Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
For the first time ever, astronomers have identified molecular oxygen in a galaxy outside the Milky Way.
The discovery was made by a team of astronomers at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, led by Junzhi Wang.
The team identified the presence of molecular oxygen by analyzing light waves that had reached Earth from Markarian 231, a galaxy around 581 million light years away.
Light wave readings taken at the IRAM 30-meter telescope in Granada, Spain (pictured above) helped scientists detect signatures of molecular oxygen in the Markarian 231 galaxy, the first time the compound has been detected outside the Milky Way
Ironically, the presence of oxygen in our own atmosphere, along with other gases, have traditionally made it difficult to get accurate light wave readings from distant galaxies, according to a report in Vice.
Those light waves are typically absorbed or redirected by the various gas elements contained in our atmosphere, making it nearly impossible to get accurate readings.
The light waves from Markarian 231, however, came from what’s called a quasi stellar object, or QSO.
QSOs are distant objects that have a star-like appearance but emit light that’s been redshifted, traveling at a lower wave frequency than conventional.
Because the light readings from Markarian 231 originated from a QSO, they had a significantly lower wave frequency than standard light waves, which allowed them to pass through Earth’s atmosphere without any distorting effects.
The light wave readings were taken at two different locations: the IRAM 30-meter telescope in Granada, Spain, and the Northern Extended Millimeter Array telescope in the French Alps.
Markarian 231 is a galaxy 581 million light years away from Earth, and is believed to have 100 times as much oxygen as has so far been detected in the Milky Way
Based on the readings, the team estimates there could be more than 100 times as much oxygen in Markarian 231 galaxy as has so far been observed in the Milky Way.
Over the last 20 years, molecular oxygen has been detected on two other locations in the Milky Way: the Rho Ophiuchi cloud and the Orion nebula.
Humans can breathe pure oxygen for short periods--it's used as a common treatment for some health conditions, including people afflicted with the bends--but our respiratory systems depend on other elements in air, like nitrogen and carbon dioxide, to function normally.
Breathing pure oxygen for prolonged periods can cause permanent lung damage and oxygen toxicity, resulting from blood hemoglobin being overwhelmed with more oxygen molecules than it can carry.
Still, oxygen is believed to be one of the key elements necessary for the development of life.
The team believes further research could help them understand how oxygen distributions factor into the development of galaxies and how that can create some of the necessary preconditions for the formation of life.
For the first time in history, scientistshave discovered breathable oxygen in another galaxy.
A team of astronomers at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory made the incredible find, which points towards the potential for life elsewhere.
With oxygen being one of the most common elements known to man, scientists have long since believed it would be relatively easy to spot it in the universe. But until now, it had eluded them.
Using radio telescopes, researchers at the observatory spotted signs of it in a galaxy called Markarian 231, an incredible 560 million light-years away from Earth.
The telescopes showed radiation at a wavelength of 2.52 millimetres, which is the sign of breathable oxygen.
It's the first time oxygen has been found outside of the Milky Way. Credit: PA
Usually, oxygen is incredibly difficult to detect from Earth because the kinds of signals that should alert us to it are absorbed by the planet's atmosphere.
It was possible on this occasion because the light from Markarian 231 was redshifted, which means it was stretched into longer wavelengths as it travelled towards Earth, allowing it to pass through the atmosphere.
Writing about the discovery in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers confirmed it was the 'first detection of extragalactic molecular oxygen', and the most oxygen ever seen outside of our own solar system.
And while the idea of travelling to Markarian 231 is totally out of the question, it represents a potentially major breakthrough in the search for life.
However, one place where man has gone, and plans to go again, is the moon. And who knows, maybe you could go there soon.
Hiring next month, they will be training a bunch of newbies up to take part in future missions to the moon, with the aim of jetting off into space in just four years time.
Speaking about the recruitment drive, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said: "We're celebrating our 20th year of continuous presence aboard the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit this year, and we're on the verge of sending the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024.
"For the handful of highly talented women and men we will hire to join our diverse astronaut corps, it's an incredible time in human spaceflight to be an astronaut.
"We're asking all eligible Americans if they have what it to takes to apply beginning 2 March."
However, before you get too excited about the chance of walking on the moon, the role comes with a fair few requirements - I mean, they're not just gonna let anyone go messing about in space, are they?
Firstly, you have to have US citizenship and have a master's degree from an accredited institution in any one of the following: computer science, mathematics, engineering, biological science or physical science.
And you may also need to have at least two years' experience in a PhD program related to science, in technology, engineering or mathematics.
You are also eligible if you have completed a doctorate in medicine or are a doctor of osteopathic medicine.
Bosses at NASA will even consider you if you have completed - or are set to complete - a nationally recognised test pilot school programme.
You must also have either at least two years of 'related, progressively responsible professional experience', or 1,000 hours of pilot-in-command time in jet.
All applicants must also pass NASA's long-duration spaceflight physical.
The surface of the Red Planet trembles with Marsquakes, scientists report, one of several first results from the NASA InSight lander’s visit to Mars.
“We’ve finally established for the first time that Mars is a seismically active planet,” said mission lead Bruce Banerdt, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., during a February 20 news teleconference.
InSight landed on Mars on November 26, 2018, on a two-year mission to probe the planet’s interior (SN: 11/26/18). The goal is to reveal more of Mars’ history and answer questions about the formation of rocky planets in our solar system and beyond.
To achieve that goal, InSight carries three main science experiments. A temperature probe sunk several meters into the Martian soil will track heat welling up from far below (though that probe has been having trouble burrowing its way down). Radio transmissions track InSight’s position and hence how much the planet wobbles around its axis. Results from those experiments aren’t yet ready for prime time.
However, InSight’s seismic experiment, along with some ancillary equipment, has turned up a wealth of new intel. Mission scientists present results from the first 10 months of these experiments online February 24 in Nature Geoscience and Nature Communications.
It’s too early to know what all the new revelations mean. “We’re really in the same situation as geophysicists were for Earth in the early 1900s,” Banerdt said. “We’re in the wild west of understanding what’s going on.”
In the meantime, here are four things that InSight has revealed about Mars so far.
1. Mars likes to shake things up
InSight’s seismic probe is like a stethoscope listening to the surface of Mars for rumblings deep underground. While researchers have long suspected that quakes gently rattle the surface of Mars, no probe before InSight had definitively detected one (SN: 4/23/19). As of September 30, 2019, the lander had recorded 174 Marsquakes, likely caused by tectonic activity.
“The general cause of Marsquakes is the cooling of the planet,” Banerdt said. “The details of any particular Marsquake are still difficult to figure out.”
Mars appears to be more active than the moon but less active than Earth. The quakes have been very gentle, said Philippe Lognonné, a planetary scientist at Paris Diderot University, during the teleconference. Unless you were standing right over the epicenter with two feet firmly on the ground, he said, you’d probably not feel most of them.
Most of the quakes have been too subtle to pinpoint their origins. But two seemed to originate from a region known as Cerberus Fossae, a geologically young landscape about 1,600 kilometers east of InSight strewn with landslides, several-million-year-old volcanic flows and dried-up water channels.
And the quakes just keep on coming. To date, the lander has cataloged about 450 events, and the frequency is mysteriously increasing.
JPL-CALTECH/NASAInSight landed in a flat, smooth lava plain on Mars known as Elysium Planitia, about 600 kilometers north of the Curiosity rover’s landing site. The landing sites of other probes and rovers — most no longer active — are marked as well.
2. Mars has a highly magnetic personality
Unlike Earth, Mars no longer generates a magnetic field — but it did billions of years ago, and ghosts of that magnetic field remain imprinted in the planet’s rocks today.
Satellite images of InSight’s landing site indicate that the rocks there are too young to have been strongly magnetized by that ancient field. And yet, InSight measured a magnetic field coming from the surrounding rocks 10 times as strong as expected.
Given the age of the landscape, “the magnetization has to come from rocks beneath the surface,” said Catherine Johnson, a geophysicist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. InSight’s measurements combined with satellite imagery suggest that the magnetic field is encased in 3.9-billion-year-old rocks buried up to 10 kilometers underground.
“The fact that we’re seeing a much larger magnetic feature near the surface means there’s a wealth of magnetization that has been invisible to us so far,” Banerdt said.
3. Mars feels a magnetic beat from space
InSight also picked up numerous magnetic “pulsations” — relatively quick changes in the strength of the ambient magnetic field. Some of these bursts, the first ever detected on Mars, last for just a second while others last for minutes. But unlike the anomalously high magnetization that comes from deep underground, these pulsations likely originate far above the atmosphere.
The researchers suspect that electrical fluctuations in a planetwide magnetic envelope induced by the sun — not the planet itself — is to blame. Intel from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, which is currently checking out Mars’ upper atmosphere, may help the team connect changes on the ground to changes in the planet’s space environment.
4. Beneath the surface, Mars is all broken up
Marsquakes can be used as probes of the Martian subsurface. Since different types of seismic waves are deflected and slowed down by underground materials in different ways, the Marsquakes act like a kind of planetary X-ray, revealing how far down the planet’s crust goes and the likely makeup of that material.
A disappointing lack in large Marsquakes has so far prevented the team from peering as deep as they’d like. But they are starting to get a picture of the upper 10 kilometers or so of the planet. There is likely water — not huge aquifers, but molecules clinging to solid mineral grains. And hidden beneath the top layers of soil, the crust appears to be fractured by eons of impacts from space.
The fracturing is “something that originally was thought to be the case for Mars,” said Suzanne Smrekar, a geophysicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But researchers moved away from that idea after evidence of now-dormant volcanism suggested that perhaps remnants of that pummeling had been largely smoothed over. InSight, she says, “is telling us that maybe [the crust] is a bit more broken up than people have thought recently.”
All five remaining instruments on NASA's venerableVoyager 2 spacecraft are back to gathering science data after power overuse in late January interrupted the probe's operations.
NASA made the announcement yesterday (March 3), over a month after the incident occurred. Troubleshooting for the spacecraft is a slow process because of its distance from Earth; it takes 17 hours for each command to reach the probe and for data indicating its efficacy to reach engineers.
"Voyager 2 has returned to normal operations following the anomaly on Jan. 25, 2020," NASA officials wrote in a statement. "The five operating science instruments, which were turned off by the spacecraft's fault protection routine, are back on and returning normal science data."
Voyager 2, like its twin Voyager 1, launched in August 1977 and has been exploring ever since. Such extensive space travel takes its toll; as the spacecraft have long exceeded their mission expectancy, engineers have needed to improvise ways to keep the probes going, particularly as their power supplies dwindle.
The January problem occurred when Voyager 2 missed a spin maneuver to calibrate its magnetic-field instrument. That glitch left two power-hungry systems on simultaneously; the spacecraft recognized the risk of the situation and triggered a preprogrammed fault-protection mode.
Since then, mission engineers have been working to turn off the power-sucking systems and to get Voyager 2's five remaining science instruments back to work. Those instruments are helping scientists understand what happens beyond the heliosphere, the bubble of space influenced by our sun. Voyager 2 left that bubble in November 2018, entering interstellar space.
If there’s one factor science fiction has taught us through the years, it’s that first contact is in all probability not going to go thoroughly. Now, that could be us people, a really war- and violence-oriented species, projecting ourselves on different potential inhabitants of the universe, however there are positively loads of examples on the market for us to peruse by which the aliens amongst us are lethal and terrifying killers.
However who’s the baddest of all of them? Effectively, with Alien: Covenant across the nook, we take a take a look at the historical past of invading forces within the worlds of science fiction in TV, movie, comics and video games and take a look at to find out who has the best physique rely.
20. Struggle of the Worlds: Martians
Approximate Kill Rely: Shockingly Low
Some of the well-known alien invasion tales has an incredibly low physique rely, as solely round 50 died when the Martians invaded in Struggle of the Worlds. The potential was very excessive, however because of Earth micro organism, all of us got here out okay from this one.
19. Aliens: Xenomorphs
Approximate Kill Rely: Full Planets, however solely round 50 on display screen
One other case of a a lot smaller on-screen kill rely than chances are you’ll anticipate – simply over 50 individuals have been killed on display screen by the Alien xenomorphs. Nonetheless, the implication (and expanded universe) is that these aliens are very lethal, having worn out full planets. Nonetheless, if we’re going by simply what we’ve really seen, they’re all bark and little or no chunk.
18. Marvel Studios: Chitauri
Approximate Kill Rely: A whole bunch, however Fewer Than 1,000
This one is closely contested, however in-universe, we’ve had numbers of each within the 80s and “Hundreds” listed or talked about on display screen. The latter is a bit extra plausible; sure, the Avengers had been actively working in the course of the Battle of New York to save lots of individuals whereas additionally preventing the Chitauri, however New Yorkers are manner too cussed to have evacuated that shortly. Belief us, we’ve been in NYC for blizzard and hurricane evacuation orders; a 10% compliance charge is likely to be excessive in some instances.
17. DC Comics: Darkseid and the Apokoliptians
Approximate Kill Rely: A whole bunch, Low Hundreds
One other one that will shock individuals with how few they’ve really killed is Darkseid and his military from Apokolips. Whereas his Parademons positive look scary and lethal as they fly by way of the air with their claws and tooth and razor-sharp steel wings, they don’t appear to drag off all that a lot within the precise killing division. Darkseid is extra inquisitive about controlling all life than ending it, in spite of everything, versus his Marvel counterpart we’ll get to later …
16. DC Movies: Kryptonians
Approximate Kill Rely: 129,000
The opposite current big-screen battle in superhero movies passed off in Man of Metal, the place the rogue Kryptonian criminals did some main harm. Whereas filmmakers tried to name the kill rely “around 5,000,” one inhabitants professional stated that primarily based on the buildings broken within the battle between Superman and Zod, plus the gravity weapon, the quantity is extra like 129,000 deaths. Now we’ve to see what Aquaman thinks of an enormous Kryptonian weapon falling into considered one of his oceans …
15. Independence Day Aliens
Approximate Kill Rely: Low Thousands and thousands
The preliminary assault from the aliens in Independence Day killed hundreds of thousands in main inhabitants facilities, however an ongoing evacuation effort prevented that quantity from being within the tens and even a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands. Comparatively talking, these guys weren’t all that efficient in doing way more than inspiring humanity!
The books and film universe are positively totally different right here, however within the books the Arachnids have a number of worlds, no less than a couple of of which had been conquered. This one is almost inconceivable to come back to a consensus rely to, however there’s absolute confidence that their swarm mentality, one thing we’ve seen throughout many mediums and universes in different aliens, would end result in near-total inhabitants dying of any populated planet they go to.
13. Falling Skies: The Espheni
Approximate Kill Rely: 6 Billion+ (Most of Human Inhabitants)
When the Espheni got here to Earth, they worn out the overwhelming majority of the human inhabitants. Primarily based on a present inhabitants of round 7.5 billion, meaning effectively over six billion died. With the enslaving of the rest, the lifeless could have been the fortunate ones.
The second DC Comics instance right here is the Dominators, who led the alien consortium in an invasion towards Earth (and had been just lately seen on TV within the CW four-show crossover). Whereas they solely kidnapped/enslaved/killed a couple of thousand people, their popularity was that in the event that they couldn’t dominate a world, they’d merely destroy it. They’ve achieved it to many planets through the years, which suggests they’ve taken out billions. They’re additionally probably the most scary-looking humanoid designs on the market.
11. Invader Zim: Irken Empire
Approximate Kill Rely: Excessive Billions (A number of planets)
Doomy doom doom doom doomy doom doom. That’s what the Irken deliver, and so they’ve destroyed a number of planets. Fortunate for Earth, our Invader was a bit much less harmful and a bit extra hilarious. They’re additionally by far the loveliest killers on this record. Doom.
10. BSG: Cylons
Approximate Kill Rely: Tens of Billions (Most of inhabitants of A number of Colony Planets)
All of this has occurred earlier than … however when Battlestar Galactica was rebooted, issues kicked off with one hell of a bang, because the people’ whole nuclear arsenal was set off on themselves, killing no less than tens of billions in a single fell swoop, stranding theoverwhelming majority of the survivors in a fleet in house.
09. Star Trek: Species 8472
Approximate Kill Rely: Tens of Billions (Borg alone)
This Star Trek Voyager species comes from “liquid space,” a side-dimension of kinds, which they’ve presumably fully conquered. When the Borg attempt to assimilate Species 8472, the species strikes again, killing tens of billions of the Collective. It’s extremely possible this will not be the one inhabitants they’ve decimated.
Ah, the large twist of The Flood – like the opposite ‘swarm’ aliens on this record, their devastation is almost unstoppable because of sheer numbers. Because of a number of the side-fiction of the Halo universe, this online game alien’s physique rely is numbered, no less than in the course of the occasions of the video games, at round 23 billion.
07. Mass Impact: The Reapers
Approximate Kill Rely: A whole bunch of Billions
Whereas the Reapers didn’t wipe out all life within the Milky Method Galaxy like they supposed, they positively destroyed whole worlds and colonies and prompted the near-extinction of a number of sentient races of their time. The brand new explorers in Andromeda going up towards the Kett don’t know the way good they’ve it in comparison with Commander Shepard and her crew again dwelling.
06. Dragon Ball Tremendous: Beerus
Approximate Kill Rely: A whole bunch of Billions
Okay, this one is dishonest a tiny bit, as Beerus is technically a god, not an alien per se (however hey, he lives on one other planet out on house, so it really works for us). Nonetheless, he’s an incredible trendy instance of destruction and extinction getting used as a pure plot system. The implication is that Beerus has been committing some straight-up genocide periodically for all of time. We see him actually cut up a planet in half with a snap in his earliest moments.
Maybe the final word realization of the ‘hive alien’ or ‘alien swarm’ (sorry, Marvel’s Annihilation Wave), the Tyranid Hive Fleet(s) from this tabletop recreation are unparalleled of their devastating energy. They’re stated to have killed a whole bunch of billions on conquered (or somewhat, devoured) worlds and if left unchecked might basically eat all the galaxy. Yowza.
04. Physician Who: Time Lords
Approximate Kill Rely: Trillions
The Time Lord often known as the Physician is the hero of Physician Who, however the Time Lords are additionally arguably the worst villains within the sequence. Through the Time Struggle, they worn out whole races just like the Zygons and Gelth, and it culminated ultimately of the Time Lords themselves, the Gallifreyans, in addition to an estimated a whole bunch of billions, if not trillions of Daleks. Don’t get on the unhealthy facet of a Time Lord, of us.
03. Star Wars: Yuuzhan Vong
Approximate Kill Rely: 365 trillion
The first villains of the “New Jedi Order” part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, the Yuuzhan Vong had been alien invaders from exterior of the essential Star Wars galaxy. Their energy was completely devastating, they hated mechanical know-how and couldn’t be sensed by the Pressure. That every one led to the near-total destruction of the New Republic in these outdated Legends tales, with a dying toll of 365 trillion given in-universe, basically 49,000 Earths. Which will look like rather a lot, however astronomers estimate that there could also be anyplace from 18-40 billion Earth-like planets in liveable zones of stars within the Milky Method alone, so it’s really very believable. Regardless, that’s a lot of lifeless of us, however fortunately that continuity was worn out, so we are able to solely assume they’re all okay now.
02. Marvel Comics: Thanos, the Mad Titan
Approximate Kill Rely: Actually Half the Universe
The highest two deadliest aliens each come from comics, and are each primarily solo acts. First, from Marvel Comics is Thanos, who will star as the first villain in Avengers: Infinity Struggle and presumably once more in Avengers 4. This greatest of huge bads, when he bought his fingers on the Infinity Gauntlet and all six Infinity Gems (Stones within the MCU), he worn out half of all the Universe’s inhabitants straight away. For those who settle for that there are a theorized variety of planets within the septillions within the universe, and lowball it that 18% (18 billion out of the 100 billion Milky Method planets for our sake) are liveable, after which take Earth’s 7.5 billion inhabitants, that’s a common inhabitants of 1.35e+33, and a dying toll of 6.75e+32 – round 7 dectillion lifeless – a quantity so giant it’s basically inconceivable. Yeah, Thanos is a killer, and he does all of it within the title of affection (he simply occurs to be in love with the personification of Loss of life).
01. DC Comics: Krona of the Maltusians
Approximate Kill Rely: A number of Total Universes
The just one that might probably outdo Thanos, then, is Krona. One among the Maltusians, a race that turned the “Guardians of Oa/the Universe” – the little blue guys who make and provides out Inexperienced Lantern Rings – Krona was obsessive about determining, and witnessing, how the universe started. He was so obsessed that he wound up paging by way of universes like a e-book, destroying them in his wake. Sure, he killed a number of whole universes (after first killing mere particular person worlds as proven right here). Whereas different characters have achieved related feats, he’s the alien instance of this, and due to this fact has a very numerous dying toll on his résumé.
A woman was up early Thursday morning an went to her balcony and noticed some a bright blinding light in the sky. It was huge, she said. The lights seemed to be connected she said and it seemed to be coming for one craft. She says its a UFO and they she has never seen anything like that before. She said it was triangle shaped and it seemed to be releasing smaller metallic objects from it.
Now when I add light I do see that there are three objects close enough to appear to be a triangle, but they are separate. It looks like an aliens craft that breaks up into several parts, including a few small alien drones it made nearby. Look at the negative white screenshots below and see the true shape of the crafts. Its 100% alien tech. Its far too advanced...no done is that big. Did you see in the video where she zooms out and way from the UFO? Its huge! She was not kidding. This is absolute proof that aliens were in Mississippi on Thursday morning.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Above is negative formate to see the detail. No connection between them.
Below is negative format, they are each separate parts, but they all belong to one whole craft.
We Can Send A Message To The Alien Probe In Orbit! UFO Sighting News.
Now NASA has announced that earth has a new moon orbiting us...yeah, that happens everyday...not. It arrived late last year in Nov or Dec of 2019...the exact same time the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China. Yes they have been fighting it that long, but hiding it until January of 2020.
I believe this city bus size moon (NASA says car size, but they always estimate down.) in earths orbit is actually an alien probe here to monitor how humanity survives or falls when this invasive lab created virus attacks the whole of humanity. They are watching, recording and trying to use that data to predict future reactions to future possible events. I decided to try to contact this probe in earths orbit. Since its monitoring us...I decided to send a message to the probe to ask for its assistance in destroying the coronavirus. My message is below.
"Welcome alien probe in Earths orbit. We have named you 2016 HO3, another name they call you is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa, NASA pretends that you are an astroid, but we the public know the truth. You are an alien probe sent to earth to monitor the existing coronavirus outbreak. Your assistance in stopping the virus would be much appreciated. This virus outbreak will kill millions of humans in the coming months with a death rate of 3.4-10% It will cause a lot of death. Your help is requested in stopping this coronavirus. Will you assist humanity on Earth? I repeat, will you assist humanity to stop this virus? I will assume your answer is YES. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan"
Now I used www.spacespeak.com to send the message. I copied the message three times each time I sent it. A repeated message has a greater chance of being noticed. Spacespeak uses a radio telescope to send messages into space for free. Messages travel at the speed of light and getting into earths orbit it takes less than a second. It is guaranteed that this alien probe will read the message. But the real question is...are they here to record only, or to offer help? Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
A high-resolution image of Earth’s new moon. Image Credit: The international Gemini Observatory/NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA.
A new study from researchers in Tokyo helps explain how cosmic rays affect prebiotic organic chemistry in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan.
Titan and its thick, hazy atmosphere as seen by the Cassini spacecraft in 2013. Some of the methane/ethane lakes near the north pole can just be seen through the haze.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ Space Science Institute.
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is rich in organic compounds, the chemical compounds upon which all known life is based. Both Titan’s surface and its atmosphere contain these compounds. Since Titan is thought to be similar to an early Earth, scientists are interested in how these molecules are formed.
Now, researchers say they’ve found a major clue about this prebiotic process, called abiogenesis, the process by which life arises from non-living matter. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), they have discovered a chemical footprint in Titan’s atmosphere, the result of cosmic rays – high-energy particles from deep space – hitting the atmosphere and affecting the formation of nitrogen-bearing organic molecules.
The new peer-reviewed results were announced by ALMA on February 14, 2020, and were published in The Astrophysical Journal on February 17, 2020.
This is the first time that such processes have been observed directly on Titan. The research team found faint, but firm signals of acetonitrile (CH3CN) and its rare isotopomer CH3C15N in the ALMA data. Takahiro Iino, of the University of Tokyo, is the study lead author. He said in a statement:
We found that the abundance of 14N in acetonitrile is higher than those in other nitrogen bearing species such as HCN and HC3N. It well matches the recent computer simulation of chemical processes with high energy cosmic rays.
ALMA spectra of CH3C14N and CH3C15N in Titan’s atmosphere. Dotted vertical lines indicate the frequency of emission lines of two molecules predicted by a theoretical model.
Image via Iino et al./ The University of Tokyo/ ALMA.
Chemical processes in Titan’s atmosphere can also be affected by ultraviolet light (radiation) from the sun. According to an ALMA statement about the research:
In the upper atmosphere, UV light selectively destroys nitrogen molecules containing 15N because the UV light with the specific wavelength that interacts with 14N14N is easily absorbed at that altitude. Thus, nitrogen-bearing species produced at that altitude tend to exhibit a high 15N abundance. On the other hand, cosmic rays penetrate deeper and interact with nitrogen molecules containing 14N. As a result, there is a difference in the abundance of molecules with 14N and 15N. The team revealed that acetonitrile in the stratosphere is more abundant in 14N than those of other previously measured nitrogen-bearing molecules.
Understanding how these chemical processes occur on Titan is important, the scientists say, because the current environment on Titan is considered to be a prebiotic laboratory in that it’s similar to our planet Earth just before, or when life started to evolve here. Some scientists theorize that there could be some form of primitive life on Titan, although this is far from being confirmed yet.
Stunning view of Titan in front of Saturn, as seen by Cassini.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ Space Science Institute.
The processes in Titan’s atmosphere can also be extrapolated to other solar system bodies with atmospheres. According to Hideo Sagawa, an associate professor at Kyoto Sangyo University and another member of the research team:
The process could be universal, so understanding the role of cosmic rays in Titan is crucial in overall planetary science.
A large amount of Titan data has been stored in the ALMA Science Archive, and now that data will be calibrated to remove fluctuations due to variations of on-site weather and mechanical glitches.
Titan was studied extensively by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and its lander, Huygens. The moon is obscured by a permanent thick orange-ish haze, but Cassini peered through it with radar. It found a world that is eerily Earth-like in appearance, with seas, lakes, rivers and sand dunes. It even rains on Titan.
The “water” on Titan, however, is liquid methane/ethane since it is far too cold for liquid water. There is, however, evidence for a liquid water ocean beneath the surface, much like Europa, Enceladus or Ganymede, among others. The sand dunes are composed of particles of hydrocarbon organics. The Huygens probe landed in an old streambed, and found smooth “rocks,” similar to river rocks on Earth, thought to be composed of solid water ice.
The upcoming Dragonfly mission will explore Titan with a drone-like probe that can land in multiple locations.
Image via Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab/ IEEE Spectrum.
Superficially, Titan resembles Earth in many ways, yet it is also a uniquely alien world.
The next mission to Titan planned is Dragonfly, a drone-like probe that will be able to land in many different locations on Titan’s surface. In this way, it will be able to survey a much larger region of the Titanian landscape, unlike Huygens, which could only remain in one spot for a short amount of time. Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034. As Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, explained:
Titan is unlike any other place in the solar system, and Dragonfly is like no other mission. It’s remarkable to think of this rotorcraft flying miles and miles across the organic sand dunes of Saturn’s largest moon, exploring the processes that shape this extraordinary environment. Dragonfly will visit a world filled with a wide variety of organic compounds, which are the building blocks of life and could teach us about the origin of life itself.
By understanding how prebiotic chemical processes can be affected by things like cosmic rays, scientists can learn more about the conditions on Titan that allow such prebiotic chemistry to occur. This has implications for not only the possibility of some form of life itself on this moon – even if seemingly remote – but also how life originated on Earth as well and the potential for life on other similar planets or moons orbiting other stars.
Bottom line: A new study from researchers in Tokyo helps explain how cosmic rays affect prebiotic chemistry in Titan’s atmosphere.
This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the newly discovered planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting its parent star, Fomalhaut.
The small white box at lower right pinpoints the planet's location. Fomalhaut b has carved a path along the inner edge of a vast, dusty debris ring encircling Fomalhaut that is 21.5 billion miles across. Fomalhaut b lies 1.8 billion miles inside the ring's inner edge and orbits 10.7 billion miles from its star.
The inset at bottom right is a composite image showing the planet's position during Hubble observations taken in 2004 and 2006. Astronomers have calculated that Fomalhaut b completes an orbit around its parent star every 872 years.
The white dot in the center of the image marks the star's location. The region around Fomalhaut's location is black because astronomers used the Advanced Camera's coronagraph to block out the star's bright glare so that the dim planet could be seen. Fomalhaut b is 1 billion times fainter than its star. The radial streaks are scattered starlight. The red dot at lower left is a background star.
The Fomalhaut system is 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis.
This false-color image was taken in October 2004 and July 2006.
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NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Chris Evers, 59, believes a UFO craft zoomed over Hull last Tuesday
(Image: Hull Live)
A UFO hunter is calling on witnesses who saw a "Tic Tac-shaped" spacecraft flying over rush hour traffic as he claims he has received a report multiple people seeing it.
Chris Evers, 59, says the UFO, which resembled the tiny oval-shaped mint, was seen by multiple witnesses flying vertically above a road in Hull.
Chris, who founded the Hull UFO Society in the 90s, said he received reports of the alien craft had been seen flying over the city at around 5.30pm on Tuesday last week.
He told HullLive: "I got a report through to me on Friday about a UFO seen over Hull.
"It was a large Tic Tac-shaped craft or device flying over the city at around 5.30pm, so it was during rush hour and apparently a lot of people saw it.
"It was flying upright, not horizontally, and there were two unusual protrusions at the bottom of the craft."
He now wants people to come forward with evidence of the sighting.
Chris Evers says it was 'Tic Tac-shaped' UFO with 'unusual protrusions' sticking out the bottom(Image: Hull Live)
"I've been interested in the subject since 1974 and that's older than my socks," Chris said.
"I've had an avid interest for a number of years now. In the 1990s I set up the Hull UFO society and my Outer Limits magazine has been going for four years this April."
According to Chris, the region is awash with strange activity, including a phenomenal incident involving UFO flying under the Humber Bridge.
He recalled: We were looking south over the Humber and a light came down over the hills towards the river. We watched it go right towards Goole and Snaith, we couldn't tell how big it was.
"Then it went under the Humber Bridge and split into two.
"And for that experience and others I'm still waiting for an explanation."
Although he says he is "sceptical believer", Chris knows one day aliens will communicate with humans.
"Even NASA say there's 4,000 solar planets they've found in the past 20 years and that shows that we're not just something strange in our solar system, but that it's a regular feature of other systems," he said.
"We've not found one we can communicate with yet but it will happen one day."
NASA HIRES SPACEX TO LAUNCH MISSION TO GIANT METAL ASTEROID
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JON CHRISTIAN
Heavy Metal
NASA’s historic uncrewed mission to the metallic asteroid Psyche is now, also, a SpaceX jam. Elon Musk’s rocket company will be responsible for getting the probe launched onboard a Falcon Heavy.
“The Psyche mission will journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter,” reads a NASA press release about the collab. “The asteroid is considered unique, as it appears to largely be made of the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet – one of the building blocks of our solar system.”
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If all goes well, the mission will lift off in summer 2022 from Cape Canaveral.
The nimble Psyche probe — which, yes, confusingly has the same name as the asteroid it’s exploring — will be loaded with equipment from Earthling researchers, which it’ll use to investigate the asteroid’s composition.
Abnormal Psyche
According to one estimate, the materials that make up Psyche are worth a staggering $10,000 quadrillion — though, of course, it would be impractically expensive to bring them back to Earth with current-generation tech.
NASA’s goal, though, isn’t financial. Instead, it’s hoping that new data about Psyche will help explain the early history of the solar system.
When most people are asked to imagine what an alien looks like the first image that may pop into one’s head is the classic “grey alien.” You know the one one, small, thin, grey skin, a big head with almond shaped black eyes. For whatever reasons this is by far the most common conception of an alien being by the mainstream. Yet, there are so many alien encounter reports that describe something wholly different and altogether outlandish. Here I have compiled a few reports of some of the weirder alien reports out there, and there are no greys to be seen.
Our first weird case comes from 1973, in the U.S. state of Alabama near the small town of Falkville. On October 17, 1973, a panicked woman called into police to report that she had seen a UFO land in a field right outside of town, and an incredulous police officer named Jeff Greenhaw went off to investigate, no doubt thinking that he was dealing with some nutcase. He arrived at the scene at around 10 PM, not really expecting to find much, and at first he didn’t. The field held no spaceship, nor any sign of one, but the lady who had called was frantically insisting that not only had a UFO really landed, but that there was an alien running around out there in the woods.
Greenhaw thought that at the very least there might be in intruder prowling about, so he did a sweep of the area. Little did he know that this intruder would be far stranger than anything he had imagined. As he peered into the darkness and shone his flashlight about, he noticed someone standing off the side of the road, but when he looked in its direction he saw that this was no normal man. The figure seemed to be completely covered with some shiny substance that looked somewhat like tin foil, with an antenna on its head, and Greenhaw would even take a photo of it. He would say of the creature:
It looked like his head and neck were kind of made together… he was real bright, something like rubbing mercury on nickel, but just as smooth as glass; different angles give different lighting. I don’t believe it was aluminum foil.
Alleged photo of the “Tinfoil Man”
This figure seemed to move in a rather disjointed, mechanical way, giving the impression that it was almost robotic in nature, and wanting to see it in better light, Greenhaw trained his vehicle’s headlights on it. This apparently set the entity into a panic, and it ran off at great speed, after which Greehaw started up his car and pursued it right through a field. The officer went as fast as the terrain could allow, but the creature he had seen and was chasing was reportedly amazingly fast, far faster than any human, and he eventually lost it when it bolted off into some trees. In the days after his encounter, Greenhaw would come forward with his account, which would make him a laughing stock, the object of ridicule, and cost him his job.
Was this some sort of alien robot, perhaps used as a probe by its inscrutable handlers? It reminds me of a similar case of seemingly robotic aliens that is made all the odder in that it predates it by over 50 years. The bizarro case supposedly occurred in 1924, in Pasco County, in the state of Florida, and which was related in 1974 by an elderly witness named Evelyn Wendt, who claimed that this had happened to her when she was a girl. She said that she had been playing outside on the grounds of St. Joseph school when she had noticed an egg shaped object nearby that glowed so intensely and brightly that she had to cover her eyes at first, but it then supposedly suddenly dimmed to reveal some sort of saucer shaped metal craft. As she stood there staring wide-eyed at the strange sight, a small door suddenly opened to disgorge a procession of rather bizarre creatures, and Wendt would say of them thus:
Little people emerged. I think they were robots. I tried to count them, but they changed about so. They were smaller than I was and resembled animated flowers with faces where the bud would be.
These truly bizarre “robotic sunflowers” were apparently hoisting a sinister looking machine of some sort, which Wendt instinctively sensed was a weapon of some kind, and which they also seemed to be setting up to aim towards the school’s science building. It was at about this time that the witness claimed the entities communicated with her telepathically, telling her that they intended to destroy the science building because there were dangerous experiments going on in there behind closed doors. Bizarrely, they then suddenly changed their minds, and began to file back into the craft as they invited their human companion to come along. She refused, but they supposedly promised to come back for her in later years. Wendt would say of what happened:
They promised to come back for me in 35 years, but that was a long time ago and nothing happened that I know of. All I can remember now is that the saucer was leaden-looking and very pockmarked. Then, when it started up, its molecules expanded and it turned silvery bright. The UFO then went straight up, hovered a minute, and disappeared from sight.
UFO researchers in later years sought to bring out any other details through hypnosis, but Wendt proved impossible to hypnotize. Bizarrely, the science building of the school at one point was destroyed by unspecified means, leading one to think that maybe the robo-flowers had come back to finish the job. What in the world was going on here? Is this just a made-up delusion or is it at all real in any sense? If it really did happen, then what were these robotic flowers and why on earth did they want to blow up a junior high school’s science building? Who knows?
From the same year as Greenhaw’s account and also quite unusual is the encounter reported by two men named Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, who on October 11, 1973, were fishing on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. As they cast their lines out they suddenly began to hear a series of strange hissing, whirring noises coming from behind them. When they turned around to look, they apparently came face to face with an egg-shaped spacecraft hovering over the river not far away, and a door then opened to regurgitate forth baffling creatures that really defy any easy classification. There standing in the doorway of the craft were three 6-foot tall beings with grey leathery, wrinkled skin and thin, carrot-like protrusions jutting out of their heads. The hands and feet were said to be fused into pinchers, and the eyes and mouths were just slits.
Just as they were reeling from the shock of seeing such a thing, the men realized that they had been somehow paralyzed by an unseen force, which kept them glued to where they were. Stuck as they were, the two witnesses made easy pickings for the bizarre aliens, who plucked them up and dragged them aboard their unearthly vessel. Hickson would later claim that he was brought aboard the ship and brought to a room with a blinding light, in which he was subjected to an examination by an oval shaped robotic probe of some sort. After around 20 minutes, the two were deposited back onto the bank of the river and the mysterious craft floated off. Hickson then claimed that he had found Parker on the riverbank as well in a rather disheveled state, crying and praying to God.
The two went back to their car and sat there in shock for an undetermined amount of time, before heading home. They would later contact the Kessler Air Force Base and the local sheriff with their bizarre tale, which went about as well as you would expect. No one really took the eyebrow-raising story seriously, but the whole case inevitably became splashed about local newspapers soon after. Hickson in particular went on to entertain questions on the matter and even help publish a book about the whole incident called UFO Contact at Pascagoula, while Parker ducked out of the limelight, and eventually moved out of state to avoid the constant media attention. For is part, Parker claimed that he had passed out at the beginning of the ordeal and only come to after it was over, only recalling bits and pieces under hypnosis.
The case was picked apart by some of the most eminent UFO researchers at the time, who for the most part agreed that the men at least really believed that what they had seen was real. The case of the Pascagoula aliens has since been met with a good amount of skepticism. It has been called everything from a shared hallucination to a flat-out lie, which has only been made more complicated by the fact that Hickson’s account only seemed to get more and more bizarre and complex as time went on. It has been suggested that they had a shared imaginary experience, that they were drinking, or even that they were just tripping balls on LSD at the time, but no one really knows what happened except the two witnesses themselves.
Our next very strange case comes from December 6, 1978, when a night security guard by the name of Pier Zanfretta was doing his normal rounds in the small town of Torriglia, Italy, when he claims that his car suddenly died and would not start again. It was then that he noticed some strange lights piercing through the darkness around a nearby house, and his first thought was that these were trespassers. He grabbed his flashlight and sidearm and exited the vehicle to go investigate, creeping along a path towards the property, and as he made his way along he suddenly felt something fall upon his shoulder. The startled patrolman whipped around and this is where it would get very weird very fast.
There looking over him in the beam of his flashlight was a hideous, hulking humanoid creature standing at least 10 feet tall, with “undulating skin, as though he were very fat or dressed in a loose, grey tunic,” with two more of the beings standing out in the gloom behind it. They were described as having green skin, horns protruding from the sides of their faces, visible throbbing red veins in their foreheads, and yellow eyes, with each of the creatures wearing some sort of faintly glowing breathing apparatus over the mouth. Zanfretta did what most people would do in this situation, and ran as fast as he could the other way, back towards his car, where he then saw an enormous triangular UFO that blinded him with a very bright light and nearly knocked him over with a blast of hot air as it passed overhead. When others came to answer his panicked calls for back up there were found some odd horseshoe shapes embedded into the earth nearby that suggested something very heavy had rested there, and there would be numerous UFO reports from the village over the next few weeks.
Moving along, in 1989, a strange series of events unfolded in the wilds near Voronezh, Russia, beginning with numerous sightings by frightened locals who described a massive, red sphere floating over a park. When witnesses went to see what was going on, the object apparently dropped down to hover right over the ground, after which a hatch opened to disgorge several very bizarre entities. These creatures were purportedly 9 feet tall, dressed in silver outfits and most notable with neckless, domed heads holding three glowing eyes and a bright red device that spun around “like a radar.” These aliens reportedly swiveled their heads about to look around, and along with the aliens was a “box-like robot” that walked around with jerky movements and upon which the aliens occasionally adjusted instruments on its chest. These creatures were bizarrely described as walking around the park collecting soil samples and occasionally projecting multi-colored beams from disc like structures in their chests, and strangest of all they reportedly zapped a teenager who got to close with a tube-like weapon of some sort, which “dematerialized” the poor boy. Luckily the boy reappeared when the beings boarded their craft and left. What was going on here?
Even more recent, and perhaps even wilder and more spectacular than any of these we have looked at so far apparently happened in a rural area of the country of Brazil in 1996. On January 20, 1996, the fire department at the town of Varginha received several calls from distraught residents claiming that a “strange creature” was lurking about frightening people. Authorities thought it might just be some pranksters messing around, and went to check it out. When they arrived, they amazingly were able to quickly find the creature in question, which was described as being in some sort of a dazed state. The creature itself purportedly had short, stumpy legs, very long arms, oversized feet, and three stalks upon its head, and it also had set within its misshappen head set of glowing red eyes. The bizarre entity was apparently easily captured with a net, which elicited a buzzing sound from it, and it whisked off to who knows where.
Later that same day there was apparently another of the creatures seen, this time by three girls named Lilliane Fatima, Valquira Fatima, and Andrade Xavier as they were waking through a wooded area. It apparently looked exactly like the one that had been captured and left footprints and an obnoxious ammonia like stench in its wake. The creature or creatures were apparently sighted numerous times over the coming week, and another was supposedly captured. This specimen was apparently taken to the University of Campinas, and amazingly two more were also captured and brought to the University of Sao Paulo, where at least one of them died. There were allegedly many photographs taken of the autopsy, yet none have ever been made publicly available, if they even exist at all. Oddly, several of the people involved with capturing the creatures mysterious fell ill, exhibiting symptoms that could not be explained, with at least one of these people dying from their sickness.
The story created quite a stir at the time, with the Brazilian media reporting on it heavily, yet both the authorities and the universities that supposedly had harbored the “aliens” denied any knowledge of such creatures. The only hint that something might really be going on was a doctor allegedly involved with the autopsy of the dead creature, who simultaneously denied having any thing to do with it while also hinting that there was more to say on the matter that he was unable to release just yet. Considering that this all happened during a major UFO sightings flap in the region the public supposed that these might have been the occupants of these mysterious craft, but considering that no real evidence has come forward this will probably remain just another unverified enigmatic report that seems destined to be buried.
What is happening with cases like these? How are such numerous completely strange entities seen by so many? Are these aliens, interdimensional interlopers, the imagination, or something else altogether? Reports such as these and many more like them only serve to muddy the waters of UFO and alien encounters, because they are so completely surreal and typically describe entities that were only seen a single time or on very few occasions and never again, slipping off into whatever unknown weird realm they sprang from. It is not sure what these cases could represent, unclear as to their origins, but what is most certainly clear is that they represent some of the bizarre of the bizarre.
There are people who have supposedly had odd encounters with UFOs and aliens from all over the world, from all walks of life. Among these have often been those who have high social standing or are well-known by the general public, and these usually attract the most attention. After all, some random sighting from an unknown guy in Bumpsville is likely to be quickly forgotten, but what of when it is an icon who is a household name? Just as with tabloid reports these are the kinds of stories we can’t get enough of and are inexorably drawn to, and one in the UFO community that has shown staying power is the time the great American entertainer Jackie Gleason was purportedly shown alien bodies by former president Richard Nixon.
A lot of younger readers might not recognize the name, but in his day the comedian, actor, and writer Jackie Gleason (1916- 1987) was a legendary icon. Probably best known for his character Ralph Kramden in the hit television series The Honeymooners and his role as Sheriff Buford T. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit series of films, Gleason had a long and storied career, appearing in countless movies and TV shows in the 1950s and 60s, including his own The Jackie Gleason Show, also launching successful music career, and he was a very famous and well-known stalwart of the entertainment industry and a household name. Behind the scenes, though, he had an array of unconventional hobbies that many people did not really know about and which he tried as much as possible to keep out of the public eye.
Jackie Gleason
You see, Jackie Gleason was a complete paranormal and UFO geek. He spent hours reading about all areas of parapsychology, Forteana, aliens, and the unexplained, and obsessively collected books on such things, in particular UFOs. Indeed, he is widely known as having had one of the largest private collections of books on UFOs in the country, which would be donated to the University of Miami after his death. In the biography The Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason, author William A. Henry III explains of this intense interest and fascination thusly:
Jackie Gleason had a lifelong fascination with the supernatural. He would spend small fortunes on everything from financing psychic research to buying a sealed box said to contain actual ectoplasm, the spirit of life itself. He would contact everyone from back-alley charlatans to serious researchers like J.B. Rhine of Duke University and, disdaining the elitism of the scholarly apparatus, would treat them all much the same way. Gleason was a frequent insomniac. He would stay up high the night reading (or rereading) some of the hundreds of (UFO and paranormal phenomena) volumes in his library.
He was hardcore, in other words, even once saying himself, “I’m kind of a nut on the subject.” It was partly this interest that led to his friendship with former president Richard Nixon, who was also interested in UFOs. Gleason had also long supported Nixon’s campaigns and was a staunch Republican, and as Nixon had a vacation compound not far away from Gleason’s Florida home the two would strike up a friendship to become frequent golfing buddies, chattering about UFOs and other weird stuff the whole time. It was after one of these golfing outings on February 19, 1973 that Nixon apparently showed up alone at Gleason’s door in the middle of the night and allegedly excitedly told Gleason to get dressed because he wanted to show him something, after which the comedian was taken to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida and guided by armed guards to a top-secret, highly secured remote installation. Things would purportedly get very strange from here.
Gleason was reportedly led into an underground area through sterile corridors and past several ominous laboratories, at one point passing a weird twisted metal mass encased in glass that Nixon told Gleason was the remains of a UFO. Gleason supposedly wasn’t sure what to think of this, and at first thought the president was just joking around, but he would soon find that this was no joke as he was led into a large chamber area where there were “six or eight of what looked like glass-topped Coke freezers.” Within each of these freezers was allegedly the mangled remains of tiny humanoid bodies, according to Gleason “only about two feet tall, with bald heads and disproportionately large ears.” These, he was told, were the remains of the occupants of a UFO that had crashed “nearby,” and to say it was shocking to the great comedian would be an understatement.
Jackie Gleason and Richard Nixon
Upon returning to his home he was apparently very unsettled, noticeably disturbed and panicked, and looking haggard. This was enough to alarm his wife at the time, his second wife Beverly McKittrick, and after at first denying that anything was wrong after several sleepless weeks, during which he could barely even eat, the shaken Gleason apparently came clean and told her everything, swearing her to secrecy in the process. Unfortunately for him, Gleason and Beverly’s marriage was on the rocks at the time, and she promptly broke her promise to keep it all secret, first writing of it in a book that she planned to publish on their marriage but never did, and then according to her recounting the tale in a high profile interview with Esquire magazine in 1974, something which purportedly greatly perturbed Gleason, to the point that according to her it directly led to their prompt divorce, as well as again in The National Enquirer in 1983.
The comedian himself would stay silent on the matter, neither confirming nor denying his wife’s tale, and only apparently coming clean in 1986, when UFO researcher Larry Warren claims Gleason himself confided in him to tell him it was all true, however, it is not clear if this meeting ever took place and Warren has been criticized for embellishing accounts in the past. How do we explain that nothing was heard from the comedian himself? Larry Bryant, the editor of a UFO newsletter called Just Cause, to which Gleason subscribed, and who also unsuccessfully tried to get records on the event from the military through Freedom of Information Act requests, says he tried to get an affidavit from Gleason on the matter, and says of his silence:
Though I never did hear from Gleason, I did learn that he had been contacted by a third party in the film industry. At this confrontation, Gleason chose to neither confirm nor deny the story, saying that he would prefer not to discuss it all. The way I see it Gleason easily could have set the record straight in reply to my proposal or in an explanation to the inquisitive film-industry representative. If the story was a fabrication or misinterpretation on the part of his wife, he now had every opportunity to say so. That he chose not to merely deepens the mystery.
This is one of the problems we face with this outlandish tale, that it is only officially known from the account given by Gleason’s ex-wife, who was not only writing a book at the time, but also was not too happy with the late comedian in general at that point, their relationship having gone very sour. It is very probable she made it all up out of spite or to sell books, but this hasn’t stopped a lot of researchers from trying to track down if there is any truth to the tale, and any truth there may be seems to be pretty thin on the ground.
It has been confirmed through Gleason’s personal diaries that he did in fact play a game of golf with Nixon on the day in question, and that they had spent about 10 minutes talking about UFOs, but that is about it. Gleason himself makes no mention of covert midnight meetings or of being whisked off to a secret base to be shown crashed spaceships and dead aliens, and he never publicly spoke about it, although the more conspiratorial minded among us will likely say that these entries were either redacted or were never written at all in order for Gleason to keep his secrecy on the matter. There is also absolutely no corroboration or records from the Air Force base that Gleason had ever been there at all, much less on the night of February 19, 1973, and even if he was, is it normal operating procedure to allow a civilian entertainer with no security clearance at all to just waltz into a top secret installation and show them whatever you want, including freaking dead aliens? Also, just how did Nixon get away from the constant presence of his Secret Service security detail, which usually shadowed his every move, to go traipsing off to a comedian’s house to tell him the truth about UFOs and aliens? It all makes the whole affair not a little suspicious, although then again the military might have covered it up, perhaps. Yet this is not the end of the strikes against this amazing tale.
Perhaps the most damning thing about it all is that the Esquire article that Beverly adamantly claims to have appeared in doesn’t actually seem to exist, narrowing down the only real known coverage of it to an article in The National Enquirer, not exactly known as the last bastion of journalistic integrity. Beverly for her part insisted that the Esquire article does exist in an interview with researcher Kenny Young in 2003, and sure maybe the Esquire article was “erased,” but the fact of the matter is that every article on the case can be essentially traced back to that National Enquirer article, which incidentally also happens to have painted Gleason in a very negative light, perfectly keeping in line with what one would think a vengeful ex-wife would write.
So was this the work of a conniving, spurned woman getting revenge? Maybe. Was she trying to drum up interest for her planned book that never came to fruition? Likely. Was a lot of this exaggerated and played up over the years? I wouldn’t doubt it. Did Richard Nixon shake off his security detail to randomly gather up a comedian in order to take him to a top secret military facility and show him dead alien bodies and the wreckage of a spaceship? Who knows? Does it make for an entertaining little historical oddity that has managed to worm its way into the UFO lore? Definitely.
Enorme lichtflits aan de hemel boven Schilde en Nederland waargenomen - HLN.be
Printscreen videoLichtflits en vuurbal aan de hemel boven Schilde.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETBoven Schilde was er maandagnacht rond 00.40 uur een gigantische lichtflits te zien. Ook in Nederland merkten ze het fenomeen op. Verschillende mensen legden de indrukwekkende beelden vast en postten hun filmpjes op sociale media. Volkssterrenwacht Mira meldt aan onze redactie dat het om een vallende ster gaat.
Het zou gaan om een vallende ster: een steente van ongeveer één centimeter dat de dampkring was binnengevlogen. Dit zorgde voor een felle lichtflits. “Vannacht was het helder weer. Op zo’n momenten gebeurt het weleens dat zo’n fenomeen mogelijk is. Het zijn immers lange nachten en korte dagen”, klinkt het bij Volkssterrenwacht Mira. “Het zonnestelsel bevat een ster: de zon. Daarrond draaien een heleboel planeten en andere hemellichamen. Daartussen is nog heel veel ruis, zoals schilfers metaal en brokjes steen die bewegen in het zonnestelsel.”
“Het gebeurt regelmatig dat er een brokje botst tegen de Aarde. Als zoiets van buitenaf door de lucht begint te klieven, dan gaat er door de wrijving tussen de luchtdeeltjes en de brokjes een hoge temperatuur ontstaan waarbij de indringers opbranden. De lucht zelf zal dan eventjes ontregeld zijn”, licht Volkssterrenwacht Mira verder toe.
“Het gaat met andere woorden om een opbrandend project dat langs het traject de luchtdeeltjes zal beroeren. Die gaan even een flits veroorzaken langs het traject van het opbrandende deel. Dat zien wij dan als een fel lijntje in de lucht. Vorige nacht was er sprake van een zeer felle flits. Dat heeft te maken met het feit dat het om een groter object gaat dan gewoonlijk. Als het iets is van een grootte van een knikker of een erwt gaat het voor een helderder fenomeen zorgen. Soms is het zelfs nog groter, zoals een vuist. Er blijft niets over van dat brandende deeltje. Het brandt op in de lucht, zoals hier het geval was. Het gebeurt zelden dat er iets neervalt op onze planeet. Zoiets noemen we dan een meteoriet.”
Op 28 januari 2011 daalde ’s avonds een UFO neer boven de Rotskoepel op de berg en schoot even later met een onvoorstelbare snelheid weer de lucht in. Nu duikt er een UFO op boven een klein dorp in Californië dat veel lijkt op die inmiddels beroemd geworden UFO uit 2011.
We hebben vandaag iets bijzonders dat begin vorige maand plaatsvond boven Porterville, een dorpje in de Amerikaanse staat Californië.
Er is een man die gewoon buiten loopt en in de verte boven de huizen van het dorp een vreemd cirkelvormig object waarneemt, dat stil in de lucht lijkt te hangen.
Volgens UFO onderzoeker Scott Waring lijkt dit ronde object als twee druppels water op de beroemde video die in januari 2011 boven de Rotskoepel in Jeruzalem verscheen.
De man dacht in eerste instantie aan een weerballon of een reclame object, maar kon niets ontdekken waaruit bleek dat dit object ergens mee was verbonden. Hij vertelt dat hij toen hij het object een tijdje had gefilmd hij koude handen kreeg en besloot te stoppen om later dichter bij huis nog eens te proberen.
En dan komt er inderdaad een tweede opname van nog wat dichterbij en wederom is daar totaal niets op te ontdekken waaruit zou blijken dat het ergens mee is verbonden. Het hangt volkomen stil in de lucht en als reclame object zou het ook weinig zin hebben volgens de filmer, want er staan maar een paar huizen in het dorp.
Wat helaas verder niet wordt vermeld is hoe en op wat voor manier het object vervolgens weer verdween, maar alle UFO onderzoekers die de opname hebben bekeken zijn het wel met elkaar eens dat daar daadwerkelijk iets hangt en dat niemand een verklaring heeft voor wat het dan wel is, waardoor het daarmee een UFO wordt.
Zoals gezegd is Scott Waring ervan overtuigd dat dit object veel overeenkomsten heeft met de ufo boven Jeruzalem uit 2011. Voor hen die vergeten zijn hoe die er ook alweer uit zag hierna een deel uit een eerder artikel over deze bijzondere UFO.
Heeft de Tempelberg misschien in een ver verleden ook een rol gespeeld bij de aanwezigheid van de Goden op aarde. Wordt er ook in de Tempelberg iets geactiveerd, net zoals bij de piramides?
In 2011 vond er nog een merkwaardig voorval plaats op de Tempelberg. Een gebeurtenis die door talloze mensen is gezien en vastgelegd en waarvan de mainstream-media niet wisten hoe snel ze dit tot hoax moesten verklaren.
Op 28 januari 2011 daalde ’s avonds een UFO neer boven de Rotskoepel op de berg en schoot even later met een onvoorstelbare snelheid weer de lucht in.
Voor de mainstream wereld zou het hier gaan om een hoax, in elkaar gezet door iemand die met zijn video zoveel mogelijk bezoekers wilde trekken om hiermee geld te verdienen, maar de werkelijkheid ligt ook hier zoals zo vaak wat anders.
Er is namelijk niet één opname van dit fenomeen gemaakt, maar meerdere, door verschillende mensen en vanaf verschillende posities. De kans dat deze opnames echt zijn, is dan ook veel groter dan dat ze allemaal nep zouden zijn.
Bovendien zijn er nog meer merkwaardigheden, zoals te zien in de volgende video:
Om te beginnen zegt hij dat ook hij uitgebreide analyses heeft uitgevoerd voor wat betreft de opnames van deze gebeurtenis en dat ze honderd procent echt zijn. Niet alleen zijn er door talloze verschillende mensen opnames gemaakt, het is daarnaast volgens hem nog gezien door ongeveer 10.000 ooggetuigen, bestaande uit een mix van toeristen en lokale bewoners.
Ook vertelt hij dat gedurende de kruistochten de Tempeliers een aantal heilige objecten hebben verborgen onder de Rotskoepel. Die objecten zouden dan onder andere zijn de Ark van het Verbonden de Heilige Graal.
Velen zullen zich afgevraagd hebben wat die UFO daar op dat moment te zoeken had, wetende dat ze zouden worden opgemerkt door duizenden mensen. Waarom kwam het juist naar beneden boven een tempel die duizenden jaren oud is?
Scott denkt dat hij het antwoord op die vraag heeft:
Ze noemen het niet voor niets Rotskoepel. De tempel uit die tijd werd gebouwd bovenop een rots die een heilige betekenis had. Het is een heilige rots voor zowel Joden als moslims.
Moslims zeggen dat de rots de plek is van de nachtreis van de profeet Mohammed. Op een nacht toen Mohammed lag te slapen in de buurt van Mekka kwam de engel Gabriël bij Mohammed en nam hem mee naar al-Mashjid al-Aqsa (de verste moskee) in Jeruzalem, gelegen op een steenworp afstand van de Rotskoepel.
Vanaf de rots reisde Mohammed samen met de engel Gabriël naar de hemel, waar hij andere profeten ontmoette zoals Jezus en Mozes. Ook zag hij daar zowel de hel als het paradijs en zag tenslotte God op zijn troon, omringd door engelen.
Scott zegt nu dat de UFO die we boven de Rotskoepel zien, niemand minder is dan de engel Gabriël.
De rots heeft volgens hem een heilige betekenis die heel ver teruggaat en bevat waarschijnlijk ook hele oude technologie, waarbij mensen snel konden reizen van de ene plek in het heelal naar de andere (teleportatie). Misschien kwam die UFO wel om dat dimensieportaal in de rots opnieuw te activeren. Of misschien was het Gabriël die daar nogmaals kwam ter gedachtenis aan het eerdere bezoek aan zijn goede vriend Mohammed.
De engel Gabriël was buitenaards, beschikte over vergevorderde technologie, waardoor mensen hem in die dagen alleen maar konden identificeren als een dienaar en/of boodschapper van God.
En dit is volgens Scott Waring het geheim achter de mysterieuze en tot op de dag van vandaag niet verklaarde UFO boven de Rotskoepel een aantal jaren geleden.
De ufologen zijn wel aardig met elkaar eens dat het object in Porterville een onverklaard verschijnsel is en dat het geen weer- of reclameballon is. Nu staat deze website erom bekend dat ze lezers heeft die meestal wel weten te ontrafelen wat het is, dus mocht dat dit keer ook zou zijn, laat ons weten.
Proof a Mysterious Lost Ancient Global Civilization Spanned Virtually the Entire Planet…
This will likely blow your mind. 250+ photos and comparisons of ancient sites around the world, show that there is a LOT more to the story of our ancient past. Proof of a lost ancient global civilization that has been hiding in plain sight, for thousands of years.
Proof a Mysterious Lost Ancient Global Civilization Spanned Virtually the Entire Planet…
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Why Do We All Hear About UFO Sightings in the News?
Why do we all hear about UFO sightings in the news and there are always books, internet articles and reports on the subject? People who think they can answer this question should research a little more. They should first understand the concept of UFOs because they are hard to explain away with simple science.
Another factor is that we have been having so many wars since the 1940s and many think they are a factor or are they the driving force behind the world’s new energy technology. Why not look into all these things instead of worrying about UFOs?
There have been many different types of UFO sightings throughout history and all we are going to do is list some of them. I will be sure to give more information on each type, as time goes on.
We are all familiar with the ones reported by various military and other government agencies when dealing with these phenomena, the ones known as Extraterrestrial Space Travelers (sometimes also called Extra-Terrestrial (ET) Space Vehicles) or UFOs. These are the ones that fly around in your neighborhood and seem to be off in a totally different direction from where you live. So, one thing is for sure, no one is fooling around and they are real. You will never run out of stories about these crazy guys from outer space.
Also, the Extraterrestrial Telepathic Communication is another way these people from space to get in contact with humans. This may not be as well known or understood, but they have been recorded in many books on the subject.
If you are a skeptic you may think we are alone, but that would make a bunch of really strange creatures to be our friends, wouldn’t it? Why would these animals make up a civilization that is much more advanced than themselves and then go on to meet other intelligent civilizations that are thousands of years ahead of them? It just doesn’t make sense, does it?
Then there are the way too weird to be considered normal and even odd balls that pass through our atmosphere without the help of any rocket or aircraft that don’t leave a sign of their presence on earth. This craft may be a very curious but this is where we get into the topic of Alien Abduction’s.
Do you remember the one time when you were standing in line at a movie theater and then saw one UFO appear right above you and then suddenly zoom off into the distance and fly off into space? Well, this was only the start of one big UFO sighting story in history. Many people were complaining that it was too intense but most agree it was a very cool UFO sighting.
“We warned at the start of ZetaTalk, in 1995, that unpredictable weather extremes, switching about from drought to deluge, would occur and increase on a lineal basis up until the pole shift. Where this occurred steadily, it has only recently become undeniable. ZetaTalk, and only ZetaTalk, warned of these weather changes, at that early date. Our early warnings spoke to the issue of global heating from the core outward, hardly Global Warming, a surface or atmospheric issue, but caused by consternation in the core. Affected by the approach of Planet X, which was by then starting to zoom rapidly toward the inner solar system for its periodic passage, the core was churning, melting the permafrost and glaciers and riling up volcanoes. When the passage did not occur as expected in 2003 because Planet X had stalled in the inner solar system, we explained the increasing weather irregularities in the context of the global wobble that had ensued – weather wobbles where the Earth is suddenly forced under air masses, churning them. This evolved by 2005 into a looping jet stream, loops breaking away and turning like a tornado to affect the air masses underneath. Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, droughts had become more intractable and deluges positively frightening, temperature swings bringing snow in summer in the tropics and searing heat in Artic regions, with the violence of storms increasing in number and ferocity.”
The wobble seems to have changed, as the temperature in Europe suddenly plunged after being like an early Spring, Alaska has its coldest temps ever while the US and much of Canada is having an extremely mild winter. India went from fatal cold spell to balmy again. Has the Earth changed position vs a vs Planet X to cause this?[and from another]Bitter cold records broken in Alaska – all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy’s Law intervenes[Jan 30]http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/30/bitter-cold-records-broken-in-alaskaJim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment. While the continental USA has a mild winter and has set a number of high temperature records in the last week and pundits ponder whether they will be blaming the dreaded “global warming” for those temperatures, Alaska and Canada have been suffering through some of the coldest temperatures on record during the last week.
There has been no change in the wobble pattern, the wobble has merely become more severe. Nancy noted a Figure 8 format when the Earth wobble first became noticeable, in early 2005, after Planet X moved into the inner solar system at the end of 2003. The Figure 8 shifted along to the east a bit on the globe between 2005 and 2009, (the last time Nancy took its measure) as Planet X came closer to the Earth, encountering the magnetic N Pole with a violent push earlier in the day. But the pattern of the Figure 8 remained essentially the same. So what changed recently that the weather patterns became noticeably different in late January, 2012?
The N Pole is pushed away when it comes over the horizon, when the noon Sun is centered over the Pacific. This regularly puts Alaska under colder air, with less sunlight, and thus the historically low temps there this January, 2012 as the wobble has gotten stronger. But by the time the Sun is positioned over India, the N Pole has swung during the Figure 8 so the globe tilts, and this tilt is visible in the weather maps from Asia. The tilt has forced the globe under the hot air closer to the Equator, warming the land along a discernable tilt demarcation line.
The next loop of the Figure 8 swings the globe so that the N Pole moves in the other direction, putting the globe again at a tilt but this time in the other direction. This tilt is discernable in weather maps of Europe, again along a diagonal line. Depending upon air pressure and temperature differences, the weather on either side of this diagonal line may be suddenly warm or suddenly cold. The tilt and diagonal line lingers to affect much of the US and Canada, but the Figure 8 changes at this point to be an up and down motion, pulling the geographic N Pole south so the US is experiencing a warmer than expected winter under a stronger Sun. Then the cycle repeats, with the magnetic N Pole of Earth pushed violently away again as the Sun is positioned over the Pacific.
Would the Zetas be able to let us know what is causing the early break-up of the Arctic Ice, the ice seems to have taken on a swirling pattern at the same time, would this be wobble related?[and from another]
The ice in Canada’s western Arctic ripped open in a massive “fracturing event” this spring that spread like a wave across 1,000 kilometres of the Beaufort Sea. Huge leads of water – some more than 500 kilometres long and as much as 70 kilometres across – opened up from Alaska to Canada’s Arctic islands as the massive ice sheet cracked as it was pushed around by strong winds and currents. It took just seven days for the fractures to progress across the entire area from west to east.[and from another]http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80752&src=iotdrss A high-pressure weather system was parked over the region, producing warmer temperatures and winds that flowed in a southwesterly direction. That fueled the Beaufort Gyre, a wind-driven ocean current that flows clockwise. The gyre was the key force pulling pieces of ice west past Point Barrow, the northern nub of Alaska that protrudes into the Beaufort Sea.
The Figure 8 formed by the N Pole during the daily Earth wobble has shifted somewhat to the East, due to Planet X positioned more to the right of the Earth during its approach. This was anticipated, and well described in ZetaTalk, the Earth crowding to the left in the cup to escape the approach of Planet X, so the angle between these two planets would change slightly. This shift of the Figure 8 to the East is due to the push against the Earth’s magnetic N Pole occurring sooner each day than prior. Thus instead of occurring when the Sun is high over the Pacific, over New Zealand, it is now occurring when the Sun is high over Alaska. All the wobble points have shifted eastward accordingly.
This has brought a lingering Winter to the western US, and a changed sloshing pattern to the Arctic waters. Instead of Pacific waters being pushed through the Bering Straits into the Arctic when the polar push occurs, the wobble is swinging the Arctic to the right, and then later to the left, creating a circular motion in the waters trapped in the Arctic. Since the Earth rotates counterclockwise, the motion also takes this path. This is yet another piece of evidence that the establishment is hard pressed to explain. They are attempting to ascribe this to high pressure and wind, all of which are not new to the Arctic, but this circular early breakup of ice in the Arctic is new.
I was looking at this Mars photo when I found a face looking out to the horizon. The face sits on the side of a hill and is made of a stone substance, much like the sphinx face made in Egypt. This face has softer edges and rounder cheeks, making me believe its a woman...probably a queen or important woman in their culture. You can see her hair flowing down the back and side of her face. Extraordinary and important evidence of ancient alien cultures on Mars. They don't look too much different than we do, do they? Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Korean news shows UFO during coverage of fire in Los Angeles
South Korean news story shows some kind of solid unidentified flying object during coverage of fire and explosion in Los Angeles, California. This happened on 29th February 2020.
The scientists who discovered the object on Feb. 15 estimate that, because of the instability of its path through space, the minimoon will likely leave Earth's orbit sometime in April.
Astronomers know little about this minimoon — so little, in fact, that they can't even say if it's an artificial object, such as a dead satellite. However, they say, it's most likely a small asteroid. And although the object poses no danger to Earth, it does show how changeable our neighborhood is.
The international Gemini Observatory/NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA/G. Fedorets (Image credit: The international Gemini Observatory/NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA/G. Fedorets)
Information from the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, which keeps observation records for all known asteroids, shows that the orbit of the minimoon doesn't match the precise orbit of any known human-made object, Kacper Wierzchos, a senior research specialist for the Catalina Sky Survey and co-discoverer of the minimoon, told Space.com. The object's orbit didn't display any perturbations resulting from solar radiation pressure coming from the sun; such wiggles are common for human-made satellites in Earth's orbit.
But Wierzchos said he doesn't want to assume the minimoon is an asteroid quite yet. "The possibility it is artificial still exists, so I am trying to be cautious with every statement," he said. "I'd hate it to be artificial after [everyone is] making a fuss [about the discovery]."
The NASA-funded Catalina program at the University of Arizona is an automated survey that scans the sky for fast-moving objects. On discovery night, Wierzchos and Catalina research specialist Theodore Pruyne happened to be at the telescope, Wierzchos said. On a good night, the survey can study around 40 near-Earth asteroids, which are typically objects astronomers already know about. But on Feb. 15, something in Catalina's observations looked a little funny and didn't match anything known by astronomers. The duo submitted the discovery to the Minor Planet Center, and other astronomers soon confirmed the find.
Data from the Catalina Sky Survey shows the recently discovered minimoon currently orbiting Earth. (Image credit: K. Wierzchos/T. Pruyne/University of Arizona/Catalina Sky Survey)
The newly identified object, now known as 2020 CD3, was very faint when it was discovered, at only about magnitude 20. (The lower the magnitude, the brighter the object.) That faintness stretches the capabilities of Catalina and is beyond what most amateurs can see in their telescopes. (Since then, the object has faded to magnitude 23, making it visible only to the largest professional telescopes.)
In the nights after the discovery, Wierzchos and his collaborators kept following the object to try to determine its orbit. Their calculations showed that, most likely, the object was circling the sun and Earth's gravity snatched it into our planet's orbit sometime in 2017.
How did the minimoon go unnoticed for years? First, the sky is vast, and telescopes have limited time dedicated to searching for asteroids, Wierzchos said. He also cited the minimoon's faintness and highly variable orbit.
2020 CD3 has a "chaotic" orbit, he said, because it is pulled between the gravity of the moon and the gravity of Earth. Its distance to Earth varies between the equivalent of 0.2 and 4.5 Earth-moon distances (The average distance to the moon is roughly 239,000 miles, or 384,000 kilometers.) When Wierzchos last observed the minimoon, on Wednesday (Feb. 26), it was roughly 2.5 lunar distances away, he said.
Because the object's distance to Earth varies, so does its orbital period, or the time it takes the minimoon to circle Earth. Wierzchos said the object's orbital period is difficult to measure precisely, but it seems to be about a month.
Astronomers have observed 2020 CD3 only about six or seven times so far, so they don't have enough information yet to derive a "light curve," which shows the variation in an object's brightness. If they can get that data, Wierzchos said, it may help astronomers determine what kind of asteroid it is (if it is, indeed, an asteroid), how quickly it rotates and how big it is.
Assuming the object is a common type of asteroid called a carbonaceous asteroid, Wierzchos said, the minimoon is probably about the size of a car. Ideally, he hopes other telescopes will be able to observe the object before it drifts away. Telescopes he would like to see participate include Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory (which has radar optimized to get the shape and size of nearby asteroids) or large optical telescopes, such as the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
Wierzchos is scouring past data from the Catalina Sky Survey to see if 2020 CD3 showed up in past imagery and went unnoticed. He hasn't found such observations yet, but he said it's possible that Catalina or other asteroid surveyors, such as the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, have that information in their archives.
Wierzchos hopes Catalina will be able to see 2020 CD3 again before it fades. But astronomers are racing against the gravitational tug-of-war between Earth and our traditional moon. Before long, they know, the minimoon will drift out of sight, bound for new adventures.
'Kevin Costner, eat your heart out – you may want to start planning the prequel,' said the research team.
'Early Earth, home to some of our planet's first lifeforms, may have been a real-life "waterworld" – without a continent in sight.
'It may even have looked a bit like the post-apocalyptic, and land-free, future imagined in Costner's infamous film Waterworld.'
In the film, humanity struggles to survive after the ice caps melt and inundate the planet with water.
But, unlike in the movie, there were no fish – only tiny aquatic organisms called cyanobacteria.
A vista of the Panorama district looking down from the top of the ancient ocean crust to its base
The discovery, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience, is based on an analysis of rocks from Northwestern Australia's outback.
They date back to a period known geologically as the 'Paleoarchean' – spanning a period 3,600 million to 3,200 million years ago – when life consisted of nothing more complex than bacteria.
'The history of life on Earth tracks available niches,' said co-author Professor Boswell Wing, of the University of Colorado Boulder.
'If you've got a waterworld, a world covered by ocean, then dry niches are just not going to be available.'
It was identified from the chemical signatures of an ocean in a chunk of crust that's been turned on its side in the Panorama desert in the Aussie outback.
It is possible to walk across what used to be the hard, outer shell of the planet in the space of a day.
Benjamin Johnson inspects an outcrop in the Panorama district by what was once an ancient hydrothermal vent
It will take you from the base to spots where water once bubbled up through the seafloor via hydrothermal vents.
The researchers described it as a 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to pick up clues about the ocean water from billions of years ago.
'Today, there are these really scrubby and rolling hills that are cut through by dry river beds,' said lead author Dr Benjamin Johnson, now at at Iowa State University.
'It's a crazy place. There are no samples of really ancient ocean water lying around, but we do have rocks that interacted with that seawater and remembered that interaction.'
He likened it to looking at coffee grounds to gather information about the water that poured through it.
US post-apocalyptic action film Waterworld depicts a future in 2500 where every continent on Earth is now underwater, due to a rise sea levels. This projected future could resemble an early Earth
The researchers analysed data from more than 100 rock samples from across the dry terrain.
They were looking, in particular, for two different flavours, or 'isotopes', of oxygen trapped in stone – Oxygen-18 and the slightly less heavy Oxygen-16.
The ratio may have been a bit off in seawater 3.2 billion years ago – with just a tiny bit more Oxygen-18 than you'd see today.
Professor Wing said these are 'super sensitive' to the presence of continents.
Today's land masses are covered by clay-rich soils that disproportionately take up heavier oxygen isotopes from the water – like mineral vacuums for Oxygen-18, he explained.
Nostoc, a genus of cyanobacteria, under microscopic view. Cyanobacteria would have inhabited the early 'waterworld' of Earth 3.2 billion years ago
There simply weren't any soil-rich continents around to suck the isotopes up, but there could have been tiny spots of land dotted about.
'There's nothing in what we've done that says you can't have teeny, micro-continents sticking out of the oceans,' Professor Wing said.
'We just don't think there were global-scale formation of continental soils like we have today.'
The researchers are now planning to scour other, younger rock formations at sites from Arizona to South Africa to see if they can find when the land masses we know today first roared onto the scene.
'Trying to fill that gap is really important,' said Dr Johnson said.
A new study by researchers at Cambridge University suggests that the giant exoplanet K2-18b – a mini-Neptune – may be more potentially habitable than previously thought.
The red dot in the center represents the red dwarf star K2-18. The curved white lines represents the orbits of planet K2-18b and and another candidate planet, K2-18c. The broad green band is the system’s habitable zone.
Can giant exoplanets such as super-Earths or even mini-Neptunes be habitable? There’s currently a lot of debate about that question, but new findings about one such world suggest that some of them might indeed be able to support life. A research team from the University of Cambridge has announced that K2-18b, a planet a bit more than twice the size of Earth, could have liquid water and habitable conditions, even though it’s been classified as a mini-Neptune.
The peer-reviewed findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on February 27, 2020.
Water vapor had previously been detected in the atmosphere of K2-18b, as announced last September, but because the planet was classified by most scientists as a mini-Neptune, it was regarded to be very unlikely to be habitable. Planets like Neptune have deep hydrogen atmospheres and no real solid surface. Nikku Madhusudhan from Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, who led the research team, said in a statement:
Water vapor has been detected in the atmospheres of a number of exoplanets but, even if the planet is in the habitable zone, that doesn’t necessarily mean there are habitable conditions on the surface. To establish the prospects for habitability, it is important to obtain a unified understanding of the interior and atmospheric conditions on the planet, in particular, whether liquid water can exist beneath the atmosphere.
Artist’s concept of the mini-Neptune exoplanet K2-18b.
Image via mage via ESA/ Hubble, M. Kornmesser/ UCL News.
K2-18b is about 2.6 times the radius and 8.6 times the mass of Earth. It is 124 light-years away, orbiting within the habitable zone – the region where liquid water could exist – of a red dwarf star. There is also a second candidate planet closer to the star, K2-18c, but it has not been confirmed yet.
On mini-Neptunes, a thick hydrogen atmosphere is thought to surround a watery layer that then surrounds a rocky iron core. But under such conditions, the temperatures would be too high, and the water would be under too much pressure, for life to survive. This is similar to why Neptune or Uranus type worlds are uninhabitable, at least by earthly life standards, having deep atmospheres with crushing pressures, no solid rocky surface and no liquid water.
Given K2-18b’s large size, it has been assumed that it is more like a mini-Neptune than a super-Earth, which typically are a bit smaller, but still at least twice as large as Earth.
But that assessment might be changing a bit, if the researchers are right.
They found that K2-18b’s hydrogen atmosphere might not be too thick after all, and the water layer might actually be habitable, perhaps more like oceans on Earth. The researchers used the mass and radius of the planet, as well as previous observations of the atmosphere, to make a better determination of the composition and structure of both the atmosphere and deep interior. Detailed numerical models and statistical methods were used to help explain what conditions are actually like on this distant world.
There has been a lot of debate over whether K2-18b is a super-Earth or mini-Neptune. Most scientists now agree that it is a mini-Neptune.
Image via Patterson Clark/ Washington Post/ Quora.
The computer models showed that a range of conditions are possible in the planet’s interior. Those models used known atmospheric properties as constraints on which conditions are the most plausible. The potential habitability rests on just how extensive the hydrogen atmosphere is. According to study co-author Matthew Nixon at the Institute of Astronomy:
We wanted to know the thickness of the hydrogen envelope, how deep the hydrogen goes. While this is a question with multiple solutions, we’ve shown that you don’t need much hydrogen to explain all the observations together.
So what did the researchers find? According to their results, the maximum extent of the hydrogen atmosphere, or envelope, is only 6% of K2-18b’s mass. Some computer models showed it to be even less. The minimum amount of hydrogen is about one-millionth by mass, which is similar to that of Earth’s atmosphere. Under those conditions, the atmosphere would be more like that of a super-Earth, rather than a mini-Neptune.
Moreover, a number of the calculated models would allow for a world with a true ocean, not just a layer of water that is under extreme, unearthly pressure and temperature. In this scenario, the temperature and pressure would actually be similar to those in Earth’s oceans.
There’s another intriguing twist to this, as well. While the researchers did confirm the atmosphere to be composed mostly of hydrogen, with quite a bit of water vapor, as already known, they also found something puzzling. The levels of methane (CH4) and ammonia (NH3) were less than expected. According to the paper, this is evidence of chemical disequilibrium – or non-equilibrium thermodynamics – in the atmosphere, and, maybe, could even point to biological activity as a cause:
Furthermore, our constraints on CH4 and NH3 suggest chemical disequilibrium. Among other possibilities for chemical disequilibrium, e.g., photochemistry, the potential influence of biochemical processes may not be entirely ruled out. Future observations, e.g., with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will have the potential to refine our findings. We argue that planets such as K2-18b can indeed have the potential to approach habitable conditions and searches for biosignatures should not necessarily be restricted to smaller rocky planets.
On Earth, disequilibrium in the atmosphere – larger than normal amounts of oxygen and small amounts of methane – is caused by biological processes, and is a biosignature. For K2-18b however, it should be emphasized that this is just one of several possibilities, given that the planet is still much different from Earth in significant ways. As the paper stated, one other possibility is photochemistry; in this case, the chemical reactions in a planetary atmosphere caused by light or radiation from its star.
If these findings turn out to be accurate, that would greatly increase the number of potentially habitable planets out there, since worlds of this size are rather common.
Nikku Madhusudhan at Cambridge University, who led the new study.
This new paper is sure to cause some intense debate, much like last September when the water vapor detection was first reported, and most media outlets described K2-18b as a habitable super-Earth, which was misleading and premature.
Upcoming new space telescopes such as JWST and others will be able to analyze the atmospheres of planets like K2-18b and search for possible biosignatures, chemical signatures of life. That will help to determine whether any exoplanets like this, including super-Earths, could actually be habitable.
Bottom line: A new study suggests that the giant exoplanet K2-18b may be more potentially habitable than previously thought.
Some 10 billion years ago, the primitive Milky Way scarfed down a galaxy one-quarter of its own size, according to a new study.
The cannibalized galaxy, known as Gaia-Enceladus, helped to create the Milky Way (our home galaxy) and its digested remains contain clues about the origins and evolution of our cosmic surroundings.
Astronomers frequently observe mergers between distant galaxies, but it’s trickier to reconstruct the interactions that defined the modern Milky Way in part because we lack an outside perspective of our own galaxy. The Gaia spacecraft, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2013, has helped fill in some of these gaps by building the most precise star map ever produced.
The Gaia mission has made it easier to distinguish between stars that originated in the Milky Way, and those that were introduced by Gaia-Enceladus, which is named after the ESA mission. (It is also popularly known as the “Gaia Sausage” because of the sausage-shaped orbit some of its remnants follow around the galaxy’s core.)
Scientists led by Carme Gallart, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Spain, found that some stars observed by Gaia are lower in metal content than others. Smaller galaxies are typically not as enriched with metals as larger ones, which suggests that the metal-poor stars may have originated in the Gaia-Enceladus galaxy.
The Milky Way dates back at least 13 billion years, almost to the beginnings of the known universe. Back in those early days, the galaxy was smaller and had a different structure, so Gallart and her colleagues refer to this version as the “Milky Way progenitor,” or the “primitive Milky Way,” which was distinct from its modern incarnation.
The team’s simulations predicted that once the merger occurred, many of this progenitor’s stars—which were relatively metal-rich—became heated by the influx of new galactic material. Some of the stars were thrown from the galaxy’s disk into the halo, which is a spherical structure that surrounds the entire galaxy.
Gaia’s observations confirm that these metal-rich stars are strewn through the halo, and that they had an upper age limit of about 10 billion years, suggesting that this was when the merger took place.
“A primitive Milky Way had been forming stars over a period of some [three billion years] when a smaller galaxy, which had been forming stars on a similar timescale but was less chemically enriched owing to its lower mass, was accreted into it,” Gallart’s team said in the study.
“Our age determination reveals that the stars heated to halo-like kinematics were among the first formed in the Milky Way,” they added, “just before the merger with Gaia-Enceladus took place.”
It took another two-to-four billion years for the Milky Way to absorb the smaller galaxy, the team said, and the fallout of this collision continues to spur star formation to this day.
The modern version of the galaxy we live in contains multitudes, much of which has been consumed from outside the borders of its earliest form.
Something mysterious is tugging at the hem of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is causing a “galactic warp” at its outer edges, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Astronomy.
The Milky Way contains an estimated 250 billion stars, which cluster in spiral arms that swirl around a central supermassive black hole. But astronomers have caught glimpses of a different dynamic occurring out in the far reaches of the Milky Way, where the galactic disk appears to become flared, wobbly, or otherwise distorted by a variety of potential phenomena.
To figure out what might be causing the Milky Way’s outer warping, a team led by Eloisa Poggio, an astrophysicist at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics in Turin, measured the motions of 12 million giant stars observed by the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope.
“Our Milky Way presents a unique case study for galactic warps, thanks to detailed knowledge of its stellar distribution and kinematics,” Poggio’s team said in the study. “However, the cause and dynamic nature of the warp of our Galaxy have remained unclear due to a lack of kinematic constraints.”
In other words, scientists only began to model the Milky Way’s outer warping in detail within the past few years, due to advances in observational techniques. In 2019, for instance, a team created a captivating 3D map of the galactic warp based on measurements of 2,300 Cepheids variables, which are a special type of ultra-radiant stars (their results were published in Science )
Poggio and her colleagues have now built on these models thanks to the second major data dump from the Gaia satellite, which was released in 2018. Gaia has been constructing the most comprehensive catalog of the observable universe ever made since it was launched in 2013.
The sheer volume of observations enabled Poggio and her colleagues to measure the motions of millions of giant stars to trace out the kinematic signature of the galaxy’s warp. “We measured the speed of the warp by comparing the data with our models,” Poggio said in an ESA statement.
“Based on the obtained velocity, the warp would complete one rotation around the centre of the Milky Way in 600 to 700 million years,” she added. “That’s much faster than what we expected based on predictions from other models.”
While other teams have also used Gaia’s 2018 data to probe our galaxy’s edges, the new study aims to constrain “the possible mechanisms responsible for the warp of the Milky Way,” the team said. Suggested explanations for the warp have included longstanding torques emerging from mismatched axial motions of the disk and the galactic halo, or perhaps tidal forces from satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, which could gravitationally yank at the disk.
By modeling the motions of giant Gaia stars over time, Poggio’s team showed that the pull of a satellite galaxy is the most likely cause of the warp.
“The direction and magnitude of the warp’s precession rate favor the scenario that the warp is the result of a recent or ongoing encounter with a satellite galaxy, rather than the relic of the ancient assembly history of the galaxy,” the study says.
This finding might corroborate other recent studies that reconstruct the Milky Way’s turbulent past with nearby galaxies, which can skim material from the galaxies edges or cause disturbances by colliding with it.
It will take more observations and research to confirm that the warp is mostly caused by satellite galaxies. “Nevertheless,” the team said, “our results suggest that external forces from interacting satellite galaxies are playing an important and ongoing role in shaping the outer disk of the Milky Way.”
Skinwalker Ranch & Cattle Mutilations, it's Scarier Than You Think, Christopher O'Brien
Christopher O’Brien investigated over one thousand paranormal events reported in the San Luis Valley—located in south-central Colorado/north-central New Mexico. Working with law enforcement officials, ex-military, ranchers and an extensive network of skywatchers, he documented what may have been the most intense wave of unexplained activity ever seen in a single region of North America. His ten-year investigation resulted in the three books of his “mysterious valley” trilogy: The Mysterious Valley, Enter the Valley, and Secrets of the Mysterious Valley.
His meticulous field investigation of UFO reports, unexplained livestock deaths, haunted sites, Native American legends, cryptozoology, secret military activity and the folklore, found in the world’s largest alpine valley, has produced one of the largest databases of unusual occurrences gathered from a single geographic region. He is currently working with a team of specialists installing a high-tech video surveillance and hard-data monitoring system in and around the San Luis Valley. His latest book, Stalking the Herd, is being called the most important book ever written examining our relationship with cattle and how this has manifested into the modern “cattle mutilation” mystery.
Secrets of Ancient Cosmology, the Mysteries of the Dogon Tribe of Mali
COAST TO COAST AM – Laird Scranton is the author of a series of books and other writings on ancient cosmology and language. He shared compelling perspectives on how our universe and the dimensions of time and space are believed to emerge from a non-material place, and how seemingly scientific archaic concepts formed an enduring foundation for ancient and modern religion.
The Dogon, a priestly tribe from Mali, Africa, has a culture that combines elements from at least three different ancient traditions– rituals of Judaism, practices of ancient Egypt, and a symbolic cosmology that is a close match for Buddhism, he detailed. One of the intriguing things about the Dogon is that though they were non-technological, they knew about the binary Sirius star system, which would seemingly be impossible to individuate the second star without a telescope.
Sphere UFO During Sunset Over Porterville, CA Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 1, 2020
Location of sighting: Porterville, California, USA
Here are two amazing videos of a black sphere UFO hovering over some homes in Porterville, CA a few weeks ago. The person recorded a sphere from 22 minutes away. Later he walked towards that area and realized it was hovering over some neighborhood homes, but no string, rope or advertising was noticeable. I made a screenshot (below) and enlarged it so that we could see its detail. The objects surface is not smooth, but sun like with ripples and waves to it. It reminds me of the UFO seen over Holy of holys, Dome of Rock Temple in Jerusalem. I will put that video below for you to compare shapes. It looks like this UFO is deeply interested in someone in one of those houses...they must be very important in some way for aliens to take notice.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
22 minutes after the first video I walked closer to the suburbs to see if I could get a closer video of whatever it was. The object floated over the homes of my neighbors and moved a few times but stayed floating over a few houses. I thought it was a weather balloon at first but no strings were visible and it didn't move with the wind, as a balloon on a string would. Also, why would a weather balloon or advertisement float over suburban homes? I have no idea what it is.
Compare with shape of UFO seen over Jerusalem in 2011 by thousands of tourists.
Ancient Alien Face Seen From Space Station Camera! March 1, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 1, 2020 Location of sighting: Earths orbit, from ISS Source:NASA Live cams I was watching the live NASA cams again, but instead of a UFO, I noticed two giant faces on the far left of the screen. The first fat look human like, the second looks bird like. They look like they were made by Van Gogh using powerful swirls of clouds to form them. NASA is using the infrared filter over the camera, making it purple in color. Infrared is known for cutting out reflections and revealing any cloaked objects in the area. That first face...just amazing guys. I believe it was made by an alien whose thoughts were so powerful that his telepathy accidentally created the form he was thinking about. Clouds and smoke is the most easy to move for telepathic people so this does make sense. And since many alien species out there are highly evolved, they will use pictures in their head...not word to communicate with others. Telepathic communication is the transmitting of pictures more...and not words. Just something amazing I wanted to share with you. Watch the video for more detail and to see the other bird face behind the first face. Scott C. Waring
"To record, watch and research how humanity copes and tries to deal with Coronavirus. Aliens may know than we do about its capabilities. They may be here not just to witness humanity fight the virus, but to see if we can avoid a possible ELE (extinction level event)."
See first video of the huge amount of UFOs captured on February 27, 2020 HERE. Below the second video recorded on March 1, 2020.
If you’re still watching the stars, these are the alien docs to watch. We’ll be looking at the most popular and provocative alien documentaries ever made. We’re not saying it’s aliens but . . . you should check these out. Youtube’s WatchMojo ranks the best alien docs to watch. What do you think is the best alien doc? Let us know in the comments!
UFO's in ons land: waarheid of verzinsel? Het laat de gemoederen alvast niet ongeroerd. Wellicht vindt u het maar nonsens, of twijfelt u toch? Onze mysteriereporter Carl Bries zet de feiten op een rijtje. Aan u om te oordelen...
De feiten
Van 29 november 1989 tot begin 1991 was ons land in de ban van een zeer mysterieus fenomeen. Hoog in de lucht boven voornamelijk Wallonië werden toen vreemde objecten waargenomen. Tientallen tot later duizenden mensen bevestigden wat ze hadden gezien en ook officiële instanties konden er niet omheen.
De gebeurtenissen lokten zelfs de Britten en de Amerikanen naar informatie. Wat was er destijds precies waar van wat bekend staat als ‘de Belgische UFO-golf’?Eerste waarneming
De eerste keer dat men vreemde vliegende objecten boven ons land waarnam, was op 29 november 1989. Toen zagen twee rijkswachters in de Oostkantons een vreemd vliegend object zich traag door de lucht voortbewegen. Het toestel had een driehoekige vorm en felle lichten. In het midden scheen een oranjerood licht. Het bleef enkele minuten lang boven een weide zweven en vloog dan traag verder.
Vreemd, dachten de twee rijkswachters. En zij waren niet alleen. Nog tientallen anderen zouden die dag en de dagen nadien het object hebben zien rondzweven boven Eupen en het stuwmeer van Gilleppe. Later zouden nog meer getuigen opduiken die beweerden de lichten en het voertuig te hebben zien rondzweven. Vooral in Wallonië zouden ze opduiken in het luchtruim.
Onderzoek door leger
De vele getuigenissen wekten de interesse van het Belgisch leger. Die stelde een onderzoek in. Dat werd geleid door generaal-majoor Wilfried de Brouwer van de luchtmacht. Ook hij moest uiteindelijk toegeven dat er iets aan de hand was. Hij had namelijk zelf gezien dat er vreemde objecten in de lucht hingen, in zijn geval was dat boven Waver. Die waarnemingen werden overigens gestaafd door de radargegevens. Ook daarop waren de objecten te zien.
De Brouwer getuigde van het vreemde gedrag van de objecten die zonder enig geluid konden rondvliegen. Ook konden ze zeer traag rondzweven om er daarna pijlsnel vandoor te gaan. Zoiets had hij in zijn hele leven nog nooit gezien.
Hoogtepunt
Het hoogtepunt moest tegen dan echter nog komen. In de nacht van 30 op 31 maart 1990, zo’n half jaar na de eerste waarnemingen, waren er maar liefst zo’n 13.500 mensen die beweerden iets te hebben gezien.
Het begon rond 23 uur toen de toezichthouder van het controlecentrum (CRC) in het Waalse Glaaien meldingen ontving van ongewone lichten ten zuidoosten van Brussel. Deze lichten waren volgens getuigen helderder dan sterren en wisselden af tussen rood, geel en groen. Ze vormden een perfecte driehoek. De toezichthouder vroeg aan de gendarmerie van Waver om poolshoogte te gaan nemen.
Toen de gendarmes bevestigden wat de mensen hadden gemeld en er een tweede partij lichtjes werd waargenomen, vond het CRC het welletjes. Zij stuurden enkele F-16 jachtvliegtuigen de lucht in om zo beter zicht te krijgen op de vreemde fenomenen.
Ondertussen meldden getuigen dat nog een derde reeks lichtjes zich traag voortbewogen richting de provincie Namen. Het ging dit keer over gedimde lichtjes die zich even grillig gedroegen als de tweede partij lichtjes die eerder werden waargenomen.
De piloten van de F-16’s kregen helaas geen grip op de fenomenen. Een drietal lichtjes werden waargenomen op radar, maar die bewogen zich plotseling razendsnel vooruit zodat zelfs de jets niet konden volgen.
De eerste keer dat de radar de lichtjes vastlegde, haalden ze een snelheid van rond de 240 km/u. Maar meteen daarop schoten ze weg tegen 1770 km/u! Ook hun positie veranderde voortdurend: van 2700 meter tot 1500 meter en dan daarop stegen ze weer tot 3350 meter om wederom te dalen tot bijna het grondniveau. Die eerste afdaling bereikten ze overigens in amper twee seconden. Fenomenaal. De volgende keren dat ze op radar werden vastgelegd, haalden de lichtjes dezelfde indrukwekkende toeren uit. Terwijl ze duidelijk de geluidsbarrière doorbraken, hoorde men de hele tijd niks.
De laatste getuigenis kwam van de gendarmes van Waver die eerder die nacht waren uitgerukt om verslag te brengen. Zij zagen de lichtjes een vierkant patroon aannemen alvorens ze rond 1.30 uur alle vier een verschillende richting uitschoten en definitief verdwenen.
Foto’s en filmpjes
Er kwamen nadien heel wat mensen af die foto’s en filmpjes hadden genomen van de lichten, maar geen van allen bleken duidelijk genoeg te zijn. Er werd zelfs een professor natuurkunde bijgehaald om alles te bekijken, maar ook hij kon geen conclusies trekken. Het enige wat hij kon zeggen, was dat de wazigheid te wijten was aan infrarood licht.
Toch was er één goede foto die door iemand werd genomen in Petit-Rechain. Daarop was heel duidelijk een ufo te zien. Men kon niet anders concluderen dan dat het om een onbekend object ging.
Buitenlandse interesse & mogelijke verklaringen
Door alle heisa raakte de hele zaak ter ore bij de Britten en de Amerikanen. Die wilden uiteraard meer weten. De Belgische overheid vertelde dat er inderdaad ongewone objecten in het Belgisch luchtruim waren geweest en dat er mogelijk sprake was van ufo’s.
Ondertussen kwamen er allerlei mogelijke verklaringen naar voren. De Hongaar Michael Kuzmek, een uitvinder die op dat moment in Brussel woonde, zei dat hij verantwoordelijk was. Hij was toen aan het experimenteren met zelfgemaakte heliumballonnen waar hij driehoekige platformen aan het vastgehangen. Later trok hij die verklaring weer in.
Anderen dachten dan weer dat het ging om een geheim experiment van de Amerikanen. Die zouden ons luchtruim hebben uitgekozen om net als in bijvoorbeeld Roswell met nog verzwegen projecten zich bezig te houden.
Dan was er nog een groep die een veel directere verklaring had: ons land werd in die periode bezocht door buitenaardsen. Waarom ze het hier kwamen verkennen, werd door deze groep niet uitgelegd.
Vervalsing
Zullen we ooit de waarheid kennen over wat er in die periode in ons luchtruim zich bevond? Waren het echt buitenaardsen die ons land een bezoekje brachten? Of ging het om een geheim project van één of andere buitenlandse macht zoals de VS?
Eén ding is intussen wel zeker: de foto die een hype werd was een vervalsing. De man uit Petit-Rechain verklaarde in 2011 dat hij een grap had uitgehaald met iedereen. Het was namelijk geen ufo, maar een model uit piepschuim dat hij met lampen had versierd en zo een foto van gemaakt.
Carl Bries (1983) is een sociaal werker uit de Kempen met een passie voor mysteries over heel de wereld. Hij neemt in zijn vrije tijd allerhande mysteries, waar (bewust) weinig over gesproken wordt, onder de loep. Het is aan jou om samen met hem deze mysteries te ontrafelen of ze te laten voor wat ze zijn.
The BBC's One Show has recreated an infamous UFO encounter reported in West Lothianmore than 40 years ago.
Forestry worker Robert Taylor claimed he was attacked by strange extra-terrestrial objects in Dechmont Woods on November 9, 1979.
The "Robert Taylor incident" led to that part of West Lothian being known as the "twilight zone."
Robert died in 2007, but the One Show spoke to several people who were involved in the investigation of the unusual incident.
Author Malcolm Robinson even produced the pair of trousers Robert wore on the day, showing rips which he claimed were from the alien attackers.
He told the One Show's Matt Allwright Robert first saw a large dome-shaped object when he was out for a walk with his dog.
Two balls with prongs protruding from them then lowered from the dome and approached him.
Malcolm said: "[The balls] projected these spike towards his person - his hips. Pulled him very, very forcibly, slightly upwards and towards this larger object.
Here's Robert Taylor with a drawing of what he saw
"Bob said at this point he smelled a horrible burning smell.
"Then he heard a swishing sound and then bang, he lost consciousness."
An actor was used to recreate Robert's version of events. The forestry worker had tried to radio for help when he regained consciousness, but found he could not speak.
The One Show also spoke to a former Lothian and Borders police detective Ian Wark, who investigated the case. He said strange marks were found on the ground at the place Robert had pointed out.
The former detective constable said: "I've no doubt something landed there. What it was, I have no idea."
Obviously, many are skeptical of Robert's UFO story.
But it has proved an enduring story and West Lothian Council event marked out the spot on an information board.
Matt concludes by saying: "Something happened in those woods 40 years ago.
China’s moon rover revealed what lies beneath the lunar farside
The farside of the moon is a lunar layer cake. New data from China’s Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover reveal alternating layers of coarse rock and fine soil down to a depth of 40 meters, suggesting a history of violent impacts, scientists report February 26 in Science Advances.
“We know much of the moon’s nearside” from the Soviet Lunokhod and American Apollo programs, but little about the farside, says lunar scientist Yan Su of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. “The Chang’e-4 mission revealed the first ‘ground-truth’ detailed subsurface stratigraphy … on the farside of the moon.”
Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 became the first spacecraft to land on the farside in January 2019, touching down inside the 186-kilometer-wide Von Kármán crater (SN: 1/3/19). As Yutu-2 explored the crater, which lies within the 2,500-kilometer-wide South Pole–Aitken basin, the rover sent radar pulses into the ground to probe the material beneath its wheels.
Lunar scientist Chunlai Li, also of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and colleagues analyzed the 106-meter path that the rover took in its first two lunar days (about two Earth months) of collecting data. The team discovered a layer about 12 meters thick of fine soil, or regolith, closest to the surface.
“It’s like being on very clean sand,” says study coauthor Elena Pettinelli of Roma Tre University in Italy. “It’s like you’re on the beach.”
Below that fine soil, the rover found another layer of about 12 meters containing coarser material embedded with larger rocks, like cherries in a fruitcake. And lower still was a series of alternating coarse and fine materials, spanning depths of about 24 meters down to roughly 40 meters — the limit of the rover’s radar.
The Yutu-2 rover is using radar to probe the lunar subsurface (illustrated; the rover’s path from January to March 2019 shown in white double lines). So far, the rover has found three different subsurface layers: fine soil down to about 12 meters, coarser rock with boulders embedded in it up to about 12 meters below that, and sublayers of coarse and fine materials down to about 40 meters. What’s below that is a mystery, for now.C. Li et al/Science Advances 2020
Those layers were probably created by material ejected by successive impacts, the researchers say. The floor of Von Kármán crater is a smooth sheet of cooled lava from long-ago volcanic activity. But that lava has been pummeled repeatedly and covered up by material, called ejecta, that is scattered when objects like meteorites slam into the lunar surface and leave craters behind.
“That’s a really violent process,” says lunar geologist Daniel Moriarty of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who was not involved in the study. Some of the ejecta could have come from as deep as the moon’s mantle (SN: 5/15/19).
The top layer of smooth sand is probably the result of the surface being pulverized by micrometeorites and cracked by extreme temperature shifts over time.
Chang’e-4’s view of the moon’s subsurface is different from its predecessors’. Chang’e-3 and its Yutu rover landed in Mare Imbrium on the nearside of the moon in 2013, and that rover’s radar was blocked by dense volcanic rock at a depth of just 10 meters or so (SN: 12/16/13). That’s probably because the nearside’s volcanic floodplains are closer to the surface than those on the farside.
“The subsurface structure at Chang’e-4’s landing site is more complex … and suggests a totally different geological context,” Su says. In fact, the lava basement of the Von Kármán crater may be too deep for Yutu-2 to sense at all, the researchers speculate.
Future work could help figure out why the moon’s nearside is awash in smooth plains of volcanic rock called mare, while the farside is more rugged and cratered.
“One of the biggest driving questions in lunar science for a while has been, why does the nearside look so different from the farside?” Moriarty says. “If people can use what they found to unravel some of the volcanic history of the farside, that would be helpful.”
In 1908, a sudden explosion flattened 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forest, destroying 80 million trees. One hundred and twelve years later the exact cause remains a mystery. The Tunguska event is one of the most speculated-about anomalous events of all-time and, while scientists firmly believe that a meteor exploding some 5 to 10 kilometers above the Earth’s surface is to blame, they don’t have any direct evidence. This has led to the usual sort of wild and baseless (although extremely fun) speculation involving everything from aliens to secret weapons tests.
Scientists from four major Russian scientific institutes—the Novosibirsk Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Tunguska Nature Reserve, and Krasnoyarsk Biophysics Institute—are now hoping to solve the Tunguska mystery once and for all. Dr. Arthur Meidus, deputy director of the Tunguska Nature Reserve, says:
“The mystery of the Tunguska Catastrophe worries both the scientists and the public. The meteorite is not here as a physical body, but the traces of the extremely powerful explosion are, which is what is currently studied by researchers. Many of us still hope to unravel the scenario of 1908 disaster.”
The general consensus is that a meteor caused the Tunguska explosion, but scientists have yet to find hard evidence.
To do this, the scientists are looking at the bottom of a lake. The sediments at the bottom of Lake Zapovednoye, approximately 40km away from the assumed epicenter of the blast, may contain evidence of a meteor explosion—if, in fact, one occurred. Dr. Meidus says:
“Although this lake is outside the territory that was affected in 1908, it is of great interest. It is deep, and silty sediments that have accumulated here, do not mix, or subside.
Spring-autumn waste waters and the Lakura River brought traces of the Tunguska catastrophe to this lake, because the event was accompanied by massive wildfires and emissions of both planet and space origin.”
Trees leveled by the Tunguska explosion.
Using fun science words like X-ray fluorescence and synchrotron radiation, the scientists hope to be able to detect particles of extraterrestrial origin in the layers of sediment that date to the Tunguska event. Dr. Meidus says they have already been able to determine which layers come from the year of the blast. They are looking specifically at the layers from 1908 through 1910, as meteor particles may have washed into the lake in the two years following the explosion. Dr. Meidus says:
“We discovered a distinguishing light-coloured layer in sediments of Lake Zapovednoye the content of which – an increased content of potassium, titanium, rubidium, yttrium, and zirconium – allows to tie it to the consequences of the Tunguska bolide explosion. This way we know which layer of sediments might contain particles of extraterrestrial origin.
‘The next stage implies search for micro-particles with unusual composition with the use of synchrotron radiation. Now we know where to look for them.
‘If there is extraterrestrial substance, it will be in the 1908-1910 layer.”
It will be interesting to see if they find what they’re looking for. If they do discover particles from some extraterrestrial object in the lake, it would put a damper on all the fun speculation. But they haven’t found it yet and mysteries like the Tunguska event seem to enjoy remaining mysteries.
On February 28, 1959, a Private First Class Gerry Irwin was on his way back to his duties as Nike missile technician at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, after having just enjoyed a one-month leave in Nampa, Idaho. On this evening he was passing through a portion of southern Utah, near Cedar City, Utah, when there was a bright flash in the sky and he could make out a brilliant white light traveling across the night sky. It was apparently so bright that it lit up the desolate landscape around him, and Irwin actually stopped his car and got out to track its progress across the star-filled sky until it disappeared behind a ridge. At this point he was sure it had to be an aircraft going down, and it had been so alarmingly low that he was convinced he had witnessed a plane crash. He got in his car and scrawled out a note reading “Have gone to investigate possible plane crash, please call law enforcement officers,” which he left on his steering wheel, and he then wrote “STOP” across the side of his car with shoe polish before venturing out over the scrub-filled area towards that ridge and the unknown. And so would begin one of the earliest and weirdest alien abduction cases on record.
Thirty minutes passed before any other car came along on this remote stretch of road, and it happened to be a fish and game inspector, who found the note and quickly informed the Cedar City Sheriff’s Office. When authorities arrived that carried out a search of the area, and while there was no trace of a crashed plane they did find an unconscious Irwin sprawled out of the ground. He was totally unresponsive, unable to be revived, and was rushed to the nearest hospital, where it was found that there seemed to be nothing physically wrong with him other than the fact that nothing could seem to raise him from his stupor, remaining completely unable to be woken up.
Concerned medical staff did what they could and allowed the man to sleep, during which time we was allegedly heard by nurses to talk in his sleep and mumble what sounded like “jacket on bush.” The next morning he came to, and the first thing he wanted to know was if there were any survivors of the airplane crash. Doctors informed Irwin that there had been no plane crash, which seemed to surprise the young man, and he also seemed to really want to know where his jacket was, which he had not been wearing when he was brought in and had not been found by the search party. Although he was physically uninjured, Irwin claimed to remember absolutely nothing from the time he had left his car, and could not in any way explain how he had come to be passed out in the wilderness. He would be kept for a few days for observation, after which he was told that he was suffering hysteria of some sort and sent on his way. This would be just beginning of the strangeness.
In the days after his release, Irwin experienced several episodes in which he would just faint and fall to the ground. The first incident of this was as he was on duty on base, which he snapped out of quickly, and then it happened again as he was walking down a street in El Paso, this time putting him in the same deep state of sleep as before. This caused him to be brought in for another round of medical check-ups and psychiatric evaluations. Interestingly, after this second fainting he seems to have been reset somehow, waking up to ask about any survivors of the plane crash and thinking it was still February 28, as well as not recognizing the same medical staff who had tended to him before or remembering the past two weeks, and this was enough to have him kept for observation for a full month, during which time his memory of the preceding two weeks came trickling back to him. He would eventually be released again with a bill of good health.
Although he seemed normal, his thoughts were constantly invaded by the urge to return to the site where he had originally left his car in this strange odyssey, and so one day he was overcome by such a compulsion and left the base to go out to that lonely road to have a look around, apparently finding his jacket perched upon a bush untouched. Oddly there was a pencil with a noted wrapped around it jammed into one of the button holes, but he never did read it, instead overcome with the urge to burn the note instead. He then apparently snapped out of his daze and realized that he had not left the base in a legal fashion, and was basically AWOL.
He did the right thing, turning himself in, and was subsequently extensively questioned, strangely with large holes in his memory still missing and unable to explain what had possessed him to do what he had done. He was not jailed or disciplined severely, but it was enough to get his security clearance revoked and to be reassigned. Things take a turn for the odder when not long after this he one day just failed to report for duty, and indeed no one had heard from him. Nothing was found missing at his residence and he seemed to have just stepped off the face of the earth. A month later Irwin was still nowhere to be seen, and the lore goes that indeed he has not been seen since. The case would go on to become highly investigated by UFO researchers, and speculation swirled as to what actually happened to him. The main idea was that he was abducted by aliens and then slowly lost his mind, perhaps even be abducted one final time, this time for good. Other ideas included that he was part of some sort of government mind control program or that he simply wandered out into the wilderness to die.
Yet things got really interesting when researcher David Booher investigated the case for his book No Return – the Gerry Irwin story – UFO Abduction or Covert Operation? which has all sorts of interesting information contained within its pages and is one of the most comprehensive write-ups on the case there is. Booher apparently was able to actually track the “vanished” Irwin down, only to find that the man did not seem to remember much of anything of what had happened in 1959, but he was able to manage to shed some light on it all. He claimed that he did disappear for while to live out in the woods, but that he had finally been tracked down and disciplined, after which he was reassigned and sent to Germany, never at any point actually being discharged from the military. He also said that he was long beset by strange blackouts and behavioral issues, and that he had been involved in some top-secret assignment in Austria, although details remain vague. It is interesting to see that while in a lot of literature Gerry Irwin is reported as having vanished into thin air to never be seen again, he was very much alive and not vanished when Booher found him. What significance does this have on the whole strange case as a whole?
In the end it is all very perplexing. We have this military man who was suddenly found unconscious in the wilds after seeing a UFO, the missing time and lost memory, the sudden urge to just go AWOL, the disappearance that never seems to have been properly followed up on, the sending away of Irwin to Germany, almost as if to get him out of the way, and the strange blackouts and disrupted behavior. Is this someone who just lost his mind, an alien abduction, a strange government experiment, or what? Whatever the answers may be, the Gerry Irwin case has managed to gain a reputation as being one of the very first publicized “alien abduction” accounts, and has remained much talked about to this day.
NASA...Earth Has New Moon, I Say Its A Alien Probe Watching Humanity With Coronavirus. UFO Sighting News.
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Scientists are announcing a mini moon now in earths orbit. The objects was noticed on Feb 15th. The object is said to have come from deep space, and settled into an orbit around earth. Well, I call that perfect timing. It came just in time to witness humanity fight the coronavirus. Coincidence...I think not. The object is said to be only 1.9-3.5 meters across but the accuracy of this is in question. I personally have seen many NEO (near earth objects) on the nasa site and they say the size...lets say 10 meters and when it comes closest to earth then leaves...the size is announced to be something closer to 25-35 meters. So we know this object in space is not 3.5 meters, but more likely closer to 10 meters across or more! NASA always downplays the size of objects out there. Whey now? Why did a UFO go into orbit around earth now? To record, watch and research how humanity copes and tries to deal with Coronavirus. Aliens may know than we do about its capabilities. They may be here not just to witness humanity fight the virus, but to see if we can avoid a possible ELE (extinction level event). You see, we don't really know the truth about the virus, its death rates are incredibly higher than the low estimate the US gov is give us. Its also possible that at the peak of the virus...when 20% of the worlds population has it...it could mutate, making itself immune to medicines that are being tested to work against it. Each virus creates a 1% mutation on each patient...if it finds a way to carry this mutation to the next person...then it could be a 100% death sentence. No one knows what will happen at its peak, everyone has been wrong so far...so, we need to consider other possibilities. An ELE is one of those we ethically need to consider. Scott Waring - Taiwan
The unusual earth orbit circling above our ancient past
When does our future meet our past? How does our scientific knowledge grow and change? A newly recognized type of Earth orbit can travel directly above a great circle formed by some of the oldest and most distinctive ancient human constructions on the surface of the Earth: the Giza pyramids, Machu Picchu, Easter Island, Angkor Wat, Mohenjo-Daro, and many others.
But is there any connection to all this? What do we need to learn - scientifically - to gain a greater understanding of the links between these sites, and the great changes that happened on our planet 12,800 years ago.
Fascinated by the mysteries of our ancient human past, and the many unanswered questions. Our scientific toolkit lets us push back the unknown to gain a clearer understanding of where we came from, who we are, and in turn - where we might be going.
Follow the adventures of a science writer and skeptic as he explores extraordinary coincidences, connections, and the evidence linking our modern world to our mysterious past.
The Roswell Flying Saucer Crash Incident and Government UFO Cover Up
On July 8, 1947 the Roswell Daily Record newspaper published a front page article with the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region”, and the legend of America’s most famous brush with aliens was born. On the summer of 1947, a rancher discovered unidentifiable debris in his sheep pasture outside Roswell, New Mexico. Although officials from the local Air Force base asserted that it was a crashed weather balloon, many people believed it was the remains of an extraterrestrial flying saucer; a series of secret “dummy drops” in New Mexico during the 1950s heightened their suspicions. Nearly 50 years after the story of the mysterious debris broke, the U.S. military issued a report linking the incident to a top-secret atomic espionage project called Project Mogul. Still, many people continue to embrace the UFO theory, and hundreds of curiosity seekers visit Roswell and the crash site every year.
Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have captured the public's attention over the decades. As exoplanet detection is on the rise, why not consider that star-hopping visitors from afar might be buzzing through our friendly skies by taking an interstellar off-ramp to Earth?
On the other hand, could those piloting UFOs be us — our future progeny that have mastered the landscape of time and space? Perhaps those reports of people coming into contact with strange beings represent our distant human descendants, returning from the future to study us in their own evolutionary past.
The book was written by Michael Masters, a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological University in Butte. Masters thinks that – given the accelerating pace of change in science, technology, and engineering – it is likely that humans of the distant future could develop the knowledge and machinery necessary to return to the past.
The objective of the book, Masters said, is to spur a new and more informed discussion among believers and skeptics alike.
"I took a multidisciplinary approach in order to try and understand the oddities of this phenomenon," Masters told Space.com. "Our job as scientists is to be asking big questions and try to find answers to unknown questions. There's something going on here, and we should be having a conversation about this. We should be at the forefront of trying to find out what it is."
Human evolution
Dubbing these purported visitors "extratempestrials," Masters notes that close-encounter accounts typically describe UFO tenants as bipedal, hairless, human-like beings with large brains, large eyes, small noses and small mouths. Further, the creatures are often said to have the ability to communicate with us in our own languages and possess technology advanced beyond, but clearly built upon, today's technological prowess.
Masters believes that through a comprehensive analysis of consistent patterns of long-term biocultural change throughout human evolution — as well as recent advances in our understanding of time and time travel — we may begin to consider this future possibility in the context of a currently unexplained phenomenon.
"The book ties together those known aspects of our evolutionary history with what is still an unproven, unverified aspect of UFOs and aliens," he said.
But why not argue that ET is actually a traveler from across the vastness of space, from a distant planet? Wouldn't that be a simpler answer?
"I would argue it's the opposite," Masters responded. "We know we're here. We know humans exist. We know that we've had a long evolutionary history on this planet. And we know our technology is going to be more advanced in the future. I think the simplest explanation, innately, is that it is us. I'm just trying to offer what is likely the most parsimonious explanation."
Artist's view of an aerial encounter with an unidentified flying object. (Image credit: MUFON)
Archaeological tourism
As an anthropologist who has worked on and directed numerous archaeological digs in Africa, France and throughout the United States, Masters observes that it is easy to conceptualize just how much more could be learned about our own evolutionary history if we currently possessed the technology to visit past periods of time.
"The alleged abduction accounts are mostly scientific in nature. It's probably future anthropologists, historians, linguists that are coming back to get information in a way that we currently can't without access to that technology," Masters said.
"That said, I do think that some component of it is also tourism," he added. "Undoubtedly in the future, there are those that will pay a lot of money to have the opportunity to go back and observe their favorite period in history. Some of the most popular tourist sites are the pyramids of Giza and Machu Picchu in Peru … old and prehistoric sites."
Masters calls his UFO research "an evolving project."
"There's certainly still missing pieces of the puzzle," he said. "There are aspects of time that we don't yet understand. Wanted is a theory of quantum gravity, and we can meld general relativity and quantum mechanics. I'm just trying to put forth the best model I can based on current scientific knowledge. Hopefully, over time, we can continue to build on this."
Solve this mystery
"Masters postulates that using a multidisciplinary scientific approach to the UFO phenomenon will be what it takes to solve this mystery once and for all, and I couldn't agree more," said Jan Harzan, executive director of the nonprofit Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
"The premise that UFOs are us from the future is one of many possibilities that MUFON is exploring to explain the UFO phenomenon. All we know for sure is that we are not alone," Harzan added. "Now the question becomes, 'Who are they?' And Masters makes a great case for the time-traveler hypothesis."
Tic-Tac-shaped objects were recently reported zipping through the sky by jet-fighter pilots and radar operators. The Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was created to research and investigate Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), including numerous videos of reported encounters, three of which were released to the public in 2017. (Image credit: U.S. Department of Defense/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science)
'Highly dubious claim'
But not everybody is on board with the idea, as you might imagine.
"There is nothing in this book to take seriously, as it depends on the belief that 'time travel' is not only possible, but real," said Robert Sheaffer, a noted UFO skeptic.
Supposedly our distant descendants have mastered time travel, Sheaffer said, and have traveled back in time to visit us. "So, according to Masters, you just spin something fast enough and it will begin to warp space, and even send stuff backwards in time. This is a highly dubious claim," he said.
Moreover, Sheaffer said that Masters tries to deduce aliens' evolutionary history from witness descriptions, "suggesting that he takes such accounts far too literally."
David Darling is a British astronomer and science writer who has authored books on a sweeping array of topics – from gravity, Zen physics and astrobiology to teleportation and extraterrestrial life.
"I've often thought that if some UFOs are 'alien' craft, it's just as reasonable to suppose that they might be time machines from our own future than that they're spacecraft from other stars," Darling told Space.com. "The problem is the 'if.'
Darling said that, while some aerial phenomena have eluded easy identification, one of the least likely explanations, it seems to him, is that they're artificial and not of this world.
"Outside of the popular mythos of flying saucers and archetypal, big-brained aliens, there's precious little credible evidence that they exist," Darling said. "So, my issue with the book is not the ingenuity of its thesis, but the fact that there's really no need for such a thesis in the first place."
Reported UFOs take on all shapes and sizes. (Image credit: U.K. National Archives sightings chart, circa 1969)
Exotic physics?
Larry Lemke, a retired NASA aerospace engineer with an interest in the UFO phenomenon, finds the prospect of time-travelling visitors from the future intriguing.
"The one thing that has become clear over the decades of sightings, if you believe the reports, is that these objects don't seem to be obeying the usual laws of aerodynamics and Newtonian mechanics," Lemke said, referring to the relationship, in the natural world, between force, mass and motion.
Toss in for good measure Einstein's theory of general relativity and its consequences, like wormholes and black holes, along with other exotic physics ideas such as the Alcubierre warp-drive bubble.
"There's a group of thinkers in the field of UFOs that point out that phenomena reported around some UFOs do, in fact, look exactly like general relativity effects," Lemke said. Missing time is a very common one."
Lemke said that the idea that somebody has figured out how to manipulate space-time, on a local scale with a low-energy approach, would explain a lot of things across the UFO phenomenon, including those baffling Tic-Tac-shaped objects recently reported by jet-fighter pilots and radar operators.
"No matter how much knowledge we have, how much we think we know, there's always some frontier beyond," he said. "And to understand that frontier is getting more and more esoteric."
Leonard David is the author of the recently released book,"Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us on Twitter@SpacedotcomorFacebook.
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