New Bigfoot Documentary 2019 - The Supernatural Sasquatch

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While we in the U.S. continue to marvel that The New York Times published an investigative report on the U.S. military pilots who have seen UFOs, El Tiempo (The Time), the largest daily news source in Colombia, has gone one step further. On June 11, 2019, El Tiempo published a report about “strange beings measuring more than two meters tall, speaking with a robotic voice, and dressed in black” in Guasimal, a small farming town near Zarzal on the west coast of Colombia.

“According to locals, the only thing that changed their daily lives is what happened in December 2012, when these beings began to be observed. Even today, these humanoids are still reported.”

In a U.S. city, a report like this on the national news would eventually lead to books, a documentary, an annual festival and possibly a movie with a Dancing with the Stars wannabe. However, back in 2012, there seem to have been some local media reports and a few videos (here and here) made by UFO investigators, but not much national interest in eyewitness testimonies of an estimated 300 laborers who claimed to have seen “disc-shaped objects” from which these “humanoids” emerged.

According to El Tiempo, it appears that sightings of the tall humanoids continued in the town periodically over the next six years, but attention never rose beyond urban legend status because there was no video or photographic evidence of them. That changed somewhat in December 2018 when farmer Diego Mondragón recorded his encounter with the beings who were seen at on a neighbor’s property.

“I realized what was happening because I had already had contact with them, but some of those on the farm were scared and there was a shot. I left the house and approached the fence of the farmhouse to tell them that they [the extraterrestrials] were calm, peaceful.”

Mondragón claims that because he had been in contact with these beings before, the five on his neighbor’s farm trusted him enough to speak to him in those strange robotic voices and let him record their message on his cellphone.

“We have been allowed to come and deliver a sacrificial message for humanity. It was a message of love and allegiance . Love one another because the human race will soon be wiped out ; take these warnings into account. “

There’s no indication in the El Tiempo article that the reporter heard the recording or is merely repeating Mondragón’s testimony, which moved on to more details about the “extraterrestrials.”

“Then, the supposed to be coming from another planet declared that they lived in the region of Guasimal for 60 years, where they claim to have an underground base of 5000 square meters, a space where they would house a mothership. They would come from the planet Orion.”

Police officer Manuel Velandia Márquez told El Tiempo that he responded to a disturbance call and claims he saw “these silhouettes about 2 meters high” and also recorded their message. According to Márquez:

“(They were) more human beings than we are. They will preserve something of humanity and prepare us for future events.”

Again, El Tiempo doesn’t say how he knows this nor whether his audio recording was played for the reporter. It contacted Cristian Ramos, a ufologist from the Contact Ovni Colombia group, who says he investigated the initial sighting in 2013, talked to Diego Mondragón, who was one of the original witnesses, and claims to have seen the ETs himself.

“In the distance, about 200 meters, there was a silhouette of about 2.30 meters, a thick build, black clothes, a black suit, boots. He wavered from left to right, never remained motionless. He watched us.”

Ramos says the beings had a hostile reaction when he pulled out a camera, which may explain why there are no photos or video of them or even their silhouettes. Seven years later, there’s still nothing more than numerous witness testimonies and the alleged audio recordings. El Tiempo says that local authorities refuse to deny the stories.

What should we make of the alleged humanoids of Guasimal? The witness accounts are as numerous and as detailed as many in the U.S. whose locations have celebrated them with festivals and documentaries. The fact that The New York Times published a serious report on the Air Force UFO sightings gave them credence. Should El Tiempo’s report do the same for the accounts of the Guasimal humanoids?

There have been many discussions and arguments recently about the difficulties facing those in the ufology, cryptid and paranormal fields when trying to gain acceptance and credibility. This case offers another good example.

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As of June 12, I have a new book out. Its title: Flying Saucers from the Kremlin. The subtitle: UFOs, Russian Meddling, Soviet Spies & Cold War Secrets. It’s a study of how and why Russian Intelligence used the UFO phenomenon as a means to try and create fear, hysteria and paranoia in the West. Russian meddling: they are two words that just about everyone has come to know very well in the last few years. Only a fool – or someone with an agenda of a sinister kind – would deny that such meddling occurred. And on a large scale. It clearly did. The outrageous, almost flagrant, ways in which the Russians unfortunately succeeded in manipulating the United States’ political arena in 2016 are out there for one and all to see. Without the hacking, without the Russians’ widespread use of social media to influence the mindset of the American public, and without the shameful “no evidence of meddling” assertions of certain factions of the right-wing media, the United States would be in a far better shape than it is right now.

There’s little doubt that the Russians were practically in a state of glee when President Donald Trump chose not to take any significant action against the Russians for their intrusive activities. As CNN noted on July 16, 2018: “U.S. President Donald Trump, in a stunning rebuke of the U.S. intelligence community, declined on Monday to endorse the U.S. government’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, saying he doesn’t ‘see any reason why’ Russia would be responsible. Instead, Trump – standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin – touted Putin’s vigorous denial and pivoted to complaining about the Democratic National Committee’s server and missing emails from Hillary Clinton’s personal account.”

Still on the matter of Putin, let’s not forget that from 1975 to 1991 he was employed as a foreign intelligence officer in the KGB. History.com state: “The KGB was the primary security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991. The KGB served a multi-faceted role outside of and within the Soviet Union, working as both an intelligence agency and a force of ‘secret police.’ It was also tasked with some of the same functions as the Department of Homeland Security in the United States today, safeguarding the country from domestic and foreign threats.”

What all of this tells us is that the Russian government is not our friend, it’s not our buddy. It’s a threat to our nation – and to the West as a whole. Short of a nuclear war (which neither side could ever possibly win), the Russians have done whatever they could to try and ensure military superiority over the United States and its allies. For decades – and particularly so when the Cold War was at its height – the Russians sought to find more and more ways to erode our way of life. In the latter part of the 1940s, the Soviet Union embarked on a program designed to use the UFO phenomenon as a dangerous weapon. Not by attacking us with real flying saucers. But, by using the lore, the legend, and the belief-systems that surround the UFO subject.

I should note that Flying Saucers from the Kremlin is not a skeptical look at the UFO mystery. Just because, for years, the Russians planted and circulated numerous bogus stories of UFOs, doesn’t mean there isn’t a real mystery to be solved. As I personally see it, there certainly is a genuine puzzle to figure out. It remains steadfastly unresolved. It’s important that I make that distinction: there are real UFOs and there are deliberately-crafted lies concerning UFOs. Maybe, the saucers are the products of government agencies. They could be the creations of extraterrestrials. Possibly of inter-dimensional creatures. Or, the work of something even stranger (time-travelers, maybe?). There could be multiple origins, rather than just one. That’s an issue which we can ponder on forever and a day. But, trying to figure out what UFOs are, is not the goal of my new book. Rather, it’s to demonstrate how a real, strange presence in our midst became entangled in the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union.

The Russians tried to use the Contactee movement of the 1950s to their distinct advantage; spread tales of crashed UFOs and alien autopsies; recruited American UFO enthusiasts – who also had connections to the U.S. government – into their strange games; created bogus “government documents” (including at least some of the much-debated Majestic 12 papers); forged links with saucer-seekers in both the U.K. and Australia; and even incorporated the history of the AIDS virus into their disturbing agenda. And much more, too.

No such thing as Russian meddling? Don’t make me laugh.

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Are Martians obsessive Star Trek fans? How infuriating would it be if Mars turned out to be inhabited by a civilized society that was absolutely ruined by the re-runs TV shows we’ve been blasting out in all directions? Perhaps a friendly debate over who was the best captain of the USS Enterprise (it’s Picard, and yeah that’s probably the most common answer but it also happens to be correct) would be a good icebreaker when we make first contact. These are things we need to start thinking about, as apparently there’s a giant Starfleet logo on the surface of Mars. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) recently photographed a geological structure on the surface of Mars that looks nearly identical to the insignia worn by the members of Starfleet through every iteration of “Star Trek.”

The formation was spotted on a sand dune in the volcanic plain of Hellas Plantia on Mars. Ross Beyer of the SETI Institute tweeted the picture and said:

“Enterprising viewers will make the discovery that these features look conspicuously like a famous logo.”

The dune in question.

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Yep. It sure does. But Beyer says that it’s only a coincidence that it looks like the Starfleet logo. Meaning that it wasn’t drawn by Martians who’s only reprieve from their boring, boring world is our TV shows. According to Beyer, the structure is a result of the complex interactions between sand, lava, and wind. He writes:

Long ago, there were large crescent-shaped (barchan) dunes that moved across this area, and at some point, there was an eruption. The lava flowed out over the plain and around the dunes, but not over them. The lava solidified, but these dunes still stuck up like islands. However, they were still just dunes, and the wind continued to blow. Eventually, the sand piles that were the dunes migrated away, leaving these “footprints” in the lava plain. These are also called “dune casts” and record the presence of dunes that were surrounded by lava.

The dune imprints in Hellas Planitia. 

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Although, the coincidences do go a little bit further. In the pilot episode of the latest Star Trek series, “Star Trek: Discovery,” Captain Philippa Georgiou and Commander Michael Burnham are stranded on Mars and draw a giant Starfleet logo in the sand to signal their location.

Starfleet Command emblem.

In any case, it’s just about the best pop-culture reference we could ask to find on an alien planet. In a world that seems to be heading towards a future more reminiscent of “Blade Runner” than the optimism and spirit of exploration in “Star Trek,” perhaps we need a heavenly reminder to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Also, it could just be Q messing with us.

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In 1997, three years after the Air Force published its report suggesting that what came down on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in early July 1947 was a Mogul balloon designed to monitor for early Soviet atomic tests, its staff came up with a new theory for the Roswell affair. This one addressed the highly controversial issue of bodies having been found on the ranch and near to the huge debris site discovered by rancher William Brazel. The 1997 report was titled The Roswell Report: Case Closed. Although I don’t personally endorse the Air Force’s angle on the bodies, I did at least read the report from start to finish. Over the years, though, I have come across more than a few people in Ufology who didn’t even bother reading what the Air Force had to say – which is certainly not the best way to evaluate the data, correct or not. So, I figured that today I would share with you what the Air Force had to say in its 1997 report. In a foreword to the report, Sheila Widnall, the Secretary of the Air Force at the time, said the following:

“The ‘Roswell Incident’ has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico. Because the Air Force was a major player in those events, we have played a key role in executing the General Accounting Office’s tasking to uncover all records regarding that incident. Our objective throughout this inquiry has been simple and consistent: to find all the facts and bring them to light. If documents were classified, declassify them; where they were dispersed, bring them into a single source for public review. In July 1994, we completed the first step in that effort and later published The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert. This volume represents the necessary follow-on to that first publication and contains additional material and analysis. I think that with this publication we have reached our goal of a complete and open explanation of the events that occurred in the Southwest many years ago. Beyond that achievement, this inquiry has shed fascinating light into the Air Force of that era and revitalized our appreciation for the dedication and accomplishments of the men and women of that time. As we celebrate the Air Force’s 50th Anniversary, it is appropriate to once again reflect on the sacrifices made by so many to make ours the finest air and space force in history.”

On its decision to finally address the matter of the bodies allegedly found on the Foster Ranch, the Air Force began as follows: “The July 1994 Air Force report concluded that the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Air Forces, did indeed recover material near Roswell in July 1947. This 1,000-page report methodically explains that what was recovered by the Army Air Forces was not the remnants of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and its alien crew, but debris from an Army Air Forces balloon-borne research project code named Mogul. Although Mogul components clearly accounted for the claims of ‘flying saucer’ debris recovered in 1947, lingering questions remained concerning anecdotal accounts that included descriptions of ‘alien’ bodies. The issue of ‘bodies’ was not discussed extensively in the 1994 report because there were not any bodies connected with events that occurred in 1947. The extensive Secretary of the Air Force-directed search of Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force records from 1947 did not yield information that even suggested the 1947 ‘Roswell’ events were anything other than the retrieval of the Mogul equipment.”

The Air Force then got to the point: “Subsequent to the 1994 report, Air Force researchers discovered information that provided a rational explanation for the alleged observations of alien bodies associated with the ‘Roswell Incident.’ Pursuant to the discovery, research efforts compared documented Air Force activities to the incredible claims of ‘flying saucers,’ ‘aliens’ and seemingly unusual Air Force involvement. This in-depth examination revealed that these accounts, in most instances, were of actual Air Force activities but were seriously flawed in several major areas, most notably: the Air Force operations that inspired reports of  ‘bodies’ (in addition to being earthly in origin) did not occur in 1947. It appears that UFO proponents have failed to establish the accurate dates for these ‘alien’ observations (in some instances by more than a decade) and then erroneously linked them to the actual Project Mogul debris recovery. This report discusses the results of this further research and identifies the likely sources of the claims of ‘alien’ bodies. Contrary to allegations that the Air Force has engaged in a cover-up and possesses dark secrets involving the Roswell claims, some of the accounts appear to be descriptions of unclassified and widely publicized Air Force scientific achievements.”

The military expanded: “Air Force activities which occurred over a period of many years have been consolidated and are now represented to have occurred in two or three days in July 1947. ‘Aliens’ observed in the New Mexico desert were probably anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high altitude balloons for scientific research. The ‘unusual’ military activities in the New Mexico desert were high altitude research balloon launch and recovery operations. The reports of military units that always seemed to arrive shortly after the crash of a flying saucer to retrieve the saucer and ‘crew’ were actually accurate descriptions of Air Force personnel engaged in anthropomorphic dummy recovery operations. Claims of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital were most likely a combination of two separate incidents:

1) a 1956 KC-97 aircraft accident in which 11 Air Force members lost their lives; and,

2) a 1959 manned balloon mishap in which two Air Force pilots were injured.”

That amounted to the Air Force’s final words: nothing stranger than crash-test dummies, and not a single alien anywhere in sight. Let’s now jump back and see how, specifically, the Air Force reached that conclusion. The report stated: “The most puzzling and intriguing element of the complex series of events now known as the Roswell Incident, are the alleged sightings of alien bodies. The bodies turned what, for many years, was just another flying saucer story, into what many UFO proponents claim is the best case for extraterrestrial visitation of Earth. The importance of bodies and the assumptions made as to their origin is illustrated in a passage from a popular Roswell book: ‘Crashed saucers are one thing, and could well turn out to be futuristic American or even foreign aircraft or missiles. But alien bodies are another matter entirely, and hardly subject to misinterpretation?'”

In a section of the Air Force’s report titled “Test Dummies Used by the U.S. Air Force,” the Air Force provided the following words: “Since the beginning of manned flight, designers have sought a substitute for the human body to test hazardous new equipment. Early devices used by the predecessors of the U.S. Air Force were simply constructed parachute drop test dummies with little similarity to the human form. Following World War II, aircraft emergency escape systems became increasingly sophisticated and engineers required a dummy with more humanlike characteristics.” The Air Force continued with a history of how and under what circumstances the military decided to make good use of crash-test dummies: “During World War I research and development of the first U.S. military parachute was underway at McCook Field, Ohio. To test the parachute, engineers experimented with several types of dummies, settling on a model constructed of three-inch hemp rope and sandbags with the approximate proportions of a medium-sized man. 30 The new invention was soon known by the nickname ‘Dummy Joe.’ Dummy Joe is said to have made more than five thousand ‘jumps’ between 1918 and 1924.

“By 1924, parachutes were required on military aircraft with their serviceability tested by dummies dropped from aircraft. For this routine testing, several types of dummies were used. Parachutes were individually drop- tested from aircraft until the early stages of World War II, when, due both to increased reliability and large numbers of parachutes in service, this routine practice was discontinued. Nonetheless, test dummies were still used frequently by the Parachute Branch of Air Materiel Command (AMC) at Wright Field, Ohio, to test new parachute designs.”

The Air Force then turned its attention to the matter of what was undertaken in the 1949 and onward era (which is decidedly strange, indeed, since the Roswell affair occurred midway through 1947, two years earlier): “In 1949, the U.S. Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory submitted a proposal for an improved model of the anthropomorphic dummy. This request was originated by the renowned Air Force scientist and physician John P. Stapp, now a retired Colonel, who conducted a series of landmark experiments at Muroc (now Edwards) AFB, Calif., to measure the effects of acceleration and deceleration during high-speed aircraft ejections.”

As the Air Force noted: “Stapp required a dummy that had the same center of gravity and articulation as a human, but, unlike the Ted Smith dummy, was more human in appearance. A more accurate external appearance was required to provide for the proper fit of helmets, oxygen masks, and other equipment used during the tests. Stapp requested the Anthropology Branch of the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright Field to review anthropological, orthopedic, and engineering literature to prepare specifications for the new dummy. Plaster casts of the torso, legs, and arms of an Air Force pilot were also taken to assure accuracy. The result was a proposed dummy that stood 72 inches tall, weighed 200 pounds, had provisions for mounting instrumentation, and could withstand up to 100 times the force of gravity.

“In 1949, a contract was awarded to Sierra Engineering Company of Sierra Madre, Calif., and deliveries began in 1950. This dummy quickly became known as “Sierra Sam.” In 1952, a contract for anthropomorphic dummies was awarded to Alderson Research Laboratories, Inc., of New York City. Dummies constructed by both companies possessed the same basic characteristics: a skeleton of aluminum or steel, latex or plastic skin, a cast aluminum skull, and an instrument cavity in the torso and head for the mounting of strain gauges, accelerometers, transducers, and rate gyros. Models used by the Air Force were primarily parachute drop and ejection seat versions with center of gravity tolerances within one quarter inch.”

Now, we get to the heart of the matter: the Air Force’s rationale for believing that Roswell’s “alien bodies” were really nothing stranger than dummies. The report states: “Over the next several years the two companies improved and redesigned internal structures and instrumentation, but the basic external appearance of the dummies remained relatively constant from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s. Dummies of these types were most likely the ‘aliens’ associated with the ‘Roswell Incident.’ Anthropomorphic dummies were transported to altitudes up to 98,000 feet by high altitude balloons. The dummies were then released for a period of free-fall while body movements and escape equipment performance were recorded by a variety of instruments. Forty-three high altitude balloon flights carrying anthropomorphic dummies were launched and recovered throughout New Mexico between June 1954 and February 1959. 44 Due to prevailing wind conditions, operational factors and ruggedness of the terrain, the majority of dummies impacted outside the confines of military reservations in eastern New Mexico, near Roswell, and in areas surrounding the Tularosa Valley in south central New Mexico. Additionally, 30 dummies were dropped by aircraft over White Sands Proving Ground, N.M. in 1953. In 1959, 150 dummies were dropped by aircraft over Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (possibly accounting for alleged alien ‘sightings’ at that location).

The Air Force expanded: “For the majority of the tests, dummies were flown to altitudes between 30,000 and 98,000 feet attached to a specially designed rack suspended below a high altitude balloon. On several flights the dummies were mounted in the door of an experimental high altitude balloon gondola. Upon reaching the desired altitude, the dummies were released and free-fell for several minutes before deployment of the main parachute. The dummies used for the balloon drops were outfitted with standard equipment of an Air Force aircrew member. This equipment consisted of a one-piece flight-suit, olive drab, gray (witnesses had described seeing aliens in gray one-piece suits) or fuchsia in color, boots, and a parachute pack.  The dummies were also fitted with an instrumentation kit that contained accelerometers, pressure transducers, an ocscillograph, and a camera to record movements of the dummy during free-fall.”

Since the final portion of the document concludes the Air Force’s report on why its personnel were as sure as they could be that the strange bodies were really dummies, I’ll present it without interruption: “Recoveries of the test dummies were accomplished by personnel from the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch. 53 Typically, eight to twelve civilian and military recovery personnel arrived at the site of an anthropomorphic dummy landing as soon as possible following impact. The recovery crews operated a variety of aircraft and vehicles. These included a wrecker, a six-by-six, a weapons carrier, and L-20 observation and C-47 transport aircraft — the exact vehicles and aircraft described by the witnesses as having been present at the crashed saucer locations. On one occasion, just southwest of Roswell, a High Dive project officer, 1st Lt. Raymond A. Madson, even conducted a search for dummies on horseback.

“On a typical flight the dummies were separated from the balloon by radio command and descended by parachute. 57 Prompt recovery of the dummies and their suspension racks, which usually did not land in the same location resulting in extensive ground and air searches, was essential for researchers to evaluate information collected by the instrumentation and cameras. To assist the recovery personnel, a variety of methods were used to enhance the visibility of the dummies: smoke grenades, pigment powder, and brightly colored parachute canopies. Also, recovery notices promising a $25 reward were taped to an exposed portion of a dummy. 59 Local newspapers and radio stations were contacted when equipment was lost.

“Despite these efforts, the dummies were not always recovered immediately; one was not found for nearly three years and several were not recovered at all. When they were found, the dummies and instrumentation were often damaged from impact. Damage to the dummies included loss of heads, arms, legs and fingers. This detail, dummies with missing fingers, appears to satisfy another element of the research profile: aliens with only four fingers.

“What may have contributed to a misunderstanding if the dummies were viewed by persons unfamiliar with their intended use, were the methods used by Holloman AFB personnel to transport them. The dummies were sometimes transported to and from off-range locations in wooden shipping containers, similar to caskets, to prevent damage to fragile instruments mounted in and on the dummy. Also, canvas military stretchers and hospital gurneys were used (a procedure recommended by a dummy manufacturer) to move the dummies in the laboratory or retrieve dummies in the field after a test. The first 10 dummy drops also utilized black or silver insulation bags, similar to ‘body bags’ in which the dummies were placed for flight to guard against equipment failure at low ambient temperatures of the upper atmosphere. On one occasion northwest of Roswell, a local woman unfamiliar with the test activities arrived at a dummy landing site prior to the arrival of the recovery personnel. The woman saw what appeared to be a human embedded head first in a snowbank and became hysterical. The woman screamed, ‘He’s dead!, he’s dead!'”

The Air Force came right to the point, making an authoritative statement: “It now appeared that anthropomorphic dummies dropped by high altitude balloons satisfied the requirements of the research profile.” Of course, the UFO research community was not impressed and scoffed at the idea that those who claimed to have seen alien bodies had actually witnessed nothing stranger than a crash-test dummy. It’s eye-opening to note, though, that when the report was released in July 1997 (the 50^th anniversary of the incident) even the mainstream media doubted the odd theory. Indeed, they noted that the bulk of the report was focused on the usage of dummies in the 1950s and certainly not in 1947. At the July 1947 press conference,  a journalist asked the following question: “How do you square the UFO enthusiasts saying that they’re talking about 1947, and you’re talking about dummies used in the 50’s, almost a decade later?”

Air Force spokesman, Colonel John Haynes replied, slightly and noticeably awkwardly: “Well, I’m afraid that’s a problem that we have with time compression. I don’t know what they saw in ‘47, but I’m quite sure it probably was Project Mogul. But I think if you find that people talk about things over a period of time, they begin to lose exactly when the date was.” End of story.

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UFO 5X Earth Size Shoots Out Of Sun June 8, 2019, OMG UFO Sighting News.

SOHO/NASA sun cameras, EIT 284 A, June 8, 2019, 13:06

I was checking out the SOHO images and noticed this UFO shooting out of the sun. If it were material from the sun it would be spread out like a hand and shooting straight out, not shooting to the side at an angle. This has a metallic shiny appearance and is 5-6 times the size of Earth. I have long believed that the sun is hollow and holds its own mini solar system inside of it which harness the energy of the sun to power the alien worlds. This UFO...is proof the theory is correct.

 
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NASA Spots ‘Star Trek’ Starfleet Logo ‘Dune Footprints’ on Mars

'Dune footprints' spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter resemble the 'Star Trek' Starfleet logo.

(Photo Credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona)

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Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnoissance Orbiter (MRO) has been exploring Mars from orbit, capturing some of the most detailed — and interesting — images of the surface of the Red Planetwith its HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera.

But one recent MRO sighting had some sci-fi fans exclaiming “Beam me up, Scotty!”

The MRO HiRise camera team at the University of Arizona on Wednesday shared an image on social media of a Martian sand dune formation that resembled the iconic, swooping logo for Star Trek’s Starfleet.

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Enterprising viewers will make the discovery that these features look conspicuously like a famous logo.

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“Enterprising viewers will make the discovery that these features look conspicuously like a famous logo,” the MRO HiRise team posted on Twitter.

The image was acquired on April 22, 2019.

The chevron shapes (which resemble the Starfleet insignia) are the result of a complex story of dunes, lava, and wind.

(Photo Credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona)

Of course, the Starfleet logo taking shape on the Red Planet is just a coincidence.

The chevron-like shape, spotted in the southeast Hellas Planitia in the southern hemisphere of Mars, is actually the result of a complex story of dunes, lava, and wind, according to the HiRise team.

“Long ago, there were large crescent-shaped (barchan) dunes that moved across this area, and at some point, there was an eruption. The lava flowed out over the plain and around the dunes, but not over them. The lava solidified, but these dunes still stuck up like islands,” the team explained.

William Shatner as Capt. Kirk in ‘Star Trek,’ sporting the Starfleet insignia, in 1966.

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“However, they were still just dunes, and the wind continued to blow. Eventually, the sand piles that were the dunes migrated away, leaving these ‘footprints’ in the lava plain.”

The footprints are also called “dune casts” and record the presence of dunes that were surrounded by lava.

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The series of videos offer sweeping and up to date views of the legendary, but extremely shy air installation.

If you can’t keep track of all the new action around the moon, you’re not alone. At least five countries have lunar exploration missions underway and more are in the works, some robotic and some with human crews. In coming years, more are likely, including commercial ventures focused on making money from the moon, perhaps by mining or tourism.

Right now many are heading for the same target, the moon's south pole, which is believed to have significant deposits of ice. That ice could be the key to helping humans learn to live and outside of Earth's atmosphere.

Who’s launching the next missions, and why? To get started, click on a country name or a date.

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Are aliens getting bored with us? UFO sightings down

BY ADELLE LOISELLE

Ufology Research has released its annual report of UFO sightings across Canada, and it shows a 15 per cent decline in sightings from 2017.

There were 937 documented sightings last year, the lowest number since 2004. Usually, the number is over 1,000 according to the Manitoba-based organization which believes 2018 may be an aberration rather than the start of a downward trend.

“Numbers of reported UFO sightings remain high. Several theories for this can be suggested: more UFOs are present and physically observable by witnesses; more secret or overflights are occurring over populated areas; more people are unaware of the nature of conventional or natural objects in the sky; more people are taking time to observe their surroundings,” read the annual report.

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It said 41 per cent of all Canadian sightings were in Quebec; there were 84 in Montreal alone in 2018. Ontario was a distant second with 24 per cent of sightings where there were 82 in Toronto. Vancouver had 52, but British Columbia was third on the list with just 13 per cent of sightings.

In Southwestern Ontario, the most sightings were in London. The city had 18 including a sighting on March 16 where a boomerang-like UFO with worm-like lines coming out of it was reported. In Mt. Brydges, two massive, luminous orbs were spotted. The most bizarre of sightings in the London area was in Ingersoll where a witness said he spotted an object with what appeared to be a door flying overhead.

There were seven in the Windsor area including a witness who reported being abducted several times by a so-called “Grey”. The report said the abductee produced physical evidence.

In Tilbury, a rectangle UFO was reported by a witness who said they were just 300 ft. away before it flew away on May 20. Also, witnesses in Sarnia said they spotted a light moving in the sky that did not look like an airplane on January 28.

Reports are classified under seven categories ranging from a light source in the night sky to a close encounter of the first kind which is within 200 m of a witness, and a close encounter of the fourth kind, an alleged abduction or contact.

The report points to polls that ten per cent of Canadians believe they have seen UFOs, about 3.7-million people.

“UFO witnesses range from farmhands to airline pilots to teachers and police officers,” said the report.

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Crop circles : près de Colmar, des cercles de culture dessinés dans un champ de blé

Des figures parfaitement géométriques ont fleuri sur 30 ares dans les champs de blé d'un exploitant près de Colmar. / © Capture d'écran PHR

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"C'est un collègue qui m'a appelé, explique Thomas Jehl, un exploitant de Guémar (Haut-Rhin). Au début, je n'ai pas réussi à voir ce qu'il en était. Je suis allé du côté du Haut-Koenigsbourg pour prendre de la hauteur. C'est là que j'ai pu découvrir une partie des motifs."

Dessinée sur 30 ares du champ qui en fait trois hectares, à Saint-Hippolyte, une oeuvre composée de cercles géométriques. "C'est pas moche à voir, c'est même plutôt joli. Mais je ne peux pas être content d'avoir perdu une partie de ma récolte de blé."

La visite d'extraterrestres ?

Thomas Jehl, qui dit ne pas être complice, aurait donc subi ce qu'on appelle un crop circle, pour cercle de culture. Les fanatiques d'histoires paranormales le perçoivent comme un signe venu d'ailleurs. Il n'en est rien, à en croire le youtuber AstronoGeek. Avec sa bande, il avait réalisé son propre crop circle en Moselle pour démonter cette prétendue origine extraterrestre.

"Il avait fallu qu'on trouve quelqu'un et qu'on lui dise :«écoute, on va écraser une partie de ton champ et on va te dédommager»", nous avait-il indiqué début juin, lorsque nous l'avions rencontré pour notre émission Pourquoi chercher plus loin ?. On a payé l'agriculteur et on lui a dit qu'on faisait ça chez lui, tel jour. C'était notre complice. Et on a gardé ça secret."

Thomas Jehl, lui, affirme ne pas connaître l'identité des personnesqui lui ont redessiné son champ. "Je ne sais même pas quand cela a été fait. Entre ce week-end et mercredi j'imagine", témoigne-t-il. Il indique ne pas savoir encore s'il portera plainte. 

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Tijdens luchtaanvallen op Syrië verscheen er een UFO-vloot. Straaljagerpiloot doet schokkende bewering

Er komt steeds meer informatie naar buiten over de vreemde objecten die door Amerikaanse legerpiloten worden gezien in de lucht.

Zo werd de eenheid van piloot Ryan Graves maandenlang gevolgd door een aantal mysterieuze objecten.

Opnieuw

De objecten verschenen opnieuw toen hij op weg was naar de Perzische Golf, schrijft website The Drive.

Zijn getuigenis zal te zien zijn in de nieuwe serie ‘Unidentified’ op History Channel.

Midden-Oosten

Er blijken sporadisch onregelmatigheden te worden waargenomen op de radar, die de piloten niet kunnen thuisbrengen.

Luitenant Graves claimt in de serie dat in het Midden-Oosten meerdere ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten verschenen boven de Perzische Golf, op het moment dat er vanaf het schip waarop hij was gestationeerd, de USS Theodore Roosevelt, luchtaanvallen werden uitgevoerd op Syrië.

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Navy pilot Lt. Ryan Graves makes the shocking claim that multiple unidentified crafts appeared in the Middle East over the Arabian Gulf, while the carrier strike group was launching air strikes in Syria. Clip from #Unidentified: Inside America’s #UFO Investigation. #TTSA #AATIP

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Swarms of UFO's Seen During Soyuz Docking With the International Space Station

The footage shows the moment the Soyuz arrives at the International Space Station when several unknown space objects come into view and passing the Soyuz and the ISS.
 

These objects are certainly not ice crystals nor artifacts created by the camera. The most remarkable object is a donut-shaped UFO that appears from the left. Then the object makes various maneuvers while passing the Soyuz.

Next a sphere comes from the right, continues its flight path and passes the Soyuz to disappear into space.

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Nieuwe vondsten in Teotihuacán duiden op vroege contacten met Maya’s - HLN.be

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Tot dusver hadden wetenschappers de eerste contacten in het jaar 378 van onze tijdrekening gesitueerd. De nieuwe vondsten aan de Patio van zuilen in Teotihuacán zijn volgens het INAH echter ouder. 

Naast de menselijke beenderen trof het team van onderzoekers ook keramiek aan met Maya-motieven. Dat zou volgens de wetenschappers van een groot banket kunnen komen. Ook werden resten van muurschilderingen in Maya-stijl aangetroffen. De vaststellingen wijzen erop dat de elite van de Maya’s aan belangrijke evenementen op die plaats deelnam.

Tandenschade
Ten minste drie van de gevonden schedels zouden vervormingen en tandenschade vertonen die niet frequent voorkwamen in Teotihuacán, maar wel in het gebied van de Maya’s. Eerste contacten tussen beide culturen zouden al tussen de jaren 300 en 350 tot stand gekomen zijn, zegt antropologe Naya Sugiyama.

De ruïnestad Teotihuacán ligt op 50 kilometer ten noordoosten van Mexico-Stad. Op zijn hoogtepunt (de vijfde en zesde eeuw; nvdr) was Teotihuacán de belangrijkste metropool van Meso-Amerika en een van de grootste steden ter wereld. Wat tot de ondergang van de cultuur geleid heeft omstreeks het jaar 800 is tot dusver onduidelijk. De site werd in 1987 Unesco-Werelderfgoed en is een van de belangrijkste toeristische attracties van Mexico.

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Gigantische massa onbekend materiaal op de maan ontdekt - HLN.be

Bron: CNN, Inverse

De onverwachte massa bevindt zich onder het Zuidpool-Aitken-bekken, een enorme inslagkrater op de maan van 13 km diep en ongeveer 2.000 km breed. De ovale krater - een van de grootste in het zonnestelsel - is niet zichtbaar vanop de aarde, omdat hij zich aan de achterkant van de maan bevindt.

De ontdekte massa is er een van minstens twee triljoen kilogram - 350 miljoen keer zwaarder dan de Piramide van Cheops - en zou tot meer dan 300 km diepte onder de oppervlakte van de maan begraven liggen. De massa werd ontdekt op basis van gegevens verzameld tijdens de Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory-missie van NASA in 2011. Die data werden gekoppeld aan de topografie van de maan zoals de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter die in kaart bracht. Bleek dat de instrumenten onder het Zuidpool-Aitken-bekken iets erg abnormaals hadden opgepikt. Waarschijnlijk is de mysterieuze massa afkomstig van een inslag op de maan meer dan vier miljard jaar geleden, zo stelt het team van professor Peter B. James.

De maan zelf zou 4,5 miljard jaar geleden gevormd zijn na een botsing tussen de aarde en een planeet met de omvang van Mars. De meest plausibele verklaring is, volgens de wetenschappers, dat de maan zich kort na haar vorming stabiliseerde en dat daarna een grote asteroïde aan relatief lage snelheid is ingeslagen op de maan. Met vervolgens de kolossale metaalmassa als restant.

Maar professor James heeft nog een andere verklaring: de massa zou ook een concentratie van dichte oxiden kunnen zijn die kristalliseerden in de maankorst tijdens de latere stadia van het stollen van het magma van de maan. Verder onderzoek dringt zich dus nog op. De huidige studie werd gepubliceerd in Geophysical Research Letters.

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Zeldzame ‘nachtwolken’ zorgen voor spectaculaire beelden - HLN.be -PART I

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Goedemorgen! Heeft u #vannacht ook kunnen genieten van een bijzonder #schouwspel aan de #hemel? Er was een prachtige #display aan lichtende #nachtwolken te zien. Deze foto komt uit #Genemuiden in #Nederland. Bedankt John Poot voor de inzending! #report #nwbnlx

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Lichtende nachtwolken zijn de hoogste wolken die we kennen. Ze komen voor op een hoogte van 85 kilometer. Ze kunnen zich vormen wanneer zeer kleine ijskristallen ontstaan op stofdeeltjes op grote hoogte. In tegenstelling tot wat de naam doet vermoeden, geven deze wolken zelf geen licht. Het licht is afkomstig van de zon en wordt door de ijskristallen weerkaatst naar het aardoppervlak.

Pas nadat de zon ondergegaan is, wordt deze bewolking zichtbaar als een zilverblauwe streperige structuur. Zolang de lichtende nachtwolken nog door de zon worden beschenen, zijn ze waar te nemen. Zodra de zon te ver onder de horizon is gezakt, verdwijnen de wolken weer. Het moet dus én donker zijn én de zon moet de wolken toch beschijnen- en dat zien we dus enkel als de nachten op hun kortst zijn. 

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Afgelopen nacht waren er lichtende nachtwolken zichtbaar.
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Schitterende lichtende nachtwolken (NLC's) afgelopen avond vanuit Gent (tussen 0 en 1u) @frankdeboosere @JillPeetersWX @JonasDeBodt @Ward_Weerman @UrbexDeBruyn @didiervh @GertCoone @karimhamid2

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@frankdeboosere prachtig fenomeen van lichtende nachtwolken aan de noordelijke horizon in de nacht van 12 op 13 juni 2019.

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Lichtende nachtwolken boven Leuven met dank aan @lievenscheire voor de weertweet want anders had ik dit gemist! @frankdeboosere

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Lichtende nachtwolken verlichten de Nederlandse lucht http://dlvr.it/R6WXC4 

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Wat een genot en helder gisteravond net voor middernacht.Lichtende nachtwolken.Komende heldere avonden nog te zien

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NASA spot wereldberoemd logo van Star Trek op Mars - HLN.be

Bron: CNET

 De Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter en Marsrover Curiosity hebben al heel wat gekke figuren uit het landschap van de rode planeet gelicht: van Muppet Beaker over Jabba the Hutt tot Pac-Man. Ditmaal is het bekende logo van Starfleet, zeg maar de krijgsmacht van het Star Trek-universum, aan de beurt. Te zien in de zandduinen van Mars.

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“Enterprising viewers will make the discovery that these features look conspicuously like a famous logo”, grapte het NASA-team. De oorspronkelijke Engelse tekst bevat in de vertaling verloren gegane verwijzingen naar sterrenschepen Enterprise en Discovery van Starfleet. Het bedoelde logo is dan ook inderdaad dat van Starfleet. 

“Deze worden ook wel ‘duinafgietsels’ genoemd”, zegt planetair onderzoeker Ross Beyer over de bewuste zandformaties op Mars. “Ze tekenen de aanwezigheid van duinen op die omringd waren door lava.” Er zijn in dat hele landschap wel meer insigneachtige afdrukken te vinden. Beyer benadrukt dan ook dat de gelijkenis met het Star Trek-logo “puur toeval” is.

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Thanks to the phenomenally successful Men in Black movie franchise, there can be very people who have not heard of the sinister MIB. In the movies, the MIB are employed by a secret government body that is dedicated to wiping out hostile aliens on the Earth. The reality of the Men in Black, however, is very different. Unlike their movie counterparts, the real MIB are described as looking definitely non-human: their skin is extremely pale, they sometimes have large, bulging eyes; they are extremely skinny and often very tall. In other words, they don’t even look like regular people. This has given rise to the theory that the MIB may be alien-human hybrids. Possibly, even supernatural entities. Not only that, there is strong evidence which suggests that the U.S. Government has secretly investigated the MIB phenomenon, to try and figure out who, or what, the Men in Black really are. Thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, we have in our possession several examples of official, secret, U.S. government documents that confirm those secret investigations went ahead.

John Keel was not only the author of the acclaimed book, The Mothman Prophecies. He was also someone who dug very deeply into the matter of the MIB, who they were, and where they came from. In February 1967, Keel had the opportunity to speak with Colonel George P. Freeman. Colonel Freeman, of the U.S. Air Force, made the following, written statement about the MIB. Keel took careful note of it: “Mysterious men dressed in Air Force uniforms or bearing impressive credentials from government agencies have been silencing UFO witnesses. We have checked a number of these cases, and these men are not connected to the Air Force in any way. We haven’t been able to find out anything about these men. By posing as Air Force officers and government agents, they are committing a Federal offense. We would sure like to catch one – unfortunately the trail is always too cold by the time we hear about these cases, but we are still trying.”

Less than one month later, specifically on March 1, 1967, Lieutenant General Hewitt T. Wheless, USAF, penned the following memo. It was widely circulated within the military: “Information, not verifiable, has reached Hq USAF that persons claiming to represent the Air Force or other Defense establishments have contacted citizens who have sighted unidentified flying objects. In one reported case, an individual in civilian clothes, who represented himself as a member of NORAD, demanded and received photos belonging to a private citizen.” The document continues: “In another, a person in an Air Force uniform approached local police and other citizens who had sighted a UFO, assembled them in a school room and told them that they did not see what they thought they saw and that they should not talk to anyone about the sighting. All military and civilian personnel and particularly information officers and UFO investigating officers who hear of such reports should immediately notify their local OSI offices.”

Clearly, not only does the above-documentation demonstrate that the Men in Black were nothing to do with the government; it also shows that the government had no more understanding of who the MIB were than did the average UFO researcher. Moving on to the FBI: In 1956, paranormal/UFO investigator Gray Barker wrote and published a book titled They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. A significant percentage of the book was focused on the MIB-themed experiences of Albert Bender, who, in the early 1950s, established the International Flying Saucer Bureau (in Bridgeport, Connecticut). It wasn’t long before the IFSB was no more. Bender supposedly closed it down after receiving repeated, menacing visits from the Men in Black. Bender’s MIB were far less like 1950s-era G-Men or agents of the CIA. They were far more like something from the pages of a Bram Stoker novel, mixed in with a greater than liberal sprinkling of H.P Lovecraft. As a result of the publication of Barker’s book, a number of people contacted the FBI, demanding to know who the dark-suited silencers really were – and particularly because certain ufologists, such as Barker, were claiming the MIB were from “the government.”

The FBI has declassified some of its documents on Bender and Barker, and which demonstrate something notable. Namely, that just like the U.S. military, the FBI too had no real understanding of who the MIB were. On January 22, 1959, none other than J. Edgar Hoover instructed the Chicago office of the FBI: “The Bureau desires to obtain a copy of the book written by Gray Barker entitled ‘They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.’” Records demonstrate that, behind closed doors and after reading Barker’s book, the FBI was as baffled in the fifties as the Air Force was, almost a decade later.

Now, some ufologists will likely claim that the USAF and the FBI were both out of the loop – due to the MIB originating with a deeply buried, “black budget”-type group that even Hoover and the Air Force couldn’t uncover. But, I disagree. Every bit of data that has surfaced from government agencies suggests they are as utterly mystified as the field of Ufology is, when it comes to the nature and origin of the Men in Black. Yes, the MIB phenomenon is real, but it has practically nothing to do with agencies of government, of the military, or of the intelligence community. The Men in Black are…something else.

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ET Base On Planet Mercury, 100% Proof Of Ancient Aliens , UFO Sighting News.

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I found some really cool looking buildings on planet Mercury. The photo really contains an immense amount of evidence that ancient aliens exit there. This purple blue structure is amazing. Its detail and geometry is exactly what humans might build if living off world. Honestly, if humanity wants to live off world, we should be working no communication to these aliens...sending messages in radio waves, laser, infrared and microwaves...and keep experimenting until they answer. Its a lot easier to ask if we could move in with them, than to create an entire civilisation on a foreign planet. 

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A video of a worm-like UFO that appeared over a California desert at night is worming its way around the Internet and generating plenty of speculation as to what it is. What it isn’t is the first instance of a worm-shaped UFO, although the fact that this one appeared at night makes it unusual and more difficult to identify, classify or debunk.

“At around 9:17pm while driving on highway 62 we saw a long strip of light in the sky. We were able to drive up to it and get under it. It appeared to be about 6 feet long and did not seem to make any noise. We witness it for over 30 minutes and multiple other cars stopped and came over to watch. At times it was very still even though it was windy and would climb straight up in the sky.”

Cody Kennedy says he was searching the ground for rattlesnakes to record on video for his YouTube channel (Crazy Cody’s Creatures) when he and his friends accidentally looked up and saw a long, illuminated worm-like object in the sky over Twentynine Palms. If that name sounds familiar to you paranormal and UFO buffs, it’s the home of the main entrance and headquarters of the Joshua Tree National Park (a place that has had many UFO sightings and paranormal encounters) and a gateway to the Mojave Desert. Skeptics will also point out it’s home to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), the largest United States Marine Corps base. Now that we’ve planted those seeds, what does Cody think he and his friends saw? (You can watch the video for yourself here.)

“I am not sure if this was a light bar on a kite or a drone. There are power lines around where it was in the sky so if it was a kite it would seem dangerous to fly it at night in that area. It started to move away from us and climb quickly so we tried to get a better shot of it from another street and it appeared to come straight down in the middle of open desert and turn off. Other people that stopped to look and myself went out into the desert to try and find it but were unsuccessful.”

Was it a kite?

The UFO looks most like a lighted air sock or balloon twisting in the wind as it’s dragged by a drone, but the darkness hides any more details and no one seems to have found its remains. In daylight, there have been many sightings of worm-like UFOs. Robert Bingham of Los Angeles, who has reported many UFOs, saw a 20-foot-tall “worm-shaped ship” in 2000. 7While he had no photo or video evidence, a video of a “UFO worm and orb” over Mexico in 2009 (see the video here) show the more classic balloon-like or floating garbage baggish object of many similar UFO sightings. That’s even more clear in photos of a worm UFO over Washington DC in 2009 (see them here).

Witness image 1. (Credit: MUFON)

Witness image 2. (Credit: MUFON)

Witness image 3. (Credit: MUFON)

Cropped and enlarged version of the witness image 3. (Credit: MUFON)

Was it an air sock pulled by a drone?

Balloons? Bags? Kites? Secret Marine tests? Alien ships? Something else? The discussions and heated debates about worm-like UFO sightings shows the importance of video and photographic evidence. Cody Kennedy was already out looking to make videos of animals so he had his phone or camera ready. He also kept recording for 10 minutes – an usually long period of time in the UFO witnessing world. That gives time to possibly determine size, altitude, speed, location, perspective and other details that help move the needle from “unidentified” to “identified.”

Sure, it looks like a balloon or an air sock, making it easy to laugh about. But think for a moment … it wasn’t that long ago many people laughed at the idea of flying Tic Tacs.

Keep an open mind, keep a phone handy and keep looking!

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In a paper published in the journal Ecology, integrative biologist Alex Smith described the finding as an “unexpected and fascinating case of plants eating vertebrates in our backyard, in Algonquin Park.”

Pitcher Plant

Even though the plants at the provincial park have been observed for hundreds of years, nobody – until fairly recently – has reported seeing a salamander species being trapped by a pitcher plant anywhere in North America. In fact, it was in the summer of 2017 when Teskey Baldwin, who was an undergraduate student at that time and on a University of Guelph field ecology course, discovered a salamander trapped inside of a pitcher plant.

In the fall of 2018, a team of researchers studied pitcher plants that were located around a single pond and they noticed that approximately one in five of them contained tiny salamanders that were around the same size as a human finger. Even more surprising is that numerous plants held more than one salamander.

Since there are a limited number of fish in the bog ponds, it is believed that the young salamanders could have fallen into the plants because they were looking for insects. Another possibility is that they crawled into the plants in order to escape from predators. While some of the salamanders that were trapped inside of the plants died within just three days, others lived up to 19 days.

Smith stated that the pitcher plants could have turned carnivorous in order to get nutrients, such as nitrogen which is lacking in the soil of the bogs. In other parts of the world, flesh-eating plants – such as the sundews and the Venus flytrap – have also been found in environments that lack important nutrients.

Pitcher Plant

Other meat-eating pitcher plants have been discovered in other parts of the world since the eighteenth century, but it is believed that this is the first time such a plant has been found in North America. One example was a pitcher plant that was found in Asia a decade ago and it ate spiders and insects, but also mice and small birds.

Let’s hope that the pitcher plants stick with small vertebrates, as it would be quite concerning to see a large sign near the bog that reads, “Stay on the boardwalk and watch your children. Here be plants that eat vertebrates,” as Smith said.

A picture of a salamander caught inside of a pitcher plant, as well as a photo of the bog where the plants were found can be seen here.

Pitcher plant with a trapped salamander inside of it.

Credit: University of Guelph

Bog where pitcher plants are found.

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The archaeological site where two 31,000-year-old milk teeth were found.

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Led by David Meltzer, an anthropologist at Southern Methodist University, who coauthored the new study, the researchers in this second paper suggest that during the about 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, during the ‘Last Glacial Maximum’ changing environmental conditions forced about “500 or so Ancient North Siberians” to travel from southern Beringia with folk migrating from East Asia. This mixed nomadic population would give rise to both the lineages that dispersed through Siberia and the first Peoples of North America.

Meltzer wrote, “It doesn’t change the fact that there’s no direct historical descent in terms of the artifacts, but it does tell us that there was this population floating around in far northern Russia 31,000 years ago whose descendants contributed a bit of DNA to Native Americans.”

The two 31,000-year-old milk teeth found at the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site in Russia which led to the discovery of a new group of ancient Siberians.

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Ancient Chickens And Eggs

When these two studies are brought together they confirm what has always been suspected, but they also highlight that ancient people migrated both east and west. This became apparent when the scientists tested a relatively modern genome, about 10,000-years-old, that was unearthed near Siberia’s Kolyma River. The DNA was found to be mixture of Ancient North Siberian lineages and East Asian “and similar to that seen in Native American populations - a much closer match than any others found outside of North America.”

Meltzer says, “The Bering land straight… Was open, relatively flat, no glaciers - it wasn’t like you wander through and the door closes behind you and you’re trapped in America” so people flowed in both directions during the Pleistocene.

The studies both published by Nature and are available at the following DOIs:

• https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1251-y
• https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1279-z
• Top image: Two men found at the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site in northern Siberia in Russia date to about 32,000 years ago, providing the earliest direct evidence of humans in the region.          
• Source: Elena Pavlova

By Ashley Cowie

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Scientists spot massive ‘anomaly’ five times the size of Hawaii beneath the moon’s largest crater that could be ancient metal from asteroid impact 4 billion years ago

• Huge mass anomaly was spotted beneath the South Pole-Aitken basin on moon
• Researchers say it could be material from iron-nickel core of an ancient asteroid
• Possible metal deposit is heavy enough to weight basin flood down half a mile 

By CHEYENNE MACDONALD FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 

Scientists have detected a mysterious mass of material beneath a 1,200-mile crater on the surface of the moon.

The South Pole-Aitken basin on the far side of the moon is said to be the largest crater in the solar system and extends several miles deep.

And, according to the new research, the recently-spotted material is weighing down the basin floor by more than half a mile.

Scientists suspect the unusual deposit beneath the crater may contain metal from the asteroid that formed it.

Scientists have detected a mysterious mass of material beneath a 1,200-mile crater on the surface of the moon (circled). The simulations suggest that the material could be from the iron-nickel core of an asteroid

‘Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground,’ said lead author Peter B. James, from Baylor University’s College of Arts & Sciences.

‘That’s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected.’

In the study, the team analyzed data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission (GRAIL).

‘When we combined that with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered that the unexpectedly large amount of mass hundreds of miles underneath the South Pole-Aitken basin,’ James said.

‘One of the explanations of this extra mass is that the metal from the asteroid that formed this crater is still embedded in the moon’s mantle.’

The simulations suggest that the material could be from the iron-nickel core of an asteroid, which, if dispersed into the upper mantle, could be weighing down the basin as seen in the spacecraft data.

It could also be a concentration of dense oxides from the last stage of lunar magma ocean solidification, according to the researcher.

The South Pole-Aitken basin on the far side of the moon is said to be the largest crater in the solar system and extends several miles deep. And, according to the new research, the recently-spotted material is weighing down the basin floor by more than half a mile

‘We did the math and showed that a sufficiently dispersed core of the asteroid that made the impact could remain suspended in the moon’s mantle until the present day, rather than sinking to the moon’s core,’ James said.

The basin itself is thought to have been created about 4 billion years ago, making South Pole-Aitken the largest preserved crater in the solar system.

According to the researcher, it’s ‘one of the best natural laboratories for studying catastrophic impact events, an ancient process that shaped all of the rocky planets and moons we see today.’

WHAT ARE THE THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF THE MOON?

Many researchers believe the moon formed after Earth was hit by a planet the size of Mars billions of years ago.

This is called the giant impact hypothesis.

The theory suggests the moon is made up of debris left over following a collision between our planet and a body around 4.5 billion years ago.

The colliding body is sometimes called Theia, after the mythical Greek Titan who was the mother of Selene, the goddess of the moon.

Many researchers believe the moon formed after Earth was hit by a planet the size of Mars billions of years ago. This is called the giant impact hypothesis

But one mystery has persisted, revealed by rocks the Apollo astronauts brought back from the moon: Why are the moon and Earth so similar in their composition?

Several different theories have emerged over the years to explain the similar fingerprints of Earth and the moon.

Perhaps the impact created a huge cloud of debris that mixed thoroughly with the Earth and then later condensed to form the moon.

Or Theia could have, coincidentally, been chemically similar to young Earth.

A third possibility is that the moon formed from Earthen materials, rather than from Theia, although this would have been a very unusual type of impact.

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Please be aliens, please be aliens, please be aliens... Boffins discover mystery mass beneath Moon's biggest crater

My God, it's full of... really dense metal?

By Richard Speed 

Eggheads in Texas have discovered a huge, dense mass lurking beneath an enormous crater on the Moon.

The Baylor University study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, combined data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) missions and found the huge blob lurking over a hundred miles beneath the South Pole-Aitken basin.

The mass, which isn't immediately obvious on the surface, appears to be dragging down the lunar landscape above it by around half a mile. In terms of size, lead author of the paper, Peter B. James, compared it to a pile of metal five times the size of Hawaii's big island.

The South Pole-Aitken basin itself is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon, and measures approximately 1,600 miles in diameter and 8.1 miles deep. It is one of the largest known impact craters in the Solar System and is home to China's Chang'e 4 lander and the Yutu 2 trundlebot.

The scientists have a number of theories for where this mass could have come from, including one that involves the solidification of an ocean of lunar magma.

The leading theory posits the mass comes from an asteroid with an iron-nickel core that smacked into the lunar surface four billion years ago. Scientists calculated that a sufficiently dispersed impactor core could remain suspended in the Moon's mantle rather than sink to the core.

Having recently enjoyed a visit to the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at London’s Design Museum, we at The Register have another theory. The only logical explanation is that Arthur C. Clarke's writing was more prediction than fiction, and that lurking beneath the surface is a colossally dense monolith.

Threaten

While the enormous mass of the finding on the Moon speaks to something somewhat larger and more blobby than Clarke’s neat 1:4:9 object, poked at by a fictional Heywood Floyd, in the interests of whimsy we'll give it a pass. Although the fact it also wasn't found in the relatively youthful Tycho crater either threatens to snap the increasingly tenuous link.

Joking aside, NASA has, of course, lately been interested in finding water on the Moon to support future human missions. However, charting the lunar gravitational field has also been a priority, with the two spacecraft of the GRAIL mission charting variations in gravity, including mascons (mass concentrations), often associated with craters.

The South Pole-Aitken basin, however, is different. Rather than the typical bulls-eye affair seen with mascons, the data suggests a huge sub-surface mass.

As with all good science, the discovery has created more questions, some of which may be answered by future missions to the region.

We, however, look forward to astronauts unearthing something of impenetrable blackness before embarking on a doomed jaunt to Jupiter, accompanied by a glitching AI. Google and Microsoft probably have just the thing.

Thanks to the anonymous Register reader for drawing our attention to the mystery mass on the Moon. ®

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Apollo 10’s “Snoopy” Lunar Lander May Have Been Found in Space

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Rare Meteorites on Earth Forged in Massive Crash on Asteroid Vesta

By Charles Q. Choi 

An artist's depiction of Vesta experiencing a hit-and-run collision.

(Image: © Makiko Haba)

Mysterious rare meteorites made of a mix of stone and iron likely formed when Vesta, the brightest asteroid in the sky, experienced a giant impact, a new study finds.

That impact took place more than 4.5 billion years ago when a still-young Vesta and a hunk of rock about a tenth its size collided and the latter penetrated all the way to Vesta's core, the researchers argue. The resulting meteorites have let the scientists piece together a more detailed biography of the large asteroid, lead author Makiko Haba, a planetary scientist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, told Space.com.

There are three main groups of meteorites: stony, iron and stony-iron. Stony meteorites, the largest group, formed from the outer crust of an asteroid or planet and are made up mostly of silicon-rich minerals known as silicates. Iron meteorites, the next most common kind, consist mostly of iron and nickel and formed from the core of asteroids or planets. The rarest kind of meteorite are the stony-iron meteorites, containing about equal parts of stone and iron.

• Related: Photos: Asteroid Vesta and NASA's Dawn Spacecraft 

One kind of stony-iron meteorite are mesosiderites, the chemistry of which suggested their ingredients came from both the stony crust and the molten metallic core of an asteroid, but oddly not the mantle layer in between, raising questions as to how that might have occurred.

Now, researchers suggest these mystery meteorites originated after a colossal impact that Vesta, the second-largest asteroid known, experienced in the early days of the solar system. "We propose a new evolutionary history for Vesta," Haba said.

The scientists analyzed five mesosiderites that were unearthed from Chile, Iowa and northwest Africa between1861 and 2014. They noted that zircon crystals in the meteorites likely formed when metals in these mesosiderites were molten. The physical features of the crystals and metals in the meteorites suggested these materials mixed in the molten core of an asteroid about 330 miles (530 kilometers) wide, matching Vesta, they said.

Haba and her colleagues next analyzed about two dozen zircon crystalsextracted from the five mesosiderites. After examining levels of uranium and lead isotopes in these zircons, they concluded that the silicates in these meteorites formed about 4.55 billion years ago and the silicates and metals mixed about 4.52 billion years ago. 

The scientists proposed that after Vesta formed and cooled enough to separate into distinct crust, mantle and core layers, a rock about one-tenth the size of Vesta smashed into the asteroid. This hit-and-run collision blasted a crater on Vesta's northern hemisphere that reached all the way into the asteroid's core, they said.

Some of the debris from this impact, made up from all three of Vesta's layers, fell back onto the asteroid, mostly on Vesta's southern hemisphere, the researchers wrote. This would explain the unusually thick crust that NASA's Dawn spacecraft detected at Vesta's south pole.

A pair of overlapping impact craters seen near Vesta's south pole from two collisions — one likely occurring about 2 billion years ago, the other about 1 billion years ago — could have dislodged rocks made up of mixtures of materials from Vesta's crust and core. This would explain the mesosiderites seen on Earth, the researchers said.

"We found that this model can explain all problems regarding Vesta," Haba said. "It was a eureka moment."

All in all, "we determined the precise timing of mesosiderite formation on Vesta and demonstrated that we could reconstruct Vesta's evolution based on this chronology," Haba said. "This is a first step for us, and we will apply this concept to as many other planetary bodies as possible."

The scientists detailed their findings online today (June 10) in the journal Nature Geoscience. 

•  Vesta Up Close: What the Dawn Probe Revealed 
•  Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space 
•  NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Pics of Dwarf Planet Ceres 
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White Holes: Black Holes' Neglected Twins

By Charlie Wood

You've heard of black holes, but what about their inverted twins — white holes?

This visualization shows a jet blasting from a black hole near the speed of light. In theory, a white hole looks similar to a black hole, but instead of sucking matter in, a white hole pushes matter away. 

(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech)

White holes were long thought to be a figment of general relativity born from the same equations as their collapsed star brethren, black holes. More recently, however, some theorists have been asking whether these twin vortices of spacetime may be two sides of the same coin.

To a spaceship crew watching from afar, a white hole looks exactly like a black hole. It has mass. It might spin. A ring of dust and gas could gather around the event horizon — the bubble boundary separating the object from the rest of the universe. But if they kept watching, the crew might witness an event impossible for a black hole — a belch. "It's only in the moment when things come out that you can say, 'ah, this is a white hole,'" said Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist at the Centre de Physique Théorique in France. 

Physicists describe a white hole as a black hole's "time reversal," a video of a black hole played backwards, much as a bouncing ball is the time reversal of a falling ball. While a black hole's event horizon is a sphere of no return, a white hole's event horizon is a boundary of no admission — space-time's most exclusive club. No spacecraft will ever reach the region's edge. 

Objects inside a white hole can leave and interact with the outside world, but since nothing can get in, the interior is cut off cut off from the universe's past: No outside event will ever affect the inside. "Somehow it's more disturbing to have a singularity in the past that can affect everything in the outside world," said James Bardeen, a black-hole pioneer and professor emeritus at the University of Washington. 

 

Twin no man’s lands

Einstein's field equations hit physics like a tsunami in 1915, and theorists are still sorting through the wreckage. Beyond describing the force of gravity, his hypotheses also brought a paradigm-shattering message about the nature of reality. More than a rigid backdrop, space and time bend and fold along with the mass of stars and planets. That insight sparked a race to calculate just how much abuse space could take from the matter that drifts through it. 

Within a year, physicist and astronomer Karl Schwarzschild found the first exact solution to Einstein's equations, calculating how space-time curves around a single ball of mass. In his answer lay the seeds of what physicists today call a singularity — a spherical mass shrunken down to an infinitely dense point, wrapping space around it so tightly that the region pinches off from the rest of the universe. It forms a no man's land whose event horizon fractures the link between cause and effect. 

Black holes, the most famous singularities, are regions of space so warped that no exits exist. The outside universe can influence the inside of a black hole's horizon, but the interior can't affect the exterior. 

When mathematician Martin David Kruskal extended Schwarzchild's black hole description in 1960 to cover all domains of space and time, his new picture contained a reflection of the black hole singularity, although he didn't realized its significance at the time. Later, as black holes entered the vernacular, a natural term emerged for their theoretical twins. 

"It took 40 years to understand black holes, and it's only recently that people have been focusing on white holes," Rovelli said.

The Event Horizon Telescope, a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration, captured this image of the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy M87 and its shadow.

(Image: © EHT Collaboration)

Why white holes don't exist

While general relativity describes white holes in theory, no one knows how one might actually form. A black hole cordons off its bit of space when a star collapses into a tiny volume, but playing this video backwards doesn't make physical sense. An event horizon exploding into a functional star would look a bit like an egg unscrambling itself — a violation of the statistical law demanding that the universe gets messier over time. 

Even if large white holes did form, they probably wouldn't hang around too long. Any outgoing matter would collide with the matter in orbit, and the system would collapse into a black hole. "A long-lived white hole, I think, is very unlikely," said Hal Haggard, a theoretical physicist at Bard College in New York. 

A visualization from a supercomputer simulation shows how positrons behave near the event horizon of a rotating black hole.

(Image: © Kyle Parfrey et al./Berkeley Lab)

Why white holes might exist 

For a while, white holes seemed to share the fate of wormholes — mathematically permissible contortions of space-time likely prohibited by reality. But in recent years, some physicists have brought white holes back in an attempt to save their darker siblings from an unseemly death. 

Ever since Stephen Hawking realized in the 1970s that black holes leak energy, physicists have debated how the entities could possibly shrivel up and die. If a black hole evaporates away, many ask, what happens to the internal record of everything it swallowed? General relativity won't let the information out and quantum mechanics forbids its deletion. 

"How does a black hole die? We don't know. How is a white hole born? Maybe a white hole is the death of black hole," Rovelli said. "The two questions join nicely, but you have to violate the general relativity equations in the passage from one to the other."

Rovelli is a founder of quantum loop gravity, an incomplete attempt to move beyond general relativity by describing space itself as built from Lego-style particles. Guided by tools from this framework, he and others describe a scenario where a black hole grows so small that it no longer obeys the common-sense rules of stars and billiard balls. On the particle level, quantum randomness takes over and the black hole could transform into a white hole.

Such a microgram-size white hole, being similar in mass to a human hair, would have none of the gravitational drama of its black hole ancestor, according to Haggard, but would hide a cavernous interior containing the information of everything it had swallowed in its previous life. Too small to attract orbiting matter, the white hole might remain stable enough to eventually spit out all the information accumulated by its forerunner. 

In this picture, white holes would one day come to dominate the universe, after the stars have burnt out and black holes have withered. Any observers then could easily detect the objects as relatively large particles Haggard speculates, but those days are countless trillions of times the current age of the universe in the future. "It's the craziest time scale I've seen in physics," Haggard said. 

The ultimate white hole

Alternatively, the aftermath of a white hole may exist everywhere. To black hole physicists, the Big Bang's explosion of matter and energy looks like potential white hole behavior. "The geometry is very similar in the two cases," Haggard said. "Even to the point of being mathematically identical at times." 

Cosmologists call this picture the "the Big Bounce," and some seek characteristic white hole features in the universe's earliest observable light. Rovelli also wonders if violent radio bursts represent the cries of theoretical mini black holes left over from the Big Bang as they make an early transition into white holes (although this explanation appears increasingly unlikely). 

The universe may not contort itself into all the shapes general relativity allows, but Haggard thinks physicists should follow this rabbit hole all the way to the end. "Why wouldn't you investigate whether they [white holes] have interesting consequences," he said. "It may be that those consequences aren't what you expected, but it would be foolhardy to ignore them."

Additional resources: 

• Read more about the black hole to white hole transformation. 
• See how white holes emerge from the same space-time diagrams as black holes in PBS's space-time video.
• Read more about the parallels between a white hole and the Big Bang.

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The Search for Habitable Alien Worlds in Earth's Backyard Heats Up

A new planet-hunting instrument has begun studying our bright neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri.

(Image: © ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)

Coronagraphs block the superbright light of stars, potentially allowing dim orbiting planets to be seen. Since NEAR is a thermal coronagraph, team members are looking for heat radiated by worlds in the Alpha Centauri system rather than visible-range starlight reflected off their surfaces.

Alpha Centauri is a three-star system that lies about 4.37 light-years from the sun. Two of the three stars are sunlike neighbors that together form a binary system called Alpha Centauri AB. The third star, Proxima Centauri, is a small, dim, more far-flung red dwarf. (Proxima Centauri is the closest individual star to the sun, located about 4.2 light-years away.)

In 2016, astronomers discovered a roughly Earth-size planet circling Proxima Centauri. This planet, known as Proxima b, appears to lie in the habitable zone, the just-right range of distances where liquid water might be stable on a planet's surface. 

This past April, astronomers announced the detection of another possible planet circling farther away from Proxima Centauri. This world, known as Proxima c, has yet to be confirmed, however; it remains a planet candidate. 

No planets are known to reside near the binary star Alpha Centauri AB, but NEAR may change that fact. The coronagraph — a joint project of ESO and Breakthrough Watch, a program that hunts for potentially Earth-like planets around nearby stars — upgrades an existing VLT instrument called VISIR (VLT Spectrometer and Imager for the Mid-infrared). 

This upgrade slashes the overwhelming glare of the two parent stars and optimizes the instrument's sensitivity in infrared wavelengths that might be given off by a habitable-zone planet. NEAR also employs "adaptive optics" to compensate for the blur induced by Earth's atmosphere, Breakthrough Watch representatives said.

"NEAR is the first and (currently) only project that could directly image a habitable exoplanet," Breakthrough Watch lead scientist Olivier Guyon said in a statement. "It marks an important milestone. Fingers crossed — we are hoping a large habitable planet is orbiting Alpha Cen A or B."

NEAR is capable of spotting planets about twice Earth's size or bigger in the Alpha Centauri system, project team members said. 

The "first light" operations that kicked off on May 23 run through tomorrow (June 11), and represent 100 hours of observing time.

Breakthrough Watch is part of the Breakthrough Initiatives, a suite of programs designed primarily to search for alien life. The initiatives also include the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) program Breakthrough Listen and Breakthrough Starshot, which aims to launch superfast laser-sailing probes to Proxima b and other nearby exoplanets in the next 30 years or so.

"Human beings are natural explorers," Breakthrough Initiatives founder Yuri Milner said in the same statement. "It is time we found out what lies beyond the next valley. This telescope will let us gaze across."

• Amazing Space Views of ESO's Very Large Telescope (Photos)
• Proxima b: Closest Earth-Like Planet Discovery in Pictures
• How Habitable Zones for Alien Planets and Stars Work (Infographic)
• Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), is out now.
• Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall.
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Weird 'Anomaly' at the Moon's South Pole May Be a Metal Asteroid's Grave

By Meghan Bartels

A topographical map of the far side of the moon shows the South Pole-Aitken basin in blue shades and the mass anomaly studied in the new research within the dashed line.

(Image: © NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona)

The research relied on two key missions in NASA's moon-exploration portfolio. The GRAIL mission included two spacecraft, which spent more than a year orbiting the moon, with each spacecraft using the other to map the gravitational tug of the moon. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spent nearly 10 years at work and has made billions of measurements of the precise height of the moon's surface.

When it comes to the South Pole-Aitken basin, the topography is particularly striking. The feature is a massive crater stretching 1,240 miles (2,000 kilometers) across the far side of the moon, making it the largest crater planetary scientists know of to date. As the name implies, it's located near the south pole of the moon as well, and experts believe it was created perhaps 4 billion years ago.

So when the team saw an increase in the gravitational tug of the moon roughly lining up with the neighborhood of the South Pole-Aitken basin, the scientists wondered if the anomaly could trace directly back to the crater itself. "One of the explanations of this extra mass is that the metal from the asteroid that formed this crater is still embedded in the moon's mantle," James said.

Another possible explanation for the anomaly, the researchers wrote, is that the area is rich in oxides, which likely would have formed as the moon's ancient magma ocean cooled and solidified.

However it formed, the fact that the mass anomaly is still so prominent and that it seems to be located about 186 miles (300 km) down also offers scientists an intriguing idea: These facts suggest that the moon's insides can't be all that gooey; if they were, the moon's gravity would pull the massive patch into the lunar center.

The research is described in a paper published April 5 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. 

•  This NASA Video Tour of the Moon in 4K Is Simply Breathtaking 
•  Latest Moon Photos from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter 
•  The Lunar South Pole Is a Rich Target for NASA's 2024 Moon Goal 

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UFO Crash On Snowy Island In South Pole Region, Google Earth Map, UFO Sighting News.

Coordinates: 61°28'6.31"S 55°33'28.87"W

(Google Earth )

I was using Google map to find Nazi bases or alien bases or plane crashes in the polar regions when I accidentally came across this crashed alien ship. It looks like it crashed long ago. The crash marks behind it go for several hundred meters. The ship itself is about 118 meters across according to Google ruler. The black window cockpit area is easy to make out. The nose of the craft is pointed and becomes wider at the pilots area, then thins at its middle and becomes wide at its back again. Also one of the fins on its back is folded upward. Just like some aircraft can fold their wings upwards to store them. 

I have to feel bad for an alien that lands on this island. There seems to be nothing here. A crash landing means almost certain death unless he was able to call rescuers to come get him. But a craft this big would easily carry several hundred passengers. Since its the size is 118 meters and a 747 is 76 meters, we can assume since the 747 can carry 416 passengers. This means the crash UFO could have had hundreds of people on board at the time of the crash...and they may be dead inside the craft if they were not rescued or died in the crash.
Scott C. Waring

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UFO Leak of the Century! Richard Dolan

Get “Suppressed Health Secrets” and find out what THEY don’t want you to know!

Richard Dolan, of the world’s leading researchers and writers on the subject of UFO’s, discusses a major leak providing powerful confirmation of secret special access programs to study retrieved UFO technology.  Skeptics will be hard pressed to debunk these documents making the case for “deep black” UFO related programs beyond  formal government oversight.

In this video, Richard Dolan analyzes the Admiral Wilson notes which are bombshell information!   This is only the tip of the iceberg though since whistleblowers have come out about our own secret space program and said we have bases on the Moon, Mars and many other planets.  In fact according to these secret space program whistleblowers we have a very large fleet of interstellar starships going to other star systems!   But this information discussed by Dolan shows smoking gun document proof we have been reverse engineering crashed UFOs for a very long time.  This is proof there is a deeply classified project studying at least one crashed UFO.  Obviously if they are admitting to one then there are obviously hundreds!  This leak is probably an attempt at a “baby step” in disclosure.   Get this story out everywhere patriots!

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The Biggest Thing to Hit the U.K. in Past 1.2 Billion Years

Scientists believe they have discovered the site of the biggest meteorite impact ever to hit the British Isles.

Evidence for the ancient, 1.2 billion years old, meteorite strike, was first discovered in 2008 near Ullapool, NW Scotland by scientists from Oxford and Aberdeen Universities. The thickness and extent of the debris deposit they found suggested the impact crater – made by a meteorite estimated at 1km wide – was close to the coast, but its precise location remained a mystery.

• Citation: The Mesoproterozoic Stac Fada proximal ejecta blanket, NW Scotland: constraints on crater location from field observations, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, petrography and geochemistry Kenneth Amor, Stephen P. Hesselbo, Don Porcelli, Adam Price, Naomi Saunders, Martin Sykes, Jennifer Stevanović, Conal MacNiocaill. . Journal of the Geological Society, 2019; jgs2018-093 DOI: 10.1144/jgs2018-093

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Bizarre Bigfoot Artifacts Found in Cave | The Strangest Theory You've Ever Heard

Art by Matt Shaw

 

From Mountain Beast Mysteries, strange bigfoot artifacts are found in a cave, and the strangest theory you’ve ever heard.

Bizarre Bigfoot Artifacts Found in Cave | The Strangest Theory You’ve Ever Heard | MBM 94

Mountain Beast Mysteries is a channel dedicated to providing information and stories on the subjects of Bigfoot (also known as Sasquatch) and conspiracy theories relating it.

Do you want to see the best examples of Bigfoot caught on video? Do you want to enjoy hours of free Bigfoot documentary content? If the answer is yes then you have come to the right place!

2nd Video.

Mattsquatch Presents on youtube shares this video where he discusses what he believes are different types of bigfoot.

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