakening — which may be a sign that the planet's magnetic field will flip. To better understand how that would happen, here's how the core field works, according to Ronald Merrill, an emeritus professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington, who spoke to Space.com's sister site Live Science.

One easy way to imagine the field is to think of a bar magnet that runs through Earth's center and has a north pole and a south pole, said Merrill, who was not involved in the new WMM research. That magnet is strong, representing roughly 75 percent of the intensity of Earth's magnetic field at the surface.

Of course, a bar magnet is not a perfect representation — it's actually electric currents that generate the Earth's magnetic field — but the model makes it easier to imagine what's happening to Earth, Merrill added. Specifically, the "bar magnet" is not only moving, but also getting weaker, by roughly 7 percent every 100 years.

As for the other 25 percent of the magnetic field, Merrill said that's generated from another field, which you can picture as another moving bar magnet. Here's an interesting bit: As the central bar magnet loses intensity, this second, weaker magnetic field generates more influence on Earth's global magnetism. "And that's what's causing this field to move in the direction [of Siberia]," Merrill told Live Science.

Earth's north and south poles periodically swap locations, with the last flip happening about 780,000 years ago. (The poles also weakened temporarily and rapidly about 41,000 years ago, Beggan added, but never underwent a full flip.)) A 2018 study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggested that Earth's magnetic field got weaker before the big changeover.

While any magnetic-field flip would still be thousands of years away, the effects could be profound on technology, if similar to today’s technology. This is because the weaker magnetic field would be somewhat poorer at shielding Earth against the solar wind (the constant stream of charged particles emanating from the sun) and cosmic rays (blasts of radiation from deep space). Magnetic compasses would not be as accurate, and satellites that monitor the weather or carry telecommunications signals could be disrupted, said Monika Korte, head of GFZ Potsdam's working group on geomagnetic field evolution in Germany. 

"Regarding increased radiation, that would go along with decreased shielding, [but] it seems that the atmosphere would still provide sufficient shielding at Earth's surface that humans and animals would not be significantly affected," she told Space.com in an email. 

"However, all the effects we currently only see during strong solar/geomagnetic storms would likely increase and occur ... during moderate solar activity," she added. "This includes satellite outages or damage to satellites, increased radiation doses on long-distance aircraft and the ISS [International Space Station], [and] distortions of telecommunication and GPS signals."

Ongoing monitoring of the Earth's geomagnetic field (which includes the pole) will continue after the WMM release, principally through the European Space Agency Swarm mission, Korte said. But she noted that measuring the north magnetic pole's position is a challenge. That's because the pole is located in a remote area and the measurement of Earth's magnetic field is influenced by all magnetic-field sources — including the magnetic fields found in Earth's atmosphere (the ionosphere and magnetosphere). 

"It will depend on the future magnetic field change, which we cannot predict, if another update to the model out of the usual schedule might be required," she added.

The next update to the WMM after this year's is expected early in 2020, Beggan said. You can read more about the WMM here.

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Once Around the Sun! NASA's Parker Solar Probe Aces 1st Trip Around Our Star

Matthew Headrick, an assistant professor of physics at Brandeis University, works on one of the most cutting-edge theories in theoretical physics — the holographic principle. It holds that the universe is a three-dimensional image projected off a two-dimensional surface, much like a hologram emerges from a sheet of photographic film.

In this first episode of The Take: Big Ideas Explained in Under Five Minutes (listen, above), Headrick explains the holographic principle and why it excites scientists. Hendricks said:

It turns out that this idea of the holographic principle or the universe is a hologram … actually helps us to solve some of the thorniest puzzles that arise when you try to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity.

As theoretical physicists, we’re not satisfied to have two different theories. We need one, unified theory which encompasses both, and that’s a very hard problem.

There’s a step-by-step breakdown of the holographic principle here.

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Bottom line: A scientist explains the holographic principle of the universe in a five-minute podcast.

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Third Snowy Pyramid Recently Discovered in Antarctica Could Rewrite History

If you need a good vantage point, you need good eyes and altitude. Satellites have both.

The latest in a group of three snow-covered pyramids was recently discovered through Google Earth satellite imagery and in a few days, the finding has taken the alternative history communities by storm.

Two of the pyramids can be found approximately 10 miles inland while the third rests near the coastline.

The implications of this discovery are complex and if accepted, it could turn the scientific world on its head. No history book ever mentioned an Antarctic civilization with the skills and technology necessary to erect enormous pyramids.

There is one apparent reason behind this situation and by the looks of it, it would suggest tech-savvy civilizations existed on Earth a long time before our own emerged.

Antarctica is now a frozen wasteland but it wasn’t always like this. It got to its current position through plate tectonics, inching closer to the geographic South Pole year after year.

Millions of years ago, Antarctica’s climate was much warmer because its position was closer to the equator. This is established fact backed up by several accepted discoveries, not some wild speculation.

“Go back 100 million years ago,” BAS’s Dr. Vanessa Bowman said “and Antarctica was covered in lush rainforests similar to those that exist in New Zealand today.”

Another expedition – led by NASA and involving 11 other scientific organizations– discovered out-of-place microbial life forms in the depths of Antarctica’s Lake Vida, trapped under a sheet of ice 65 feet thick.

The microbial colonies had been prospering in isolation for millions of years and scientists believe they are the descendants of microorganisms that lived in a much warmer climate.

Who knows what other enigmas lay buried in ice, hopelessly waiting to be revealed.

Even with today’s technology, building structures as massive as the pyramids of Antarctica would be nearly impossible. There are simply too many problems relating to manpower and the logistics required for such a project.

If building these mysterious monuments were to be a viable venture, it must have taken place in the past, when Antarctica was a favorable place for human life.

And this opens up a king-sized can of worms. The continent was habitable only in the very distant past, but mainstream science says the wheel wasn’t invented until some 6,000 years ago.

At the same time, anatomically-modern humans are said to have mastered fire only 125,000 years ago. So where do these controversial pyramids fit in?

Are they evidence of an ancient advanced civilization or do we need to stretch our imagination even further and regard them as proof of time travel? The mind boggles when we remain attached to our outdated beliefs.

Proponents of alternative history and fans of the ancient aliens hypothesis have no problem in accepting the parallel reality generated by such discoveries.

It’s not hard to see and accept that we aren’t the first and though it may seem this way, we probably won’t be the last.

Read: Researcher Discovers a Huge Pyramid in Antarctica Using Satellite Images

Thousands of years after they were built, we are still fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids.

The monuments left behind by their society have stood the test of time and in more than one way, they’ve granted their builders immortality.

Keeping that in mind, what could be said about pyramids that are millions of years old? Does that put our own lives into perspective and make us see the bigger picture?

Or do we recoil in egotistic dismissal?

The Ancient Pyramids of Antarctica — Piri Reis Map Suggests a Thriving Ancient Civilization

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Als er buitenaardsen op aarde zijn, waar zouden ze verblijven?

Als er buitenaardsen op aarde zijn, al sinds mensenheugenis, wat zou dan de beste locatie voor hen zijn om zich gedurende tijden ongezien te vestigen? Natuurlijk is dat Antarctica, duizenden en duizenden jaren was er geen mens die daar ooit kwam. Antarctica steunt, anders dan de Noordpool, op solide rotsgrond, het drijft dus niet op water. Al lange tijd worden vreemde constructies op Antarctica gezien en de getuigenissen van UFO’s boven dat continent zijn ook talrijk.

Natuurlijk wordt dit allemaal door de gevestigde orde afgedaan als een complottheorie, maar er komen al tientallen jaren klokkenluiders naar voren die vertellen dat Antarctica veel meer herbergt dan uitsluitend sneeuw en ijs.

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VIDEO. Meteoriet neergestort op westen van Cuba - HLN.be

Bron: Belga, Gizmodo

Vele Cubanen deelden op sociale netwerken beelden en video’s van de meteoriet. Die stortte neer rond 14 uur lokale tijd - dat is 18 uur in België - en ging gepaard met een lichtflits. Journalisten van de lokale tv-zender Tele Pinar publiceerden foto’s waarop zwarte rotsen te zien zijn, een vuist groot, die gevallen zijn in Viñales, een stad die ook bij toeristen erg in trek is en bekend is om zijn tabaksplantages. 

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Planetoïden treffen maan én aarde veel vaker dan vroeger

Niemand gewond

De verraste bewoners trokken de straat op, getuigde lokale mandataris Osmany Moseguí. Volgens hem raakte niemand gewond. Mosequí zegt dat de grootste steen “20 tot 30 centimeter” groot was. Hij liet “zijn sporen” na op een weg naar een van de toeristische attracties van de stad. 

“We hebben te maken met een meteoriet van het rotsachtige type, met een legering van ijzer en nikkel. Ze bevat ook een grote hoeveelheid magnesiumsilicaat”, zegt expert Efrén Jaimez Salgado.

De meteoriet liet een spoor achter in de lucht, zo is te zien op beelden op sociale media. De Amerikaanse National Weather Service bevestigde ook dat er een meteoriet was gezien in de lucht boven de Keys in Florida. Die liggen niet ver van Cuba.

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