Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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Man Becomes A Believer After Witnessing Green Flying Saucer in The Dark Sky
A man has been left baffled after he and a friend observed a UFO in the sky. He was at the Prescot house of his friend when they spotted a strange green object in the dark sky.
The man, who wants to stay anonymous, noticed the flying saucer around 2:45 am on August 7. He said the experience has made him believe in extraterrestrial life.
The unnamed man and his friend were at their Prescot house when they heard a loud sound outside like it was coming from an aeroplane. They looked out of the window, and they saw the saucer.
The reporting witness said that the green UFO looked like a flying saucer. He noted that mysterious thing was only there for a few seconds and then flew up into the clouds in the South-East direction, going to Huyton and Halewood.
His friend tried to take a photo of the UFO, but it quickly vanished, and they were left with weird images. The pair attempted to explain what they saw, like a TV or a computer glare in the house, but they were left without answers.
He said they checked everything, but there were no screens on or anything like it.
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A newly discovered “asteroid” may become a new mini-moon for Earth. Instead of an ordinary asteroid, it might be a lost rocket from the Surveyor 2 mission, launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
Asteroid or space junk? Strange space object 2020 SO was discovered on September 17, 2020 on approach to Earth. It’ll likely be captured by Earth, briefly becoming a mini-moon. In this image, the Earth is the blue dot in the center. The moon’s orbit is the white circle.
An approaching space object – labeled 2020 SO – is about to briefly become a new “mini-moon” for Earth, captured by our planet’s more powerful gravity. Orbit models show that both the low speed and trajectory of the approaching object indicate Earth will capture it, temporarily, from October 2020 perhaps until around May 2021. It won’t be the first time Earth has captured a mini-moon, but this object is unusual and perhaps no ordinary asteroid. It might be a lost rocket, originally launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
On September 17, 2020, astronomers sighted the object on approach to Earth, using the 71-inch (1.8-meter) Pan-STARRS1 telescope at Maui, Hawaii. They designated it as asteroid 2020 SO and added it as an Apollo asteroid in the JPL Small-Body Database.
However, 2020 SO has some features that set it apart from ordinary asteroids. According to NASA/JPL calculations, the object will soon pass by Earth’s moon at a speed of 1,880 miles per hour (3,025 km/h) or 0.84 km per second (.5 mi/sec). That is an extremely slow speed for an asteroid.
These calculations also show the apparent “slow asteroid” orbiting the sun every 1.06 years (387 days). The low relative velocity, along with the Earth-like orbit, suggest it can be an artificial object that might have been launched from our planet.
Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Near Earth Object center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, suggested the object might be the rocket booster of Surveyor 2, a robotic spacecraft that was launched to the moon on September 20, 1966.
The Surveyor 2 mission was meant to send the second lunar lander in the uncrewed American Surveyor program to explore the moon. The Surveyor 2 spacecraft blasted into space atop an Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida. A mid-course correction failure caused space controllers to lose contact with the craft three days later, after a thruster failed to ignite. The failure caused the spacecraft to tumble and ultimately to crash near the moon’s Copernicus crater.
Speed ahead to our time and the strange object designed 2020 SO. The object has an estimated size between 20 and 45 feet (6 to 14 meters), a not-unreasonable match for the dimensions of an Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D (approximately 41 feet or 12 meters).
How could we have lost an entire 41-foot-long rocket? Space archaeologist Alice Gorman of Flinders University in Australia told ScienceAlert that – before our modern era of reuseable rockets – the rockets that launched craft into space were surprisingly easy to lose. She said:
There are so many factors in the space environment, like gravitational factors and other things that affect movement, that it can sometimes be quite unpredictable.
You have to keep tracking these things, or you can just sort of lose sight of them really easily. And if they do something a little bit unpredictable, and you look the wrong way, then you don’t know where it’s gone. It is quite astonishing, the number of things that have gone missing.
Is 2020 SO an ordinary asteroid? Or is it an old earthly rocket returning home? We just don’t know yet.
Scientists hope that further observations and spectroscopic observations of light reflected from the surface of 2020 SO, will allow us to know if it’s in fact a strange, slow space rock, or human-made space debris.
By the way, this isn’t the first time Earth has captured a mini-moon.
As you might have realized by now, space is chock full of small asteroids. Once in a while, one of these space rocks is captured, temporarily, by our planet’s gravity before being cast out back into the solar system at large. Two confirmed mini-moons are 2006 RH120 (in Earth orbit between 2006 and 2007), and 2020 CD3 (in our orbit between 2018 and 2020).
It’s also not the first time we’ve mistaken space junk for an asteroid.
Another small object that was initially thought to be an asteroid was WT1190F, detected in October 2015 on approach to Earth. Its trajectory suggested it was about to penetrate Earth’s atmosphere near Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean, an event that happens with ordinary asteroids several times every year.
As WT1190F was disintegrating in our atmosphere on November 13, 2015, scientists analyzed its light via spectroscopy.
This analysis suggested the object might be a spacecraft component or part of a spent rocket, another wandering piece of space junk, returning home.
Object tagged as WT1190F entering Earth’s atmosphere south of Sri Lanka on November 13, 2015.
Bottom line: A newly discovered “asteroid” might become a new mini-moon for Earth. This object is designated 2020 SO and was entered in JPL’s Small-Body Database. But it might be no ordinary asteroid. It might be a lost rocket from the Surveyor 2 mission, originally launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
A team of scientists claim they’ve determined a way to figure out if there’s life living underground on faraway places, including the Moon and Mars — and that it would be worth having a look by drilling down into the surface.
The team, from the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT), believe that simply analyzing if there’s water on the surface isn’t enough to determine if there’s life on another world. Instead, we’ll have to go deep.
“We examined whether conditions amenable to life could exist deep underneath the surface of rocky objects like the Moon or Mars at some point in their histories and how scientists might go about searching for traces of past subsurface life on these objects,” Manasvi Lingam, assistant professor of astrobiology at FIT and lead author of the paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on Monday, said in a statement.
“We know that these searches will be technically challenging, but not impossible,” he added.
“Surface water requires an atmosphere to maintain a finite pressure, without which liquid water cannot exist,” Lingam argued. “However, when one moves to deeper regions, the upper layers exert pressure and thus permit the existence of liquid water in principle.”
To make his point, Lingam pointed out that Mars may not have any large bodies of water on its surface — but scientists have yet to rule out the existence of subsurface lakes.
Life, they say, could be thriving in subsurface regions. “Both the Moon and Mars lack an atmosphere that would allow liquid water to exist on their surfaces, but the warmer and pressurized regions under the surface could allow the chemistry of life in liquid water,” co-lead Avi Loeb, from the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard, said in the statement.
Even if we were to find life in these subsurface areas, it wouldn’t be a thriving metropolis of organic matter. It’d only account for “a few percent that of Earth’s subsurface biosphere,” according to Loeb. Yet, despite the extremely cold conditions, “extremophilic organisms” could be capable of growing.
Lingam proposes that one way to verify if life exists buried under a thick layer of rock would be to drill down near the equator of Mars or the Moon to look for higher temperatures surrounding geological hotspots.
“We need to be able to drill tens of kilometers under the surface of Mars, and without geological activity exposing these deep layers, we will not be able to explore them,” Lingam argued.
In fact, Loeb is confident that it’d be possible to drill down into the Moon within the next decade or so.
“Drilling might be possible in the context of the Artemis program to establish a sustainable base on the Moon by 2024,” Loeb said. “One can imagine robots and heavy machinery that will drill deep under the lunar surface in search of life, just as we do in searching for oil on Earth.”
To many, the key part of the word ‘Sweden’ is ‘Eden’, but that is changing as a growing and horrific rash of horse mutilationsthat started in France and are spreading across Europe has reached the northern Eden that is Sweden. Has the Stockholm syndrome spawned an equine branch?
“(The animal was found dead on a horse farm) with several injuries that we think were inflicted by people.”
The AFP newswire and many European news sources report that the first Swedish horse mutilation took place about a month ago in Jönköping, a large inland southern city on the shores of Lake Vättern. That animal survived, but local police spokesperson Thomas Agnevik reported this week that the latest victim, found in the Jönköping area, did not. The corpse was reportedly found with an eye and an ear cut off, which is the same condition the horses, donkeys and ponies in France were found in. The causes of death seem to be shock or exhaustion (one horse in France was run until it collapsed) but no cause has been given as of yet in the Swedish cases.
Is there something about Jönköping that is attracting the perpetrators of these terrible mutilations? The city is host to a popular annual Horse Show and auction, but that has been canceled due to the pandemic. Jönköping was once a leading manufacturing center for safety matches, but is now known as an important Nordic logistical center. None of that says animal sacrifice or mutilation cult center.
It’s interesting that the media reports in France and now in Sweden make no reference to other causes – specifically to UFOs and aliens, as mutilations in the U.S. are often linked to, or chupacabras or other monsters. Sweden certainly doesn’t lack in those – Swedish and Scandinavian folklore is filled with tales of evil trolls, wicked witches and lake-dwelling creatures like the Storsjöodjuret in Lake Storsjön, a Nessie-like cryptid, or the Nøkken, which is a shape-shifting beast that often assumes the form of a human or horse (!) to lure its victims onto thin ice.
Whatever the cause, these countries and their residents want answers and an end to the equine mutilations, which totals well over 150 horse, donkey and pony deaths and, as evidenced by the latest report from Sweden, shows no sign of abating. Whether a satanic or an Internet cult or just a sick group of people, they will face charges of animal cruelty if caught.
The mysterious European horse mutilations have been happening for months. Is it time to look beyond humans for a cause to these cases that have now come to the Eden of Sweden?
Two UFOs Chase Jet Over Manchester, UK. Sept 21, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 21, 2020 Location of sighting: Manchester, UK
Two UFOs were seen a few days ago over Manchester, UK. The large white objects were seen following a jet for a little while. The objects have no wings, tail or contrail. They do not appear to be jets. Very odd but very interesting videos. I don't think the pilot of the jet knew about the UFOs otherwise he would have turned and investigated. But instead he only made a single flyby. The pilot had to have seen the two objects, because the are just so close and they are about 1/4 the size of the jet itself. Absolute proof that aliens are highly interested in plane technology. Scott C. Waring
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Archeologen hebben in Egypte bijna 30 sarcofagen ontdekt die vermoedelijk al zo’n 2.500 jaar onder het zand begraven lagen. Dat meldt het ministerie van Toerisme en Antiquiteiten. “Dit is een heel spannende ontdekking”, klinkt het.
De gesloten kisten werden gevonden in een elf meter diepe schacht in de dodenstad van Saqqara, een begraafplaats uit het Oude Egypte in de buurt van hoofdstad Caïro. Eerder deze maand werd al gesproken over een vondst van dertien sarcofagen, zondag onthulde het Egyptische ministerie dat er nog eens veertien kisten zijn ontdekt. Dat brengt het totale aantal op 27. Archeologen vonden ook een collectie van kleinere artefacten op de site.
“Het is de grootste vondst aan sarcofagen op één rustplaats sinds de ontdekking van Al-Assasif, stelt bevoegd minister Khaled El-Enany in een statement. De minister verwijst naar de vondst van 30 sarcofagen – met mummies binnenin - in de necropolis van Asasif, dichtbij de Vallei der Koningen, vorig jaar. De autoriteiten beschreven die vondst als de grootste ontdekking in meer dan een eeuw. Hoewel de gevonden sarcofagen in Saqqara duizenden jaren onder de grond hebben gelegen, hebben verschillende kisten nog een deel van hun originele kleurenpracht behouden. Foto’s tonen bruine en blauwe patronen, evenals talrijke hiëroglifische tekens. Alle 27 kisten lijken ook totaal verzegeld; eerste onderzoek toont aan dat ze niet meer geopend waren geweest sinds ze werden begraven.
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“Het is een heel spannende ontdekking’, aldus El-Enany. “Ik denk dat het nog maar het begin is.” De minister drukte ook zijn dank uit aan de betrokken grondwerkers voor hun werk in moeilijke omstandigheden en met nieuwe extra veiligheidsmaatregelen vanwege het coronavirus.
Het is onduidelijk hoeveel sarcofagen er mogelijk nog gevonden worden in de schacht en van wie de stoffelijke resten zijn die ze bevatten, maar archeologen hopen tijdens de verdere opgravingen meer antwoorden te vinden.
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De vondst volgt op andere significante en recente ontdekkingen aan de dodenstad van Saqqara. In april werden er nog onder meer vijf sarcofagen in kalksteen en resten van vier houten kisten met mummies ontdekt. In december 2018 werd een private tombe gevonden van een koninklijke priester van meer dan 4.000 jaar oud. En in de maand daarvoor legden archeologen een kattenkerkhof en een collectie zeldzame gemummificeerde mestkevers bloot.
Working Tesla Death Ray Confirmed via FBI Documents, Look What Else They Found!
Working Tesla Death Ray Confirmed via FBI Documents, Look What Else They Found!
Thanks! Just lovely… Tesla also had a time machine… so… Mandela Effect stuff with history ripping time…. but GOD is real and going to correct this mess… thanks! Captain Kirk
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Wikipedia
Have you noticed that it seems like stories about asteroids that are approaching the Earth are constantly in the news this year? It wasn’t always this way. In the old days, maybe there would be a story about an asteroid every once in a while, and those stories were never a big deal. But now asteroids are zipping by our planet with frightening regularity, and several more very notable passes will happen over the next few weeks. For example, an asteroid that was just discovered on September 18th will come very, very close to the Earth on Thursday. According to NASA, it will actually come closer to our planet than many of our weather satellites…
An asteroid about the size of an RV or small school bus will zoom past the Earth on Thursday,NASA announced, passing within 13,000 miles of the Earth’s surface.
That’s much closer than the moon and is actually closer than some of our weather satellites.
This asteroid will speed by at more than 17,000 mph, but the good news is that it is so small that it would not be a serious threat even if it hit us.
But two other very large asteroids are also going to pass the Earth by the end of this month, and both of them are large enough to do an enormous amount of damage…
Two large asteroids will pass Earth in the next two weeks, with one measuring up to 426 feet in diameter and the other 656 feet—comparable in size to ancient Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, which is 455 feet tall.
The first, smaller asteroid will pass by Earth on September 25 at a distance of 3.6 million miles, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, which tracks and predicts asteroids and comets that will come close to Earth. The second larger asteroid will fly by on September 29 at a closer distance of 1.78 million miles.
The good news is that neither of them have a chance of hitting us this time around, but the fact that the Earth’s neighborhood has so much “traffic” these days is a major concern.
Any soldier will tell you that if enough bullets get fired at you there is a very good chance that eventually you will get hit.
Let me give you a couple more examples of “near Earth objects” that are headed our way in the near future…
In October, an “unknown object” is expected to enter our gravitational field and become a temporary “mini-moon”…
An object known as 2020 SO is heading towards Earth, and from October, it will be a ‘mini-moon’, which could stay in orbit of our planet until May next year. While we have The Moon, Earth regularly gets many small asteroids and meteors which caught in its orbit, which astronomers call ‘mini-moons’.
And in November, we are being told that a small asteroid will come very close to our planet on the day before the election…
An asteroid is projected to come close to the Earth on November 2, a day before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the Center for Near Earth Objects Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed.
The asteroid known as 2018VP1, first identified at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, has a diameter of 0.002 kilometers (over 6.5 feet), according to the data.
Scientists say that it is not likely that this asteroid will hit us, but they admit that they cannot claim this with 100 percent certainty…
And that’s why the future of 2018 VP₁ is uncertain. It was observed 21 times over 13 days, which allows its orbit to be calculated fairly precisely. We know it takes 2 years (plus or minus 0.001314 years) to go around the Sun. In other words, our uncertainty in the asteroid’s orbital period is about 12 hours either way.
That’s actually pretty good, given how few observations were made – but it means we can’t be certain exactly where the asteroid will be on November 2 this year.
Fortunately, this particular asteroid is also too small to seriously hurt us, and we should be thankful for that.
But the fact that so many space rocks have been headed our way is definitely alarming.
Back in August, an asteroid the size of an SUV came extremely close to hitting our planet. The following comes from NASA…
Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday, Aug. 16 at 12:08 a.m. EDT (Saturday, Aug. 15 at 9:08 p.m. PDT).
What made that incident so unsettling was the fact that NASA didn’t even see it until it had passed us…
The flyby wasn’t expected and took many by surprise. In fact, the Palomar Observatory didn’t detect the zooming asteroiduntil about six hours after the object’s closest approach. “The asteroid approached undetected from the direction of the sun,” Paul Chodas, the director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, told Business Insider. “We didn’t see it coming.”
Unfortunately, the truth is that our scientists simply cannot see everything that is up there.
They are doing their best, but everyone agrees that our technology is limited.
But over the last 20 years our technology has definitely improved, and at this point the number of asteroids that our scientists have identified is far greater than it was a couple of decades ago…
The animation maps out all known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) — space rocks that get within about 30 million miles (50 million kilometers) of our planet’s orbit — from 1999 through January 2018, in roughly 10-year time steps.
The differences are stark. In 1999, identified NEAs speckled the inner solar system thinly, in a light dusting. Many more were discovered by 2009, and Earth’s neighborhood looks absolutely swamped in the present-day portion of the video.
Of course more giant space rocks are being discovered all the time, and unfortunately many of them are not identified until after they have had a close encounter with our planet.
If NASA couldn’t see the asteroid that almost hit us in August in advance, what else can’t they see?
And is it just our imagination that the number of close calls seems to be increasing, or are scientists just getting a whole lot better at detecting them?
In the movie Deep Impact, such a scenario was called an “extinction level event”.
As I write this article, there are thousands of giant space rocks floating around up there that could cause such a disaster, and NASA is working to catalog them all as rapidly as they can.
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Orange Orb Over Beach Shocks Eyewitness In Florida, Sept 21, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 21, 2020 Location of sighting: Manasota beach, Florida, USA A large glowing orange orb flew over the ocean along Manasota beach in Florida two days ago. The eyewitness is heard expressing their astonishment at what the object could possible be. The eyewitness said she couldn't hear any sound coming from the craft. This sighting is similar to several other off the coast of Florida in the last few years. In each of the sighting numerous orange orbs were seen, but never this close with such detail. This new video is just mind-blowing. 100% that aliens exist in an underwater base off the coast of Florida. Scott C. Waring
Hey I found a strange one today. This photo is from the Gemini 9A mission. There is an unidentified flying object moving past one frame. The object has spiky sides and is slightly blurred which means it was traveling fast and moved slightly when the photo was taken. I only saw it in one frame, but its kind of strange looking and seem not to far way from the Gemini rocket and module. Very odd and defiantly not a NASA spacecraft. I would like NASA to try to explain this one. Scott C. Waring
“I’ve included a graphic i made from memory similar to what we saw.”
This UFO report was submitted to me through our website. It happened back in 1973 (20th October) in northwest Indiana.
Here’s the story:
In the fall of 1973, October, I was 12 or 13 years old,my birthday is in july, I was watching TV (the six million dollar man) it was a new TV show and the only thing my stepfather watched (until “The A-Team” came out). My mother asked me to take out the paper trash to burn, we lived on a dead end street beside a very large swamp area and separated our paper to burn out back. We had a large mowed field next to our house before the swampy area started, we always burned our paper trash at the edge of it before where the ground got too wet. I reluctantly pulled myself away from the TV and ran out the back door grabbing the large paper grocery bag full of paper trash and a pack of matches. Planning to get this over with fast, I ran to the edge of the field, dropped the bag and flicked a few lit matches into it,waiting only a half second to make sure one would light the papers inside and ran back to the house eager to return to the new TV show. As i ran in my mother was still standing on the back porch holding open the screen door with her back,once i was in the kitchen but not yet to the living-room, and my TV show, my mother said “greg,what IS that?”….I turned around and she was still standing on the back porch holding open the door,I walked to where she was and she was gazing off into the night sky,it was just after nightfall, maybe 6 or 7 p.m. I looked to where she was looking and saw some flashing light in the distance and said “oh thats just a…..” (ready to dismiss whatever and go back to TV). Thats as far as i got, I realized it was not a plane..it was too low, and wobbling and the wrong colors and too slow…It was about a half mile away,at a spot where the railroad tracks intersected with interstate 65. There was a viadock there where the highway went over the railroad tracks.From where we stood i could see the headlights from the traffic and this object just above all the cars and trucks. The viadock was made on 2 hills maybe 80 feet tall with a bridge over them so the train could pass underneath on its way thru the swamp. The object looked about the same distance above the traffic, making its altiutude about 160 feet. I stared a moment,thinking, before stepping down onto the driveway to escape the light from the kitchen and see it better,and also to move toward it a bit..let my eyes adjust to the dark,it was not a plane,too slow,too low,a helicopter? no sound, not a blimp, too fast… I realized rather quickly it did not fit any category of flying things I knew of. I stared at it intently , it had green, red and blue lights rotating around it, the 3 lights forming a triangle, and some whitish light..and they were pulsing not flashing, and it seemed to wobble forward kind of,due to the elliptical rotation of the triangle lights,from a distance it looked like 2 steps forward one step back, but now it was closer and I could see that’s how it moved, the center was sliding forward into the space between the center sphere and the outer rotating ring with the 3 lights mounted on it,as if you were walking while hoola-hooping, and each time the hoola-hoop was touching your back you would take a step forward..but it was smooth and silent. It was headed our way now,and as it got closer I felt an overwhelming sense of awe and wonder and inside I knew this was unidentified, and flying… and an object !….my heart was beating but I felt calm. Hoping it was true but thinking any minute it would reveal itself to be a helicopter or something mundane. It didn’t, it came directly at me and then this huge craft silently floated directly above me and my yard and my house and was now so low I felt sure it intended on landing in the field next to our house. Looking straight up at its underside I could see now the center sphere had a larger unattached, or loosly attached, ring around it and the 3 lights were mounted on that rotating ring,I think I could see the night sky in the space between the sphere and the ring as it went around. I was thinking love and peace and I want to meet you, and let me see inside your ship..and it seemed to be in agreement as it approached,I squinted to look for windows in the center sphere, I think I saw some ports but they were small and with all the glare and lights and it being night I could not be sure, but I did feel watched,from there. More than that I felt “telepathy-ed at” or heard.. or understood, or “linked to” whoever was there,inside. It was almost as big as a football field,if anyone was really in it they were in the center part,it was about 80 feet up.It took up 30% of the visible sky.My neck was bent back as far as it would go to look up at it.I felt the same feeling you get when you daydream.It felt good. It was going to land,I just knew it. It hovered there for 5 minutes or so, I felt euphoria and I had to concentrate hard to keep thinking clearly and study it, to remember everything, and not fall under its spell.The bottom seemed to be mirroring the night sky above it,like it tried to be invisible. I realized it was so close I could hit it with a rock!.. or my BB gun..or the 22 rifle behind our back door and make it crash here!..and call channel 7 eyewitness news and be famous!..and the very next rotation of that glorious ring rotated to the east, away from me…it was leaving!..they heard my thoughts! I ran in the house and the gun was not behind the door.I yelled for my stepfather to come look, but he wasn’t interested. My mom was still frozen at the back door looking up with her mouth hanging open, I knew even then the euphoria had gotten to her,she was mesmerized. I ran back outside and it was really leaving..it slowly did its rotate slide, rotate slide to the east, away from me and my chance to meet them,I blew it. It slowly hoola-hooped due east and back over I-65 again, about mile north of where It first crossed west over the interstate, and disappeared into the distance. I didn’t know what to do,I called state police,they said nobody has reported anything,that left me with not much to say,I tried calling a small local airport but nobody answered.It was so low,going over I-65 and all the neighborhoods,willow street,39th ave,old ridge road,surely someone else saw it,all west Hobart should have seen that thing.The next week I watched the news and read the post tribune looking for anything, nothing. I was never the same after that,maybe there really is a God, I didnt know everything or have a logical explanation for everything anymore. After all these years I have come to some conclusions. It was held aloft the same way a magnet is when held over another magnet with matching poles facing each other- I could “feel it”..it was not anti-gravity,it was suspended inside the earths magnetic field somehow, it was manipulating the magnetic fields around itself,silent,smooth, efficient. But it had lights even tho it seemed to try to broadcast the night sky on its’ underside., why cloak itself but have bright pulsing lights..why would aliens need or care to follow FAA regulations or any earth laws..why have lights at all if you want to sneak? Was it trying to look like our air traffic? Why come out of your way to look at me and hang out here and let me see you if you are trying to cloak yourself? Did it see the flashes from me throwing matches in the garbage, it surely went out of its way to come over here and look at me. It did not want some normal plane or something to crash into it,thats why the lights..thats the only thing that makes sense, or maybe it was just taken for granted when building it that of course anything flying, at night especially, needs lights..right? ..by humans this logic holds. I was amazed at the technology of that thing, hundreds of years ahead of mankind if not more!..but i think the lights were man-made,and the more i think about it the more i think it was a ufo for sure, but not from distant space,it was too “mechanical”. I doubt that thing could make it from one star system to another no matter how amazing it was compared to a jet or helicopter. Maybe the original idea or some tech inside it was from space, but we were the ones who had it now, reverse engineered. We were the ones “hundreds of years ahead of man kind”… now after seeing the tic tacs with the pacific fleet, in comparison my old 1973 ufo seems like an old fashioned clunky version, almost a laughable funny flying machine, like how we now look at old black and white movies of early attempts at flight. Maybe the telepathy thing was just my emotional state. Maybe.
I’ve included a graphic i made from memory similar to what we saw.
also map showing the exact location and direction of its flight path.
(i highlighted a county southeast of my location also because researching for others who may have seen “my” ufo led me to many posts in many forums where i learned there was a rash of sightings delaware county at almost the same time i saw mine,and it was interesting mine came from that exact direction!)
Is there a new space race in progress – besides the ones to put humans on Mars and big weapons in orbit? Just days after one group of astronomers reveals they have foundphosphine gas in Venus’s atmosphere that is a strong indicator of the presence of life floating around up there, a group of Russian astronomers announce they have clear images of fossils from living microorganisms in a meteorite that came from an exoplanet outside of our solar system – life that existed even before the solar system came into existence. Race over? Or is this just an early lap before the first pit stop?
“The images we have obtained are unambiguous and easy to interpret. However, there will be many debates about it. People who have never worked in this field are the ones who argue the most.”
Aleksey Rozanov, the chief research officer at the JINR Astrobiology Center, told the news agency RIA Novosti that he and a research team from the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research are about to release a collection of high-quality electron microscope images of fossils from “micro-aliens” found inside the Orgueil meteorite which fell in Orgueil, France, on May 14, 1864. Those in the meteorite world know that the 20 stones which were collected are perhaps the most studied meteorite in the world. In fact, stories of organic matter similar to peat being found on it emerged almost immediately after its discovery, along with its unusual composition indicating it was probably not from our solar system. And yet, Rozanov is touting this as a ‘new’ discovery. Why?
“This is not a discovery, but the establishment of a solid fact that panspermia is a real phenomenon.”
Mikhail Kapralov, Junior Researcher of the Laboratory of Radiation Biology of the Astrobiology Section of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, explains that the team used the electron microscope to look inside the meteorite – in its crevices and inner cleavages where evidence would exist that was not picked up when the meteorite landed in France. They found fossilized magnetotactics – bacteria that align along a magnetic field – and fossils similar to coccoid, the rod-shaped forms of prokaryotes, acritarchs, protists, alveolates and armored amoebae. If all of this is real, this is truly a game-changing discovery.
Original painting of an individual fragment from the Orgueil meteorite
Is it real?
Meteorite experts may remember the infamous Orgueil hoax. In 1965, a fragment of the meteorite, which had been kept in a sealed glass jar since it was recovered, suddenly appeared to have a seed embedded in it. An investigation found it was from a European rush (a grass-like plant), that was glued into it and covered with coal dust. The hoaxer was never found. The researchers also reference the works of “American academician Richard Hoover.” Hoover, a former NASA scientist, was the author of the so-called “Hoover Paper” published on the Journal of Cosmology in 2011 which claimed he had found evidence of fossils in numerous meteorites. The controversial (in the scientific world) journal was criticized for publishing it and NASA disassociated itself from him.
Aleksey Rozanov released a few images of the alleged fossils (see them here) and promises that all will be published in November. Will they prove we’re not alone in the universe? That remains to be seen. Will they end the controversies? Probably not. Is there a race on to find any kind of evidence of life other than us?
Roxanov has the best answer:
“Much was found already then, but out of fear it was not so interpreted so as not to frighten people.”
The International Space Station underwent an unscheduled reboost in orbit yesterday, to avoid a collision with an unknown piece of space junk. The 3-man crew was ordered to shelter, but is safe.
View larger. | Here is the International Space Station (ISS) on August 18, 2020, with 3 spaceships docked including Russia’s Progress 75 and 76 resupply ships and Soyuz MS-16 crew ship. Tuesday’s reboost of ISS was accomplished by firing the thrusters on one of the resupply ships, as the crew sheltered near the Soyuz MS-16.
While its three-man crew sheltered near an escape vehicle, NASA and Russian flight controllers worked in tandem yesterday to reboost the International Space Station to a higher orbit, to avoid what NASA called a “possible conjunction” with an unknown piece of space debris. The reboost was conducted by firing thrusters on a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft currently docked with ISS. The thrusters fired for 150 seconds. The maneuver – which came at 5:19 p.m. EDT (21:19 UTC) on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 – was successful. The crew consists of NASA’s Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner.
Because of the late notification of the possible conjunction, the three Expedition 63 crew members were directed to move to the Russian segment of the station to be closer to their Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft as part of the safe haven procedure out of an abundance of caution.
At no time was the crew in any danger.
The estimated closest approach of ISS with the unknown chunk of debris was 6:21 p.m. EDT (22:21 UTC; translate UTC to your time zone) on September 22.
NASA said the maneuver raised the station’s orbit out of the predicted path of the debris, which was estimated to come within 0.86 miles (1.39 km). That is too close for comfort, especially when you consider that these objects in space are moving at about 17,500 mph (28,000 kph), or more than 10 times faster than a speeding bullet.
Once the avoidance maneuver was completed, the crew reopened hatches between the U.S. and Russian segments and resumed their regular activities, NASA said.
Such drastic maneuvers are standard protocol if there’s a greater than 1-in-10,000 chance of collision, according to an article about the maneuver in yesterday’s Business Insider. This article also said that ISS has executed at least 29 avoidance maneuvers since 1999.
The Space_Station has maneuvered three times in 2020 to avoid debris. In the last two weeks, there have been three high-concern potential conjunctions. Debris is getting worse!
This year, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Space Commerce has asked for an additional $15 million for its budget for the coming year, in order to increase efforts to monitor and remove space debris from orbit. Those funds have not yet been approved by the U.S. Congress.
The prime Expedition 63 crew members pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. From left are NASA astronaut Commander Chris Cassidy, and Roscosmos Flight Engineer cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner.
Bottom line:The International Space Station underwent an unscheduled reboost in orbit on September 22, 2020, to avoid a collision with an unknown piece of space junk. The 3-man crew was ordered to shelter, but is safe. ISS has maneuvered three times in 2020 to avoid space debris.
WATCH JAPAN’S 60 FOOT GUNDAM ROBOT TAKE A GIGANTIC KNEE
GUNDAM HOUSE VIA YOUTUBE
VICTOR TANGERMANN
Big-Ass Robot
Japan’s gigantic 60-foot tall Gundam robot just took several steps — and even kneeled.
The footage, uploaded to YouTube by local observers, is admittedly sped up between at least two to four times, as Newsweek points out — but the grace at which it moonwalks across the ground in front of it and give a salute is a sight to behold in itself.
WE ARE GUNDAM
The robot was finally completed last month, according to Japanese news site SoraNews24. The massive structure weighs over 55,000 pounds and is modeled after the RX-78-2 unit from the popular “Gundam” science fiction franchise.
The robot still hasn’t been revealed to the public, because the ongoing pandemic has indefinitely delayed its opening at the Gundam Factory in the port of Yokohama, Japan. It was originally meant to go on display in October of this year.
How do you feel about military presence in space? Do you think it should be (a) blocked, (b) implied, (c) clandestine, or (d) open, funded and growing? If you picked (d), the Space Force may be interested in hiring you for its PR department.
“NASA’s partnerships are vital to ensuring America continues to lead the world in the peaceful uses of outer space.”(Jim Bridenstine)
On September 21, 2020, Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, U.S. Space Force (USSF) Chief of Space Operations, signed a “memorandum of understanding” with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine that brings the two organizations together in a way Bridenstine says “continues our rich legacy of collaboration with the Defense Department” and Raymond says will provide “a secure, stable, and accessible space domain.”
“NASA and the military share a long history dating back to the late 1950s; there is power in our partnership.”(Gen. John “Jay” Raymond)
Well, that depends on how you look at it. While it’s true that the space program was born out of the Cold War with the USSR and the first astronauts were military pilots, that’s primarily because the vast majority of pilots and test pilots in the U.S. (and the world) were current or former military personnel. However, while some missions bore a flag-waving and flag-planting air, the majority quickly gravitated to scientific purposes, especially in the eras of the space stations and the Space Shuttle. That was obvious with the significant amount of sharing between NASA and the Russian space program, which continues today on the ISS but has become a financial arrangement on the transport end, with that ‘business’ going quickly to private U.S. firms.
“We are an instrument of national power. It is soft power, it is diplomatic power, information power, economic power. This is really a tool of diplomacy for the nation, but we can’t do any of those things if space is not secure. And that’s why it was important to create the Space Force, that’s why it’s important for NASA to partner with the Space Force.”
At a forum announcing the agreement, Bridenstine described the justification for the new agreement, which replaces the one signed 14 years ago by NASA and the Air Force Space Command. It’s telling that the new one with the Space Force is described as a “tool of diplomacy” – that’s not far from Orwell’s “War is peace” in “1984.” Why is this first step in “diplomacy” an agreement to be heavily armed?
“Freedom of action in space provides NASA and allied-nation space agencies the ability to explore and discover, and will enable America’s return to the Moon and subsequent exploration of Mars.”
This sentence in the press release contains another revealing phrase: “allied-nation space agencies.” That’s not “NASA and all of humanity.” Does anyone really know today who the allies of the U.S. truly are … in space or on Earth?
We have already made space the same kind of unable-to-clean-up junkyard that the planet has become. Must we make it another battleground as well?
When the armed guards arrive at the ISS, it will already be too late.
Within the world of the paranormal there are many strange phenomena for which we have no concrete answers, and which serve to merely baffle and confuse. Yet among these there can often be those very surreal and odd things that lurk out on the periphery of the odd, evading any attempts to even really classify. This is surely an apt description of the increasing number of reports making the rounds of eerie, tall pale humanoids that go way off into the realm of the truly bizarre, and which defy any real efforts to understand. Here we will look at some reports of truly otherworldly tall and pale entities and beings that are in a league of weirdness all their own.
One spooky account comes from the Reddit user “Saskguy85,” who had his encounter while driving through the remote wilderness somewhere near the Canadian border. At the time he was on his way home from a friend’s house at around 4 AM, and it is described as a 45-minute drive, around 10 minutes of which is through a dense patch of rugged, black forest. On this evening he took the drive slow after almost hitting a deer, moving along carefully as he peered into the gloom ahead. As he did, it seems something beyond his comprehension bloomed up out of the dark, and he says of what happened:
As I approached the exit of the forest there is a left curve in the road and an adjacent dirt road with a white wooden fence lining it going up a hill to what I would imagine would lead to someone’s property/home. As I was making the turn I seen something in my headlights (Brights) at the edge of the fence. It was a tall pale milky white creature with a bald head. Its eyes reflected back. Clothes-less . It’s arms and legs just as white as its bald head. I seen it for a second or two as it made a move to dive behind the fence. I braked and backed up slowly and pointed my lights at the fence looking for any kind of movement. I was parked on the highway which was abandoned at 5 am. My heart was racing and I didn’t know why. I must have sat there for a minute before I calmed down, didn’t see any movement and decided I better not go and investigate or maybe I’d become a missing person and continued my journey home. To this day I still wouldn’t have gotten out to investigate unless I had a weapon or someone with me. So the only description I have of this “thing” is tall, pale, bald, and human like features, but no noticeable hair or eyebrows.
A perhaps even more frightening similar account is given by Reddit user “DistinctEarthling,” who had his strange experience while driving along a rural back road in Upstate NY on Christmas night, 2007 on his way to visit a friend in a rural gated community. As he approached the community he came to an area where he would encounter something from out of a nightmare. He says:
I reached a section of road that had barren fields on either side and woods set back. Houses were probably nestled back into the trees. As I drove, I noticed what looked like someone walking up ahead on the opposite side of the road, coming in my direction. Mind you, I was still going about 20 mph the whole time, so it was probably less than a minute by the time the “walker” came into clear view. I got a quick scan of it from my windshield before my car and it were exactly parallel. This is what I saw: It was not a person. It stood on two long legs, with long arms hanging down from its shoulders. It was strong looking. Lean, muscular, but not beefy in stature. It looked thin at the same time. It stood at least 7 foot tall. It was light coloured: not sure whether it was white, tan, yellow or greyish. It didn’t appear to have fur but there was some texture to the skin- it wasn’t smooth. There appeared to be something coming down off its back. I don’t know what this was. All I can recall about it’s face is the small features it had but the mouth and jaw were notably large. And it had pointed things atop its head- 2 things going straight upward with something mingled between the two things. That’s what I got from a quick scan and from my observation of it as it neared my car and my car neared it.
As my car became parallel to it within a split second, I went from looking out my windshield to looking at it from my driver’s side window. In that moment, it’s face quickly peered down at me and all I remember was the mouth opened wide. Out came a remarkable scream that I’ll never forget. Gives me the chills just thinking about it. It consisted of a high-pitched shrill/shriek, enveloped by a deep guttural growl. Both sounds happened simultaneously in that scream. I kept driving all the while. This was all happening so fast that I didn’t even have a chance to be scared or shocked or anything. I continued driving and went past my friend’s house and drove home. Called him to tell him what happened and that I just needed to get back. I was probably running on adrenaline to get back home. Later on, I was in total shock after it sunk in. Had my driver’s side window been opened fully, it would have touched me, or worse, taken me. I’m certain of it. To this day, I still haven’t worked out what this was.
In a case on the site Phantoms and Monsters we have a report from all the way over in Scotland. The witness says he was walking home with some friends through a park when they observed something beyond their reality. The witness claims:
Me and my friend were walking around a massive park in my town and it was around 11pm. We were just walking around having a smoke and a laugh, being teenagers and stuff. By this point it was pitch black. There’s no lights in the park and I’m a bit on edge because I’m not keen on the dark and I was kind of paranoid from the weed, but I’m gonna just cut to the interesting part. So me and my friend, let’s call him Sam, walk towards the actual swing park within the park and we’re like 10 feet from the park. There’s this unexplainable rancid smell that physically caused me to gag. We joke and say something about it being this girl from school we don’t like and head into the park. The smell is only getting stronger and I glance over at the small wall surrounding the park. There’s a bench and squatting behind the bench, at least 5 ft tall squatting, was what looked like a freakishly tall guy. He appeared to be naked and hairless. We both kinda stared for a minute before looking at each other as if to say “Yo, you can see that right” and the thing started laughing like a 4-year-old girl. We got the f**k out of there and ran like our lives depended on it and went home. We just laughed it off and kind of forgot about it, at least Sam forgot about it. But it was weeks ago and I’m still spooked and refuse to go near that park after dark.
Sometimes such sightings happen very close to home. Reddit user “Keanu” has a perhaps even creepier account, which apparently played out on evening as he was hanging out with some friends in his own home. He says that throughout the evening they kept hearing strange noises outside, but that every time they went to look there was nothing there. They ended up chalking it up to some animal prowling about and tried to ignore it, but it would soon prove to be no normal animal. The witness says that he stepped outside to have a cigarette and that’s when things got very weird very fast. He explains:
My friend began moaning in what I can only describe as pure primal fear so I began asking him what and suddenly my dog started barking. I looked to the right off the small porch and saw a tall, extremely thin, ghostly pale creature. It was a horrid humanoid figure. I only saw it for a moment before I heard the rocks under it scatter moving like someone was moving inhumanly fast over them. It was gone over the fence into the green belt behind my house in a split second. I’d say it perhaps 7 feet tall and humanoid in how it looks. I theorize that the creature was on top of my roof before as there’s no other way to describe the sounds we heard or how the creature appeared so suddenly and silently.
The same witness thinks it might be connected with a frightening encounter a friend of his had had in a nearby tunnel with a rusted metal gate. The tunnel is apparently a place where teenagers like to go to spook themselves, but there was typically no one there because it was out in a very rural wooded area and not easy to get to. On this occasion the friends decided to go exploring there, and the poster says of the outlandish events that would allegedly play out:
A couple of my friends decided to investigate further into the tunnel out of curiosity. You must also take note that they claim this happened awhile before my initial experience occurred. They walked deep into the tunnel probably 10-15 minutes. At a certain point later in the tunnel once flashlights are completely necessary it stoops down. They said there were noticeable amounts of feces that had questionable explanation to how it got there. With signs that the tunnel could be inhabited, but by something that couldn’t simply be an animal. This is also in a suburban area where homeless people or addicts are extremely uncommon. This tunnel in particular I know for a fact no man would want to take up residence, especially with the small amount of water running through it. They reached a part in the tunnel where it got even lower and above where it drops down is painted “Welcome to Hell” coincidentally. There they say they saw a tall pale figure hunched in a way so that it took up most of the height of the tunnel but was noticeably gaunt and thin. And at that point they claim to have saw it move and they turned tail and frantically sprinted down the tunnel with no regard for the water or darkness. Given the description of what witnessed I would say that these two incidents are likely connected and the creature in question is likely to be the same one in each story, especially given the vicinity in which they occurred. We now theorize that the creature witnessed at my house dwells in the tunnel during the day and prowls at night. We don’t go near the tunnel anymore. I don’t think there’s a way this could be a coincidence.
What was this thing? Another report from the site Phantoms and Monsters similarly happened right in the witness’s yard, out in rural Durham, in the state of North Carolina. On this evening his family had gone off to visit a relative who had recently given birth, so he had the quiet house to himself. He decided to bring his dog out for a walk before bedtime at around 12 AM, and he says of what happened next:
I took her out the back-garage door with her long leash (I was wearing socks and didn’t feel like getting them soaked). She usually does her “business” in that little clearing between the kennel and garage, so I let her walk down through it. Our garage has a single light on the back wall (not LED or really bright) so I can see her somewhat well while she does it. She’s facing me when suddenly her backside lifts almost one or two feet into the air. (Paranormal or not I f**king screamed at this) I assumed some wild dog or something had tried to drag her. She runs back to me and I hear rustling among the rocks and this figure stops right as it enters visible view in the light. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. “It” was tall. I’m 6’2 and I had to look slightly up to see where I thought its head was. It was pale but not white or grey, just normal pale flesh-color (like someone who spends a week or two indoors). It was lanky, not really anorexic or anything but definitely disproportionate. It looked at me for a good 1-2 seconds before it backtracked in the quickest manner I could never replicate. As soon as it went I booked it back inside.
I was torn about calling the police if neighbors who had heard my scream hadn’t. Behold almost half an hour later the police arrive in my driveway (I told them that I had seen a man in the back yard, leaving out the whole tall demon-sh*t going on.) I have been contemplating whether it was some creature or some NBA-bound nude meth-head. Once again, I don’t count myself as a “believer” in the bigfoot or mothman but I really don’t know what the f**k happened. I’m most definitely not taking the dog out alone anytime soon.
There is also a report from The UFO Reporting Center that is eerily similar, in that once again we have one of these strange entities encountered in someone’s backyard, this time in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the Fall of 2004. The witness describes herself as a housewife and mother, and explains that it was at around sunset and that her two daughters were in their respective rooms as she watched TV in the living room. At some point her two dogs suddenly were agitated and on edge, which she claims was very unusual for them. The dogs gathered at the dining room window, which overlooks the backyard, growling and barking at something outside. Considering how odd their behavior was, the witness decided to investigate, and as soon as she opened the door things escalated into the weird very quickly. She says of what happened:
As I opened the door the dogs barged past me as they usually do when they are excited (i.e. to chase a bunny through the fence). On this occasion, they hooked around the door to cross the back of house. I took a step out keeping my hand on the door knob of storm door. They had stopped between my two patios shoulder to shoulder and barking hysterically. Defensive and afraid at the same time. I saw in front of them standing inside my privacy fence what looked like a bald headed teenager. I was thinking to myself, ‘hey, what’s this tall, skinny, pale white, bald teenager doing in my backyard’ and just then it turned to look at us just enough to show it’s right eye. It had a big black elongated upslanting eye. It then turned to its left and vanished on the spot. The dogs then ran to the spot where it stood sniffing the ground. Now, I didn’t get any supportive reactions from family or friends so for the last two years I’ve just put it out of my mind as best I could. I would raise the issue now and then, but when I hear reports on the news like a sighting over Chicago O’hare airport etc. I am reminded of my ‘encounter’. The surprise scared me so bad, I had to do lamaze breathing to slow my heartrate down.
I did not imagine this. I recall feeling I should look fast as it had no earlobes, no visible nose from my vantage point (it stood right shoulder to us) long arms, long fingers but did not count them. I don’t recall it’s feet, but it either wore a skin tight jump suit similar to skin color. I saw a shiny object on it’s upper left chest. All I could think was, I’m going to die of a heart attack and no one will know what I just saw. I witnessed some paranormal activity in years past, and I have to wonder if the incidents are related. It is a mystery! I am certain that we are not alone in the universe, but the public seems to be desensitized to this subject, as though a disinformation program has been at work since Roswell. People just think a person isn’t well if we’ve had this experience and won’t believe it until they see it for themselves. I had always said, the universe is so vast, we can’t be the only life there is, but I’m left wondering why ‘I’ was visited.
Another case concerning dogs was reported on Phantoms and Monsters, from a man who says this happened to a friend of his in May 2015 in Dufferin County, in Ontario, Canada. The friend supposedly lives on a farm on a few hundred acres of land, in a very rural area with not many people around at all. At the time the witness was living in a trailer as his farmhouse was renovated, and one evening he woke to the sounds of his dogs going nuts and scratching at the trailer door. Once again the strangeness started when he opened the door. The man says of what happened to his friend:
When he went to let them out he was surprised to see bright yellow lights behind and inside the nearby barn. Thinking it was trespassers he let his dogs loose and went to grab his rifle. He said as he was loading it he heard his dogs go from barking, to yelping and whining. They came barreling back into the trailer and proceeded to hide under the table. Thinking these people hurt his dogs he stepped out of the trailer and fired five rounds into the air and began yelling as he readied another magazine. He got a response when the lights around the barn grew incredibly bright. He admits that at that point he was pretty freaked out. He said that he stood there for a bit staring at the lights when he noticed two beings casually walking across the field towards the barn
Apparently when he saw them he was hit with a mixture of confusion and fear. He describes them as humanoid, pale white, tall and thin. Having very small heads in comparison to their bodies, he also notes that they must have been 6’5 with most of that height being leg length. He stated that they moved very strangely. Their upper body seemed stiff and locked, but their legs moved very fluidly. Almost bringing their knees to their chest. Understandably fear took over him, he took aim and fired three rounds at the beings. Which just made them completely stop moving. Then he noticed a third one to his left very close, but walking away from his trailer. He turned around, went back inside and went for his handguns when the light outside vanished. He sat inside his trailer with silent dogs until morning. He didn’t check out the barn until two days later. He found nothing strange there. No burn marks, no holes, all was normal. When checking the fields, he also found absolutely nothing. He told me that he was freaked out for a while afterwards, but nothing strange has ever happened on his property since then.
When looking at reports such as these it is hard to know what to think. What kind of phenomena could these truly bizarre accounts actually represent? Are these mere hoaxes, tall tales, and urban legends? Are these aliens, ghosts, demons, some sort if interdimensional phenomena? Or are they perhaps something else altogether, maybe even something we were never meant to understand? We will likely never know, and such reports flitter and dance out on the very fringes of the surreal and strange.
This is Major Tom to Ground Control I’m stepping through the door And I’m floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today
— Space Oddity (David Bowie)
Hey, Ground Control, you’re not going to believe this, but I think I see a comet with a strange aurora around it. That’s not right, is it? And over there is a weird-looking asteroid, but what’s really weird is that the rocks on the surface don’t match the other ones … like maybe they came from another asteroid. Weird, right? Planet Earth still looks blue … that’s a relief. Is there anything I can do? Yes, I took my protein pills. There’s nothing I can do? Maybe I’ll write a song.
David Bowie told us that space is full of oddities and he was certainly right about that. This week, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spotted some strange rocks on the surface of asteroid Bennu that appear to have come from someplace else, while a new analysis of data collected by the Rosetta spacecraft while it orbited Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) shows the comet glowing with a far-ultraviolet auroral radiation. Did THEY take their protein pills?
Comet 67P/C-G
“We found six boulders ranging in size from 5 to 14 feet (about 1.5 to 4.3 meters) scattered across Bennu’s southern hemisphere and near the equator. These boulders are much brighter than the rest of Bennu and match material from Vesta.” (Daniella DellaGiustina of the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson)
“Our leading hypothesis is that Bennu inherited this material from its parent asteroid after a vestoid (a fragment from Vesta) struck the parent. Then, when the parent asteroid was catastrophically disrupted, a portion of its debris accumulated under its own gravity into Bennu, including some of the pyroxene from Vesta.” (Hannah Kaplan of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland)
Bennu
It’s hard out there for an asteroid (2005 non-Bowie song reference), as these two space scientists explain in a NASA press release announcing the discovery of extremely bright boulders on Bennu. Using the OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) instrument, they matched the repflected light to that coming from the mineral pyroxene, which is similar to what is seen on Vesta and the Vestoids – not an early all-girl band but fragments blasted by an impact off of an earlier, larger Vesta. In the tightly-packed asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, these impacts are not unusual, or as NASA more musically puts it:
“This indicates many asteroids are participating in a complex orbital dance that sometimes results in cosmic mashups.”
Meanwhile, on Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko (a Jupiter-family comet originally from the Kuiper belt that was orbited by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, which dropped a lander on its surface before crashing into it two years later), researchers taking a fresh look at the glow around the comet have come to a new conclusion about its cause.
“Initially, we thought the ultraviolet emissions at comet 67P were phenomena known as ‘dayglow,’ a process caused by solar photons interacting with cometary gas. We were amazed to discover that the UV emissions are aurora, driven not by photons, but by electrons in the solar wind that break apart water and other molecules in the coma and have been accelerated in the comet’s nearby environment. The resulting excited atoms make this distinctive light.”
In fact, Dr. Joel Parker of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) says the glow is an aurora – something never seen around a comet until now. While they have been visible around planets and moons, they weren’t expected around comets because they lack a magnetic field to interact with the charged particles in solar wind, causing them to glow in auroras. In the case of 67P/C-G, it was the comet’s coma – the envelope of gas surrounding it – which was excited by the solar particles and made to glow in an ultraviolet light.
Both of these discoveries are further proof that the universe is full of space oddities and the study of data from space missions should never end, just like the playing of David Bowie’s music.
There was not really anything to make people think that the night of October 9, 1973 would be anything other than a normal evening in the sleepy residential area of Delaware County, Indiana. It started out as usual, people went about their business, but this was to be far from a normal night, and it would quickly spiral into one of the most curious and intense UFO waves on record.
The area was not known for its crime or for anything much really happening much of the time at all, but at around 10 p.m. emergency services switchboards began lighting up with numerous calls from scared residents reporting mysterious UFOs in the night skies, and this wasn’t just a few people here and there. Before long police had received 700 calls like this, and officers sent out to investigate also reported seeing the object, described as “blinking a red-white-blue revolving light and often hovering near the ground.” Meanwhile, an airfield in Fort Wayne picked up an anomalous radar signature, and the incident left officials in the area in a state of panic, wondering what to make of it all. Making it all even more mysterious was that this was only the beginning, and the UFO sightings would go on to spread like wildfire throughout the region.
Later that same month, people in the area of Cincinnati, Ohio, and its surrounding communities began to flood emergency services with reports of UFOs as well, with a flurry of hundreds of callers from the region reporting bright lights in the sky. Such reports continued on throughout October, and some encounters really are quite dramatic. In one incident, terrified witnesses described how one of the UFOs even came down to land in the middle of main street in Trenton, and another witness claimed that a UFO had landed on her farm and killed two of her cows, and yet another claimed that a diamond-shaped glowing blue craft had tried to abduct her baby. There is also the account of an off-duty Air National Guard flight controller, who saw a “pulsating blue-ish-white object” fly out over and descend into a soybean field. There were so many reports that it was causing a mass hysteria, and fueling it all was that there were many reported power outages going on in the same areas where the UFOs were being seen.
While some of these might sound a little too bizarre, many of these witnesses to these UFO events were what one would call traditionally reliable, such as police officers, and officials. One policeman, a Sgt. Hugh, claimed to have chased a glowing, humming circular object for a few miles near the town of Greenfield, and sheriffs near Zanesville witnessed three pulsating globes over a local graveyard. Even the Governor of Ohio himself, John J. Gilligan, said he had seen a UFO shoot a “vertical beam of light.” The governor was so shaken that he would say in a press conference, “I saw one (UFO) the other night, so help me. I’m absolutely serious. I saw this. It was not a plane. It was not a bird. It didn’t wear a cape. And I really don’t know what it was.”
Perhaps the most well-known and oft-discussed encounter from the October 1973 “UFO Invasion” of the Midwest is that of a Capt. Lawrence J. Coyne, who on Oct. 18 was flying a U.S. Army Reserve Super Huey helicopter near Mansfield, Ohio, along with a crew of three others. As they flew, they say they saw an unidentified red light approaching directly towards them. The light was coming in so fast, that Coyne made evasive maneuvers, but the mysterious craft matched every movement. When the crew got a good look at the object, they could see that it was a cigar-shaped, windowless metallic craft with a bright red light perched upon its nose. This mysterious object then proceeded to hover in front of the helicopter and then without warning zapped them with a piercing green light like a searchlight, which lit up the entire interior of their aircraft. After a few moments had passed the light stopped and the UFO flew off as their helicopter lost its controls to send them in a spiral towards the ground, and their radio had gone dead as well. They were able to get the aircraft under control again, and were left with an experience none of them would ever forget.
All of these reports over the same general region at the same time was enough to cause a sort of mass panic, and it was splashed all over the papers at the time. It was feared that it would cause a nationwide panic if something wasn’t done, but then by Halloween the UFO reports just suddenly stopped, and the skies were quiet again. The story of the Midwest Invasion has gone on to be much discussed, and is even said to have been the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s classic Close Encounter of the Third Kind. Many of the reports were compiled and collected by local UFOlogist Kenny Young, who says of the 1973 wave of UFOs:
The unusual aerial events happening during the October 1973 time-period remains one of the most fascinating of all UFO happenings, an intense and disturbing siege that no dismissive hypothesis or explanatory venture will easily rob of its strangeness.
There have been a few theories on what happened back in October of 1973. One of the most prominent is that this was all misidentifications of military aircraft involved with a military operation called “Operation Nickel Grass,” which saw the U.S. Air Force launching numerous large transport planes for the purpose of supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The war began on October 6, when Egypt, Suria, and other Middle Eastern countries attempted to invade Israel, and Operation Nickel Grass was the U.S. response, beginning on October 13 and seeing numerous aircraft taking off for several weeks nearly around the clock. The idea here is that civilians may have mistaken all of these planes for UFOs, but it seems unlikely considering that the planes, mostly C-141 StarLifters and C-5 Galaxy cargo planes, looked and acted like planes, not the various other weird craft reported, and many of the witnesses were professionals who would have been unlikely to mistake a cargo plane for a maneuverable UFO. The Coyne incident was also definitely not a cargo plane. Other ideas are that there was some sort of meteor shower or that this was all simply a mass hysteria, but of course there is the possibility that this region was visited en masse by forces we cannot comprehend. If is were the case, then what were they and what did they want? We may never know the true answers, and the 1973 “UFO Invasion” remains a compelling piece of UFO lore.
Nikola Tesla is a very well-known scientist who made numerous inventions and discoveries, such as the Tesla coil, alternating-current (AC) electricity, neon lights, artificial lightning, X-rays, and the rotating magnetic field, just to name a few. His radio technology is actually used in today’s computers, smartphones, navigation systems, satellites, missiles, and spaceships. Incredibly, in 1926, he predicted that people would eventually be able to stay connected by seeing and hearing each other no matter where they were across the planet by a small device that could fit in a pocket – decades before the smartphone was even created.
He had over 1,000 invention patents on record that included his 1905 patent called “The art of transmitting electrical energy through the natural medium” which was based on his thoughts that the Earth was an electrical generator that could supply an unlimited amount of electricity.
Tesla Coil
It was obvious that Tesla was an incredibly intelligent man who was ahead of his time in regards to his work. In fact, it has been said that his inventions were between 300 and 1,000 years ahead of time and that the world would be about half a century behind where we are today if it wasn’t for Tesla. This, however, led to some people believing that he was such a unique individual that he didn’t even come from our planet.
A declassified FBI document called “Interplanetary Sessions Newsletter” was written on June 14, 1957 and contained some unbelievable claims that Tesla was originally from the planet Venus. It read in part, “The Space People have visited the Tesla engineers many times, and have told us that Tesla was a Venusian, brought to this planet as a baby, in 1856, and left with Mr. and Mrs. Tesla in a remote mountain province in what is now Yugoslavia.”
Additionally, a woman named Margaret Storm, who was writing a book on Tesla’s life, was given information through a device that the scientist created in 1938 in order to conduct “interplanetary communication”. She allegedly even had contact with the “Space People”.
Nikola Tesla
The theory that Nikola Tesla originally came from Venus and was brought to Earth as a baby is certainly far-fetched even though many people do believe that there are aliens living right here on Earth (Area 51 for example). But what’s even stranger is that the FBI had that information in one of their files which ultimately raises even more questions such as why did the “Space People” reveal Tesla’s identity to the FBI and perhaps an even better question is did the FBI actually have close contact with extraterrestrials?
According to this document, the following was stated:
“The Space People have visited the Tesla engineers many times, and have told us that Tesla was a Venusian, brought to this planet as a baby in 1856, and left with Mr. and Mrs. Tesla in a remote mountain province in what is now Yugoslavia.”
Tesla, in 1928, patented a UFO which makes one wonder if he had any plans on returning to his homeland?
Perhaps this story will intrigue you the next time you stare into the skies on a starry night!
Midden in de coronacrisis heeft de regering-Trump in allerijl een juridische blauwdruk opgesteld voor mijnbouw op de maan. De NASA is nu op zoek naar mijnbouwbedrijven die de maan willen verkennen. Hoewel het gaat om het grootste maanproject van de NASA, kreeg het nauwelijks media-aandacht. Rusland en China werken ondertussen aan hun eigen maanproject.
Dus terwijl er van alles gebeurt in de wereld, beconcurreren de Verenigde Staten, China en Rusland elkaar om als eerste de maan te bereiken, zodat ze er mijnbouw kunnen plegen. Wat zouden ze er uit de grond kunnen halen? Water, goud, platina en zeldzame aardmetalen, aldus de NASA. Er wordt al gesproken van goudkoorts in de ruimte.
Dan is er nog iets waar nooit ruchtbaarheid aan gegeven is. Astronauten van Apollo 11 maakten melding van een groen, fluorescerend licht op het maanoppervlak voordat ze op de maan landden. Het licht was ongeveer 2 minuten zichtbaar. Er is zelfs een naam voor bedacht: Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLP). Uit literatuuronderzoek blijkt dat de lichten al bijna 1500 jaar worden waargenomen, onder andere door astronomen. Op 15 november 1953 maakte Leon Stuart de eerste foto van het verschijnsel.
Iemand is dus teruggegaan
Wél was er aandacht voor de mysterieuze gel-achtige substantie die China ontdekte op de achterkant van de maan. Wie weet wat ze daar nog meer hebben gevonden. De Daily Beast vroeg begin dit jaar nog ‘wat China in vredesnaam op de achterkant van de maan aan het doen is’.
“Je investeert pas in een mijnbouwproject als je zeker weet dat er iets waardevols te halen is en je een fortuin gaat verdienen. Iemand is dus teruggegaan,” zegt Jimmy van het populaire kanaal Bright Insight. “De maan is een gigantische kosmische goudmijn. Ze gebruiken belastinggeld om ernaartoe te gaan. Iemand gaat daar een fortuin aan verdienen, maar jij niet.”
WETENSCHAPEen in 2018 ontdekte asteroïde zal ons morgen/donderdag rakelings voorbijscheren, zo heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA bekendgemaakt. Het ding vormt geen gevaar.
Op zijn reis door het zonnestelsel scheert planetoïde 2020 SW ons donderdag rakelings voorbij. Het dichtste punt is ongeveer 22.000 km, dus beneden de baan die geostationaire satellieten rondom onze planeet draaien (ruwweg op 36.000 km hoogte). Dat zal om 13.12 uur Belgische tijd zijn.
De NASA benadrukt dat er geen gevaar is dat het zowat 5 op 10 meter grote object met ons in botsing komt.
We mogen de asteroïde in 2041 opnieuw verwachten. Maar de scheervlucht zal dan op grotere afstand zijn.
RH Negative: The Purported True Story of A Human-Alien Hybrid Raechel via Coast to Coast AM
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Authors Helen Littrell and Jean Bilodeaux shared the unusual and purportedly true account of a human-alien hybrid named Raechel. Littrell claims she first came to meet Raechel after her blind daughter, Marisa, called and described her new roommate’s strange behavior. According to Bilodeaux and Littrell, Raechel seemed to have no past, spoke with odd vocal inflections, and ate a special diet that was delivered to her home by mysterious officials.
Raechel also wore a scarf tied around her head and dark sunglasses, Littrell explained, recalling the time Raechel’s glasses shifted enough to reveal large, slanted, light-green eyes with vertical black slits in the place of round pupils.
I found a strange looking structure on Earths moon today. I was in an old NASA site and found what looks like...an empty plastic bottle top. Now this is confusing, because it really looks like a bottle top. Imagine if you will someone trying to make a fake moon so they could take fake photos of it to make the world look at them as a world power. And perhaps a part of a bottle of paint was cut off and instead of falling, got glued to the fake model planet NASA made.
Well if this photo of the moon was not faked by NASA, then this photo is 100% proof that aliens build structures in craters on Earths moon. Now, I believe this theory to be true. That a alien structure happened to look like a discarded, cut off bottle top. But from what I see, the photo looks authentic taken during an Apollo mission.
I found a most unusual sculpture ever on Mars today. The sculpture has once side of it visible revealing an upper arm and lower leg sticking out of the rocks. A face is poking out from under a hoody like hat. To say this is strange is an understatement. But its a cultural thing...I mean, the aliens who made it have a very unique view of beauty and art. I am 100% confident this is an alien sculpture, however lingering in my head I'm wondering...two things. What was the artist trying to accomplish here? And how closely does this sculpture mimic the beings who created it? Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Something 'Out of this World' appeared on Saturn's largest moon Enceladus
Astrange phenomenon what looks like a wall has been captured on Saturn's largest moon Enceladus by Cassini Spacecraft.
In 2005, the Cassini spacecraft started multiple close flybys of Enceladus, revealing its surface and environment in greater detail. In particular, Cassini discovered water-rich plumes venting from the south polar region.
According to NASA scientists, the plumes are similar in composition to comets, although recent research suggests much of the eruptions activity on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be in the form of broad, curtain-like eruptions rather than discrete jets.
New observations have revealed that stellar winds are not spherical as previously believed, but instead come in a variety of shapes that resemble those of planetary nebulae — created when a dying star explosively sheds its outer layers, which by a weird naming quirk actually have nothing to do with planets. In fact, those winds could mark out the ‘molds’ by which planetary nebulae are shaped.
The discovery comes as a result of research conducted by a team of astronomers including Leen Decin, from the Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, and is detailed in a paper published today in the journal Science. “We noticed these winds are anything but symmetrical or round,” Decin says. “Some of them are actually quite similar in shape to planetary nebulae.”
Winds of red giant stars observed around Gamma Aquilae [Credit: Decin et al., Science (2020)] (L. Decin, ESO/ALMA)
The team believes that this variety in stellar winds and planetary nebulae shape around dying stars are connected and a result of interactions with companion stars in binary pairings, or even from exoplanets in orbit around the stars. “The Sun — which will ultimately become a red giant — is as round as a billiard ball,” Decin explains. “So we wondered; how can such a star produce all these different shapes?”
The findings collected by the team could explain a long-standing mystery of planetary nebulae around stellar remnants like red dwarfs come in a variety of close-but-not-quite-spherical shapes.
Planetary nebulae display such a wide range of complex shapes and structures that although the influence of binary companions has been suggested as a possible cause of this diverse range of asymmetric forms, the fact they can arise around stars with spherically symmetric stellar winds has, until now, remained unexplained.
The answer found by the team is that these winds aren’t symmetric at all and that the shape of the winds directly informs the shape of planetary nebulae.
Dying Stars’ Companions are a Bad Influence
The observations of the stellar winds of 14 AGB stars using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array made by the team were so-detailed that they actually allowed the team to categorize the shapes of the stellar winds and planetary nebula. Some were disc-shaped, some contained spirals, and some were conical — a good indication that the shapes were not created randomly — but, none had spherical symmetry.
Gallery of stellar winds around cool ageing stars, showing a variety of morphologies, including disks, cones, and spirals. The blue colour represents material that is coming towards you, red is material that is moving away from you. (L. Decin, ESO/ALMA)
In fact, the team realized it was the presence of other low-mass stars or exoplanets in the vicinity of the primary star that was shaping the stellar wind and planetary nebula. Professor Decin is on hand to provide a useful and colorful analogy: “Just like how a spoon that you stir in a cup of coffee with some milk can create a spiral pattern, the companion sucks material towards it as it revolves around the star and shapes the stellar wind.”
Stellar winds are important to astronomers as they account for one of the main mechanisms by which stars lose mass. This mechanism becomes even more critical when attempting to understand the death throes of stars of similar sizes to the Sun and as their cores contract and the outer layers swell creating planetary nebulae — the other major contributor to mass-loss in aging stars. Discovering the role played by stellar companions in such a process is a surprise, to say the least.
The stellar wind of R Aquilae resembles the structure of rose petals. (L. Decin, ESO/ALMA)
“All our observations can be explained by the fact that the stars have a companion,” says Decin. “Our findings change a lot. Since the complexity of stellar winds was not accounted for in the past, any previous mass-loss rate estimate of old stars could be wrong by up to a factor of 10.”
Following this discovery, the team will now research how it impacts other crucial characteristics involved in the life and death stars like the Sun. In the process, the team believes that their research will add more depth to our view of stars.
The Stellar winds around R Hydrae take a more conical shape (L. Decin, ESO/ALMA)
“We were very excited when we explored the first images,” adds co-author Miguel Montargès, also from KU Leuven. “Each star, which was only a number before, became an individual by itself. Now, to us, they have their own identity. “This is the magic of having high-precision observations: stars are no longer just points anymore.”
But, whilst we are on the subject of the future, the team says their findings have particular ramifications for the end of our own star.
Death Spiral: How the Sun Dies and What it Leaves Behind
The Sun is roughly halfway through its lifetime, with half its core hydrogen exhausted, meaning that in approximately 5 billion years it will start to die. For a star of the Sun’s mass, this means undergoing the transformation into a red giant.
For stars with masses greater than the Sun, the collapse of their core will spark a new lease of life, with the fusion of helium into heavier elements being kick-started by tremendous gravitational pressure, providing an outward force that halts the collapse.
The Sun, in contrast, will fade as its core cools, the planetary nebula will continue to expand outwards, ultimately resulting in a white dwarf surrounded by diffuse material that was once its outer layers.
The team’s research gives us an idea of just what shape this planetary nebula will take, and how it will be crafted by the solar system’s largest planets. “Jupiter or even Saturn — because they have such a big mass — are going to influence whether the Sun spends its last millennia at the heart of a spiral, a butterfly, or any of the other entrancing shapes we see in planetary nebulae today,” Decin notes.
“Our calculations now indicate that a weak spiral will form in the stellar wind of the old dying Sun.”
Enceladus may be even more interesting than we thought.
In these detailed infrared images of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, reddish areas indicate fresh ice that has been deposited on the surface. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/LPG/CNRS/University of Nantes/Space Science Institute)
Saturn's geyser-spewing moon Enceladus may be even more active than scientists had thought.
Fresh images created using data from NASA's dead Cassini spacecraft show that Enceladus' northern hemisphere was resurfaced with ice relatively recently. This new information adds to the known activity in the southern hemisphere, where Cassini spotted more than 100 geysers blasting icy water into space.
Researchers spotted the northern changes after looking at the heat signature of Enceladus, using reflected sunlight parsed with Cassini's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument, or VIMS.
"Thanks to these infrared eyes [on Cassini], you can go back in time and say that one large region in the northern hemisphere appears also young and was probably active not that long ago, in geologic timelines," Gabriel Tobie, a study co-author and VIMS scientist at the University of Nantes in France, said in a NASA statement.
The team combined VIMS data with visible imagery captured by Cassini to create a new, global map of Enceladus in multiple wavelengths of light, both infrared and visible. The map shows that the infrared signals correlate with recent geologic activity on the moon, the researchers said.
For example, heat signatures match up with the "tiger stripe" gashes near Enceladus' south pole. The tiger stripes are the launch pad for the moon's dramatic geysers, which send water and other material from Enceladus' subsurface ocean out into the void.
To the surprise of scientists, however, the new map also shows infrared features in the moon's northern hemisphere. The data suggests that icy resurfacing also happened up north, but how is not yet clear. The changes could have been due to more icy jets, or slower ice movements through cracks in the crust, team members said.
Enceladus is one of the most promising abodes for alien life in the solar system. In addition to the subsurface ocean and geological activity, the moon likely has an energy source that organisms could tap into — chemical reactions perhaps similar to those that sustain life near Earth's deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
There is no future mission planned yet to target Enceladus, although scientists made the pitch for one during a presentation coordinated by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences on March 31. In the meantime, researchers must rely on data collected by older missions.
Cassini will be a continuing help in providing such information. The mission gathered data about Saturn and its many moons for 13 years before, low on fuel, it was sent on a deliberate suicide plunge into the gas giant's thick atmosphere. Cassini's long-term observations show how the planet and its moons changed over time, providing vital questions for future spacecraft to explore in more detail.
The new study was published online last month in the journal Icarus. The research was led by Rozenn Robidel, a researcher at the laboratory of planetology and geodynamics at France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
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The 3rd and final part of this story is born out of tragedy – thedeath of Ufologist and friend Kathy Kasten on August 7, 2012. As with parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part article, the origins of what I’m about to share with you could not have been anticipated. As far back as 2005, I had been corresponding with Kathy on matters relative to Roswell and her suspicions that the incident had nothing to do with aliens, but everything to do with post-war experiments on human guinea-pigs. At the time of her death, Kathy was working on a full-length book on her theory – parts of which closely matched the findings I detailed in Body Snatchers in the Desert, which was encouraging. So far as I am aware, no specific or serious attempt was made by Kathy to find a publisher, as she wanted to have the entire, lengthy manuscript completed before submitting it to a publishing house – rather than just hand over a brief synopsis and a sample chapter or two. Time and fate, however, sadly stepped in and prevented the next step from coming to fruition. Perhaps realizing that she was on a time-limit, one which was closing in, in early 2012 Kathy surprised me by emailing me to say that she was planning on handing over copies of her Roswell files to me, in the event that I might want to make use of the material – any of it or all of it – should I ever decide to write a sequel to my 2005 book, which I eventually did: The Roswell UFO Conspiracy.
It was shortly after Kathy died that her family got in touch, as they had decided to donate to me all of Kathy’s research files, correspondence, and much more – and not just her Roswell-based material. Which was, of course, extremely generous of them. A week or so later, a large amount of files turned up on the doorstep, collectively contained in heavy cardboard boxes. To say there were thousands upon thousands of pages of material, dating back decades, would not be an exaggeration. An Aladdin’s cave? Yep. Due to work and what is known as life, it took me several months to go through the entire collection, some of which had nothing to do with Roswell in particular – and nothing to do with UFOs in general, either. Probably a full third of the material was focused on issues relative to mind-control and mind-manipulation, such as the CIA’s MKUltra program of the 1950s. And there was a lot of material on post-Second World War files on unethical experiments on people in the 1940s and 1950s – which certainly was linked and relevant to Roswell.
Kathy’s notes and records show that from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s, she spoke with a few interesting characters, of a somewhat shadowy nature. They advised her that if she wanted to uncover the truth of Roswell, she would be wise to pursue the work and history of a certain William Randolph “Randy” Lovelace II. That Kathy’s dossier on Lovelace is about five-inches thick demonstrates that she carefully followed the advice of her sources and left pretty much no stone unturned, when it came to the matter of exploring a possible Roswell-Lovelace connection. Of course, for those who aren’t aware of the man himself, there is a big question that needs answering: who, exactly, was William Randolph Lovelace II? Well, let’s take a look.
To say that Lovelace was a fascinating character is an understatement. Born in 1907, he was a physician who graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1934, and, in 1938, took up a position with the Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Wright Field, Ohio (today, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). It was at Wright Field that Lovelace undertook groundbreaking research to understand how exposure to high-altitudes could affect the human body and nervous system. Experiments with new and novel oxygen masks and parachutes were of paramount importance, too. A colonel with the Army Air Corps in the Second World War, Lovelace was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and – in 1947 – helped to establish the Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Then, in the late 1950s, NASA invited Lovelace to chair its Special Advisory Committee on Life Sciences. Such were his skills in aviation medicine, Lovelace worked closely alongside the original NASA Mercury astronauts. In 1964, Lovelace was appointed to the position of NASA’s Director of Space Medicine. He died as a result of a plane crash in December 1965, in Aspen, Colorado. Both his wife and the pilot were killed, too.
Strangest of all, back in 2011 I had heard a few rumors of a Lovelace-Roswell connection, but I had largely hit a brick-wall. That Kathy’s family very generously donated all of her files to me in 2012 – and which contained a lot of material on Lovelace and Roswell – allowed me to take my research to a new level. As with parts 1 and 2 of this article, I could never have anticipated how and why such developments could – or would – originate and come together.
Just recently, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “Hypnotizing Someone Telepathically: An ‘Eerie, Mystifying, Almost Diabolical Act.'” I thought that today I would share with you another extract from the Defense Intelligence Agency’s “Controlled Offensive Behavior – USSR” document of 1972. As I noted last week: “This one is particularly creepy, as it focuses on the possibility of secretly using ESP to hypnotize people. As you’ll see, it’s a subject that elements of U.S. intelligence were worried about during the Cold War. Maybe, they still are. We’re told the following: ‘According to Ostrander and Schroeder, the ability to put people to sleep and wake them up telepathicallv from a distance of a few yards to over a thousand miles became the most thoroughly tested and perfected contribution of the Soviets to international parapsychology. It is reported that the ability to control a person’s consciousness with telepathy is being further studied and tested in laboratories in Leningrad and Moscow.'”
This matter of using telepathy to hypnotize people makes me think of the disturbing activities of none other than the Black-Eyed Children. If you aren’t familiar with these creepy kids, here’s a bit of background material for you. The phenomenon first surfaced publicly in the late 1990s (although since the publicity began, people have claimed encounters with the BECs going back as early as the 1930s). They’re called the Black-Eyed Children for a very good reason: their eyes are completely black. And, sometimes, larger than normal. That, of course, provokes imagery of the so-called “Gray” aliens that are so well-known in the field of Ufology. There are other weird aspects to the BEC too: their skin is often not just pale, but milk-white. In terms of their ages, they always seem to be frozen in time. By that, I mean I have yet to receive a report that involves a kid less than around eleven and I haven’t come across a case where the kid was more than roughly fourteen. Their clothing is almost always a black hoodie.
Now, we get to the part of the story that relates to the “Controlled Offensive Behavior – USSR” document I highlighted last week. Typically, the BEC arrive on doorsteps late at night. There are some daytime encounters; but, they are definitely in the minority. There’s usually a loud, slow knock on the door, too. I mention that because in some cases the BEC seem not to understand what doorbells are – which is very strange. Here’s when the high-strangeness really begins. Imagine you’re in the unfortunate position of the people who are confronted by the BEC. The likelihood is that if you saw a trio of black-eyed little monsters on the doorstep you wouldn’t open the door. But, here’s the weird thing: many victims of the BEC do open the door. A number of people have said they felt compelled to open the door. Even though they knew they shouldn’t have. It was, for many people, a feeling of being driven to open the door – a kind of hypnotism, even. The kids claim they are lost and need to use the phone. Or, they are homeless and need something to eat. It’s all about entering the home with permission given.
It has to be stressed that most of the time the hypnotism isn’t strong enough to let the BEC into the homes of the people who are targeted. There are, however, a small number of cases in which the BEC have managed to get into homes – and they do seem to place the people inside into states of mind-control. That’s when things get even stranger: people feel sick, weak, and as if their bodes were crashing – kind of like a diabetic whose blood sugar levels were plummeting. The witnesses describe getting a dose of the shakes, of becoming cold and clammy, and of becoming confused and panicky. It’s as if they are being drained of their energy – which may well be the goal. The most important part of all this, however, is that matter of people feeling under the control of the BEC. That aforementioned U.S. government document makes it clear that as far back as the 1920s research into the field of using telepathic powers to hypnotize people existed. Just maybe, then, it’s not just us, or the Russians, who have looked into this eerie area. Perhaps, the BEC use similar powers – or, identical powers, even – to try and find ways into the homes of terrified people.
Linda Moulton Howe: The UFO Black Vault Disclosed! Secret Space Astronauts, Classified Missions
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Linda Moulton Howe shared updates related to her report from last month on “secret astronaut” Jon Lavine. In her subsequent reality check efforts on many of Lavine’s claims, she discovered a number of fabrications. But in the face of contradictory facts, Lavine continued to insist his secret astronaut story was real, she noted. It’s possible, she concluded, that the “memory wipes” he claimed to have undergone, may have altered his accuracy or implanted him with false memories.
She spoke with John Greenewald, producer of The Black Vault, who detailed FOIA archives that describe how the CIA and MK-ULTRA had methods as far back as the 1950s to induce selective amnesia and insert false memories on personnel working on specific classified missions.
UFO Over Plymouth, England On Sept 2020, MUFON, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 21, 2020 Location of sighting: Plymouth, England Source: MUFON #111514 This glowing white UFO was caught over Plymouth, England yesterday. The UFO was seen flashing over the city and moving about. You can clearly see in the video that the UFO has not plane or helicopter lights, so its not an aircraft. This object moved too fast to be a satellite. Very interesting raw footage. Its clearly not a rocket or jet, and drones have flashing red or green lights. This is different...this is alien. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was walking up a hill to my local shop and normally see a bright star on my way up the hill I looked up and noticed something moving from a right to left motion in one speed on a straight line recored for a few seconds then walked 60 meters down the road and recorded the same ufo on the same line so recorded it again he had military planes flying around earlier in the day but it was so quiet when I recorded it.
Glowing White UFO Shooting Over Youngsville, Louisiana April 14, 2006, MUFON, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 14, 2006 Location of sighting: Youngsville, Louisiana, USA Source: MUFON #111517 This just came into MUFON today and I don't like to report old sightings, but these photos are fantastic. This UFO has a trail behind it...and yes, some UFOs do that. Remember the CIA UFO footage that the military recorded in infrared? Yeah that one did it too in raw video footage, so we know that UFOs do sometimes make contrails. The declassified 2014 Chilean Navy UFO video that was released is 100% proof that UFOs make contrails when they want. Yeah, I haven't been making it all up, I gather my info from past sightings. So...these 2006 photos...have data backing them up from past sighings. This looks 100% alien to me. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
2014 Chilean Navy UFO seen in infrared below making clouds.
Eyewitness states:
One evening while playing with cat on blocked watercraft in yard my wife took photos of me playing with the cat. She & I were both unaware of the aerial image when the photos were taken. After the photo prints were downloaded I noticed the phenomenum. It would appear to be an image of an old F-100 Super Sabre flying past with the evening sun reflecting off of the surfaces. There was no sound or we would have looked up towards it. The craft appears to be within appx. 5-miles in the photo. An old F-100 would definitely have made quite a roar at that close proximity. Also, I know of no remaining F-100s still flying today. In the 3 photos, the 1st. shows no anomaly. 2nd. photo shows craft in close. 3rd. photo it appears as a bright speck heading off to the NW towards Lafayette. This may just be some sort of digital photo artifact but I think it's quite odd that the object would show up with such clarity.
Note:The detail stamps show that the photos were taken in the A.M. when in fact this event occurred after work in the evening.
Below is the Chilean Navy declassifies and releases 2014 video of mysterious flying object.
Classic Disk Seen Over City In Russia On Sept 21, 2020. Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 21, 2020
Location of sighting: Russia
Very cool looking disk over a unknown city in Russia. Youtube user Offin caught sight of a metallic disk in the distance, but was unable to record more than ten seconds of the craft. The object does appear to be a classic 1950s style alien disk. With sightings on the rise I'm sure the governments of the world will require lock downs more and more to keep the public from seeing these UFOs.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states: (translated)
I went out to the balcony and looked closely, oh I immediately picked up my phone and tried to record it. But to my regret, the memory on the phone was not enough and the video was immediately interrupted, but the memory of the phone was empty earlier.
Black Sphere UFO Playing Over Water In Russia, Sept 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 20, 2020 Location of sighting: Kemerovo, Siberia, Russia A black sphere was seen flying over the Tom River in Kemerovo, Russia this week. The object which the eyewitness calls a ball seems to have a black mist around it and you don't really notices a smooth surface which a ball should have, but this does not. I can easily tell that the black UFO is intelligently controlled, by the way it almost touches the surface of the water and then rises up to avoid contact with it. It does this several times, but the detail is incredible. Never in my life have I ever seen a ball or balloon with a black mist around it. Many UFOs often have a spiky mist around them...but usually its caused by light if the crafts propulsion, but there...I am confused at what causes it...again propulsion systems? The HD quality of this video...makes my head spin. Wow, just so amazing of detail here. We see its shape, the black mist around it, its odd movement heading to the water and then avoiding it then doing it again. Very important evidence of UFOs here. This is one for the history books. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Grey UFO Flew Past Queen Mary Ship In Torquay, UK Sept 13, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 13, 2020
Location of sighting: Torquay, UK
Source: Twitter
This UFO was caught last week and shared on twitter by the eyewitness. Twitter user Aaron James who goes by the tag @aaronjamesf1 caught a UFO shooting past the Queen Mary ship as it came near Torquay, UK last week.
The UFO has a grey metallic glint to its surface and is shaped like an arm with a white ball on one end. The object appears to be the size of a car and has no visible wings, propellers. UFOs are seen more often over and near the ocean due to the craft coming from underwater bases on the oceans floor. This doesn't look like a drone or any other aircraft. This is alien tech.
Strange Anomaly speeding through the sky over Osijek, Croatia
The last months, the eyewitness had seen unidentified aerial phenomena in the sky over Osijek, Croatia. On September 11, 2020 when searching the sky again for UFOs and Spheres he accidentally recorded a bullet-like object that flew through the sky at an incredible speed.
It is not clear if it is a (Tic Tac) UFO something else like an insect or bird since it looks like the anomaly flies close to the camera, making it appear as if the object is flying at a very high speed, but I could be wrong. The photographer sent the video to Mufon for further investigation.
The anomaly moves from left to the right and can be seen right at the start of the video, followed by a slow motion clip of the object.
U.S. Air Force General on UFOs – ‘I’ve had those cases and reported them’
Air Force General Kenneth Wilsbach said he hadn’t received reports as a PACAF commander from his personnel about any strange aerial vehicles that could be alien since the Pentagon’s announcement on creating a task force to look into the UFO sightings.
Gen. Wilsbach has been flying his whole life and started airplanes when he was 14 years old, particularly gliders at that time. He has flown jets his entire career. He said, “occasionally, you see stuff that you can’t explain.” And he has “had those cases and reported them.” However, they haven’t had any reports, mainly because the task force started just a few weeks ago.
The members of Congress and the U.S. military are concerned that UFOs that Navy pilots have reported seeing since 2014 could indicate that Russia and China have made breakthroughs in advanced technology, including hypersonics.
No U.S. official so far has publicly ventured that space aliens could fly the UFOs.
On Wednesday, Wilsback shook his head and said, “I don’t know” when asked if he personally believes that extraterrestrials have visited our planet.
What could this be? It was found in Arkansas and photos posted on Facebook in hopes of finding an answer.
PHOTO COURTESY DREW BALEDGE
A large, scaly object resembling a giant egg was found in an Arkansas field, leading to an ongoing social media debate over what it might be — and if it was once alive.
Photos of the find were posted Monday by the Arkansas History Unearthed Facebook group (with more than 18,000 members), showing it was oval shaped, more than 2-feet long and seemingly reptilian in origin.
Group member Drew Baledge of Fayetteville, Arkansas, reported the object had been found by someone in a field and he asked: “What, if anything could this possibly be?”
Hundreds have responded in the past day, including many who called the object “creepy” and “scary.” Among their ideas: fossilized dinosaur waste, a prehistoric egg, a petrified turtle shell, and a giant mushroom.
What could this be? It was found in Arkansas and photos posted on Facebook in hopes of finding an answer. FACEBOOK SCREENSHOT
A few wanted to know if it had a heart beat and if it was soft enough to cut open. Several warned the finder not to bring it indoors.
A UC Merced student who has been obsessed with dinosaurs since he was little recently excavated a 65 million-year-old Triceratops skull while digging in North Dakota, the university said July 24, 2019.BY DAVID CARACCIO.
Several people suggested it is a prized geological formation known as a siderite septarian nodule, which is actually correct, according to James Starnes, director of surface geology for the Mississippi Office of Geology.
Septarian nodules are often referred to as a “dragon stone, because the natural patterns make people think of dragon skin,” according to Fossilera.com. The site sells examples of the stone for up to $395.
The photos indicate the specimen is big, which would make it “highly prized” by collectors, Starnes said. “It’s a crazy looking specimen. Really unique and special,” he told McClatchy News.
It could also be ancient. The nodules typically form in muddy sediment, when soils dry out over years and develop “desiccation cracks,” Starnes said. Those cracks later fill in with secondary minerals like calcite, he said.
The age of the nodule would depend on where it was found, Starnes said. The Facebook post did not give an exact location or weight of the stone.
Fayetteville is in the northwestern part of Arkansas, where septarian nodules are known to be found and occasionally ”mistaken for fossilized turtle shells,” the Arkansas Geological Survey reports.
A beautiful new image of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope – captured in August 2020 – shows the planet’s icy moon Europa as well as several famous storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
View larger. | This might not be the clearest image of Jupiter you’ve ever seen. Spacecraft images are clearer. But it is the clearest image taken from Earth we can recall. Isn’t it beautiful? It’s from the Hubble Space Telescope. The little moon to the left is Europa. Read below to learn about several famous storms of Jupiter, shown in this image.
Image via NASA/ ESA/ STScI/ A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)/ M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)/ the OPAL team.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Jupiter on August 25, 2020, from a distance of 406 million miles (650 million km) from Earth. That wasn’t when Jupiter was closest to us this year. It was closest on July 15, a couple of days after Earth swept between Jupiter and the sun, as we do once each year. Still, in August, Jupiter and Earth were relatively close, in part accounting for the clarity of this image, which shows Jupter’s icy moonEuropa(sixth-closest of the planet’s 79 known moons) as well as some famous storms in Jupiter’s dense atmosphere.
There are lots of cool things to notice in this image.
First, notice Europa to the left of the planet. It’s the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, and is thought to have an ocean beneath its icy surface, possibly holding the ingredients for life.
Now, look at the planet itself. You probably know that the bands we see aren’t on the planet’s surface; instead, when we look at Jupiter, we’re seeing only the uppermost layers of its clouds. The image shows the Great Red Spot, a gigantic storm larger in diameter than our entire Earth, rolling counterclockwise in the atmosphere above Jupiter’s southern hemisphere.NASA said the Red Spot plows into the clouds ahead of it:
… forming a cascade of white and beige ribbons. The Great Red Spot is currently an exceptionally rich red color, with its core and outermost band appearing deeper red.
Researchers say the Great Red Spot now measures about 9,800 miles (14,500 km) across, big enough to swallow Earth. The super-storm is still shrinking as noted in telescopic observations dating back to 1930, but the reason for its dwindling size is a complete mystery.
Now … see the second oval spot below the Great Red Spot? It’s also a storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere, called Red Spot Jr. by scientists. This storm on Jupiter has a long history. NASA said:
Red Spot Jr. is the first storm that astronomers watched develop on a gas giant planet. The huge spot formed between 1998 and 2000, when three small, white, oval-shaped storms merged together. Two of the white spots have been observed since about 1915, but they may have been present even earlier. The third white spot appeared in 1939. In December 2005, the newly formed single white spot turned red, like the much older Great Red Spot.
For the past few years, Red Spot Jr. has been fading in color to its original shade of white after appearing red in 2006. However, now the core of this storm appears to be darkening slightly. This could hint that Red Spot Jr. is on its way to turning to a color more similar to its cousin once again.
Now look more closely at Jupiter’s cloud bands. Note the bright, white, stretched-out storm at mid-northern latitudes (to the upper left of the Great Red Spot and Red Spot Jr). You can see it more clearly in the image below.
View larger. | The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Jupiter in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light on August 25, 2020. In this photo, the parts of Jupiter’s atmosphere that are at higher altitude, especially over the poles, look red from atmospheric particles absorbing ultraviolet light. Conversely, the blue-hued areas represent the ultraviolet light being reflected off the planet. Image via NASA/ ESA/ STScI/ A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)/ M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)/ the OPAL team
NASA said this bright white storm is:
… traveling around the planet at 350 miles (560 km) per hour. This single plume erupted on August 18, 2020 – and ground-based observers have discovered two more that appeared later at the same latitude.
While it’s common for storms to pop up in this region every six years or so, often with multiple storms at once, the timing of the Hubble observations is perfect for showing the structure in the wake of the disturbance, during the early stages of its evolution. Trailing behind the plume are small, rounded features with complex ‘red, white, and blue’ colors in Hubble’s ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light image. Such discrete features typically dissipate on Jupiter, leaving behind only changes in cloud colors and wind speeds, but a similar storm on Saturn led to a long-lasting vortex. The differences in the aftermaths of Jupiter and Saturn storms may be related to the contrasting water abundances in their atmospheres, since water vapor may govern the massive amount of stored-up energy that can be released by these storm eruptions.
Bottom line: A beautiful new image of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope – captured in August 2020 – shows the planet’s icy moon Europa as well as several famous storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
Of all the rocky, inner worlds of the solar system, Venus is the most challenging to explore.
With surface temperatures reaching a bewildering 867 degrees Fahrenheit (464 degrees Celsius), even the mosthardened landers can't survive for long. But a new idea, called the Calypso Venus Scout, calls for a bold new mission design: a science probe dangling 20 miles (32 kilometers) below a cloud-borne balloon.
Welcome to hell
Because Venus is only slightly smaller than our own planet, it's taken up the nickname of the "Earth's twin." But if Venus really is a twin of the Earth, it's the evil kind. Despite their similar sizes, the two worlds couldn't be more different. While Earth maintains a balmy climate, with a decent atmosphere keeping the lid on vast expanses of liquid water oceans, Venus is a nightmare world.
Its atmosphere is almost completely carbon dioxide and reaches pressures 92 times that found at Earth's sea level. The noxious atmosphere is so thick that the planet's surface temperatures are the hottest in the inner solar system — warmer even than Mercury, despite sitting 50% farther away from our sun.
Of all the missions of Venus, only the Soviets attempted any landings, with the Venera program. Brutalized by the extreme conditions, most of those landers failed, but a few managed to survive long enough to send back a few quick exposures before succumbing.
No lander has reached the Venusian surface since Venera 14 in 1982. To date, our only records of the surface come from those few Soviet probes and the occasional orbiter. Even though Venus may be our twin, we know far too little about it.
The winds of Venus
Even nearly 40 years after the last Venera mission, we do not have the technology to build a reliable, long-term probe to survey the terrain of Venus like we do on Mars. What's more, with all the interest in Mars exploration, including possible human visits, nobody really wants to spend the money on developing the technologies needed for a still-risky Venus venture.
But there could be another way to do it, and it's called the Calypso Venus Scout, as outlined in a white paper recently posted to the preprint site arXiv.org. Calypso isn't under NASA consideration right now; the paper's author wrote about it to give the decadal survey, the government's long-term planning process for planetary science, a broader sense of current options.
The mission tries to balance the twin challenges of Venus: The surface of Venus is just too dang hot, but orbital missions trying to study the surface are hampered by the miles and miles of thick, hazy cloud layers, making precise measurements incredibly difficult.
So Calypso would go in between.
At an altitude of about 20 miles, the thick clouds of Venus clear away. If you can get a probe below that level, then you should have a clear, unobstructed view of the ground. And while it's still ridiculously hot at that altitude, it's not nearly as hot as the surface: a relatively balmy 260 F (130 C).
Upon Calypso's arrival at Venus, a massive balloon would deploy in the atmosphere, right at the top of the cloud layers, keeping steady at an altitude of about 30 miles (50 km). At that height, the temperature and pressure don't require any ingenious new technology and solar panels can provide ample power to the probe.
From that balloon, a descent module would trail down, held to the balloon by a tether 10-20 miles (15-30 km) long. The descent module would poke beneath the clouds and take some pictures, surveying the terrain as the high-altitude winds blow the balloon around. Then, once the temperatures inside the descent module get too hot to handle, the module would reel back up above the clouds, relaying the data back to Earth while the module cools off for another round.
The better to see you
On its way up and down, the probe would slowly scan the surface of Venus in visible and infrared wavelengths to a potential resolution of just a few inches or centimeters. One of the most powerful aspects of Calypso is that it wouln't be limited to studying just a single landing site, but would be able to survey wide swaths of the Venusian landscape.
Understanding Venus is critical for learning about our own planet. Billions of years ago, Venus really was a twin of Earth, with liquid water oceans and a pleasant atmosphere. But a runaway greenhouse event on Venus evaporated the oceans, allowed carbon dioxide to vent into the atmosphere unchecked, and left the place a ruin. Venus became so dry that plate tectonics completely shut down, locking its surface in place for at least hundreds of millions of years.
Venus is both a time capsule, providing a glimpse into what an Earth-size planet was up to long ago, and a cautionary tale. By studying Venus more, with daring missions like Calypso, we can better learn what our own fate might be.
Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of Your Place in the Universe.Sutter contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
This amazing image shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot in unprecedented detail.
Collated from data gathered over 30 years ago, the recently completed image has undergone digital enhancement.
Now it is possible to clearly see the Great Red Spot, a hurricane twice the size of Earth that has been raging for longer than telescopes have been able to view it.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot: The hurricane is twice the size of Earth and has been raging for longer than telescopes have been able to view it. This digitally enhanced image was collated from data sent back by Voyager 1 in 1979
The image data was taken by Voyager 1 during a fly-by in 1979.
Nasa launched Voyager 1 in 1977 and, 34 years later, it is currently making its way towards the outer edges of our solar system.
It passed Jupiter early on during its epic journey, on the morning of March 4, 1979, when it spent 36minutes imaging the planet from 1.85million kilometres away.
Voyager 1, needless to say, is the most distant man-made object in the universe and is currently 117 AU from Earth. One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun.
Nasa last year released this infrared image showing how the Great Red Spot is a turbulent region. The darker the colour, the colder the area
As it is: This visible light image of shows how the naked eye would view the region
Jupiter's Great Red Spot has fascinated astronomers since the 19th century.
It lies 22 degrees south of Jupiter's equator and has been known to drift to the left and right.
The Red Spot has changed in size over the years. A century ago it measured 25,000miles across but it is now about half that.
However, it remains incredibly stable despite turbulence, upheavals and close encounters with other anticyclones, suggesting it won't disappear any time soon.
In the past few years, we’ve been spoiled with some awesome Jupiter photos, and this one is no exception. This latest, pastel-colored image is so detailed it can serve as a weather report of the planet’s monstrous atmosphere.
An image of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light on Aug. 25, 2020, is giving researchers an entirely new view of the giant planet. Image credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot takes all the spotlight when it comes to jovian storms, but while it is undoubtedly a mammoth storm, it’s far from the only one. For instance, opposite to the Great Red Spot (in the top-left part of the picture), there’s a remarkable new storm brewing.
The white stretched-out storm is already traveling around the planet at 350 miles per hour (560 kilometers per hour), despite only emerging on August 18, 2020. It’s also accompanied by two other, smaller storms at about the same latitude. According to a NASA statement, this new Hubble image “shows that Jupiter is clearing out its higher altitude white clouds, especially along the planet’s equator, where an orangish hydrocarbon smog wraps around it.”
Another notable storm is the so-called Red Spot Jr., a storm that appears just below the Great Red Spot in this image. For years, Red Spot Jr. has been fading to a shade of white after appearing red in 2006, but now it seems to be turning towards red once again.
As for the Red Spot itself, it’s still shrinking, for reasons that are not well understood. However, it still measures 9,800 miles across, which makes it big enough to swallow the Earth whole.
No matter how many times you look at it, Jupiter is still stunning. Image credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team.
The icy satellite Europe is also visible to the left of Jupiter. Europe has drawn astronomers’ attention as one of the prime candidates for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Not only does Europe have a liquid ocean under its frozen surface, but it also seems to have salt and hydrothermal vents, essentially supplying all the necessary ingredients for life as we know it.
NASA is already preparing a mission to study Europa on-site, with the Europa Clipper spacecraft set for launch sometime between 2023 and 2025. Europa Clipper will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter’s moon, looking for signs of life and sending a lander to the surface of the satellite.
A team at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has spotted the first comet we’ve ever seen to create an aurora in the ultraviolet spectrum.
Comet 67P. Image Courtesy of ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM.
On Earth, auroras (or ‘polar lights’) are created when charged particles from the Sun hit those in our planet’s atmosphere. They form at the poles because that’s where the Earth’s magnetic field is weakest, allowing such particles to reach the atmosphere.
The discovery of a similar phenomena on a comet, bodies that lack our planet’s magnetic field, has researchers understandably excited.
A space first
“Charged particles from the Sun streaming towards the comet in the solar wind interact with the gas surrounding the comet’s icy, dusty nucleus and create the auroras,” said SwRI Vice President Dr. Jim Burch, in charge of the Ion and Electron Sensor (IES) instrument on board of the craft, in a statement.
“The IES instrument detected the electrons that caused the aurora.”
The IES is installed aboard the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, which was launched back in 2004 and whose mission ended in 2016. Together with Philae, its lander module, Rosetta was the first of our probes to fly alongside a frozen comet (67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko) as it hurdled towards the Sun, observing how it behaved along the way.
Now, data from Rosetta has revealed ultraviolet auroras around 67P, the first ever seen on a comet. These auroras are produced by charged particles interacting with the ‘coma’, the bubble of gas that is created from and encases the comet. This interaction excites the gases enough to make them glow in ultraviolet (UV) light.
Dr. Joel Parker, a member of SwRI who handled data from the Alice far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectrograph on Rosetta, recounts that at first, the team believed they were seeing 67P’s ‘dayglow’, a well-documented phenomenon created by this bubble of gas interacting with photons (light). But they soon realized that this wasn’t the case.
“We were amazed to discover that the UV emissions are aurora, driven not by photons, but by electrons in the solar wind that break apart water and other molecules in the coma and have been accelerated in the comet’s nearby environment,” he explains.”The resulting excited atoms make this distinctive light.”
The findings show that its possible for auroras to form around comets, despite their lack of a magnetic envelope. The techniques developed by the team to integrate data from several devices and discover these auroras can serve us to find similar phenomena on other comets in the future.
The findings will been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Asteroid 2020 SW will sweep closest – closer than weather satellites – on September 24. It will not hit us, but its orbit will be changed by its close encounter with Earth. Charts here for telescope users. How to watch online.
Small asteroid 2020 SW will pass so close to Earth on September 24, that our planet’s gravity will alter the space rock’s speed and bend its path through space. The green line indicates the asteroid’s trajectory, while the yellow line points to the sun.
Illustration by the Minor Planet Center, with modifications by Eddie Irizarry.
A small asteroid discovered on September 18, 2020, from Mt. Lemmon Observatory in Arizona will pass a lot closer than the moon’s distance this week, passing even closer than geostationary satellites. This approach is so close, and the asteroid is so small, that Earth’s gravity will bend the space rock’s trajectory, as shown in the illustration above.
Closest approach of this asteroid – labeled 2020 SW – should occur on September 24 at around 11:18 UTC (7:18 am ET; translate UTC to your time). At closest approach, asteroid 2020 SW should pass at an estimated distance of 17,556 miles (28,254 km) from Earth, which is just 7% of the moon’s distance. For comparison, television and meteorological satellites orbit at some 22,300 miles (35,888 km) from our planet’s surface.
Although there’s still some uncertainty in the space rock’s orbit, calculations indicate there is no risk of impact. As a result of the asteroid’s orbit’s uncertainty, closest approach might occur up to six hours earlier or later than expected.
Asteroid 2020 SW is estimated to be about 14 to 32 feet (about 4.5 to 10 meters) in diameter. It’ll brighten as it draws near, but won’t ever get bright enough to see with the eye alone. Look below for charts for telescope users.
Or you can watch online:
View larger. | The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome will be showing asteroid 2020 SW live a few hours its closest approach. The live feed is scheduled for September 23, 2020 starting at 22 UTC; translate UTC to your time. To join online, go to Virtual Telescope’s website.
Preliminary calculations indicate that asteroid 2020 SW orbits the sun every 372 days. Its orbit is just seven days longer than Earth’s. However – despite the similarities our orbits – calculations indicate the small asteroid will not impact Earth, at least not for the next approximately 50 years for which its orbit has been calculated.
The space rock is currently traveling at a speed of 17,336 miles per hour (27,900 km/h) or 7.75 km/s relative to Earth.
Asteroid 2020 SW will pass at a safe distance, probably over Australia or New Zealand, during its closest approach, as shown on the illustration below:
Asteroid 2020 SW will pass at a safe distance, probably over Australia or New Zealand, during its closest approach. Green line indicates the asteroid’s trajectory, with blue marks indicating position every 30 minutes. Yellow line points toward the sun.
Illustration by the Minor Planet Center, with modifications by Eddie Irizarry.
Will it be visible?
Asteroid 2020 SW might reach a visual magnitude of 13.0 to 13.5, too faint to be seen by the unaided eye, but within the reach of observers using a 6- or 8-inch diameter telescope – that is, a very small telescope – and also larger telescopes. The space rock is currently in the constellation of Pegasus the Flying Horse, and will then move to the constellation of Pisces the Fish.
The asteroid might still have a magnitude close to 15 on the night of Wednesday, September 23, but will gradually increase its brightness as it approaches, reaching a magnitude of around 13 to 13.5 during the first hours of Thursday, September 24, its brightest being just before dawn.
Observers using a telescope might detect the asteroid, which will look like a “star” moving very slowly because of the distance. If you are pointing the telescope at the correct position and time, carefully observe the stars’ pattern and compare it just five minutes later. If you are able to see a “star” that changed position, then it’s not a star, you have found the asteroid!
Location of Asteroid 2020 SW on the night of Wednesday, September 23, at around 10:30 pm CDT (03:30 UTC on September 24). Facing east, as seen from U.S. The space rock will be located not too far from where we see the star Algenib (Gamma Pegasi), in the Great Square of Pegasus.
Have a computerized or “GoTo” telescope? Point it to one of the stars shown here (HIP 1948 or HIP 1772) on the night of Wednesday, September 23, 2020, and you might be able to detect asteroid 2020 SW. If the object you’ve pinpointed is in fact the asteroid, you should be able to detect its motion after about 5 to 10 minutes.
Want to try to spot asteroid 2020 SW very close to the time of its closest approach? Point your computerized or Go To telescope to one of these stars around 4:45 am CDT (5:45 EDT, 09:45 UTC) on Thursday, September 24, 2020. The space rock’s apparent motion should be easier to detect just before dawn on September 24.
Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium.
Bottom line: Asteroid 2020 SW is small, and it’ll pass exceedingly close to us, so close that Earth will bend its trajectory. It’ll be closest on September 24, 2020, at around 11:18 UTC (7:18 am ET; translate UTC to your time). Its estimated closest distance will be 17,556 miles or 28,254 km from Earth, which is just 0.0735 lunar distances, closer than geostationary satellites. There is no chance it will hit Earth.
I thought I would do something different today (and for the next couple of days). Namely, to demonstrate how the origin of a UFO investigation can be as intriguing as the case itself. Indeed, it’s very often what goes on behind the scenes that really stands out. We’ll begin with my research into the Roswell “UFO crash” of 1947 and how and why I came to the conclusion that nothing of an extraterrestrial nature crashed on the Foster Ranch, New Mexico. I have to admit that up until the latter part of the 1990s, I was – like so many – a believer that aliens died in New Mexico. Things started to change, however, in 1998. That was the year in which my second book was published by Simon & Schuster. Its title: The FBI Files. As the title suggests, it’s a study of the FBI’s investigations into the MJ12 documents, the Contactees of the 1950s, UFO encounters, and cattle mutilations. One of the chapters in that book was titled “The Oak Ridge Invasion.” It was focused on a wave of UFO activity in the late 1940s at the Atomic Energy Commission complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It wasn’t long after the book hit the shelves that I got a letter from someone in the United States (I still lived in the U.K. then). It was a letter sent to Simon & Schuster’s offices in London from California. And it was then forwarded on to me.
The letter was written by a woman who wanted to share with me what she knew about Oak Ridge – something extremely controversial. She would only share what she knew in person, however. She didn’t want to say anymore by letter and she wasn’t online. And, she lived in the United States. Well, this made things pretty awkward, to say the least. Indeed, there was no way I could afford to fly all across the Atlantic and onto Los Angeles just to do an interview – an interview that might not even go anywhere. As a result, things were in a state of limbo until 2001. That was when I moved to the United States to live. I still had the woman’s contact information, and I explained the situation: that I could now meet with her in person and we could have a chat. Well, that chat became much more than that. It was one of the most controversial interviews I’ve ever done. Eventually, there were numerous interviews. The woman was pushing eighty in 2001 and she wanted to share what turned out to be a very dark and disturbing story. She had a wealth of material (mainly of old black and white photos) showing she did indeed work at Oak Ridge in the 1940s. There was much more, though.
I assumed – wrongly – that the woman wanted to discuss the UFO reports at Oak Ridge that I wrote about in The FBI Files. What she did want to discuss, however, was something very different. As we sat in a California diner, with a family member along too, she told me something incredible and disturbing: she knew a great deal about Roswell, but not in relation to aliens from faraway worlds. Rather, she said that Roswell was really a series of top secret experiments that revolved around (a) high-altitude testing in craft that are known as “lifting bodies,” (b) huge balloon arrays, and (c) prisoners and handicapped people who were guinea-pigs used in the grim experiments – which all failed. You can, by now, see where all of this is going. The woman said that the UFO legend was a smokescreen to hide what was arguably an even more controversial situation. Even decades later, she was still very concerned for her safety. She was fearful there might be those in government who still might know where she lived, she told me. Her concerns were understandable. Not only that: she put me in touch with several other old-timers – who she knew of way back in the 1940s and 1950s – and who agreed to speak out.
It was after some time – around a couple of months – that I brought up the issue of writing a book. She was okay with that, providing that her real name wouldn’t be publicly revealed. So, when my 2005 book on all of this – Body Snatchers in the Desert – was published I called her the “Black Widow.” It’s hardly surprising that when the book appeared, there was a great deal of debate online (primarily on the now defunct UFO Updates). And, for a few months, I was the ufological Public Enemy Number One, which I was fine with. From there on, I got more and more material on the “human experimentation” angle of Roswell, to the extent that I wrote a sequel in 2017 called The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. Of course, most people in Ufology didn’t buy into it. Some just didn’t want to deal with such revelations: they couldn’t handle the possibility of Roswell not having been an extraterrestrial event. Too bad. I still get threads here and there that add to the story, to the extent there’s a distinct possibility of me doing a third book on all this. And it all had its origins in a solitary letter sent across the Atlantic by a woman who, for decades, had been quietly sitting on a secret of huge proportions.
Part-2 of this 3-part article is focused on how I was able to write what is probably my most controversial book. Its title: Final Events. It’s a book that looks at the secret activities of a small think-tank group within the U.S. government and which believes that the UFO phenomenon is not extraterrestrial in nature. Rather, the group has come to the conclusion that the mystery is one of demonic proportions. As was the case with part-1 of this article, there is an interesting story as to how and why I came across the story and why I decided to write the book. It all goes back to the final days of 2006. At the time, I was looking for a new story that I could turn into a book. As it happened, the story – that I quickly concluded was the one – practically dropped into my lap. It was in late 2006 that I happened to be chatting with Ufologist and priest Dr. Ray Boeche about the Rendlesham Forest affair of December 1980, which – at the time – I thought might have been a good idea for a book. The reason why I gave Ray a call was because he had done a lot of investigative work into Rendlesham throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s. It was during the course of the chat that Ray told me he had an even better and bigger story that might interest me. So, I sat back and listened to what he had to say.
Back in late 1991, Ray was clandestinely approached by a pair of physicists who were working on a U.S. Department of Defense program to try and contact what the group called non-human entities. Or, NHEs. Ray had a meeting with the pair at Nebraska’s Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel. Those who worked on the program, Ray said to me, started off believing that the entities they were were trying to communicate with really were extraterrestrials. It didn’t take long, however, for the group to conclude they were actually dealing with nothing less than demons. Not only that, there had been violent deaths in the program. Ray was shown graphic photos of several people – with their bodies in chairs – who had died while, it was assumed, they were trying to contact the demonic things. Even more controversial, the group was doing its best to try and weaponize the powers of those supernatural creatures. The pair was deeply worried about what they had gotten into and wanted Ray’s advice. That made a lot of sense, as Ray had a background in both UFOs and religion.
This was a fascinating story. I began interviewing (and audio-recording) Ray about all of this on January 22, 2007. Not only that, as time progressed I was able to learn more about the group. They used a nickname of “Collins Elite.” On page 42 of Final Events (which was published in 2010) I specifically pointed out that the name was an informal title created by the group. Almost certainly, the group had a highly-classified title. I never did get to learn what that real name was, however. I was able to speak with a number of the specifically retired staff, though. In the process of digging further I discovered that the group had actually been around for a long time – decades, in fact. But, that there were different levels and tiers within the group, which is why the two guys that met with Ray – and who, in 1991, were new to the program – weren’t aware of much that had gone on in the 1970s and 1980s. “Need to know” was very much the name of the game, which is why they were looking for advice from Ray.
How strange that I would never, ever have heard of a group in the DoD that was investigating demonic activity and supernatural powers had I not approached Ray Boeche about his research into the Rendlesham Forest incident of Christmas 1980. Not at all unlike part-1 of this 3-part article, this saga of aliens and demons is one that could not have been foreseen
Did the Soviet Union Discover Aliens in the Deepest Lake in the World?
Did The Soviet Union Discover Aliens In The Deepest Lake In The World?
Under the waters of Lake Baikal in 1982, 7 Russian divers are exploring the world deepest freshwater lake on a research mission, but 50 metres underwater, strange humanoid creatures appear and in an attempt to capture one of them, all the divers are pushed up to the top by an unknown force.
Who were these creatures and what can we learn from this encounter?
Zig Zagging UFO Over Seoul, South Korea On Sept 20, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 20, 2020
Location of sighting: Seoul, South Korea
This video was just released today. A person in South Korea was recording with their phone on the roof of their apartments when they saw a white object behaving strangely. The UFO began to back track its direction three different times and descended very quickly at one point. There is no aircraft that I have ever seen capable of performing those kinds of maneuvers. 100% proof that aliens are watching over South Korea.
UFO Fleet Over Chicago Causes Guy To Drop His Take Out, Sept 20, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 20, 2020 Location of sighting: Chicago, USA This is really a great catch from Chicago. A UFO fleet was seen over a neighborhood and if you watch carefully and in full screen mode, you will see the UFO is not a lone but with a whole fleet. I saw at least five UFOs, but there may be more since some may glow faintly and the video may not pick them all up. Many white UFO fleets being seen this week around the globe. 100% alien technology, no doubt about it. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I just pulled up to my home and someone flashed me. So I set my P.F. Chang’s on the ground and commenced to record!! Then I said thank you for showing me!! Activity in this part of the USA seems to be gaining momentum.
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