White UFO Disk Seen Over Pennsylvania On Oct 5, 2019, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 5, 2019
Location of sighting: Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
Source: MUFON #103815
Here are some interesting photos of a glowing white UFO over Huntingdon Valley yesterday. The photos shows a white glowing disk in the sky during sunset. The white craft really displays its round disk shape well. As I have said before, sunset is one of the hottest times to catch a UFO. This UFO has a indent at its upper center which may actually be a hump, or cockpit area for the alien pilot. These photos are incredible. Amazing evidence that aliens are visiting Pennsylvania. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states: 

Around 6:14pm I was sitting on a bench at Lorimer Park with my camera and I looked up at the moon. I noticed something near the moon that looked like a plane reflecting light off of the sun. The sun wasn't set yet and the sky was clear. It seemed too early for any stars to be out. I kept my eye on it and it was getting further away from the moon even though it appeared stationary. The moon was rising but it was getting further away horizontally. I kept my eye on it on and off while driving home and eventually it disappeared. The stars are out now and it's not there. I wanted to rule out it being a UFO but when I got home I checked MUFON and I saw that two other people in the area submitted reports on a very similar object earlier in the day.

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Alien Ship Seen Over California National Park! Photos! UFO Sighting News .

Date of sighting: June 27, 2018 but reported today. 

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On October 4, 2019 an unnatural looking rectangular shape can be seen in the sky over Ciénaga, Magdalena in Colombia when out of nowhere a strange black ring-shaped anomaly appears and slowly moves away from the rectangular shape.

Could it be a cloaked circular UFO coming out of the rectangular shape or is it just a natural sky phenomenon?

  

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Talk To ETs, By Sending A Message Into Deep Space For Free From Your Computer! UFO Sighting News.

Source: https://www.spacespeak.com/

Here is a great website that allows you to send messages to aliens using radio signals. You can click there, type a message, press send and its done! Free! Its a fun way to send messages into space. The radio signals travel at the speed of light forever. Long after you and I are gone, those signals will continue traveling every second across the universe and beyond. Think about it. Millions of alien species out there all possible recipients of your words, your thoughts, your beliefs. No, I don't get paid by them for this. I just think a lot of people out there are looking for something like this. I hope this helps you. 

Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

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NASA's InSight 'Hears' Peculiar Sounds on Mars

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A Gallery of Hidden Prehistoric Rock Art Points to Lost Indian Civilization

India is a land of many civilizations. Now it appears that another one has been uncovered in the west of the country. A team of explorers has discovered a number of petroglyph sites that belonged to an ancient society that was previously unknown. The discovery of the primitive art is allowing experts to study what seems to be a lost Indian civilization and to understand more about the subcontinent's very complex prehistoric past.

Primitive rock carvings in Western India

The petroglyphs or rock carvings are located in the hills of the Konkan region of Maharashtra, mainly in the districts of Ratnagiri and Rajapur. The rock art was created by removing or carving exposed stone. There are believed to be thousands of these rock carvings in the Konkan area, all presumably belonging to a lost Indian civilization. They are generally located near villages and some are familiar to locals and tourists but many more have now been discovered and not even local residents were aware of their existence.

Many of the carvings contain human shapes.

( Ratnagiri Tourism )

Explorers discover the ancient art phenomena

The rock art was discovered by two explorers, Sudhir Risbood and Manoj Marathe who began a systematic survey of the area after finding some images. The duo has led teams on hikes across a vast area of the hilly region looking for rock art.  The carvings were often buried beneath earth and mud, but others could still be seen. Those that were out in the open are considered holy by the local communities.

The team enlisted local students to help to identify carvings and to gather local tales on the images. The BBC reports that this provided the experts with "a lot of valuable information". Apart from identifying individual rock carvings the explorers are documenting and recording the petroglyphs. Risbood and Marathe have been tireless in their efforts to raise awareness of the carved figures.  They are also actively lobbying the local government to support efforts to study and conserve the prehistoric works of art.

Images seem to vary in type and sophistication.

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The legacy of the lost Indian Civilization

One of the most remarkable things about these images is that there are so many of them and that they are so diverse. There are carvings representing humans, animals, birds, and geometric shapes. It is hard to date the carvings, but it is estimated that some of the recent finds are the Neolithic period and possibly some of the oldest discovered.

The images allow experts to understand something of this forgotten Indian civilization. According to the Smithsonian, the director of the Maharashtra state archaeology department “suspects the original artists may have come from a hunter-gatherer society.” The lack of domesticated animals would show that they were not an agricultural society and therefore would be reliant on hunting and gathering. Some of the images are of sea creatures and indicate that the society was one that was also dependent on fishing. These carvings are reminiscent of others found on other continents.

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Non-native animal enigma

Most of the older images are of animals that lived in this part of India in prehistoric times.  While the images are of recognizable animals and humans, their meanings have not been deciphered. Another mystery is there are images of rhinos and hippos and these are not native to this part of India. Iflscience has reported that experts are baffled at “how exactly the artists were able to produce recognizable carvings of non-native species.” The rhino can be found elsewhere in India, the hippo is not native to the sub-continent.

To explain why representations of non-native animals were carved, several theories have been put forward.  Some speculate that the people who made the images had recently migrated from Africa. Then there are those who argue that hippopotamuses once lived in the region.  There are also suggestions that the rhinoceros was much more common in India in the prehistoric era than in historical times.

Sophisticated designs have been found, along with simple animal shapes. ( Ratnagiri Tourism )

What do the carvings tell us?

Risbood and Marathe have been successful in their efforts to secure more state support for their investigations of the rock art. The state government of Maharashtra has pledged funds for the study of several hundred of the rock carvings. It is expected that this will allow for more knowledge to be obtained about the rock carvings and the society that produced them. However, it is believed that the meanings of the glyphs will remain mysterious. While the origin and the ultimate fate of this lost Indian civilization will be even harder to establish.

• Top image: Sophisticated rock carvings in Ratnagiri, India indicate a lost Indian civilization.      
• Source: Ratnagiri Tourism

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UFO Lobbyists Are Trying to Get the Truth From Congress, and They're Winning

There's been an explosion of UFO lobbyists in DC—from Tom DeLonge to lawyers who demand that the president does a "Disclosure," in which he admits aliens live among us.

By MJ Banias

How do you make the government take UFOs seriously? With a UFO lobbyist, of course.

In December 2017, the New York Times wrote about a de-funded secret Pentagon UFO program called AATIP, and revealed that several Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015 engaged in bizarre encounters with anomalous aerial objects off the coast of California and Florida. Eventually, three videos of “unidentified aerial phenomena” were released and have since been confirmed by the Navy as real.

For years, Steven Bassett was Capitol Hill’s lone UFO lobbyist. He became a registered lobbyist in 1996 and set up an advocacy organization, the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), which has the goal of using “all means possible to confront the United States government regarding its policy of a truth embargo on the events and evidence demonstrating an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and the formal acknowledgement of that presence,” according to Bassett’s website.

“It's not about UFOs. The term is a product of government propaganda in service to the truth embargo and no longer of value,” Bassett told Motherboard. “It's about extraterrestrials and the Disclosure process.”

For those not fully immersed in Ufological culture, “Disclosure” is the total and final admission by the government that extraterrestrials are not only visiting Earth, but that there is a massive government cover-up to hide the truth from the public. The UFO community has even taken to Twitter to raise awareness of the Disclosure process for the 2020 election with the hashtag #askthequestion.

“A significant percentage of all people on Capitol Hill are convinced there is an ET presence. They are just not able to speak to it—publicly,” Bassett said.

Bassett’s PRG organization has recently hired Teresa Tindal, another registered lobbyist who is now also fighting for greater transparency about UFOs. Like Bassett, Tindal is convinced that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth and interacting with humans. She believes that the government is complicit in a massive cover-up.

“The cat’s out of the bag and politicians will be looking to control the issue,” Tindal told Motherboard. “It is, after all, the most powerful political initiative as it affects absolutely every aspect of life. Polls show most people believe in ET life.”

Bassett and Tindal are like the Mulders of the UFO political process, but there is always a Scully. Not everyone who pushes lawmakers to deal with the UFO issue in DC is convinced that aliens should be on the agenda.

“At no time do we or have we mentioned extraterrestrials. We are simply ensuring our government does not fall victim to ‘strategic surprise’ by the technology being displayed by [Unknown Aerial Phenomena],” Luis Elizondo, a former intelligence officer who was involved in the Pentagon’s UFO hunting Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, told Motherboard. “Whether it be from Russia, China, allies, or little green men. Our efforts focus on the national security and technology aspect; not ET.”

Elizondo explained that he is not a registered lobbyist, nor does he consider himself to be a lobbyist of any sort.

"Our efforts in Washington are focused on facilitating the flow of information from where it resides to those individuals in key leadership positions in order that they can make a well informed decision. Whether it be one focused on national security, defense, science and technology, or diplomacy, ensuring our elected leaders and those assigned to key positions have the latest and most complete picture is something we believe is critically important," Elizondo said.

Elizondo currently works for former Blink-182 lead singer Tom DeLonge, and his company To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. He also appeared on the History Channel’s newest UFO hunting show, Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.

“We simply don't know at this point if non-human technology is even part of the equation,” Elizondo stated. “It is a nonsensical assertion at this point in time because we simply need more data to even make that initial assessment.”

Elizondo’s boss, To the Star’s founder Tom DeLonge, has made his personal beliefs clear on the issue. In his book, Sekret Machines: Gods, co-written with Peter Levenda, DeLonge sums it all up by arguing that humanity was visited by aliens in its distant past, and that all human culture is one big “cargo cult.”

While the official party line of the To the Stars’ political lobby may be devoid of the extraterrestrial narrative, Bassett doesn’t buy it.

“The ‘To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science’ team are operating under certain conditions laid down by those still inside who are providing cover. No classified content released. Non-disclosure agreements must be honored. Do not talk ‘extraterrestrial.’ Why? There are factions inside the [military industrial complex] opposed to the TTSA project and would stop it if they could. Therefore restraint is required—for now,” Basset told Motherboard.

TV personality and UFO researcher Chase Kloetzke also works in Washington as a lobbyist meeting with lawmakers about ‘the phenomenon.’ The issue all of the lobbyists face, Kloetzke explains, is that UFOs are considered sensitive information.

“This topic is now in the hands of the Pentagon, military strategists and intelligence agencies. It’s all classified. To be part of ANY discussion in DC about UAPs, you need a security clearance,” Kloetzke said in an email. According to Kloetzke, she has “spoken to senior staff for seven lawmakers and two Senators.” While she is unsure as to how much progress she has personally made, she is convinced that To the Stars is a key player in all this and that the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program is “still in play.”

“I realized years ago that any kind of Disclosure or Confirmation will only be ‘Official,’ if it comes from DC. I do this because of the evidence and facts that we can now present to start the process of public information,” Kloetzke said. “We have unknown objects in our skies. Confirmed! The question now, and the only questions right now are ‘What are these objects?’ and ‘Who are the pilots controlling them?’”

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Photoshopped NASA Photos Give New Life to Outer-Space Imagery

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The Building Blocks of Life May Have Come From Outer Space

The Building Blocks of Life May Have Come From Outer Space

Ever since the discovery of organic molecules in a meteorite that landed in Australia about half a century ago, scientists have been tantalized by the possibility that the building blocks of life originated in space. New research is shedding light on how such compounds might have formed and found their way to Earth.

Fred Ciesla, a planetary scientist at the University of Chicago, and Scott Sanford, a NASA astrophysicist, say our solar system was on the fast track to create life before Earth existed. The scientists made a computer model of the solar nebula—the disk of gas and dust from which the Sun and planets formed 4.6 billion years ago. The primordial debris included icy grains containing frozen water, ammonia and carbon dioxide, among other molecules.

Ciesla and Sanford simu- lated the movements of 5,000 ice grains over a million years in the turbulence of the solar nebula, which tossed them about like laundry in a dryer, lofting some “high enough [so] that they were being irradiated directly by the young Sun,” says Ciesla. High-energy ultraviolet radiation broke molecular bonds, creating highly reactive atoms that were prone to recombine and form more stable—and sometimes, more complex—compounds.

Ciesla and Sanford say this process could have generated organic molecules such as amino acids, amphiphiles and nucleobases—the building blocks of proteins, cell membranes and RNA and DNA, respectively.

Some of these organic molecules found their way to small rocky bodies—planetesimals—that littered the early solar system. Those, in turn, combined to form comets, asteroids and planets, including ours. Thus young Earth, Ciesla theorizes, was infused with organic molecules fabricated in space. Additional organic compounds, he suggests, could have formed later in Earth’s primordial soup or were delivered to our planet by comets and meteorites.

The odds of meteorites reaching Earth got a boost from Jupiter, say Rebecca Martin, a NASA Sagan Fellow from the University of Colorado, and astronomer Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. When the solar system was forming, Jupi­ter’s gravity prevented nearby planetesimals from coalescing. The bodies smashed into one another, breaking into fragments that settled into an asteroid belt 158 million miles from Earth. If a young Jupiter had passed through the belt while settling into its orbit around the Sun, it would have scattered the asteroids; if its orbit had been too far from the belt, asteroids would have accumulated and constantly bombarded the Earth, rendering it lifeless. Instead, the asteroid belt provided just the right amount of asteroids to courier compounds to Earth without pounding it into oblivion.

Both studies point to the possibility of life on other planets. Ciesla says, “If the process that we describe did play a role in the formation of the organics that we see in meteorites, then we expect basically every solar system to contain” organics. However, only 4 percent of the known solar systems in our galaxy possess a Jupiter-type planet in the right place to create an asteroid belt like ours. “There could be more asteroid belts out there,” says Martin, “but we just can’t see them yet.”

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What lies behind ghosts, demons and aliens – according to sleep researchers

If you believe in the paranormal you might not be surprised if you hear stories of deceased loved ones appearing during the night, huge explosions heard just as someone is drifting off with no obvious cause, and other peculiar occurrences. But what if you don’t?

My interest in the paranormal started with an impromptu coffee with a colleague, Chris French, who researches reports of paranormal experiences. He told me stories of countless people who had recounted such events. These experiences tended to start while lying in bed. Then something unusual would happen – perhaps a demon would appear or the environment would seem strange or there would be a sensed presence. The person having this experience might also report being glued to their mattress, tarmacked into the bed, totally unable to move.

It’s unsurprising that people who experience such things might interpret them as paranormal. But certain phenomena such as sleep paralysis provide an alternative to paranormal explanations for such occurrences. Hence my interest in the subject, as a sleep researcher.

Sleep paralysis

When we sleep, we cycle through different stages. We start the night in non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep – which gets progressively deeper. We then cycle back until we hit rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. During REM sleep we are most likely to have vivid dreams. At this stage we are also paralysed, perhaps as a safety mechanism to stop us acting out our dreams so that we don’t end up attempting to fly.

But during sleep paralysis, features of REM sleep continue into waking life. Those who experience it will feel awake yet might experience dream-like hallucinations and struggle to move. This experience is pretty common, occurring in around 8% of people (although estimates vary dramatically depending on who we are asking). It’s even possible to induce sleep paralysis in some people, by disrupting their sleep in specific ways.

Certain researchers, French among them, believe that this explains a huge number of paranormal accounts. Information about sleep paralysis is finally seeping into public awareness, but we now need to understand more about this common complaint.

Our preliminary work, which I recount in my new book Nodding Off: The science of sleep from cradle to grave, hints at possible genetic and environmental explanations for why some people are more likely than others to experience sleep paralysis. This now needs to be replicated using much larger samples. Reviewing the literature, we have also highlighted a host of other variables associated with this common experience, including stress, trauma, psychiatric difficulties and physical illnesses.

Exploding head syndrome

Sleep paralysis aside, how else are sleep researchers helping to explain paranormal experiences? People sometimes describe experiencing huge explosions during the night which simply can’t be explained. There is no sign that a shelf has fallen down or a car has backfired. There is no one playing the electric guitar next to their head.

Again, this can be linked to our sleep – this time explained by “exploding head syndrome”, a term coined relatively recently by the neurologist JMS Pearce. When we fall asleep, the reticular formation of the brainstem (a part of our brain involved in consciousness) typically starts to inhibit our ability to move, see and hear things. When we experience a “bang” in our sleep this might be because of a delay in this process. Instead of the reticular formation shutting down the auditory neurons, they might fire at once.

As with sleep paralysis, this phenomenon is also under-researched. For this very reason, in 2017 my colleagues and I joined forces with BBC Focus and Brian Sharpless, a leading expert on this phenomenon, to collect data on this topic.

Imps and ghouls

Finally, what might scientists make of precognitive dreams? We might dream of a friend we haven’t seen for years only to have them call us the very next day. French thinks science can provide an explanation for this too. Referencing work by John Allen Paulos that focuses on probabilities, he explains how such an occurrence may be surprising on any single day, but over time, quite likely to occur.

Researching my book, I spoke to Mrs Sinclair, who is 70, and lives alone. She told me about what she had thought was a ghost living in her house, an imp throttling her during the night and other things that had left her petrified. Having scientific explanations provided her with immense comfort and she no longer believes in paranormal explanations for the things that she experienced.

Our hope is that scientific explanations of paranormal experiences might help others by lowering anxiety. Decreasing anxiety has also been hypothesised as a potential method by which to reduce sleep paralysis. So, perhaps providing more information about these unusual experiences might even mean that things are less likely to go bump in the night.

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'Fleet' of strange glowing objects seen off North Carolina coast in baffling clip

Conspiracy theorists claim the footage shows a fleet of 14 UFOs

By Katy Gill Video News Reporter

A "fleet" of bizarre objects has been captured hovering off the coast of North Carolina.

William Guy was travelling on a ferry across the Pimlico Sound when he spotted 14 bizarre objects in the sky.

He immediately started recording and the footage has left the conspiracy world in shock.

The video begins with the sight of the sky, seemingly showing the sun setting.

William pans the camera across the horizon showing nothing in sight.

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"Look, nothing in the sky, at all," he said.

As he cuts across the sky the lit up cluster is seen floating aimlessly.

"Can anybody tell me what that is?" William asks.

He adds: "We're in the middle of the ocean, on a ferry.

"There's nothing around, no land, no nothing."

After posting it to YouTube only days ago, William told viewers the lights disappeared from sight before coming back some two minutes later.

Several well-known conspiracy YouTube channels have re-posted the footage, including mavi 777 who labelled the objects a "UFO fleet".

Fellow conspiracy site UFOMania also saw the video and wrote: "Fleet of mysterious lights appear above the sea."

Other views chimed in with their thoughts, with one saying: "The outer orbit of the Earth is swarming with alien advanced craft.

"Earth is under heavy observation."

But another had a perhaps more logical explanation, saying: "It's not a UFO, they're training targets for military aircraft."

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The Cassini–Huygens space-research mission launched aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur on October 15, 1997.

It was active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn and studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004. The voyage to Saturn included flybys of Venus (April 1998 and July 1999), Earth (August 1999), the asteroid 2685 Masursky, and Jupiter (December 2000). The mission ended on September 15, 2017, when Cassini's trajectory took it into Saturn's upper atmosphere and it burned up.

After studying a great portion of its photographs Galactic Hurricane noticed strange anomalies that he couldn't really defy according to our laws of physics.

Strange spheres seemed to literally stretch within the rings of Saturn. Some did follow the spacecraft and seemed to signal to the Cassini craft. Did we make contact with some kind of lifeform that has yet to be named?

But the strangest thing happened that on September 25, 2019 when Mauricio Lopez filmed exactly the same object above New York what Galactic Hurricane saw on the Cassini's pictures.

That to me made it clear that something from Saturn could be around or maybe within our Earth's atmosphere?

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Former CIA Agent and Alien Hunter Derrel Sims talks about his lifelong quest for the truth with the alien presence on Earth and their nefarious agendas!

He hunts these extraterrestrials and collects evidence, data, witness testimonies and fights to expose the true intentions behind these sinister beings with their human experiments.

Derrel explains how these aliens are “Made, Hatched, Cloned, and Manufactured” by some rogue element within our government.

He states that the aliens don’t have a planet, their “DNA comes from here”. Then he explained how all aliens are genetically modified. He goes on to connect the dots with the extraterrestrial presence of today with that of the ancient past.

He also gave his take with Zecharia Sitchin, the Anunnaki, Fallen Angels, and the Sumerian Civilization.

A few talking points in the interview:

His time with the CIA
His first Encounter with Aliens
Why he hunts Aliens
Transgenics Chimeras and the tampering of DNA
Alien Hybrids
Different types of alien races
Cloned and Manufactured Aliens Greys
Reptilians, Nordics, 7 Foot Preying Mantis beings
Alien Abductions
Alien Experiments on the Human Race
His research and evidence with Alien Abductions
The agenda behind Alien Abductions
The Alien Agenda

Although the statements made by Derrel Sims are very controversial, there is some truth in his explanations that correspond to the statements made by the late Phill Schneider.

Phill Schneider once said that at the Dulce underground secret Base under Mt. Archuleta, Dulce, New Mexico not only "gray" humanoid extraterrestrials worked side by side with American technicians but also humans and aliens work together on horrific bio genetic experiments, human alien hybrid breeding programs, atomic manipulation, cloning, studies of the human aura, advanced mind control applications, animal/human crossbreeding, visual and audio human chip implantation and abduction (See our article: The largest reptilian and grey base in America).

According to Schneider, the Secret Government cloned humans by a process perfected in the world's largest and most advanced biogenetic research facility in Los Alamos too.

  

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Five Ancient Petroglyphs and Cave Paintings that depict ‘Ancient Aliens’

Thousands of years ago, ancient people around the globe created a number of petroglyphs and cave paintings. Why ancient man depicted strange beings with 5 or 6 fingers, helmets, sandals, and what appear to be space suits is a mystery no one has been able to answer.

Millions of people around the world firmly believe we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings for millennia.

But if such highly advanced beings visited us in the distant past… how did ancient cultures react 2000-3000 years ago? Did ancient man freak out when ‘highly advanced’ spaceships landed on our planet? Or did ancient cultures glorify the visitors, referring to them as gods? Strangely, many ancient civilizations like the Ancient Chinese, Maya, Aztec and Inca, speak of visitors that came from the heavens bringing great knowledge to mankind.

But even before ancient civilizations recorded their legends and spoke of gods that came down to Earth, people were recording what today is interpreted as ‘alien visitations’.

If we take a look at cave art and petroglyphs around the globe, we will notice that in all corners of the planet, ancient man drew on rock all sorts of important events, and in nearly all petroglyphs found to date, there are representations of mysterious and strange beings that do not resemble human beings.

However, what is even more fascinating is that even though these petroglyphs are found scattered across the entire planet, the depictions of the mysterious creatures are eerily similar. This has lead many  to believe that ancient mankind that carved and painted the mystery beings must have seen them at one point in history.

Let us go ahead and take a look at some of the most amazing depictions of ancient aliens discovered to date!

1. The Wandjina cave paintings

The Wandjina cave paintings are one of our favorite cave paintings discovered to date. There are a number of interesting details about the cave art found in Kimberley, Australia, in 1838. First of all the age of the cave paintings has become a subject of debate among numerous researchers. Some even suggest that the mystery art called the Wandjina could be well over 100,000 years old (yes you read right).

Among the numerous pieces of ‘ancient Picasso art’ ancient people depicted beings that measure up to six meters in height.

Locals refer to the mystery beings as the “wandjinas”. These mysterious beings are said to have brought civilization and prosperity to the people, and like many other ancient cultures around the globe indicate, the enigmatic “wandjinas” also came from the sky. Even more impressive is the fact that numerous ancient cultures around the globe have in their destroy a serpent or dragon. Strangely, the “wandjina’s” symbol was a feathered serpent. Quetzalcoatl anyone?

But even more fascinating are other depiction of the Wandjina, who are depicted as strange humanoid figures without mouths, with huge black eyes and pale white faces that are surrounded by strange halos.  These mysterious paintings have received all kinds of interpretation: strange representation of human beings, gigantic owls, down to the theory of Ancient Astronauts, as beings who visited Earth in the distant past.

2. 10,000-year-old cave paintings in India depict ancient aliens

Another fascinating discovery of what could be interpreted as ancient aliens can be found in India where researchers discovered a number of strange pieces of ancient art resembling what many have interpreted as otherworldly beings and disc-shaped objects.

According to Indian experts, it’s as if people, 10.000 years ago made these paintings while looking at science fiction movies.

The set of curious ancient art is located inside caves located near the town of Charama in the Kanker district.

One archaeologist from India firmly believes that this art clearly reflects that 10,000 years ago, people knew we were not alone in the universe.

Archaeologist JR Bhagat made some very interesting comments while speaking about the enigmatic cave art: „The paintings are done in natural colors that have hardly faded despite the years. The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features. Especially, the nose and mouth are missing. In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits.“

3. Tassili n’Ajjer: Proof of Ancient Astronauts?

It seems that there is plenty of evidence of ancient alien visitations.

In addition to the above-mentioned cave paintings, ancient art found in Tassili n’Ajjer seems to illustrate mysterious creatures with helmets gloves and strange suits.

Today, experts have managed to catalogue around 5,000 cave paintings in the region. Regrettably, around 20% of them remain visible today, since most of them were destroyed by erosion.

The age of the cave art is believed to be around 10,000 to 15,000 years old. Among the sheer number of rock art found, ancient man drew giraffes, ostriches, elephants, oxen, alligators and even hippos; demonstrating that the Sahara region was full of life in the distant past. However, the most incredible feature are the mysterious depictions of strange beings with helmets and suits, which according to a number of researchers resemble modern-day astronauts.

Why would the ancient inhabitants of Tassili n’Ajjer depict the humanoid figures with helmet-like objects and spacesuits unless they did not seem them? Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that the natives of the Tassili Caves depicted the ancient astronaut that visited them in the past 10,000 years ago? According to many researchers, it is a possibility.

4. The Toro Muerto Petroglyphs

Another set of intriguing pieces of ancient art depicting strange beings can be found in Peru at the mysterious Petroglyphs of Toro Muerto, which according to many depict strange humanoid figures that do not resemble human beings.

The petroglyphs cover an area of several kilometers in length. Toro Muerto, which translated, means Dead Bull was named because of the herds of livestock that commonly died because of dehydration in the area.

Among the countless carvings at Toro Muerto, there are interesting depictions of what appear to be, shepherds, hunters, and semi-realistic figures, zoomorphic figures like jaguars, condors, camels, and fish. The ancients also depicted sunflowers and trees without branches, geometric symbols, zig-zags, square, diamond shapes and some inscriptions, intaglios, and bizarre writings all over an area of approximately four kilometers.

The most intriguing depictions at Toro Muerto are those of beings that do not share much resemblance to normal human beings. Even more fascinating is the fact that some of the petroglyphs of Toro Muerto bear a freakish resemblance to petroglyphs found in Australia where ancient man also depicted mysterious beings with ‘halos’ around their heads. The beings depicted at Toro Muerto were carved with a number of strange characteristics, like antennas on top of their heads.

5. The Petroglyphs at Karahunj, Armenia’s Stonehenge

This ancient site located in modern-day Armenia is fascinating for a number of reasons. First of all, many researchers claim that the site itself predates both Stonehenge in England and the Pyramids of Giza.

This ancient complex occupies over 7 hectares and offers its visitors a number of strange carvings created by early civilizations that inhabited the region thousands of years ago.

Among the numerous carvings, ancient man depicted what appeared to be strange beings with elongated heads and almond-shaped eyes, eerily similar to ‘modern-day’ representations of Grey Aliens.

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Topwetenschapper NASA: “We staan dicht bij ontdekking van leven op Mars, maar de wereld is er niet klaar voor” - HLN.be

Bron: The Telegraph

Maar Green vreest dat de mensheid de aankondiging van leven op Mars niet zal aankunnen. “Het zal revolutionair zijn”, vertelt hij aan de Britse krant The Telegraph over een nakende aankondiging van NASA over aliens. “Het zal zijn zoals met de woorden van Copernicus: ‘Nee, wij draaien rond de zon’. Revolutionair. Het zal het begin zijn van een hele nieuwe manier van denken. Ik denk niet dat we voorbereid zijn op de bevindingen. Nee, dat zijn we niet.”

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NASA spot wereldberoemd logo van Star Trek op Mars

Volgend jaar in juli stuurt NASA een nieuwe robot naar de Rode Planeet om er diepere boringen dan ooit in de bodem uit te voeren, op zoek naar sporen van levende organismen. De ‘Mars 2020’-rover zal in februari 2021 landen bij de Jezero-krater. Wetenschappers gaan ervan uit dat de oppervlakte van Mars radioactief is en dat eventueel leven daarom waarschijnlijk ondergronds moet worden gezocht. “Het principe is: waar water is, is leven”, zegt Green. Ook op onze planeet Aarde vonden onderzoekers meer leven diep in de aardkorst dan erboven.

De Europese Ruimtevaartorganisatie zet in 2021 de robot ExoMars in, die ook naar aliens zal speuren met boringen in de Marsbodem. De twee missies zijn de beste kans ooit voor de mensheid om buitenaards leven te vinden. Jim Green verwacht dat minstens een van beide Marsrovers succesvol zal zijn in hun zoektocht naar bewijs van water en dat de ontdekking van leven op een andere planeet zich al binnen enkele jaren zal aandienen.

Maar dat zal verregaande gevolgen hebben, waar de Aarde niet klaar voor is, vreest hij. “Een hele nieuwe reeks wetenschappelijke vragen zullen zich opdringen”, aldus Green. “Is dat leven zoals het onze? Hoe zijn we met elkaar verbonden? Kan dat leven van de ene planeet naar de andere gaan?”

Bekijk ook: Vliegt Elon Musk ons binnenkort naar Mars?

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Japanse sonde stuurt kleine robots om asteroïde te verkennen, op zoek naar de oorsprong van het leven - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

De Minerva-II2 capsule werd op ongeveer een kilometer van het oppervlak van Ryugu, de asteroïde die zich tussen de aarde en mars bevindt, ingezet. Ze zal de komende vijf dagen acht omwentelingen maken rond Ryugu en de rover vervolgens op het oppervlak neerlaten, stelt Jaxa.

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VIDEO. Kijk hoe een Japans ruimtetuig schiet op asteroïde Ryugu

Met de Hayabusa-2 missie wil het ruimtevaartbureau meer te weten komen over de oorsprong van het leven en het zonnestelsel. De Hayabusa-2 verzamelde eerder al stalen van onder het oppervlak van een asteroïde, wat nog nooit eerder gedaan werd.

Het ruimtetuig werd in december 2014 gelanceerd van het Tanegashima-ruimtevaartcentrum in Zuid-Japan, en wordt eind 2020 terug op aarde verwacht met stalen, meldt het bureau.

De eerste landing op Ryugu gebeurde in februari. Toen werden stalen van het oppervlak alleen verzameld.

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A Building-Sized Asteroid Will Fly Closer To Earth Than The Moon Today

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There are a lot of space rocks out there and we know very little about them. Most of them remain completely unknown to us, others get discovered only when they get too close to our planet. This is the case of asteroid 2019 SP3 which is flying over our heads today, October 3.

The celestial body is roughly the size of a building, between 15 and 33 meters (49 to 108 feet) in diameter. SP3’s orbit is taking it slightly closer than the Moon is to Earth, roughly 370,000 kilometers (230,000 miles) from the planet surface, according to NASA’s data.

While this is certainly a “close approach” in cosmic terms, there’s nothing to worry about. The rock will continue in its orbit around the Sun undisturbed. It moves with a speed of 8.53 kilometers (5.3 miles) per second and does a full orbit in 1,416 days, almost four years.

While this object specifically poses no threat to us, it is a reminder of the potential risk we face from the heavens. The asteroid was only discovered on September 22. Other asteroids have discovered just hours before they flew by, and others have just hit us.

To get an idea of what would happen if 2019 SP3 were to hit our planet we can look to the Chelyabinsk event that occurred in 2013 when a meteor roughly the same size exploded over the Russian town. The asteroid burned up in the atmosphere creating a bright flash of light and releasing enough energy that a sonic boom shattered windows for 518 square kilometers (200 square miles), with over 7,200 damaged buildings and a collapsed factory roof. Over 1,600 non-direct injuries occurred, mainly due to flying glass.

Orbit of the planets and 2019 SP3. Position are exactly one year from now, for clarity.

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There are roughly 20,000 known near-Earth Asteroids divided into four families depending on their orbital parameters. About 10 percent of these are considered Potentially Hazardous Asteroids, or PHAs. Space agencies such as NASA and ESA are keeping an eye on the all and observatories and amateurs worldwide often serendipitously spot new ones.

The agencies also run “Asteroid Impact Simulation” exercises to plan and prepare for an asteroid impact. They win some, and lose some. The last one held earlier this year saw New York accidentally destroyed to save its projected target of Denver, highlighting the challenges we are likely to witness both before, during, and after the event if such a threat was discovered.

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Atlantis Discovered in the Bermuda Triangle: The Sunken City Features Giant Pyramids and Sphinx

Two scientists, Paul Weinzweig and Pauline Zalitzki, working off the coast of Cuba and using a robot submersible, have confirmed that a gigantic city exists at the bottom of the ocean.

The site of the ancient city — that includes several sphinxes and at least four giant pyramids plus other structures — amazingly sits within the boundries of the fabled Bermuda Triangle.

According to a report by Arclein of Terra Forming Terra, Cuban Subsea Pyramid Complex, the evidence points to the city being simultaneously inundated with rising waters and the land sinking into the sea. This correlates exactly with the Atlantis legend.

The disaster may have occurred at the end of the last Ice Age. As the Arctic icecap catastrophically melted it caused sea levels to rise quickly around the world, especially affecting the Northern Hemisphere. Coast lines changed; land was lost; islands (even island continents) disappeared.

At the end of last Ice Age sea levels were nearly 400 feet lower than present day levels. Once the waters began to rise, they rose swiftly. Conceivably, no technology then, or now, could have saved Atlantis from its watery grave. The evidence that land in what’s now the Caribbean also sank into the sea concurrently seems pretty certain.

Arclein observes:

“At the time uplifted portions of the Mid Atlantic Ridge subsided also including Lyonese and the home islands and land mass around the Azores. Even if that had not happened, this subsidence was amply large enough.

“This would have produced an orthogonal pressure forcing subsidence to either East or West. Since the ridge between Cuba and Yucatan is the natural point of weakness between the Gulf subsidence basin and the Caribbean subsidence basin, it naturally subsided deeply. The driver for all this was the hydrostatic changes brought about by both the original crustal shift of 12,900 years ago that I have called the Pleistocene Nonconformity and the slow uplift of the Hudson Bay Basin brought about by the ending of the Ice Age.”

Cuban missile crisis stops research

According to journalist Luis Mariano Fernandez, the city was first discovered decades ago, but all access to it was stopped during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

“The U.S. government discovered the alleged place during the Cuban missile crisis in the sixties, Nuclear submarines cruising in the Gulf (in deep sea) met pyramid structures. They immediately shut down the site and took control of him and the objects, in order that it will not come to Russians hands.”

The science team of deep ocean experts, archaeologists and oceanographers found ruins of ancient buildings 600 feet below the ocean. They say the city is Atlantis.

Evidence that the island of Cuba is the vestige of a once mighty culture is supported by Zalitzki’s discovery on the island of extremely ancient symbols and pictograms identical to those seen on the underwater structures.Pyramids and sphinxes bigger than Egypt’s
Incredibly the ancient city also has magnificent sphinxes and “stones that arranged like Stonehenge, and a written language engraved on the stones,” reports Fernandez.Using exploration submersibles, they discovered amazingly huge pyramid structures similar to (but larger than) the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. They estimate the Atlantis pyramids are constructed with stones weighing many hundreds of tons.!

Fernandez writes, “It has confirmed that the stones were cut, carved and polished to make them fit together and thus form larger structures. On the strange inscriptions, some of them similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics, very little is known, except that they are very abundant and found in almost all parts of the field. They have also appeared symbols and drawings whose meaning is unknown.”

The exploration of Atlantis, called Project Exploramar, is expanding to discover more of the mysteries of the mega-city.

Speaking with a scientist about the possibility that the ruins are indeed Atlantis, Fernandez reports the expert replied:

“…in the Yucatan cultures today is possible that what still remains of the aborigines of those places perhaps the Olmecs or some very primitive civilization of Yucatan, the northern part of Central America—originated according to them on an island that sank by a cataclysm. This island is called Atlanticú.”

That too fits the stories about the sudden demise of the wondrous Atlantis. Atlanticú is, of course, Atlantis. The aboriginal natives still call it that in their history.

“When we published the first news of this finding,” she said, “the University of Veracruz was interested in our work and we had recorded images of these structures on the seabed. Specifically, the Institute of Anthropology of the University excavations invited me. They were doing [studies] on parts and ruins of the Olmec civilization.During an interview about the exploration of the mega-city, Fernandez asked lead scientist Pauline Zalitzki about the civilization that built it.

“When they saw these submarine images [they] found similarities and parallels with the ruins found in these excavations that the Institute was undertaking.

“The Olmecs and other native peoples all have primary morphology marking the arrival of this continent. This mean coming from the direction of Cuba, and had to occur in a very large earthquake where their land sank.

Morphologies indicate that they belong to three families who were saved. One of these families came to the coast of Veracruz, which are supposedly the Olmec. Others came to Central America and traveled to the Pacific coast, and these families created the civilization of the Americas as we know it today, because they distributed all their knowledge.

When these anthropologists saw underwater images of this city, and saw some stone monoliths, some symbol, and inscriptions, they identified with Olmec motifs. They were very surprised.”

Sonar images of mega-structures on the seabed

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The Olmecs devolved from the survivor of Atlantis, a much superior culture destroyed aft the end of the Ice Age flooding. The world was reshaped and a super-civilization destroyed, remembered for millennia only in legend and a passing refernce by the philosopher Plato.

Another image of an Atlantean mega-structure

[Image: LMF]

But Atlantis was real, is real: scientists Paul Weinzweig and Pauline Zalitzki have found it.

The above work of art was once part of the old Maya city of Tikal, in Guatemala. It probably illustrates the demise of Atlantis. Since this does not fit the prevailing picture, a German archaeologist took it to Germany, where it was “accidentally” destroyed in the Second World War —

II. Updates about Cuba’s underwater megalithic research

“They (megalithic stones) are very unique structures. They really are not easy to understand and I do not have any easy explanation for them in a natural geological process.” – Manuel Iturralde-Vinent, Ph.D., Geologist, National Museum of Natural History, Havana, Cuba

Ocean engineer, Paulina Zelitsky, described their 2000 findings as follows:

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On October 3, 2019, sky-watcher BruceSeesall while using his telescope he captured a series of unidentified bright spherical objects moving across the surface of the moon.

The Italian Astronomer Alberto Mayer discovered on April 29th 2007 a dark moving object on the moon by using his telescope. The object is moving over moon`s surface and changes the direction after a while!.

Below the live view of these anomalies that BruceSeesall believes could be constructed. The second live video shows the dark object captured by astronomer Alberto Mayer.

Despite space agencies deny that there is any form of activity on the moon's surface or underground both videos prove the opposite, there is indeed alien activity on the moon.

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U.S. Organization of Alien Hunters Claims to Have Obtained Exotic Material on UFOs

An American organization of extraterrestrial hunters, led by Tom DeLonge, claims to have discovered exotic material that’s proof of UFOs. The former Blink-182 singer and guitarist co-founded the group To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science Inc. together with a former Defense Department official Christopher Mellon in 2017 to research space aliens.

Earlier in September, the U.S. Navy confirmed three gun-camera videos of F-18 released by the group in December 2017 showed unidentified aerial phenomena, a term the government prefer to use over UFOs.

Now, former Pentagon intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who is the group’s director of global security and special programs, brought another teaser in connection to the subject.

Elizondo revealed that they had found exotic material samples from UFOs. However, he refused to go into specifics at this point.

He explained that they have to allow the process to take its course and they don’t want to be presumptive either way. He said that they do not want to jump to any conclusions prematurely. He pointed out that the data is going to decide what something is not and what something is.

However, Elizondo also acknowledged that the material might come from a variety of sources. He added that their organization was seeking to conduct scientific analysis, such as molecular, chemical, and nuclear, with the most qualified and most respectable individuals and institutions.

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Noted Astrophysicist Says The Evidence on UFOs Is Overwhelming

This is another exciting interview we wanted to share with UFO enthusiasts who may have missed it. It talks about those three videos of UFOs captured by the military. As you may have read already, the Navy has finally confirmed that the videos are real and considered the objects in question “unidentified.”

Since that time, renowned astrophysicist Michio Kaku has been discussing the subject on several occasions, including during a conference in Spain, which caught the attention of the mainstream media. He’s since been doing various interviews where he provides more details on the subject. Recently, he was on Fox News with Tucker Carlson. He revealed that he had seen enough evidence at this point to draw some scientific conclusions.

Before you get into the video, we just wanted to highlight some points from this interview. First of all, Michio previously said that the onus was now on the government to prove that these UFOs were not extraterrestrial origin. However, Michio declared on the interview this weekend the videos to be “a gamechanger.” He explained that reviews of the videos and reports of the pilots had provided some complicated, testable science to work, including velocities and acceleration rates. Michio called the evidence “overwhelming.”

Having said all of that, however, Professor Michio appears to step back just a bit when Tucker throws him with the hard question twice. Tucker asks Michio if humans could have been built the craft based on what we know of physics. The first time, Michio responds by discussing millions of planets orbiting other stars and the interesting possibility that someone up there might be monitoring us.

The second time, he comes somewhat closer, but still won’t call it impossible that these machines are human-made. Michio said that he was still waiting for explanations from someone how humans can create a craft with no visible means of propulsion but can hover in place over the ocean and take off at Mach 5.

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YouTube Video Shows UFO Hovering Over Earth

A mysterious object was observed on live footage of NASA from the International Space Station (ISS), prompting speculations that the triangular UFO may be a real American Space Force ship.

YouTube user MrMBB333 shared a bizarre video showing the UFO apparently flying in the ISS vicinity.

According to the user, this isn’t a reflection but an actual sizeable triangular object that reflects light itself.

They claimed that the UFO sped up prior to vanishing in the live feed. When the user zooms in the clip and brings it in slow motion, the light seems reflecting off it and appears glistening.

The exciting video instantly attracted the attention of UFO enthusiasts and other conspiracy theorists who have suggested the clip could reveal proof of the existence of the US Space Force.

US President Donald Trump proposed in August the establishment of US Space Command (SPACECOM), stressing that US military assets must get the freedom in space operation to detect and destroy missiles launched against the nation.

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Aliens Using Nearby Asteroids To Spy On Earth, Scientist Warns

By Inigo Monz

An American physicist claimed through a new study that aliens might be using asteroids that fly near Earth to spy on the planet. The scientist then called for new missions to visit the near-Earth objects (NEO) to find the alien observers.

In a new study published in The Astronomical Journal, physicist James Benford theorized that extraterrestrial beings might be using space probes or “lurkers” to study civilizations on other planets, such as Earth.

He noted that these probes may have been following the progression of Earth’s technology for decades or even centuries.

“A probe located nearby could bide its time while our civilization developed technology that could find it, and, once contacted, could undertake a conversation in real time,” Benford wrote in his paper.

“Meanwhile, it could have been routinely reporting back on our biosphere and civilization for long years,” he added.

According to Benford, one possible way aliens could spy on Earth without being detected is by using the NEOs, or the asteroids that fly close to Earth on a regular basis. These asteroids visit Earth’s neighborhood so frequently that the planet gets at least one flyby from a NEO every day.

As Benford explained, these kinds of asteroids serve as the ideal platforms for alien space probes.

“A recently discovered group of nearby co-orbital objects is an attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to locate a probe to observe Earth while not being easily seen,” Benford wrote.

“These near-Earth objects provide an ideal way to watch our world from a secure natural object,” he added. “That provides resources an ET might need: materials, a firm anchor and concealment.”

Due to the possible presence of alien probes on asteroids, Benford called on space agencies as well as alien-focused organizations to take on a more proactive approach in finding extraterrestrial life. The physicist suggested using a combination of satellite data and asteroid missions to check on the alleged probes aboard the NEOs.

“We should move forthrightly toward observing them, both by observing them in the electromagnetic spectrum and planetary radar, as well as visiting them with probes,” he said.

Image of two different asteroids captured by NASA. Photo: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL

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How the apocalypse will happen: Earth will be swallowed by neighbouring galaxy as it envelops the Milky Way in four billion years' time (IF we make it that far)

• Scientists say the Andromeda galaxy has been eating others for billions of years
• Our own Milky Way galaxy is on a collision course and could be destroyed
• Images show the remnants of other galaxies inside the Andromeda nebula 

By SAM BLANCHARD FOR MAILONLINE

The Milky Way will one day be cannibalised by the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy, which has been gobbling up smaller star systems for billions of years.

Scientists have mapped the Andromeda, which is twice the size of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and found remnants of other galaxies floating inside it.

This means it has already gobbled up smaller galaxies over the last ten billion years, scientists have found after the theory that it would eventually devour the Earth was first devised 15 years ago.

They predict it will be four billion years before the Earth and surrounding planets are consumed by their giant neighbour.

The result of the collision could be catastrophic and destroy planets and stars in both galaxies if they smash together or get too close to one another.

However, there is some skepticism surrounding this disastrous event as it is unlikely to occur as stars in galaxies are spaced sufficiently sparsely that direct collisions between stars are rare. 

Research by the Australian National University revealed traces of other cannibalised galaxies inside the Andromeda galaxy, which scientists say has been absorbing other stars and planet systems for billions of years

'The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda in about four billion years,' said Dr Dougal Mackey, from the Australian National University.

'So knowing what kind of a monster our galaxy is up against is useful in finding out the Milky Way's ultimate fate.

'Andromeda has a much bigger and more complex stellar halo than the Milky Way, which indicates that it has cannibalised many more galaxies, possibly larger ones.'

However, Mackey told CNN that this event is unlikely to wreck havoc on our world.

'I think it's unlikely the Earth will be physically destroyed by the collision with Andromeda,' Mackey told CNN. 

'It's not out of the question, but in general the stars in galaxies are spaced sufficiently sparsely that direct collisions between stars are rare.

' However, it's possible that the Sun could be thrown out of the merged Andromeda and Milky Way system by the collision, into intergalactic space, and/or a nearby close passage with another star could perturb the Earth's orbit such that the Earth can no longer support life.' 

The Andromeda galaxy is about 10billion years old and has grown larger over that time by absorbing other, smaller, collections of stars and planets.

Our own galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years across.

And although the Andromeda had long been thought to be far larger – around 220,000 light years – research last year suggested the Andromeda may actually be a similar size.

Even if Earth doesn't smash into anything when the galaxies collide, it is predicted to be flung out of position and out of reach of the Sun's vital warmth, spelling disaster.

The Milky Way will inevitably collide with Andromeda galaxy in about four billion years' time, which will devastate the Earth

But Dr Mackey and his colleagues' research reveals the Andromeda, some 2.5million light years away from us, is no stranger to gobbling up other galaxies.

A galaxy named Triangulum has been found alongside stellar streams – the remains of smaller galaxies or star clusters – within the Andromeda nebula.

Tracing how these collections of stars and planets were absorbed into the Andromeda has given an insight into how the galaxies have merged together.

One confusing element, the team found, was that they appeared to have collided from different directions.

'This is very weird and suggests that the extragalactic meals are fed from what's known as the 'cosmic web' of matter that threads the universe,' said Professor Lewis from the University of Sydney.

'More surprising is the discovery that the direction of the ancient feeding is the same as the bizarre 'plane of satellites', an unexpected alignment of dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda.

'This deepens the mystery as the plane must be young, but it appears to be aligned with ancient feeding of dwarf galaxies.

'We're going to have to think quite hard to unravel what this is telling us.'

The research was published in the journal Nature. 

HOW OLD IS THE OLDEST STAR IN THE MILKY WAY?

Scientists in Spain have discovered one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way

A newly discovered star is thought to be one of the oldest in the Milky Way.

Scientists at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Spain believe that it might have formed about 300 million years after the 'Big Bang'.

IAC researcher Jonay González Hernández said: 'Theory predicts that these stars could form just after, and using material from, the first supernovae, whose progenitors were the first massive stars in the Galaxy.'

Researchers hope the star, known as J0815+4729, which is in line with the Lynx constellation, will help them learn more about the Big Bang, the popular theory about the galaxy's evolution.

IAC director Rafael Rebolo said: 'Detecting lithium gives us crucial information related to Big Bang nucleosynthesis. We are working on a spectrograph of high resolution and wide spectral range in order to be able to measure (among other things) the detailed chemical composition of stars with unique properties such as J0815+4729.'

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One for the X-Files? Mysterious ‘fireball’ that crashed in Chile is NOT meteor, scientists say (PHOTOS)

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Waarom zijn we nooit buitenaards leven tegengekomen? 19 antwoorden uit de wetenschap die dat verklaren

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Physicist Suggests The Best Places For Aliens To Study Earth From Space

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Imagine you’re an alien civilization and you want to study our planet or “regard it with envious eyes”, where are the best places to position a probe? Well, physicist James Benford has an answer for you. There are regions around Earth where it’s possible for celestial bodies or artificial ones to co-orbit our planet. They are in a 1:1 resonance, so basically they remain at roughly the same distance from Earth as we go around the Sun.

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In a paper published in The Astronomical Journal, Benford discusses how these natural objects in resonance with our planet make them ideal places to hide a “lurker” as he referred to the possible probes. He lists the three main orbits these objects can take as well as the stability of some of the known co-orbitals.

There is, for example, Cruithne, often referred to as Earth’s second moon (it isn’t), which is expected to leave its current orbit in about 5,000 years. And there is Kamoʻoalewa (or 2016 HO3) – the smallest, closest, and most stable quasi-satellite of Earth, which only came into its current orbit 100 years ago. There are more of these objects and many more are likely to be discovered in the future.

Benford argues that these objects and their neighborhoods are ripe for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) investigations. Using wavelengths from radio to optical to infrared, it could be possible to study these co-orbital bodies and find out if lurkers are on them. The physicist also suggests sending a robotic probe to rendezvous with these objects to study them up close.

“What have we to lose by checking out these objects? Certainly resources such as time on telescopes, radio and optical. But we would be studying newly found objects, which could well be interesting astronomy. Nobody has really looked at these co-orbitals, other than orbital calculations and faint images. We know almost nothing about them,” Benford writes in the paper.

The paper also detailed regions not ideal for lurkers, such as near the Earth, on the Moon, or further out around the asteroids. That said, Benford states a simple truth: We don't know anything about the intentions or logic of alien civilizations. We don’t even know if these alien civilizations are out there.

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Astronomers have their best solution yet to the mysterious alien megastructure star

Former CIA Says Aliens Being "Made, Hatched, Cloned, and Manufactured"

Former CIA Agent and Alien Hunter Derrel Sims talks about his lifelong quest for the truth with the alien presence on Earth and their nefarious agendas! He hunts these extrat+39

errestrials and collects evidence, data, witness testimonies and fights to expose the true intentions behind these sinister beings with their human experiments.

He explains how these aliens are “Made, Hatched, Cloned, and Manufactured” by some rogue element within our government. He states that the aliens don’t have a planet, their “DNA comes from here”. Then he explained how all aliens are genetically modified. He goes on to connect the dots with the extraterrestrial presence of today with that of the ancient past. He gave his take with Zecharia Sitchin, the Anunnaki, Fallen Angels, and the Sumerian Civilization.

A FEW TALKING POINTS WITH THE INTERVIEW: His time with the CIA His first Encounter with Aliens Why he hunts Aliens Transgenics Chimeras and the tampering of DNA Alien Hybrids Different types of alien races Cloned and Manufactured Aliens Greys, Reptilians, Nordics, 7 Foot Preying Mantis beings Alien Abductions Alien Experiments on the Human Race His research and evidence with Alien Abductions The agenda behind Alien Abductions The Alien Agenda Zecharia Sitchin Anunnaki Fallen Angels Jesus and the Bible The Human Origins

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100% Proof That Aliens Currently Live On Our Moon, UFO Sighting News.

Hey everyone. I was checking out an old NASA photo of the polar region of earths moon, when I noticed some white shiny blur spots at its center. I have seen such white shiny spot before...on dwarf planet Ceres...and back then I added shadows to bring out the real structure of the building. Well I did it again here. I added a bit of shadows and the buildings shape and surface became visible. When we imagine an alien city, we see structures like our own...but in 1 million or even 1 billion years...are humans really going to make such structures or are we going to change everything about them? Well, thats at technology evolves...with a species. I mean it wasn't long ago that the world once thought that the sun revolved around the earth. That the earth was the center of the universe. Boy were we into our selves back then huh? 

I made this video below of the structures I found and you need to make it full screen and put it into HD to really see them well.  
100% proof that aliens currently live on our moon in the polar region. 
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

 

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Mysterious fireball that crashed and burned wasn't a meteor

Something bright came in hot enough to spark several fires in Chile recently, and it looks like it wasn't natural.

Rampant Killings Of Entire Galaxies Have Astrophysicists Worried

BY AFIYA QURESHI

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Has the academy gotten its hands on any materials to review?
Mr. Elizondo: Certainly.
Are you able to share more about that?
Mr. Elizondo: Not at this point. We have to let the process take its course. And what we don’t want to do is be presumptive either way. The last thing we want to do is jump to any conclusions, prematurely. Ultimately, the data is going to decide what something is or what something isn’t.
The materials come from a variety of sources?
Mr. Elizondo: Correct.

It’s tough being Luis Elizondo. The former head of the secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) in the Defense Intelligence Agency chartered with studying Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) or UFOs, should know where the bodies are buried … not to mention the alleged parts of the extraterrestrial spacecrafts that brought these aliens to Earth. Yet the guy whose name shows up in the headlines about the To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences and its quest to analyze these parts and expose their secrets to the public is Tom DeLonge, who must now be introduced as ‘former Blink-182 frontman’ to remind people that he was once famous for something else and still deserves attention.

While that may be true, in a recent interview with The New York Times about ADAM (Acquisition & Data Analysis of Materials) Research Project, the To The Stars academic research program focused on exotic material samples from UFOs, it’s Elizondo who confidently responds to the question of their existence with “Certainly” while DeLonge was reduced to defending himself in questions about his credentials and his “intellect.” While DeLonge may have once been good, it’s Elizondo who has the goods. So, what are they?

Not this, we hope.

“As I’ve said before, there’s a difference between something that’s truly exotic and something that fell from the alternator of a 1984 Cadillac.”

Wait, what?

“We’re going to do research employing the scientific method, first and foremost. What we have been doing is trying to find the most qualified individuals at the most respectable institutions to conduct scientific analysis. That scientific analysis includes physical analysis, it includes molecular and chemical analysis and ultimately it includes nuclear analysis.”

Sigh. Elizondo spends more time describing the process that the product. As anyone who follows UFO sightings has figured out by now, most mysterious pieces of metal that fall from the sky are from planes or rockets – both commercial and secret. They don’t want to know about these pieces and don’t care about reverse-engineering the metal – they want to know what’s allegedly hidden in Area 51 (why else would 2 million people want it stormed?) and other military bases and warehouses around the world. That’s probably what Tom DeLonge was hoping for as well when he put his name, fame and money behind To The Stars and ADAM. In the interest of fairness, it’s tough being Tom too. Instead of getting to make historic announcements, he’s been forced to show little pieces of metal and answer the same old questions from even The New York Times about the old naked rock star days while Elizondo gets the hard questions, which he cautiously answers. Tom is obviously frustrated.

“This whole thing could be answered by the government. We’re just waiting for them to come and help us with some of this research.”

Can I get a “Certainly” on that, Luis?

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The mysterious and not-yet-discovered Planet Nine is certainly a hot topic and a new theory may even be more than strange the planet itself. The strange manner in which some distance space rocks are orbiting indicates that there could possibly be a huge world called Planet Nine that scientists have not yet found. However, according to a new research paper written by a team of scientists, the mysterious Planet Nine may actually be one of the oldest black holes in the entire universe, called a primordial black hole.

So, is it a black hole or an undetected planet? First, let’s take a look at how the Planet Nine hypothesis began. In the past few years, astronomers have discovered around a dozen objects that are acting strangely without explanation. These icy objects are called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) because they are orbiting in the distant solar system past Neptune but when they get to their closest approach to the Sun, they remain at approximately the same spot. Scientists say that it doesn’t make sense, as they are far enough away from Neptune that the planet wouldn’t have any effect on their orbits.

Hypothetical comparison of Planet Nine to Earth And Neptune.

This is where the theory of Planet Nine comes into play, as astronomers believe that there could be a gigantic planet between 5 and 15 times the mass of Earth that is hiding somewhere in our solar system past Pluto. This huge planet is what they believe is affecting the odd orbits of the TNOs.

But, on September 24^th, a new research paper was posted on arXiv that explores a new theory that Planet Nine could instead be a primordial black hole. Scientists believe that primordial black holes were first created within the first second of the Big Bang, although their existence has never officially been confirmed or denied. If the black hole theory is correct, it would mean that it would only be around the size of a baseball.

Researchers conducted an OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) project over the past five years in order to find gravitational microlensing events which are when objects like a black hole passes in front of an object in the background like a star. They noticed six odd microlensing events that happened when something around 0.5 to 20 times the mass of Earth was acting like gravitational lenses. Instead of being planets, these objects could instead be primordial black holes.

Artist’s interpretation of Planet Nine.

According to the study, “Capture of a free-floating planet is a leading explanation for the origin of Planet [Nine].” It went on to read, “and we show that the probability of capturing a [primordial black hole] instead is comparable.”

Konstantin Batygin, who is involved with the Planet Nine hypothesis, but was not part of the new study, said that it’s possible that it could instead be a black hole although he’s not convinced. He told Astronomy, “The important thing to understand here is that all that the calculations can tell is the mass of Planet Nine, not its composition,” adding, “So, in principle, Planet Nine can be a planet, a potato, a black hole, a hamburger, etc…, as long as its orbital parameters are right.” He finished off by stating, “I always like to keep an open mind.”

Whether it’s a planet or a black hole, the theories regarding Planet Nine are always interesting and hopefully one day soon we’ll have a definitive answer as to what it actually is.

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Bizarre ring appears over Moscow as viewers claim 'alien portal' has opened

The dark ring lingered in the air and did not move despite strong winds

By Katy Gill Video News Reporter

A dark UFO-shaped ring has appeared in the sky over Russia, sparking wild claims that an alien portal to another universe has formed

The bizarre footage was captured in Moscow where several locals shared images of what they described as a weird alien-like circle.

Conspiracy theorists sensationally described it as a “portal to another world” which the aliens simply forgot to close and forgot to hide in an invisible mode.

But it still sparked speculation as to what could have caused it if not aliens as the UFO watchers claimed.

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The clip shows the dark ring hovering aimlessly in the sky.

As the cameraman zooms in, the sheer size of the ring becomes clearer.

After being uploaded online, many compared it to a flock of birds.

While others claimed they do not fly in such circles, adding that it does not appear to be moving enough.

Some suggested it might be smoke but this was also rejected as the ring remained in place despite relatively strong winds.

There were even suggestions the bizarre ring was a trace from a military aircraft that had gone through the sound barrier or even been created with an explosion which had left only a black ring.

One viewer said: “Wow. It's like a portal to another world. I'm afraid."

While a second joked: "People, run! It's an alien invasion!"

UFO specialist Yuri Senkin, from the Academy of Informatics and Applied Ufology, said he believed that the dark ring in the Moscow Region was a smoke vortex.

Some  viewers believe the ring was a portal to an interdimensional world

 (Image: CEN)

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Yuri said: “There was turbulence yet the particles were aligned.

"From a scientific point of view, there is no obvious explanation for this phenomenon.

"But perhaps there was a release of some substances that fell into the upper atmosphere."

Its not the first time a mysterious "black ring of death" has appeared.

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Today, I’m on a bit of a “weird dream” kick. By that, I mean there will be another dream-based article after this one. John Winterbauer is a friend of mine who I run into about once a year or so at conferences. At 8:43 a.m. on November 21, 2015 John sent me a text – while clearly in a state of some concern – that revolved around the story of a woman named Terry, who I interviewed a few years back. Her MIB-themed encounter makes for chilling reading. In part, Terry had told me: “This encounter occurred during the day time thirty five years ago in 1977 at a Winchell’s in Sunnyvale California, I was just sixteen years of age at the time. My best friend and I had just finished our coffee and were heading for the doorway to leave. As we were passing a man seated at one of the tables, he reached out and firmly grabbed my wrist. In that moment my first reaction was to jerk away from his grip, but looking down at him I realized that he was a very old man and I felt in that moment that he was harmless. He was dressed in black wearing an old fashioned hat and suit, his clothing looked like it was from the 1930’s. He was extremely pale, very thin and appeared to be very old, I guessed in his 80’s or 90’s.”

Terry continued: “He told my friend and I that he was a palm reader, a very good one, he claimed and could he please do us a favor by giving us each a reading. My friend and I talked briefly to each other about his offer and agreed to let him. I first sat down across the table from him, then as my friend was starting to sit down along side of me, he stopped her and asked her to please go sit a few tables away out of earshot from us, explaining that the information was going to be direct and personal, we would need some privacy. She complied and moved several tables away.”

There was more to come, too: “Once my friend was seated away from us, I placed my hands on the table in front of him, palms up and looked into the man’s face, it was then that I noticed the old man’s eyes were completely glazed over with cataracts, he was surely blind I thought, as his gaze was unfixed and unfocused in my direction. I asked him how long had he been a psychic? He responded by saying that his ability had nothing to do with being psychic and emphasized that it had everything to do with ‘science.’”

There are these closing words from Terry: “He began by talking about my early childhood experiences along with some very painful incidents that had occurred to me in which he had precise and detailed information that I was sure no one could have known about. Quite suddenly I felt very vulnerable and exposed as he recounted these events, his knowledge unnerved me to my very core. Staring straight ahead he moved along into my present situation, lecturing and chastising me like a father would a child, for some poor choices I had made during that time. All the while he broke a doughnut down into tiny pieces. My mind raced as I tried to figure out how on earth could he know this stuff? It was then in that moment that I would forever change my ideas of ‘secrets kept’ and how I viewed my own identity in the world. Apparently ‘nothing’ could be hidden from myself or anyone else for that matter. I felt naked in the truth.”

All of which brings us back to John Winterbauer and his text of November 21, 2015. It read: “Morning, Nick. Odd occurrences last night. I dreamed a woman came to warn me of an unspecified forthcoming trouble. She identified herself only as Terry [italics mine]. This morning I’m reading your new MIB book [titled Men in Black, and which referenced Terry, something John didn’t know until he began reading the book on the 21st] and just finished the donut shop account. My girl and I are getting ready to head to St. Louis for a weekend of paranormal adventure. This dream had no meaning this morning…now my hands are shaking as I type this. Most odd…most unsettling. Probably means nothing but the coincidence has me rattled. Thought I’d share in case I vanish or some weird shit this weekend! For the record I’ve enjoyed the book up to this last story!”

Thankfully, nothing untoward happened that weekend. John has not, however, forgotten this undeniably sinister and thought-provoking synchronicity concerning Terry. Neither have I. I saved that text and – as short as it is – I still go back and read it, now and again.

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“A recently discovered group of nearby co-orbital objects is an attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to locate a probe to observe Earth while not being easily seen. These near-Earth objects provide an ideal way to watch our world from a secure natural object. That provides resources an ETI might need: materials, a firm anchor, and concealment.”

James Benford,a physicist and independent SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researcher, told LiveScience he got the bug about ET bugs last year and it bugged him until he came up with the idea that co-orbitals might be a great place for aliens to send spaceships to plant solar-powered listening devices to spy on us. He expands on the theory in his paper published recently in The Astronomical Journal. Co-orbitals are asteroids or space rocks inhabiting roughly the same orbit as a planet – orbiting the Sun rather than the planet. The first Earth co-orbital found is 3753 Cruithne, discovered in 1986 in a photo taken in 1983. Its co-orbit wasn’t confirmed until 1997 and since then about 15 others have been identified. While occupying the same orbital space, their actual paths can vary — 3753 Cruithne has a bean-shaped orbit while others are more like closed horseshoes. The closest one, 2016 HO3, is 38 times as far away from Earth as the moon. However, that seems to be close enough for Benford’s alien eavesdropping theory.

Asteroid 2016 HO3 (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

In “Looking for Lurkers: Co-orbiters as SETI Observables,” Benford proposes that an advanced civilization on a nearby star could have send robotic probes to the most likely planet in our star’s “Goldilocks zone” (or whatever they might call it), but rather than violating their version of the ‘prime directive’, they positioned the lurkers on co-orbitals where they could listen and replenish their power from the star or from mining the asteroid. While they may have arrived millions of years ago and only picked up the moans of dying bacteria, eventually humans arrived to make enough noise to convince the lurkers that Earth finally contains intelligent (at least according to some definitions) life.

Hey! Anybody listening? Can you do something about that asteroid heading to the Gulf of Mexico?

It’s an interesting theory and certainly fits in with the Fermi Paradox – there has been no alien contact and we can’t detect them because they’re just quietly listening in. However, we may be able to find them or prove Benford wrong soon. China’s space program announced it will send a probe to 2016 HO3 in 2022 which will land, collect samples and send them back to Earth on a separate ship before continuing on to another asteroid. Since 2016 HO3 is so small (41 meters in diameter), Benford thinks there’s a good chance it could find evidence of a lurker from one of the many stars that have occasionally been less than a light year away from ours. If it were up to him, Benford might want to try communicating with them first using “Benford Beacons” – targeted short bursts of broadband signals in the 1-to-10-gigahertz range. Since they already know we’re here, this shouldn’t surprise the lurkers but may signal that we’re ready for contact.

Or maybe the beacons will act like a microwave dinger signalling we’re done cooking and ready to be eaten.

Is that really a good idea? Who knows? Are there really lurkers listening to us on Earth’s co-orbitals? Who knows? If they can pick up the Internet and read this, maybe we’ll find out.

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Otherworldly Worms with Three Sexes Discovered in Mono Lake

This newly discovered species of nematode is considered an extremophile--it thrives under high-salt, high-pH, arsenic-rich conditions that are otherwise hostile to life. But it is surprisingly versatile because it can also live in "normal" conditions in the laboratory.

Credit: Caltech

Caltech scientists have discovered a new species of worm thriving in the extreme environment of Mono Lake. This new species, temporarily dubbed Auanema sp., has three different sexes, can survive 500 times the lethal human dose of arsenic, and carries its young inside its body like a kangaroo.

Mono Lake, located in the Eastern Sierras of California, is three times as salty as the ocean and has an alkaline pH of 10. Before this study, only two other species (other than bacteria and algae) were known to live in the lake—brine shrimp and diving flies. In this new work, the team discovered eight more species, all belonging to a class of microscopic worms called nematodes, thriving in and around Mono Lake.

Auanema sp., a newly discovered nematode species in Mono Lake, is considered an extremophile for its ability to thrive under harsh conditions.

Credit: Caltech

The work was done primarily in the laboratory of Paul Sternberg, Bren Professor of Biology. A paper describing the research appears online on September 26 in the journal Current Biology.

The Sternberg laboratory has had a long interest in nematodes, particularly Caenorhabditis elegans, which uses only 300 neurons to exhibit complex behaviors, such as sleeping, learning, smelling, and moving. That simplicity makes it a useful model organism with which to study fundamental neuroscience questions. Importantly, C. elegans can easily thrive in the laboratory under normal room temperatures and pressures.

As nematodes are considered the most abundant type of animal on the planet, former Sternberg lab graduate students Pei-Yin Shih (PhD ’19) and James Siho Lee (PhD ’19) thought they might find them in the harsh environment of Mono Lake. The eight species they found are diverse, ranging from benign microbe-grazers to parasites and predators. Importantly, all are resilient to the arsenic-laden conditions in the lake and are thus considered extremophiles—organisms that thrive in conditions unsuitable for most life forms.

Eight different species of nematode found in and around Mono Lake, bringing the lake’s total animal species (not bacteria or algae) count up to 10

The new worm exists in three different sexes: hermaphrodites, females, and males. The hermaphrodites can produce offspring by themselves, but the females and males need to mate in order to produce their young. The females and males are often produced early in the reproductive cycle of the mother, followed by the hermaphrodites.

Mono Lake, Tufa State Natural Reserve, near Lee Vining, California.

Credit: Copyright Michele Hogan

But beyond human health, studying extreme species like the nematodes of Mono Lake contributes to a bigger, global picture of the planet, says Lee.

“It’s tremendously important that we appreciate and develop a curiosity for biodiversity,” he adds, noting that the team had to receive special permits for their field work at the lake. “The next innovation for biotechnology could be out there in the wild. A new biodegradable sunscreen, for example, was discovered from extremophilic bacteria and algae. We have to protect and responsibly utilize wildlife.”

Eight different species of nematode found in and around Mono Lake, bringing the lake’s total animal species (not bacteria or algae) count up to 10.

Credit: Caltech

The paper is titled, “Newly Identified Nematodes from Mono Lake Exhibit Extreme Arsenic Resistance.” Shih and Lee are co-first authors on the study; Shih is now a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and Lee is now a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University. In addition to Shih, Lee, and Sternberg, other co-authors are Ryoji Shinya of Meiji University in Japan, Natsumi Kanzaki of the Kansai Research Center in Japan, Andre Pires da Silva of the University of Warwick in the UK, former Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow student Jean Marie Badroos now of UC Berkeley, and Elizabeth Goetz and Amir Sapir of the University of Haifa in Israel. Funding was provided by the Amgen Scholars Program, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

An odd worm with three sexes (inset) was recently discovered in Mono Lake in California.

(Image: © Shutterstock; (inset) Caltech)

Contacts and sources:
Lori Dajose
 Caltech

 

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How Jellyfish Get Superpowers

Jellyfish are animals that possess the unique ability to regenerate body parts. A team of Japanese scientists has now revealed the cellular mechanisms that give jellyfish these remarkable “superpowers.”

Their findings were published on August 26, 2019 in PeerJ.

“Currently our knowledge of biology is quite limited because most studies have been performed using so-called model animals like mice, flies, worms and fish etc. Given that millions of species exist on the earth, it is important to study various animals and broaden our knowledge,” said Yuichiro Nakajima, Assistant Professor at the Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University in Japan, and corresponding author of the study.

“Jellyfish are one of such animals with interesting biological features,” Nakajima said. “For example, they have stinging cells, called cnidocytes, to capture prey.”

Cladonema jellyfish have branched tentacles

Credit: ⒸSosuke Fujita, Tohoku University
Cnidarian jellyfish – named for their stinging cells – have existed on the earth for more than 500 million years. They form part of a unique group of animals that are not bilaterally symmetrical and also possess the capacity to regenerate body parts — a trait most of the complex animals, including humans, have lost. These early-diverging primitive animals could play a pivotal role in helping us better understand the evolutionary biology of bilaterally symmetrical animals, like us humans.

For their study, the researchers used Cladonema pacificum — a jellyfish species from the Cnidaria phylum that has branching tentacles — to investigate the spatial pattern of cell proliferation and their roles during jellyfish development and regeneration, aiming to establish the cellular basis of these phenomena. “With easy lab maintenance and a high spawning rate, Cladonema is suitable for studying various aspects of jellyfish biology,” Nakajima explained.

To investigate the role of cell proliferation following food uptake in determining body-size growth, appendage shape, and regeneration in Cladonema jellyfish, the researchers examined the distribution of cells that play a key role in DNA replication through cell division, producing new ‘daughter’ cells that are identical to the original ‘parent’ cell. They found spatially distinct groups of proliferating cells in the medusa (sexual) life-stage, with cell proliferation in the umbrella-shaped portion of their body being uniform, while cell proliferation in the tentacles was clustered.

Cladonema polyp give rise to jellyfish

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William Guy was on a ferry traveling from Ocracoke Village to Swan Quarters North Carolina on September 18, 2019 when he noticed a fleet of strange bright lights in the sky on which he started to record the strange event.

William said that that there were about 25 people on the ferry with him that have seen it too and they also recorded the fleet of lights and none has ever seen it before.

We may assume that these lights are not flares since no soure can be found in the entire area that may have fired flares.

What could these lights have been?

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US Navy Confirms UFOs Seen In Videos Are Real

Space alien enthusiasts got confirmation from the US Government that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have invaded the country’s airspace. Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge shared videos of UFOs on their YouTube Page of To The Stars…Academy of Arts and Science. Now, the Navy confirmed that these videos feature unidentified aerial phenomena.

The first UFO called Gimbal was caught on video on January 21, 2015. The videos also show a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet pilots trying to figure out what they are spotting.  The other videos were also made public showing the UFOs.

The United States Navy confirmed the videos’ authenticity. Joseph Gradisher, the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare’s official spokesperson, described the aerial objects as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). He explained why the term UAP is used instead of UFO. He said that the UAP terminology is used because it offers the necessary descriptor for the observations/sightings of unidentified/unauthorized objects/aircraft that have been spotted operating/entering in the airspace of several military-controlled training facilities.

The Navy spokesman also revealed that the number of incursions has increased since the advents of quadcopters and drones.

Susan Gough, the spokesperson of the Pentagon, made it clear the videos weren’t supposed to be released to the public, and it is not known until this time how TTSA got its hands on them.

Before this confirmation, the government had only ever been in denial or secretive about alien life.

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Area 51 raid aftermath: What happened at Area 51? Internet asks 'how many people died?'

STORM AREA 51, the most talked-about online prank of the year, was pulled off last week after months of hype – but what happened at Area 51 and did anyone get hurt or die at the Area 51 raid?