VIDEO Unknown lights above Reno, Nevada 7-Jul-2020

These four very bright lights were caught on tape in the night sky above Reno, a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, approximately 22 miles from Lake Tahoe. This happened on 7th July 2020.

Witness report: 

Large round or possibly triangular object with 5 white lights. Was on a walk in neighborhood- Observed a very bright object in the sky, could not make out what it was but took picture of it (at 9:27). Continues walking and at 9:38 turned a corner and same object was hovering between a church and flag pole. I could make out the object was large and solid and had five circular bright white lights that would go on and off at various times. I began videoing it with my phone and described it as did so.

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VERITAS: Exploring the Deep Truths of Venus

An artist's concept of active volcanos on Venus, depicting a subduction zone where the foreground crust plunges into the planet's interior at the topographic trench.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Peter Rubin
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Under consideration to become the next Discovery Program mission, VERITAS would reveal the inner workings of Earth's mysterious "twin."

Imagine Earth. Now fill the skies with thick, Sun-obscuring clouds of sulfuric acid; boil off the oceans by cranking up the temperature to 900 degrees Fahrenheit (nearly 500 degrees Celsius), and boost the air pressure high enough to flatten you like a pancake. What you now have is Venus, a rocky planet similar in size to Earth but different in almost every other way.

How these "sister planets" evolved so differently has been a burning scientific question for decades, and a proposed mission called VERITAS seeks to provide answers by transforming our understanding of the internal geodynamics that shaped the planet. The mission could lend insights into our own planet's evolution and even help us better understand rocky planets orbiting other stars.

Short for Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography & Spectroscopy, VERITAS is being considered for selection under NASA's Discovery Program and would be managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The project's partners include Lockheed Martin, the Italian Space Agency, the German Space Agency, and the French Space Agency.

"Venus is like this cosmic gift of an accident," said Suzanne Smrekar, principal investigator of VERITAS at JPL. "You have these two planetary bodies - Earth and Venus - that started out nearly the same but have gone down two completely different evolutionary paths, but we don't know why."

This interactive model compares the sizes of Venus (left) and Earth. To discover more about the similarities and differences of the two planets, zoom in and give them a spin, or use the search function at bottom for more.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. View the full interactive experience at Eyes on the Solar System. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The last mission to study the planet's surface, NASA's Magellan spacecraft, ended in 1994. While it provided tantalizing clues about Venus' geology, the instrumentation couldn't provide certitude as to the origin of many of the planet's surface features.

Proposed for a 2026 launch, VERITAS would orbit the planet and peer through the obscuring clouds with a powerful state-of-the art radar system to create 3D global maps and a near-infrared spectrometer to figure out what the surface is made of. It would also measure the planet's gravitational field to determine the structure of Venus' interior. Together, the instruments would offer clues about the planet's past and present geologic processes, from its core to its surface.

A Window Into Early Earth

Here on Earth, the rigid crust that envelops the planet is broken into a jigsaw puzzle of tectonic plates atop the mantle. Convection in the mantle helps drive motion of the surface plates. As some plates descend into the interior - a process known as subduction - they melt, and volcanic outgassing releases volatiles (such as water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane) into the atmosphere.

Learning more about the geologic processes on Venus - where the warm crust is a good analogy for early Earth's, when the plates were just beginning to form - could offer a valuable glimpse into how these processes began on Earth.

"The biggest mystery to me is the extent of deformation structures on Venus" - areas of rock on the surface that have buckled under immense geologic pressure - "that could be studied to understand the nature of tectonic activity on the planet," said science team member Joann Stock, a professor of geology and geophysics at Caltech's Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena.

Producing high-resolution 3D topographic maps VERITAS would bring into focus structures that have previously been too small to resolve, added Stock. These structures could include raised topography on both sides of strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas Fault, which is an indicator of major tectonic activity. VERITAS would also look for active surface faulting using something called interferometric deformation maps for the first time beyond Earth.

In addition, VERITAS would study vast deformation structures called tessera. These plateau-like features may be analogous to Earth's continents. A leading theory is that Earth's continents formed when iron-rich oceanic crust subducted and melted in the presence of water, producing huge volumes of new, less iron-rich continental crust that rose above the ocean.

To determine if Venus' tessera plateaus formed in a similar way to Earth's continents, VERITAS would construct the first global multispectral maps of Venus' surface composition. If their composition resembles that of continental crust, we'd also gain information about Venus' wetter past.

A Volcanic World

On Earth, plate tectonics and volcanism go hand in hand. But what about on Venus?

"Determining whether Venus is actively undergoing volcanic activity and understanding what process is driving it is one of the really exciting questions I'd love to see answered," said planetary scientist Jennifer Whitten, a VERITAS science team member at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Using its spectrometer, VERITAS would determine which rocks recently formed from erupting magma, before interactions with the atmosphere have had time to change their chemical composition. In addition, the spectrometer would search for hotspots from active eruptions, while the radar instrument would search for active faulting, an indication of tectonic activity.

In getting to know Venus' volcanoes and the geophysical processes causing them, scientists could also gauge their impact on the planet's climate and, perhaps, answer another key question: Does the planet's interior still contain large quantities of water like Earth's does?

Making Planets Habitable

Plate tectonics and volcanism don't just affect how a planet takes shape; they are intimately tied to a planet's habitability. Plate tectonics strongly affects Earth's long-term climate by influencing the processes that keep the atmosphere in balance: volcanism, which release volatiles into the atmosphere, and subduction, which recycles volatiles back into the interior. Also, the formation and erosion of Earth's continents have a major influence on the composition of the oceans and atmosphere. Together, these processes provide the nutrients and a habitable climate for life to thrive.

But what is the delicate geodynamic balance that ultimately makes a planet habitable? Considering the discovery of thousands of exoplanets orbiting stars other than our Sun, the answer could inform our understanding of their nature.

"To unwrap the mysteries of Venus we have to look under the hood at Venus' interior; it is the engine for global geologic and atmospheric evolution," said Smrekar. "Are Venus and Earth fundamentally unique worlds? Or are the differences between these 'twins' only cosmetic? Answering this question is key to understanding what makes other rocky planets habitable and, ultimately, emerge with life."

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Ingenious Abandoned Jungle City of Guayabo de Turrialba in Costa Rica

South and Central America have many amazing archaeological sites, some of which were left behind by pre-Columbian peoples and cultures who left no written records . One of the most significant sites in Costa Rica is Guayabo de Turrialba. This mysterious city in the jungle was declared a National Monument in 1973, protected for future generations and further archeological exploration. In 2009 it was recognized by the American Engineering Society as an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

The Known History of Guayabo De Turrialba

Since the people who built the amazing city of Guayabo de Turrialba left no documentary evidence, we do not know what they were called, but thanks to archeologists who have studied this site, there have been numerous fascinating finds. These have helped researchers to establish some facts about the mysterious builders of Guayabo de Turrialba.

Guayabo de Turrialba monument covers 540 acres, but only a small portion has been uncovered. 

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It is believed that the location was first inhabited in around 1000 BC, about the same time as Jerusalem was founded. Based on a survey of the city, it was at its peak in the 9 ^th century AD and it is believed that some 10,000 people resided here. It appears to have been a major regional administrative, political, cultural, and religious center . Based on the many finds of agricultural tools, the society was based on farming.

There is no evidence that it was a war-like society that practiced human sacrifice like its neighbors to the north, such as the Maya and the Aztecs.

The many great monuments that have been found at Guayabo de Turrialba indicate that it was a hierarchical society, ruled by chieftains or caciques. They would have been authority figures who could command a large number of people to build the monuments found at the site.

For reasons unknown, it was abandoned by 1400 AD, before colonization. Certainly, the Spanish Conquistadors left no records of the city, and it was forgotten, left to be concealed by the tropical jungle. It was only in the 19 ^th century that it was re-discovered and has since then been extensively investigated by archaeologists, although only a small area has been excavated.

Representation of the circular homes on stone foundation.

(Axxis10 / CC BY-SA 4.0 )

The Unique Monuments and Genius Engineering

There are many impressive stone platforms at the site. The largest measures 76 feet (28m) in diameter and stands 9 feet (2.76m) high. The smaller mounds were once topped by conical wooden constructions, that would have been used either as temples or homes for the elite.

A cobbled road connecting the settlement led to the biggest stone platform , known as the ‘Central Mound’ which has been restored in recent years. The heart of the city is dominated by this large rectangular platform which was accessed by a stone staircase and may have been used in ceremonies and expressions of power. Along the road, leading into the plaza, are two structures, built in a ‘figure of eight’ which are unique to Costa Rica. Their purpose was either to protect the central plaza or to store goods.

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Amphibian petroglyph found at Guayabo de Turrialba, Costa Rica. 

(Axxis10 / CC BY-SA 4.0 )

Unlike Mesoamerican cultures, the many tombs found at the archaeological site did not contain golden burial goods . While many relics and artifacts found in the city, such as ornate grinding stones and pottery, are now on display in the National Museum in San Jose, pictographs carved on rocks remain at Guayabo de Turrialba. These images of amphibians and other animals may have had some religious or cultural significance.

Evidence remains of a sophisticated hydrological system which directed fresh water into several stone tanks with drainage to prevent flooding. Numerous stone circles may have been the foundations of family homes.

Fresh water capture tank built at Guayabo de Turrialba

(Gould, A/ CC BY-NC 2.0 )

Exploring This National Treasure

Guayabo is situated near the attractive town of Turrialba on the slope of the extinct Turrialba volcano, a two-hour journey from the capital of San Jose. An admission fee is payable on entry and guided tours are available, although the monuments are all sign-posted.

Hotels near Guayabo, as well as a camping park, are available and visitors to the area can enjoy a day out to the butterfly farm near the city.

• Top image: Guayabo Monument, Costa Rica                  
• Source: Maertens, L / CC BY-SA 3.0

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Mount Shasta: Spirits and Danger on a Sacred California Mountain

Mount Shasta, located near the Oregon border in northern California, holds the distinction of being one of the world’s preeminent sacred mountains. It is recognized as an eligible Native American cultural and cosmological property on the National Register of Historic Places. Artifacts found in the surrounding area conservatively suggest at least 11,000 years of human habitation, designating this region as one of the longest-occupied areas of North America.

On a clear day, Mount Shasta can be seen from over 100 miles away (160 km). The mountain, part of the thousand-mile-long Cascade Range stretching from northern California to British Columbia, is one of the largest stratovolcanoes in the world, rising to an altitude of 14,179 feet (4321 meters); it is also part of a chain of volcanoes that encompasses the Pacific Basin’s notorious “Ring of Fire,” along which the majority of the planet’s earthquakes and eruptions occur.

The Constant Threat of a Volcanic Eruption

Geologists consider Mount Shasta to be a very dangerous, high threat volcano; someday it will wake up and erupt again, possibly during this century.

A volcanic eruption from Mount Shasta could match or exceed the scale of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. The effects of an eruption on the surrounding towns close to the base of the mountain are predicted to be catastrophic, and because volcanoes stay active for years after an eruption, the region may have to be closed off to the public for a very long time.

Mount Shasta’s fuse is already burning, and experts all agree, it’s not a matter of if Mount Shasta will erupt again—but when…

Sunrise on Mount Shasta.

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Sacred Mountain

Throughout history mankind has always been drawn to mountains as a sacred feature of the landscape. It’s likely that mountains are among the oldest places of worship on the planet; the first temples. They figure prominently in the earliest religious myths of mankind, and our connection to them is so powerful that many of the world’s oldest monuments, such as the Egyptian and Mayan pyramids, were obviously built in their semblance.

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Northwestern California Native American tribes traditionally view Mount Shasta as being structurally and energetically connected to a wide range of important volcanic landscapes and mountains, which extend northwards and southwards of their tribal territories.

A primordial spiritual connection is believed to link all these energetically powerful sites together, including Mount Shasta, Lassen Peak, Lava Beds, Medicine Lake Highlands, Crater Lake , as well as many other lesser landmarks found throughout the region.

View of snow-capped Mount Shasta.

( Joyce Marrero /Adobe Stock)

Pulses of human occupation surrounding Mount Shasta have been traced back to around the end of the last Ice Age , some 11,000 years ago, marking this area of northern California as one of the oldest continually occupied regions in North America. More recent discoveries suggest there may have been substantial human occupation along the northern California-Nevada border going as far back as 14,000 years ago.

Mythical Significance of the Monument

Mount Shasta’s vast antiquity and mythic relevance places its significance on par, historically and categorically, with other sacred sites found among the world’s oldest known civilizations, including the temples and pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, the Mayan pyramids , and Machu Picchu .

From a philosophical and spiritual standpoint, Mount Shasta is far more powerful and impressive than anything ever built by man. It is a Creator-made temple and monument, half a billion years old. In an abstract geological sense, Mount Shasta is still alive and under construction–and it will continuously erupt, regenerate, and change forms far into the future.

Beautiful Mount Shasta and Siskiyou Lake.

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Native Americans have observed Mount Shasta as a sacred mountain from time immemorial; they viewed the mountain and its surroundings as holy ground; it is thought to be one of the first earthly places created by the Great Spirit . In the past, no one but medicine men or women climbed up the mountain beyond the tree line. It was thought to be too powerful for ordinary people to visit, and inhabited by hosts of potentially dangerous spirits and guardians who could harm a person who traveled up the mountain unprepared.

Mount Shasta’s significance as a “power spot” for non-indigenous people did not begin until the 19th century. The naturalist John Muir described the mountain’s peak as a religious icon, and helped to spread its legendary fame. Since its discovery, it quickly became one of California’s must-see tourist destinations.

There are many tangible and intangible qualities which make a mountain sacred, and some of these qualities go beyond its mere appearance. Mount Shasta isn’t the tallest mountain in the west, but it is the most legendary. A sacred mountain tends to possess unusual characteristics which are more than just the accumulation of natural processes.

Panther Meadows - Mount Shasta

© Dustin Naef

There is, we feel, something different about a sacred mountain which cannot be easily explained, something that makes it exceptional. It possesses a kind of energy that’s unique to itself, which can be sensed and felt as much as seen. It draws people to it…inexplicably, mysteriously: “The power of such a mountain,” writes Lama Anagarki Govinda,

“is so great and yet so subtle that without compulsion pilgrims are drawn to the mountain from near and far, as if by the force of some invisible magnet, and they will undergo untold hardships and privations in their inexplicable urge to approach and to worship the sacred spot. Nobody has conferred the title of sacredness upon such a mountain; by virtue of its own magnetic and psychic emanations the mountain is intuitively recognized to be sacred. It needs no organizer of its worship; innately, each of its devotees feels the urge to pay it reverence.”

Anomalous Energies at Mount Shasta

All over the world there are places anciently known for their anomalous energies and mysterious phenomenon.

Today experts recognize that these “sacred sites” around the world influence human consciousness and other living organisms in a number of unusual and remarkable ways. They have become colloquially known as ancient “power spots,” places where people commonly experience unusual phenomenon such as UFO-related activit y, portals into other dimensions, consciousness-altering experiences, and other paranormal-phenomenon.

When one enters into a sacred site of so-called “powerful energy,” the mind, body, and spirit are instantly affected. The energy at these places can be felt, sensed, dowsed, photographed, and measured with scientific instrumentation.

The spiritual use of these major “power spots” around the world is now beginning to be thought of as the unifying influence behind the rise of human civilization. Previously it was believed that spirituality arose only after mankind had already developed farming and villages, and religion was subsequently invented as a coercive means to promote social cooperation and control.

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It turns out, however, that this theory is completely backwards. Now it’s beginning to be understood that mankind’s spiritual awakening actually precipitated the rise of human civilization.

The Modoc are a Native American people who originally lived in the Mount Shasta area (northeastern California and central Southern Oregon, USA). Chief Yellow Hammer painted in traditional clothing by E.A Burbank, 1901. 

(Public Domain )

Humanity’s earliest spiritual experiences drew diverse groups of people to come together, who invariably clustered around the locations where most of the world’s major sacred sites and great spiritual centers exist to this day.

People came together at these sites for ritualistic and ceremonial purposes, and this, it turns out, created the need for people to form communities to grow food to accommodate the large populations gathering at these sites all over the world; and subsequently develop farming, villages, culture, and social cooperation.

Mount Shasta is one of these places ; an ancient, sacred mountain pilgrimage destination – whose mysteries still call out to us from the past and continue to challenge our comprehension in the modern era.

• Top Image: Mount Shasta in the clouds at sunset. Source: Jordan /Adobe Stock

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Yet ancient minerals aren't the only things of wonder down here. In a new study, researchers report the identification of a number of deep-sea creatures unknown to science before now, living at depths greater than 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) below the ocean's surface.

The specimens in question are known as xenophyophores, a clade of giant, single-celled protozoans that belong to the class foraminifera.

Xenophyophores are one of the most common types of large life-forms found along the CCZ abyssal plains, and while they've been described since the late 19th century, there's not an awful lot we know about them, largely due to the extreme depths at which they reside.

Moanammina semicircularis on the seafloor.

(Jennifer Durden/Craig Smith/DeepCCZ Project)

"These four new species and two new genera have increased the number of described xenophyophores in the CCZ abyss to 17 (22 percent of the global total for this group), with many more known but still undescribed," says marine ecologist Andrew Gooday from the National Oceanography Centre in the UK.

"This part of the Pacific Ocean is clearly a hotspot of xenophyophore diversity."

Among the new discoveries is the new genus Abyssalia, named after the abyss in which it lurks. In a 2018 expedition aboard the RV Kilo Moana in 2018 in the western CCZ, the researchers found two Abyssalia species: A. foliformis and A. sphaerica.

These xenophyophores have shells called tests, made up of tiny particles glued together. In the case of Abyssalia, the shells are made from a homogeneous mesh of sponge spicules, with no distinct surface layer.

A. sphaerica takes on a spherical shape – resembling a somewhat matted dandelion – while A. foliformis embodies a flatter, leaf-like shape.

The other new genus identified, Moanammina, took its name from Moana, meaning 'ocean' in Hawaiian, Maori, and other Polynesian languages.

Unidentified 'mudball' xenophyophore.

(Gooday et al., EJP, 2020)

Moanammina semicircularis has a stalked, fan-shaped test, while another new species, Psammina tenuis, belonging to the genus Psammina, has a delicate, thin, plate-like test.

The researchers also discovered what they suggest could be a novel xenophyophore in a spherical 'mudball' shape, but unfortunately its mudball-like composition disintegrated before a detailed examination could confirm its identity.

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Comet NEOWISE is 'an awesome sight' from space, astronaut says (video)

New map of the universe unveils a stunning X-ray view of the cosmos

Bestemming Mars: drie ruimtevluchten in één zomer

In het kort

• In een ver verleden had Mars een milder klimaat, en zeeën en oceanen aan het oppervlak. In die omstandigheden zouden eencelligen kunnen leven.
• Met onbemande ruimtesondes hopen zowel de VS als China en de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten daar bewijs voor te vinden.

Op zoek naar leven

‘Het is alsof je geologisch veldwerk doet terwijl overal om je heen sluipschutters staan die je af en toe onder vuur nemen’

Bij de landing, gepland voor 18 februari volgend jaar, wordt net als bij Curiosity gebruik gemaakt van een hitteschild, parachutes en een zogeheten ‘luchtkraan’ (sky crane), die met behulp van retroraketjes op enige hoogte boven het Marsoppervlak blijft hoveren en de Marswagen aan kabels naar beneden laat zakken. ‘Er zijn tijdens de hele missie talloze momenten waarop het fout kan gaan’, zegt Bell. ‘Het is een beetje alsof je geologisch veldwerk doet terwijl er overal om je heen sluipschutters staan die je af en toe onder vuur nemen.’ Ooit zal Perseverance de geest geven (net als de meeste van zijn voorgangers); volgens Bell is het de uitdaging om zo veel mogelijk wetenschap te bedrijven voordat het zo ver is.

Een helikopter op Mars

De Amerikaanse Marswagen Perseverance heeft een klein helikoptertje aan boord, dat onlangs de naam Ingenuity heeft gekregen. Het is een kubusvormig toestelletje van nog geen 2 kilogram en met de afmetingen van een auto-accu, uitgerust met een dubbele rotor, vier pootjes, een zonnepaneeltje en een camera. De bedoeling is dat Ingenuity in een periode van dertig dagen een paar testvluchtjes van anderhalve minuut maakt, tot een hoogte van een meter of vijf. Later kunnen misschien iets langere vluchten worden uitgevoerd, tot een grotere hoogte. Bij gebleken succes hoopt NASA in de toekomst vaker gebruik te kunnen maken van drones en helikopters in de ijle dampkring van de rode planeet.

Internationale invasie

De Amerikaanse NASA is niet de enige ruimtevaartorganisatie die deze zomer de pijlen op Mars richt. Half juli moet ook de ruimtesonde Hope (Al-Amal) van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE) gelanceerd worden, met een Japanse H-IIA-raket. Hope gaat niet op Mars landen, maar moet vanuit een omloopbaan onderzoek doen aan de atmosfeer en het klimaat van de rode planeet. 

Het is voor het eerst dat er een Arabische ruimtesonde bij een andere planeet arriveert. Het project staat onder leiding van het Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. Er werken overigens drie Amerikaanse universiteiten aan mee.

‘De bodemmonsters kunnen leiden tot revolutionaire ontdekkingen over Mars, het zonnestelsel, en buitenaards leven’

Over de Chinese Marsmissie, die eveneens deze zomer van start gaat, is relatief weinig informatie naar buiten gebracht. De 5 ton zware ruimtesonde, Tianwen-1 geheten (‘Hemelse raadsels’), wordt gelanceerd met een zware Lange Mars 5-raket vanaf het Chinese eiland Hainan, en moet in februari 2021 in een baan om Mars aankomen. Enkele maanden later zal een lander naar het oppervlak afdalen, met aan boord een klein Marskarretje. Zowel de lander als het wagentje maken gebruik van Chinese technologie die eerder met succes is toegepast bij onbemande landingen op de maan. Als alles goed gaat, is China straks het tweede land ter wereld dat een succesvolle landing op Mars uitvoert.

Dat de verschillende ruimtemissies alle drie in juli 2020 op pad gaan, is geen toeval. Eens in de 26 maanden staan de aarde en Mars in de juiste onderlinge positie om zo’n ruimtereis mogelijk te maken. Oorspronkelijk zou ook de Europese Marswagen Rosalind Franklin deze zomer richting Mars vertrekken, maar dat project heeft het afgelopen jaar veel vertraging opgelopen, waardoor de lancering uitgesteld moest worden tot september 2022.

Twee jaar uitstel voor Europese Marsrover

In juli 2020 zou ook de Marsrover Rosalind Franklin van de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA op pad gaan naar Mars. De lancering is afgelopen voorjaar echter met ruim twee jaar uitgesteld. Het project had al veel vertraging opgelopen door problemen met de parachutes – die scheurden bij verschillende tests op aarde kapot. Mede als gevolg van de coronacrisis bleek het vervolgens onmogelijk om het volledige testprogramma nog op tijd uit te voeren.

Volgens wetenschappelijk projectleider Jorge Vago van ESA’s technologiecentrum ESTEC in Noordwijk is het parachuteprobleem inmiddels getraceerd en opgelost; nieuwe tests staan voor komend najaar op het programma. Daarnaast zal ESA de komende maanden de zonnepanelen van Rosalind Franklin van nieuwe scharnieren voorzien (die bleken ook kuren te vertonen), en zullen er verschillende onderdelen worden vervangen.

Rosalind Franklin, genoemd naar de Britse mede-ontdekker van DNA, maakt deel uit van het Europees-Russische ExoMars-project. Behalve met camera’s en meetinstrumenten is de 300 kilogram zware Marswagen uitgerust met een boor die bodemmonsters kan nemen op een diepte van 2 meter, voor onderzoek ter plaatse.

Perseverance, Hope en Tianwen-1 hebben de laatste maanden natuurlijk ook alle drie te kampen gehad met potentiële vertragingen, als gevolg van de uitbraak van het coronavirus. Toch zullen de drie onbemande Marsmissies wel volgens plan van start gaan. 

Wanneer en door wie er voor het eerst bemande vluchten naar de rode planeet uitgevoerd zullen worden, is vooralsnog een open vraag. Dát dat ooit zal gebeuren, is volgens Jim Bell boven alle twijfel verheven. ‘We doen dit onderzoek om de vele raadsels rond de rode planeet op te lossen,’ zegt hij, ‘en om ondersteuning te bieden aan toekomstige landers, rovers en – uiteindelijk – mensen die in de toekomst op pad zullen gaan naar Mars.’

Digitaal themanummer ruimtetoerisme

Worden wij aliens?

Het wordt met de dag waarschijnlijker dat we buitenaards leven zullen ontdekken. Misschien zijn wij dat zelf wel. Nogal wat avonturiers dromen van een verregaande verkenning van de kosmos. Een kolonie op Mars is daarin slechts een tussenstap naar andere, meer leefbare planeten. Wat houdt ons nog tegen? Lees het in dit themanummer.

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A Mars 'Hope': The UAE's 1st interplanetary spacecraft aims to make history at Red Planet

By Meghan Bartels

"If a small nation like us is able to achieve this kind of mission and get ourselves to Mars, then everything is possible."

A photograph of the UAE's Hope Mars probe seen before launch.

(Image: © MBRSC)

Next week, the United Arab Emirates will launch its first-ever interplanetary mission, a Mars orbiter that the nation hopes will inspire the region and advance Red Planet science.

The mission, called Hope or the Emirates Mars Mission, is designed to spend one Martian year, or about two Earth years, studying the thin Martian atmosphere. Mission personnel hope that the spacecraft's results will teach scientists something new about the Red Planet's past and present atmosphere — and perhaps even help humans keep our own planet's atmosphere from becoming its twin. But the mission is also an ambitious step for a country not yet 50 years old that reached space for the first time only in 2009.

"I think one of the messages of this mission is hope, which is the name of the probe itself," Hessa Al Matroushi, science data and analysis lead for the mission at the UAE's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center, told Space.com. "If a small nation like us is able to achieve this kind of mission and get ourselves to Mars, then everything is possible."

• Related: Meet Hope: The UAE's first spacecraft bound for Mars is now complete

Now, that satellite is tucked into the nosecone of a Japanese H-2A rocket at the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, awaiting its moment to leap from Earth. Launch is currently scheduled for 5:51 a.m. local time on July 15 (4:51 p.m. EDT or 2051 GMT July 14).

The $200 million Hope mission was always designed to make that sort of larger statement both at home and abroad. The decision to go to Mars was meant to jolt the nation's technology industry and create a planetary science community where essentially none existed. The mission would pose a host of challenges, known and unknown, and be the first time an Arab country reached for another planet.

And everything would need to happen fast, much more quickly than a traditional Mars mission might. UAE leadership began floating the idea of sending an orbiter to Mars in 2014. And they had a deadline: arrival at Mars before December 2021, the nation's 50th anniversary. Because of the finicky orbital mechanics of reaching our neighbor, that meant blasting off this summer — and if the spacecraft misses its window, it will need to wait 26 months to try again.

The team was asked to tap international expertise and domestically build a spacecraft that could conduct new science at Mars on that timeframe. That meant mission personnel needed not only to manage the engineering challenges of spaceflight, but also to become part of the international community of Mars scientists. They needed to be familiar enough with the history of Mars exploration to identify what projects might be scientifically promising.

An artist's depiction of the UAE's Hope mission orbiting Mars.  (Image credit: MBRSC)

"We don't want to have these massive amounts of data and nobody's interested in it," Fatma Lootah, manager for Hope instrument science, told Space.com. "We want this data to be novel, this data to be breakthrough."

The team decided to focus on the atmosphere of Mars, which probes have studied before but not comprehensively. By putting Hope into an orbit no spacecraft has used at Mars, the mission will be able to study the upper and lower atmosphere simultaneously, allowing scientists to better understand how they interact. The unique orbit will also give scientists the first detailed understanding of Mars weather at large: across the globe, throughout the day and over the full seasonal cycle.

The team also needed to be pragmatic enough to choose something feasible on the assigned timeline, and to bring in colleagues who could make that schedule more manageable. One such partnership was with the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, which houses the science team of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, which has been orbiting Mars since 2014 studying a different set of atmospheric questions.

That mission's principal investigator, Bruce Jakosky, said that working as project scientist on Hope has been a very different experience from his time on NASA missions. "One is very aware [while] working on this of the international collaboration. That's new," he told Space.com. "We're working hand in hand with the Emiratis on this, and that really brings a different perspective to how one approaches a mission."

Jakosky said that for Hope, mission work wasn't just about the mission itself, it was about the international stage. "The UAE today doesn't have a strong science background. I will point out it did 1,000 years ago, they were the leaders in the world and I see this as an opportunity for them to regain some of that stature," he said. "It is a big step to take to do a Mars mission. Historically more have failed than have succeeded."

A view of the second stage of the rocket that will launch the UAE's Hope mission to Mars.  (Image credit: MBRSC)

Since the UAE began its space program, it has considered spaceflight to be about more than just getting a piece of metal and electronics into space. The country has built itself on oil revenue but knows that income is unstable and wants to diversify. Some of the motivation for a Mars mission was that such a project would force developments in technology and other non-oil sectors.

"If you deliver something that works in space and is capable of performing tasks in space, it sends also a strong message about the quality of work you do within your country," Omran Sharaf, mission lead for the Hope spacecraft, told Space.com earlier this spring of the UAE's decision to build its first fully domestic satellite, KhalifaSat, which launched in 2018.

But while the UAE wants to make a statement, the scientists on the Hope mission are here to do science.

"When this [mission] was announced, a lot of people were like, 'Oh, they're just doing it for show,'" Lootah said. "It's not for that at all; it's for the greater good. This novel science that's going to come out, the data, this is going to further humanity's knowledge of another planet, the most similar planet to Earth we know of right now. So I think I want to focus on the science."

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe swings through Venus 'tail' in flyby today

The huge cloud was spotted in Kiev, Ukraine, just 60 miles away from Chernobyl, which was the site of the worlds worst nuclear disaster in 1986, but officials told residents not to panic

By Gheorghi Caraseni and Jamie Hawkins

Kiev was covered by an unusual cloud in the form of a nuclear mushroom, just 60 miles from Chernobyl 

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Officials have told people not to panic after a city less than 60 miles from Chernobyl was covered in a giant mushroom-shaped cloud.

Chernobyl, in Ukraine, was the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986 when a reactor meltdown caused a major radiation leak.

But concerns were raised after the huge cloud was spotted in the capital Kiev.

Some locals speculated that Russian president Vladimir Putin may have been testing nuclear weapons while others feared it could be a " UFO ".

'Maxim Volokh' wrote: "Is it Putin is testing a new nuclear weapon?" And 'Mariya Pulyak' said: "Is that a UFO?"

However, the mushroom shaped cloud is said to be a naturally-occurring weather phenomenon.

Dramatic images show the startling cloud in the blue skies over Kiev. And the Ukrainian State Emergency Service later shared photos with the caption: "Admit it, who got scared?"

According to the officials, there was no reason to panic as the unusual cloud is a rare phenomenon "known as an anvil cloud so there was no reason for any worries".

They added: "We have had these types of clouds before above Kiev Oblast, Ternopil Oblast and Vinnitsa."

An anvil cloud, also called cumulonimbus incus, is a cumulonimbus cloud which has reached stratospheric stability and has formed the characteristic flat, anvil-top shape.

The clouds typically do not move, no matter how strong the wind is, and later slowly disappear.

If often signifies on oncoming thunderstorm.

The official death toll for those killed after the Chernobyl disaster stands at just 31 - among them were 28 firefighters who died of Acute Radiation Syndrome, an agonising and gruesome way to die.

However, many believe the horrifying true figure of those who lost their lives as a direct result is in the thousands.

Many of those who died as a direct result of the incident on April 26, 1986, were not killed as a result of the explosion and instead the devastating effects of radiation.

The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates between 4,000 and 27,000 people died as a result of the disaster, whereas Greenpeace places the figure much higher at between 93,000 and 200,000.

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• 'Astonishing' huge swarm of locusts sweeps through farmland and ruins crops

Many people living hundreds of miles from the explosion site fell ill with illnesses in the aftermath of the disaster.

People experienced everything from strange cancers, to birth deformities and other serious illnesses.

In the massive clean-up that followed, a total of 600,000 liquidators were recruited from across Russia to help and it is estimated as many as 6,000 of these may have died because of their efforts.

The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency estimate that the number of premature deaths associated with the disaster is approximately 4,000.

However, it seems the devastating impact of those living within the shadow of Chernobyl is still not over 34 years after the disaster.

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Elizondo: The Government Has “A Lot More” UFO Videos

We recently learned that the Senate’s Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021 includes a provision for our intelligence agencies to prepare a report on UFO/UAP activities in our airspace and publish it for the public within six months. We don’t know yet if that language will survive the legislative process and make it to the President’s desk intact, but it’s proving to be one of the more exciting developments in the ufology community in the past couple of years. But even if we assume that it’s going to happen, what might the public expect to get out of it?

For one thing, we might see some additional photos or videos of these enigmatic craft. Earlier this year, Pentagon Spokeswoman Susan Gough confirmed that three previously released videos were real and that the military can’t explain the craft being shown in them. But surely there’s got to be a lot more evidence than just those three, right? I mean, they’ve been studying this situation for decades and Navy pilots have reported periods where they were being buzzed on a daily basis. There must be a lot more to it than the few snippets we’ve seen. And at least according to former AATIP director Luis Elizondo, there’s more. There’s a lot more. (Newsweek)

The Pentagon has “a lot more” highly classified videos of so-called unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), the ex-head of a secretive government program has said…

“Am I surprised that the government acknowledged the validity and the veracity of those videos? Not at all,” Elizondo, currently director of government programs at TTSA, told Newsweek. “It was a matter of time, they didn’t have a choice because ultimately, the paper trail goes back to the authenticity of these videos. And anybody who does a little bit of research will recognize that they are real.”

“I knew they were genuine and there’s also a lot more the Pentagon currently has, unfortunately remain highly classified,” he said. “It is truly a historical moment when you have the United States government and multiple agencies in the organization coming forward and saying that the videos are not only real, but they are truly unidentified aerial phenomena.”

While everyone (including yours truly) seems to be locking in on that one quote from Elizondo’s interview with Newsweek, they haven’t provided a video of the discussion so I’m not 100% sure he’s saying what we think he’s saying. Note in the transcript that he says “I knew [the videos] were genuine and there’s also a lot more the Pentagon currently has…”

Granted, perhaps he did mean that the Pentagon has a lot more videos. But he doesn’t explicitly say that. He just says “there’s a lot more the Pentagon has.” That could also mean documents, reports, photographs, pilot testimony or anything else.

Also worth noting was that the last time Susan Gough addressed this specific question she told us in no uncertain terms that there were no other videos. But we later learned from the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) that there is one more video, but it’s classified as SECRET and could not be released at that time. They claim that a request to see if the video could be declassified was sent to Naval Air Systems Command “to make a determination on releasability.” That was over six months ago and we still haven’t had an update.

Does that mean Gough was lying? As I’ve said before, I’m no longer so sure about that. The military-intelligence apparatus is so incredibly complex and segmented into “chimneys” of information that many of the actors involved in such things never know what anyone else is doing It remains a possibility that Susan Gough tried to find answers to our questions but never found anything out and potentially didn’t even know who to ask.

As to the idea that there are only four videos in total, I still call horse-hockey on that claim. The Navy was running into these bizarre craft on a regular basis at least through 2014, particularly around the Roosevelt carrier battle group. To think that they never captured any additional film seems unlikely in the extreme. Now, it may all be more highly classified as Elizondo suggests, but at some point they should be able to share “cleaned up” versions with the public if they are really angling for transparency and, ultimately, Disclosure.

For those who are interested, Luis Elizondo returns for season two of History’s “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation” tonight. I’ll certainly be watching.

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1. Searching for the Chupacabra

I was recently asked what I considered to be the top ten of my investigations, cases, road-trips (the list goes on) of the UFO and paranormal kind. Well, that’s very difficult to say! I have to say it changes from time to time. And, it’s definitely hard to keep it just to ten. I’ll give it a try though. Most people, I’m sure, have heard of the exploits of the Chupacabra of Puerto Rico. For years reports have surfaced of a strange creature: part-monkey, part-giant bat, and part-gargoyle roaming the island’s lowlands and rain-forest, and slaughtering animals on a massive scale. I have now been on many expeditions to Puerto Rico in search of the beasts; and each occasion has been a truly memorable one. Collectively, I have spoken with dozens of people who have been able to shed much-welcome light on the Chupacabra puzzle: farmers whose animals have been killed by the beast; civil-defense employees that have investigated such attacks, police officers, journalists, and members of the public.

Without doubt the most fascinating story was that of an elderly lady named Norka, who told me and Jon Downes, on our 2004 trip to the island, that she had seen a bat-winged, glowing-eyed Chupacabra up close and personal way back in 1975 as she drove to her home high in the hills of the El Yunque rain-forest. Then there was Noel, a chicken-breeder who woke up one morning to find all his animals killed, their bodies drained of blood, and the only calling-card being two ominous puncture marks on the necks of each and every one of the bodies. In addition, there have been numerous sightings of UFO on Puerto Rico (along with a couple of crashed UFO tales – one from the 1950s and one from the 1980s), which has led many to conclude that the blood-sucking monster is itself an extraterrestrial. Others suggest the creature has supernatural origins, while some see it as the result of bizarre, genetic experimentation. But, whatever the Chupacabra ultimately may be, I am in doubt that it exists. And, as long as questions need answering, my investigations will continue.

2. The Roswell Ghosts

Any mention of Roswell, New Mexico inevitably conjures up imagery of high-level conspiracies and X-Files type secrets of a distinctly out-of-this-world nature. Not surprising, given its status as the UFO capital of the world. Numerous books have been written on the still-mysterious events of July 1947, but the answers still elude us. In late 2005, I was offered the opportunity to seek out the answers to Roswell via distinctly alternative means. According to the story, alien bodies found deep in the heart of the New Mexico back in 1947 were secretly transferred to the hospital of what was then the Roswell Army Air Field. By the 1950s, the RAAF had become Walker Field, and the old wooden hospital was replaced by a new brick building. In 1967, however, Walker Field was closed down, and the hospital remained empty until it became the New Mexico Rehabilitation Center.

Interestingly, employees of the NMRC have reported seeing apparition-type figures walking through the corridors and walls of the hospital; figures that some believe are the spirits of the bodies that were allegedly brought to the original hospital all those years ago. So, in October 2005, along with a team of paranormal investigators – and a TV crew – I headed out to Roswell for a week to seek out the truth. And, indeed, staff at the NMRC confirmed the stories and related their own remarkable experiences of the alien-ghost kind. Our investigation culminated in a midnight séance in the old hangar at the former Roswell Army Air Field, as we tried to contact the dead of Roswell. The wind howled, the ceiling creaked, and the psychics were sure that alien messages came through from the other side that night. It was definitely one of the strangest of the many investigations I’ve been on!

3. Gateway to the Goat-Man

In January 2008, I headed off into the unknown with paranormal researcher Lance Oliver. The purpose of our quest: to find the Goat-Man of the town of Denton, Texas – a cloven-hoofed, demonic-like beast said to haunt an 1884-vintage steel and wood structure in town known as the Old Alton Bridge. As we arrived at the site and got out of our respective cars, Lance proceeded to tell me the story behind the legend. Decades ago, occultists in the area had apparently been recklessly dabbling in matters of a distinctly negative nature and had inadvertently opened up a doorway or portal that provided the hell-spawned horned and hoofed nightmarish beast access to our world – which was not a good thing at all, Lance rightly commented. That occult and paranormal activity was afoot at the bridge was not a matter of any doubt at all: Lance had a personal awareness that people had been out there, late at night, with Ouija boards; there were stories of satanic cult activity; and sightings of unusual phenomena – such as eerie, localized mists, and floating balls of light, better known in the ghost-hunting community as ‘orbs’ – were strikingly commonplace. Lance also told me, intriguingly, how on one occasion while he was walking the bridge he announced loudly that he did not believe in the existence of the Goat-Man. Then as if from nowhere, but certainly right on time, came the eerie ringing of an invisible bell. Lance, realizing there was not another earthly soul around, wisely elected to reassess his stance on the matter of the Goat-Man’s reality or otherwise. As for me, I kept a careful watch, just in case something hoofed came looming out of the dark trees.

4. An English Roswell?

In 1991, the now-deceased collector of “Crashed UFO” tales, Leonard Stringfield, revealed that he had been told – by a former U.S. military source – of the crash in 1964 of a UFO on the fringes of one of England’s most notoriously weird areas of woodland: the Cannock Chase. A craft and alien bodies were said to have been recovered, and a high-level cover-up was put into place to hide the out-of-this-world truth. For a couple of years I delved into the tale, but didn’t make any significant headway. That is, until 1996. One year earlier, local UFO investigator, Irene Bott, had established the Staffordshire UFO Group, and promptly began digging into what some soon called a definitive “English Roswell.” And it was after a year or so of digging that Irene hit pay dirt. She had been contacted by a man named Harold South who then lived only a few miles away and who claimed to have witnessed the recovery by elements of the military of a small, triangular-shaped craft from the woods in question – which was promptly loaded aboard a large vehicle and headed for destinations-unknown. Not only that: South said that after photographing the mysterious object, his camera-film was confiscated by the local police.

On a dark and cold December 1996 morning, Irene and I headed to South’s home for an in-person interview. When we arrived, a highly shaken South told us the military had phoned him earlier; and, as a result, he was not sure if he should speak to us at all. We were able to confirm that a call had indeed been made to him that very morning: we traced it back to the U.K. Ministry of Defense’s Guards Service. Was this evidence that South was still under surveillance as late as 1996 because of his close encounter on the Cannock Chase all those years before? Or was it me and Irene who were being secretly watched? We never really got to the bottom of the puzzle, but it was certainly one of the strangest situations in which I have found myself.

5. A Creepy Man in Black

I have a keen interest in the mystery of the Men in Black – who have been an integral part of the UFO mystery for decades – and have been fortunate enough to speak with many people who have encountered these creepy characters. One such case, related to me in 1994, by a British woman named Sarah who lives in central England, went as follows: “The door banged really slowly, and when I opened it there was this horrible little man about five feet [tall]. He was dressed in a black suit and tie, and he had a funny little black hat on. His face was really strange: like someone with anorexia. His eyes were dark and his skin was almost white. All he said was: ‘We would ask you cease your studies.’ I said: ‘What?’  Then he repeated it. I had to ask what he meant. He said:’The sky lights; always the sky lights.’ Then it dawned on me: I’d seen a UFO late at night about a week before when me and my husband had been driving home and we both had a really weird dream after – about some little men standing around our car on the edge of the wood. He gave me a really long stare, like he was going to attack me. But he just walked away. I started to feel dizzy and slammed the door. I just crawled to the bed and fell asleep for about three hours. But when I woke up there was this horrible smell, like burning rubber all through the house. It really shook me up.”

6. Texan Gargoyles

Not longer after I moved to the United States to live, in 2001, I was on the receiving end of a strange story of a distinctly gargoyle-like nature from the west Texas city of Littlefield. According to the account – provided by a couple living in the town – matters kicked-off in the early months of 1946 at an old, large house that until the early 1960s had existed on the edge of town, and where two aged and eccentric sisters lived in absolute seclusion. Supposedly, on one occasion in the dead of night (when else?), a group of local kids playing in the area and scaring themselves stupid by walking around the old, dark building had seen two, eight-foot-tall, humanoid creatures climb stealthily out of the building’s cellar. Not only were the creatures eight-foot-tall, they were also grey of skin, had large, leathery wings, and glowing red eyes. In other words, they weren’t local folk. I think. The monstrous pair apparently turned sharply as they surfaced from their underground lair and stared intently at the kids, then broke into a hopping-style run, opened their immense wings and soared majestically into the starlit sky. One interesting observation was that the limbs of the creatures looked almost hollow against the background of the full moon that loomed overhead.

Perhaps even weirder was the fact that as the kids exited the area at what was an unsurprisingly high speed, two of them caught sight of the elderly sisters, grinning maniacally at them out of a downstairs window of the house. The couple also informed me that a similar creature, if not one of the original two, was seen several months later standing in the middle of the local highway by a terrified motorist in the early hours of the morning while issuing a woeful moan. That, in essence, was the account. I had no idea if it was genuine; and, as the couple told me, the key witnesses in the tale had all gone to their graves at surprisingly young ages – all supposedly killed in a variety of seemingly unlikely accidents. A tall-tale designed to see how gullible I was or something stranger? To this day, I’m still not sure what I think about it all.

7. Big Cats in the Tunnels

England’s London Underground railway system serves Greater London and parts of the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It’s also the world’s oldest underground network of its type: services began on January 10, 1863 on the Metropolitan Railway; and today, the London Underground has no less than 268 stations and approximately 250 miles of track, making it the longest sub-surface railway in the world. In addition, in 2007, over one billion passengers were recorded as having used the Underground since its creation. According to some, however, the London Underground is home to much more than just tracks, trains and commuters: deep within the maze of dark and old tunnels, distinctly strange and diabolical things are said to lurk.

For the last forty years or so, tales have abounded (and are now at almost epidemic levels) of sightings of so-called big-cats on the loose in the British countryside. Precisely what they are, where they come from, and why no-one is seemingly able to capture a specimen, is a matter of heated and on-going debate – and a debate, it would appear, with no end in sight. Long before the present day controversy reared its head, however, the London Underground may very well have been home to one of these elusive beasts. Several years ago, Maureen Abbott told me of her sighting of what she described as a “big black panther” that was “bounding along the track” as she stood awaiting a train on one of the lines, late one Winter evening in either 1954 or 1955. Describing the animal as ‘running very fast’, she said that as it passed her it quickly looked in her direction, and with a “frown on his face,” before vanishing into the darkness of the tunnels. Although Abbott did not see the creature again, she never forgot her terrifying encounter with the unknown, deep below the city of London – and I have certainly never forgotten the interview!

8. Close Encounters of the 1950s Kind

During the early 1950s, my father, Frank Redfern, served with the Royal Air Force as a radar mechanic. He had been involved in several UFO incidents that occurred during September 1952 at the height of a NATO exercise called Mainbrace, when a number of fast-moving and unidentified targets were tracked over-flying the North Sea by radar operators at RAF Neatishead, Norfolk. When he related this to me in 1978, it was a key turning point in my life and ultimately led me on a still-continuing quest to determine the truth that lies behind the UFO puzzle. I made mention of my father’s experience in my first book: A Covert Agenda. Following the publication of the book, a number of important sources came forward to corroborate the remarkable events of September1952 – including Ken Dayman, a radar operator who was stationed at RAF Langton, Lincolnshire at the time. “We would do shifts,” Ken told me, “and I would read out the plots and the girls would then plot them on a big map. Well, over the course of two days in 1952, something strange happened. On the first day, somebody said: ‘Look, there’s something happening on the screen!’ There were about three or four of us watching as something was speeding across the screen; and this was fast, very fast. “It looked like there were actually two objects and they were approaching from the North Sea and flew across Lincolnshire, Peterborough and then up the country at about 2,000 miles per hour. Well, an officer was called and he made some comment. But then our commanding officer arrived and reminded us not to talk about this as we’d signed the Official Secrets Act. But this happened over a couple of days and the UFOs were tracked by several shifts – not just ours.” When I interviewed Ken, in 1999, he was still as mystified by the incident as he was back in 1952.

9. The Taos Monster

Salvador was a man I interviewed in 2002. Having inherited a considerable sum of money in his youth, he was retired by his forties, and lived in the city of Taos, New Mexico. But it was a strange experience that occurred in 1997 he wanted to discuss when we met. A keen astronomer, he had taken his truck out to a spot north of Taos that was free of light, and where he could set up his telescope and scan the sky. Around 1:00 a.m., Salvador recalled, he heard a sound that “was like a high-pitched whistle,” but that had a human feel to it. Tthe source of the growling, he suspected, was within thirty feet of him; and he got the impression that a hostile entity was circling him. He sat tight in his truck as the growling continued, when suddenly he could hear the sound of a helicopter. The noise got louder; and finally a large spotlight bathed the area, and the dark form of a black helicopter could be seen. Concerned by the unknown life-form circling his truck, Salvador stood up, and waved frantically in the direction of the helicopter. Suddenly, the helicopter rose into the air and its spotlight was focused upon an area no more than fifty feet from Salvador’s truck. He could now see what had been causing all the commotion: a seven-foot-tall-creature that “looked just like what people say Bigfoot is.” The beast, Salvador said, vanished “at a real speed,”with the helicopter in pursuit. Both disappeared as the helicopter’s light grew fainter and darkness returned. A shocked Salvador jumped into his truck and quickly headed home. The encounter was over.

10. Don’t Shoot!

In 1999, I had the opportunity to interview a man who had a curious and somewhat disconcerting UFO encounter in the Staffordshire town of Penkridge, England in the summer of 1985. In this particular case, the witness had previously served in Egypt as a military policeman with the British Army. At approximately 5:00 a.m. on a weekend morning and along with a friend, the man in question had driven to Penkridge to take part in a “duck-shoot” at a river that was situated on nearby farmland. All was normal until around 5:.30 a.m. Suddenly, the man caught sight of a light in the sky that appeared to be moving in his direction and across the fields on the opposite side of the river at a height of what he estimated to be approximately three hundred feet. He watched carefully and with mounting concern as the light came to a complete halt above one particular field and proceeded to fire a beam of light down to the ground. As it did so, the man was able to see illuminated in the beam of the object a herd of cows that were blissfully munching away on their breakfast of grass. Astonished by what he was seeing, the man leapt to his feet; as he did so, however, three smaller lights came out of the larger one – two “swept off” and one, to his horror, headed straight for him. “Don’t point your gun, whatever you do!” the man told me he said to himself. And so what course of action did he take? He made a run for it. Clearing a fence of not inconsiderable height, he ran to his friend and blurted out what he had seen. Both decided to head back to the scene, but the lights had vanished. As for the cows, they were still eating breakfast, seemingly oblivious to the drama that had taken place.

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“Na-Nu Na-Nu”

If that phrase is familiar, it may be reminding you of Mork from Ork, the character played by the late great Robin Williams on “Mork & Mindy.” Mork was sent to Earth from Ork, a planet which banned humor, to monitor human behavior. That Ork, despite its hatred of laughter, doesn’t sound as mysterious as the four ‘ORC’ objects discovered recently by astronomers who are struggling to figure out what they are. Perhaps the Fonz might know.

“Here we report the discovery of a class of circular feature in radio images that do not seem to correspond to any of these known types of object or artefact, but rather appear to be a new class of astronomical object. For brevity, and lacking an explanation for their origins, we dub these objects “Odd Radio Circles or ORCs.”

Astronomers from around the world have been pouring over the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), a collection of data from a wide-angle view of the sky taken by the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) – a group of 36 identical parabolic antennas working in tandem as one astronomical interferometer — from July to November in 2019. Three strange objects jumped out at the astronomers – near-perfect circles of radio waves that are bright (in a radio-wave way – they’re invisible to normal, infrared and X-ray telescopes) around their edges.

According to their study submitted to Nature Astronomy, the baffled researchers checked their findings against archival data taken with the Giant MetreWave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India (which was formerly the world’s largest interferometric array) and found one more. Still not sure what they were observing, they compared them to known phenomena.

“Circular features are well-known in radio astronomical images, and usually represent a spherical object such as a supernova remnant, a planetary nebula, a circumstellar shell, or a face-on disc such as a protoplanetary disc or a star-forming galaxy. They may also arise from imaging artefacts around bright sources caused by calibration errors or inadequate deconvolution.”

Eliminating the known, that gave them the opening to declare these to be a new class of astronomical objects — which they called Odd Radio Circles or ORCs – and commence speculations on what they might actually be.

“We speculate that they may represent a spherical shock wave from an extragalactic transient event, or the outflow, or a remnant, from a radio galaxy viewed end-on. 

It is also possible that the ORCs represent a new category of a known phenomenon, such as the jets of a radio galaxy or blazar when seen end-on, down the “barrel” of the jet. Alternatively, they may represent some remnant of a previous outflow from a radio galaxy. However, no existing observations of this phenomenon closely resemble the ORCs in features such as the edge-brightening or the absence of a visual blazar or radio galaxy at the centre. 

We also acknowledge the possibility that the ORCs may represent more than one phenomenon, and that they have been discovered simultaneously because they match the spatial frequency characteristics of the ASKAP observations, which occupy a part of the observational parameter space which has hitherto been poorly studied.”

In other words, they have no idea what these mysterious Odd Radio Circles are and the proverbial ‘more research is necessary’ is in effect. Meanwhile, these wheels in the sky keep on turning.

Na-na Na-nu!

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Nieuwe sterren ontdekt die buiten onze Melkweg ontstaan zijn en ermee botsten - HLN.be

Bron: CNN

De 250 sterren zouden een overblijfsel zijn van een klein sterrenstelsel dat met onze Melkweg is gebotst en erdoor opgeslokt is. Het zijn restanten van een voormalig dwergstelsel, dat Nyx werd gedoopt en dat uit een ander sterrenstelsel afkomstig is. De sterren bevinden zich in de nabijheid van de zon en strekken zich uit over zo’n 6.000 lichtjaren boven en onder de schijf van de Melkweg, als je die van opzij zou bekijken. De sterren draaien niet alleen mee met de schijf van de Melkweg, maar bewegen zich ook in de richting van het centrum ervan.

Necib en haar team vonden de omvangrijke sterrenstroom met computersimulaties en door de data na te pluizen van zo’n 7 miljoen sterren, waarvan ruimtetelescoop Gaia exact de driedemensionale snelheid vastlegde. Op die manier - het gaat om nieuwe ‘Deep Learning’-methodes - konden de astronomen ook de restanten van een ander en al eerder ontdekt dwergstelsel opsporen, Worststelsel genaamd. Dat was eveneens met de Melkweg in botsing gekomen.

De onderzoekers hopen in de toekomst te kunnen achterhalen wanneer Nyx is opgeslokt door de Melkweg, waar het sterrenstelsel vandaan kwam en wat de chemische structuur is. 

De studie werd gepubliceerd in Nature Astronomy.

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Pleiadians: We've Got to Do it Ourselves, the Aliens Aren't Our Saviors

Pleiadians: We’ve Got To Do It Ourselves, the Aliens Aren’t Our Saviors

Subaru is the Japanese word for “Pleiades,” and the company logo, an oval with six four-point stars, represents the Pleiades star cluster. The word also means “united,” apt, because the Subaru corporation was formed by the merger of five companies.

A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFOs, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena.

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Pigeon Frozen In Air Near 5G Tower! Proof Of Time Bubble Forming! Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 11, 2020
Location of sighting: Tulua, Columbia 
Source: 

• https://www.instagram.com/dezabedrosky/ 
  

Now here is something you don't see everyday. A white pigeon frozen in midair near a 5G tower. Its like a time bubble was made by the 5G antenna and this poor pigeon was unlucky enough to get caught in it. Not the pigeon is a pigeon, no doubt there. The 5G tower is a 5G tower...again no doubt there. However we really don't know what 5G towers will do. Of course the radiation exposure will increase, the static electricity in the area will increase, but what does it take to create a bubble in time...invisible to the naked eye, yet within it...all time slows down? For this bird, time is normal, but for us watching it, it seems frozen in place. Is such a thing possible? Yes of course it is...with alien technology...but does 5G use alien tech that has been kept secret to the world? I believe it does. Can you imagine having a house near the 5G tower...you could go to brush your teeth and get caught in a time bubble never to exit for weeks, months or even years. And when you do, you will never know that anything had happened. 
Scott C. Waring 

Eyewitness states: 

There is a static pigeon in the air next to a 4G antenna and there are apparently no wires nearby. Tuluá Valle, Colombia. 

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Reflective UFO Over Home In Tombstone, Arizona Photos, June 2020, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: June 21, 2020
Location of sighting: Tombstone, Arizona, USA
Source: MUFON #110062

Here is a great photo of a mysterious white glowing object having above a neighborhood in Arizona a few weeks ago. The object is said to have looked like a goldfish having for over an hour, but then disappeared later in the day. Tombstone has a population of about 1,800 residents, so UFOs there may be reported much less. Not everyone who sees a UFO reports them. Its closer to 1 in 20 people actually put the effort into sharing it on social media or UFO reporting sites. Still, awesome the person captured this much for us to have a look at. Looks very reflective and flying low. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

Eyewitness states: 

Glowing white goldfish cracker shaped object that sat still hovering for almost an hour, an hour or so later it was just gone. We didn't see it leave Its above the house with the red roof. We have a 9 second video but its not uploading correctly.

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We've put together a significant trail of declassified documents - all public but many obscure - that suggest we're far closer to the truth of UFO crash operations than most think.

From Battelle, a little known metallurgy contractor for the US Air Force, to Project Moon Dust, a space debris retrieval operation, there are many hints the US Government got its hands on exotic technology. But what's missing from this picture? Canada.

While the USG denies any UFO crashes ever took place on its soil, Canada has already disclosed several — but they're rarely, if ever talked about due to the somewhat convoluted way Canadian archives are organized. Thanks to the efforts of Jason Carignan, National Chief Investigator for MUFON Canada, we have three different UFO crash reports, including two where metal was recovered.

One Moon Dust file even shows the the USAF wanted access to crash debris in Canada, which isn't surprising, given both countries' deep relationship with UFO investigations and reporting procedures known as CIRVIS. 

About the UFO debris depicted in the image above - According to a commenter on the channel of 'It's Redacted: The waffle shape of that debris suggests a grid of emitters. Most likely metamaterials designed to emit EM fields which dynamically compress or expand space-time locally in a bubble probably no more than millimetres or less thick.

If you want to understand why these objects shrink or expand from all angles or seemingly morph, lorentz contraction (and expansion) and controlled gravitational lensing is the closest explanation currently understood.

  

Videos about Canadian UFO-crashes, selected by peter2011

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Secret black tower at Area 51

I wanna show you this thing I discovered recently. It’s some kind of a triangular-shaped tower that was build in Area 51 in Nevada. There are a lot of theories on the internet about the purpose of this building. Some say it’s some kind of station for communicating with extraterrestrial civilizations, some says it’s used for teleportation or that it was designed to control secret aircrafts.

I think it’s strange that is located so far away from other buildings, more that 1000 feet. I believe that’s connected to other buildings with tunnels. Just like in the big cities, there’s probably much more going on underground.

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More Than 30 People Saw The Same UFO In Argentina

A small village in Argentina experiences one of the largest UFO sightings and its citizens are the ones who investigate what it might be.

Other recent videos about UFOs, selected by peter2011

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“Axisymmetric disks of high-eccentricity, low-mass bodies on near-Keplerian orbits are unstable to an out-of-plane buckling. This “inclination instability” exponentially grows the orbital inclinations, raises perihelion distances, and clusters in the argument of perihelion.”

Wait … what? Let’s decode that to something most of us can understand.

“The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place—filled with dark and icy bodies with nicknames like Sedna, Biden and The Goblin, each of which span several hundred miles across.

The orbits of these planetary oddities, which scientists call “detached objects,” tilt and buckle out of the plane of the solar system, among other unusual behaviors.”

Is that better? You’re welcome. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have been studying the mysterious area of our solar system beyond Neptune and the Kuiper Belt where small icy objects and possibly one big Planet Nine reside in orbits completely out of whack from the rest of the solar system. Ann-Marie Madigan, an assistant professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and graduate student Alexander Zderic decided to test whether a Planet Nine is needed to gravitationally influence the tiny icy bodies scattered about the area or if they obtained their crazy non-solar-planar orbits (see-saws and clusters, for instance) on their own. In the process, they came up with a new concept in planetary movement described in a press release and papers in two different journals. Who cares … did they find Planet Nine?

“In this Letter, we present N-body simulations of the long-term behavior of such a system, finding apsidal clustering of the orbits in the disk plane. The timescale over which the clustering is maintained increases with number of particles, suggesting that lopsided configurations are stable at large N. This discovery may explain the observed apsidal (ϖ) clustering of extreme trans-Neptunian Objects in the outer solar system.”

Wait … what again?

“In the process, they discovered something unusual: the icy objects in their simulations started off orbiting the sun like normal. But then, over time, they began to pull and push on each other. As a result, their orbits grew wonkier until they started to resemble the real thing.”

Yes, the findings are based on simulations – albeit using supercomputers and the largest collection of input data ever. What they found is that the tiny icy planets started off in the same orbital plane as their larger siblings closer to the Sun, but then began to influence each other – pushing and pulling themselves into strange orbits. However, a simulated Planet Nine was never able to accomplish this. Instead, the models showed that there are a lot more tiny planetoids out there than we suspected (a long-held assumption based on the fact that we can’t see them with current telescopes) and those large numbers allow them to join forces and exert what Madigan and Zderic dubbed “collective gravity.”

“You needed objects that added up to something on the order of 20 Earth masses. That’s theoretically possible, but it’s definitely going to be bumping up against people’s beliefs.”

Not to mention bumping into each other. “Theoretically possible” means there’s still hope for a Planet Nine, which is also theoretically possible and never seen with current telescopes. While the idea of Planet Nine being thousands of little Planet Nines has been proposed before, Madigan and Zderic have added the theory of collective gravity to the equation. They’re hoping the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, scheduled to be operational in Chile in 2022, will finally be able to see some of these “detached objects” and confirm their theory.

Meanwhile, trying to understand these scientific papers sometimes makes my brain feel like a detached object.

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Archaeologists made an interesting discovery at the Qafzeh Cave which is located close to the city of Nazareth, Israel. In addition to the dozens of human skeletons who lived in that area during the Mediterranean Paleolithic time period, they also unearthed several perforated shells.

What’s so interesting about these shells – many of which were painted with ochre – is that they were strung together with string to connect them into a necklace sometime between 160,000 and 120,000 years ago.

In an article I wrote back in April of this year (which can be read here), I discussed how the world’s oldest string was created by Neanderthals in Abri du Maras, France, about 50,000 years ago, so the fact that these Israeli shells were connected with string strongly contradicts previous reports that it was first created tens of thousands of years later – and in a completely different country nevertheless.

Glycymeris nummaria shell

Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, who is from Tel Aviv University and an author of the study, explained this further, “Modern humans collected unperforated cockle shells for symbolic purposes at 160,000 years ago or earlier, and around 120,000 they started collecting perforated shells and wearing them on a string. We conclude that strings, which had many more applications, were invented within this time frame.”

The shells belonged to the Glycymeris nummaria species of bivalve mollusks that are quite common in the Mediterranean as well as the northeastern part of the Atlantic. Researchers found that the Qafzeh people brought the perforated shells back to their cave which was located 40 kilometres (25 miles) away from the sea. Interestingly, researchers analyzed shells that were unearthed at Misliya Cave (on the northern coast of Israel) and found that the ancient inhabitants of the location (between 240,000 and 160,000 years ago) collected Glycymeris shells that weren’t perforated – or that didn’t have holes in them.

And since only about 40 percent of the Glycymeris shells found on the beach are naturally perforated, that would indicate that in ancient times, the shells with the holes in them were deliberately collected and then put on a string to make jewelry.

More Glycymeris nummaria shells

In order to test her hypothesis, Bar-Yosef Mayer conducted an experiment where she strung up shells using string that was made from wild flax and exposed it to different conditions that would cause it to eventually wear down, such as simulated sweat. The results were very interesting as she found that the use-wear patterns were consistent with those found on the Qafzeh shells, such as scratch marks that would have been created by the string and other scrapes that could have been caused by the beads banging against each other (like on a necklace or bracelet).

This is an incredible discovery as it appears that string was created tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought and used for stylish jewelry during that time. A picture of the shells can be seen here.

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Texas’ huge Big Thicket certainly lives up to its name: an 83,000-acre area, it is a sprawling mass of rivers, swampland, and incredibly dense woods where, according to legend: “You’ll find every critter in there from crickets to elephants.” Well, that’s not quite true, but it is home to something far stranger: the Ghost Lights; football-sized glowing orbs that float among the trees and zip along the tree-shrouded lanes late at night. Although sightings of the strange Ghost Lights have persisted since at least the 1940s, explanations for their presence are both varied and descriptive. Some people believe them to be merely the reflections of car headlamps; while, for the most part, the scientific community considers them to be something akin to swamp-gas. UFO proponents, however, note that legends tell of a UFO crash deep in the Big Thicket in 1964 – and which, some believe, may be indicative of an on-going alien presence in the area. Whatever the truth, late at night when the whole area is blanketed in darkness, the Big Thicket’s famous ‘Ghost Light Road’ affords the UFO-spotter a great chance to see the famous lights for his or herself.

They’re not headlights.

Somewhat similar in nature to the infamous Ghost Lights of the Big Thicket, the so-called Marfa Lights can be seen in the vicinity of the Texas town after which they are named. Reports describe brightly-lit, basketball-sizes spheres that float either just above the ground or sometimes high in the air. Colors are generally described as being yellow, orange, white or red – with green and blue lights occasionally reported, too. Sometimes traveling at high speeds, and at other times at a very slow pace, the Marfa Lights often appear in groups, to divide into pairs, and even merge together – disappearing and re-appearing in the blink of an eye. Eye-witness testimony suggests the Marfa Lights can persist from a mere second to possibly even several hours; and although predominantly a nocturnal phenomenon, are sometimes spied during sunset and sunrise, when the landscape is dimly illuminated. And for those who may want to check out the lights for themselves, the most profitable place to head for is south of U.S. Route 90 and U.S. Route 67, five-to-fifteen miles east of Marfa itself. Good hunting!

Like the Marfa Lights and the Ghost Lights of the Big Thicket, the Brown Mountain Lights of North Carolina are unidentified aerial phenomena that have regularly haunted the area for decades. For example, one of the earliest accounts on record dates from September 13, 1913, and was reported in the Charlotte Daily Observer newspaper. According to the story: a fisherman claimed to have seen ‘mysterious lights just above the horizon every night’, red in colour, and with a pronounced circular shape. Soon after this account surfaced, however, a United States Geological Survey employee, D.B. Stewart, studied the area in question and concluded the witnesses were simply mistaking train-lights for something stranger.

A more formal U.S. Geological Survey study was begun in 1922 and concluded, again, that witnesses were misidentifying train-lights, as well as lights from cars and camp-fires. However, according to a marker that can still be seen on the Blue Ridge Parkway to this day, a huge flood struck the area soon after the completion of the study. All electrical power was lost and trains were inoperable for a significant period of time. The Brown Mountain lights, however, continued to be seen. Paranormal expert and author Joshua P. Warren has extensively investigated the lights – and, in 2000, succeeded in capturing several on film – and is convinced that even though a definitive answer still eludes us, they are not merely the result of mistaken identity. For those keen to check out the area for themselves, one of the best vantage points is Wiseman’s View, which is situated approximately 4 miles from Linville Falls, North Carolina; while the best time of year to see the Brown Mountain Lights is reportedly from September to early November.

Can you tell the difference?

Official investigations within the U.K. of unusual aerial phenomena started during the First World War. One of the most notable reports can be found within the archives of the British Admiralty and dates from, rather incredibly, 1915. Prepared by a Lieutenant Colonel W.P. Drury, the Garrison Intelligence Officer at Plymouth Garrison, Devon, England, a four-page document tells the story. It concerns a series of strange events that occurred on the wilds of Dartmoor (the setting for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles). Lt. Col. Drury advised his superiors at the Admiralty that on 28 June 1915 he and a colleague, one Lt. C. Brownlow of Naval Intelligence, had interviewed a Miss Cecilia Peel Yates at Dolbeare Cottage, Ashburton, about an unusual experience: “She informed us that a few mornings previously, just before dawn, having been awakened by the barking of dogs, she saw from her bedroom window a bright light in the sky, bearing N., and apparently suspended a short distance above the earth. It was too large and bright for a planet, and, as she watched, it swung to the N.E., and disappeared. Haytor is due North of Ashburton and 4 miles distant as the crow files.”

Lt. Col. Drury and Lt. Brownlow were more than skeptical of Miss Peel Yates’s UFO-like encounter: “Although we had entirely failed to shake the lady’s evidence by cross-examination, we deemed her story so wildly improbable that we excluded it from our official report. But shortly afterwards reports of a similar phenomenon were received from the neighbourhood of Hexworthy Mine, which is 5 miles to the N.W., across Dartmoor. On July 12th, Lieutenant Brownlow and I proceeded to Sherril, near Hexworthy, and interviewed Mrs. Cave-Penny and her daughter, from whom the report emanated. Their house, an isolated form on the moor, commands a clear view of the mine, which is two-and-a-half miles distant. They stated that on several occasions they had watched a bright white light rise from a point a few hundred yards to the Eastward of the mine, swing across the valley to about the same from Totnes, and a paddock some distance West of it, and disappear.”

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Sometimes it seems that weird stuff just sort of falls down from the sky. There are numerous cases of weird things coming down from above throughout history, often without solid answers. In recent years this has continued with a surprising amount of cases in which strange metallic orbs have come down out of nowhere to leave people scratching their heads and wondering what to make of it all. Here we will look at some bizarre instances of falling metallic orbs or spheres which have managed to evade any real concrete understanding.

In 2012, villagers in northern Brazil were startled when a metallic sphere dropped from the sky to crash down at the village of Riacho dos Poços, in Brazilian Maranhão state, obliterating a cashew tree in the process. The villager who first discovered it said that it had come down after a loud crack reverberated across the sky, and would say, “I heard the noise and I went out to see what caused it. I thought it was a plane that had fallen, or an earthquake.” What he found was a strange, otherworldly object in a ditch still hot to the touch, and described as being perfectly spherical and about 1 meter in diameter and weighing 50 kilograms. When other villagers arrived and dug it out, they found that the sphere seemed to be hollow, except for what seemed to be a bit of liquid swishing about within. Around 2,000 people from all over the area flocked in to see the “UFO,” and it created a panic among some of the more superstitious of the locals. Rather ominously, military police soon arrived and took the sphere away, saying that it was just a part of a downed satellite.

The Brazillian sphere

The state of Texas in the United States had a similar incident in 2013, when an electrician by the name of Dean Gentz spotted a weird object near a cow pasture on his land, near the town of Buna, in east Texas. Upon inspection, it could be seen that the object was a brown metallic orb around 35 centimeters in diameter and bearing signs that it had undergone extreme heat exposure. Gentz would say if it:

What I noticed when I first saw the object got my attention. The way one side of the sphere was melted – I didn’t think someone could have done that with a torch, plasma arc, arc gouge, or any other means I knew about. Also, when you heat metal, it will cool and have a different look. As in this case, the melted metal spalling was blown back over the sphere, I knew that it had been done in an ‘event,’ not by humans. I am not sure how many people would have noticed these things. Several people said they would have thrown it away.

Another mystery sphere would be found in a pasture in the same general area not long after, and despite Gentz’s efforts to figure out where it came from, he has gotten no answers from NASA or any other agency he has gone to for more information. In 2014, residents in Mengchang village in the province of Heilongjiang, China, were woken by a booming noise, after which three “fireballs” were spotted descending from the heavens. These fireballs proceeded to land in some farming areas, and when the locals went to investigate they purportedly found three separate “metallic balls half-covered by a layer of jagged edge,” weighing around 90 pounds and with a diameter of about 30 inches. Once again, officials reportedly were quick to move in to confiscate the strange objects, and offered the explanation that they were debris from Proton-M Russian rocket carrying a satellite, which had plummeted to earth somewhere in Kazakhstan after a failed launch. Is that what this was or is it something more mysterious? The Chinese officials aren’t saying.

The following year would see several other instances of mystery spheres falling from the sky. In 2015, three “strange black orbs” appeared within impact craters in fields in the area in and around the town of Villavieja, Spain. Each of the weird black objects was estimated to be 80 centimeters in diameter with a hole at one end and appeared to built around wire frames. One news outlet El Vardad, would report that it was a “pressure vessel for gas (COPV), possibly from a space station or flying saucer. These objects are made of an unknown material – and appear strong enough to survive reentry into the earth and even catastrophic explosions.” Interestingly, the civil guard soon moved in to guard the area and keep the press from getting close. The mayor of Villavieja would say:

Where are these objects coming from? Why are they falling here precisely? Will more fall, and what would happen if any of these balls fall into a highly populated area? Citizens have real concerns about what is happening and deserve an explanation. These objects are made of a material so strong it survives almost intact upon falling to earth and can cause catastrophic explosions.

That same year, a goat farmer in the town of Calasparra, Spain, reported that a cylindrical, semi-spherical metallic object had crashed down right before his eyes. Officials in biohazard suits reportedly retrieved the object and drove it off in a truck. Bizarrely, at around the same time on the same day and even at the same latitude, a similar object fell on a beach near the city of Sakarya Karasu, Turkey. Once again, military officials immediately moved in, took the object away, and didn’t even bother to offer an explanation.

Biohazard suited official examining the orb in Turkey

In January of 2016, news began making the rounds that “giant metal space balls” were falling from the sky in Vietnam. On different occasions, a “thunder-like noise” was heard, and three orbs of varying size ranging from 6 to 50 kg in weight appeared out of clear skies to crash into the ground below in close proximity to each other. The first reportedly came down at a garden in Yen Bai Province, the second crashed into the roof of a house around 2 miles away, and third and largest of the spheres came down at a stream in the neighboring province of Tuyen Quang. One of the spheres was found to be hollow, while another had Russian letters written upon it, leading to speculation that they were from a Russian satellite or weather balloon, or the compressed air tanks of a rocket or an aircraft.  At least that is the official prognosis, but others have disagreed, for instance UFOlogist and conspiracy nut Scott Waring of UFO Sightings Daily, who called them “alien drones or parts of damaged alien structures in space,” and he has said:

I believe these are cloud orbs otherwise known as alien drones that were struck by lightning or shot down. Alien tech does not usually have wires and loose circuits like our tech has. Alien tech is on a micro scale and is built into the metal of the craft itself. Much like a 3d printer printing the wires inside of a toy robot so when it’s finished, all you do is add the batteries. Alien tech has it all built in, except for their propulsion system.

One of the Vietnamese spheres

Such conspiracies have only further been fueled by reports that military officials were quick to come whisk the spheres away, and claims that they were made of an unknown “special alloy.” The orbs remain unidentified and have been confiscated by the government for testing. What is going on here? Finally, in 2018 three metallic spherical objects were found in Peru’s southeastern Andean community, shortly after reports had come in of blazing objects in the sky. Officials who retrieved the objects claimed that they were pieces of a rocket or satellite that had burned up and melted on re-entry, although others claimed they were meteorites. So which is it?

In the end it is all rather puzzling. These things keep falling from the sky and there doesn’t seem to be a real, agreed upon answer to it all. Are these just instances of meteorites or pieces of space debris? Why is it that in almost every case officials swoop in to take it all away and give vague answers, if any? What is going on here? It is hard to say, but such reports keep coming in and stirring discussion and debate.

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Reptilian Statues in Ancient Satanic Knights Templar Commandery With Extraterrestial Alphabet

The culprits of my targeting from these so called masons are al gore and senator lindsey graham.  Good video of how they use property to use their religion and persecute other humans. They think they own the joint. The moon is fake . They have put in plain sight their stupid fake sun known as a sun simulator to use and destroy lives and property. They are reptilian bec they have copper based dna. Chemtrail are use to torture people on a central nervous level to exploit women sexually and violate your pineal gland. These things are things. We must expose everything. You have medical people who know what is going on to real people like denying them care or labeling them mentally ill. Just like labeling some one a heretic back in the day.

Most of society gets on board with this cult because they already know about the weaponr like scalar technology used on the human body and mind mapping from the Obamacare administration. All politicians know about this weaponry and hunt down real good people for their own sick glory and fame. Satellites track and trace humans like cattle and they get people off planet for exchange. This is the moon and mars, their little secret space crap. These Masons are cowards and need the ultimate exposure. 5g is to cause cancer.

The fires and all weather problems are from them!  Slash and burn is to get the property and put in smart homes designed by  Lennar business. I have had these assholes follow me for 7+ years. They cause all the homeless and havoc aground the world. They have hive minded people because they use synthetic telepathy to communicate to the hive their plans and it’s called oredictive planning. No secret. Jan Smith 

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Could This Mysterious Pyramid Discovered In Antarctica Rewrite History? (Videos)

by N.Morgan

The mystery that surrounds Antarctica has been the subject of many videos and conspiracies. There are a lot of famous wonders left by ancient civilizations which demonstrates how advanced they were during their time.

We have Europe, Asia, and Africa with their magnificent history and the fascinating monuments that were left behind.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the most famous ancient wonders left by the old world and has baffled experts by its mathematical precision and complexity. But that’s not the only mysterious pyramid that exists.

Explorers and researchers have come across a gigantic pyramid in the cold continent of Antarctica. It shares similarities with Giza’s Great Pyramid and it could rewrite history as we know it.

The icy continent was once a place with lush forests and warmer temperatures, it’s possible that intelligent life could have lived there. This new structure could be the remains of an unknown ancient civilization, constructed with help from extraterrestrial beings as some theories suggest.

Reference:

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Alien Cat Face Found On Mars And Buildings! ESA Photo, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: I found back in 2004
Location of discovery: Mars canyon called Valles Marineris
Source photo: 

• https://www.esa.int/esearch?q=MelasChasma
  
  

Hey, I found this face way back in 2004, one year before Youtube existed. I did make a video of it about twelve years ago, but the quality is fuzzy and blurry. So I made a new one in HD. 

The face has remarkable detail to it. It has a face that is a combination of a human face with a cat. The face is an alien species and does depict the true features of the aliens face. This tells us so much. They have technology on their face, maybe to help them do more. The right side cheek has a bulky tech section that has some unknown function. There is also tech going over the right eye and into the left ear. But thats not the amazing thing. The truly mind blowing thing is that there is a third eye. Yes, is golden unlike the other two red eyes. It may have a use or may be symbolic. The third eye is suppose to be a metal ability to transcend space and time and transport you to a plain of higher consciousness. Also, did you notice the green in the area on the face? There is a grass like plant growing around there. Green...on Mars? This is 100% proof that intelligent life and plant life exist on Mars. But the real question is...how would humans react if standing infant of an alien with this face? 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

Other videos, selected by peter2011

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Agiant bat appears to have been caught by military personnel in the Philippines some time ago. This animal is probably some species of mega-bat, referred to as a golden-crowned flying fox. 

The flying fox is one of the largest bat species in the world, though, belonging to the family of mega-bats that are found in parts of Africa, India, Asia, and Oceania. do reach wingspans of 1.7 meters, their bodies are barely extending 30 centimetres in length.

Although these bats look very creepy, don't worry, there's nothing to fear, rather than sucking blood like a vampire, they are entirely vegetarian as their diet is made up of simply nectar and fruit.

other videos, selected by peter2011

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Triangle-UFO landed in Anchorage, Alaska?

Here’s one new video of a triangular-shaped craft that lander in Alaska. This happened on 24th September 2019 and it was just today submitted to MUFON.

Witness report: 

Lights sightly hovering then descend to ground. 5 witness total and not a sound was hear. Lights sightly hovering then descend to ground. 5 witness total and not a sound was heard. Once the lights went dark everything was completely silent in the area. There were lots of lights and movement out in the wooded area and then darkness and completely nothingness. I’m waiting for confirmation from the other 3 witness if they want there names in the report. But 2 of us are willing to share our story.

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Four of these strange objects have been detected. All of them are circular in shape, and three are particularly bright around the edges - like a ring, or a bubble that is more opaque around the edges.

An international team of astronomers led by astrophysicist Ray Norris of Western Sydney University in Australia has nicknamed them ORCs - short for "Odd Radio Circles" - in a new paper posted to arXiv and submitted to Nature Astronomy, where it awaits peer review.

"Circular features are well-known in radio astronomical images, and usually represent a spherical object such as a supernova remnant, a planetary nebula, a circumstellar shell, or a face-on disc such as a protoplanetary disc or a star-forming galaxy," the researchers write in their paper.

"They may also arise from imaging artefacts around bright sources caused by calibration errors or inadequate deconvolution. Here we report the discovery of a class of circular feature in radio images that do not seem to correspond to any of these known types of object or artefact, but rather appear to be a new class of astronomical object."

The ORCs were first spotted in data collected during the late 2019 Pilot Survey of the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) conducted using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, one of the world's most sensitive radio telescope arrays.

When scientists began looking at the images collected, they spotted a strange, faint circle. They then spotted another, and then another still. Once might just be a glitch. Three seems somewhat more significant.

Even so, it could still be a quirk of the instrument, or a local detection, like the time the Parkes Observatory was detecting a microwave oven. That seems unlikely, given the stringent efforts to maintain a radio quiet zone at the ASKAP site, but it's not completely out of the question.

That possibility was put to rest when the fourth ORC was discovered - in archival data, collected in 2013 with the Giant MetreWave Radio Telescope, a few years before ASKAP was switched on. Follow-up observations of ORC 1 and ORC 2 using a different telescope, the Australia Telescope Compact Array, also revealed the objects.

And they certainly are odd. All four ORCs are at high galactic latitudes, at some distance from the galactic plane, and are around 1 arcminute in diameter. That's around 3 percent of the size of the Moon in the night sky, but since we don't know how far away they are, that may not mean much.

All four are also only visible in radio wavelengths - they are completely invisible in X-ray, optical, or infrared wavelengths.

It's possible that they could be linked to galactic activity, but only two of the ORCs have an optical galaxy near the centre of the radio emission. One of the ORCs looks somewhat different - ORC 3 appears to be more of a uniform disc, compared to the more ring-like appearance of the other four.

You might be thinking, "Hey, that description sounds a little bit like a supernova remnant or a planetary nebula", and you would not be wrong. But the researchers already thought of that. For planetary nebulae, the radio spectral index is not consistent with the radio spectral index of the ORCs.

As for supernova remnants, the problem is with numbers. The EMU survey only looked at a small patch of the sky, and detected three ORCs. For that to be likely, there would need to be at least 50,000 supernova remnants in the Milky Way. We know of only around 350.

The team believes that whatever is causing the ORCs is likely outside the Milky Way, like a giant spherical shockwave from some massive event.

"Several such classes of transient events, capable of producing a spherical shock wave, have recently been discovered, such as fast radio bursts, gamma-ray bursts, and neutron star mergers. However, because of the large angular size of the ORCs, any such transients would have taken place in the distant past," the researchers write in their paper.

"It is also possible that the ORCs represent a new category of a known phenomenon, such as the jets of a radio galaxy or blazar when seen end-on, down the 'barrel' of the jet. Alternatively, they may represent some remnant of a previous outflow from a radio galaxy."

There could also be more than one cause of the ORCs. It really is an intriguing mystery. But the scientists seem pretty convinced of one thing - that what we're looking at is a new phenomenon or new detection of a known phenomenon, and not a repeat of that time in 2018 an astronomer "discovered" Mars.

We might not have to wait long to find out more. In their data, the team also identified six even fainter candidate ORCs that could be followed up, to help shed some more light on this strange phenomenon. Anyone got a really good radio telescope?

The research has been submitted to Nature Astronomy, and is available on arXiv.

H/T: Live Science

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Half Cloaked Craft Seen In Sky Over Kentucky, MUFON Report, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 8, 2020

Location of sighting: Richmond, Kentucky, USA

Source: MUFON #110009

 

Here is a really strange photo of a half cloaked craft over Kentucky this week. The object has one wing visible and the other 90% invisible. It looks like the person caught sight of it at the moment it raised or lowered its cloaking shields. The Eyewitness says its the size of a commercial airliner. Now thats huge. But when something flies that high, most people never bother looking on hot sunny days because its too bright in the sky and hurts their eyes. Nice capture and any craft with a cloaking device is 100% alien. 

Scott C. Waring 

Eyewitness states: 

Approx 8:40 pm my girlfriend (Myrna) and myself was swimming. We were about to get out of the pool when Myrna said "Look at the plane". When I observed the craft it had no visible wings and a large maroon arc shape object at the nose of the craft. The craft was about the same size as a commercial aircraft, and was flying west to east. I assume the craft was between 12,000 and 15,000 ft because of the low level clouds in the area. The craft made no sound as it passed over our heads. We observed the craft until it went behind a low level cloud, but did not exit the other side of the cloud.

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Planet 9? Or a Black Hole?

Remember hearing about Planet 9 a while back? That’s astronomer Mike Brown’s designation for a planet that he thinks is out there in the outer solar system. So far, it remains elusive, despite everybody’s best observational efforts. (Of course, we already have a planet 9, called Pluto, so to avoid confusion, it sometimes gets referred to as Planet X.)

So, why does Mike thinks he’s got gravitational evidence of a massive world somewhere out in the Kuiper Belt? Essentially, he has observed the changes in orbital motions of bodies “out there”, and imputes those changes to the gravitational effect of a planet hiding somewhere. If it exists as a planet (and not, say, a loosely-bound clump of large planetoids or something), then eventually someone should be able to catch a glimpse of it as it reflects light, or emits a little heat (since it would be warmer than surrounding space). But, so far, nobody’s seen this possible planet.

Black Holes in the Outer Solar System

What if it’s not a planet? What if it’s something massive, but not another world? Say, like a black hole? That’s the conjecture behind a new method that two astronomers at Harvard have devised. They suggest that a small, planet-mass black hole could also exert a gravitational tug on objects in the outer solar system, perturbing their orbits. The method, developed by Dr. Avi Loeb and graduate student Amir Siraj, suggests searching for emissions as the black hole swallows up material.

How would that work? Well, if there’s really a black hole out there, it’s probably continually accreting matter. Its “food” would come in the form of gas and dust from interplanetary space, and the breakup of bodies in the Oort Cloud or Kuiper Belt. That accretion action creates higher temperatures in the region around the black hole. Any frozen bodies, such as cometary nuclei, would start to melt as they passed by. Eventually, they’d be too weak to keep their structural integrity, and they’d break apart. Once that happens, their material swirls into the black hole. That process emits radiation.

Look for the Hungry Black Hole.

So, the idea is to search for flares of this radiation when “stuff” near the black hole is superheated in the accretion disk. It’s about the only way that a black hole gets “lit up”. Otherwise, it’s invisible to the eye. But, the radiation emitted from the accretion disk is detectable. And, if a hungry black hole is gobbling up comet nuclei bits and pieces, or material from rocky bodies that collide “out there”, then the flares from that feast would show up in our detectors.

So, Why Go After Planet 9?

So, why pick Planet 9 as a possible study subject for this method? For one thing, it’s relatively close by, as such things go. That makes it a good subject to try out the method before using it on more distant objects. Whatever it is has a measurable gravitational effect on bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune (that’s how Mike discovered it).

Interestingly, a black hole at the same distance would do the same thing. And, right now, nobody has detected any light or other radiation from a possible planetary body in the supposed “regime” where the suggested Planet 9 exists. But, Brown laid some groundwork for testing the idea, since he’s found “something” that remains unknown. Loeb has suggested that a grapefruit-sized black hole with a mass five or ten times that of Earth could have the same effect as a massive planetary body (or dwarf planet body) like the proposed Planet 9.

Modeling a Black Hole Instead of Planet 9

So far, this is all a theoretical model. And, it’s not the first time that astronomers have suggested the idea of Planet 9 as a black hole. There are a lot of riddles to solve.

For one thing, planet-mass black holes are a relatively new concept. Yet, astronomers study stellar-mass and supermassive black holes, as well as intermediate-mass ones. So, they can extrapolate some of what they know about the big black holes to understand planet-mass ones. As far as I know, none have actually been discovered, so that’s another problem to solve.

But, the idea of a black hole with a few times the mass of Earth affecting orbits of distant solar system objects is intriguing. And, it can be studied. The LSST telescope at the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile covers large areas of the sky very quickly. The idea is to point it at a broad region where the supposed Planet 9/Black Hole candidate may exist. The large field of view of the VRO telescope would be very useful since nobody knows exactly where the object lies. it’s kind of like aiming at the broad side of a bar to look for a nail in one board.

The Outer Solar System as a Treasury

We all know that the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud regions teem with remnants of solar system formation. There’s a storehouse out there of the ices that existed in our protosolar nebula. Now, they exist safe in the coldest regions of the planetary system, well away from the Sun. That makes those objects treasuries of material that predate the Sun and planets.

I think it would be pretty cool if those regions also harbored black holes. The smallest black holes (the micros and the minis) are largely thought to be theoretical. Finding a planet-mass black hole in our backyard would actually be a major discovery. It would be even cooler than a theoretical Pluto-killer planet that, so far, hasn’t been seen.

Want to know more? Check out this story from Harvard Center for Astrophysics and the Black Hole Institute for more details.

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Linda Moulton Howe: Army Whistleblower Hollow Earth Revelations, Huge Structures Under the Earth, COVID-19

TOPICS: 

June 2020 – AAAS Science Journal article on Ultra Low Velocity Zone frequencies

– huge structures at core-mantle boundary

– huge structure 621 mile in diameter

– huge structures under Africa

– “these are among the largest things inside the earth, and we have no idea”

COVID-19 Updates

– infected over 8.3 million people around the world

– total deaths at 450,452

Searching the skies

– scientists say the most likely number of alien civilizations is 36

– The Drake Equation calculates the estimate for the number of intelligent life civilizations

– New equation estimate between 4 and 211 civilization in the Milky Way alone.

Retired U.S. Army Whistleblowers Edward Keith Abbott interview

– “Other Worldly Communications” centre

– Space program in 2007

– “We went to Iraq to plunder artifacts”…”from other civilizations that came to earth and started the whole program”.

– “We are the fourth civilization on this earth.

– Spotted v-shaped craft over his house in Ewa, Hawaii.

– Craft chased by Blackhawk helicopters and it dove into the water.

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Galactic Superwave...Something is Emanating From the Centre of the Universe

Interdisciplinary scientist Dr. Paul LaViolette shared his theories on such topics as galactic waves and pulsar communications. He believes there is evidence for a cycle of galactic superwaves that emanate from the center of galaxy and wreak cataclysmic earth changes when they arrive here. Such blasts of cosmic rays cause the sun to become more active and trigger climate change, earthquakes and mass extinctions, he said. Correlating this to the Hopi Prophecy of the Blue Star, which talks about the ending of a world, he noted that “when the galactic core erupts it would give off a bluish-white light.”

There is a 90% chance that a superwave could arrive in the next 300-400 years, said LaViolette, who related that every ancient culture or civilization has stories about this, such as the Great Flood. Further, he believes that an advanced race of galactic beings has been attempting to warn us of the superwaves using pulsars as their communication method. The pulsars do not appear to be natural and convey a geometrical message by pointing to locations of previous super novas, he said. Using neutron stars as their power source, the pulsars could also be employed as a guidance system for interstellar travel, he added.

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VIDEO: UFO activity over Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela 9-Jul-2020

Strange lights were filmed in the night sky above Puerto Ordaz in Venezuela. This happened on 9th July 2020.

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International Space Station captured a fleet of hundreds of UFOs heading towards Earth

If you are one of those who are curious by nature, NASA has a YouTube channel full of interesting videos, and among them is a live broadcast of the International Space Station (ISS). Recently, the ISS was moving at an undetermined location on Earth, and International Space Station captured a fleet of hundreds of UFOs

Gorden McKenna was the one who detected these anomalies in space and posted a video on April 2 that showed the ufos moving towards the earth

“Fleet (hundreds) of UFOs pass through the ISS,” says the video description.

As McKenna himself explained, he was watching the space station’s camera live when he observed the presence of strange objects moving towards earth. At first he thought they might be satellites or meteorites, but their speed increased, and after a few minutes they disappeared without a trace.

And as expected, the video has caused all kinds of reactions on social networks. There were many who thought that it could be a top-secret fleet of alien technology ships from the United States Air Force, more specifically the Space Force. 

Recall that, in late 2019, Donald Trump described space as the “newest domain in the world to fight a war. ” The Space Force must help deter aggression and control the “highest advantage position.”

The intention of this new military branch is to protect US facilities. in space, like satellites that are used for communication and surveillance. The Space Force will build on the work of the existing US Space Command. (SpaceCom), which was created in August to manage US military operations. in the space.

But skeptics offered other explanations. They said it appears to correspond to Earth, with thunderstorms at first and also city lights. Others suggested that it could be meteorites, and even Starlink satellites, sent by Elon Musk’s SpaceX since its launch in 2018 that have caused many people to mistake them for UFO sightings.

Although there is another possibility. the current coronavirus pandemic will be the beginning of an extraterrestrial invasion. It would all start with a virus that simply eradicates a large part of the planet’s population and reduces any possibility of defense. Then it would be a war between weakened humans and aliens.

Today the coronavirus pandemic is completely uncontrolled. The death toll exceeds 60,000 and there are more than 1 million positive cases in the world. The truth is that more and more people are convinced that the coronavirus pandemic hides something much more sinister, and with the population in mandatory confinement in their homes, this would be the ideal time to start the alien invasion.

What do you think about the video of the ISS? Do you think this is a UFO fleet approaching Earth? Is it the beginning of an alien invasion?

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The Book of Enoch, its descriptions of space travel and other celestial dimensions

The Book of Enoch narrates Enoch’s travels off Earth, supernatural and heavenly places inaccessible to other human beings!

The impressive and fantastic Book of Enoch is one of the most important ancient texts , unfortunately it was excluded from the Bible .

In this writing, the patriarch and antediluvian prophet Enoch made supernatural trips, managing to fly over the Earth, the celestial bodies and reaching the dimension of the Heavens.

The Book of Enoch was almost introduced into the Bible but was rejected as “apocryphal. ” However, Enoch is a respected patriarch and is mentioned several times by other Biblical and Christian authors.

 He was the great-grandfather of Noah and the father of Methuselah .

The holy book says that Enoch passed the texts on to Noah, so he likely took them with him on the Ark during the Universal Flood (an antediluvian writing?).

The first section of the book narrates the fall of the Watchers, the angels who had sex with human women, and fathered the Nephilim. Then Enoch’s ascension into the dimension of Heaven is described, with the aim of interceding before God (for the Watchers).

Enoch’s space journey to Heaven as described in the Book of Enoch

The first ascent appears from chapter 17 to 36. 

The prophet made the journey with the help of other Watcher angels. 

He was “elevated” with mysterious forces that included natural elements: clouds, winds, lightning, and shooting stars.

Heaven was formed with gigantic glass or ice houses surrounded by fire . 

The visions are amazing and scary, the sky is extreme! With materials as different as ice and fire in harmony. 

Also, it is noted that this celestial dimension had a lot of energy, with its movement of lightning and shooting stars.

Enoch finds a house or dwelling made entirely of fire. In it, a high throne is seated , made of a material that looked like ice or crystal and surrounded by a shining star and fire:

20 The Great Glory was based on the throne and his dress looked brighter than the sun and whiter than any snow; 21 no angel could enter to see his face due to the magnificent Glory and no flesh being could look at him. – Book of Enoch, chapter 14 ».

This is the vision of God !

Tour in unknown places on Earth (and outside it)

Enoch traveled the surroundings of the Earth with the help of the angel Uriel, where he saw the place where the stars are “kept” during the day and where the rain and snow are kept.

 In addition, he speoke of a mysterious force in the form of wind, around the Earth and other stars :

1 I saw the treasures of the winds and I saw that with them He has adorned all creation and the foundations of the earth; 2 and I also saw the cornerstone of the earth and the four winds that support the Earth and the firmament; 3 I saw how the winds extend the veil of heaven above and how they have their place between heaven and earth: they are the columns of heaven; 4 I saw the winds that rotate and drive through the orbits of the sun and the stars in their rooms. – Book of Enoch, chapter 18.

He’s talking about the orbits of the stars!

In chapters 21-27 the Abyss is visited, a fearful place with columns of divine fire . Uriel explains that the Fallen Angels who introduced the sin of human sacrifice to demons will be locked in that abyss.

It should be noted that there are other books attributed to Enoch. In the so-called Book 3 other detailed surreal journey of Enoch to heaven and where the prophet grows into the archangel Metatron !.

The information presented by the Book of Enoch is extensive and important. 

His visions of the heavenly dimensions are significant and amazing. 

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Heavens, the dimension of the god Yahweh, cannot be accessed by human beings . 

Enoch was an exception (before Jesus) and that makes him a very special prophet .

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Famous Jurassic Park dinosaur the Dilophosaurus 'was bigger and more powerful' than the 1993 film shows - but it couldn't spit venom, new fossils reveal

• Researchers examined five fossil records to better understand Dilophosaurus 
• The dinosaur was first discovered 80 years ago but was very poorly understood
• It is a 'pop culture' dinosaur having featured heavily in 1993 movie Jurassic Park
• However, the depiction in Jurassic Park is 'nothing like' the real Dilophosaurus

RYAN MORRISON FOR MAILONLINE 

Dilophosaurus, a dinosaur made famous by Jurassic Park that lived 183 million years ago, was 'bigger and more powerful' than the movie made it appear, study shows. 

Researchers from the University of Texas studied Dilophosaurus fossils to better understand this 'pop culture dinosaur' and paint a true picture of its size.

In Jurassic Park the beast was depicted as a small lizard-like, venom-spitting dinosaur with a rattling frill around its neck and two paddle-like crests on its head.

Until now very little was actually known about the actual Dilophosaurus, giving filmmakers and storytellers more licence to 'use their imagination'. 

The Texas team discovered that Dilophosaurus was far from the 'small lizard' seen in Jurassic park, it was the largest land animal of its time, reaching up to 20ft. 

Hollywood made the Dilophosaurus famous, depicting it as almost adorable little creature with a hidden, deadly twist. But a new study shows that it was a lot bigger and more powerful than scientists, or movie makers, previously thought

This is the depiction of Dilophosaurus as seen in the 1993 Steven Spielberg movie Jurassic Park but it has been proved to be wrong, including the bright thrills around its neck

Dilophosaurus lived 183 million years ago during the Early Jurassic and 'had a lot in common' with modern birds, including air sacks in its bones.

'It's pretty much the best, worst-known dinosaur,' said lead author Adam Marsh. 'Until this study, nobody knew what Dilophosaurus looked like or how it evolved.'

Seeking answers to these questions, Marsh conducted an analysis of the five most-complete Dilophosaurus specimens so far discovered around the world. 

The analysis is co-authored by Timothy Rowe from the University of Texas, who discovered two of the five Dilophosaurus specimens that were studied by Marsh.

The study adds clarity to a muddled record dating back to the first Dilophosaurus fossil to be discovered - that specimen set the standard for future discoveries. 

That fossil was rebuilt with plaster, but the 1954 paper describing the find isn't clear about what was reconstructed or the decisions made in the reconstruction. 

Scientists have found evidence that the Dilophosaurus' skull served as scaffolding for powerful jaw muscles, shattering the image of the dinosaur as more fragile and svelte that has been promoted in scientific literature and popular culture

Peter Makovicky, a palaeontologist from the University of Minnesota not involved in the study, said this made discovering the true nature of the dinosaur difficult. 

Early descriptions characterise the dinosaur as having a fragile crest and weak jaws, a description that influenced the depiction of Dilophosaurus in the 'Jurassic Park' book and movie as a svelte dinosaur that subdued its prey with venom.

In the movie the dinosaur is also shown as being able to reveal a rattling neck frill when confronting prey.

Marsh found no evidence for the rattling frill around its neck or signs of venom, adding that they were purely constructs of the Jurassic Park book and movie.  

Marsh spent seven years looking at the three most complete Dilophosaurus skeletons and other more recently discovered remains to pain an accurate picture.

His evidence suggests the dinosaur was almost the opposite of what Jurassic Park showed - with jawbones serving as scaffolding for powerful muscles and signs the creature was a giant beast, reaching up to 20ft in length.

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It would have been about half the size of a fully grown T. Rex and weighed up to three quarters of a ton - so it could have taken on very large prey.

'Dilophosaurus is clearly built for being a big macropredator,' Marsh told National Geographic. 'It's a large-bodied animal that was built for eating other animals.' 

He also found that some bones were mottled with air pockets, which would have helped reinforce the skeleton, including its dual crest.

'They're kind of like bubble wrap - the bone is protected and strengthened,' he said.

These air sacs are not unique to Dilophosaurus, it is something they have in common with modern birds and the world's most massive dinosaurs.

In both cases, the air sacs lighten the load, which helped big dinosaurs manage their bulky bodies and also allow birds take to the skies.

Many birds use the air sacs to perform other functions, from inflating stretchy areas of skin during mating rituals, to creating booming calls and dispersing heat. 

The intricate array of air pockets and ducts that extend from Dilophosaurus' sinus cavity into its crests means that the dinosaur may have been able to perform similar feats with its headgear. 

That headgear is one feature Jurassic Park did get right, according to Marsh. He said it did have a double crest across the top of its snout that was a 'display feature'.

The right hind leg of Dilophosaurus. The dinosaur lived 183 million years ago during the Early Jurassic and 'had a lot in common' with modern birds, including air sacks in its bones

'It has those two thin bony crests running along the top of its skull, basically from the nostril and back over the eye socket,' Makovicky told National Geographic. 

To learn more about how the fossils compared with one another, Marsh recorded hundreds of anatomical characteristics of each fossil. 

He then used an algorithm to see how the specimens compared with the first fossil - which confirmed that they were indeed all Dilophosaurus.

The algorithm also revealed that there's a significant evolutionary gap between Dilophosaurus and its closest dinosaur relatives, which indicates there are probably many other relatives yet to be discovered.

The revised Dilophosaurus record will help paleontologists better identify specimens going forward and Marsh said that the research is already being put into action. 

In the midst of his analysis, he discovered that a small braincase in the Jackson School's collections belonged to a Dilophosaurus.

'We realized that it wasn't a new type of dinosaur, but a juvenile Dilophosaurus, which is really cool,' Marsh said. 

The findings were published in the Journal of Paleontology. 

Animation shows how a dinosaur track is made relating to feet moving

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It’s crop circle season and that usually means the next story originates somewhere in the UK where the majority of them occur. That’s not the case with three recent circles which appeared in France, Poland and Hungary. British crop circle stories generally focus on their intricate designs which cause many to believe they could not be human made. That’s not the case with one of the three recent circles which appeared in France, Poland and Hungary. However, it doesn’t appear to be aliens either. In fact, this simple crop circle is being linked to an unusual yet natural phenomena … one that Russians claim they have proof to be the cause of many of them.

Crop Circle Connector, an excellent source of photographs and information, says that the crop circle (photos here), which was reported on July 5th in an unnamed field in Vimy in the Pas-de-Calais department in far north France, an area more known for mining than farms or crop circles. Another Templar-style cross appeared within a Crop Circle that manifested itself in the wheat fields, and this time, in France, the home of the Order of the Templars (in fact the cross is very similar to that of Malta , of that derivative). The website segnidalcielo.com points out its resemblance to the cross of the Knights Templar, the Malta or Iron Cross or the cross of the Anunnaki and it appeared on night of the rare penumbral lunar eclipse (June 4). Throw in its similarity to the X in Planet X and you’ve got what’s moist likely the makings of circle made by humans looking to confuse.

Vimy, Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France. Reported 5th July

The crop circle reported in Orchów, Poland, on July 3rd is unusual because of its size (“one hundred and several dozen meters” or around 160 feet) and the fact that it looks incomplete (photo here). A closer inspection convinced the UFO organization posting it that it was manmade.

That brings us to the crop circle in Hungary. This one was reported on July 3rd to the Nagykanzsa Online website by engineer and self-described UFO researcher László Tóth (photos here). Located between Kiskanizsa and Bajcsa in eastern Poland near the Croatian border, Tóth went to inspect it with a news crew (video here) and decided it wasn’t made by a human nor a ufo/aliens nor something paranormal like “footprint of the devil’s hoof” (must be some Polish legend). Instead, he claims it was made by lightning … and not a bolt or a ball from a cloud.

“The other is when billions of charges start from the ground. It happens so fast that it cannot be seen with the naked eye. So there is a lightning that strikes from above and there is one that strikes from the bottom up. In this case – we were taught – if it taps from the bottom up – my thumb shows the direction of the current – the electromagnetic field will wrap to the left. So it is counterclockwise.”

That could explain why the circle has no design and no burn marks. Before you scoff (at least put your mask on first), the lightning theory is supported by various Russian scientists. In a 2010 article in The National, physicists from the Joint Institute of High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences suggest vortices formed in unstable air can create the circles and swirls seen in crops, and ball lightning is their likely suspect. In 2005, UPI reported that a different group of Russian researchers demonstrated how microwaves bent cereal stalks and used an artificial lightning device to bend grass into clockwise circles.

Tóth seems to be the only one touting lightning from the ground as the cause of crop circles … so far. It’s the kind of solution that satisfies those who want to believe they’re not human made but don’t believe it’s aliens.

Personally, this writer would like to hear some more about the “footprint of the devil’s hoof” kind.

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Antarctica Strange Pattern Appears Near Runway by Remote Base - Disclosure Event Coming Soon!

Antarctica Strange Pattern Appears Near Runway By Remote Base – Disclosure Event Coming Soon!

Google Earth Pro 2020 Hi Resolution Imagery!!!
The Array~ 75°50’52.30″S  69°21’16.40″W
The Pattern~  74°51’22.87″S  71°33’54.65″W
Cable Structure~  72° 2’5.31″S  24°56’2.85″E

I’ve been following you for a long time now. I love your Antartica stuff and how you make connections to present day shows or movies that seem to be talking about Antartica. It is all right in front of our faces, and and what we think is fiction, is possibly reality. That’s the exciting part for me. I have always felt like there is so much more for us to discover about ourselves. About this world. About earths real history. Keep doing what you do, Awesome stuff! Wise Chicano

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Mysterious Tiny UFO Lands And Takes Off From Chicken Coop, Raw Footage, Michigan July 1, 2020, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 1, 2020 1:44 AM

Location of sighting: Michigan, USA

 

A strange craft was flying past a chicken coop in Michigan and got caught on security cam footage. The UFO is about 1 foot across and looks like a drone, but aliens also have UFOs of the same size, so its possible it could go both ways. To me its defiantly a UFO because the object is checking out a chicken coop at 1:44 AM. Who would do that other than an alien? And the fact that it was landed in the grass...no drone operator would risk getting a drone stuck in the tall dry grass and loosing it. That makes me know this is 100% alien in origin. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

 

Eyewitness states: 

Often people get scared and remove their video on Youtube due to fear of reprisal from government agencies...so I will include a copy of it below for my site. Since they have only 1 video on their channel, the chance they will delete it is over 85%. SCW

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Alien-Like Animal On Tiktok Is A Head Scratcher, Watch And See, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 2020
Location of sighting: unknown
Source: Tiktok

A Tiktok user going by the name StinkeyEyescrappy has posted a short video of a very strange looking lizard. The video hit 2.7 million views already and is shocking those who watch it. The lizard has extremely long legs and bumpy skin. The person who recorded the video states, "Hopefully someone can help me figure out what this little creature is."

Now I am a bit worried because Tiktok is over run by people making fake videos to get views, but watching this video below is a head scratcher. The video is in high detail and shows what looks like a small black reptile clinging to rocks with exceptionally long legs, making them appear as arms. The lizard seems to be basking in the sun with its eyes closed. 

I thought this was a toy, but toys don't have closed eyes. So this one detail leads me to believe this strange creature may be real. Also there have been reports of aliens as small as 4 inches tall in the past from the Apollo 20 mission when I spoke to astronaut William Rutledge when he was still active on Youtube before his account was hacked by the NSA and deleted. Also the woman figure on Mars is just 4-6 inches tall, probably made life size, so yes, size means nothing...all sizes of aliens exist big...and small. 

Still, this little guy is cute, wish I was there, I would have tried to catch the little fella to get a closer look, then release it again. Its the closed eyes...no toy would have that. Its real. 
Scott C. Waring 

@stinkeyescrappyHopefully someone can help me figure out what this little creature is##alien##fyp
♬ Ameno hatsune miku - clod_boie

@stinkeyescrappy

Hopefully someone can help me figure out what this little creature is #alien #fyp

Ameno hatsune miku - clod_boie

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It is not the first time that commerial aircraft are hit by unknown objects during flights at high altitude. The latest mysterious incident happened a few days ago when a Delta flight 1076 from West Palm Beach to LGA diverted to JFK on July 6, 2020 after it was hit by an unknown object with such a force that it damaged the nose cone of the plane. 43 passengers were aboard. The flight landed safely and without incident.

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The airline initially said the damage was the result of a bird strike, but later they determined that it was a hail storm that struck the plane which caused the damage on the nose cone.

Now, If you compare the windscreen of Delta flight 1076 with another aircraft that has experienced a similar accident before, then you see that the windscreen of Delta flight 1076 is not damaged while the other plane's windscreen is completely shattered by hail.

So, if it was really a hailstorm then, besides the damaged nose cone, the windshield of Delta flight 1076 should also be shattered and that is not the case. 

A bird? Well, it must have been a very large one to cause such a damage to the plane.

In short, it is not clear what hit the plane, but could it have been a UFO or UAP, for example something like a "fastwalker"?

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US Navy Pilot is Convinced He Encountered Out of this World UFO

An ex-Navy pilot who once connected to an American military programme that investigates unidentified flying objects (UFOs) recalled an event where he spotted a mysterious object in the sky.

It was in 2004 when the incident took place wherein commander David Fravor was flying above the Pacific Ocean off the San Diego coast along with his partner Commander Jim Slaight.

The duo was performing a routine training operation when the radio operator contacted them to inform that the military had been observing a UFO in the area for around two weeks. The object had outlandish behaviour, which had piqued their interest. It descended thousands of feet, hovered over the ocean, and blinked in and out of their scope of view.

The radio operator instructed Fravor and Slaight to investigate. The two pilots then approached the coordinates in F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jets.

Their radar hadn’t picked up anything, and they didn’t pick up on any objects at first, but Commander Fravor eventually noticed something as he looked down at sea. Fravor spotted something hovering on the surface of the sea, causing the water to froth as if it were boiling.

A closer look, Fravor realized that it was an aircraft but not similar to what he had seen before. Fravor described it as a whitish colour, 40 feet long and ovular in shape.

Fravor decided to descend towards the object, which came up to meet him but sharply veering off.

According to Fravor, in an interview in 2017, the strange aircraft came close to his aircraft once more while heading to a military rendezvous point before vanishing.

Fravor’s account is supported by a recorded video he took that shows a UFO moving from side to side floating on the surface of the ocean. 

The former pilot believes the object was not from this world as he had seen virtually everything of his 18 years of flying but nothing close to the strange one he had witnessed.

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Latest crop circle reports: Hungary, France, UK

July 2; Kiskanizsa near Bajcsa, Hungary

July 5; Vimy, Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France

July 7; Stanton St Bernard near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, UK

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