Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
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!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
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.
This UFO photo of a unidentified flying object or orb was taken over London, United Kingdom. Date: Saturday, 9th May 2020.
Witness report:
I was taking a picture of a chem trail and posted that on FB, when a friend commented I looked at the picture again and noticed it… During lockdown here in the UK, the weather has been really good strangely. This morning it was a beautiful day, not a cloud in sight. I noticed a single plane flying overhead leaving a massive Chem Trail so I took a picture of it. My friends think I’m mad when I mention Chem trails as they don’t believe it or me, even though it’s obvious and not a Con trail.. I posted the picture on FB mentioning that ‘there we go another chem trail ruining this beautiful day’ type thing. My friend replied and that’s when I noticed this little silver/grey object which just seems to be observing something or the trail. I didn’t even notice it at the time, gutted about that I would have loved to see if or how it moved.. anyway, I just wanted to let you have a look and see what you think.
*MUST SEE* UFO filmed over Palm Coast, Florida 9-May-2020
This really unique UFO event was taking its place on Saturday, 9th May 2020 over Palm Coast, Florida.
Witness report:
It was 3:45 am I was out on porch having tea. Stargazing and observed bright orb that appeared to be quivering and morphing. I used my phone to observe this in Palm Coast Florida Northeast above tree line This video is after I enlarged on IPad and re-filmed it. Your thoughts?
The year 1110 CE is noteworthy for a few big events – battles of the Crusades were being fought everywhere, King Henry V of Germany married the 8-year-old Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England, who was busy adding a chapel to Windsor Castle. Oh, and the Moon disappeared completely. Wait … what?
“On the fifth night in the month of May appeared the Moon shining bright in the evening, and afterwards by little and little its light diminished, so that, as soon as night came, it was so completely extinguished withal, that neither light, nor orb, nor anything at all of it was seen.”
That eyewitness account reported in the Peterborough Chronicle — one of four Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, which are records of the history of England after the Norman Conquest – might today be dismissed as a lunar eclipse … except no lunar eclipse extinguishes the light of the Moon so completely that no faint shadow or corona can be seen. A new report in the journal Scientific Reports may finally settle nearly 1,000 years of arguments about the mysterious lunar disappearance.
“Here we show that a unique medieval observation of a “dark” total lunar eclipse attests to a dust veil over Europe in May 1110 CE, corroborating the revised ice-core chronologies.”
One of the most accurate ways of determining what happened in a given ancient year or time period it to study ice cores from long-frozen, glacier-covered lands like Greenland and Antarctica. The ‘disappearing moon of 1110’ is well-known and researchers figured they had it solved when an ice core from Greenland showed a layer containing evidence of an eruption in 1004 by Iceland’s Hekla volcano, known as the ‘Gateway to Hell’ for its frequent violent eruptions. Huge deposits of sulfur in the 1110 zone and years after it indicated a heavy layer of volcanic dust floating around the world, causing climatic change and non-sun-related lunar eclipses. Case closed on the 1110 ‘really total’ lunar eclipse … right?
“A few years ago, one study concluded that a timescale called the Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 (GICC05) was off by up to seven years in the first millennium CE, and by up to four years early in the next millennium.”
Oops. That miscalculation pushed the Hekla eruption back to 1104, meaning its clouds would have been gone by 1110. The prompted co-author and palaeoclimatologist Sébastien Guillet from the University of Geneva in Switzerland and his team to look at an ice core from Antarctica for a more accurate reading. That core sample showed evidence of a significant atmospheric event beginning in 1108 and continuing into 1110 and beyond. They then went back to historical records to see what other volcanoes might have erupted around then. That’s when they found a Japanese reference to an event in 1108.
“The sources of these eruptions remain unknown, but we propose that Mt. Asama, whose largest Holocene eruption occurred in August 1108 CE and is credibly documented by a contemporary Japanese observer, is a plausible contributor to the elevated sulfate in Greenland.”
Mount Asama
Mount Asama is the most active on Honshū, the main island of Japan. In May 1783, Mount Asama began a three-month eruption that killed at least 1,400 people and a plume that was responsible for the was responsible for the five-year “Great Tenmei Famine” that killed at least 20,000 more. While the records are not as detailed, they indicate that the eruption of Mount Asama in 1108 was twice as large.
Guillet’s research found “severe climatic anomalies” across Western Europe between 1109 and 1111 CE. This time, the ice core was accurate – it matched similar layers of sulfur in tree rings from the same period. NASA records indicate seven total lunar eclipses would have been observable in Europe between 1100 and 1120 CE. And astronomers note that clouds and haze caused by volcanoes can affect the brightness of lunar eclipses. Now we know that they extinguished one in 1110 like a candle in the wind.
Just days after releasing its first official recruiting video, the U.S. Space Force announced its next mission – the launch of the secret X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-6) on May 16 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Yes, we were wondering the same thing — how will launching an unmanned spacecraft help Space Force recruiting?
“The X-37B team continues to exemplify the kind of lean, agile and forward-leaning technology development we need as a nation in the space domain. Each launch represents a significant milestone and advancement in terms of how we build, test, and deploy space capabilities in a rapid and responsive manner.”
U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond sounds excited about the X-37B launch while revealing as little as possible under the circumstances. The press release points out that the X-37B is currently the only ship capable of testing new systems in space and returning them to Earth. That may be true, but is that enough to meet the rallying cry to potential Space Forcers in the recruiting video? (Watch it here.)
“Some people look to the stars and ask, ‘What if?’ Our job is to have an answer.”
That’s not exactly “To infinity and beyond!” or even “I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth,” but apparently that’s the best we can do in 2020 without the aid of JFK or Buzz Lightyear.
John F. Kennedy
(Credit: NASA)
This is actually the second Space Force mission – the first was the equally uninspiring launch (to us, at least) of a communications satellite in March. Russia didn’t like that, nor the announcement of the Space Force’s first new(ish) weapon – a satellite jammer to immobilize enemy communications. Not exactly a Millennium Falcon or even a flying Jeep. If you’re hoping there’s something more exciting in the works, Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett lets the air out of that space balloon.
“In today’s age of electrons, space systems track storms, locate stranded motorists, timestamp credit card transactions, and monitor treaty compliance.”
Locating stranded motorists? Darth Vader would have to lift his helmet to catch his breath after laughing at that one. Barrett also pushes the reusable capability of the X-37B. Any comments, Elon Musk?
Sorry to sound disappointed, but that’s what this announcement is. While not a fan of military operations in space, this writer is a fan of space travel and exploration, and the pace of the U.S. space programs these days make a snail on glue look speedy and Tang look innovative. (Ask your grandpa.) Of course, there’s one group that is probably happy.
“This launch is a prime example of integrated operations between the Air Force, Space Force, and government-industry partnerships.”
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein hits the nail on the head – this is a good thing for “government-industry partnerships.” They’re not in it for the discovery … they’re in it for the economy. Unfortunately, “To profitability and beyond!” isn’t a great recruiting slogan either.
It doesn’t do much for inspiring kids to get excited about space. The same for writers.
Secret Astronaut Says He Saw Grey Aliens, Who Warned Them Off the Moon
COAST TO COAST AM – Officially, NASA history timelines state that Apollo 17 was the last astronaut launch with Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt.
But according to extraordinary testimony from whistleblower Jon Harold Lavine, whom Linda interviewed over three segments, he was a “secret Apollo astronaut” brought in as a last-minute replacement for one of the Apollo 17 crew.
While on the December 1972 moon mission, Lavine says he photographed (with a Hasselblad high-resolution camera) a Grey non-human alien who was just a few feet away from him. The being telepathically conveyed to him that the astronauts should not return to the moon.
This face sculpture actually is artistic, it has two faces side by side, one larger male (left side) and one smaller female (right side). Two halves of each person to show that together, they complete one another. Both artistic and poetic.
I believe it will be very hard for most people to see the two faces, but they should be able to see the larger male side of the face. If you tilt the photo to the right 90 degrees, it makes it much easier to see both faces.
Weird 500-mile-wide anomaly moves at an incredible speed over Canada seen on radar
On May 8, 2020 Mrmb333 noticed a huge radar anomaly and thought it was just a Dopler radar signature until he realized that it was over 500 miles wide moving from Northern Idaho into the Saskatchewan/Alberta border within a split second.
Given the incredible speed it jumped from South West to North East, it must have been something other than a flock of birds or a cloud of small pieces of aluminium, called chaff.
Although it remains unclear, could it be that the weather radar has reflected on something that came from space?
“Something fall from the sky” during a storm – Muskogee, Oklahoma
This strange sighting was submitted to me through our Facebook page. It was filmed over Muskogee, Oklahoma on 29th April 2020. What do you think this is?
Witness report:
I took this video of lightening tonight and noticed something fall from the sky around the 5 second mark.
Illustration of a near-Earth asteroid, created using actual space images of Earth and the asteroid Mathilde.
Credit: Earth: ESA/Rosetta; asteroid Mathilde: NASA/NEAR
ON MAY 4TH, A TINY ASTEROID MISSED EARTH… BUT JUST BARELY
I guess the Force was with us: In the early morning hours of the 4th of May, a small asteroid 3-6 meters* across passed by the Earth, missing our world by a mere 7,000 kilometers — only about the radius of the Earth itself! It passed so close to us its orbit was significantly changed by Earth's gravity, too.
Before you panic, at this diameter (about the size of a car) it wouldn't have done any real damage even if it had hit us. But it would've put on a helluva show, creating an intensely luminous fireball easily brighter than the full Moon as it burned up and broke apart in our atmosphere, probably a few dozen kilometers above the Earth's surface. It’s also likely small pieces would’ve made it to the ground as meteorites, too. But it did indeed miss us and is now on its way out.
It was discovered just hours before closest approach by the automated Catalina Sky Survey, an observatory in Arizona. It sweeps the sky repeatedly, looking for moving objects like asteroids. The asteroid, subsequently called 2020 JJ**, was detected in four observations taken in the minutes around 06:00 UTC. Astronomers were alerted, they checked that it was real, and then reported it to the Minor Planet Center in Massachusetts. The report was then published at 06:36.
Animation showing the path of the tiny asteroid 2020 JJ, which missed the Earth by only 7000 km on 4 May 2020. Note how the orbit changes after it passes Earth.
This part is amazing: An automated alert was sent out all over the world, and within minutes other observatories were turning toward the coordinates of the object (which, mind you, was so close that observatories in different parts of the planet would see it in different parts of the sky!). In less than an hour (!!) it was being observed by other telescopes in Arizona as well as observatories in Hawaii and Illinois.
This part made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up: For a short time, before observations had nailed down its trajectory, there was a 5% chance of impact! I know those aren’t short odds — a 1 in 20 chance is pretty low† — but still that’s high for an impact. Of course, like I said, even if it had hit it wouldn’t have been dangerous. Just spectacular.
As I've written before, when an asteroid is first discovered, the orbit calculated for it is pretty fuzzy, because we don't have a long enough arc to really be able to predict where it will be in the future. Small uncertainties in the position early on add up to big ones later. The analogy I like is if you're an outfielder in a baseball game, and as soon as the batter hits the ball you close your eyes. Now, predict where the ball will be when it lands. Yeah, nope. But if you keep watching it you’ll be able to see its trajectory much better.
So the projected orbit of 2020 JJ was a fuzzy cone, spreading out enough to include the Earth. But then more observatories saw it, the uncertainties shrank, the cone narrowed, and it was found it would miss us. But not by much.
The closest approach was at 12:03 UTC on 4 May, when it was about 13,400 km from the Earth’s center. Given our planet's radius is just under 6,400 km, that means it missed us by about 7,000 km. That's pretty dang close, and in fact the orbit of the asteroid noticeably changed after it passed as Earth's gravity warped its path.
The orbit of asteroid 2020 JJ takes it out past Mars and inside Earth’s orbit. The position is shown for early May 2020, when it was so close the labels overlap.
It's actually amazing that it was seen at all; it's so small that it was pretty faint. It came in from a direction pretty much opposite the Sun in the sky, which was fortunate. That means it's up at night, and also we see it "full" (if it were closer to the Sun we see less of it lit, so it's a crescent like a new Moon, and therefore much fainter). Many times with asteroids this size we don't see them until after they've already passed.
In fact, once the observations were in, the trajectory of 2020 JJ was so well determined that its position was known to about 5 km perpendicular to its path. Had it actually hit us, the spot where it entered our atmosphere would've been pinpointed to that accuracy. That's damned impressive. Remember, the observations were all taken over the course of just two hours. That's actually comforting; astronomers are getting really good at this sort of thing!
It's on a roughly two-year elliptical and slightly inclined orbit that takes it from just inside Earth's orbit to out past Mars, and it's now headed back out into deeper space. But it's still on an orbit that brings it near the Earth, so it'll be back. Probably not for a long time, though. And if we do see it again, that's OK too. Space is big, and this asteroid is little. It's no threat to us. But there are bigger ones out there, and it's nice to know we have so many eyes on the sky looking out for us, and doing such a good job at it.
THE SPACE FORCE IS ABOUT TO LAUNCH A MYSTERIOUS SPACECRAFT
MICHAEL STONECYPHER/US AIR FORCE
DAN ROBITZSKI
Behind The Curtain
Officials from the U.S. Space Force announced Wednesday that the military branch will launch a new mission on May 16 — using the mysterious X-37B space plane to do so, which has spent years at a time in orbit without any public-facing explanation.
The X-37B will be ferrying a scientific research satellite into orbit, CNET reports, which will conduct experiments for other branches of the military and NASA.
Science Vessel
There are two research projects that the satellite, FalconSat-8, will be conducting once the space plane carries it into orbit, CNET reports.
NASA will be sending plant seeds into space to study the effects of cosmic radiation, and the Naval Research Laboratory is sending instruments intended to convert solar energy into microwaves that can be beamed to the ground and used as a power source.
“This will be the first X-37B mission to use a service module to host experiments,” Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office director Randy Walden said in a press release.
Round Two
While the upcoming launch will be the sixth mission — over the course of a decade — for the X-37B, it’s only the second-ever Space Force mission.
The first mission helped complete a military communication network, making this the first foray into basic scientific research for the nascent military branch.
Weather Forecasting on Mars Likely to be Trickier Than on Earth
Predicting the weather here on Earth is never an easy thing, but predicting it on Mars may be ever trickier. Such is the argument presented by a recent study concerning “macroweather” patterns on the Red Planet, a new regime for understanding how planetary environments work.
When it comes to describing the climate of a planet, two important concepts come into play. First, there’s weather, which covers day-to-day changes due to fluctuations in the atmosphere. Second, there’s climate, which is more stable and subject to change over the course of decades. Macroweather, the latest addition to the game, describes the relatively stable periods that exist between short-term weather and long-term climate.
For those of us dwelling here on planet Earth, these are familiar concepts. But researchers say this same three-part pattern applies to atmospheric conditions on Mars. The results of a new paper, published today in Geophysical Research Letters also show that the Sun plays a major role in determining macroweather.
Several dust devils cross a plain in this animation of a series of images acquired by NASA’s Mars Rover Spirit in May, 2005. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS)
The scientists chose to study Mars because of the wealth of data it has provided in recent decades, which they then used to test their theory that a transitional “macroweather” regime exists on a planet other than Earth. They used information collected from the Viking Mars lander mission from the 1970s and 1980s, and more recent data from the Mars Global Surveyor.
By taking into account how the sun heats Mars, as well as the thickness of the planet’s atmosphere, the scientists predicted that temperatures and wind would fluctuate on Mars similar to how they fluctuate on Earth. However, this transition from weather to macroweather would take place over 1.8 Martian days (about two Earth days), compared with a week to 10 days here on Earth.
“Our analysis of the data from Mars confirmed this prediction quite accurately,” said Shaun Lovejoy, a physics professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and lead author of the paper. “This adds to evidence, from studies of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, that the sun plays a central role in shaping the transition from short-term weather fluctuations to macroweather.”
Early Spring Dust Storms at the North Pole of Mars, taken by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft in 2002. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
The findings also indicate that weather on Mars can be predicted with some skill only two days in advance, compared to 10 days on Earth.
“We’re going to have a very hard time predicting the weather on Mars beyond two days given what we have found in weather records there,” said co-author Jan-Peter Muller from the University College London Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the UK, “which could prove tricky for the European lander and rover.”
This research promises to advance scientists’ understanding of the dynamics of Earth’s own atmosphere, and could potentially provide insights into the weather of Venus, Saturn’s moon Titan, and possibly the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
As always, in learning about other planets and their climates, scientists are finding that the planets of our Solar System may have more in common with Earth than previously thought. Because of this, studying these other worlds will inevitably help us to better understand our own.
Future astronauts on the moon will need to have water, and now NASA has designed a new CubeSat spacecraft to search for ice in lunar craters using laser beams.
Artist’s concept of the Lunar Flashlight searching for ice deposits in deep, shadowed craters near the south pole of the moon.
NASA is moving forward with its Artemis program, whose goal is to land the first woman and next man at the moon’s south pole by 2024. See this April 2020 report. When humans return to the moon this time, they’ll likely stay longer than their Apollo counterparts in the late 1960s and ’70s; the record stay during the Apollo missions was about 75 hours.
To accomplish future longer stays on the moon, lunar astronauts might utilize some natural resources from the moon itself, in particular water ice said to have been confirmed to exist in 2018, in deeply shadowed craters at the moon’s poles. This ice can be melted and purified for drinking; it can be used for rocket fuel. Enter Lunar Flashlight – a briefcase-sized satellite, also known as a CubeSat – with a projected launch date of 2021 and a specific mission of detecting naturally occurring surface ice in shadowed craters on the moon.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) described the innovative Lunar Flashlight technology on April 27, 2020. A new peer-reviewed paper about it was published in the April 2020 issue of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine.
What is the Lunar Flashlight and what will it do?
View larger. | Scientists directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the moon’s surface in 2018. The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface, where the gray scale corresponds to surface temperature (darker representing colder areas and lighter shades indicating warmer zones). The ice is concentrated at the darkest and coldest locations, in the shadows of craters.
Basically, Lunar Flashlight acts like a spotlight. Lunar Flashlight will scan the surface with a near-infrared laser beam, shining down on the lunar surface to help scientists look for deposits of ice near the lunar south pole.Barbara Cohen, principal investigator of the mission at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said in the JPL statement:
Although we have a pretty good idea there’s ice inside the coldest and darkest craters on the moon, previous measurements have been a little bit ambiguous.
Scientifically, that’s fine, but if we’re planning on sending astronauts there to dig up the ice and drink it, we have to be sure it exists.
Mission profile and timeline for Lunar Flashlight.
Lunar Flashlight is a very small satellite [about 5 x 10 x 14 inches, or 12 × 24 × 36 cm], developed and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, that will search for water ice exposures and map their locations in the moon’s south polar region. The Lunar Flashlight mission will demonstrate technologies for NASA such as green propulsion and activelaser spectroscopy while proving the capability of performing a planetary science investigation in the CubeSat form factor. Lunar Flashlight was selected in 2014 by the NASA Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) program … Lunar Flashlight will be one of 13 secondary payloads launched on Artemis-1, currently scheduled for 2020.
Water ice deposits have been found by orbiting spacecraft, but Lunar Flashlight would allow the exact locations of deposits to be determined, which could then be mined and used by astronauts staying on the moon for long periods of time. It will also be the first lunar mission to use lasers to find the ice.John Baker, Lunar Flashlight project manager at JPL, said:
A technology demonstration mission like Lunar Flashlight, which is lower cost and fills a specific gap in our knowledge, can help us better prepare for an extended NASA presence on the moon as well as test key technologies that may be used in future missions.
Because the moon is virtually airless, it gets very hot in the sunlight, but extremely cold in the darkness, especially within deep craters that are permanently in shadow at the poles. In those cold places, water ice molecules can accumulate and remain stable on the surface. As Cohen explained:
The sun moves around the crater horizon but never actually shines into the crater. Because these craters are so cold, these molecules never receive enough energy to escape, so they become trapped and accumulate over billions of years.
Artist’s concept of Lunar Flashlight seen from above.
Such deposits on the moon are of much interest, and necessary, for future astronauts who will want to stay on the moon for long missions, or even eventually stay there permanently in bases. It would be expensive to continually transport water from Earth to the moon, so using the available resources of the already-existing ice deposits makes sense.
Lunar Flashlight will beam its lasers into some of these craters where the ice is either known or suspected to exist. It will do this for at least two months, and will be able to map out where these deposits are with great accuracy.
How does Lunar Flashlight identify ice?
The spacecraft’s four-laser reflectometer, which incorporates spectrophotometry, will use near-infrared wavelengths in the laser beams. Those wavelengths will be absorbed by water ice, but bare rock will simply reflect them back to the spacecraft. If there is a lot of absorption in a crater, that would be evidence for widespread ice deposits. Those findings can then be compared with those from other orbiters that have previously found ice on the moon. Cohen said:
We will also be able to compare the Lunar Flashlight data with the great data that we already have from other moon-orbiting missions to see if there are correlations in signatures of water ice, thereby giving us a global view of surface ice distribution.
Lunar Flashlight will also be the first planetary CubeSat mission to use “green” propulsion, propellant that is less toxic and safer than hydrazine, which is commonly used by most spacecraft.
Barbara Cohen at Goddard Space Flight Center, principal investigator for Lunar Flashlight.
While ice on the moon may sound rather unusual, it isn’t really too surprising to scientists. Asteroids and of course comets can also contain water ice. Even Mercury, which is much closer to the sun than the moon, has ice near its poles, found by the MESSENGER spacecraft in 2012.
There are also two other missions on the Artemis-1 launch that will complement Lunar Flashlight; Lunar IceCube and LunaH-Map will make additional measurements, looking for ice and other hydrogen deposits at the lunar south pole and on the near side of the moon. Results from all three missions will be synergistic, simultaneously exploring the nature and distribution of water ice on the moon in advance of human exploration.
Missions like Lunar Flashlight will help NASA astronauts not only continue to explore the moon, but also set the stage for long-term and then permanent human settlement on our nearest neighbor in space.
Bottom line: NASA has designed a new CubeSat spacecraft, the Lunar Flashlight, to search for ice on the moon using laser beams.
TEMPERATUREN OP AARDE KELDEREN SCHRIKBAREND ( VIDEO )
Terwijl alle aandacht wordt opgeslokt door het wereldwijde viruscircus, gebeuren er ook andere belangrijke dingen. Zoals de temperatuur op aarde die de op één na snelste daling in temperatuur gedurende een periode van twee maanden ooit meemaakt op dit moment.
Een groot voordeel van het niet vliegen is uiteraard dat je ook niet of nauwelijks chemtrails in de lucht ziet. De luchten zijn voor het grootste deel weer zoals ze horen ze zijn (al zien we de laatste paar dagen toch weer wat strepen en bijbehorende sluierige wolken) en hoewel dit niet prettig is voor onze vakanties en dergelijke valt er iets opzienbarends waar te nemen.
Tegenwoordig wordt er open en bloot gesproken over chemtrails en dat deze ingezet worden om het zonlicht te blokkeren, waardoor de aarde minder snel zou afkoelen.
Reeds jaren maken we ons zorgen om al die verkeersvliegtuigen hoog in de lucht die die witte strepen (contrails) trekken. We hadden het sterke vermoeden dat het hier een complot betrof om chemische stoffen over de bevolking uit te strooien (chemtrails) om voorshands onbekende doelen te bereiken.
Welnu, dat is ook zo. Het complet is ontmaskerd; we hebben thans zowel de aard van die chemische stof als wel het duistere doel achterhaald. Het is veel erger dan we dachten want alle vliegtuigen met combustie installaties zijn deel van de samenzwering. De chemische stof is dihydromonoxide (DHMO) en het doel is om daarmee op slinkse wijze ‘global warming’ te veroorzaken, zodat de schuld daarvan op onze industrieën kan worden afgeschoven.
Aangezien we de laatste twee maanden aanmerkelijk minder vliegverkeer hebben gehad, zou de temperatuur op aarde dan ook moeten dalen als bovenstaande klopt.
En dat doet het inderdaad en niet zo zuinig ook.
De afgelopen twee maanden hebben we de op één na grootste daling ooit in temperaturen gezien op aarde gedurende een periode van twee maanden.
De temperaturen van de lagere atmosfeer vielen in de maanden maart en april met 0,38 graad Celsius van 0,76 graden naar 0,38.
De grootste daling gedurende een periode van twee maanden ooit in temperatuur vond plaats in 1987, in de tijd voor de wereld opwarmingshoax en die bedroeg toen 0,69 graad. Zoals je ziet is de temperatuur nu exact gelijk aan die in 1987, voordat deze sterk daalde.
De dalende trend in temperaturen zal zich waarschijnlijk de komende maanden voortzetten. Tenzij, doordat deze informatie teveel bekendheid krijgt, het programma weer wordt opgestart en dat lijkt de laatste dagen gematigd te gebeuren. Punt is wel dat ze dat niet te intensief kunnen doen omdat er formeel amper vliegverkeer is en dat dan dus heel vreemd zou zijn, al die strepen die ze normaliter wegwuiven als gewone vliegtuigstrepen of contrails.
Naast de dalende temperatuur door absentie van chemtrails, speelt er nog een andere heel belangrijke factor een rol, iets waar wij al jaren over schrijven, en dat is een sterk verminderde activiteit van de zon en zonnecycli die iedere keer lager uitvallen. Dit versterkt dus nog eens het effect van een lucht zonder chemtrails.
Het verloop van de zonnecycli die gemiddeld elf jaar duren, zie je op de volgende afbeelding vanaf het jaar 1700.
Alhoewel keihard ontkend door sjoemelinstituten zoals KNMI zorgen periodes met lagere zonneactiviteit voor uitzonderlijk lage temperaturen op aarde. Op bovenstaande afbeelding zie je de correlatie tussen weinig zonneactiviteit en lage temperaturen heel duidelijk rond het jaar 1800 toen er sprake was van het Dalton Minimum.
Het Dalton-minimum was een periode van lage zonneactiviteit, genoemd naar de Engelse meteoroloog John Dalton, die duurde van ongeveer 1790 tot 1830. Zoals het Maunder-minimum en het Spörer-minimum, viel het Dalton-minimum samen met een periode van lager dan gemiddelde wereldtemperatuur.
Nu hebben we opnieuw te maken met een soort Dalton Minimimum want men verwacht ook dat de komende zonnecyclus 25 weer lager zal uitpakken dan de laatste die alweer veel lager was dan degene daarvoor. Stel je eens voor wat dat voor de voedselvoorziening betekent die nu al sterk onder druk staat door de corona lockdown.
Ook op dit moment vertoont de zon nog nauwelijks enige activiteit en zijn er dit jaar al ongeveer 95 dagen geweest zonder zonnevlekken (26% procent van de tijd) en zonnevlekken zijn een indicatie van de activiteit van de zon.
We willen eenieder adviseren dit bericht intensief te delen en vooral op nu.nl waar je dan in ieder geval zeker weet dat je wordt verbannen tot de volgende ijstijd.
Ancient Underground Tunnel Systems of the American Southwest... We Can't Even Imagine What's Down There!
A vast subterranean complex of tunnels and caves in the American Southwest holds great importance to indigenous people, extraterrestrial civilizations and programs staged within the earthly hollows.
We learn that much of the technology which we take for granted came from studying the wreckage of Roswell and other crashes. More importantly, we learn of the technology still being withheld, due to the psychological and economic implication for the whole planet.
As history progresses, humanity must change and with our sociological progress, dialog with extraterrestrials will finally be open for the whole of humanity.
“What Was Einstein’s Most Mind-blowing Discovery?”
by Big Think
“NASA astronomer and science communicator Michelle Thaller explains that the real brilliance of Albert Einstein is that he was able to bridge ideas that appeared to others to be in different realms. The thing Einstein is most famous for is the equation E=mc2. Thaller explains why that equation is so mind-blowing: Pure energy and matter are the same thing. That means, as humans, we are both made of matter and of pure energy, and as pure energy, we would not experience space or time. “I think that, once we really understand this, we’re going to be in for some very difficult truths to accept,” says Thaller. “It may be that there is no space or time as we know it, really.”
Dr. Michelle Thaller is an astronomer who studies binary stars and the life cycles of stars. She is Assistant Director of Science Communication at NASA. She went to college at Harvard University, completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif. then started working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) Spitzer Space Telescope. After a hugely successful mission, she moved on to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in the Washington D.C. area. In her off-hours often puts on about 30lbs of Elizabethan garb and performs intricate Renaissance dances. For more information, visit NASA.
Mysterious Black Object Appears Alive In Sky Over Bogata, Columbia, April 30, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Above is an untouched close up, below is a focused and added contrast close up.
Date of sighting: April 30, 2020 Location of sighting: Bogata, Columbia This UFO was recorded over Bogata, Columbia two weeks ago. The UFO has an odd shape, one that is uneven on all sides. When I took a screenshot and tried to focus it, it came out 100%. The object appears to be changing shape, and almost has an appearance of a jellyfish. Very odd, but cool. Many black UFOs have been reported from South America, this is defiantly a great example of whats often seen down there. The object itself almost looks as if it were alive, and maybe it is. Scott C. Waring
UFO Buzzes Airport Over Burbank, California, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 27, 2020
Location of sighting: Burbank, California, USA
Source: MUFON #108640
This UFO was caught over Burbank, CA three months ago, but reported to MUFON today. The person recorded several planes in the overcast sky and as they were doing so, a UFO disk shoot past. UFOs often like to check out planes since they contain the latest technology. This object has no wings, no tail and no windows, but it does look like the side view of a large disk. Very cool capture and its definitely evidence that aliens exist. Its a well known fact that UFOs often check out airports, this is further proof that this is true.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I was taking photos for an assignment for school on February 27th, 2020. I did not notice anything back then until a few weeks ago in April I was editing the photos for another assignment and I saw something peculiar in the image so I started to play with dehaze, textures and contrasts, etc to enhance it and I saw the shape more clear. The interesting thing is there are 3 planes around the object so is easy to compare and see the difference in shapes. I took more than one photo at that moment but just one it shows the object. I have a RAW file if needed. Thank you.
Huge ‘apocalyptic’ dust cloud sweeps over Niger capital Niamey
Ahuge ‘apocalyptic’ sandstorm swept over Niger capital Niamey on May 4, 2020 and was captured on film. The large plumes of dust appear to be hundreds of metres high as they engulf the city.
It lasted a few minutes, bringing a red darkness in mid-afternoon, and caused air traffic to stop temporarily.
Sandstorms are common across west Africa during the dry season which usually lasts from January to April. They sweep Saharan sand through Niger and neighbouring countries, out towards the Atlantic Ocean.
Grand Rapids MI – 8 May 2020 Just had a sighting in Grand Rapids MI. My daughter and i came back from the store and were in the car and and a “star” caught my attention because it got very bright suddenly. We both the observed as it suddenly shot up into the air and increased in intensity before suddenly descended a bit, then darting randomly left and right before the light suddenly dimmed a bit and it then very quickly descended further over the horizon to the South. Im on the South side of Grand Rapids. If i had to guess i would say it was over Wayland, MI. We then saw a few very tiny lights suddenly dart around before dissapearing.
Newton Abbot Devon England – May 7, 2020 I was outside taking photographs of the full Moon the third super moon of 2020 when a bright green object flew right underneath the moon and instantly caught my attention. I zoomed in with my Nikon P900 camera for a better look only to instantly recognise the craft as the same one that I had witnessed and photographed years ago back in April of 2016. The craft that I had originally seen had not been illuminated like this one and I had been able to see that it was jet black with almond shaped lights that where situated on the front of it that glowed with a yellowish tinge. Even though this craft was illuminated in a bright green glow I could still see that it was exactly the same craft. I immediately took a photograph and watched as the craft made a very sharp u turn before it headed away from my vantage point. I could now see the back of the craft and it was a fiery red colour. I quickly took another photograph and watched as the craft flew off into the distance before it disappeared from view. This was amazing not only did I get to photograph the super moon I also had this incredible sighting of an alien craft that I had seen and photographed years before. I have been witnessing unidentified structured craft like this one in the skies above Devon for years now and I truly believe that it is time for the British government to come forward and make a statement about these strange aerial objects. it’s pretty clear to me that the government know far more about this phenomena than they are letting on. It’s time to tell the public the truth about what is really going on in the skies above us all. The Photographs were taken in the early hours of the morning at 12:45 AM on the 7th of May 2020, At Newton Abbot Devon England. All the best John.
7 May 2020 – Nairobi, Kenya At around 10pm EA time i went out to freshen up before i sleep. As i was going back something so bright flew by it was flying low with bright light at 1st i thought it was a plane but object had no engine sound i couldnt tell the shape due to its bright light. After about a min and half as continued staring at it flying away it suddenly vanished
Newton Abbot Devon England – May 5, 2020 I was outside in the back garden sky watching and I was looking around the sky for anything out of the ordinary when I spotted an object off to the east that was very high up in the sky. As I watched the object I was trying to figure out what it could be but I was unable to determine what exactly it was because it had no visible means of propulsion. The only thing I could see was that the object was oval shaped and as I followed the object across the sky while looking through the viewfinder of my P900 camera it suddenly changed direction and flew in amongst some wispy clouds. I quickly took a photograph of it and watched as the oval shaped object performed some strange maneuvers before it flew up into the atmosphere and disappeared from view. When I Looked at the photograph I could see that I had once again successfully managed to capture another unidentified object that had been flying around the sky with impunity high above the town and the unsuspecting public below. The Pentagon as recently acknowledge that unidentified objects are a reality and I believe that it is time for the British government to come forward and publicly acknowledge the presence of these strange unidentified objects in the sky above the United Kingdom. The Photograph was taken at 7:32 PM on the 5th of May 2020, at Newton Abbot Devon England. All the Best John.
California – 4 May 2020 I am the one who took thiz pic tonite i been spottin UFOs 4xz now ,
Broken Bow Oklahoma – 05/03/2020 Same exact as the latest UFO descriptions here. Right around 9pm, I saw at least 8 lights perfectly spaced moving W to E out of the horizon. I called my boyfriend out to witness also. There were a total of 20 lights total. Approximately 30 minutes later, we witnessed 28 lights, all perfectly spaced, this time moving from the North horizon moving South (towards us) to a certain spot in the sky above us and then disappear. Five minutes later, another set of 4 lights from the same area but went a different direction (West of where they were disappearing previously), then another set 15 after that where the 28 went to and disappeared. Several minutes later, another 8, same location….. If you saw the 3rd video on UFO’s the Pentagon released last week, it looked like those. Tried taking videos but you can’t see them. Very bizarre.
Cobram, Victoria Australia – 1 May 2020 In cobram Victoria Australia, I see it most nights around 7pm- 8pm. I have filmed it on my new Samsung s20 ultra. It looks sort of like a star butt it’s way bigger and brighter then any of the rest.
3 May 2020 – Aptos, US Last night about 9 or 10, looking towards the west from Aptos, I saw a repeating movement happen about 7 times. The small light was moving towards the north. It went so far… dimmed, disappeared and showed up again where I first saw it. Repeated. For real. I also saw alot of sparklies.
Lancashire, UK – May 2020 I was taking a pic of the moon as it had like halos round it, I had a drink and forgot about the pics till this morning and saw the thing above x There was nothing above it when I was taking the pic x My son usually puts me right but he’s still asleep lol and I didn’t want to post incase it’s flash or something but it’s wierd x I couldn’t get a decent pic so just came back inside lol hope you can settle my mind haha, thnakyou for looking and I’ve got another one from last week I was going to work and the cloud was so dark I took two photos and something on one pic but not the other x
London, UK – May 2, 2020 This last Friday I was shooting a mobile home for a client. I didn’t see anything, or hear anything, but when I got home and uploaded the photos to my computer the object caught my eye. The object is not in any of the other photos I took that day. I’m very hesitant to post this, but I want you guys to see it. This was taken out off of London Bridge Rd.
Portland,Oregon – may 01,2020 at 4:30 AM lights moving nw to se ,spaced at equal length ,on the same trajectory and moving at the same speed at around 4:30 am on may 01,2020 in the sky’s over Portland,Oregon.Thought I was going nuts?Did any one see this too? More than 8 lights,they were moving about 8 second from one horizon to the other and spaced about 3 seconds apart.At a high altitude like a jet but faster. Sorry no photo’s.
Wigan in england, UK – April 2020
Kalamazoo, Michigan – April 2020 approx two weeks ago if i zoom in it looks like a light shinning down upper right looks like saucer type to me, sorry picture isnt great
Newton Abbot Devon England – 30th of April I was sky watching from my open bedroom window where I have a really good vantage point of the sky above the town centre. I was looking around an area of the sky that had a lot of scattered clouds and I was really hoping to see an anomalous object. After a couple of minutes of looking around the edge of each cloud I spotted an object that emerged from one of the clouds. Although it was quite far off in the distance I was able to zoom in while looking through the viewfinder of my Nikon P900 camera where I could clearly see that it was in fact a saucer shaped craft. I quickly took some photographs managing to capture the fast moving saucer in two photographs before it flew directly into a large batch of clouds that were situated across from the cloud that it had originally emerged from. The saucer was now hidden away from sight and I patiently waited for it to re-emerge from the other side of the clouds but unfortunately it never did. This batch of large clouds was the perfect hiding place for this flying saucer and it was able to stay hidden away from prying eyes completely undetected as the clouds slowly drifted over the area high above the unsuspecting public down below. The first photograph shows the saucer heading towards the large batch of clouds. While the second photograph shows the saucer entering into the cloud before I lost sight of it. The photographs were taken on the 30th of April at Newton Abbot Devon England. I often see flying saucers and many other different types of anomalous craft flying around in the sky above this area and I really find it fascinating living in a town with so much activity especially for someone like me who is totally dedicated to the study of ufology. I find it very interesting that an alien intelligence is observing this area by keeping a constant presence high above this town. I wonder why. What could be so special about this area. All the best John.
Dade city fl – 4/29/2020 I seen a few star sized lights moved across the night sky..right by the moon for 2 hrs starting around 9 a bright light flashed well it stayed bright for 20 30 mins.. Then dimmed out and came back bright and did that 3 4x. Off to the right of that was a triangle made of the same star sized objects id been seeing all night. Off the tip star of the 3 triangle i watched with chills on my neck 5 or 6 maybe more i went running to grab someone in the house but they were strait line perfectly spaced fly across and disappeared into the night sky. I stayed out there in shock staring at the sky like a crazy man for 2 hrs the clouds rolled in and i could no longer see.. But i seen all the social media videos ive watched the 2020 recent stuff.. And that’s why i was looking tonight in the 1st place but now after seeing myself.. How do you explain all that.
Brisbane, Australia – 29 April 2020 Do you think what I witnessed last night here in Brisbane, Australia is a UFO sighting?
Charleston, SC – April 29,2020 I was out walking my dog on a slightly overcast night. I was looking up at the stars and noticed a line of lights. I then realized that the lights were moving fairly fast. They looked like stars, evenly spaced and no noise. I counted at least 17 but I am sure there were more. My neighbor was out riding her bike and saw them as well. Neither of us had seen anything like this before. We do live near Charleston airport but they did not look like planes. They moved too fast, in perfect formation with no noise. My neighbor tried to film them but she could not capture them on film. I guess they were too far away? I would not have written this if I did not see others had the same experience. I would appreciate a logical explanation if anyone learns anything.
bradley county tn near a lake and a tall tree on a hill with my light on outside of the garge – 4-16-2020 I was walking around and i saw a flash of light and a hightend sound noise like a dog whistle and i will hear it like everytime its the same time it happened witch was about 8:00 pm and i saw a medium like 50 by 25 ufo and like flashes everynight i feel like iv got them watching over me cause everything with everything disclosed everytime i look at porn it gets shut of but when my freind looks it up nothing happens but that is how my ufo sighting whent
Surprise Arizona – March 21, 2020 @ 5:30am It was clear in the early morning hours of March 21, 2020 and looking up in the sky I saw, coming out of the north west traveling to the south east a fleet of UFO’s like they were on patrol, cruising across the sky at a steady clip. At first I thought I was looking at a satellite, but then there was one after the other, evenly spaced out and three rows of them. Some closer to each other than others. I counted over two dozen before I stopped counting and They were moving a little bit faster than a satellite. I could tell they were in space. I’ve been viewing the skies for many decades and have never seen anything like this. About a week or so later, I was getting my mail at around 8:00pm and in the sky coming out of the south west to the north east I saw the same thing again. They were suddenly appearing one after the other coming from the direction of the Orion Constellation out of the south west. My neighbor was outside and I pointed them out to him and his wife and we watched in awe for about 10 to 15 minutes and then the were gone. Both times I counted over 35 of them. They weren’t planes, jets or the like and they made absolutely no noise. When ever I star gaze, I’m lucky to see 1 maybe 2 satellites a week.
What is a safe distance to maintain between you and a black hole? A hundred miles? A solar system? A light year? Would you feel comfortable getting close enough to peer into one with your naked eye? Guess what? That’s where you are right now. Astronomers have determined that a tri-stellar system just 1,119 light years from Earth is made up of a B3-type star (hydrogen-burning), a black hole and a supergiant Be star orbiting the unusual binary pair. That distance makes it the closest black hole to Earth and the brightness makes the cluster visible without even binoculars from the southern hemisphere. Too close for comfort?
Dr. Petr Hadrava, Emeritus Scientist at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, is co-author of the research paper, published in the journal Astronomy & Physics, entitled “A naked-eye triple system with a nonaccreting black hole in the inner binary” (in case you wanted to impress your friends by using the proper name). Hadrava tells Sci-News that the system HR 6819 was well-known to astronomers, but they had no idea it contained a black hole until astronomers using the 2.2m telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile blinking in a way that could only be explained by it orbiting another object – the same strategy used to find exoplanets. What could be big enough to black out an entire star?
“We were totally surprised when we realised that this is the first stellar system with a black hole that can be seen with the unaided eye.”
The black hole in HR 6819 is truly invisible because it’s truly black. Other black holes have been discovered by the light and x-rays emitted as they consume everything around them. This one is not hungry (good news for nearby solar systems, right?), so its presence was made known by the periodic (every 40 days) disappearance of the orbiting star. That was enough proof for co-author Dr. Thomas Rivinius, an astronomer at ESO (European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere).
“An invisible object with a mass at least 4.2 times that of the Sun can only be a black hole.”
While the HR 6819 system can be seen with the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere, now is not a good time to look because it’s just emerging from behind the Sun. (Here’s a video re-creation.) That gives us some time to ponder another observation made to the BBC by co-author Marianne Heida, a postdoctoral fellow at ESO.
“In the Milky Way, the idea is that there should be about 100 million black holes. So there should be perhaps a couple more that are closer by still.”
One-thousand-and-change light years wasn’t sounding so bad, especially since the black hole in HR 6819 isn’t of the planet-gorging kind. But closer? How close? Proxima Centauri, the closest star, is only 4.244 light-years away – close enough that more than a few people believe we’ve been visited by beings from one of its planets. There are a lot of stars between 4 and 1,000 light years from the Sun. That’s a lot of chances to find more “truly black” black holes that aren’t eating their way towards us. However, not much is known about these black holes. How long will they stay calm and non-dangerous?
Astronomers have discovered the first ever evidence that a river once flowed for over 100,000 years on Mars. Researchers from the University of Utrecht were analyzing high-resolution images taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter when they found proof of a major river.
They found evidence that the river was quite deep and fast-flowing by analyzing the marks on exposed cliff faces that are over 650 feet in height. Additionally, the river would have flowed continuously throughout year. This new evidence proves that approximately 3.7 billion years ago, the Red Planet would have had an atmosphere stable enough to support large quantities of liquid water and even capable of supporting life.
“Such perennially flowing rivers would require an environment capable of maintaining large volumes of water for extensive time-periods, and almost certainly necessitated a precipitation-driven hydrological cycle,” explained lead researcher Dr. Francesco Salese, adding, “More in line with slower climatic change, and less in line with catastrophic hydrologic events.” “This kind of evidence, of a long-lived watery landscape, is crucial in our search for ancient life on the planet.”
They think that the river was continuously shifting therefore making sandbanks that are close to the ones found in the Rhine as well as additional rivers that are located in the northern part of Italy.
The huge cliff face is situated in the northwestern rim of the Hellas Basin in the southern hemisphere of the planet in a place that’s called Izola Mensa. Researchers were able to study tons of detail located on the soft sedimentary rocks and noticed that the marks were the same as those found here on our planet when water flows along rocks for an extended period of time. Pictures can be seen here.
Hellas Basin on Mars
ESA has named the ancient valley system ‘Nirgal Vallis’, and predicts that it’s between 3.5 and 4 billion years old
(Image: ESA)
Unfortunately, they weren’t able to determine the length of the river. Salese explained this further by stating, “The extremely high resolution imagery allowed us to “read” the rocks as if you are standing very close to the cliff,” adding, “Unfortunately we don’t have the ability to climb, to look at the finer-scale details, but the striking similarities to sedimentary rocks on Earth leaves very little to the imagination.” Their study was published in the journal Nature Communications and can be read in full here.
Hopefully this new technology can aid scientists in examining even more planets. “Now we have the technology to extend this methodology to another terrestrial planet, Mars, which hosts an ancient sedimentary rock record which extends even further back in time than our own,” noted William McMahon who is a geologist at Utrecht University.
Salese added that NASA’s Perseverance rover is scheduled to fly by the Red Planet in July or August of this year and it will explore other similar rock deposits located in different parts of the planet.
In hisexcellent catalogue, “MIB Encounters,” Gareth Medway includes a story that suggests the Men in Black might be nothing less than biological robots. Before we get to the matter of the MIB being something far removed from the human race, let’s take a look at biological robots in today’s world of science. On January 13 of this year, the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper ran an article titled “Scientists use stem cells from frogs to build first living robots.” In part, the article stated: “Researchers in the US have created the first living machines by assembling cells from African clawed frogs into tiny robots that move around under their own steam. One of the most successful creations has two stumpy legs that propel it along on its ‘chest’. Another has a hole in the middle that researchers turned into a pouch so it could shimmy around with miniature payloads. ‘These are entirely new lifeforms. They have never before existed on Earth,’ said Michael Levin, the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. ‘They are living, programmable organisms.'”
Do the Men in Black fall into the category of those “programmable organisms”? Let’s have a look at what we know about the MIB. We’ll begin with that aforementioned story that Gareth Medway highlights. It reads as follows: “The Christiansen family of Wildwood, New Jersey, who had seen a UFO on 22 November 1966, were interviewed by ‘the strangest looking man I’ve ever seen,’ wearing a thin black coat, who introduced himself as ‘Tiny’ from the ‘Missing Heirs Bureau.’ He spoke in a high, ‘tinny’ voice, in clipped words and phrases like a computer, ‘as if he were reciting everything from memory.’ His black trousers were too short, and ‘they could see a long thick green wire attached to the inside of his leg, it came up out of his socks and disappeared under his trousers.’ John Keel commented that he had not heard of this feature in other MIB cases: ‘Was Tiny wearing electric socks? Or was he a wired android operated by remote control?’ He departed in a black 1963 Cadillac.”
Now, to the theme of this article. First and foremost, the MIB are nothing like Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. The MIB-themed movies were good fun. They still are. But, by presenting the Men in Black as the employees of a secret organization that wipes out dangerous aliens, the assumption is they are human. They are not. There are so many weird issues surrounding the real MIB phenomena. Those same issues strongly suggest the Men in Black are something else entirely. Over the years I have addressed more than a few different theories for what the MIB might be. The list includes time-travelers, Tulpas/thought-forms, demons, extraterrestrials, inter-dimensional creatures, and more. But, let’s stay focused on that biological robot angle.
The fact is that the MIB do seem to act in a strange and robotic fashion. There is the matter of their skin. More than a few people who have been confronted by the Men in Black close-up have noticed something very strange. Eerie, in fact. In many cases, their faces appear to be plastic-like. Not unlike a nightmarish, hideous mannequin. Or a creepy old doll come to life. Moving on, Gareth Medway notes that the MIB talk in a very odd way. He mentioned they seem to recite “everything from memory.” I have several such cases in my files. In one case, the witness said the MIB appeared to have no actual understanding of what he/it was saying. The wording, the witness suspected, was programmed. On top of that, there’s the matter of the somewhat clumsy, jerky fashion of walking that the MIB have. Certainly, this is not described in every case, but there are more than a few such reports. Finally, there is the angle of food. Or, rather, from the perspective of the Men in Black, a distinct lack of food. That’s right: the MIB have a distinct aversion to food. They don’t even seem to know what food is. Perhaps, if the MIB are biological robots, they get their sustenance in a distinctly different way to us. None of this proves that the MIB are biological robots. But, specifically as an extremely controversial theory, it’s not a bad one.
Alleged UFO lights in Las VegasYouTube: The Hidden Underbelly
In 2020, there has been a massive spike in UFO sightings in the US, and over the past few months, several mysterious flying lights have been spotted in different parts of the country. The recent addition to the list is an alleged UFO sighting in Las Vegas. A video uploaded to YouTube by the conspiracy theory channel 'The Hidden Underbelly 2.0' shows bizarre flying objects streaking across the skies in the most mysterious manner.
Mysterious UFO that appeared in Las Vegas
The UFOs spotted in the skies of Las Vegas hovered in a diamond formation, illuminating their bodies. The collection of orbs then appears to fly next to each other, before vanishing in the skies.
In the same video, the uploader added footage of another alleged UFO sighting in Richmond, Virginia. This sighting happened in broad daylight, showing bright orbs traveling across the skies in a bizarre formation.
As the video uploaded by The Hidden Underbelly went viral, viewers also shared their theories to explain the bizarre UFO sightings. Most of the viewers said that the flying objects could most probably be alien vessels from deep space. According to the alien enthusiasts, advanced extraterrestrials have been visiting the earth for hundreds of thousands of years to monitor human activities.
"That there is an extremely high possibility that we are actually being visited by non-human lifeforms. Now non-believers let that set in," commented Terry's Theories, a YouTube user.
"That diamond shape was cool how it spun around," commented Curtis Hill, another YouTuber.
However, some other users suggested that US President Donald Trump's proposed space force may already be operational in space, conducting routine patrolling of the skies.
Is alien disclosure imminent?
A section of conspiracy theorists believes that the US government is gearing up for an alien disclosure. Rumors regarding alien disclosure swirled after the Pentagon officially released three UFO videos that showed a bizarre flying craft screeching across the skies at mindblowing speed.
Conspiracy theorists believe that alien disclosure is a gradual procedure, arguing that the release of the videos is the first step aimed at informing the public about the existence of flying saucers.
They include all of the reported sightings in the UK between 2009 and 2000.
Over that nine-year period there were 156 reported sightings in Yorkshire, as people claimed to see everything from bright beams of light to something that "looked like a jellyfish flying in the sky".
You can take a look below at some of the strangest incidents that were recorded by the Ministry of Defence.
2009
In Bradford on February 20, someone saw "two strange lights" behind the clouds and they "appeared to be playing with each other and pretending to crash into each other" while a third light hovered underneath them.
On April 26 in Huddersfield a witness gave a detailed account after they spotted a mysterious flying object.
The report states: "A black spherical object 12m in diameter. It was 500ft up and travelling at 500 mph. It made no sound. It had a light on but switched it off when the witness shone a torch at it."
In Wakefield on May 24, someone spotted "a white object with a silver beam coming from it" and said it "change shape as it moved" over Pugney's Country Park.
In June, an air traffic controller was working in North Yorkshire when he saw bright orange lights. He said one of them was "followed by a group of three and then another single light".
On September 2, someone in Filey saw a "brilliant and dazzling pure white horizontal ring of light" and they said it "appeared to be perfectly still in the sky above the houses and was totally silent".
2008
On February 28, someone claimed they saw "30 UFOs" flying over Bingley.
Shortly after 12.20am on June 8, people in Middleton and Ilkley saw "five orange objects and then one orange 'blob" in the sky.
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On June 20 in Doncaster someone reported a "metallic, capsule-shaped object" which was "going quite fast and didn't slow down at any point" but didn't make a sound.
Later that month (June 22) a man in Wakefield claimed he saw "five bright, oval-shaped orange lights" in the sky and three of them were in a group while the others were travelling behind.
On July 20, someone in Scarborough saw "a cork shaped object that glowed like an angel fly up and over some trees".
How many sightings were reported in Yorkshire?
2000 - 15 sightings
2001 - 17 sightings
2002 - 8 sightings
2003 - 5 sightings
2004 - 9 sightings
2005 -28 sightings
2006 -3 sightings
2007 - 9 sightings
2008 - 24 sightings
2009 - 38 sightings
2007
A person in Huddersfield said they saw "a moon shaped object that kept reappearing every two minutes" and "it swerved rapidly to the left and right at different levels above the horizon" on July 6.
On August 4 in Sheffield someone saw "two strange objects followed by three others" and said "they were bright and fire coloured and spinning and moving very fast across the sky".
In Wakefield, someone saw a grey fast-moving "elongated triangular shaped object with rounded corners" on August 7.
Artist's illustration of the super-hot exoplanet WASP-79b, located 780 light
years away. The planet orbits precariously close to a star that is much hotter than our sun. The planet is larger than Jupiter, and its very deep, hazy atmosphere sizzles at 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit — the temperature of molten glass.
We can now add atmospheric craziness to WASP-79b's already substantial exotic appeal.
The gas-giant exoplanet, which lies about 780 light-years from Earth, circles extremely close to its bright host star, completing one orbit every 3.7 Earth days. That proximity makes WASP-79b scorching hot, with an average temperature around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius), NASA officials said.
All that heat puffs up WASP-79b substantially, making it one of the largest alien worlds ever observed. Although WASP-79b is just 85% as massive as Jupiter, it's 1.7 times wider than our solar system's biggest planet.
Then there's the alien world's air, which researchers have now probed in considerable detail. Iron rain likely falls through WASP-79b's skies, which probably sport a very alien yellowish hue, a recent study reports. (Yellow on the dayside, that is; like other "hot Jupiters," WASP-79b is likely tidally locked to its host star, always showing it the same face.)
The scientists behind the new research studied WASP-79b's atmosphere using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Magellan Consortium's Magellan II Telescope in Chile. These observations showed no signs of "Rayleigh scattering," a phenomenon in which small, high-altitude dust particles cause wavelengths of starlight to disperse differentially.
Rayleigh scattering explains why Earth's sky is blue: This color of light has a very short wavelength and therefore bounces around a lot more than other colors do. It's unclear why this phenomenon may not be occurring on WASP-79b, study team members said.
"This is a strong indication of an unknown atmospheric process that we're just not accounting for in our physical models. I've shown the WASP-79b spectrum to a number of colleagues, and their consensus is 'that's weird,'" lead author Kristin Showalter Sotzen, a graduate student in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, said in a statement.
"Because this is the first time we've seen this, we're really not sure what the cause is," Sotzen said. "We need to keep an eye out for other planets like this because it could be indicative of unknown atmospheric processes that we don't currently understand. Because we only have one planet as an example, we don't know if it's an atmospheric phenomenon linked to the evolution of the planet."
The iron rain feature, while also exotic, is perhaps not quite so rare. For example, the hot Jupiter WASP-76b seems to sport this type of alien precipitation as well. ("WASP," by the way, stands for "Wide Angle Search for Planets," the international consortium that discovered these and a number of other alien worlds.)
We could learn quite a bit more about WASP-79b in the not-too-distant future. Hubble also spotted signs of water vapor in the planet's atmosphere, a discovery that put WASP-79b on the early target list for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, agency officials said.
The $9.8 billion James Webb is scheduled to launch next year on a mission to peer at the universe's earliest stars and galaxies, study nearby exoplanets for possible signs of life (though we certainly wouldn't expect that in WASP-79b's skies), and much more.
The sixth X-37B flight will carry more experiments than any previous program mission.
The U.S. military's mysterious X-37B space planeis just 10 days away from launching on its next mission.
The X-37B is scheduled to lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on May 16, kicking off the sixth mission for the robotic vehicle, Space Force and Air Force officials announced today (May 6).
"This important mission will host more experiments than any prior X-37B flight, including two NASA experiments," Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said today during a webinar hosted by the nonprofit Space Foundation.
A U.S. Air Force X-37B space plane, encapsulated ahead of a planned May 16, 2020, launch. That liftoff will kick off the sixth mission for the X-37B program. (Image credit: U.S. Air Force)
One of those NASA payloads will examine the effects of space radiation on seeds, and the other will assess the performance of various materials in the space environment, Barrett explained.
Another experiment, designed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, "transforms solar power into radio-frequency microwave energy, then studies transmitting that energy to Earth," she said.
Another view of the encapsulated X-37B, a robotic vehicle that's about 29 feet (8.8 meters) long. (Image credit: U.S. Air Force)
The upcoming mission, known as OTV-6 (short for "Orbital Test Vehicle-6") and Space Force-7, will also deploy FalconSat-8, a small satellite developed by the U.S. Air Force Academy that itself carries five separate experiments.
To accommodate these and other payloads, the space plane has been outfitted with a service module for OTV-6 — a first for the X-37B program, Air Force officials said in a statement today.
The Air Force has two X-37B vehicles that we know of, both of which were built by Boeing. The vehicles look like NASA's old space shuttle orbiters, only much smaller. Each X-37B is 29 feet (8.8 meters) long by 9.5 feet (2.9 m) tall, with a wingspan of about 15 feet (4.6 m) and a payload bay the size of a pickup truck bed.
For comparison, each space shuttle was 122 feet (37 m) long with a wingspan of 78 feet (24 m).
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will launch the next X-37B mission stands stacked at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (Image credit: United Launch Alliance)
The X-37B allows the U.S. military to test a variety of new tech in the space environment and return the gear to the ground for analysis. Many of the payloads that go up are classified, and military officials tend not to disclose many details of the vehicles' activities in orbit.
"The X-37B team continues to exemplify the kind of lean, agile and forward-leaning technology development we need as a nation in the space domain," Gen. Jay Raymond, the U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations, said in today's statement. (The newly formed Space Force, which is part of the Department of the Air Force, is responsible for X-37B launches, orbital operations and landings.)
"Each launch represents a significant milestone and advancement in terms of how we build, test and deploy space capabilities in a rapid and responsive manner," Raymond added.
It's unclear how long OTV-6 will last, but precedent suggests that the mission will be a sustained one. Each OTV flight has broken duration records for the program, and OTV-5, which landed in October 2019, circled Earth for 780 days.
The five previous X-37B missions racked up a combined 2,865 days in orbit, Barrett said. That's about 7 years and 10 months of off-Earth technology testing.
Scientists find black hole lurking only 1000 light years from Earth – ‘there may be more’
In the night sky, far south of the equator, there’s a curious collection of faint constellations embedded in the tapestry of stars. They do not bear the names of myths and legends, because the ancient Greeks couldn’t see them from the Northern Hemisphere. These constellations were charted later, in the mid-18th century, by a French astronomer who sailed south, and he named them in honor of some rather mundane objects of his own time: a telescope, a microscope, a pendulum clock, an easel, various other tools and chisels. “It looked like somebody’s attic!” an American astronomer later remarked. And just like a cluttered attic, this corner of sky has been hiding something truly remarkable.
Astronomers have discovered a black hole in one of the constellations, the suitably named Telescopium. At just 1,000 light-years away, the black hole is closer to our solar system than any other that astronomers have found to date. A thousand light-years might sound distant to us, but in cosmic proportions, it’s very close. “On the scale of the Milky Way, it’s in our backyard,” Thomas Rivinius, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile who led the new research, told me. “Almost on our doorstep.” For comparison, consider some of the best-known black holes in astronomy, the ones usually intriguing enough to make headlines. The black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is more than 25,000 light-years away, and the black hole that astronomers captured in unprecedented detail last year lies 55 million light-years away, in another galaxy altogether.
This one, by contrast, is so close that, on a clear night in the Southern Hemisphere, far from light pollution, the pair of stars that orbit the black hole can be seen with the naked eye. From here, the stars appear as a single pinprick of light. So, if this black hole is, at least in astronomical terms, right there, how has it eluded astronomers for so long? Well, there’s the obvious: Black holes are invisible. The way to find the darkest points in the universe is to look for luminous clues around them. Most of the black holes that astronomers have found in our galaxy—a few dozen—were spotted because they were devouring nearby stars, pulling material into their maws and past a point of no return. That process is so luminous that not only can black holes be detected from Earth, but they’re actually quite difficult to avoid. “Sometimes they become the brightest objects in the sky,” says Erin Kara, an astrophysicist at MIT who studies black holes and was not involved in the latest discovery. In fact, some black holes emit so much radiation while they feed that telescopes can’t look at them without frying their electronics, Kara says.
Don’t worry: Despite its proximity to Earth, the black hole is no danger to us. It’s a blip compared to the one at the center of our own galaxy, which has a mass 4 million times that of our sun. And, as far as humanity is concerned, it’s not close enough to pose any kind of threat. “One has to be very close to it to be sucked in,” Rivinius said. There are many more like it. Black holes are the by-products of aging stars that exploded in spectacular fashion at the end of their lifetime. Such supernovas can, briefly, outshine entire galaxies, but nearby, companion stars can survive the cataclysm, which explains why HR 6819 still exists. Astronomers estimate there are hundreds of millions of black holes in our galaxy. The latest discovery gives them hope that there are others lurking around nearby stars, perhaps even some of the most familiar points of light in our sky. “It’s important to emphasize that it’s the closest we’ve found yet,” says Sera Markoff, an astrophysicist at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the team that produced last year’s historic black-hole photo. “There might be closer ones.” –The Atlantic
David Farrier Of Netflix Dark Tourist And David Roth Of Deadspin Bully UFO Eyewitnesses On Twitter, UFO Sighting World News.
Hey everyone, I just came from Twitter where I was trying to talk to two famous people, one writer and one actor. Maybe you have heard of them. David Roth a writer for Deadspin and SB Nation. The other, David Farrier the lead actor on Netflix show called Dark Tourist and a Hulu show called Tickled. Being semi celebrities they should be more caring and thoughtful to others feelings, but they go and attack eyewitnesses of UFO sightings trying to intimidate and embarrass...basically bullying those who claim to have seen UFOs. I do not tolerate those who bully others. Its horrible that those two social influencers are spreading such cruel and heartless messages to the public. The world is changing and the public is becoming more confident about coming out and telling the world their story of their UFO sighting. We must protect those can't protect themselves. Of course I responded in defense of those who have been fortunate enough to have had UFO sighings. Read my tweets below. Scott C. Waring
Scott C. Waring, World Famous Researcher.@SCWbooks
@david_j_roth@davidfarrier@netflix@deadspin Tens of thousands have a UFO sighting daily. They need to feel confident that others will believe them, not to feel afraid that others will attack them with cruel and heartless assumptions and make fun of them. Stop bullying people!
Scott C. Waring, World Famous Researcher.@SCWbooks
@david_j_roth@davidfarrier@netflix@deadspin David, How dare you say that! Let me name a few who had a UFO sighting, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, John Lennon, Astronaut Kovalyonok, Astronaut Afanasyev, Astronaut James McDivitt, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut Gordon Cooper,
Here we have a glowing astronaut on the moon. Its from the Apollo 12 mission from 1969. How is it even possible that an astronaut walking on the moon is glowing? It shouldn't be possible.
We also know the its not a reflection, since there are other other things in the photo. Its not because the suit is white, because other things in the photo are white, but they don't glow.
I believe an alien entity entered this astronauts body and the entity was leaving, and got caught on film. Why would I think this? Because the Apollo 12 rocket was hit by lightning on liftoff, not once...but twice! That is almost impossible. The odds of lightning striking twice in the same place are astronomical. Yet NASA stated that the Apollo 12 rocket was hit twice by lighting on takeoff and no damage was taken. The rocket should have exploded since it was full of rocket fuel to go to the moon and back to earth, yet it had no damage...let me tell you why.
So...twice means two entities doesn't it? The lightning was actually two energy entities entering the rocket and entering the bodies of two of the astronauts. Yes, so I wonder who the other astronaut was the carried the alien entity within them?
Energy entities are the most highly advanced of any species alien species out there. They probably wanted to see first hand (without interrupting the astronauts thinking in any way) how the astronauts reacted as they entered space and how they did their job from within the capsule. Energy entities don't use ships or drones, they just enter the objects to share the experience and learn from it. May sound strange...that a alien entity is so powerful they could enter a human body, but one day humans may evolve to such a level...in a few billion years.
Scott C. Waring - UFOlogist
November 14th, 1969, Apollo 12 is struck by lightning on take off.
This huge unidentified flying object was filmed over West Wickham, a suburban area of South East London, England. Filmed on 6th May 2020.
Witness report:
Bright light bigger than star. I noticed big bright light fairly bigger than star and quite low around 11pm. I took a picture and a video it looked like a orb with few rings inside. I checked on it 20min later and was gone.
It was a meteorite that crashed in Siberia in 1908! No, it was a comet! No, it was a bomb! No, it was a UFO crash! No, it was a methane explosion! No, it was a visit by an angry Evanki god called Ogdy! No, it was …
Something packing the force of what has been described as 185 Hiroshima bombs hit a fortunately deserted area of Siberia near the Tunguska River in 1908 – destroying an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 sq km (830 sq miles) – but the space rock or bomb or whatever caused it has never been identified, especially since there’s no impact crater or reliable eyewitnesses. An air burst from a meteor disintegrating in the atmosphere generally gets the most votes, but it’s far from unanimous. Now, new research suggests a similar yet different cause for the Tunguska Event … and that cause may still be around. Should we be worried? Is this the winner? Don’t place your bets … yet.
Trees leveled by the Tunguska explosion.
“We have studied the conditions of through passage of asteroids with diameters 200, 100, and 50 metres, consisting of three types of materials – iron, stone, and water ice, across the Earth’s atmosphere with a minimum trajectory altitude in the range 10 to 15 kilometres.”
In the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr. Sergei Karpov and fellow researchers at the Kirensky Physics Institute in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, focused their attention on a select group of asteroids or various sizes, composed of what they believe the Tunguska rock might have been and traveling at a trajectory estimated to be the same as the event-causer. The model generated what each size and composition would have on 1908 Tunguska.
The icy space rock was eliminated early because it would have melted before achieving maximum destruction. The stone space rock would have come closer, but it still would have disintegrated and left a trail of debris and a possible crater. That left the brick house built by the third little pig … sorry, the iron space rock. After manipulating the sizes, the researchers delivered their verdict and Science Alert reported it:
“According to the team’s calculations, the most likely culprit is an iron meteorite between 100 and 200 metres (320 to 650 feet) across that flew 3,000 kilometres (1,800 miles) through the atmosphere.”
“The meteor passed over 3,000 kilometres (1,865 miles) of the planet’s surface at the lowest altitude of 10 to 15 kilometres (6.2 to 9.3 miles), they believe. It travelled at a phenomenal 20 kilometres per second speed (12.4 miles per second) before exiting into the outer space shredding about half of its over 30 million tonnes weight on the way.”
That’s right – the model concludes that the Tunguska Event was caused by the shock wave of a 200-meter-wide iron asteroid that ripped through the atmosphere, losing half of its mass along the way … but not all of it. The 100-meter-wide asteroid blasted back into space, explaining why it leftno impact crater in Siberia. What about all of the iron chunks and shavings it lost in its flight through the atmosphere? That is explained by its incredible speed and altitude, says Science Alert:
“It would never have dropped below 11.2 kilometres per second (7 mps), or below an altitude of 11 kilometres.”
“The lack of iron debris is also explained by this high velocity, since the object would be moving too fast, and would be too hot, to drop much. Any mass lost would be through the sublimation of individual iron atoms, which would look exactly like normal terrestrial oxides.”
Those oxides would have remained behind in the higher atmosphere and explain the bright glow witnessed that same night across Europe.
If this sounds similar to the Chelyabinsk Event of 2013, you’re right. However, that one exploded before it could escape and, while destructive, caused far less damage than found in Tunguska.
Is it time for bookies to pay those with “Iron asteroid which went back into space” bets? The researchers are still hesitate to credit their model with an indisputable answer. Are we in any danger of this killer iron asteroid coming back? You’re probably more likely to be done in by an iron deficiency or tripping over an anvil.
That is a question that has surfaced in the last few days, as a result of the controversy surrounding my new book, The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy. On the issue of how Ufology discovered the story, there’s no doubt at all that it was the team of Brenda Butler, Dot Street and Jenny Randles that got the ball rolling. They were the authors of the very first book on the mystery, Sky Crash, which was published in 1984. There is also no doubt that without their combined investigations, our knowledge of the incidents would be nowhere compared to where we are today. Possibly, even, without those three persistent investigators the truth behind those incidents would have remained hidden and locked away. Forever? I would not bet against it. That gives you some idea of the depth and determination of Dot, Jenny and Brenda to get the answers.
A bit of background for you on how the story began to surface: Brenda lived not at all far from the forest and had more than a few contacts in the region. Notably, that included friends who were employees of the U.S. military. It wasn’t one hundred percent inevitable that Brenda would hear tales of something strange having taken place just outside the confines of RAF Woodbridge. It was, however, highly likely that such a thing would eventually occur. And as the history books have shown, such a thing did occur. Dot and Brenda were friends and decided to take a deep and careful look at the story. Jenny Randles joined their team soon after, in early 1981. The three were soon hot on the trail of the story – and barely a month after Lieutenant Colonel Halt had put his memo on the incidents together for the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense. And, the three women never looked back. It was a story that suggested, just maybe, a spacecraft from a faraway world had come down in the woods. In the world of Ufology, this was a development that could not have been envisaged just a short period earlier. One of the key sources for the story who the three women relied on – and whose unforgettable words galvanized the trio to look ever deeper into the story – was the pseudonymous “Steve Roberts.” Such was the sensitivity surrounding the man and his story of a UFO event in the woods, he was careful to mask his real name.
It was, to a large degree, the words of their source that caught the attention of Street, Butler and Randles. They did a very good, solid job of pursuing the story. It was soon published. Sky Crash makes for fascinating reading. Shadowy characters, Ministry of Defense chicanery, sinister goings-on in the woods, tales of extraterrestrial visitation, and military figures hiding their real names for fear of what might happen to them, were just the start of things. In the weeks and months that followed, the Ministry of Defense proved to be highly close-mouthed when it came to discussing the December incidents with members of the public and the media. No surprise. They were even more cautious about chatting with an energized team of UFO sleuths who weren’t going to give up. That’s Jenny, Dot and Brenda, of course.
In some ways, the MoD was unable to do very much about it, as wild rumors of the startling events were already seeping out. Eventually matters would develop into a chaotic torrent. To demonstrate how incredibly careful and determined the MoD was to try and keep matters under wraps, it was not until April 13, 1983 that an official admission was made to Jenny Randles that a handful of “lights” had been seen in the vicinity of Rendlesham Forest and that remained “unexplained.” That’s right: two years passed before the rumors of something very strange and non-human having been seen in Rendlesham Forest began to unravel in the world of intelligence and the military. Those who were hiding the truth were now in the dangerous position of losing control of the situation.
Almost two months later to the day, a copy of Lieutenant Colonel Halt’s memo was declassified in accordance with the laws of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. It was provided to a now-deceased American UFO investigator, Robert Todd. In a June 14, 1983 letter to Todd, Colonel Peter Bent – who, at the time, was the Commander of the 513th Combat Support Group (CSG) – made an amazement statement. He said: “It might interest you to know that the U.S. Air Force had no longer retained a copy of the 13 January 1981 letter written by Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt. The Air Force file copy had been properly disposed of in accordance with Air Force regulations. Fortunately, through diligent inquiry and the gracious consent of Her Majesty’s government, the British Ministry of Defense and the Royal Air Force, the U.S. Air Force was provided with a copy for you.”
It wasn’t long at all before Brenda, Dot and Jenny found themselves in a runaround. Curiously, during the course of an interview with MoD spokeswoman Pam Titchmarsh on August 18, 1983, Randles was told that – contrary to the statement made by Colonel Bent – the Ministry of Defense had not supplied the Americans with a copy of Halt’s memorandum. Notably, Titchmarsh was very wary about discussing the case with Randles, who had made a trip down to London with Street and Butler. “I wouldn’t know,” was Titchmarsh’s uneasy and succinct reply when Randles asked her if the MoD’s “operational staff” had built up their own files on the case. Nevertheless, since a copy of the Halt memo had been released to Robert Todd by U.S. authorities, Titchmarsh was – at the very least – obliged to admit that her department in the MoD (Defense Secretariat 8) did have a copy of Halt’s report on file. Despite that, the Ministry of Defense denied that the events of December 1980 were of any kind of defense significance. That denial of anything strange having occurred continues.
For as many people out there who believe in UFOs and that they are something beyond our current ability to understand, there are probably just as many skeptics who seek to debunk it all and explain it away. This might be because they really believe there are mundane answers, or in some cases it may be because they are trying to hide something and keep it from public scrutiny, but whatever the reasons, what happens when one of these skeptics sees something themselves that changes their mind? What if that person was an official with the government charged with being a skeptic and debunker as his profession? Here we have a wild story of an alleged former military official, whose job it was to create cover-ups and sweep away the truth, only to admit years later that the truth was not that clear or easy to dismiss.
Back in the 1950s the main driving force behind the U.S. government’s efforts to investigate the UFO phenomenon and one of the most well-known of a series of such projects was a little something called Project Blue Book. Started in 1952, it was conducted by the United States Air Force with the aim of scientifically analyzing UFO data and determining if UFOs posed any sort of threat to national security. Up until its closure in 1969, the project would investigate thousands of reports of unidentified flying objects, and while they were ostensibly set up to try and figure out what was going on, mostly it seemed that their job was to find whatever mundane explanation they could find to stuff any given report into. At times they seem to have been almost damage control with the public, to sweep it all away in order to avoid panic, and they would officially claim to have never found any evidence at all of these objects representing a national threat or of consisting of any sort of extraterrestrial vehicles or proof of some anomalous advanced technology. They spent a lot of time debunking, in other words, and one of their chief debunkers was supposedly a man by the name of Lieutenant Colonel Richard French.
Lieutenant Colonel Richard French
French’s main job with Project Blue Book was to allegedly explain away any and all UFO reports in digestible ways that the public could handle. He not only shot down fakes, but also managed to sweep away any reports that were not convenient or were annoyingly difficult to explain, and you can bet that Venus, Jupiter, and swamp gas were in his bag of tricks. What makes French’s story so interesting is that while his job was to downplay or outright dismiss these reports, he at one point had his own astounding experience that was not so easy to explain away, and wouldn’t be uncovered until long after he had retired.
In 2013, French was part of a Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in Washington D.C. where he testified on his experiences in Project Blue Book, along with a panel of six former members of Congress, and he had some interesting things to say. His own experience apparently happened in the early 1950s, when he was a young man out off the coast of St. John’s, in Newfoundland. At the time he had been called to investigate what was being called a “UFO crash,” and made his way to the location to find a crowd of people bunched up together on a wharf looking out over the grey water. French would explain of the situation:
They said, ‘We have a UFO report and we want you to investigate it,’ and that was standard for what I was doing. They told me there were two of them involved and that they were deep under the water, after entering the water doing roughly 100 miles an hour. There were a lot of people assembled on the wharf, at least 100 standing around just looking in amazement at the water, including several local policemen.
Considering he had spent his career up to that point debunking such reports and had been very good at it, French didn’t really expect to see much. Yet, when he looked out across the relatively clear waters, he said he could notice that there was definitely something weird going on. There under the surface about 20 feet from shore he says he could see two disc-shaped craft about 18 feet in diameter and approximately 3 feet thick, both of which seemed to just be hovering there as the gawking bystanders watched on in bafflement. In addition to the two objects, he also says that he then noticed that there were two diminutive humanoid beings also there in that frigid water, who seemed to be in the process of trying to repair the downed craft. French would say of these creatures and the scene playing out before him:
They were about 2 or 3 feet tall, light grey in color, very thin, long arms with either two or three fingers. The top of their heads was much wider than their jaw line, their eyes were very slanted and you couldn’t see pupils in them. They looked the way [aliens] have been depicted in motion pictures. The first thing I saw was the UFOs, and it was apparent to me that they were doing something to the craft, and I couldn’t really tell what because they were on the bottom side of it and not visible to me except when they would occasionally get over to the side where I could see them. The water was fairly clear and I could see without any trouble. They weren’t down at the bottom of the [seabed] — they were about half way down.
When it hit the [surface], it was going about 100 miles an hour. It then accelerated to somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 to 3,000 miles an hour and disappeared. It returned about 20 minutes later, slowed down to nearly a stop before it entered the water, then went down, and the two [beings] worked together. It took them about 20 minutes and then the two ships departed together, again slow when they exited the water, and immediately they sped up to a very high speed. I believe they were repairing [the ship] and tested that the repairs had been adequate, and then away they went.
He says that despite what he saw he would keep it to himself and even tried to downplay the whole even that he himself had witnessed. According to him, he used evasive terminology and sort of brushed it off, even though he knows what he saw, and he says of what he was told to tell the public:
If someone had a UFO sighting, I and another agent would try to come up with some logical explanation for this strange aerial appearance. We gave our analysis and tried to debunk [sightings] by saying it was swamp fog or that the thing they saw was actually hanging on wires. Needless to say, it was a fictitious report, as all of them were. I didn’t really say that they were UFOs — I said that there was something we didn’t know — some type of foreign or unrecognizable vehicle there. In other words, I weasel-worded it. But Oh, I think without a doubt it (the Newfoundland object) was a UFO and I think there were aliens aboard it. There’s no question in my mind that was exactly what it was, and my duty was to debunk the story, so I did my best to do so.
Venus
Is any of this for real? It must be noted that French has a bit of a history of making bold UFO claims. He is also on the record as claiming that the famed 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, was actually way weirder than even most people think. According to him, there was not one alien spacecraft crash, but two, with one apparently shot down by a U.S. plane using experimental technology a few days after the first crash. French has said of this to the Huffington Post:
There were actually two crashes at Roswell, which most people don’t know The first one was shot down by an experimental US airplane that was flying out of White Sands… and it shot what was effectively an electronic pulse-type weapon that disabled and took away all the controls of the UFO, and that’s why it crashed. When they hit it with that electromagnetic pulse– bingo!– there goes all their electronics and, consequently, the UFO was uncontrollable. It was within a few miles of where the original crash was. We think that the reason they were in there… was to try and recover parts and any survivors of the first crash. I’m [referring to] the people from outer space– the guys whose UFO it was. It had inscriptions on it that looked like it was in an Arabic language– it was like a part number on each one of them.
Of course, the Roswell crash is famous for having been explained away as a downed weather balloon after the military backtracked from initially stating that it was a crashed disc, but it has been debated and picked apart ad nauseum ever since. How does French’s own testimony on all of this fit in, if at all? Is he telling the truth or is this just another delusional supposed witness coming forward with tall tales and fictitious ramblings? It certainly seems that his credentials are impressive so what are we to think of all of this? Why would someone go from a professional skeptic and debunker to a believer unless there was a very good reason? Is he the real deal or a loon? Whatever side of the fence you fall on and whatever one may think, it certainly is at the very least a very strange and wild ride.
Secret Space Whistleblower on Underground Bases! Secret Alien Experiments and Hidden Advanced Technology
What type of entities are interacting with humanity and what does the U.S. government really know. Whistleblower Emery Smith reveals startling information pertaining to ET examinations and the Advanced Technology used at Underground Bases.
Emery Smith is a US Air Force veteran with a long history of assignments in highly classified, deep-black covert operations. He has been directly involved in autopsying and collecting tissue samples of over 3000 different species of extraterrestrials.
Additionally, he says he has personally witnessed multiple crashed UFOs in possession of the military and has studied their composition and operational characteristics. There are many fascinating and direct correlations between Emery’s testimony and those of other insiders, researchers and authors. He has appeared in the film “Sirius” and Cosmic Disclosure.
Secret Experiments on Aliens and Hidden Advanced Technology – Whistleblower Speaks Out!
If You See These Insects Now, You Will Run For Your Life
The one thing that you don’t want, is to wake up and find a creepy slimy millipede in your bed. Look at the size of this thing, I guess now you’re grateful that the only things you see crawling around are roaches.
Let’s get into the world of giant Dragonflies and huge sea worms, these are the world’s most dangerous horrifying insects. Relax, all of them are long gone.
Guess what!? some of this giant insects have super large wings of 30 inches or 70 centimeters in size.Some of these insects in their day were able to take out animals that were almost the size of humans, luckily even with their predatory dominance they could not escape extinction.
The is black structure above is about half a mile long but looks to be almost new. Its made of a black material to keep it hidden and make it blend into the shadows. There were two other structures near this black one. One looked very old and fungus like and the other looked like a ship, since it was sitting above the surface. Many structures have been reported over the years in Tycho crater, and this just adds to that evidence.
"Someone or something is plunging humanity into darkness…Shout Studios has released an official trailer for a sci-fi action thriller titled The Blackout: Invasion Earth (2020). The movie is available, everywhere from June 2, 2020.
Thanks to Firstshowing.net who writes the following regarding to this new movie:
Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space.
What military forces find outside "the Ring" is shocking. There are dead everywhere: in stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations.
Who or what is destroying all life on Earth? How long will the last outpost of mankind survive? But I'm not really sure what the heck is going on. Aliens?
Is this movie another Hollywood pre-warning for an unprecedented event we may expect soon? Watch the trailer and listen carefully to the dialogue in the movie.
This bright unidentified flying object was seen and filmed over Oregon, Alaska from a plane (Alaska Airline) on 28th February 2020.
Witness report:
A small high speed lighted object .Fast compared to the Jet I was on approach in. I saw this after the fact. While i was seeing how good my new pocket digital camcorder was! Bam one of the first things i found. At 5 seconds and stopped on my large screen, It looks like a Tic Tac.UFO.
Over 10,000 Extremely Rare Relics Unearthed From Ming Battlefield
Chinese archaeologists have made a historic discovery. Along with thousands of other artifacts, they have unearthed a very rare gold imperial seal that was possibly used by the heir apparent of an emperor of China. The seal was found with a treasure trove of objects in what is believed to be a Ming battlefield. This precious artifact comes from a turbulent period in the history of China, which saw the fall of the Ming and the rise of Qing Dynasty .
The remarkable item was uncovered during the latest archaeological mission at the Jiangkou Chenyin historic site, which is in Sichuan, in the southwest of the vast nation. It was acclaimed as one of “China's top 10 archaeological discoveries in 2017,” according to Xinhua.net. It was unearthed at a site of a dried riverbed that measures 53,820 square feet (5,000 meters) in area.
10,000 Artifacts Unearthed From Ancient Ming Battlefield
The excavation site, known as Jiangkou Chenyin, is on the “Jiangkou stretch of the Minjiang River in Meishan City,” reports Xinhua.net. This area came to the attention of the authorities after historical artifacts were washed up on the shore. It was widely suspected that this section of the river was the scene of a battle during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The local authorities organized a massive engineering project to drain a section of the river, so that it could be investigated by archaeologists.
The riverbed/Ming battlefield excavation site where the 10,000 relics were found.
CGTN reports that “during the first two rounds at the Ming battlefield site in 2017 and 2018, archaeologists unearthed more than 42,000 relics.” Some 10,000 more artifacts were uncovered during the latest round of excavations, including gold and silver coins during the most recent work.
The imperial seal is regarded as the most significant find. Liu Zhiyan, the lead archaeologist, called the symbol of royal power “the only one of its kind in the world,” reports The Daily Mail . The seal measures 3 inches by one inch (10 x 3 cm) and has a knob shaped into a tortoise. It is made of 95% pure gold.
The golden seal pictured showing the tortoise shaped knob, which was found at what is believed to be a Ming battlefield site.
The Daily Mail reports that the item is carved with the characters “Shi Shu Zi Bao’ meaning treasure of the Shu Prince.” This is proof that it belonged to the imperial house and was possibly the personal property of the heir apparent to the Chinese throne.
The unidentified prince was a member of the Ming Dynasty, who ruled between 1368 and 1644. This dynasty had expelled the Mongols, and it made China very prosperous and powerful before it began to decline at the start of the 17 th century, because of famines and a war with the Manchus.
It is believed that the imperial seal was lost during a massive peasant rebellion during the fall of the Ming Empire. It is believed to have come into the possession of Zhang Xianzhong, often known as the ‘Yellow Tiger’, the leader of a peasant army that conquered southwest China as the Ming state disintegrated.
Pictured is a gold coin unearthed from the Ming battlefield excavation site.
The gold seal was found shattered in four pieces in the riverbed. The Daily Mail quotes Mr. Zhiyan as saying that “the most plausible theory is that he had the seal split into four to symbolize the end of the Ming Dynasty.” Xianzhong proclaimed himself emperor, but he was not to enjoy his power for long as he was forced by the invading Manchus to flee from the city of Chengdu in 1646.
Rise of the Qing Dynasty
Historical records show that as he was fleeing the Manchus, he was ambushed on the River Minjiang by general Yang Zhan, who was still loyal to the old dynasty. During this battle, the peasant warlord lost an armada of ships and his entire treasure. It appears that the seal along with the other artifacts went down with the ships destroyed during the battle. Xianzhong escaped but he was hunted down and killed by the Manchus the following year, after he was betrayed by an associate.
The Manchus were originally from modern Manchuria and were not Han Chinese . They established a new dynasty known as the Qing, and they ruled China until 1912. For many years China prospered under their rule, but they were never accepted by most of their subjects who viewed them as foreign invaders.
A Golden ornament excavated from the Ming battlefield site on Jiangkou stretch of the Minjiang River.
The discovery of the priceless seal is of great historical significance. The experts were able to confirm that the items had been deep in the clay for a long time. The Daily Mail quotes Mr. Zhiyan as stating that it is likely that “this section of the river is where likely Zhang Xianzhong and Yang Zhan crossed swords.”
While the mystery of the location of the battle has been resolved, the original owner of the seal is not yet known. The Daily Mail quotes Mr. Zhiyan as saying that “further historical research is needed to determine precisely which Shu prince the seal belonged to.”
The Chinese authorities are investing 500 yuan ($60 million) in the Jiangkou Chenyin site. This will include the construction of a museum. It is believed that many of the treasures found from the battle on the river will be put on display at the new institution.
Top image:Golden seal excavated from the Ming battlefield site on the Jiangkou stretch of the Minjiang River in Meishan City, southwest China. Source: Xinhua / Liu Kun
Tom Cruise is Literally Going to Outer Space to Shoot an Action Movie with Elon Musk’s SpaceX [Update]
Update: NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine says that this project will involve the International Space Station.
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The global superstar is set to literally leave the globe to star in a new movie which will be shot in space – and he’s teaming up with Elon Musk‘s SpaceX company to make it happen.
Deadline reports that this new Tom Cruise space movie is not a Mission: Impossible project, and that no studio is involved yet because it’s still early in development. But Cruise and SpaceX are working on the action/adventure project with NASA, and if it actually happens, it will be the first narrative feature film to be shot in outer space.
This is not the first time Cruise has flirted with leaving the Earth to make a movie. Twenty years ago (context: the same year Mission: Impossible II came out), none other than James Cameron approached Cruise and asked if he’d be interested in heading to the great unknown to make a movie together.
“I actually talked to [Cruise] about doing a space film in space, about 15 years ago,” Cameron said in 2018. “I had a contract with the Russians in 2000 to go to the International Space Station and shoot a high-end 3D documentary there. And I thought, ‘S—, man, we should just make a feature.’ I said, ‘Tom, you and I, we’ll get two seats on the Soyuz, but somebody’s gotta train us as engineers.’ Tom said, ‘No problem, I’ll train as an engineer.’ We had some ideas for the story, but it was still conceptual.”
Obviously that project never came together, but it sounds like Cameron may have planted a seed that some other filmmaker might get to harvest.
The fact that Musk, who is often the butt of jokes about how it seems like he could be a villain in a James Bond movie, is involved here (or at least his company is, so one assumes he will at least get an executive producer credit) is almost too perfect. Remember Moonraker? Bond went to space in that one. It’s…pretty bad. Fingers crossed this will turn out much, much better.
My favorite thing about Cruise is that he is in constant pursuit of perfection. He doesn’t always achieve it – see: Mummy, The – but by God, the dude is willing to lay it all on the line to entertain worldwide audiences, and he’s really effin’ good at it. Here’s hoping this actually comes together, and I’m extremely curious if this will end up being another Cruise/Christopher McQuarrie collaboration or if Cruise trusts any other director to lead him to these unprecedented heights.
Tom Cruise to shoot movie in SPACE with Elon Musk’s SpaceX: Is it new Mission: Impossible?
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Tom Cruise filming a movie in space was "inevitable" says Mission: Impossible director
The U.S. military establishment has finally publicly admitted that the infamous Tic-Tac UFO videos are real and the objects in them are unidentified. Do you believe them? Do you think the Pentagon has much more information about these flying objects that hasn’t been released? Of course it does … and most likely so does the Japanese military, which nonetheless has formally requested more data on them from the Pentagon. Will the Pentagon release all of it to Japan? Any of it? Should it?
“No SDF [Self-Defence Force] pilot has encountered a UFO. The videos have come from the US Defence Department so I would like to hear their analysis. I don’t really believe in UFOs. We would like to establish procedures in the event an encounter takes place with a UFO.”
South China Morning Post reports that Japan’s Defence Minister Taro Kono has appealed to the U.S. Defense Department for more info on UFOs which he himself doesn’t believe in. He also claims that no Japanese military pilot has ever encountered a UFO (more on the claim later) but, being a good Defense minister, he wants to develop a protocol so that they are prepared if that day ever happens. Or has it already happened, and this feigned disbelief is merely a cover-up?
“One of the people I have interviewed is Mamoru Sato, who was a wing commander in the Air Self-Defence Force, and who collected testimony from a number of military pilots who had interacted with UFOs. Those reports were met with ridicule and the authorities refused to take him seriously.”
Greg Sullivan, director of the Japan Centre for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, told the South China Morning Post of sightings by Japanese military pilots of a “flying saucer” at close range, a series of highly reflective craft moving at speeds beyond a conventional aircraft and others. Japan’s government has publicly denied the existence of UFOs before. Of course, ridicule and censorship of military pilots reporting UFOs is nothing new – U.S. pilots attest to this and have expressed relief and admiration for the pilots who admitted in public their sightings in the Tic-Tac incidents. However, the denial and cover-ups in Japan seem to extend beyond the military.
In 1994, the flying-saucer-shaped Cosmo Isle Hakui Space and UFO Museum was set to open in Japan with over 10,000 official documents relating to UFO phenomena gathered from multiple countries that would be available to researchers and to the general public. After an FBI investigation, the museum mysteriously switched to just offering memorabilia from space missions. And Japans’ former Prime Minister of Yukio Hatoyama (2009-2010) has intimate knowledge of one particular UFO encounter – that of his wife, Miyuki Hatoyama. In her book, Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered, she described her own UFO encounter in 1970.
“While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus… It was a very beautiful place, and it was very green.”
It’s a safe bet that both Japan and the U.S. know more about UFOs than either will admit to the public. Will they admit it to each other? In these days of fast-shifting alliances and increased military and space competition, that seems unlikely. Should they anyway? Knowledge is power, and the U.S. at the moment is struggling to maintain its place on top of the world power structure. If these are secret aircraft of a human enemy, keeping knowledge of them from further leaking could be considered crucial. Sharing secrets is a sign of trust – do the U.S. and Japan trust each other anymore?
On the other hand, if the Tic-Tacs are hostile alien crafts, wouldn’t an alliance against them be better than going it alone? If they’re not hostile, the U.S. would probably want to be the first to announce them just for the publicity, and giving the knowledge even to an ally runs the risk of leaking.
Bottom line? Japan probably knows about them already and this is just a front by both powers to keep the public at bay. Given the choice — and the fact that the world is getting stir-crazy from the coronavirus lockdowns – most people would probably opt for joining Miyuki Hatoyama on a triangular-shaped UFO to Venus.
No, our smaller satellite is not laughing at its big brother – then again, would you blame it if it did? Nor is it dead – in fact, it’s alive enough that cracks and ridges are forming and new rocks are showing up on its surface. There’s not a whole lotta shaking going on but it’s enough that scientists now believe that moonquakes are not just caused by long-term cooling and shrinkage but by tectonic plates still moving because of a massive event billions of years ago. Apparently, the Moon never forgets what is done to it. Anything you want to confess, Buzz Aldrin?
“New observations of wrinkle ridges on the nearside maria of the Moon display signs of ongoing ridge modification.”
In a press release announcing their new paper published in the journal Geology, co-authors Peter Schultz, a professor in Brown University’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and Adomas Valantinas, a graduate student at the University of Bern and a visiting scholar at Brown, reveal what made them think the Moon is not dead – ridges covered with “freshly exposed boulders.” Schulz was using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to study strange bare spots in the large dark patches on the Moon’s nearside – strange because just about all of the lunar surface is covered with ground-u-p rock (regolith) created by a constant bombardment of micro-meteorites due to its lack of an atmosphere.
“Exposed blocks on the surface have a relatively short lifetime because the regolith buildup is happening constantly. So when we see them, there needs to be some explanation for how and why they were exposed in certain locations.”
Not only were they exposed now, Valantinas and Schultz used data from NASA’s 2014 GRAIL mission and found the same cracks – meaning something was continuously forcing them open. (Photos of the cracks here.) To Schulz, the only explanation was “an ongoing process driven by things happening in the Moon’s interior” – but what were the ‘things’? They called this an Active Nearside Tectonic System and went looking for a cause.
The full moon as seen from the Earth, with the Ocean of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum) border structures superimposed in red. Scientists now think this huge feature on the moon was formed by lunar lava early in the moon's formation, and not a cataclysmic impact. New research shows that there could could be active tectonic systems on the moon today.
Infrared (upper left) and other images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show spots on the moon with ridges and no regolith. These observations could be evidence that there is active tectonic activity on the moon today. (Image credit: NASA)
“We propose that this active nearside tectonic system (ANTS) reflects ongoing reactivation of an ancient system related to offset antipodal effects from the South Pole–Aitken basin.”
They found it on the Moon’s far side – a crater called the South Pole–Aitken basin. Schultz thinks this 1500-mile was formed 4.3 billion years ago by a massive impact – a space-rock smash which shattered that side of the Moon all the way to the interior on the other side … to the spot where the ridges are still moving 4.3 billion years later. That’s some long memory.
OK, this is interesting … but is it a big deal? Schulz thinks it is because it points out that the Moon still holds secrets we haven’t discovered. Are they enough to increase interest – and funding – in more lunar missions? That’s probably won’t happen until there’s a whole lot more shaking going on. Or the Man in the Moon cracks up.
One of the things I highlight in my new book,The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy, is the fact that the events of December 1980 in those woods were not alone. Several such experiments were undertaken in the U.K. The following incident – one of at least five – which is very similar to the collective Rendlesham Forest events, occurred in the early 1990s at yet another military base in Suffolk, England. On this occasion it was RAF Lakenheath. As Militarybases.com state of the base: “Royal Air Force Lakenheath is a RAF military base that is run and operated by the U.S. Air Force. It exclusively hosts American troops. It is located in Suffolk, in the eastern part of the United Kingdom…The installation is a co-base run by the Americans under the British regulations and laws…It was activated on site in 1952 and represents one of the longest lasting units in the Air Force, serving in the area for almost 60 years. The wing counts almost 8000 individuals. About 2000 of them are British civilians and family members, while almost 6000 are active military troops.”
Jets at RAF Lakenheath
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The original source of the story was a UFO researcher named Roy Wilkinson. He shared it, in the late-1990s, with Matthew Williams. The latter is someone who, for a number of years, was a Criminal Investigator with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. Today, it is called HM Revenue and Customs. Williams told me that it was late one night, during the course of military operations in Suffolk woods, when something very strange happened. Over to Williams: “A report came through that on one particular night those on maneuvers should expect to see something being tested in the area; and when the testing was taking place, they were to ignore it: pretend it’s not there and carry as normal.” Quite understandably, as Williams says: “They found this a bit hard to do, because when this thing came along, it was actually a ball of light and was too small to be manned – so it had to be a remote drone of some kind, they thought. But, it was pure light, no mechanics, no rockets, no noise, which makes me think it wasn’t a drone. And this thing moved silently above the area where they were on maneuvers – off the base and in the woods.”
Back to Williams: “Then, the light increased in intensity and illuminated the whole area like a flare would. Everyone stopped what they were doing, and just broke their orders. They watched this thing for a minute or so, and then it diminished in size and went off at a high speed into the distance. Everyone was talking about this and, really, it unnerved them to a certain degree. The whole evening’s events were then called off, because everything was in such a state of disarray. If the military experimented with things which could be perceived to be UFOs, i.e., balls of light, then – because of their knowledge that the event was going to happen – they would have to have those UFOs stored somewhere near.”
Both tellingly and suspiciously, the very next day several of the personnel involved were extensively questioned by senior officers. Those senior officers wanted to know what the witnesses thought of the incident: did they believe the statement that something had been “tested” in the skies over Suffolk? Or did they distrust their senior officers, and think it was really a UFO that was encountered? Could it have been an alien spacecraft? Did anyone have strange dreams after returning to their base and falling asleep after dawn? What was it that caused them to go against their orders? Was the whole thing too fantastic and panic-inducing to prevent the men from operating in the ways expected of the military? These were fascinating – almost bizarre – questions. They were also questions that suggested the senior officers in charge of the operation were very keen to see what the effects were on the men who were exposed to the phenomenon. With a fair degree of hindsight, we can say that the Lakenheath incident was a perfectly orchestrated operation designed to see just how far and wide the human mind could be tampered with – and using unwitting military personnel as the targeted individuals. Just like the Rendlesham Forest affair.
Some UFO cases are weirder than others. On June 27, 1947, a man by the name of Harold Dahl was out with his son, his dog, and two other men on a harbor patrol boat near the east shore of Maury Island, on the Puget Sound in Washington state. On this day he was out gathering logs that might be a danger to shipping, which they would then sell for a salvage fee, but his work was interrupted and his attention drawn to the sky when he allegedly spotted six “donut-shaped” objects hovering about a half a mile up in the air directly above them. Whatever they were seemed to glint as if made from some sort of metal, and they were estimated as being rather large, at 100 feet in diameter. This was all quite odd enough as it was, but it took a turn into the bizarre when one of the unusual objects suddenly dropped from the sky and Dahl could now see it had what looked like portholes along the side and even an observation deck. This would be the beginning of a very odd early UFO case that would bring together aliens, conspiracies, and the notorious Men in Black.
As the outlandish object fell further and further, it almost seemed as if it were on a collision course with the boat, and so Dahl began getting out of there as fast as he could, managing to make it to shore, from where he continued to observe the otherworldly series of events playing out over the sound. He allegedly took some photographs of the strange craft, and then something would happen to make it all even stranger still. At some point another of the craft dropped down to join the first one that had descended and seemed to join up with it somehow, like a kind of docking maneuver. However, whatever the craft were trying to do does not seem to have been successful, as a terrifying sequence of events would then unfold.
Maury Island
Dahl would claim that there was a sudden loud noise, and one of the ships began spewing out pieces of a white metal, followed by an eruption of what looked like “lava rocks” that hissed and steamed when they hit the water and flew everywhere. Some of these shards of dark material evidently were propelled towards the witnesses, raining down upon them, with one of the pieces injuring Dahl’s son and another actually killing his dog. After this the objects flew off and the terrified witnesses were left reeling. They then took their boat back to their original dock, finding that the radio was in operational and disposing of the dead dog along the way, and upon arrival Dahl wasted no time in telling the whole strange tale to his supervisor, Fred Crisman. At first the supervisor was skeptical, but when he saw the photos that Dahl had taken, he was curious. Crisman later allegedly went out to Maury Island to see the scene for himself, and as he was there he said he also saw of the UFOs, which he had the impression was watching him. It would only get weirder from there.
The morning after the incident, Dahl says that someone paid him a visit at his home. It was an unfamiliar man in a black suit, with a large black Buick lurking out past him sitting on the street. The stranger invited Dahl to have breakfast with him, which for some reason Dahl accepted, and they found themselves at a nearby restaurant. As they ate, the man began retelling the tale of what happened to Dahl exactly as it had happened down to the last detail, which startled him because it was almost as if he had been there. The black-suited man then issued a stark warning to Dahl not to speak of any of it to anyone, and that bad things would happen to him and his family if he were to do so. The mysterious man then made his departure and drove off in his enigmatic vehicle to leave Dahl sitting there shaking in fear and disbelief. It is largely thought that this is probably the earliest known report of one of the enigmatic Men in Black.
Despite the dire warning, Dahl and Crisman made efforts to get their story out, sending the photographs and pieces of the strange white metal to a Chicago publisher named Ray Palmer, and Palmer would then relay the tale to UFO investigator Kenneth Arnold. Upon hearing of this outlandish account, Arnold excitedly made arrangements to meet with Dahl and Crisman personally, flying out to Washington along with a pilot named E.J. Smith. After hearing the two men’s accounts and examining the supposed UFO fragments, they became convinced that Dahl and Crisman were telling the truth, and notified Federal investigators about it all. In July of 1947, two intelligence officers, Captain Lee Davidson and First Lieutenant Frank Brown of the U.S. Army Air Force, were sent to do their own investigation into the matter, interviewing the two witnesses before heading back to their base at Hamilton Field, California aboard a B-25 bomber, supposedly along with some samples of the material from the UFO. Rather eerily, they would never make it, their plane crashing near Centralia, Washington to kill them both.
Adding to the intrigue of it all was that several witnesses would step forward to say they had heard what sounded like anti-aircraft fire at the time of the crash, and that they believed the plane had been shot down. Curiously, a journalist named Paul Lance, with the Tacoma Times, would write an article titled “Sabotage Hinted in Crash of Army Bomber at Kelso: Plane May Hold Flying Disk Secret,” in which he talks about the idea that the plane had been sabotaged or shot down, and also confirms that it was carrying some sort of classified cargo, only for Lance to turn up dead a few weeks later. Apparently, no cause of death could be ascertained. Making it all even weirder is that two of the bomber’s crew had been able to parachute to safety, with only the two investigators going down with the plane. Coincidence or not? The FBI would quickly deem the crash an accident. What happened to the supposed pieces of the UFO that were purportedly onboard? Did Lance’s death have anything to do with all of this? Who knows?
B-52
In the end, the feds would dismiss the entire affair of what was being called the “Maury Island Incident” as a hoax, saying that the pieces of metal retrieved were merely aluminum, and that the men were just enacting a publicity stunt. It did not help that Dahl himself would later admit that it was all a hoax, but then again he had once said that he planned to claim it was a hoax if questioned by authorities in order to get them off his back, meaning it is hard to know if it was a true confession or not. Dahl would also later recant his confession in a 1950 issue of Fate Magazine and say that it was not a hoax after all. As spectacular as all of this talk of exploding UFOs and Men in Black was, it did not really receive wide attention at all until it was written of in the 1956 book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, by UFO researcher Gray Barker, which helped to propel both it and the notion of the shadowy Men in Black into the public consciousness.
In the end it is hard to know what to make of all of this, and theories have abounded. The official explanation is that this was all a hoax carried out by Dahl and Crisman, that there were never and pieces of metal or rock from the UFO, and that the B-52 bomber crash was merely an unfortunate and unrelated accident, its connection to the Maury Island Incident simply a coincidence. However, of course conspiracy theories abound, chief among them being that the government did find something, and that the crash was orchestrated to eliminate the investigators and their evidence. This ties in with Dahl’s claim of his strange black-suited visitor, and it is hard not to think that the timing of the crash and its victims, as well as the mysterious death of Paul Lance, are more than just a coincidence. Whatever happened here, it remains a case that has never really been solved, a tale of intrigue and conspiracies, and a curious early account of the Men in Black
Both constellations and asterisms are patterns of stars. What’s the difference?
Sometimes several stars in different constellations join together to form a large asterism. That’s true of the Summer Triangle asterism, which is made of 3 bright stars – Vega, Deneb and Altair – in 3 different constellations.
A constellation is a recognized pattern of stars in the night sky. The word is from the Latin constellacio, meaning a set of stars. There are 88 official constellations. Many are very old. They’re a link between us and our ancestors, a projection of human imagination into the cosmos: ancient people looked at the stars and thought they saw mythical beings, beasts and cultural touchstones among the stars. On the other hand, most asterisms are relatively new. Most are small patterns within a constellation, although some are large patterns made of bright stars from several constellations. There’s nothing official about asterisms, but people on all parts of Earth still love them and enjoy them.
Stars in a constellation all lie at different distances from the Earth. For example, the three stars comprising the constellation of Triangulum are between 35 and 127 light years away. While a constellation may look as if all of its stars are the same distance away, in reality that is only because, as we now know, stars vary in size and brightness, so two stars which appear to be the same brightness in the sky are actually separated by vast distances. This means that an alien astronomer on a planet a hundred light years from Earth would know very different constellations, because they would see the night sky from a completely different perspective.
The Plough, for example, (also known as the Big Dipper or King Charles’ Wain) is a pattern of seven stars within the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It is undoubtedly the most famous asterism in the sky, and not least because of its usefulness as a signpost for other stars and constellations. In the southern hemisphere, five stars comprise the Southern Cross, an asterism within the constellation of Crux. Sometimes, asterisms comprise stars of more than one constellation: for example, the glorious Summer Triangle, so prominent in the northern hemisphere sky between June and September, comprises stars in Cygnus, Lyra and Aquila. In Sagittarius there is the famous “teapot” asterism, inside which lies the location of the centre of our Milky Way galaxy.
There is no hard and fast rule for what constitutes an asterism: usually it’s a group of prominent stars in a simple pattern that are among the first that people recognise when they are learning their way around the sky.
Many constellations are well-known: Orion, Ursa Major, Cassiopeia, Cygnus , the famous star patterns one learns first when bitten by the bug of astronomy. But perhaps the most recognised are those that comprise the star signs of the zodiac: Aries, Libra, Pisces, Virgo and the eight others which had a special significance for astrologers, more than two thousand years ago when the first astrological charts were drawn by the Babylonians (although the history of the zodiac may go back further). The twelve constellations of the zodiac had a special significance because, together, they comprise the path through the heavens that the Sun appears to follow during one year. Of course, we now know that the Sun does not follow this path, that it is the Earth which is moving and not the Sun. We also know that since the first astrological charts were created, a gradual tilting of the Earth’s axis, causing an effect known as the precession of the equinoxes, means that the Sun now appears to pass though a thirteenth constellation of the zodiac: that of Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer. This has had the knock-on effect of changing the dates when the Sun “passes through” each zodiacal constellation, so that, for example, Ophiuchus occupies most of the days in the calendar where the astrological sign of Sagittarius resides, and Aquarius largely occupies the space where Pisces is. Although this does of course invalidate the dates of the astrological star-signs seen in the horoscopes of tabloid newspapers, as well as the dates of the supposed star sign which people are “born under”, it should be remembered that the astrological zodiac has little resemblance to the actual constellations which the star signs represent: astrology simply divides the 360-degree heavens into twelve equal segments, without regard for how many degrees each constellation actually spans in the sky. This means that an astrological star sign can encompass more than one constellation, and therefore the astrological zodiac should be seen as largely symbolic rather than factual. It has nothing to do with the real Universe.
It was the Greeks and Romans who, between them, first recognised and named the constellations of the northern hemisphere, listed around the second century AD, although doubtless prehistoric humans had created their own constellations long before them. Indeed, each human culture has seen its own mythology and creation stories in the stars since time immemorial. Not surprisingly, the Greeks and Romans saw the heroes, heroines and beasts from their mythologies in the sky: Pegasus, Orion, Taurus, Cassiopeia and many others. The first list of constellations we know of appears in Ptolemy’s 2nd-century Almagest, which was his treatise on the apparent motions and stars and planets, and which established a geocentric view of the Universe which was to persist for 1200 years. While the Greeks and Romans bequeathed us the names of the northern hemisphere constellations, it was Arabs who were the first to name the individual stars comprising each: Islamic scholars were the first to systematically map the skies. Many of these Arabic star names have survived until today: Aldebaran, Alcor, Altair, Algol. The prefix “Al-” is a sure indication of an Islamic name: it simply means “the”. Hence, for example, Aldebaran – “The follower”, because it appears to follow the Hyades star cluster that makes up the head of the constellation of Taurus, the bull.
Certain constellations have acquired special significance over the millennia because of their appearance marking the onset of seasons, telling ancient peoples when to sow or reap their crops, when to collect food or animal skins. Because of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, different constellations become visible at different times of the year. For example, in the northern hemisphere the appearance of Orion in the early morning sky warns of the onset of autumn, that temperatures will shortly start to drop. The rising of the Summer Triangle to prominence in the northern sky is a harbinger of summer. Thus, to ancient cultures constellations were more than just patterns: they marked the passing of the seasons, of the years, of life itself.
The 48 constellations of the northern hemisphere, and their boundaries, were formally recognised by the International Astronomical Union in 1928 and the official list published in 1930. The story of the constellations of the southern hemisphere, however, is a little more complicated. Many of these were named by Italian, Dutch and Portuguese explorers of the 14th to 16th centuries. So as constellations there are objects and beasts associated with the great seafaring voyages of that epoch: Telescopium, the telescope; Octans, the octant; Dorado, the swordfish; Vela, the ship’s sails; Hydrus, the sea serpent. But explorers and observers often proposed different constellations with conflicting names, often to please their patrons. It was not until the 19th century that the current list of southern constellations was agreed and adopted.
From an observer’s perspective, from sunset to dawn the sky appears to revolve around one fixed point in the sky. This location in the heavens is what the Earth’s axis points at and is called the celestial pole. In the northern hemisphere, Polaris (the pole star) lies very close to the celestial pole, whereas in the southern hemisphere there is no bright star marking the location. Those constellations which revolve around the celestial pole yet do not dip below the horizon during the night, due to their proximity to it, are known as circumpolar constellations. In other words, for an observer these constellations will never set. There are five of these in the northern hemisphere: Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Draco, Cassiopeia and Cepheus. The southern constellation has three: Crux, Centaurus and Carina.
The constellations are not difficult for a budding astronomer to learn. There are many excellent resources and planetarium-type programs available free online. It is certainly worth learning to recognise the constellations, even if sometimes one strains to see what the ancients did!
White UFO Performs For Eyewitness In Austria, Video, May 2, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 2, 2020
Location of sighting: Austria
We have some great raw footage just in from an eyewitness in Austria. The person was recording the overcast sky when a glowing white orb appeared. The UFO appears and disappears several times through the video, moving through clouds. The UFO seems to know its being watched. This type of UFO is often called a "cloud orb" because its often seen leaving, entering and skirting clouds in the sky. I believe what we are looking at is an individual entity, no so much a biological, a much as living AI. That doesn't mean this object isn't alive...because it is. It is performing for the person below...watching it as it watches the person. An old question...whos watching who?
Patriotic UFOs "Flash Red, White & Blue" To Jimmy Carter, 8 Years Before He Is US President, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 6, 1969 Location of sighting: Leary, Georgia, USA This UFO sighting is proof that these aliens have knowledge of the future and probably have time travel. In this interview with US President Jimmy Carter, he mentions something I have never heard him say before about the sighting. He said he saw the UFO flashing lights...red...white...and...blue. The color of the American flag. Thats right folks, the UFO not only knew who Jimmy Carter was at the time, but the aliens knew who Jimmy Carter was going to be in 8 more years. They tried to salute the future US president by flashing the American colors to him...for ten minutes. So it looks like Jimmy had the aliens blessings. They stuck around long enough to show Jimmy aliens and UFOs are real. But I don't think anyone has ever linked the flashing colors of that UFO to the colors of the American flag before. I wonder if President Jimmy Carter ever thought about that. Watch the video below and listen to him describe the colors at the 33 second mark. I wonder what else the aliens did to Jimmy to help him? Did they manipulate his mind in any way? Did they try to persuade him to reveal the truth about the existence of aliens to the world? If the UFO stopped at about 500-1,000 meters away as Jimmy says, then for them to know who he was, they must have had some telepathy, some ways of reading human thoughts from far away to assess who it was standing there. Although he downplayed the sighting on national TV, if you read the details below...you will see it left a lasting effect on him and that he did believe it was an alien craft. Scott C. Waring
FULL REPORT OF JIMMY CARTERS SIGHTING BELOW:
Carter’s UFO sighting began shortly after dark on a windless night. Jimmy Carter was standing outside the Lion’s Club in Leary, Georgia, waiting for a meeting to start. Suddenly, he and ten or more witnesses, sighted a red and green orb radiating in the western sky. Carter described an object that "it seemed to move towards us from a distance, stop, move partially away, return, then depart. Bluish at first; then reddish - luminous - not solid." "At times," reported Carter, "it was as bright as the moon, and about as big as the moon - maybe a bit smaller. The object was luminous; not solid." In an interview with the Atlanta Constitution, Carter described the moving nature of the event. He described the sighting as a "very remarkable sight."
This is an important event, because many of the skeptical investigations done on the Carter sighting, have tried to paint the event as a ho-hum occurrence. None of the descriptions Carter has made of the event have ever described it as ho-hum. Jimmy Carter’s mother Lillian also confirmed that Carter had been very impressed by what he had seen. "The UFO made a huge impression on Jimmy," she stated. "He told me about the sighting many times. He’s always been a down-to-earth no-nonsense boy, and the sighting by him, as far as I am concerned, is as firm as money in the bank." Carter had, in fact, described the UFO sighting many times in the years since it occurred.
In every instance, including the latest known telling of the story at Emory University in 1997, Carter has never backed off on the spectacular nature of the event. He has also never conceded that was he saw was some misidentification of a natural phenomena. Carter estimated that the object was three hundred to one thousand yards away. He estimated that the event had lasted 10 minutes. Then the object disappeared. Carter was so impressed by what he had seen, he recorded his impressions of the event on a tape recorder at the time.
'That's no meteor, it's an American weapon test': Russian politician's bizarre claim about 10 ton space rock as Cuba claims it was also hit earlier in the week - PART I
Firebrand politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky makes astonishing claim
10 ton meteor hit the atmosphere with force of 30 Hiroshima bombs
82 of the injured are children and two are in intensive care
One local said it 'was like a scene from the Armageddon movie'
Reports in Cuba of bright lights in sky and 'loud explosion' on Tuesday
Local expert believes evidence points to meteorite
A Russian politician has claimed the meteor which struck the country yesterday was actually a clandestine American weapons test while claims have emerged that a sonic boom was also felt in Cuba.
Authorities say a 10 ton space rock, travelling at a speed of 33,000mph, hit the Earth's atmosphere with a force equivalent to 30 of the atomic bombs which destroyed the city of Hiroshima.
The astonishing event on Friday morning blew out windows in more than 4,000 buildings and injured some 1,200 people, largely with cuts from the flying glass.
The meteorite streaks across the sky above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, although a Russian politician now claims it was a U.S. weapon test
But in a twist that reads like a piece of Soviet-era propoganda, firebrand politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky said what really happened was an act of provocation by the U.S.
Zhirinovsky, leader of the far-right Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), said: 'Those aren't meteorites falling. It's the Americans trying out a new weapon'.
Rant: Vladimir Zhirinovsky said what really happened was an act of provocation by the U.S.
He backed up his astonishing claim arguing that newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had been trying to reach Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov all day, 'to warn him that there would be such a provocation, and it might affect Russia'.
Meanwhile, reports emerged from Cuba suggesting the island was also hit by a meteorite earlier in the week.
Locals said on Tuesday there was bright light in the sky followed by a 'large explosion' that shook doors and windows.
In a video from a state TV newscast posted on the website CubaSi, unidentified residents of the central city of Rodas, near Cienfuegos, described the skyline phenomenon.
'On Tuesday we left home to fish around five in the afternoon, and around 8pm we saw a light in the heavens and then a big ball of fire, bigger than the sun,' one man said.
'My home shook completely,' said a woman. 'I had never heard such a strange thing.'
Marcos Rodriguez, a specialist in anthropology, said all signs point to a meteorite.
A similar phenomenon was observed in 1994 elsewhere in Cienfuegos province.
Cuban authorities are now looking for any fragments that may have fallen to the earth.
It is far from the first time that Russian politician Zhirinovsky has courted controversy.
In 2006 he suggested arming all of Russia's population and ordering them to shoot migratory birds in a bid to combat bird flu.
He has also suggested removing restrictions on arms sales to Iran and the sale of the disputed Kurile Islands to Japan for $50billion.
Today a small army of workers set to work to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.
Fifteen of the injured remained hospitalized on Saturday, one of them in a coma, the regional health ministry said, according to the Interfax news agency.
Regional governor Mikhail Yurevich on Saturday said damage from the high-altitude explosion - - is estimated at 1 billion rubles ($33 million). He promised to have all the broken windows replaced within a week.
But that is a long wait in a frigid region. The midday temperature in Chelyabinsk was minus-12 C (10 F), and for many the immediate task was to put up plastic sheeting and boards on shattered residential windows.
Video footage posted online which is believed to show the meteorite in Cuba
Locals in Cuba said they saw this bright light in the sky followed by a loud explosion
Disaster: This graphic shows the sequence of events which led to the meteor crashing in Russia
Debris: Chunks of black matter, ranging between 5mm and 10mm in diameter, were found scattered around the ice hole caused by the meteorite
Investigation: Officials stand around the hole caused by the meteorite strike, which also set off a dangerous sonic boom
More than 24,000 people, including volunteers, have mobilized in the region to cover windows, gather warm clothes and food and make other relief efforts, the regional governor's office said. Crews from glass companies in adjacent regions were being flown in.
In the town of Chebarkul, 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Chelyabinsk city, divers explored the bottom of an ice-crusted lake looking for meteor fragments believed to have fallen there, leaving a six-meter-wide (20-foot-wide) hole.
Emergency Ministry spokeswoman Irina Rossius told Russian news agencies the search hadn't found anything.
Police kept a small crowd of curious onlookers from venturing out onto the icy lake, where a tent was set up for the divers.
Many of them were still trying to process the memories of the strange day they'd lived through.
Valery Fomichov said he had been out for a run when the meteor streaked across the sky shortly after sunrise.
'I glanced up and saw a glowing dot in the west. And it got bigger and bigger, like a soccer ball, until it became blindingly white and I turned away,' he said.
Unexpected sight: A terrifying meteorite shower left a thousand people injured, buildings devastated and the mobile network wiped out when it hit Russia this morning
Terrifying: Brightly burning rocks could be seen for hundreds of kilometres as they crashed at around 9.20am local time and one bystander described it 'like a scene from the Armageddon movie'
Spectacular sky: The Urals region was struck by falling meteorite fragments which fell in the city of Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow and close to the Kazakhstan border
In a local church, clergyman Sexton Sergei sought to derive a larger lesson.
'Perhaps God was giving a kind of sign, so that people don't simply think about their own trifles on earth, but rather look to the heavens once in a while.
'Nasa estimates the meteor's impact with the atmosphere released 500 kilotonnes of energy, 30 times the force of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
Footage taken by ‘dashcams’ – dashboard cameras common in the cars of Russians in case of accidents on winter roads or disputes with corrupt traffic police – mean the supersonic blaze has been captured, and shared with the world, in unprecedented detail.
The burst of light and thunderous sound were caused by a 40-ton meteor penetrating the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of at least 33,000mph.
As it raced through the sky, the 50-foot wide chunk of space rock compressed the air ahead of it, creating the enormous temperatures that meant it exploded in a fireball somewhere between 18 and 32 miles above the ground at around 9.20am local time.
Although some debris fell to earth, ‘whipping up a pillar of ice, water and steam’ and creating a 20-foot-wide crater, the damage in nearby towns was actually caused by shockwaves created by the meteor breaking the sound barrier and then exploding.
Before and after: A video showed a street scene in Russia before the meteorite shower struck. Seconds later the street was lit up in a haze of bright white as the large fireball exploded
Speed: Russia's space agency Roscosmos said the meteorite was travelling at a speed of 30 km (19 miles) per second and that such events were hard to predict
VIDEO Unbelievable footage. Meteor shatters classroom, sonic boom reverberates
Interception: According to an unconfirmed report in Russia Today, the meteor was intercepted by Russian air defense
Shockwave: People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a shockwave
One resident of the city of Yekaterinburg, in the Ural mountains, said: ‘I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it was day. I felt like I was blinded by headlights.’
Some believed the world was ending and video footage posted online showed screaming youngsters at a school where corridors were littered with broken glass.
Gulnara Dudka, a resident of Chelyabinsk, 930 miles east of Moscow and the biggest city in the affected region, said: ‘I really thought it was doomsday.’
Teacher Valentina Nikolayeva, who tried to protect her pupils from the force of the blast said: ‘There was an unreal light that lit up all the classrooms.
‘That kind of light doesn’t happen in life, only at the end of the world – then a trail appeared like from a plane but only ten times bigger.’
The emergencies ministry said that more than 20,000 rescue workers had been dispatched to locate and help those injured in Russia’s industrial heartland and an area that houses nuclear and chemical weapons disposal facilities.
Amazingly, there were no fatalities and most of the wounded were hurt by flying glass – some 1.8million square feet of which will have to be replaced.
Russian news networks noted that the meteor struck just hours before the Earth was due its closest recorded shave with an asteroid.
However, space experts said the arrival of the much larger asteroid was merely a coincidence.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, of Queens University Belfast, said there was ‘almost definitely’ no connection between the exploding meteor and asteroid 2012 DA14.
‘This is literally a cosmic coincidence, although a spectacular one,’ he said.
Russia’s emergencies ministry described the event as ‘a meteor shower in the form of fireballs’ and urged residents not to panic.
Prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said the meteor could be a symbol for the vulnerability of the economy – and the ‘whole planet’.
Meanwhile, the deputy prime minister quashed suggestions that the military had tried to shoot the meteor out of the sky, saying that, as yet, no one has the technology.
And Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an outspoken nationalist leader, said: ‘It’s not meteors falling. It’s the test of a new weapon by the Americans.’
British experts said that thousands of tons of material from space rains down on the Earth each day, but nearly all of it burns up and disintegrates far from the view of the naked eye.
Occasionally a meteor can come so close that its explosion is felt, as happened yesterday, or a small meteorite or large asteroid can actually hit the planet.
Smoking: Pictures show a streak of smoke followed by several bright blasts of flames
Coincidence: Early indications are that the shower is unrelated to Asteroid 2012 DA14, which is due to skim the orbit of the Earth later today
High in the sky: The vapour trail of a falling meteorite is seen in the sky over the city of Chelyabinsk
Injured: A man identifying himself as Viktor poses for a photograph after receiving treatment for injuries after the meteorite shower hit the Russian region
Broken glass is removed from this injured girl's hand
Wounded: This woman suffered cuts across her face when the sonic boom of the meteor sent broken glass flying
Medical treatment: Many injured had bloodied faces from being hit by shards of glass broken in the explosions
Toll: Hundreds of people were injured, but there have been no reports of fatalities
VIDEO Moment Meteorite shower hits caught on camera
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