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!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
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UFO Shoots Out Of Chem Trail, Sept 4, 2020, Mills New York, MUFON, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 4 2020
Location of sighting: Mills, New York, USA
Source: MUFON #111313
Here is a video just into MUFON today. A huge contrail is seen being made across the sky over New York and then suddenly its stops and out pops a white UFO. The UFO soon disappears and then reappears and disappears again.
At first it looks like its made by a computer, but then how he holds the camera and the object is not in the middle of the screen and I can find no sign of CGI, so I believe it may be real. The UFO is in a three step lightning bolt shape. This kinda reminds me of a round sphere UFO that appeared over New York and also disappeared the same way a few years ago. If this is real and it looks real...then its a very rare event caught only once ever 5-7 years.
This is an interesting structure on Mercury. The building is about 5km across according to the rule of the map. Also it has a huge rectangle doorway. The door is probably for ships to enter and exit. Life could not exist on the surface exposed to space unless there were buildings on the surface, however life could exist under the ground in cities built to house tens of thousands. That door is 1.5km across by 2.5km tall.
Off Topic: World Famous Artist Banksy Secretively Told The World Who He Really Is, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Hey everyone. This is a weird post today. I got an eye for detail as you may know already. I was looking at a Banksy print and noticed that one painting actually revels the true identity of Banksy himself. Banksy is a famous graffiti artist in the UK known for being a guy who hides his identity. Now Robert Del Naja is a member of the music group Massive Attack and has long since been suspected of being Banksy. I even found a photo of Robert inside the Banksy Walled Off Hotel which is in Palestine. Well, Robert Del Naja also makes graffiti art, and he signs all his art 3D. This piece of art showing a rat with 3D glasses gives him away...and shows how he tried to tell the world who he really is. Also to top it off, Robert Del Naja signs his art 3D, but that signature looks eerily similar to the Ba in Banksy. Same writing, same strokes. A clear sign that Robert Del Naja tries so hard to tell the world who he really is, but the world just didn't see it. Takes a keen eye to notice these details. Thats one thing I got. Scott C. Waring
Giant UFO flying into portal – New York – 4-Sep-2020
New UFO sighting that was filmed over Ny Mills in New York on 4th September 2020. Your opinion?
Witness report:
The ufo flew out of the strange chemtrail then is vanished then came back then it was gone. I added a slowmotion video to the footage so it would be easier to see the craft.
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Filer’s Files 37, 2020 – Moon’s City, bases and Towers- PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: The Moon’s City and Towers, Lava Tubes, Apollo 11 Crew Saw Craft on the Moon, NASA Fireman Saw UFO Photos, The Holocast in the United States, Strnge Craft, and C-60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Illinois, Nebraska,Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, and.Wisconsin.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Korea, Panama, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
The Moon’s City, Bases and Towers
While stationed at Langley Air Force Base the NASA facility used Air Force Intelligence Technical repair personnel who saw various structures on the moon in the Apollo photography while they were repairing NASA photographic equipment. This discovery was an open secret in Tactical Air Command’ s intelligence Headquarters and told to me. My friend Dr. Cornet was able to obtain some of the interesting photos.
Dr. Bruce Cornet writes “The average person will be surprised to learn that there are huge structures on the Moon that appear to be quite old. The photographs certainly suggest an ancient advanced civilization and an attempt by NASA to keep it secret by blacking out various photographs.”
Tower and Shard
The Lunar Orbiter photograph and the three sequential photographs (AS10-32-4854-56) taken from the Apollo spacecraft all show the “Tower” (and “Shard”) in the southwestern area of Sinus Medii from different angles and different perspectives. The Surveyor 6 photograph shows anomalous geometric structures above the ground, like those associated with the tower extending to the north of the “Tower” for about a hundred miles. The censored Apollo 10 photograph near Ukert crater shows anomalous geometric structures extending on the ground for tens of miles over an area the size of the Los Angeles.
of compelling evidence of ancient structural artifacts present on the Moon.
Confirmed through cross comparisons of overwhelming imaging evidence, from several separate NASA missions — with different photographic technologies, different lighting, and different viewing geometries — these studies now leave little doubt that A: this solar system has been host to some prior habitation by intelligence, and B: some within NASA have apparently known about and deliberately suppressed this robust evidence for more than thirty years.
Brookings
According to McDaniel, an early NASA study was commissioned from the Brookings Institution in 1959 and may have formed the basis of current NASA policy.2 This study specifically anticipates the possible future discovery of intelligently designed artifacts elsewhere in the solar system by unmanned NASA probes, and considers “how might such information, under what circumstances, be presented to or withheld from the public, for what ends?”
The apparent reason given for considering the possibility of withholding information from the public, should extraterrestrial artifacts be discovered, was the apprehension voiced within this Study that society itself might “disintegrate.” Everything in NASA’s (otherwise inexplicable) behavior regarding the possibly artificial structures on Mars, and those now discovered on the Moon, indicates that NASA has been following, and intends to follow for the indefinite future, the policy of withholding information outlined in the Brookings Institution Report.
THE SHARD The Shard is an obvious structure which rises above the Moon’s surface by more than a mile. Its overall irregular spindly shape (containing a regular geometric pattern) with constricted nodes and swollen internodes, if natural, has got to be a wonder of the Universe. No known natural process can explain such a structure. Computer enhancement with about 190 feet (60 meters) resolution shows an irregular outline with more reflective and less reflective surfaces. The amount of sunlight reflecting from parts of the Shard indicate a composition inconsistent with that of most natural substances. Only crystal facets and glass can reflect that much light (polished metallic surfaces are unnatural). Single crystals the size of city blocks are currently unknown. I concur with Hoagland that the Shard may be a highly eroded remnant of some sort of artificial structure made of glass-like material. O ther larger structures and their reflectivity in the area support this theory.
The spire was probably built to accommodate a very large vessel so that it could dock safely without landing,” according to Sightings Daily’s Scott Waring
Aerial View of Shard
Areas of interest: Central area and southwestern area of Sinus Medii, center of moon disk; Mare Crisium, northwest area of moon disk. Lunar Orbiter, February 1967. MD: III-84M of “Shard” and “Tower” on southwest side of Sinus Medii from 30 miles altitude, taken by 3″ camera objective with images transmitted, reconstructed, at NASA). Horizon at 256 miles; “Shard” and “Tower” about 230 and 200 miles distance from camera, respectively; resolution of Shard and Tower calculated at about 70 and 60 meters, respectively.View angle of photograph west from western part of Sinus Medii, showing refraction of intense light from Sun (beads are image of photosphere) by surface material on horizon. Apollo 10, May 1969 NASA catalog SP-232: AS10-32-4822, AS10-32-4854, AS10-32-4855,
Closeup Shard Tower
NASA catalog SP-232: AS10-32-4822, AS10-32-4854, AS10-32-4855, and AS10-32-4856 of Sinus Medii from 70 miles in orbit, taken by hand held Hasselblad camera. Photographs 4854-56 looking west at terminator (lunar surface sunrise line) from above eastern side of Sinus Medii; photograph 4822 looking northeast across Ukert crater in the most intensively photographed northern edge of Sinus Medii (this photograph intentionally blacked out in catalog).
All of these unnatural structures appear to have sustained varying degrees of damage from meteorite and micrometeorite impact. (1-2 miles), for example, exist within the anomalous area near Ukert, and clearly post-date the anomalies. Recognition of such damage is important in understanding and interpreting the nature and time sequence in the origin of these structures. Apollo 16, June 1972 NASA photograph AS16-121-19438, from above the eastern edge of Mare Crisium and across Mare Tranquilitatus from 70 miles altitude.
UKERT Ukert is a crater-like feature that displays a circumscribed equilateral triangle at full Moon (Noon local time) in its center. I agree with Richard C. Hoagland’s interpretation that this triangle is not natural, because the sides of the “crater” are much brighter only opposite the sides of this triangle. The apices or angles of the triangle intersect the darkest three areas of the “crater” rim, while the brightest three areas of the rim are opposite the sides of the triangle. In addition, the brightest parts of the rim are midway between the apices of the triangle, and are at 120 degrees orientation from one another. If a line is drawn from the centers of each bright area across the triange to the opposing angle, the lines will exactly bisect each angle. Such regular geometry is not a natural feature of any terrain, either on Earth or on the Moon. Furthermore, the symbolism of an equilateral triangle within a circle is a two dimensional representation of a tetrahedral pyramid within a sphere. Tetrahedral geometry is hypothesized to be the primary message encoded in the geometry of the Cydonia complex on Mars (Hoagland, 1992; McDaniel, 1993).
THE TOWER The Tower represents an enigma of the highest magnitude, because it rises more than five miles above the surface of the Moon, and has been photographed from five different angles and two different altitudes (from 30 miles altitude, and from 70 miles altitude at three different distances). In all four photographs the same structure is visible, and can be viewed from two different sides. The Tower exists in front of and to the left of the Shard in the Lunar Orbiter III-84M photograph. The distance from the Tower and the camera is estimated at about 200 miles, while the distance of the Shard beyond the Tower is estimated at about 230 mile away. The top of the Tower has a very ordered cubic geometry, and appears to be composed of regular cubes (similar in size) joined together to form a very large cube with an estimated width of over one mile!
Tower Closeup
There is apparent damage to the outline and surface of this megacube, because many cubic spaces or indentations occur over its surface (these spaces are 50-60 times larger than pixel size, and their shapes are not controlled by the rectangular shape of the pixel). A narrow columnar structure connects this cube with the surface of the Moon. The columnar support is at least three miles tall, and tapers towards its base. The taper may be in part due to perspective, if the Tower is oriented at an angle and is leaning towards the camera. The leaning Tower may be part of a larger more transparent structure, which is also inclined. Surrounding the Tower are faint indications of additional light- reflective material. The amount of light coming from this material is very small compared with the amount of light reflected off the lunar surface. In order to make it visible, the surface of the Moon has to be over-exposed on the photograph. The pattern that becomes visible above the Moon’s surface is not caused by the scan lines that make up the Lunar Orbiter photography. The scan lines can be seen clearly, and are oriented at different angles from the orientation of patterns in the sky. The regular cubic and/or rectangular nature of this pattern, and indications of radiating structures that connect the Tower with the surface indicate that material of low light reflectivity exists above the Moon’s surface over a large area measured in hundreds of miles.
Artists Concept of Tower
The irregular splotchy reflection from some of this aerial material may be due to meteorite and projectile damage over millions of years. Its highly transparent nature (bright stars can be seen behind and through this material) indicates either an open grid with cubic spaces or glass-like material held together by some sort of structural grid or a combination of both. Other photographs confirm the size and extent of this grid-like construction. This grid pattern appears to be three-dimensional, and is expressed as dark lines with random points of reflection around those lines. The grid appears to be some sort of support structure, perhaps formed from a metallic rebar. The reflective material associated with it is cubic and hexagonal in design, but incomplete. With different attitudes or angles of sight, different areas of the grid structure become illuminated or reflective, implying that angle of incidence is important. This material is the remnant portions of the glass structure, which still remains attached and suspended above the Moon’s surface on a metallic cross support structure. The Tower, by contrast, is visible in all three photographs, because there is much more glass remaining than on the suspended grid structure around the Tower. Even from different angles and distances in these photographs, the top of the Tower appears as a giant cube made up of smaller cubic and hexagonal objects. There is no way to get around this evidence once it becomes apparent.
The Castle
This photo of the “castle” tower is absolutely bizarre. Judging from the lighting in the craters on the lower left corner it is apparent the sun coming from the upper right side of the photo. If you look at the immense unlit area in the right half of the photo, it begs the question, “where is the sunlight on the surface.” The logical conclusion is that something above the surface is blocking the sun. It is in this area we find the “castle” tower. Close scrutiny by legitimate scientists place the “castle” some 9 miles above the surface of the moon.
When I first became aware of this anomaly some 11 years ago, I obtained the original photograph from NASA to verify for myself.
The nay-sayers on here can not have seriously looked at the overwhelming body of evidence that proves NASA has been lying to us for all these years about the true nature of man and his past. The greater question is why? What is going on at the upper echelons of power in this world that they do not want you to know.
Construction of Structures
The combination of structures certainly provides strong evidene that alien life is far more more advanced technical civiliztion that are own. There is the posibility that our ancient forefathers were much more advance than we know, and destroyed their civilization thousands of years ago. .
Moon Base
Now, scientists, including Taylor and Yang Liu, research assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, have discovered that water on the moon is more widespread on the outside and inside of the moon with similarities to water in volcanic systems on Earth.
Their research will be featured in the article, “Lunar Apatite with Terrestrial Volatile Abundances,” in the July 22 edition of the scientific journal, Nature.
Nahuku Thursto Lava Tube Hawaii
And the moon hosts even more gargantuan lava tubes, with heights that dwarf Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, and “skylights” as big as football fields.
On Earth, a powerful magnetic shield, known as the magnetosphere, protects us from the harsh radiation of space. Without it, a constant stream of electromagnetic rays would damage our cells and DNA, with dire consequences to our health. Lave Tube on Earth
Ionized particles, streaming through space as slower-moving solar wind or relativistic cosmic rays add to that risk. And we know from the experiences of the only humans to exit the magnetosphere — Apollo astronauts — that even a few days’ exposure to those particles can trigger headaches, flashes of light and cataracts, the researchers of the new study noted in their new paper. Plus, there’s always the risk that a solar flare or cosmic ray burst could expose a Martian habitat to a sudden, deadly dose.
Lava tubes under the surface of both the moon and Mars are large enough to be the homes of planetary bases.
Large numbers of aliens could be living on the moon underground in Lava tubes that are a hundred to thousands of time bigger on the moon.
We measured the size and gathered the morphology of lunar and Martian collapse chains (collapsed lava tubes), using digital terrain models (DTMs), which we obtained through satellite stereoscopic images and laser altimetry taken by interplanetary probes,” reminds Riccardo Pozzobon. “We then compared these data to topographic studies about similar collapse chains on the Earth’s surface and to laser scans of the inside of lava tubes in Lanzarote and the Galapagos. These data allowed to establish a restriction to the relationship between collapse chains and subsurface cavities that are still intact.”
Researchers found that Martian and lunar tubes are respectively 100 and 1,000 times wider than those on Earth, which typically have a diameter of 10 to 30 meters. Lower gravity and its effect on volcanism explain these outstanding dimensions (with total volumes exceeding 1 billion cubic meters on the Moon).
Riccardo Pozzobon adds: “Tubes as wide as these can be longer than 40 kilometers, making the Moon an extraordinary target for subsurface exploration and potential settlement in the wide protected and stable environments of lava tubes. The latter are so big they can contain Padua’s Italy entire city center.”
Padua, Italy
“What is most important is that, despite the impressive dimension of the lunar tubes, they remain well within the roof stability threshold because of a lower gravitational attraction,” explains Matteo Massironi, who is professor of Structural and Planetary Geology at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua. “This means that the majority of lava tubes underneath the maria smooth plains are intact. The collapse chains we observed might have been caused by asteroids piercing the tube walls. This is what the collapse chains in Marius Hills seem to suggest. From the latter, we can get access to these huge underground cavities.”
Francesco Sauro concludes: “Lava tubes could provide stable shields from cosmic and solar radiation and micrometeorite impacts which are often happening on the surfaces of planetary bodies. Moreover, they have great potential for providing an environment in which temperatures do not vary from day- to night-time. Space agencies are now interested in planetary caves and lava tubes, as they represent a first step towards future explorations of the lunar surface (see also NASA’s project Artemis) and towards finding life (past or present) in Mars subsurface.”
Researchers also point out how this study opens up to a completely new perspective in planetary exploration, which is increasingly focusing on the subsurface of Mars and the Moon.
“In autumn 2019, ESA called up universities and industries with a campaign seeking ideas for developing technologies for lunar caves exploration. They are specifically looking for systems that would land on the lunar surface to operate missions exploring lunar tubes,” clarifies professor Jo De Waele, who is one of the authors of the study and a speleologist. “Since 2012, in collaboration with some European universities including Bologna and Padua, ESA has been carrying out two training programs for astronauts focusing on the exploration of underground systems (CAVES) and planetary geology (PANGAEA). These programs include lava tubes on the island of Lanzarote. So far, 36 astronauts from five space agencies have received training in cave hiking; moreover, six astronauts and four mission and operation specialists have received geological field training.”
THE CITY COMPLEX NEAR UKERT Photograph AS10-32-4822 in NASA catalog SP-232 is blacked out, along with several other photographs. When it was ordered, the image was of high quality, contrary to what was implied by it being blacked out in the catalog. Instead of a poor photograph, the image shows features near Ukert crater that defy conventional explanation. A linear dome-shaped hill runs diagonally across the photograph. To the north of that hill a large area exists with regularly aligned rows of structure. Within this anomalous area more than a dozen small craters can be seen that modify the landscape. From a distance the regular rows appear like benches. On Earth such a feature would be interpreted as the pattern produced by the eroded edges of layered rocks that dip below the surface. But on the Moon there have been no physical processes that can account for such a regular geologic structure. Furthermore, rills and wrinkles on the surface of a cooling magma outflow do not form such a regular pattern, as is evident in so many mare on the Moon. And this anomalous pattern has definite boundaries beyond which it is absent. In NASA catalog SP-232 is blacked out, along with several other photographs. When it was ordered, the image was of high quality, contrary to what was implied by it being blacked out in the catalog. Instead of a poor photograph, the image shows features near Ukert crater that defy conventional explanation.
Apollo 11 Crew Saw Craft on the Moon
Gold UFOs non Rim of Crater 16 July 1969 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins Maurice Chatelain, former NASA chief of communications specialists and designer of the Apollo communication and data-processing system, says that Armstrong reported seeing two “other spacecraft” on the rim of a crater. Ham operators listening on VHF supposedly picked up a communication confirming this.and there are rumors that Armstrong has since confirmed this privately. There are also rumors that the astronauts saw alien bases and mining operations on the moon and that the aliens warned us off the moon!
NASA Fireman Saw UFO Photos
Houston NASA Fireman reports, when an alarm came in at the Fire Station, we responded to the floor of the building that showed up on the annunciator panel at the station, One time, around 1964, we responded to Bldg.#2 to find that the alarm originated from the “crypto” room.
However, the doors were open and we just walked in to check the minor panel located there. The whole east wall was covered with photos of UFOs. As we finished up, the officer of that room came back in and found us there. He actually pulled his sidearm and pointed it at us before demanding to know why we had entered that room.
He eventually accepted our explanation, but it took Everette D. Shafer*, head of NASA Security to vouch for us before the man would shut off his threats towards us. Everette Shafer reminded him, that had the armed officer been there in the room with the door locked, the incident could have been avoided.
The Holocast in the United States
Time’s Man of the year 1938
Editor’s Note: When I almost died when my artery was punctured during an operation I was taken to the Pearly Gates in a dream and told I had died, but a person dressed in a robe said, “I could live if I would help save the more than a million aborted babies in the US each year. I accepted his offer and found very upsetting information.”
The Holocaust horror was the Nazi state-sponsored mass murder of some 5 to 6 million European Jews by Adolf Hitler. He would be impressed by the genocide or holocaust of 40 million babies 40, 000,000 with their hearts beating in the United States, more than six times gassed in his death camps. Genocide is generally considered one of the worst moral crimes a government (meaning any ruling authority), can commit against its citizens or those it controls. The Planned Parenthood Clinics should be referred to has concentration camps where forty million babies are cut up and the parts sold on the the open market. Protecting Women’s Rights to murder their babies up to include after birth in New York and Virginia seems barbaric. Planned Parenthood brags that last year abortion clinics were able to abort one million three hundred thousand babies and sell many of their cut up parts on the open market last year. They are funding Democrats with $45 million for the election. I wonder how many scientists, doctors, singers have been killed? Literally hundreds of workers in the clinics have quit giving amazing stories of cruelty. Black women were more than 3.5 times more likely to have an abortion than white women (CDC). Planned Parenthood is given $616.8 million in taxpayer funding, in 2019 and has $1.6 billion in total revenue. I have no trouble with birth control patches and procedures. . Recently Democratic Federal Judges slapped down heart beat laws in six states limiting abortion to six weeks when the baby’s heart starts beating. The laws were initially passed in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.
The country is in daily riots over the white police killing 14 blacks many in gun battles. If black lives really matter why no riots against the 8,000 blacks killed each year by blacks and hundreds of thousand aborted black babies each year?. It seems the high abortion rate is not lost on young black men who slaughter each other. 2700 babies will be murdered today; your vote will help stop it.
Strange Craft
The True Story of Major George Filer an Air Force Intelligence Officer and flyer’s Life with UFOs.
Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere. These men – military professionals began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
Award-winning investigative reporter John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base/ McGuire AFB in 1978 – is fully recounted. UFO information, for the first time, after decades of denying what its intelligence officers, pilots, and air traffic control personnel know to be true, the military finally admitted to what Filer describes in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra (Author) click on this link: https://amzn.to/2SmCKMy
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MUFON Report for August 2020:
In August 2020 there were 645 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following United States 518, Canada 53, United Kingdom 24, France 6, Brazil 5, Australia 4 , Mexico 3, India 3, New Zealand 3, Indonesia, 2, Spain, Denmark 2, and Turkey 2.
Filer’s Files 37, 2020 – Moon’s City, bases and Towers- PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Fresno— On October 13, 2019 at 9:21 pm I was in my backyard on a clear night. I looked to the west and saw a star like object moving with a steady speed then it turned right heading south. I had my NIKON D3300 with me so I started taking photos. I then went inside and looked at my photos on my Mac. I saw that I had captured something different silent, metallic,, and unique. The shape of this object looked like two V’s or boomerangs together with space in between them
Note: I suspect that the objects were not shaped like boomerangs. The apparent shape is likely due to camera movement. The objects were likely star-like objects. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Florida Lights Orange Object
Stuart – On July 13, 2020 – My sighting was at 9:30 PM and lasted about 2 minutes. I saw an object moving west to east then it changed shape and turned north. It was about 30 degrees off of the horizon, one mile away. The UFO looked larger than the photos shows and was translucent orange in color and made no sound at all. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Illinois Orange Lights
Belleville – On August 29, 2020, dozens of orange fireballs baseball or softball size coming from the north directly over my home traveling south they were not in a straight line but they were traveling together traveling at the same speed consistent orange bright glow throughout the experience,I think at least over 50 objects
Nebraska Object
Ashland— On August 26, 2020, some type of orb was above Nebraska near a bright light.
Object was not seen until photo was viewed the next day.
Could be lens reflection from the bright light.
Nevada Lights
Carson City — We initially observed just one object traveling north. It was a bright ligh then suddenly we observed 6 to 8 more objects traveling south bound. I was able to get a brief cell phone video on June 2, 2020. Upon inspecting t he video afterward, several more objects were observed flying around the clustered group at high speeds.
New York Triangle
Fishkill— At Boys Sleepaway Camp on July 25, 1990, a friend of mine are waiting for the next bus to ride into town. It was like a scene from Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. I hear a medium sounding d hum. I look up and see avery slow moving triangular shaped UFO, over the lounge. The craft was so low I can see the detail and can touch it. It was a matted graycolor craft with three glass lights illuminating from underneath each corner of the triangle. The lights were a Matted Magenta in color and they weren’t bright. I called out 12 boys who came out of the lounge to look and were also amazed at what they were seeing.
Oklahoma Object
Prue— On August 23rd 2020, my wife and I were traveling on a back road to Skytook, We noticed a sphere that looked like a giant chrome ornament pulling yet a smaller chrome ornament under neath. There was no visible tethering. It came toward us rapidly then abruptly turned and headed North West at a high rate of speed directly toward a small cloud then within minutes it had completely dissipated. We do not have a clue what it was.
Oregon Object
Government Camp.I was up early on July 26, 2020, and decided to go up to watch the sun come up. I was about 2/3 of the way up Timberline Road and had a great view of Mt. Jefferson which is due south by 70 miles. You can also see Broken Top andt north Sister from that corner. I took about 10 pictures all within a few seconds of each other. The next day I noticed that the second picture had an object with some sort of an air pocket around it.
Pennsylvania Object
Hanover— On August 10th, 2020, I was on my back porch messing with the camera on my new Samsung Galaxy S20 and checking out the features I heard a passenger Jet flying overhead and I took some pictures of the plane. The jetliner was about 35,000 feet high when I zoomed in I noticed three UFOs in a triangle pattern around the jetliner. I zoomed in on the pictures and a UFO was under the plane. My Mother was a stewardess for Eastern Airlines when they had a UFO fly next to her plane for over a 1/2 hour. Her flight was documented with Project Blue Book.
Virginia White Object
Newport News— I stepped outside and saw thee moon during the day. I looked down and then back up at the moon and saw this object. I have lived near military bases for over a decade.I frequently see F22s and all manner of commercial and military aircraft.
Washington Cylinder
Sammamish – On September 2, 2020, Today Wednesday, Sep 02, around 3:00 PM near lake Sammamish east side of the lake, my sister and I saw a small circular object in the sky shining once in a while like a star. When we were looking at the object, it didn’t seem to move at all. What’s surprising is that when I looked up close at the video, it moves at an incredible speed all over the place. I have slowed the video to make the object more visible. I have other videos if you are interested. Thank you again for your time. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Wisconsin Lights
Milwaukee –On September 3, 2020, my son, Ethan and I (Kevin) were watching the sky for satellites. We observed the triangle formation moving slow, about 20 degrees above horizon. The center of the formation blocked out the sky behind it. We both saw it block out a star that it passed in front of. The 3 points were made of white points of light, with the lights not blinking at all. The duration of our sighting lasted around 75 seconds.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
Petrie Brisbane Queensland— Two objects were noted later on 2 different photos from the same area on the same day. they could have been the same object that had moved. Sighted on June 12, 2020.
Canada Objects
Scarborough, Ontario— On August 28, 2020, at work I came outside for a late lunch looked up and could see very high golden flashes directly above. I pulled my camera out to capture it using 30 X zoom however l could not ID it. After further examination it appears like a golden cylinder…. www.youtube.com
Oshawa, Ontario — On July 26, 2020 while outside on my deck I thought to share a remarkable footage of a spherical white UFO. I noticed this fast moving bright white ‘spherical ‘ object. I grabbed my camera at full 30 X zoom it was half a mile south at about 500 feet altitude. The object was heading southeast towards the lake. There has been a notable increase in UFO daylight sightings since 2017.
Note: The object could be a balloon, but no information is available to confirm this. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Korea Disc
Korean Sea— Huge stationary disc just below an airplane at 32,000 feet cruising altitude. nothing can be seen except sky, but with the periphery lights, object can be seen by naked eye on July 7, 2012.
Panama Object
Bajo Boquete–We live in a mountain area near Baru Volcano and went outside and my boyfriend was on his phone then I decided to go outside too and noticed the bright/huge light behind him (red and yellow color) with circles around/inside it. It was huge and slowly descended to the ground about 500 feet away. We lost sight of the object as it descended and went into a hole in the mountain on August 18, 2018..
United Kingdom/England Triangles
Newton Abbot Devon – On August 26, 2020, I was in the back garden pulling up weeds s when I had a strange feeling like I was being watched. I immediately looked up at an object directly above me. I could not identify it as being any type of known conventional aircraft. I had my Nikon P900 camera right next to me so I quickly took a photograph. The object then seemed to react to me photographing it and moved off in to a thick bank of clouds where I lost sight of it. Then as I looked around the sky I spotted two more black and triangular UFOs. I quickly took a photograph of them which was almost impossible due to their extreme rate of speed. The sighting was at 1:53 PM on August 26, 2020.and very unusual to see three separate UFOs.
Note:The witness described some of the objects as triangular in shape. The photos show a disk-like shape, but sometimes cameras don’t depict the exact appearance of objects. This witness has reported several sightings and photos of UFO’s. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho strange craft on August 1, 2020
Filer’s Files 34, 2020 New Navy UFO/UAP Task Force - PART I
Major George A. Filer III
New JerseyMUFON State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Salem Nuclear Power Plant Possible UFO Crash, ULA, SpaceX Win National Security Space Launch Contracts, Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, Supernatural Is neither Fantasy nor Fiction, Jetliners Encounter UFOs Over New Jersey, Triangle Objects Photographed, Follow the Money, C-60, Strange Craft. And Mt. Shasta Conference
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin and Wisconsin
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Indonesia, Norway, and England in the United Kingdom.
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Salem Nuclear Power Plant Possible UFO Crash
Salem Nuclear Plant.
Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey on Sunday, April 21. 1991, at 10:18 p.m., three women reported seeing something that looked like a helicopter crash in Salem County, NJ, not far from the Salem Nuclear Plant.
Mrs. H, 38, said she was in her bathroom at 10:22 p.m. Sunday night, April 21, when she saw what she thought was a helicopter in distress. She looked out the window and in the woods could see sparks low over the woods. I called my one neighbor and she said she saw the flames that went to the ground.”
The neighbor was Mrs. W, 22, who saw the alleged crash and called police. “Roberta called here and asked me if I saw the helicopter and I did.” “I looked out my kitchen window facing New Bridge Road and saw sparks and it looked like it was coming toward our houses. As I kept watching, I saw fire shooting out the side of it, then a big ball of fire and it fell,” she said. “After the crash, I hung up with Roberta and called the police.” Mrs. E was also present in the home of Mrs. W and also witnessed the event. She reported she was sitting down watching TV when Mrs. W said, “Oh my God.” She came running and saw sparks, then the helicopter exploded and fell. None of the three witnesses reported hearing any sound or seeing red lights normally visible on helicopters. According to both witnesses it was raining at the time of the incident. The object was described as solid in appearance and helicopter shaped, with white and blue lights at first, with a shower of red-orange sparks, followed by a bright red flash to the ground.
Although police and rescue squads conducted an extensive air and ground search throughout the right and several hours the next day, no trace of a helicopter crash site could be found. No helicopters were subsequently reported missing. A number of unusual things about the description of the helicopter, such as the absence of sound and a burst of light shooting to the ground, suggest that the object that was observed may not have been a helicopter but a UFO.
In addition, one of the woman in the location of Salem County reported strange recurring dreams prior to the incident. The incident is being pursued as a possible abduction event, with the “helicopter crash” staged as a screen memory. Budd Hopkins was contacted about the event. It’s a possibility this represents a UFO abduction event.
In JUNE 1991 Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. was the MUFON State Director New Jersey meeting was held February 23rd. at Assistant State D director’s Major George Filer’s home in Medford.
“As I kept watching I saw fire shooting out the side of it, and then a big ball of fire and it fell,” she said. “After the crash I hung up on Roberta and called the po1ice,
“Mrs. E was also present in the home of Mrs. W and also witnessed the event. She reported she was sitting down watching TV when Mrs. W said, “Oh my God”. She came running and saw sparks, then the helicopter exploded and fell. None of the three witness reported hearing any sound. According to both witnesses it was raining at the time of the incident. The object was described as solid in appearance, helicopter shaped, with white and blue lights at first with a shower of red-orange sparks, followed by a bright flash to the ground. The ladies claim there were no red lights that are almost always lit on a helicopter.
The police log shows that Mrs. W called the police at 10:18 p.m. Police and rescue squads were on the scene immediately after she called the police. Mrs. W said she spent part of the night on the phone talking to the pilot of one of the rescue helicopters that was dispatched to the area, trying to tell him exactly where she saw the crash while he flew overhead.
The map shows the general area of the sighting; Beasleys Neck Road (location of the witnesses houses. The arrow indicates the location of the New Bridge Road where the object was firs t sighted. Assisting in the search was the Lower Alloways Creek Fire Department. Fire Chief Calvin Hill contacted the Federal Aviation Agency but learned that there were no reports of nay late or missing aircraft at any nearby airport. The Fire Chief contacted local airports in Salem and in Wilmington, Delaware, which did not report any missing aircraft. There was no information from FAA flight logs that would have suggested that an aircraft was flying over the area at the time of the crash.
The incident was also reported on the late night news by Channel 3 news, a Philadelphia TV station. Michael Talpas of Roebling. NJ. Videotaped the TV coverage. The search began at 10:30 p.m. Sunday in a wooded area near Beasley Neck Road. A nearby neighbor, Scott A. George of Cross Roach told police he thought he heard a crash, but “just assumed it was a gust of wind. Police took two callers reports seriously and are not looking into the possibility of a false report. “No, I don’t feel it was a prank call” a police spokesman said. “We received calls from two different people. They were both reputable adults and I don’t have any reservations about what they said.” The police spokesman speculated that because the area was so densely wooded a helicopter could have disappeared from view.
However, MUFON investigator, Richard Butler after visiting the homes of the witnesses, disagrees with the characterization of the area as densely wooded. He disputes the notion that a crashed helicopter would be difficult to find in the area. Three rescue helicopters combed the rain swept area along the Delaware River Sunday night and Monday morning while Coast Guard boats searched the water and up stream. There is a report that the Coast Guard covered the crash debris with at least two large black tarps in a marshland area near a creek.
The Delaware River is approximately 5 miles away from the homes of the witnesses. State Police with the Trenton Station said a helicopter using an infrared scope searched the coastal region using grids but came up empty. Rescuers called off the search at 3:30 a.m. Monday, having found no trace of a crash, but resumed the search again at 8:00 a.m., the search officially ended at approximately 10:15 a.m.
On Monday, Lower Alloways Creek Township Police Chief Eric Peterson, said that at about 2 p.m. Monday he received a call from a woman in Deptford Township who said she saw the same thing.
MUFON investigator Michael Talpas who talked to the police was told at least two other people who were driving in their cars called in to report sighting the “helicopter fire” .While some have speculated that a possible meteor might have fallen in the area, police are not speculating. Both Mrs. W and Mrs. E estimated the event lasted 3 minutes, but here is no check on the accuracy of their estimates. It would have to be long enough for Mrs. L to walk to the phone, call her neighbor, have her look for it, and spot it in the sky before it “crashed”.
One of the younger women (Mrs. W) reported an illusional dream on the Friday night preceding the Sunday event. From Monday through Thursday she reported waking up excited, nervous, and anxious. That Friday night she and her husband were out late at a party.
Gray Alien Mongoose
They returned home to be around 4:15 a.m. she dreamed walking out of the house to a half-wooded area, where she encountered 3-4 “giant hamster cages”, with bright red and orange twist-tie s on the bars of the cages, Out of the bottom of the cages were gray and white “mongooses”, who walked erect., when s They walked in-step in coordinated movement, and began chasing her around. There were also two large snakes in her dream, and she felt she was protecting the snakes from the mongooses.
She reports that she had never really seen a mongoose, and didn’t know what they looked like. Investigator Richard Butler regards the dream as a screen memory of an actual abduction experience with the giant hamster cages actually being UFOs (with lights around the rims), and the “mongooses” with the peculiar albino coloring actually gray humanoids. It’s all interesting speculation at this point, but she has agreed to explore the dream further, presumably through hypnosis.
Weather reports obtained by Commercial Pilot Bob Durant from Philadelphia International Airport has shown that the cloud layer at the time was scattered clouds between 11 00′ – 1200′, and overcast clouds at 2000 feet’. A light rain was falling at the time. This makes a meteor explanation very unlikely. There are no power lines in the vicinity, according to maps and on-sit
The police log shows that Mrs. W called the police at 10:18 p.m. Police and rescue squads were on the scene immediately after she called the police. Mrs. W said she spent part of the night on the phone talking to the pilot of one of the rescue helicopters that was dispatched to the area, trying to tell him exactly where she saw the crash while he flew overhead.
Map of crash ares, arrow shows homes, Black creek recovery area
Assisting in the search was the Lower Alloways Creek Fire Department. Fire Chief Calvin Hill contacted the Federal Aviation Agency but learned that there were no reports of any late of missing aircraft at any nearby airport. The Fire Chief contacted local airports in Salem and Wilmington, Delaware, which did not report any missing aircraft. There was no information from FAA flight logs that would have suggested that an aircraft was flying over the area at the time of the crash. The incident was also reported on the late night news by Channel 3 news, a Philadelphia TV station. Michael Talpas of Roebling, NJ, videotaped the TV coverage. Military units in New Jersey and Delaware denied any lost helicopters or aircraft/
The search began at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, in a wooded area near Beasley Neck Road.
A police spokesman said. “We received calls from two different people. They were both reputable adults and I don’t have any reservations about what they said.”
Three rescue helicopters combed the rain-swept area along the Delaware River Sunday night and Monday morning while boats searched the water. The Delaware River is approximately 5 miles away from the homes of the witnesses. State Police with the Trenton Station said a helicopter using an infrared scope searched the coastal region using grids but came up empty. Rescuers called off the search at 3:30 a.m. Monday, having found no trace of a crash, but resumed the search again at 8:00 a.m. The search officially ended at approximately 10:15 a.m. Monday.
Lower Alloways Creek Township Police Chief, Eric Peterson, said that at about 2 p.m. Monday he received a call from a woman in Deptford Township who said she saw the same thing. According to Michael Talpas, who talked to the police, at least two other people who were driving in cars called in to report sighting the “helicopter.” One person thought he heard a muffled crash. https://youtu.be/saLiQh3IUFw
Editor’s Note‘’ Through the years MUFON has received numerous reports of lights and UFOs in the area. A typical report was made by a pastor who spotted a UFO appearing to take electrical power by hovering a few feet above the power lines with a blue electrical arc between them.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX will continue in the Space Force’s National Security Space Launch program. Challengers Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin were left to hope for future military launch wins in subsequent competitions. ULA will provide the rockets for 60 percent of Space Force launch missions through 2024, while SpaceX will handle the other 40 percent. Together, they will support up to 34 Space Force and National Reconnaissance Office launches over the next few years.
Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the UAPTF.
The Department of Defense established the UAPTF to improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs. The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.
As DOD has stated previously, the safety of our personnel and the security of our operations are of paramount concern. The Department of Defense and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report. This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.
Supernatural Is neither Fantasy nor Fiction
The supernatural is neither fantasy nor fiction but a vital and authentic aspect of life, according to famed experiencer Whitley Strieber and professor of religion at Rice University Dr. Jeffrey Kripal. Both men joined George Knapp for a discussion which argued that all kinds of “impossible” things, from extra-dimensional beings to bumps in the night, are not impossible at all. Strieber began with a discussion of the so-called UFO “meta materials,” which he said did not necessarily come from another world, but that we just “can’t make [manufacture] it yet.” Kripal added that the recent revelations about these materials have “really changed the conversation in the public square” about UFOs. Kripal pointed out that there is a history in religious literature of objects (such as clothing or other items) that are supposed to give the faithful a direct connection with the Divine, and that these supposed materials are quite similar in function for us.
Strieber said he believes that most information about this subject is so secret that it has not been written down because those who deal with it want no records that can be traced. Kripal said he remains “skeptical about the notion of disclosure,” and that he doesn’t believe that anyone “in the military of the government has the capacity or the means to know the truth.” Both guests discussed various incidents that occurred when Strieber’s wife Anne passed away in 2015. Strieber recalled a series of phone calls from close friends who told him that Anne had asked them to call and report that she was OK. Kripal described an incident when they were sharing a cabin at a conference where he woke in the middle of the night and perceived an “indirect experience with something that Whitley experienced directly.” He also said that many scientists and academics are “in the closet on this,” but are becoming more open to the UFO issue.
The last two hours, Strieber talked about his newest book on the Visitors, and his and others’ experiences with them, as well as other strange experiences that have happened to him over the past decades.
Jetliners Encounter UFOs Over New Jersey
On Monday night, ham radio operator John N. Gonzalez, N2IXW, picked up a UFO report while listening to radio traffic on the air. According to, Gonzalez he heard the conversation between the tower at Newark, N.J. airport and Flight 262 on 118.300 MHz on November 17, 1997Two other unidentified air crews also joined in the conversation.
Here is a transcript:
JET #2: “Watch out! The two (UFOs) are coming up to you.”
FLIGHT 262: “Well, Captain, the two up here are coming down to meet with you.”
TOWER: “Flight 262, what is your status?”
FLIGHT 262: “We have 236 souls onboard and fifty thousand (pounds) of fuel. I think these damn things are going to hit us. We are over Morristown just in case there is a collision with them. (Pause) They have taken off towards the northeast. And, by the way, towards the northeast, it also looks like a meteor or space debris is coming down.”
(Editor’s Note: Monday night, November 17, was the tail end of the annual Leonid meteor shower.)
TOWER: “Do you wish to report a UFO sighting?”
FLIGHT 262: (Pause) No, we have nothing to report.”
JET #2: “We heard you. I am making sure the passengers are all right. And, no, I have nothing to report, either.”
JET#3: “You guys have seen more than your share of UFOs. I know I have.”
TOWER: “Who are you? Please identify yourself.” (There was no response) “Flight 262, go to the emergency frequency. We will meet with the both of you there.”
(See Sky watch Investigations #47. Many thanks to George A. Filer for letting UFO ROUNDUP quote from his report.)
Triangle Objects Photographed
In March of 2014, a group of aviation enthusiasts spotted three triangle-shaped aircraft over Amarillo, Texas, that they called a “flying Dorito.” They argue that the back of the aircraft was flat and not jagged like a B-2 Stealth Bomber. In February of 2014, an amateur photographer in Kansas also saw and took photos of a triangular aircraft.
Possible TR-3 or alien craft
YouTube conspiracy theorists Blake and Brett Cousins of third phase of moon shared a video of the alleged UFO, who claims they were sent video and photos of the unexplained UFO. The UFO conspiracy theorists allege that the images are of the TR-3B, a long-rumored top-secret United States Air Force spy plane. The TR-3 Black Manta is allegedly a surveillance plane that is believed to have been developed for the USAF as part of a black project.
The narrators of the video suggest that the aircraft was heading towards the Columbia River. One witness said that the aircraft did not make a sound.
Two of the most lucrative crimes are selling drugs and body parts. Large amounts of money are given to politicians who protect Mexican drug dealers in sanctuary cities and those who protect Planned Parenthood who sell body parts. Apparently 71,999 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2019. If you check with the local police in many of the cities you’ll find they are told to leave the key drug dealers alone, if a dealer is arrested they are usually let go quickly before ICE can return them to their country of immigration. Sanctuary city refers to municipal jurisdictions, typically in the Northern United States that limits their cooperation with the government’s effort to enforce immigration.
Planned Parenthood recently admitted in court they sell the body parts of babies. In a video released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), Planned Parenthood and abortion industry officials gave sworn testimony describing how babies born alive with beating hearts in their facilities are then harvested for organs. Planned Parenthood claims there are one million three hundred thousand abortions each year and most Clinics remain open during the virus.
Kamala Harris receives large contributions from Planned Parenthood as the liberal former California Attorney General and a Senator. In her acceptance speech she stated she advocates Pro Choice for all women More than two dozen U.S. senators asked the Justice Department Friday to expand its investigation into Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s (PPFA) fetal tissue practices of selling babies’ body parts., the latest effort to push the DOJ about an investigation it has mostly kept under wraps since 2017.
August 11, 2020, the preliminary hearing for undercover journalist David Daleiden began Tuesday in California with Planned Parenthood admitting that it harvested aborted babies’ body parts and supplied them to human tissue procurement companies,. On July 16, 2020, the tapes showed senior Planned Parenthood officials talking about selling aborted babies’ body parts for huge profits and how they were talking about buying very expensive s cars.
Daleiden and Sandra Merritt face 15 felony charges for invasion of privacy of Planned Parenthood because they exposed the abortion chain’s gruesome baby body parts trade sometimes after the baby was born. Tuesday began a nine-day preliminary hearing about whether the case should go to trial, Courthouse News reports.
” Merritt’s attorney Nicolaie Cocis told the news outlet. “What today has revealed is the prosecution by the attorney general is political in nature and built on a house of cards.”
Daleiden’s and Merritt’s lawyers believe their prosecution is politically motivated by politicians like California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Kamala Harris , who received huge campaign donations from the abortion industry No other journalists have been prosecuted for similar videos.
Five years ago the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released undercover videos that revealed evidence of criminal activity by America’s largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood. The tapes showed senior Planned Parenthood officials talking about selling aborted babies’ body parts for profit and how Planned Parenthood manipulated its abortion techniques to procure fresh, intact organs from children killed in late-term abortions. In a separate conversation,
Dr. Mary Gatter, Planned Parenthood’s Medical Directors’ Council President haggled over the price of baby body parts, saying, “I want a Lamborghini.”
These videos generated massive outrage from pro-life and pro-choice Americans alike. Instead of prosecuting Planned Parenthood, the abortion industry’s political allies have dragged the Center for Medical Progress and its founder David Daleiden through an endless (and ongoing) legal battle for exposing this gruesome truth. And all the while, officials from Planned Parenthood mounted a full-scale media offensive against Daleiden, which was parroted by the mass media, alleging the undercover footage Daleiden captured was “heavily edited.”
It wasn’t until recently that the undercover journalist was finally vindicated. In fact, the strategy of tying CMP and Daleiden up with costly and unending legal battles actually backfired because, in the process, the same high-level Planned Parenthood employees had to admit under oath the veracity of the original videos.
The abortion lobby backs democratic candidates who will rubber-stamp their agenda and turn a blind eye to their wrongdoing, which explains why Planned Parenthood is investing $45 million to elect democrats, I v been told aliens, angels feel this is a barbaric practice,
The True Story of Major George Filer an Air Force Intelligence Officer and flyer’s Life with UFOs.
Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere. These men – military professionals who flew planes, commanded ships, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at air fields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing strange lights at night and in the daylight, groups of saucer- or cigar-shaped craft that easily paced them just a few yards off their plane’s wingtip. Award-winning investigative reporter John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base/ McGuire AFB in 1978 – is fully recounted. Filer is also a member of the Disclosure Project, the famous panel of military experts, astronauts, and scientists that urges the U.S.to release UFO information, for the first time, after decades of denying what its intelligence officers, pilots, and air traffic control personnel know to be true, the military finally admitted to what Filer describes in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra (Author) click on this link: https://amzn.to/2SmCKMy
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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho strange craft on August 1, 2020
Filer’s Files 34, 2020 New Navy UFO/UAP Task Force - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Perris – On August 8, 2020, my wife and I were filling up gas at 9 AM for a Road trip to Vegas on Saturday August 8 2020.
I noticed in the sky a reflective gold round shaped object with a cylinder coming down from the bottom. I immediately told my wife to look up and we both observed and started recording it. I watched it floated and hovered high up and zipping up and down and then to the right before it would disappear for a few moments and then come back into focus on the camera, I filmed it for just over a minute before I got back in the car.
Colorado Blue Light
Highlands Ranch — on August 9, 2020, I have no idea if this is anything. Just found it odd. Didn’t see anything flying around that nigh
Idaho Lights
Jakarta — On August 10, 2020, a Yellow saucer first appeared over the skies. An orb was moving across the sky then stopped hovered for a long time and even started dancing and moving all across the sky.
It flew extremely fast with radical sharp turns… While filming this UFO a green orb appeared, then disappeared.
This show lasted from 09:33 pm until around 10:30 pm. My family and I took pictures and videos until we could not take any more mosquito bites…\Photo courtesy of MUFON.com
Coeur d’Alene –I noticed an object about 4am on 15 July 2020. On 17 July I was able to take about a 40 min video that shows a round object that was pulsating. On 1 August I took a picture with my iPhone and noticed the lights were closer. I enlarged it and saw this craft. I spent 20 years in Marine Corps aviation and never saw anything like it.
Louisiana Skin Markings
Avondale– On August 2, 2020, I discovered these strange markings on my husband’s back. They look identical to someone’s photos on your website. Can you give me more insight on what this could be? My husband is 40. We live in Avondale, Louisiana about 15 minutes from New Orleans.
Note: These same markings have been reported from others. The witness is 40 so the markings ARE NOT due to shingles. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
New Jersey Rectangle
Voorhees — Rectangular Bright Orange Object with fuzzy edges on one side traveling slowly at about 500 feet altitude. I followed the object’s path by car until gone. I was leaving work at 9:00 pm, and I noticed the object in the sky in the east. I immediately knew it did not resemble any kind of known craft. There was no doubt it was a UFO. It was a rectangular bright orange object with fuzzy edges on one side. It was traveling slowly at about 500 feet altitude near Haddonfield-Berlin Road in Voorhees, NJ on, July 29, 2020 I got in my car and followed it driving on side streets for about 5 minutes as it increased altitude and gradually disappeared.
Pennsylvania Object
Brackenridge – On August 8, 2020, I was grilling burgers and looked up and saw something odd. I asked the wife to come lookand I took pictures. It was hard to find in the screen and I zoomed in and got a few pictures and my wife also so it.
Texas Orb
Donna– On August 11, 2020, I was taking out the garbage at about 10.30 pm. I looked up in the sky and saw a white pulsating object that was very bright. I looked down for a brief second, and the object changed to a bright red glowing. I fiddled for my camera on my phone. I looked back up and that it when I shot two pictures of what was now some sort of vehicle. I had gotten much closer. The quiet vehicle had a thick circular shape.
Utah Object
Cottonwood Heights— saw something with only white lights that pulsated at the same time went to wake up my boyfriend. He wouldn’t wake up so I took pictures on July 29, 2020.
Washington Lights
Deer Park – On August 10, 2020, my wife decided to take a walk with her friends and saw flashing and pulsing lights. She retrieved me and the object had moved quite a distance since their first sitting. I observed flashing lights within the triangle that flashed up and disappeared. Then a very bright light appeared over the ridge and went beyond my vision but appeared again then disappeared.
Wisconsin Orb
Jamesville— On August 6, 2020, we saw big planes fly under the black object. I even have it on video when it disappears for a second then reappears. There was no sound no nothing but we saw it and a few of my neighbors did as well. We have no logical explanation of what this thing could have been other than a UFO!!
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Objects
On August 8, 2020, I was taking pictures of this beautiful sunset and when I noticed a red ‘orb’ in the upper left quadrant of the photo. I then looked at the next photo taken only a few seconds later and note the set of lights in the upper right of the photo and a strange ‘shadow’ around it with a circular ‘shadow’ above it. Three minutes later the next photo showed nothing. Very interesting, but it is not the first time I have seen an ‘object’ in a cloud.
Note: I don’t think that the line of lights is due to a reflection and may in fact be a real object. The red orb could be a bright planet (perhaps Jupiter). Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite.
Pakenham Upper — Late last year I was up late about 2 am, when I came out I took a few steps towards the house on November 19, 2019., I looked up and seen a disc with a red light on it. The red light was EXACTLY like the light on K.I.T the car from the knight rider TV show. The craft had a gold or copper ring around it, and the ring was about 2-2.5 feet from top to bottom. The red light was on this ring and it was about 10-15 meters.
I was almost directly underneath the craft and its light was scanning because as soon as I seen it, it seen me and stopped and hovered above my house, I just knew it was looking at me. I was moving at the speed of a quick walk when it stopped and hovered it was only 2-5 meters above my house, I was within 10-15 meters of it and it did not make a sound, and did not affect the tree either, as I the leaves and branches were totally still. I called out to my house mate and did the disc started moving again slowly over my neighbors house
Indonesia Orb
Jakarta – On August 10, 2020, the UFO 1st appeared over the skies of north east Jakarta as a yellow saucer orb moving across the sky then hovered and even started dancing and moving all across the sky. While filming this UFO a green orb appeared far to the left, and then disappeared and after a couple of minutes it reappeared in a different position. This show lasted from 09:33 PM until around 10:30 PM. A twinkling bright light several kilometers away was also dancing and even split into three different lights.
Note: This witness recently reported another UFO sighting that included photos. He is really talking about sighting multiple objects in this report. The photo above displays the yellow saucer orb that he saw first. Thanks to Will .Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/,
Norway Orb
Finsland — We were on Norway Vacation on July 15, 2020, and visited my sister who lives on the country side, 30 minute drive from Kristiansand in south of Norway. One day my wife took a picture out the living room window at my sister’s house, just to document the snap chat to our daughter who was home. When we looked at the picture afterwards we saw there was a high cloudy but firm disc shaped form close to the house. Further back there is a clear light item with same shape in the distance above the tree on the other side of the road.
UK/England Cylinder Lights
Bristol– On August 12, 2020, just taking pictures of the sky and saw this on the picture but I didn’t see it in the sky
Brierly Hill– On August 11, 2020, I was filming a massive electrical storm out of my bedroom window a craft of some type comes into view from the left hand side and flies across the screen at about a 30 degree angle in a straight line, then the craft changes to a steeper angle and accelerates off faster,
I saw it actually go straight up into the clouds and disappeared from site. It took less than 1.40 seconds to go from almost left to right. The craft appears to be long rocket type shape but made in 3 sections, kind of like 3 balls stuck together, smaller at the front and bigger at the back. On each section it has a glowing light green light and is intense and shimmers even in a photograph. It flew straight up in a huge electrical storm which is not normal.
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If you want to see a bunch of powerful comic book superheroes team up to fend off extraterrestrial threats to our home planet, there’s no better place to look than Marvel’s AvengersDefenders of the Earth! This 1986 animated series from King Features, with development by Marvel and production from a trio of overseas studios including Toei Animation, united the bigger-than-life heroes of King Features Syndicate. Flash Gordon, Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and Lothar joined forces to defend Earth (hence the name) from the villainous intents of Ming the Merciless. Helping to fight back for the fate of their planet were the second generation of heroes, including Rick Gordon, Jedda Walker, the adopted son Kshin and his space-alien pet Zuffy, and Lothar “L.J.” Junior.
While these characters might not be the first that come to mind when thinking about comic book superheroes, they’re definitely classics for a reason. We’re coming up on their 100th anniversary — a pretty monumental task for any character, really — so what better way to celebrate than by watching Defenders of the Earth? Unfortunately, some of the backwards tropes — racist, misogynist, every other -ist — is part of the package here. Is it bad enough to dip, or just enough to force us into tough conversations? Tune in to find out! (And big thanks to @MrJake for the listener recommendation!)
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'Petrol-drinking' aliens could be living on moons of Saturn, scientists believe
Experts are divided over whether other life forms exist in extraterrestrial eco-systems
By Tom Bull & Lorna Hughes
Saturn's moon Titan could be home to alien life forms
(Image: Getty Images)
Saturn's moon Titan could be home to alien life forms that drink "petrol", scientists have claimed.
They say its minus-179C temperatures could be sustaining organisms that feed on chemicals - mainly methane and ethane.
Scientists have debated what the definition of alien life should be as they examine which eco-systems would be capable of sustaining a living thing, the Daily Star reports.
But few believe extraterrestrial life - if it exists at all - would rely on the same chemicals we have on Earth.
Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum of the University of Cambridge told The News Alerts.“Nasa needs a definition of life so it knows how to build detectors and what kinds of instruments to use on its missions.
“It would be wrong to assume that our familiar biochemistry is what we’re going to find on other planets.”
One school of thought that has emerged is that alien life could be found in "lakes" on the surface of Titan.
Although it is too cold for water, a mission in 2005 revealed that they are made of hydrocarbons similar to petrol.
And one scientist has suggested that there could be life feeding in the petrol lakes.
Planetary scientist Stuart Bartlett of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena told the outlet: “There could be organisms floating in Titan’s atmosphere that essentially drink petrol to sustain themselves.”
Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is also considered to be a potential breeding ground for alien life.
Nasa and China have both set off on missions to establish whether there has, or is, life on Mars - but the debate over what that life looks like continues.
Astro biologist Lynn Rothschild from Nasa’s Ames research centre told The News Alerts: “You can’t hunt for something if you have no idea what it is.”
Unique Painting of Extinct Giant Sloth Discovered in Madagascar Cave
A team of scientists exploring a cave in western Madagascar have discovered an ancient painting which they are calling the “only known drawing of an extinct giant lemur” that once lived in the island’s remote western forests until at least 1,000 years ago.
Researchers from the Natural History Museum explain on the museum website that Madagascar used to be home to giant lemurs, which they say could grow to the size of silverback gorillas. Except for the discovery of a few bones, no tangible evidence of what these giant animals actually looked like previously existed, which makes the discovery of this new cave painting particularly exciting.
Exploring the Island of Prehistoric Megafauna
The island of Madagascar is located off the south-eastern coast of continental Africa and is still today home to a diverse range of lemurs. Archaeological finds, such as cut marks on bones found in the northwest, and stone tools in the northeast, tell archaeologists that Madagascar was visited by foragers around 2000 BC. However a 2018 paper published in Science Advances explains that “Early Holocene humans might have existed on the island 10,500 years ago” when a huge range of megafauna, that no longer exists today, dominated the island. This group of megafauna included the largest birds ever to exist, elephant birds , as well as giant tortoises, the Malagasy crowned hawk-eagle and pygmy hippos.
Research has found that when early Holocene humans first lived on the island, it was also inhabited by a wide range of now extinct megafauna, including the giant sloth, elephant birds, giant tortoises and pygmy hippos.
In a new paper published in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology , Museum researcher Julian Hume , who studies extinct animals of the Indian Ocean, describes the painting as the “only known drawing of a giant sloth lemur” to have been found in the caves of western Madagascar. In a second paper, published in Quaternary Research , Hume also describes a new fossil site which determines giant lemurs existed on Madagascar until at least 1,000 years ago, a long time after humans first settled the island.
Multiple experts agree that the only creature the cave drawing could represent is the now extinct giant sloth, said to have existed only in Madagascar.
Bizarre Ancient Animal Thought to Represent the Now Extinct Giant Sloth
Hume has concluded that Madagascar was home to multiple species of giant lemurs, some which, according to an article on the Natural History Museum website, “were the size of silverback gorillas that likely spent much of their time on the forest floor.” While the image found in the cave painting doesn’t look like you would expect, multiple experts have all agreed that the only creature it could represent is the now extinct giant sloth which is said to have been found nowhere else in the world.
The paper in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology says sloth lemurs were highly specialized animals “reaching up to the size of sheep” that would have hung from tree branches and slowly made their way through the dry forest canopies, and that the sloth lemur Babakotia was “a really bizarre species,” compared to modern sloths that use their claws to hang upside down. Rather, the Babakotia's fingers were elongated and curved to one side forming “rigid hooks” disabling the lemurs to use their hands for anything else.
On the left, a life restoration of the giant sloth lemur. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) On the right a male crowned lemur photographed at Ankarana Special Reserve in Madagascar.
The team of scientists discovered the fossils of four different species of giant lemur, along with bones from the extinct Madagascan aardvark, or bibymalagasy, and also the remains of extinct giant cuckoos and giant fossa, which was about two thirds larger than the species that survives today. Carbon dates for these bones show that giant lemurs survived into the last millennium. The researchers concluded that one of the main causes for the extinction of most of these large animals “was people,” and that the cave, which is located in a remote dry forest, was one of the last remaining refuges for some of the megafauna.
Astonishing Discovery of Complex Matrix of Ancient Symbols
What the researchers said was “astonishing” is that the cave art included abstract symbols which have only previously been found in a cave site on the island of Borneo, some 7,500 kilometers away, and that date to “2,000 years ago.” This is about the same time that the first Indonesians arrived in Madagascar and it is highly likely that that they carried these symbols with them, a theory which if correct makes the cave site, and painting, anything from 1,000 to 2,000 years old.
The cave art found, also included abstract symbols only previously seen at a cave site on the island of Borneo, 7,500 kilometers away.
The art discovered in the cave also contains lettering resembling ancient Arabic script from Ethiopia, and human figures with head shapes which, the paper explains, “bare a passing similarity to the ancient Egyptian gods.” And while this mixing of Indonesian, African and Malagasy cultural symbols from thousands of years ago is incredibly alluring and suggestive, the researchers said all this was still rather speculative for the time being.
Top image: The cave painting, believed to represent the now extinct giant sloth lemur, was discovered inthe a limestone cave located in a nature reserve in western Madagascar.
An international team of scientists has discovered stylistically unique ancient drawings, including the only known prehistoric depiction of a now-extinct giant sloth lemur, on the walls of a rock shelter in western Madagascar.
Photograph (top) and artist’s sketch (bottom) of the inferred hunting scene: hunter (background, left) extends weapon toward inverted large animal in foreground; two dog-like zoomorphs are on the right.
Image credit: Burney et al, doi: 10.1080/15564894.2020.1749735.
The drawings were discovered by Dr. David Burney from Hawaii’s National Tropical Botanical Garden and his colleagues from the United Kingdom, Madagascar and the United States in Andriamamelo Cave near the small village of Anahidrano.
All the depictions are painted with dry-applied black pigments made from charcoal or iron minerals.
They include several image groupings that comprise naturalistic scenes, with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and human-animal hybrid figures.
Of possible significance is a repeated use of an M-shaped motif (ሐ), with anthropomorphic development in a few cases.
“We have not found this figure in other rock art around the Indian Ocean, except a rare occurrence in Borneo, believed to have been created about 2,000 years ago,” the researchers said.
“It also matches one distinctive character found in the Amharic alphabet of Ethiopia.”
“Eight instances were noted where images and themes suggest Ptolemaic Egyptian mythological characters and symbols, some possibly of stellar constellations,” they added.
“There are no characters from the Latin alphabet. No cattle images, nor any Judaeo-Christian, Muslim, or Hindu symbology.”
Dr. Burney and co-authors also identified several living animals and three representatives of the extinct megafauna: elephant bird, tortoise, and giant sloth lemur.
The latter appears in a hunting scene, with a hunter pointing a weapon, the giant lemur upside down, and two dogs.
The sloth lemurs (family Palaeopropithecidae) are a group of extinct giant lemurs that includes four genera. The common name can be misleading, as these creatures were not closely related to South American sloths. As the name implies, sloth lemurs were designed for treetop living, with long arms and legs, limber joints and hook-like hands and feet. These adaptations allowed them to be adept at both leaping and climbing. It is believed that over-hunting and the burning of their forest habitat by early human residents combined with a naturally slow reproductive rate gradually led to their extinction. This is a life restoration of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of medium-sized sloth lemur from Madagascar.
Image credit: Smokeybjb / CC BY-SA 3.0.
“Standing on the left behind the other figures is an anthropomorph that appears to be brandishing a weapon, perhaps drawing a bow,” the scientists said.
“There are two distinct legs, and a third appendage pointing backward in the manner of a tail or a sheathed sword. The posture and detail evoke classical images of the conspicuous constellation Orion.”
“The weapon seems to aim toward a larger and more distinct image in the foreground, a zoomorph lying on its back with legs in the air.”
“We have only a few clues to the identity of this large conspicuous zoomorph. This animal’s profile is consistent with that of the extinct sloth lemurs.”
“These large primates are known as abundant subfossils from Anjohingidrobe Cave also in Beanka, such as Babakotia radofilai. They are generally reconstructed with long forelimbs, a short snout, and small rounded ears.”
“Beyond are two zoomorphs we interpret as dogs, one looking toward the ‘sloth lemur’ and the other, with erect ears, in the opposite direction.”
The authors think the drawings were created approximately in the beginning of the Christian Era or a few centuries before.
“The local people associate the images with a different ethnic group from themselves (Vazimba or Bosy), from an unknown time, who made them in connection with divination,” they said.
The discovery is described in a paper in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology.
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David A. Burney et al. Rock art from Andriamamelo Cave in the Beanka Protected Area of western Madagascar. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, published online May 26, 2020; doi: 10.1080/15564894.2020.1749735
Update 7/26: We've updated this story to include official comments provided by the Pentagon to Popular Mechanics, as well as a clarification of Senator Harry Reid's original comments in the New York Times report.
For years, the U.S. government has repeatedly changed its tune regarding its official involvement with UFO research.
As recently as February, a Pentagon spokesperson told Popular Mechanics that, while a government program did investigate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and other unexplained aerial phenomena for some time last decade, funding dried up in 2012. But when Popular Mechanics thoroughly investigated the covert program, multiple sources said it’s still ongoing to this day.
Now, a new report in the New York Times confirms those accounts. The government’s UFO unit currently resides in the Office of Naval Intelligence, where it “deals with classified matters,” per the report, even though the unit itself isn’t classified. The Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force is meant to “standardize collection and reporting” on sightings of UAVs and publicly divulge “at least some of its findings” twice a year, according to the Times.
In a June Senate Committee Report, the Senate authorized appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for the task force, supporting its efforts to reveal any links that unidentified aerial phenomena “have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations.”
From the report:
The Committee remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the Federal Government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat. The Committee understands that the relevant intelligence may be sensitive; nevertheless, the Committee finds that the information sharing and coordination across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders.
Therefore, the Committee directs the DNI, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of such other agencies as the Director and Secretary jointly consider relevant, to submit a report within 180 days of the date of enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena (also known as ‘‘anomalous aerial vehicles’’), including observed airborne objects that have not been identified.
Senator Marco Rubio, who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told a CBS affiliate in Florida that he’s most interested to learn from the task force who’s responsible for unidentified aircraft spotted over American military bases. Rubio said he hopes “the Chinese or Russians or some other adversary” hasn’t made “some sort of technological leap” that “allows them to conduct this sort of activity.”
“That to me,” Rubio said, “is a national security risk and one we should be looking into.”
While such UAVs may very well come from foreign adversaries, the other possibility, of course, is that we can’t pinpoint their origins from anywhere on this planet. And that’s where the New York Times report gets really interesting.
Harry Reid, the former Nevada senator who was instrumental in funding the original UFO program, told the Times he believes that “crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied.” From the article:
“After looking into this, I came to the conclusion that there were reports— some were substantive, some not so substantive—that there were actual materials that the government and the private sector had in their possession.”
(An earlier version of the Times article said Reid believed “crashes from other worlds” had indeed occurred, and that retrieved materials had been “studied secretly for decades, often by aerospace companies under government contracts.” The Times has corrected Reid's account, and Reid has since clarified his statements in a tweet, below. Popular Mechanics has updated this section of the article accordingly.)
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The astrophysicist Eric Davis, who consulted with the Pentagon’s original UFO program and now works for the defense contractor Aerospace Corporation, told the Times that after he examined certain materials, he came to the conclusion that “we couldn’t make [them] ourselves.” In fact, Davis briefed a Department of Defense (DOD) agency as recently as March about retrieving materials from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”
"As we have said previously, the Department of Defense and all of the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously, and examine each report," Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough tells Popular Mechanics in a statement. "This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as 'unidentified aerial phenomena' (UAP) when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing. Thorough examinations of any incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace often involves assessments from across the department, and, as appropriate, consultation with other U.S. government departments and agencies."
Gough continues:
The safety of our personnel and the security of our operations is of paramount concern. To protect our people and maintain operations security, which includes not providing information that may be useful to our adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either the observations or the examination of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP.
In regards to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force mentioned in Times, Gough confirms the Department of Defense "is creating a task force to gain knowledge and insight into the nature and origins of UAPs," as well as their "operations, capabilities, performance, and/or signatures."
The mission, Gough says, "will be to detect, analyze, catalog, consolidate, and exploit non-traditional aerospace vehicles/UAPs posing an operational threat to U.S. national security and avoid strategic surprise."
The Times report, and the anticipated public disclosure of findings from Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, are the latest in encouraging recent developments surrounding UFO research.
In 2019, the Navy confirmed the three videos, taken by Navy pilots, indeed show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place. Then in April, the service dropped the clips on its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) page, a repository for documents released under the federal law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of U.S. government information to the public.
The clips were first released in 2017 and 2018 by The New York Times and To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a UFO research group from former blink-182 member Tom DeLonge.
“After a thorough review,” a Pentagon spokesperson told Popular Mechanics in April, “the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”
The Battle of the Delta: Ramses III saves Egypt from the People of the Sea
The ancient Egyptian pharaohs often commemorated military victories over their enemies by having them depicted on the walls of great monuments. One of the most famous conflicts recorded on the walls of an Egyptian temple is that of the Battle of the Delta, fought by the pharaoh Ramesses III against the invading Sea Peoples.
The Battle of the Delta is thought to have been fought during the year 1175 BC. On one side were the Egyptians under Ramesses III, perceived by some to be the last great pharaoh of the New Kingdom. On the other side were the mysterious Sea Peoples, a term used to describe a group of sea-faring raiders mentioned in several Egyptian sources. These include the Peleset (Philistines), Tjekker of Crete, Shekelesh (Sicilians), Shardana / Sherden (Sardinians), and Lukka (possible ancestors of the Lycians).
Incidentally, several ancient Mediterranean civilizations, i.e. the Hittite, Mycenaeans and Mitanni kingdoms, came to an end around 1175 BC, and one theory claims that their downfall was caused by the Sea Peoples. The ferocity of these raiders is also echoed in an inscription on the walls of the mortuary temple of Ramesses II in Medinet Habu, where the pharaoh’s victory is commemorated. According to the text, “Not one stood before their hands,” and numerous cities were laid to waste.
Procession of Philistine Captives At Medinet-habu.
Egypt seems to have been the next target of these aggressive warriors. Prior to the Battle of the Delta, Ramesses III had obtained a great victory over the ‘Peoples of the Sea’ at the Battle of Djahy. Somewhere along Egypt’s easternmost frontier (modern day southern Lebanon), Ramesses III engaged and defeated an army of the Sea People that was attempting to invade his empire by land. Much of our knowledge of this battle comes from Medinet Habu. Given the lack of other sources, it has been suggested that Ramesses III might not have routed an army at Djahy. It is possible that the pharaoh actually had gained a victory over a group of refugees fleeing from their cities, settlements destroyed by the People of the Sea. Of course, if this were the case, it would not be depicted on the walls of Medinet Habu, unless it were modified.
Wall Relief of Ramses III fighting the People of the Sea, on Migdol at Medinet Habu, Theban Necropolis, Egypt, 2009 by Remih
The Sea Peoples were also attempting to invade Egypt in ships. Compared to these expert sailors of the Mediterranean, the Egyptians may have been inferior seamen, and their ships technologically less advanced. Yet, Ramesses III had a cunning plan. Instead of engaging his enemies in open waters, he allowed them to sail unopposed into the Nile Delta. Powered by both sail and oars, the Egyptian ships were more manoeuvrable in this terrain than the sailing ships of their opponents, thus giving them an advantage. On the banks of the Nile, bowmen were placed to prevent the Sea Peoples from landing on Egyptian soil. Bowmen were also placed in the Egyptian ships to fire their deadly arrows at the enemies. The Sea Peoples, who were armed with swords and spears, were not able to counter-attack. Moreover, grappling hooks were used by the Egyptians to capsize many of the enemy ships.
Due to Ramesses III’s victory at the Battle of the Delta, the Egyptians were able to avoid being conquered by the Sea Peoples and suffering destruction at their hands. Nevertheless, there was a heavy price to pay. As a result of this conflict, the Egyptian treasury was drained and the Egyptian army was exhausted, thus contributing to the end of the glory days of the empire. Matters only got worse after the death of Ramesses III, as their eastern possessions were later colonized by the Philistines. In the long term, the weakening of Egypt due to the conflict with the People of the Sea, along with other important factors, would lead to the Third Intermediate Period about a century after the Battle of the Delta.
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Siberian media reported the discovery of a 50-meter deep crater in the Arctic tundra that suddenly opened up. Craters like these have been found since 2014, and scientists believe they may be a result of cryogenic eruptions—in other words, ice volcanoes.
According to the Siberian Times, a TV crew from station Vesti Yamal observed the massive crater by chance while traveling from an assignment. The crater is one of several on the Yamal and Taymyr peninsulas in Siberia, and these geological phenomena have been subjects of research for years.
One research group led by Lomosnosov Moscow State University geologist Andrey Bychkov proposed that the first discovered crater in the region was caused by an ice volcano eruption. In 2018, they published a paper in the journal Scientific Reports to explain the origin of what they dubbed the “spectacular crater.”
Bychkov said in an email that cryovolcanism is a known phenomenon on other planets, but prior to their study, ice volcanoes were not believed to exist on Earth. However, he found that a cryogenic eruption would adequately explain how the crater was formed.
At the time, others theorized that the crater may have been caused by a meteorite impact or deep migration of gas under the Earth’s surface.
In the paper, the authors describe how an ice-cored hill called a pingo would have exploded to produce the crater. First, a talik—an area of unfrozen ground surrounded by permafrost—forms underneath a thaw lake, a process lasting thousands of years. The top of the talik freezes over while methane and carbon dioxide builds up inside its core. The pneumatic pressure pushing up on the frozen top of the talik produces a pingo that eventually bursts.
Bychkov said that all but one of these explosions have happened in remote locations. People recorded smoke and loud sounds in the one instance that a crater formed near human habitation. According to Bychkov, these craters don't remain gaping holes in the Earth forever; water eventually fills these craters, producing round lakes that are widespread in the Arctic.
“There are thousands of round lakes; they may have been craters,” he said.
The explosions of pingos into craters also seem to be associated with unusually warm summers. The heat, according to Earther, likely weakened the Siberian permafrost, facilitating the explosion of methane from the pingo. Bychkov said we still do not know exactly how these warm temperatures affect cryovolcanism, though.
For Bychkov, it’s not the craters themselves that fascinate him; rather, it’s the ecology and composition of the taliks, ecosystems that have been shut off from the rest of the world for millennia.
“The most interesting thing is the life in the talik,” Bychkov said. “It is a closed world with evolution separated from oxygen for thousands of years. Special microbes can live at low temperatures and produce gases, which provide cryovolcanism. This world has not been explored.”
According to a new study, groups of stars can actually rip apart their planet-forming disks resulting with misaligned, broken, warped rings.
For eleven years, researchers from the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Chile, and the United States studied a young triple star system called GW Orionis that’s located 1,300 light-years away from Earth. They analyzed the data produced by the AMBER (Astronomical Multi-BEam combiner) and the GRAVITY instruments on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Then they analyzed data collected by the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch) instrument on the VLT and with the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope. (Pictures can be seen here.)
This superimposed image of of the GW Orionis star system shows images from the ALMA radio telescope (in blue) overlayed on the ESO Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument's view, which shows the shadow of the system's innermost ring.
(Image credit: ESO/Exeter/Kraus et al., ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO))
This artistic impression (left) shows the inner region of the disc in the triple-star system GW Orionis.
(Image credit: ESO/L. Calçada, Exeter/Kraus et al.)
They noticed that its ring-shaped planet-forming disks were being ripped apart by the three stars. “This data allowed us to build a detailed computer model of the system, which predicted that the circumstellar disk would be bent and even torn to form a separate inner ring,” Alison Young, who is from the Universities of Exeter and Leicester in England as well as a co-author of the study, explained in an email to Space.com.
She went on to say, “There have been a number of theoretical studies on disk-tearing effects, but this is the first direct evidence of effect occurring in a planet-forming disk,” adding, “This demonstrates that it is possible for such disks to be warped and broken and raises the possibility that planets could form on highly inclined orbits around multiple star systems.”
If scientists could find a planet within that triple star system, it would be the first time ever that a planet orbiting three suns would have been discovered. They did find 30 Earth-masses of dust in the interior portion of the disk which means that there is enough material present to form into planets. Stefan Kraus, who is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Exeter in the UK and the lead author of the study, went into further details, “It’s the best mechanism for forming planets on such extreme orbits, such as been found so far,” adding, “But … from the planet-detection side, we don’t have a way of detecting these planets yet.”
Young finished off by stating, “It is exciting to see mathematical predictions verified in observations so clearly. I find the SPHERE image particularly amazing because we can really see the disk is a 3-dimensional structure with a surface covered in bumps and shadows.” “We are looking at what could eventually become an unusual type of planetary system in the very process of forming.”
While scientists have already determined that multi-star systems can rip apart their disks, if they could find a planet within that system, it would be an even bigger historical discovery. We’ll have to wait and see what they can find.
These glowing UFOs were caught during sunset in Poland last week. There is a disk on the top and the bottom has two large glowing orbs. I wish he had captured some video of the event, but still this is amazing. I believe the large dis on top is the sun, but for it to have two mini suns in front of it is just...impossible. I have heard about reports of two suns recorded, but never three. Absolutely alien. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
This year is full of such strange events that the sight of an alien looking at me no longer touches me. This is one sun, but the clouds obscured it. This is a picture without filter, 100% original.
Bright Light Moves Over Homes, Lighting Them Up, Florida, Aug 22, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 22, 2020 Location of sighting: Palm Coast, Florida, USA Source: MUFON Watch as a glowing light is seen moving slowly over the rooftops and suddenly the UFO lights up powerfully and the home outdoor lights for both houses also light up. The UFO has an aura of electricity that clearly activated the light bulbs. If you have ever held a light bulb near a static source...you would see the light bulb in your hand light up. Its amazing but its real science. Thats how we know this is 100% a real UFO. No helicopter, drone or plane could ever do that. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Alien Disk Recovered, Slides Off Truck, Eyewitness Is Blown away, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 2020 Location of sighting:USA, city unknown Here is an interesting video of a trailer and truck having a bit of a problem with....a UFO sliding a bit too far and getting off balance. Now UFOs have been transported like this before. Why? Because lack of military trucks and police vehicles causes less alarm and draws less attention. Especially if they only have to take the craft short distances. Why not fly it you ask? If its a new disk given to the US military from aliens in trade for items...then who is going to know how to pilot it? No one, thus moving it to a secure location for pilot testing is important. This is 100% alien or it would not need to be transported anywhere. Maybe traded for, maybe a UFO crash in the area, what ever the case, we know this is headed to a military base, probably Area 51. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Hidden anomalies of Antarctica which they are trying to keep secret
Brad Olsen who has visited some of the research stations in Antarctica will talk about the work that is being performed down there by scientists.
Coordinates: 75°00'47.0"S 0°04'52.7"E
Furthermore Brad explores the possibility of a massive craft under the ice, pyramids in the Shackleton Range, megalithic architecture being uncovered, and the possibility of giants and Ice Age animals being uncovered from the ice.
Why are many of the elite going down there, to a location called the "Illuminati Disneyland"? These locations and more will be explored!
Real aliens? Here are all the scientists arguing UFOs exist
With the help of social media and even recent announcements by the U.S. Navy, more than ever believers are pushing to prove UFOs exist. If fuzzy pictures or government conspiracies aren’t enough to convince you, maybe these scientists can.
From documenting key evidence to tightening their arguments, the scientific community is changing the dialogue on UFOs. Here are all the outspoken scientists arguing for the existence of UFOs.
UFOs exist: So do Earthlings from the future
Refusing to denounce the recent stockpile of images & testimonials of UFO sightings is the stance of Michael Masters – a biological anthropology professor at the University of Montana.
In the argument for the existence of UFOs, Masters doesn’t think these objects are the vehicle of choice for little green people. Instead, Masters proposed UFOs are driven by humans from the future. Master’s discussed the theory in his book, Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon (2019).
Putting stake in the greater proof of UFOs than of aliens, Masters discussed his theory with Leonard Davis from Space.com. Davis theorized, “We know that we’ve had a long evolutionary history on this planet. And we know our technology is going to be more advanced in the future. I think the simplest explanation, innately, is that it is us.”
An astronaut knows aliens are real
Scientist & astronaut Helen Sharman was Britain’s first astronaut. Sharman took a trip to the Soviet Mir space station in 1991, and returned with a conclusive thought: “aliens exist, there’s no two ways about it.”
Sharman spent eight days working in space as a chemist and researcher. She even believes many of us may have had encounters with aliens during our lives and didn’t know. If perspective from the ground isn’t enough to convince you, what about from someone who’s seen our very civilization from above?
In January 2020 Sharman told The Observer, “There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of different forms of life” – although Sharman doesn’t know if they’re carbon-based like humans. She even suggested, “It’s possible they’re here right now and we simply can’t see them.”
UFOs exist: They’re worth a “serious study”
Those are the beliefs of Kevin Knuth – a NASA researcher and assistant professor of physics at the University of Albany in NY. Knuth remembered always being interested in UFOs, and professed, “there’s plenty of evidence to support UFO sightings.”
With a firm understanding of the scientific method, Knuth admitted studying or testing for UFOs is “extremely challenging” – the appearance of UFOs can’t just be repeated. Knuth discussed the “discrepancy between the expectation that there should be evidence of . . . and the presumption that no visitations have been observed.”
What Knuff described is called the Fermi Paradox, spawned by the belief the billions of stars must hold life beyond our knowledge. Knuff also discussed sightings by military governments. He proposed, “some of the strange flying objects that outperform the best aircraft in our inventory and defy explanation may indeed be visitors from afar.”
In Kevin Knuth’s opinion, the biggest issue with the very topic of UFOs is its taboo nature in the scientific community. Instead, he turns to the wide array of multiple witnesses, photographic evidence, and patterns of activity. If UFOs and aliens exist, they need to be taken seriously if they’re going to be documented with substantial proof.
Take UFOs seriously: A scientist’s argument
In response to the recent comments on possible UFO existence from the U.S. Navy, Vox spoke to Alexander Wendt – an author & political scientist. Wendt hasn’t tried hiding his own frustrations with the scientific community for their underwhelming reaction to new evidence on UFOs & alien life.
Wendt specializes in topics related to social science and interpersonal interactions, and is intrigued by the unknown something blocking scientists from taking UFO studies seriously. At a loss, Wendt stated, “. . . anything else even remotely this interesting would generate limitless research dollars.”
In his Vox interview, Wendt acknowledged his true feelings on the significance for such a discovery: “Because if ETs were discovered, it would be the most important event in human history.” Now it’s hard to argue with the truth in those words, and more than ever it feels like unwilling scientists are the ones affecting progress – not a lack of UFOs.
Aliens are real, but not recognizable
Again casting aside the theory of green people or Earth destroyers from films, several scientists are aligned with the belief aliens may be among us. However, unlike cinematic depictions, the creatures just aren’t in a form we’d expect – or even recognize.
Such are the beliefs of Andrew Fraknoi – a member of the board for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Mountain View, and former professor of astronomy at Foothill College in California.
Instead of full-size beings, Fraknoi adheres to a different popular belief amongst some astrobiologists. Aliens may be among us, but arrived in the form of microorganisms. From our lands to our oceans, it’s hard to keep track of everything falling to Earth. Fraknoi instilled in his students the belief intelligent life comes in every shape & size.
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UFO’s, Bigfoot, a second shooter on the grassy knoll. America’s history is rich with urban myths and conspiracy theories. In many, if not most, of these fantastical tales, the federal government plays a prominent role. I think a healthy skepticism of government is a good thing within reason, irrespective of whether Uncle Sam is writing your paychecks or merely extracting taxes from them. But those who work for the government are, in my experience, sometimes the wariest of governmental power. They’ve seen up-close-and-personal the vast resources and long arm of our nation’s law enforcement and intelligence apparatuses in a way that most private citizens can only imagine. They know what the government is capable of when the wheels start turning.
HOW DEEP DOES A BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION GO?
And so, it is perhaps unsurprising that many of the people who call my office looking for legal help in preparing for a security clearance background investigation are not first-time, blissfully ignorant applicants, but rather current clearance holders up for periodic review. They are commonly concerned about something the government might dig up and frequently wondering, “how deep does this investigation go?”.
Truth be told, not very deep. Despite incredible advances in technology over the past few decades, the security clearance background investigation process remains decidedly low-tech and horribly outdated. Policy-makers within the federal bureaucracy are working to change this, but the process is something akin to repositioning a cruise-liner: slow and incremental.
INVASIVE INVESTIGATIONS NEED CONSENT
Until and unless radical transformations occur, security clearance background investigators won’t be reading your emails, surveilling your movements, bugging your telephones, or surreptitiously tracking your internet browsing history – all questions I’ve been asked by current clearance holders over the years.
Even with hypothetical policy changes allowing for more invasive means of investigation, efforts like these would legally require the security clearance applicant’s affirmative consent. The only alternative would be if authorities obtained a search warrant pursuant to specific and articulatable evidence of criminal conduct obtained via otherwise authorized investigative methods.
LACK OF RESOURCES
Part of the reason for this is that the government simply lacks the resources to do a deep investigative dive on every security clearance applicant. Security officials have to instead assess risk and allocate resources accordingly. No doubt there are some particularly paranoid security officials out there advocating for the Orwellian state, but it isn’t happening – at least not any time soon.
BIG BROTHER ISN’T NECESSARILY WATCHING
So, rest-assured that applying for a security clearance doesn’t mean Big Brother will be watching your every move. But do remember to exercise reasonable prudence and common sense, lest those otherwise private activities you’d like to keep private unexpectedly spill out into the open.
Record-breaking gravitational waves reveal that midsize black holes do exist
Spacetime ripples reveal the most massive and most distant black hole collision yet
Two black holes orbited each another, sending out ripples of gravitational waves (illustrated in blue and pink in this computer simulation) before merging to form the first definitive example of a midsize black hole.
The biggest. The farthest. The most energetic. A new detection of gravitational waves from two colliding black holes has racked up multiple superlatives.
What’s more, it also marks the first definitive sighting of an intermediate mass black hole, one with a mass between 100 and 100,000 times the sun’s mass. That midsize black hole was forged when the two progenitor black holes coalesced to form a larger one with about 142 solar masses. It significantly outweighs all black holes previously detected via gravitational waves, ripples that wrinkle spacetime in the aftermath of extreme events.
“This is the big guy we’ve been waiting for, for the longest time,” says Emanuele Berti, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved with the research. One of the behemoth’s two progenitors was itself so massive that scientists are pondering how to explain its existence.
Detected on May 21, 2019, the gravitational waves originated from a source about 17 billion light-years from Earth, making this the most distant detection confirmed so far. Because of the expansion of the universe, that distance corresponds to a travel time of about 7 billion years, meaning that the gravitational waves were emitted when the universe was about half its current age. It’s also the most energetic event yet seen, radiating about eight times the equivalent of the sun’s mass in energy, says astrophysicist Karan Jani of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. “I hope it deserves its own entry in the record book.”
The new event dethrones the previous record-holder, a collision that occurred about 9 billion light-years away that radiated about five solar masses worth of energy, and created a black hole of 80 solar masses (SN: 12/4/18).
Researchers with LIGO, or the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, in the United States and Advanced Virgo in Italy reported the new detection September 2 in two papers in Physical Review Letters and the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
While scientists know of black holes with tens of solar masses and others with millions or billions of solar masses, the intermediate echelon has remained elusive. Previous purported sightings of intermediate mass black holes have been questioned (SN:1/22/16).
But, for the new event, “there’s no doubt,” says astrophysicist Cole Miller of University of Maryland at College Park, who was not involved with the study. “This demonstrates that there is now at least one intermediate mass black hole in the universe.”
The black hole’s two progenitors were themselves heftier than any seen colliding before — at about 85 and 66 times the mass of the sun. That has scientists puzzling over how this smashup came to be.
Kicking it up a notch
On May 21, 2019, the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories detected two merging black holes. The duo combined to create a new black hole much larger than those found in previous mergers. Here, colored circles represent the relative sizes of black holes, with bluer colors representing bigger black holes.
Newfound black hole masses compared with previous mergers
R. HURT/IPAC/CALTECH, MIT, LIGO
Normally, physicists expect that the black holes involved in these mergers would each have formed in the collapse of a dying star. But in the new event, the larger of the pair is so big that it couldn’t have formed that way. The known processes that go on within a star’s core mean that stars that are the right mass to form such a big black hole would blow themselves apart completely, rather than leaving behind a corpse.
Instead, it might be that one or both of the colliding black holes formed from an earlier round of black hole mergers, within a crowded cluster of stars and black holes (SN: 1/30/17). That would make for a family tree that began with black holes lightweight enough to form from collapsing stars.
But there’s a problem with the multiple-merger explanation. Each time black holes merge, that coalescence provides a kick to their velocity, which would normally launch the resulting black hole out of the cluster, preventing further mergers.
However, mergers as massive as the new event seem to be very rare, given that LIGO and Virgo have detected only one. That means, Miller says, “my gosh, you’re allowed to invoke a tooth fairy,” a relatively unlikely process. Perhaps, he says, the kick might sometimes be small enough that the black holes could stay within their cluster and merge again.
The May 21 gravitational wave event had previously been publicly reported as an unconfirmed candidate, to allow astronomers to look for flashes of light in the sky that might have resulted from the collision. Some researchers had suggested that the waves might have been associated with a flare of light from the center of a distant galaxy (SN: 6/25/20). But that galaxy is significantly closer than the distance now pinpointed in the new papers, at about 8 billion light-years from Earth rather than 17 billion, making the explanation less plausible.
The longer LIGO and Virgo observe the heavens, the more the bounty of unusual events can be expected to grow, Miller says. “We are going to have a set of ‘gosh, didn’t expect that’ type of events, which are thrilling to think about and extremely informative about the universe.”
In one of the most complex cosmic dances astronomers have yet spotted, three rings of gas and dust circle a trio of stars.
The star system GW Orionis, located about 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion, includes a pair of young stars locked in a close do-si-do with a third star making loops around both. Around all three stars is a broken-apart disk of dust and gas where planets could one day form. Unlike the flat disk that gave rise to the planets in our solar system, GW Orionis’ disk consists of three loops, with a warped middle ring and an inner ring even more twisted at a jaunty angle to the other two.
The bizarre geometry of this system, the first known of its kind, is reported in two recent studies by two groups of astronomers. But how GW Orionis formed is a mystery, with the two teams providing competing ideas for the triple-star-and-ring system’s birth.
In a Sept. 4 study in Science, astronomer Stefan Kraus of the University of Exeter in England and colleagues suggest that gravitational tugs and torques from the triple-star ballet tore apart and deformed the primordial disk. But in a May 20 study in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Jiaqing Bi of the University of Victoria in Canada and colleagues think that a newborn planet is to blame.
“The question is how do you actually form such systems,” says theoretical physicist Giuseppe Lodato of the University of Milan, who was not on either team. “There could be different mechanisms that could do that.”
Astronomers have seen tilted disks of gas and dust around binary star systems, but not systems of more than two stars (SN: 7/30/14). Around half of the stars in the galaxy have at least one stellar companion, and their planets often have tilted orbits with respect to their stars, going around more like a jump rope than a Hula-Hoop (SN: 11/1/13). That misalignment could originate with the disk in which the planets were born: If the disk was askew, the planets would be too.
About a decade ago, astronomers first realized that GW Orionis has three stars and a planet-forming disk, and the scientists scrambled to get a closer look. (At the time, it was impossible to tell if that disk was a single loop or not.) Bi’s team and Kraus’ team aimed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile at the triple-star system.
Both groups spotted the trio of stars: one about 2.5 times and another about 1.4 times the sun’s mass orbiting each other once every 242 days, and another 1.4 solar mass star orbiting the inner pair about every 11 years.
The observations also revealed three distinct rings of dust and gas encircling the stars. The closest ring to the star trio lies about 46 times the distance from Earth to the sun; the middle one about 185 times the Earth-sun distance; and the outermost ring about 340 times that distance. For perspective, Neptune is about 30 times the distance from Earth to the sun.
That innermost ring is strongly misaligned with respect to the other rings and the stars, the teams found. Kraus’ group added observations from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope to show the shadow of the inner ring on the inside of the middle loop. That shadow revealed that the middle ring is warped, swooping up on one side and down on the other.
Astronomers looked at GW Orionis with the ALMA telescope array (left, blue) and the SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope (right, red), both in Chile. The ALMA observations revealed the disk’s tri-ringed structure, while the SPHERE images showed the shadow cast by the innermost ring, allowing scientists to describe the rings’ deformed shapes in detail.LEFT IMAGE: ALMA/ESO, NAOJ, NRAO; RIGHT IMAGE: ESO, S. KRAUS ET AL, UNIV. OF EXETER
Next, both groups ran computer simulations to figure out how the system formed. This is where their conclusions begin to differ, Bi says. His team suggests that a newly formed, not-yet-discovered planet cleared its orbit of gas and dust, splitting the inner ring off from the rest of the disk (SN: 7/16/19). Once the disk was split, the inner ring was free to swing around the stars, settling into its skewed alignment.
Simulations from Kraus’s team, though, found that the chaotic gravity from the triple stars’ orbital dance alone was enough to break up the disk, a phenomenon called disk tearing. Each star tends to keep the disk aligned with itself, and the tug-of-war warped and sheared the disk, and twisted the inner ring even further. Theoretical studies had suggested disk tearing might happen in multiple star systems, but this is the first time it’s been seen in real life, Kraus contends.
“I think it’s plausible that there could be planets somewhere in the system, but they’re not needed to explain the misalignment,” he says. “We don’t need to invoke undiscovered planets to explain what we see.”
A trio of stars in GW Orionis are surrounded by an enormous, warped disk of gas and dust, new observations reveal. This animation, which is based on computer simulations and observational data, shows the complex geometry of the deformed and broken-apart disk.
The difference may lie in the assumptions that the groups made about the disk’s properties, in particular its viscosity, says astrophysicist Nienke van der Marel, Bi’s colleague at the University of Victoria. A more viscous disk would tear like how Kraus and colleagues propose, but a less viscous disk needs a planet to break apart, she says. She thinks her team’s work is more realistic based on observations of other star systems. But with current technology, there’s no way to tell what the properties of GW Orionis’ disk are really like.
And neither group could explain what made the disk split into three. “We don’t really know what’s causing the outer ring,” Klaus says.
Lodato, who predicted the disk-tearing effect in 2013, thinks GW Orionis is proof that the phenomenon really exists. Back then, Lodato and colleagues were “very worried” that their simulations showed an effect that was introduced by the computations, not real physics, he says. “Now observations tell us that it does happen in reality.”
Future telescopes may also be able to spot the planet if it exists, van der Marel says.
VENUS MAP WITH WATER: STUNNING TERRAFORMING IMAGE SHOWS ALTERNATIVE TO MARS
A new image shows what Venus would look like if it had water on its surface, similar to the Earth.
WHAT WOULD VENUS LOOK LIKE IF IT HAD A SIMILAR AMOUNT OF SURFACE WATER TO EARTH?
A viral map highlights how terraforming Venus could result in an impressively Earth-like planet.
The map was shared in a Reddit post by a user called "Dragonite-2" on the "MapPorn" subreddit on August 21. It visualizes one of the BOLDEST PROPOSALS FOR TERRAFORMING THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
The map bears similarities to Aaditya Raj Bhattarai's water-filled map of Mars, which was shared on Reddit earlier this month. Proposals for terraforming elsewhere in the Solar System tend to focus on the Red Planet. One of the most popular is Elon Musk's idea for colonizing Mars. Musk plans to build a city on Mars, and then somehow release the planet's carbon dioxide stores, creating an atmosphere that humans could move around in with just a breathing apparatus.
Venus is a totally different story. Unlike Mars' comparatively tranquil surface, Venus would be tough for humans to inhabit – its surface temperature is a scorching 465 degrees Celsius, and the atmosphere's thick, acidic clouds whizz all the way around the planet in just five days.
But experts like Carl Sagan have proposed methods for terraforming the treacherous planet, and making its surface a bit more hospitable. It also has benefits over Mars – Venus is similar in size to Earth, and much closer to our planet. Mars is about twice as far from Earth as Venus.
"Dragonite-2"'s post gives an idea of how the end results of such a terraforming mission could look. The map shows a mountainous continent to the north, a flatter series of lands to the east, a series of large islands to the west, and a large archipelago to the south.
Map of Venus if it has as much water as Earth.
The post sparked widespread discussion. Other users shared ideas about where they would live and set up settlements on the new world: one user, called "JPRCR," wrote: "if I had to settle there, I think I would choose the massive continent on the north, probably it will have colder temperatures on the ridges and fertile valleys in the southern part."
BUT HOW ACCURATE IS THE MAP?
Paul Byrne, associate professor of planetary sciences at North Carolina State University, who has written before about Venus' surface, tells Inverse that it's perhaps best to take it with a pinch of salt.
"The map is fairly accurate, in that someone has taken the real-world digital elevation model for Venus and added a 'sea level' to it," Byrne says.
"I don't know how realistic the 'if Venus had as much water as Earth' part is, but I'm guessing that whoever made this map picked an average ocean depth for Earth and 'flooded' the Venus topography to that same depth."
That's where the realism ends, unfortunately. Byrne explains that oceans like that would create rivers, rainfall, and lakes, meaning the surface would look pretty different after erosion and other natural movements. A planet with oceans would likely have plate tectonics, which would also change the arrangement of the geographic features.
Perhaps most importantly, Byrne says, Venus' climate would be terrible for hosting oceans.
"In reality, it's not remotely realistic," Byrne says.
But that doesn't mean the map holds no value. Byrne notes that there's some evidence Venus may once have had Earth-like oceans, and it's something humanity can research in the future.
"Although a Venus with oceans wouldn't look much like the Reddit image, it is fun to think about what a blue Venus might once have looked like — and why its climate turned into the hellish world it is today," Byrne says.
Terraforming Venus could involve various approaches. Carl Sagan proposed in 1961 using algae seeded into the clouds to photosynthesize and reduce the carbon dioxide. Three decades later, he had to admit his plan wouldn't work: the atmosphere was later discovered to be thicker than expected.
In a 1991 Journal of the British Interplanetary Society paper, scientist Paul Birch proposed using a sunshade to cool the planet, an insulating cover to stop re-evapotation, smashing an ice moon to add some water, using solar mirrors to move its orbit, and using a soletta device to create a more hospitable 24-hour day and night cycle. Birch suggested the whole process could take around 200 years.
Transforming the planet on this scale would not be an easy task. NASA engineer Geoffrey A. Landis explained in a 2011 research paper that most proposals involved trying to undo the rampant greenhouse gas effects, which would require huge amounts of energy or highly advanced technology. In practice, Landis says, these proposals are aiming to reverse climate change and return Venus to a hypothetical earlier state.
But although the relatively peaceful Mars has captured the imagination of pro-terraforming researchers, Byrne argues that Venus could be a better candidate. It's closer in size, which would make the gravity closer to Earth's. It's also likely easier to remove carbon dioxide from Venus' existing atmosphere than to try and bulk up Mars' feeble atmosphere.
"If we were to terraform anywhere, then I'd pick Venus over Mars," Byrne says. "But, to be clear: it's going to be orders of magnitude more achievable to stop fucking up our own climate here on Earth than trying to make anywhere else even remotely habitable for humans."
The lush, water-filled planet of the future could be closer than it seems.
Most people would probably say they have a good idea of what time is. A minute passes, an hour, today becomes yesterday as we move to tomorrow. The past is behind us, the future is ahead of us, the now is the now. It seems as if this is immutable and that surely everyone is aware of this without saying. Many Westerners see time as linear. That is, we move through time in a straight line from point A to point B, with one moment moving in a straight progression on to the next, and a clear progressions between today, tomorrow, and yesterday. Yet, while to experience time this way was once thought to be a universal trait among human beings, this seems to be far from the case, and indeed there are some rather profound difference in how different cultures view the basic concept of how time passes and works. Here we will look at some isolated peoples who live away from our world of clocks and calendars, and who have some rather unique and often baffling concepts of time.
In the remote wilds of the Finisterre mountain range of north-east Papua New Guinea there is an isolated village by the name of Gua. Here there are no roads, no cars, no modern technology, and it is about as removed from civilization as you can get. This is the home of the mysterious and little-known Yupno people, who largely shy away from the outside world, with only infrequent contact with outsiders such as missionaries or government workers. For these people their lifestyle has not changed much over time, and indeed time itself has a rather unique perception here.
For the Yupno, time is very closely intertwined with the very landscape itself, namely the river that dominates the area. Researchers who have studied these people have found that their timeline and perception of time followed the river’s course very closely, with time winding uphill to the rivers source as it follows the curvature of the waterway and even a kink in the river. When asked about future and past events, the Yupno consider the past to lie downhill towards the mouth of the river and the future to lie uphill towards the source, and tribespeople will always gesture downhill when talking about the past and uphill when talking about the future. the two are inextricable. Essentially, time for them flows uphill. Even if the Yupno is facing downhill, they will point behind them if mentioning the future and vice versa. Time is also nonlinear for them, following the curvature of the river, meaning that time only goes in a straight line when the river is straight, and that their timeline has a kink in it where the river actually kinks. Interestingly, when indoors the Yupno will point towards the doorway when talking about the past and away from the door when talking about the future, regardless of the orientation of the house, partly because the doorways are raised and so they have to climb down to leave the premises, and so the doorway is perceived as facing or going downhill towards the past. One researcher has said of this unique perception of time:
This is the first time ever that a culture has been documented to have everyday notions of time anchored in topographic properties. This study is an important landmark. It demonstrates both universality of cognitive processes and a fascinating cultural difference. Each one of these discoveries isn’t just telling us something about other people, it’s telling us something about us. A lot of English speakers think that it’s natural to think of time as a straight line. But that’s an illusion. It doesn’t have to be that way.
The tribe has not been thoroughly studied, and there is still much we do not understand, but it does show us that people from different cultures can have fundamentally different views on time and how it works. For the Yupno time flows uphill and in accordance with the geography, and interestingly there are other cultures that tie time to a sense of spatial or directional awareness. In the remote wilderness of the western side of the Cape York peninsula in Queensland, northern Australia, we have the Australian Aboriginal community of Pormpuraaw. Here, the people see time not as going forward or backward or uphill or downhill, but rather in a unique way all their own. For the Pormpuraaw, relative spatial relationships such as up, down, front, and back, are not used at all, but rather absolute directions such as north, south, east, west, etc.
This tendency to use directions infuses all aspects of life here. For instance, if a Pormpuraaw wanted you to hand them a utensil, they might ask you to pass the one to the west of the plate, and so on. This of course extends to how they view time, as in their culture time always flows from east to west, no matter which direction they happen to be facing at the moment, for instance it flows from left to right when one is facing south, from right to left when one is facing north, toward the body when one is facing east, and away from the body when one is facing west. Researchers have found that when given cards depicting a temporal order, a Pormpuraaw will always arrange them in order from east to west, no matter how the table is rotated, whereas a typical westerner will typically just arrange them from left to right, only arranging them east to west by pure chance. Similarly, when shown a dot and told it is “today” and asked where tomorrow would lie, the Pormpuraaw will place a second dot to the west of the first. Someone with a linear sense of time will just place it to the right. Interestingly, such is their innate dependency on absolute directions that the Pormpuraaw were found to be uncannily accurate with knowing the directions relative to their location, even without a compass, down to within 10º in either direction, every time almost without fail.
If all of this isn’t weird enough as it is, how about a culture that has no real concept of time as we know it at all? Deep within the Amazon rainforest of Brazil is the Amondawa tribe, which is so isolated that they were only first contacted by the outside world in 1986. For the Amondawa, time is a nebulous concept. They do not have words in their language for “hour,” “day,” “month” or “year,” or even a word for “time” for that matter. They do not have ages in the way we think of them, but rather names that change as they progress in their society, and indeed their counting system only goes up to four. They don’t have calendars and nothing like a clock in any sense of the word. The years pass through “dry season” and “rainy season” rather than months or years, and in fact they have no concept of what a year even is. There seems to be no “mapping” between the concepts of time passage and movement through space. That is to say, they don’t have a concept that an event has “passed” or that one is “coming up,” or that an event was “long” or “short.” Indeed, there are no words of any kind related to the measurement of the passage of time in any metaphorical sense.
In a sense, they seem to almost live in a continuous “now,” have no linguistic structures that relate time and space, and the use of language to denote specific points in time is limited to something like meeting “the next daytime” rather than “tomorrow.” It does seem that the Amondawa are capable of cognitively recognizing the passage of time, they are vaguely aware of it, they just don’t operate as a part of it. One Chris Sinha, a professor of psychology of language at the University of Portsmouth, has said of this:
We’re really not saying these are a ‘people without time’ or ‘outside time.’ Amondawa people, like any other people, can talk about events and sequences of events. What we don’t find is a notion of time as being independent of the events which are occurring; they don’t have a notion of time which is something the events occur in. None of this implies that such mappings are beyond the cognitive capacities of the people. It’s just that it doesn’t happen in everyday life.
It is somewhat amazing that such a seemingly simple concept of moving through time from the past to the future has so many permutations among us, but it is perhaps on reflection not so surprising. After all, time is a concept that our brain has very little outside stimulus on which to gage it. Sure we have clocks, calendars, the sense that one day ends and another begins, but what is time really? How does our mind really have anyway to gage it and objectively measure it? It seems that it is a very malleable concept, and that those who live apart from mainstream civilization should naturally develop a different perception of time in the absence of our ways of trying to measure it. Looking at how these perceptions change show us the true uniqueness that each culture possesses and the various ways they interpret the reality they are presented with. It is a fascinating glimpse into the workings of our psyche and what it means to be human, and well as a humbling look at how we try to find a place within this vast universe of ours, full of things we have yet to understand and some which may lie forever beyond us.
An airport construction site located north of Mexico City has become “mammoth central” with hundreds of bones already recovered. So far, experts have unearthed around 200 mammoth bones with many more waiting to be excavated at the location of the new Santa Lucia airport. In fact, there are such a large number of bones at the site that experts have to dig through each load of soil picked up by bulldozers. Additionally, the site is now regarded as the largest discovery of mammoth bones in the entire world.
The site was once the location of an ancient lake bed that mammoths were attracted to but where they also met their end when they became trapped in the marshy soil. Interestingly, archaeologists also found dozens of tools created from the bones that would have been made by ancient humans after the mammoths died between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. Experts are hoping that the bones will reveal more information regarding their extinction.
The airport construction site is located just 12 miles from artificial pits that ancient humans used to trap and kill mammoths. With the pits nearby, it’s possible that even if the mammoths died from getting stuck in the lake bed, early humans could have still used their bones to make tools – similar to the remains found at the trap site in Tultepec.
More studies need to be conducted as explained by archaeologist Rubén Manzanilla López from the National Institute of Anthropology and History, “Here we have found evidence that we have the same kind of tools, but until we can do the laboratory studies to see marks of these tools or possible tools, we can’t say we have evidence that is well-founded.”
Paleontologist Joaquin Arroyo Cabrales weighed in by stating, “What caused these animals extinction, everywhere there is a debate, whether it was climate change or the presence of humans,” adding, “I think in the end the decision will be that there was a synergy effect between climate change and human presence.”
The construction of the new Santa Lucia airport is scheduled to be completed by 2022, so archaeologists still have some time left to potentially unearth a lot more mammoth bones. A picture of some of the bones already discovered at the site can be seen here.
Paleontologists work to preserve the skeleton of a mammoth that was discovered at the construction site of Mexico City’s new airport in the Santa Lucia military base, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. The paleontologists are busy digging up and preserving the skeletons of mammoths, camels, horses, and bison as machinery and workers are busy with the construction of the Felipe Angeles International Airport by order of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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WETENSCHAPNa een ruimtemissie zijn de hersenen van astronauten aangepast aan een gewichtloze omgeving. Die verandering is er ook maanden later nog en duidt op een blijvend leereffect. Ook ontstaat er een herverdeling van het hersenvocht in en rond het brein, dat wellicht geassocieerd is met oogproblemen, een euvel waar astronauten vaak mee kampen. Dat concludeert een internationale studie, meldt de Universiteit Antwerpen.
Aan de hand van MRI-scans van Russische kosmonauten voor en na hun ruimtemissie in het internationaal ruimtestation ISS, onderzochten de wetenschappers of de hersenen van astronauten veranderingen ondergaat.
“We ontwikkelden een nieuwe beeldvormingstechniek, waarmee we voor het eerst een duidelijk beeld konden krijgen van wat er precies met de hersenen van astronauten gebeurt. In nauwe samenwerking met onderzoekers van de universiteiten van Leuven en Luik en de Russische Academie voor Wetenschappen in Moskou vonden we de eerste aanwijzingen voor neuroplasticiteit, of het vermogen van het brein om zich aan te passen aan een veranderde omgeving of situatie”, legt dr. Ben Jeurissen uit.
Specifiek vonden de wetenschappers neuroplasticiteit in de belangrijkste motorische regio’s van het brein. “Dat wijst erop dat het brein verandert om aangepaste strategieën voor beweging toe te laten in gewichtloze toestand”, vervolgt onderzoeker Steven Jillings. “We zagen ook dat deze neuroplasticiteit nog gedeeltelijk aanwezig was zeven maanden na terugkeer op aarde, wat wijst op een leereffect. Dit is wellicht voordelig voor volgende ruimtemissies.”
Herverdeling van vloeistof
Het onderzoek bevestigde ook bevindingen van andere recente studies die aantonen dat de vloeistof rondom en in het brein zich herverdeelt, wat een meer direct fysisch gevolg is van gewichtloosheid. Deze studie toonde aan dat deze herverdeling van vloeistof niet volledig terugkeert naar de toestand van voor de ruimtemissie. Dat geldt ook voor het scherp zien, een probleem waar meer dan de helft van de Amerikaanse astronauten mee kampt.
Het gaat om belangrijke vaststellingen met het oog op langdurige missies, zoals naar Mars, besluit prof. Floris Wuyts. De onderzoekspaper verschijnt in het wetenschappelijk hoog aangeschreven tijdschrift Science Advances.
Antarctica's Hidden Elite Underground Bases and Other Anomalies aka Illuminati Disneyland
Antarctica Hidden Elite Underground Bases and Other Anomalies
Join Brad Olsen to explore the possibility of massive craft under the ice, pyramids in the Shackleton Range, megalithic architecture being uncovered, and the possibility of giants and Ice Age animals being uncovered from the ice. Could Antarctica be the lost continent of Atlantis? Why are many of the elite going down there, to a location called the “Illuminati Disneyland”? These locations and more will be explored!
Brad will describe some of the research stations he visited, and the work that is being performed down there by scientists… and more.
UFO Matches Speed With Space Station For 40 Minutes! Sept 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 1, 2020 Location of sighting: Earths Orbit at Space Station Source: NASA Live ISS Cam Hey guys, having a hell of a time with this video I recorded at the space station. Programs and my computer keeps crashing. Not sure why. This was recorded in two parts, first part is a close up, because I wanted to see it more clearly. The second half is full screen normal view. The full video is about 40+ minutes but I put it in 4X faster to make it shorter. It seems that aliens are stepping up their activity and sightings for some unknown reason. Something big is coming I bet. The beginning is the most important because you really see the UFO is round, matches speeds (27,000 km per hour) with the ISS and is a solid object in space...not a light reflection. In the beginning the UF O is the only thing lit up, while the space station is still dark. I never heard NASA say a single word over the live feed, so I decided to put the video with music, since my putting my voice on it may crash again. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Glowing Green UFO Over Chennai, India, Sept 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 2020 Location of sighting: Chennai, India You can hear the eyewitnesses excitement that this UFO is causing over the city of Chennai, India. Aliens deliberately allow themselves to be seen in order to create more awareness of their existence. But they do not want to hurt anyone and do not want to cause any fear. So...they reveal themselves around the world little by little in hopes one day humanity will know about them and on that day...they will land and greet us. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
We are not sure whether it's an ufo or something else but it was green in color.
Date of sighting: Sept 2, 2020 Location of sighting: Medallin, Colombia Source: Instagram user AlRojoVivo Anther Phoenix Lights incident just happened ing Medallin, Colombia. Residents were witnesses to an event that lasted a long time and the lights changed color and sometimes organized into a group. This is absolute proof that aliens are still trying to make the public aware of their existence. An effort on their part is being made. "Look at the shape it's making, in other words, a triangle," says a young woman recording the event. The videos were taken from different parts of the city of Medellín. In an interview with UFO researcher Juan Jesús Vallejo on the Al Rojo Vivo program, the guest assured that "[the objects] move in an intelligent and coordinated manner. This sighting lasted a long time."
Giant Hole Opens Up In Siberia, UFO Tunnel To Underground Alien Base! Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: September 2020
Location of discovery: Siberia
Another massive hole appeared in the Siberian tundra this week. No explosion heard, seen or recorded. The hole just suddenly appeared there over night. Scientists all argue about the exact cause of the holes and how they were made. One theory says its caused by a gas build up under the surface. But that would not make an even hole every time.
These holes are caused by the alien technology opening and closing the dirt, but when some small air pockets exist in the dirt, and the UFO travels through, the the opening is closed...but the air pockets cause the dirt to fall. Its created using the same technology that opens and closes the entire city area. Very easy, very fast. These holes are just the beginning of the tunnels. They lead 4-6km below the surface to alien bases below. These bases can have 5,000-15,000 aliens living in them. Its basically an underground city for them. Even has its own climate and weather. In the cities are not one species but 56 species or more (according to Rocca Pia, Italy Case) sharing the city...and some were born on Earth...so...what do we call those unique ones? They are not aliens if they were born here. You solve one mystery...another opens up.
While astronauts working outside on the International Space Station the live feed cam captures a unidentified flying object flying above the earth at high speed.
It is always the question whether the speeding object is a UFO or a man-made spacecraft, but it seems the object is equipped with antenna or legs and it looks to be spinning clockwise since you can see the antenna or legs going from underneath the object around the top.
The footage captured on April 6, 2020 starts at the 2.15 mark and shows the object in normal and slow speed as well as zoomed in.
To say the least, this new clip was posted all over the Chilean network back in 2015 as right off the bat, a lot of red flags can be seen with it.
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) officially commissioned the video. The message appears to be metaphorically meant to represent different races. Still, others offered a theory that it could be a way for UNICEF to normalize the thought of mixing aliens into our society.
The video starts with a child that is welcomed into the classroom. Conspiracy theorists described the child as “a rather strange alien.” The child in the video appeared to be mocked and ridiculed at first for being different, which could be taken as a metaphor for anyone that feels different.
The clip ends positively as the child becomes popular after showing off his psychic abilities.
The Vatican owned the UNICEF, which is mainly led by the Scholas Occurrentes Initiative. Many conspiracy theorists believe that the video was only one of many as more videos are expected to be released for children to see, essentially preparing them into thinking that accepting humans into our society is wrong.
The practice is good as most of us wanted to meet up with friendly aliens. However, many conspiracy theorists believe this does come off as rather forced. Could the Vatican be connected with extraterrestrials after all? Let us know what you think in the comment section.
How in the heck has red rust developed on Earth’s moon?
With all the talk of aliens and UFOs recently, it seems like proper timing that a new discovery from our closest cosmic neighbor has been revealed. The Moon was the first frontier of outer space that humanity was able to breach in person, and even 31 years later so much remains to be learned.
Man hasn’t been to the Moon in decades, but that doesn’t mean scientists haven’t kept on learning. When Shuai Li of the University of Hawaii noticed unexpected imaging on the Moon’s polar spectra, researchers were mind-boggled to find the cause.
Is the red discovery of rust on the Moon another leap for mankind? Read on to learn all about the shocking new discovery.
Red rust dust on the Moon? So what?
While rust might not seem like the most interesting thing in the world, it’s certainly a surprising and exciting thing to have found on the Moon. To find out that Earth’s Moon is red with rust means that humanity has discovered all new things about its composition.
It was originally posited that rust on the Moon is impossible. Why, you may ask. Well, there are three conditions that are essential to the formation of rust: oxygen, water, and oxidative conditions (meaning a situation in which a substance can lose electrons).
The Moon was not thought to have these essential conditions.
How water helped bring red to the Moon
The Moon is not exactly known for its abundance of water. Originally it was thought that no water existed on the Moon at all. While it’s true that no liquid water exists on the Moon, scientists discovered that there is indeed ice on the Moon and even water vapor which quickly dissipates into outer space. There’s one rust condition satisfied.
The place where the most water resides on the Moon is on its poles. The southern pole is especially hospitable to water because it has numerous permanently shadowed craters where the ice can form. Ever since the discovery of this water scientists have speculated that the Moon may be more rich with minerals than first thought.
The especially unlikely requirement for rust: oxygen
We breathe in oxygen all the time on Earth, but it’s an especially scarce substance on the Moon. The reason for this is because of the Moon’s very thin atmosphere. Solar winds are constantly blasting away at the Moon’s surface because it doesn’t have a magnetic field like Earth does.
These solar winds bring with them loads of charged oxygen, creating electron-gaining conditions, which is the complete opposite of what’s necessary for the formation of rust. Since the discovery of the Moon having rust, scientists have been forced to consider special ways that oxygen and oxidizing conditions might have made it to the Moon.
The prevailing theory at the moment is that Earth is responsible. Earth’s magnetic field streams along behind it as it orbits. Scientists think that oxygen from Earth’s upper atmosphere rides this tail of a magnetic field called a “magnetotail” all the way to the Moon.
If that’s the case, then voila, the last conditions for rust. This is an exciting discovery because it takes man one step closer to colonization on the moon. If the cool name of magnetotail didn’t give you a thrill then that at least should!
Stellar movies about outer space
All this talk of outer space make you feel like watching a space movie? You might give the movie High Life a try. It’s a sci-fi space adventure starring Robert Pattinson about a father and daughter being the last survivors of a dangerous space mission.
Another movie you might look into is Lucy in the Sky. It’s a sci-fi drama about an astronaut who returns to Earth and starts losing touch with reality because of how much smaller the world seems.
If neither of those do it for you, check out Europa Report. You’ll like it if you’re in the mood for a thriller. Six astronauts go on a mission to research newly discovered single-cell life on one of Jupiter’s moons. We’ll give you a hint. It’s not friendly.
‘You can’t hunt for something if you have no idea what it is’: An artist’s impression of Mars. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
In July, three unmanned missions blasted off to Mars – from China (Tianwen-1), the US (Nasa’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover) and the United Arab Emirates (Hope). The Chinese and American missions have lander craft that will seek signs of current or past life on Mars. Nasa is also planning to send its Europa Clipper probe to survey Jupiter’s moon Europa, and the robotic lander Dragonflyto Saturn’s moon Titan. Both moons are widely thought to be promising hunting grounds for life in our solar system – as are the underground oceans of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.
Meanwhile, we can now glimpse the chemical makeup of atmospheres of planets that orbit other stars (exoplanets), of which more than 4,000 are now known. Some hope these studies might disclose possible signatures of life.
But can any of these searches do their job properly unless we have a clear idea of what “life” is? Nasa’s unofficial working definition is “a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution”. “Nasa needs a definition of life so it knows how to build detectors and what kinds of instruments to use on its missions,” says zoologist Arik Kershenbaum of the University of Cambridge. But not everyone thinks it is using the right one.
Astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild of Nasa’s Ames research centre in California sees a cautionary tale in AA Milne’s story from Winnie-the-Pooh, in which Pooh and Piglet hunt a Woozle without knowing what it looks like and mistake their own footprints for its tracks. “You can’t hunt for something if you have no idea what it is,” she says.
The problem of defining life has haunted planetary scientists ever since Nasa’s two Viking landers touched down on Mars in 1976. Since then, rovers have travelled dozens of miles over the Martian plains but found no hint of life. Would we know it if we saw it, though?
Nasa launches rover in mission to find signs of ancient life on Mars – video
Some astrobiologists – scientists who study the possibility of life on other worlds – think our view is too parochial. We only know of one kind of life: the terrestrial sort. All living things on Earth are made from cells adapted to a watery environment, using molecular machinery built from proteins and encoded as genes in DNA. Few scientists think that extraterrestrial life – if it exists at all – would rely on the same chemicals. “It would be wrong to assume that our familiar biochemistry is what we’re going to find on other planets,” says Kershenbaum. Titan’s surface, for example, is too cold (minus 179C) for liquid water, but theHuygens lander mission of 2005revealed lakes of another kind, made from hydrocarbons like those in petrol, mainly methane and ethane.
Rothschild thinks the universal rules of chemistry narrow some of the options. “I have difficulty imagining another life form that is not based on carbon,” she says. So it makes sense to design life-seeking planetary missions with that in mind. Water too “has a ton of advantages” as life’s solvent. Even if there were interesting chemical reactions happening in the methane lakes of Titan, they would be slowed down greatly by the frigid temperatures. Could life proceed at such a glacial pace? Planetary scientist Stuart Bartlett of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena is keeping an open mind. “There could be organisms floating in Titan’s atmosphere that essentially drink petrol to sustain themselves,” he says.
It has long been thought that any entities that warrant being called alive share attributes that don’t depend on their precise chemical composition. It’s frustratingly difficult, however, to say just what those general qualities are. Living systems – even bacteria – are extremely complex, maintained by information that passes (in our case via genes) between generations and creates organisation. But that’s not the cold, dead order of crystals, where atoms are stacked in regular patterns. It’s more like the dynamic order of a city or a cloud formation, which scientists say is “out of equilibrium”: it is constantly fed with energy and doesn’t settle into a static state.
Bartlett and Wong propose a broader category called "lyfe", of which life as we know it is just one variation
When James Lovelock, now known for the Gaia hypothesis that proposes our entire planet is akin to a living entity, was involved in designing the Viking landers in the 1970s, he suggested looking for such chemical disequilibrium in the environment – which perhaps only life could sustain over geological timescales. But states of “ordered disequilibrium” can also be found in non-living systems, such as flowing liquids, so this criterion alone doesn’t single out life.
Bartlett, working with astrobiologist Michael Wong of the University of Washington in Seattle, argues that we need to escape the straitjacket of Earth-based thinking about life. They propose introducing a broader category called “lyfe” (pronounced, in an oddly West Country fashion, as “loif”), of which life as we know it is just one variation. “Our proposal attempts to break free of some of the potential prejudices due to us being part of this one instantiation of lyfe,” says Bartlett.
They suggest four criteria for lyfe:
It draws on energy sources in its environment that keep it from becoming uniform and unchanging.
It grows exponentially (for example by replication).
It can regulate itself to stay stable in a changing environment.
It learns and remembers information about that environment. Darwinian evolution is an example of such learning over very long timescales: genes preserve useful adaptations to particular circumstances.
The two researchers say there are “sublyfe” systems that only meet some of these criteria, and also perhaps “superlyfe” that meets additional ones: lyfe forms that have capabilities beyond ours and that might look on us as we do on complex but non-living processes such as crystal growth.
“Our hope is that this definition frees our imaginations enough to not miss lyfe that might be hiding in plain sight,” says Bartlett. He and Wong suggest that some lyving organisms might use energy sources untapped here on Earth, such as magnetic fields or kinetic energy, the energy of motion. “There is no known life form that directly harnesses kinetic energy into its metabolism,” says Bartlett.
They say there might be other ways of storing information than in genetic strands like DNA. Scientists have, for example, already devised artificial ways to store and process information using two-dimensional arrays of synthetic molecules, like checkerboard arrays or abacuses. Bartlett says that the distinction between lyfe and non-lyfe might be hazy: being “alyve” might be a matter of degree. After all, scientists already argue about whether viruses qualify – although no one doubts their ability to wreak havoc with life.
He’s sceptical of the notion in Nasa’s working definition that lyfe/life can only arise and develop by Darwinian evolution. He says that even terrestrial organisms can shape their behaviour in ways that don’t depend on Darwin’s mechanism of random mutations coupled to competition for resources that selects advantageous mutations. “While Darwinian evolution does of course occur, I think it needs to be augmented into a larger picture of biological learning,” he says.
Astrobiologist and physicist Sara Walker of Arizona State University agrees. “There might be some systems that have many attributes of life but never cross the threshold to Darwinian life,” she says. But in his new book The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy, Kershenbaum says it’s hard to imagine any other process that could produce complex chemical systems worthy of being considered alive (or alyve). Evolution by natural selection, he says, follows “well-defined principles that we know will apply not just on Earth but elsewhere in the universe” – and he is “very confident that it will be driving the diversity of life on alien planets”. If that’s so, he argues, we can make reasonable assumptions about other attributes it will have: for example that life will have a process like photosynthesis to harvest energy from the parent star.
An artist’s impression of a liquid hydrocarbon sea on Saturn’s moon Titan, a promising hunting ground for life in our solar system.
Photograph: Nasa/Reuters
Bartlett and Wong also question whether lyving things must have sharp physical boundaries. After all, while we might imagine that we are simply everything inside our skin, we depend on other organisms within us: the microbiome of bacteria in our guts. And some philosophers argue that our minds extend beyond our brains and bodies, for example into our technological devices. “We argue for lyfe being a process that probably happens on the scale of whole planets,” says Bartlett. Walker agrees that “the only natural boundary for living processes is the planetary” – reminiscent of Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis.
But without some confining boundary for the molecular ingredients, says Rothschild, all the components of a living system would get diluted away in its environment, like droplets of ink in water. And Kershenbaum says separate, bounded organisms are needed if evolution is Darwinian, because only then is there something else to compete with.
Walker thinks that in fact Bartlett and Wong don’t go far enough in trying to free ideas about life from terracentrism. Their notion of lyfe, she says, “is kicking down the road many of the problems pervasive in current definitions of life by coming up with a broader definition based on existing ones. It still shares many of the same basic problems. We don’t need new definitions for life. What we need is new theories getting at the underlying principles that govern living physics in our universe.”
Another possibility for broadening our view of what life could be is that we become able to make living systems from scratch in the laboratory that are totally unlike any known. “We’re much closer to that than you might think,” Rothschild says. Indeed, it may have already happened and we didn’t recognise it, she adds, only half-jokingly. If we don’t know what we’re looking for, some researcher might already have made a new form of life – and flushed it down the sink.
In the end, perhaps we shouldn’t be too sure that life fits any natural definition, Rothschild says. “I believe that what we have right now are non-natural definitions of life, because we have only one data point. I wonder whether life is just what we define it to be.”
“We may discover systems that are so weird and unexpected that we can’t quite decide whether they are alive or not,” says Kershenbaum. “But if we discover something really interesting and complex that doesn’t quite fit the definition of life, that’s still a really exciting achievement. We’re not going to ignore it because it doesn’t fit our definition!”
It's tempting to envision UFO sightings as only happening along backwoods roads with no witnesses, no cameras, and a single frothing abductee describing a scene lifted from The X-Files. Throughout both ancient and modern history, however, there have been numerous large-scale UFO sightings, including the military-led Operação Prato in Colares, Brazil, that generated 1,000 pages of documents about actual UFO attacks on civilians, and the Belgium Wave of 1989-90, which, as History reports, resulted in the photograph of a big, triangular ship in the sky. There's the description of a UFO fight and the possible deployment of nuclear weapons in the Mahabarata, which Britannica describes as a Hindu text written in Sanskrit, dating back to 400 BCE. History reports cave paintings depicting modern-looking UFOs. And many more, up through the 21st century.
The 1954 sighting at a football match in Florence, Italy stands out, possibly for how it intervened in a completely commonplace activity, as cited by the BBC. On October 27, during a game between rival teams Fiorentina and Pistoiese, 10,000 fans turned their heads up from the field of Stadio Artemi Franchi and towards the sky. The players stopped, and the ball rolled away, unattended.
There, above the stadium, were multiple glowing objects. Some looked like eggs, as world cup player Ardico Magnini said, and some like "Cuban cigars," as described by Gigi Boni. Some silvery glitter started falling to the ground, which the newspaper La Nazione would describe as "glass fibers."
SILVERY STRANDS OF FALLEN ANGEL HAIR
Newspapers immediately referred to the phenomenon as extraterrestrial, and the sand as coming from Mars, specifically. Roberto Pinotti, president of Italy's National UFO Center, rather deliberately describes the objects only as intelligent, technological, and not associated with any known occurrence on Earth. Of course, the material that fell from the sky, which he calls "angel hair," was the most fascinating part of the event, as the substance actually fell in such great quantities and thickness that it draped itself over rooftops, and within an hour, disintegrated.
Professor Giovanni Canneri of the Institute of Chemical Analysis at the University of Florence managed to procure a sample of the silvery substance. Spectrographic analysis indicated that it contained boron, silicon, calcium, and magnesium, and was not radioactive. The testing process, unfortunately, destroyed the sample. On the flip-side, US Air Force pilot and astronomer James McGaha, who calls the entire idea of extraterrestrials mere magic and myth, classified the cigar-shaped UFOs as pieces of a falling meteor, which happened to occur at the same time that, ludicrously, a whole bunch of spiders cast some webs in the sky that draped themselves over houses. Of course, spiderwebs aren't composed of things like boron.
Whatever happened, it can't be attributed to mass hysteria (clinically known as collective obsessional behavior, according to Medical News Today; more akin to society-wide peer pressure), because there are too many witnesses and records. It's unlikely, though, that a legion of flying spiders was involved.
Shiny 'Fast-Moving UFO' Captured on Camera Zipping Through Pennsylvania Skies
In what budding conspiracy theorists have claimed to be an "authentic" catch, a shiny object distanced itself from a passenger plane and raced alongside it in a horizontal path.
A jaw-dropping video has emerged showing a silver object shooting through the skies adjacent to a passenger jet that is taking off from the city of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. "What is that?", says a woman in the background of the footage recorded by Mariah Lyn and later uploaded to a YouTube channel specialising in inexplicable phenomena called The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 where it was described as a "fast-moving UFO".
Depicting the weird video, shot from the plane cabin, the bewildered narrator says:
"To me, this object seemed to be traveling pretty fast. It looked metallic and dome-shaped, almost like your classic flying saucer".
According to the YouTuber, the "saucer" was filmed shortly after take off at around 11:20 a.m. on 20 August, and it doesn't fall into any category of frequently observed structures.
"This thing doesn't look like a drone, it certainly doesn't look like a plane, I mean there's no wings, there's nothing", the conspiracy theorist shared, with many viewers also tempted to believe the object was alien in nature and thus a truly "authentic" catch.
"It’s almost redundant to say amazing footage in 2020 but brilliant footage", one visibly astonished netizen said.
"IMO [in my opinion] this is 100% authentic footage", said another viewer, adding that the object appears to be "moving much faster than commercial air traffic", another commented.
The video comes as a "triangular craft" alleged to belong to the US military was recorded hovering over Indiana. Conspiracy theorists claim it is genuine proof that the "secret spy plane" really exists.
Separately, ufologist Scott C. Waring claimed the other day that there is an "alien base not far off the coast of Dubai". He made the statement after a video (the authenticity of which cannot be verified) sporting a flying saucer in the skies over the UAE's capital and financial hub popped up online.
Researchers Find Extraterrestrial Amino Acids in Antarctic Meteorite
A team of astrobiologists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Carnegie Institution for Science has found a wide diversity of amino acids in Asuka 12236, a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite recovered from the Nansen Ice Field in Antarctica by Belgium and Japan researchers in 2012.
This SEM image shows a polished thin section of Asuka 12236. The section is about 1 cm (a third of an inch) across. Most of the bright grains in the image are iron-nickel-metal and/or iron-sulfide. The gray is mostly silicate, with the darker gray areas more magnesium-rich, while the lighter gray areas are more iron-rich. The roundish objects, and some fragments of them, that tend to contain most of the small, bright metal grains are called chondrules, which formed as molten droplets. They are set in a very fine-grained matrix, which is where the organic compounds and presolar grains are found.
Image credit: Carnegie Institution for Science / Conel M. O’D. Alexander.
Lead author Dr. Daniel Glavin of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and colleagues analyzed Asuka 12236 and found various amino acids, such as glycine, alanine, serine, α-aminoisobutyric acid, isovaline, aspartic and glutamic acids, inside it.
Several lines of evidence suggest that the original chemical makeup of this space rock is the best preserved in a category of carbon-rich meteorites known as CM chondrites.
The interior of this meteorite is so well-preserved because it was exposed to very little liquid water or heat, both when it was still a part of an asteroid and later, when it sat in Antarctica waiting to be discovered.
“It’s fun to think about how these things fall to Earth and happen to be full of all this different information about how the Solar System formed, what it formed from, and how the elements built up in the galaxy,” said co-author Dr. Conel Alexander, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science.
The scientists are learning that the key for amino acids, when it comes to forming and multiplying, is exposure to the perfect conditions inside asteroids.
“You need some liquid water and heat to produce a variety of amino acids. But if you have too much, you can destroy them all,” Dr. Glavin said.
The water would have been produced inside the asteroid that Asuka 12236 came from, as heat from the radioactive decay of certain chemical elements melted the ice that condensed with rock when the asteroid first formed.
Given that Asuka 12236 is so well-preserved, it could have come from a cooler outer layer of the asteroid where it would have come in contact with little heat, and thus, water.
“Though that’s just conjecture for now. There’s still a lot we don’t know about this meteorite,” Dr. Glavin said.
The study authors also found that Asuka 12236 had more left-handed versions of some amino acids.
“There’s a right-handed and left-handed mirror-image version of each amino acid. All known life uses only left-handed amino acids to build proteins,” they said.
“The meteorites are telling us that there was an inherent bias toward left-handed amino acids before life even started. The big mystery is why?”
The left-handed molecules would have needed to be processed in a lot more water than Asuka 12236 seems to have been exposed to.
“It is pretty unusual to have these large left-handed excesses in primitive meteorites,” Dr. Glavin said.
“How they formed is a mystery. That’s why it’s good to look at a variety of meteorites, so we can build a timeline of how these organics evolve over time and the different alteration scenarios.”
“Understanding the kinds of molecules, and their handedness, that were present in the earliest days of the Solar System puts us closer to knowing how the planets and life formed,” said co-author Dr. Jason P. Dworkin, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
The findings were published in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
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Daniel P. Glavin et al. Abundant extraterrestrial amino acids in the primitive CM carbonaceous chondrite Asuka 12236. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, published online August 20, 2020; doi: 10.1111/maps.13560
Mineral Hematite Detected at High Latitudes on Moon
A ferric mineral called hematite (Fe2O3) is present at high latitudes on the Moon, mostly associated with east- and equator-facing sides of topographic highs, and is more prevalent on the lunar nearside than the farside, according to an analysis of data collected by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission.
Map of hematite (redder color) on the Moon.
Image credit: Li et al, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba1940.
Iron is highly reactive with oxygen, forming reddish rust commonly seen on Earth.
The lunar surface and interior, however, are virtually devoid of oxygen, so pristine metallic iron is prevalent on the Moon and highly oxidized iron has not been confirmed in samples returned from the Apollo missions.
In addition, hydrogen in solar wind blasts the lunar surface, which acts in opposition to oxidation.
So, the presence of highly oxidized iron-bearing minerals, such as hematite, on the Moon is an unexpected discovery.
“Our hypothesis is that lunar hematite is formed through oxidation of lunar surface iron by the oxygen from the Earth’s upper atmosphere that has been continuously blown to the lunar surface by solar wind when the Moon is in Earth’s magnetotail during the past several billion years,” said Dr. Shuai Li, a researcher in the Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at the University of Hawaii.
To make this discovery, Dr. Li and colleagues analyzed hyperspectral reflectance data acquired by the M3 instrument.
“When I examined the M3 data at the polar regions, I found some spectral features and patterns are different from those we see at the lower latitudes or the Apollo samples,” Dr. Li said.
“I was curious whether it is possible that there are water-rock reactions on the Moon. After months investigation, I figured out I was seeing the signature of hematite.”
The researchers found the locations where hematite is present are strongly correlated with water content at high latitudes and are more concentrated on the nearside, which always faces the Earth.
“More hematite on the lunar nearside suggested that it may be related to Earth,” Dr. Li said.
“This reminded me the discovery by JAXA’s Kaguya mission that oxygen from the Earth’s upper atmosphere can be blown to the lunar surface by solar wind when the Moon is in the Earth’s magnetotail.”
“So, Earth’s atmospheric oxygen could be the major oxidant to produce hematite. Water and interplanetary dust impact may also have played critical roles.”
“Interestingly, hematite is not absolutely absent from the farside of the Moon where Earth’s oxygen may have never reached, although much fewer exposures were seen.”
“The tiny amount of water (< 0.1 wt.%) observed at lunar high latitudes may have been substantially involved in the hematite formation process on the lunar farside, which has important implications for interpreting the observed hematite on some water poor S-type asteroids.”
“This discovery will reshape our knowledge about the Moon’s polar regions.”
“Earth may have played an important role on the evolution of the Moon’s surface.”
The discovery is reported in a paper published today in the journal Science Advances.
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Shuai Li et al. 2020. Widespread hematite at high latitudes of the Moon. Science Advances 6 (36): eaba1940; doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba1940
Astronomers Find Misaligned and Warped Protoplanetary Disk around Triple-Star System
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a rare circumtriple protoplanetary disk with misaligned dust rings around the young hierarchical triple system GW Orionis. They give two possible scenarios for the misalignment: either the disk was torn apart by the gravitational pull from the stars, or by a newborn planet.
This composite image shows both ALMA and SPHERE/VLT observations of the disk around GW Orionis. The ALMA image (blue) shows the disk’s ringed structure, with the innermost ring (part of which is visible as an oblong dot at the very center of the image) separated from the rest of the disk. The SPHERE observations (orange-red) allowed the astronomers to see for the first time the shadow of this innermost ring on the rest of the disk, which made it possible for them to reconstruct its warped shape.
Image credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / ESO / University of Exeter / Kraus et al.
The two inner stars, GW Orionis A and B, orbit each other and are separated by 1 AU (astronomical units). The third star, GW Orionis C, orbits its two siblings at a distance of roughly 8 AU.
In new research, two independent teams of astronomers pointed ALMA at GW Orionis.
They found three separate rings with different orientations in the massive protoplanetary disk of the triple system, located roughly 46, 185, and 340 AU from its center.
The inner ring is very misaligned relative to both the outer rings and the three stars. The outermost ring is the largest ever observed in protoplanetary disks.
If a planet would be forming in the gap between the inner and outer ring, it would be located incredibly far away from the stars. For comparison, Neptune is only about 30 AU from the Sun.
“We were surprised to see the strong misalignment of the inner ring,” said Jiaqing Bi, an astronomer at the University of Victoria and lead author of a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
“But the strange warp in the disk is confirmed by a twisted pattern that ALMA measured in the gas of the disk.”
The second team, led by University of Exeter’s Dr. Stefan Kraus, pointed both ALMA and VLT towards the triple star.
They detected warm gas at the inner edge of the misaligned ring and scattered light from the warped surface of the disk.
“In our images, we see the shadow of the inner ring on the outer disk,” said Dr. Kraus, lead author of a paper published today in the journal Science.
“At the same time, ALMA allowed us to measure the precise shape of the ring that casts the shadow.”
“Combining this information allows us to derive the 3D orientation of the misaligned ring and of the warped disk surface.”
Representation of the disk structure and stellar orbit of GW Orionis, as derived from the ALMA and VLT observations by Kraus et al. Orange rings are the (misaligned) rings seen by ALMA. The transparent surfaces correspond to the lower-density dust filaments that connect the rings and that dominate the emission in scattered light.
Image credit: Kraus et al / NRAO / AUI / NSF.
Using telescope arrays operating at infrared wavelengths, the researchers also mapped the orbits of the three stars for over 11 years, covering a full orbital period.
The team found that the three stars do not orbit in the same plane, but that they are misaligned with respect to each other and with respect to the disk.
“This proved crucial to understand how the stars shape the disk,” said Professor John Monnier, an astronomer at the University of Michigan.
Both teams also performed computer simulations to investigate what could possibly cause the inner ring to be misaligned from the rest of the disk and the stars.
Dr. Kraus and colleagues link the observed misalignments to the ‘disk-tearing effect,’ which suggests that the gravitational pull of stars in different planes can warp and break their disks.
Their simulations showed that the misalignment in the orbits of the three stars could cause the disk around them to break into distinct rings.
The simulations by Bi and colleagues hint at another possible explanation for the large misalignment between the inner and middle dust rings.
“Our simulations show that the gravitational pull from the triple stars alone cannot explain the observed large misalignment,” said Dr. Nienke van der Marel, an astronomer at the University of Victoria.
“We think that the presence of a planet between these rings is needed to explain why the disk was torn apart.”
“This planet has likely carved a dust gap and broken the disk at the location of the current inner and outer rings.”
“The inner ring contains enough dust to build 30 Earths, which is sufficient for a planet to form in the ring,” Dr. Kraus said.
“If future studies find this exotic planet — whether it already exists or is still forming — it would be the first planet ever observed to orbit three stars, and it would possess a very unusual orbit.”
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Jiaqing Bi et al. 2020. GW Ori: Interactions between a Triple-star System and Its Circumtriple Disk in Action. ApJL 895, L18; doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab8eb4
S. Kraus et al. 2020. A triple star system with a misaligned and warped circumstellar disk shaped by disk tearing. Science 369 (6508): 1233-1238; doi: 10.1126/science.aba4633
The second edition of Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to the UFO Phenomenon, by Ryan Sprague, has been released. This is great news because Sprague’s voice is one of truth and integrity within a field of misinformation and confusion.
With contemporary culture’s embracing of the reality of UFO events, such as To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) and the Pentagon’s secretive Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), regular features in The New York Times, Sprague keeps the news local and personal. His narrative of UFO events, encounters, and reports are authentic. He interviews regular people who never wanted to see UFOs in the first place and academics and scientists who didn’t want to cover the phenomena. That is what sets Sprague’s work apart from interested parties. He is not selling newspapers. He covers the stories and experiences of people who haven’t been chosen, those who did not want to be pilots or aerospace scientists, but nevertheless have confronted the ineffable and are coming to terms with what that means for them, and for us.
This expanded edition includes updates from almost all witnesses and experiencers from the 2016 edition of the book, digging deeper and seeing how their thoughts or beliefs have changed or evolved. For some, the experiences even continued. Sprague also contributes brand new chapters of UFO cases that have never been made public before.
Sprague’s work is based on the reality of the phenomena and not on the media narratives that circulate about it. This is why I read everything Sprague publishes because I know he embodies the strategy of one of the best researchers of the phenomena: Dr. Jacques Vallee.
Vallee cautioned researchers to stay away from the media frenzy around UFO events, and instead focus on the local, the personal, and those cases that were not the focus of media, Hollywood, or Netflix. Sprague’s work is authentic. He interviews people who never sought out these experiences but were changed by them in ways that can be compared to religious conversions. They became aware of a universe more varied with life and possibilities than they had known before. Sprague’s work opens this world to us, in accessible and non-politicized language. As stated above, Sprague’s work is a breath of fresh air, and it’s clear that as the phenomenon evolves, so will our understanding of it, through the lens and voices of those who experience it. And Sprague will be there to dissect and try to make sense of these stories, one experience at a time.
45-year-old delivery driver Deshunda Johnson spoke with the Singular Fortean Society’s lead investigator Tobias Wayland recently about a series of UFO experiences she’s had in and around Madison, Wisconsin.
The first such sighting, she said, took place in July or August of 2001, around 9 pm.
My friend and I were going to work, driving on Stoughton Road [in Madison].
She said to me, “Look, Deshunda, what is that?”
I asked her what she was talking about. We were getting off of the Beltline Highway [onto Stoughton Road], going to work and to the right in a wooded area that looks like a marsh—going towards Stoughton and McFarland—there was a green light that just shot straight up.
She asked me, “Did you see that?”
And I said, “Yes, I saw it.”
I put my foot on the accelerator and took off. When I see stuff like that, the only thing I know is to take off.
Who’s going to be in that marshy area shooting off firecrackers? There was no noise, we had our windows down because it was nice out.
“That was the first time I saw something like that," she said. "After that [my sightings] started. When we got to work, [my friend] said, 'You all won’t believe what we saw.' I told her not to tell anybody because they’ll think we’re crazy. She told me, 'Deshunda, you know that wasn’t a shooting star. Shooting stars come down, they don’t shoot up.' I said, ‘Yes, I know, and that’s why I’m not saying nothing.’"
"The following week," she added. "Her daughter and her boyfriend said they saw the same thing."
Johnson told Wayland that she wishes she would have documented the sighting better.
"When you see it the first time, people think they won’t see anything like that again, or pray they don’t see it again," she said.
Her next sighting came in the summer of 2007.
"I had something strange happen to me over on McCann Road [in Madison, Wisconsin]," Johnson said. "My son, he’s the one who spotted it. It was above me.”
We got out of the car after coming home from the grocery story, and [there was an object floating above me that] looked like a cloud. Actually, it was a cloud. There were no other clouds in the sky.
I told [my son], “Get the groceries out of the car.”
We stayed just off of McCann Road in a townhouse.
He said, “Mom, look.”
And I said, “Look at what?”
And he said, “Above you.”
When I looked above my head, and I’m short, this thing was over my head and I...I don’t know what happened. All I know is I was like thrown.
I said, “Get in the house.”
My son, he almost hit the wall looking at it while trying to run into the house.
I didn’t know what it was. But it was a cloud, there were no other clouds, and no cloud moves like that. It had four white lights circling inside of it. It hovered over me, and I kid you not, when I moved, it moved. It was close enough that I could touch it, but I was too scared. It was that low.
I ran into my house. I wasn’t going to stand there anymore. There’s no way I’m going to stand under something that I don’t understand and don’t know nothing about. We got into the house and that thing stood there for a minute. Then it moved to the backyard.
There were people in their backyard in the next neighborhood, and it moved over to between my yard and theirs and there were people there who had their phones out [who looked like they were taking pictures] and staring at it. As I was standing there, something told me not to go out there. I wasn’t going nowhere.
It stayed there for over 20 minutes. It would not leave. It was like it was waiting for something.
After that, I’m always looking up.
“I called the police and asked them about the lights,” Johnson explained. “[The woman I spoke to] said they’d gotten some calls. I told her not to laugh at me. This is something strange, I’ve never seen nothing like this. She asked me what it looked like. I said you need to get somebody out here.”
Johnson said that, ultimately, the police did not visit the scene and no official report was made.
The Singular Fortean Society has not yet been able to corroborate the sighting using police records or the testimony of any neighbors said to be present, but this article will be updated with any new information or evidence as it is discovered.
After this sighting, said Johnson, "strange stuff just started happening."
She told Wayland that she was awoken one night by what sounded like somebody running in her bedroom.
I woke up and my door opened—[it was previously open just a crack]—and all I heard were footsteps in my room. My heart just started pounding. I got up and thought maybe it’s the dogs or something. I went downstairs to check, but the dogs were in the crate. I went in my sons’ room and they were asleep. I looked under the bed, and I didn’t see anything.
I asked my boyfriend at the time, “Did you come in my room?”
He said no. He said he was out down the street. I asked him if he was sure, and he said yes.
"I told my landlord I had to move," she continued. "I had been there eight years. He asked me why I wanted to move. I couldn’t tell him."
Johnson’s sightings continued on July 7th, 2020.
I had to go to the back roads and drop off on County T off Sprecher Road. Way before I got there, off Mesta Lane, there was a light so bright that at first I thought it was the sun. I’m at the stoplight, and I put my visor down.
I said, “That sun is bright!”
I looked at my map and see I have to go off County T, way out in the boondocks.
I head out there, and all of a sudden I look to my right—after something said in my head “look to your right”—when I looked, an object was above the power lines, stationary. I had my windows half down. There was a man in a car close behind me, and I thought he had to being this. But when I looked again, his car was way behind me.
It felt as if I was moving, but not fast enough. I was staring at it; I couldn’t keep my eyes off it. It had a green light at the bottom, it was black, a round dome, and I’m just looking at this light. That lasted for about two minutes. When I got the lady’s food to her, I looked at the time and it was probably 8:06 or 8:07, but she said she’d ordered her food an hour ago. I was thinking, looking at the clock, that it’s only 8:06 pm.
I got home and I was still shaken up. My eyes were red and irritated from the brightness of the light.
A week later, she had another sighting in the same area.
I went to the ATM to get money out, and they just built these buildings right after I saw this thing off County T. I saw this green ball of light hovering over this building. It wasn’t a bug, it looked like a sphere.
I said, “No, we’re not doing this tonight.”
I got in my car and left. [The green ball of light] went off towards East Towne Mall. Most people might follow it, but me, I’m going home. That’s not the first time that I’ve seen those things. I don’t understand why I’m seeing it.
The strange thing is, while I was driving, I said to myself, “If I ever see anything like that again, I’m going to go ahead and take a picture of it.”
But it didn’t happen that way.
Johnson’s most recent sighting occurred at approximately 9:15 pm on August 30th, 2020. She was in Stoughton delivering food near the intersection of Roby Road and King’s Lynn Road.
When I looked at my app it said I was two or three minutes from the house. I was going through the neighborhood, when all of a sudden—this is not the first time this has happened to me—something told me to look to my left.
I just looked over and I said, “What in the?”
I said, “That plane is flying really low in its flight.”
So I slowed down, I saw kids in a group going across the street. I looked, and all of a sudden, I got nervous. I was just staring at it.
That’s when I was like, “Uh-uh uh-uh, it’s stationary. It’s not moving."
All I could see were the lights flickering. It was over houses, and it wasn’t that far from me—maybe three or four hundred feet. I know what I saw. It looked like it was multicolored—white, red, but it wasn’t a bright red, it almost looked orange.
As I was looking at it, it just stayed in one spot. It looked black. I wanted to get out and take a picture of it, but all of a sudden I got really nervous.
I said “Should I? No, I better get this lady her food.”
I’m sitting in my car, just looking at it, driving slowly just looking at it.
As soon as I said “Okay, maybe it will be there when I get back.”
I’m saying to myself, “No, just stop and take a picture, because nobody is going to believe you’ve seen some stuff like this.”
I kept saying to myself, “No, that’s a plane, that’s a plane. I’m not seeing what I’m seeing.”
The thing tilted up, and when it tilted, it was a triangle. It had a light at the top, and one on the bottom at each side. My eyes got bigger than my glasses. All I know is, when I saw what it did and I turned back, that thing took off. I put my foot on the gas and dropped that lady’s food off.
It’s as if it wanted me to see it, to say, “No, I’m not a plane.”
That was not an airplane. Nobody can convince me.
Johnson further explained that she had her car door open slightly, but was afraid to get out because she thought the craft might approach her if she did.
According to Johnson, the sighting lasted “a minute or two.”
Shortly after this sighting, Johnson spoke to a friend in Stoughton who said she’d “seen a lot of strange stuff out here.”
Johnson wondered if perhaps the craft were trying to communicate with her, and if that might somehow be tied to a series of psychic experiences she’s had in her life.
"I’m very clairvoyant. I’ve had out of body experiences. I see auras around people, I see colors, and if they have certain colors then I don’t go near them. I would tell my mom and she would tell me to shush. I never understood that. I thought that maybe there was something wrong with me," she said. "She told me she had the same thing, but she blocked it. You can tell people all day long, but they’ll never understand."
But that's not the only strange experience Johnson said she has in common with her mother.
"There were days I would wake up with bruises on my arms. I don’t remember how I got them. It looked like three claws, like somebody had scratched me, like I was fighting something," she said. "I remember this clearly, [my mother] said to me, 'I used to wake up with those same marks on me.'"
Those marks might be explained by another experience related by Johnson.
This event, she said, took place at her childhood home in Joliet, Illinois, in 1987 when she was 12 years old.
"[The house where] we stayed at the time was in the country," she said. "There was a barn there, and some nearby houses. They’ve built a lot there now, but at the time there were a lot of fields and we had a big backyard."
I had to stay late for detention after school one day. I remember going into the house after I came home, thinking I was going to be in trouble. But nobody was home. I had to go through the garage to get into the house, and I saw the car was there, so I didn’t understand where everybody was at.
So, I started calling, “Momma! Momma!”
And I called for my sisters, but nobody answered. Just then the phone rang, and I went to go pick it up.
A robotic voice said to me, “Little girl, is your mommy or daddy home?”
I dropped the phone. The minute I dropped it, I felt sick. I felt drowsy and sleepy, and I had a headache. I laid down in the bunk bed in our room, and it was like I could not move.
I saw four little things come in the room, they were suited up—it was like a skintight, blue, protective suit—they were bald, with big, black eyes and really not much of a nose or mouth, and all I can remember is being paralyzed with fear. I was trying to fight it, I was trying to move.
Two were on either side of me, and they weren’t touching me. It was like I was levitated. I was looking at one of these things straight in its eyes, and I’m trying to fight it and I can’t move. That’s all I can remember.
Johnson later asked her sister where they were that day, but said that her sister maintains she "doesn’t know what I’m talking about."
She never watched much science fiction or absorbed similar media as a child, and it wasn't until her twenties that she started seeing representations of the beings she encountered that day.
"It’s never left my mind, and I wonder if that’s why I’m so into this stuff now," she said. "I see people talking about it, and I think 'That’s what I saw! That’s what came in the room.'"
When asked if she’d had any bedroom visitations since the one in 2007, Johnson replied, “I have not, and I pray to God I don’t again.”
The Anunnaki and the hidden mysteries of Lake Titicaca: Ancient contact between Sumer and South America?
The Anunnaki linked to Lake Titicaca: Archaeological remains of the Tiahuanaco culture under the lake would evidence an ancient contact.
The Tiahuanaco culture is very enigmatic: it has been called the oldest civilization in history (older than Sumer). It has also been compared to Atlantis . One hypothesis says that in this culture there are indications of the Anunnaki presence in Peru and Bolivia , due to archaeological finds of gold pieces under Lake Titicaca .
Discoveries under the waters of Lake Titicaca
An important find that could show the presence of the Anunnaki in South America is the one made in October 2013 , when Belgian archaeologists from the Huiñaimarka Project studied the depths of Lake Titicaca in an underwater archeology excavation.
Two thousand artifacts were recovered there , including ceramics with images of felines and 31 pieces of rolled gold . According to archaeologist Christophe Delaere:
“We found important archaeological formative material, typical of the Tiahuanaco and Inca cultures, and also material from the 19th and 20th centuries. That is, we have 2,000 to 2,500 years of history here. These are the first pieces of gold we have found. Also a rudder and an anchor that would be from a pre-Hispanic boat ”.
According to the archaeologist Marcial Medina Huanca, these pieces belong to the Tiahuanaco people , based on their iconography. The hypothesis of the academics is that many of the artifacts were offerings of the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco that they had thrown into Lake Titicaca .
Anunnaki metallurgy established in Tiahuanaco?
According to the investigations of Zecharia Sitchin , in the years 4,000 a. C. , in this region of the Tiahuanaco people of Bolivia there was a metallurgy plant established by the Anunnaki and it was the largest in the world. In that millennium, Enki took his father, King Anu, to review it .
Sitchin based this hypothesis on the findings of the Austrian archaeologist, Arthur Posnanky , who found holes in several stone blocks at Tiahuanaco . For the arrival of the Anunnaki, almost all the buildings in the city of Tiahuanaco were covered with gold sheets . The sheets were fastened with gold nails that were driven into the holes in the blocks.
With this information, the hypothesis of Zecharia Sitchin is indirectly supported, that the Tiahuanaco have worked in the metallurgy of gold under the mandate of the Anunnaki , with gold brought from another place.
Tiahuanaco city built during the Ice Age
Arthur Posnansky explained that the Tiahuanacos built their cities during the Ice Age , the last one that continued to occur in the years 15,000 BC. C. This would make it the oldest civilization in humanity .
Posnansky stipulated that during the Ice Age, the waters of Lake Titicaca reached the limits of the city of Tiahuanaco . Posnansky concluded this due to the discovery of human bones on dry land away from the lake. Nearby there were also remains of fish and fossils of lake aquatic plants .
The archaeologist Delaere also mentioned the discovery of a rudder and an anchor under the lake … If the vessel from which the objects emerged was prior to colonial times, it could indicate that the Tiahuanaco lived in the Ice Age when Lake Titicaca was connected with the Pacific Ocean .
Anunnaki connection
The Anunnaki connection could be that, when these gods were exploring our Earth to establish their mining activities, they would have arrived in boats to Titicaca, when it was connected to the ocean .
Many structures have been identified under the surface of Titicaca . In 1966, Ramón Avellaneda and his team of divers found a paved road and seven buildings . Likewise, the academic Hugo Boero Rojo announced in 1980 that he had discovered these structures, as well as temples and stairways .
In 2004, the Akakor Scientific Research Group explored the lake bottom, finding a pre-Inca construction, a ceremonial center, paths, cultivation terraces, statues, and a two- foot gold idol .
How was that archaeological site submerged?
Posnanky thought that this Bolivian-Peruvian region suffered several cataclysms that first raised the waters and then caused them to descend. The submerged pre-Inca constructions would have been erected on dry land when the lake was smaller or before it was formed .
However, it is a mystery to explain how they were submerged , but if the dating of the city of Tiahuanaco in the years 15,000 a. C . is correct, it would indicate that the water began to cover these structures during the next period of thawing or melting of ice, after the Ice Age.
That thaw could have been known as the Great Universal Flood and would have left submerged and hidden all the vestiges of the Anunnaki in Peru and Bolivia.
We also noticed two things : the object of the Fuente Magna and monument Pokotia , both could be evidence of the arrival of the Sumerians gods Andes (the Sumerians would have called “Country of the tin to the West” to this Andean region Peru and Bolivia).
As a result of all the above, the hypothesis about the arrival of the Anunnaki in the lands near Lake Titicaca is still a mystery . There are several indicators, such as the gold plates under the waters that have an uncertain provenance, the mining activity of the Anunnaki and the Sumerian-like writing in the Magna Fountain . The topic is open to debate.
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8 Immortal Lords Ruled Earth For 240,000 Years – The Sumerian King List Unveiled
The Sumerian King List describes how a group of enlightened beings descended from heaven to rule Earth. The total length of their domination: 242,100 years – how is that possible?
The Sumerian King List is an archaic stone tablet written in the Sumerian language. It gives us the names and reign lengths of the kings of Sumer, a region that encompassed the space now occupied by southern Iraq.
Compiled from several different clay tablets, the final part of the King List contains the names of historically attested rulers and cities but these are not the focus of this article. To the forbidden history community, the first, unattested kings on the list present greater interest.
Also known as antediluvian rulers, the first eight kings in the list totaled a reign of 242,100 years, in a mythical period before the great flood swept the area. Mainstream scholars dismiss the existence of these lords and their impossibly-long reigns, citing the fact that no archaeological discoveries support the unusual claims made by the stone tablets. Yet the cuneiform words are there:
“After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug. In Eridug, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years.”
After the first heavenly king’s tenure ended, the scepter fell into the hands of Alalngar, who ruled for 36,000 years. After him, it was En-men-lu-ana‘s turn to sit on the throne for a whopping 43,200 years. The next 5 kings all held office for very long periods of time, the shortest of which lasted ‘only’ 18,600 years.
The coming of the Great Flood – considered by some a global catastrophe – put an end to the reign of the mythical kings.
After the flood had swept over, and the kingship had descended from heaven, the kingship was in Kish.”
Kish was an ancient city in Sumer, home of the first historically-documented Sumerian dynasty. The kings in this dynasty had shorter reigns than the ones before them, but they still extended way beyond the expected life span of a human being in those days. The shortest reign belonged to Zamug, ‘the son of Barsal-nuna,’ who remained in power for 140 years.
For a long time, historians agreed these impossible timelines were the result of fiction, their reigns and deeds being hyperbolized to increase the significance of the ancient Sumerians in the eyes of neighboring peoples. By documenting their extremely old history, they could stake a legitimate claim to rule the land. But most historians dismiss the existence of the Anunnaki, the Children of Anu.
They too ‘came down from heaven’ to fulfill their own agenda on Earth. These beings had mastered space travel and although it is said they came here from the twelfth planet, Nibiru, their place of origin might as well have been somewhere else in the galaxy.
We don’t know for sure how man came to be on this planet. Perhaps he is the product of evolution and natural selection. But if humans were indeed created by someone, there is room for the Anunnaki genesis theory which claims man drew his first breath in the laboratories of Anunnaki geneticists Enki and Ninmah. If these beings were able to manipulate and transform Homo erectus into rational, intelligent humans, it goes without saying they were able to prolong their own lives.
This could mean the longevity of the reigns on the Sumerian King List could be interpreted as a reality rather than a metaphor. For all we know, these celestial beings could have been immortal or at least impervious to factors such as aging and disease. If they wielded enough power to be considered gods, it stands to reason they were immune to the troubles that end our lives short.
There is always the possibility that we’re looking for answers in the wrong places and the Sumerian King List is half-fable, half-fact. But amid this controversial topic, one thing is certain: our planet’s history sure is strange.
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How far can one get in 15 minutes traveling at just under the speed of light? Without doing any complex math, it’s common knowledge (at least it was until the coronavirus shutdown and we forgot everything we learned in school) that sunlight takes a little over eight minutes to reach Earth (one astronomical unit), so in 15 minutes you could get to Mars and back or halfway to Jupiter. Fifteen minutes is also the amount of fame Cal Fullerton physics professor emeritus Jim Woodward is getting from a Wired article on his MEGA (Mach-effect gravitational assist) thruster that runs on piezoelectric crystals vibrating on an electric current. Woodward claims he’s finally made it work and is ready to show the world … if not travel to Alpha Centauri. Should Elon Musk be worried?
“Woodward realized that if Einstein was right and inertia really is gravity in disguise, it should be possible to detect these brief changes in an object’s mass as its energy fluctuates. If part of an object accelerated at the exact moment when it became a little heavier, it would pull the rest of the object along with it. In other words, it would create thrust without propellant.
Woodward called these temporary changes in mass “Mach effects,” and the engine that could use them a Mach-effect thruster. By combining hundreds or thousands of these drives, they could conceivably produce enough thrust to send a spaceship to the stars in less than a human lifetime.”
In a richly detailed interview, Wired covers Jim Woodward’s life and how he arrived at the MEGA thruster. While he has often been criticized for his theories, this one got enough attention from NASA that he and partner Hal Fearn, a physicist at California State University, received a grant to build a protype MEGA thruster. The ‘drives’ would be stacks of piezoelectric crystals which generate energy when electrically charged. The charge would come from a nuclear power source. Woodward and Fearn had claimed before that they’d built a MEGA thruster, but others could not duplicate it – a fact Woodward eventually determined was due to an error Fearn made in measurements. However, they stayed together and in June 2020 they made a small change to the thruster mount on the prototype which caused it to come alive and lurch. That lurch was not at or near the speed of light, but Woodward’s theory is that it will accelerate over time to achieve that velocity.
“I was shocked at the huge increase in measured force.”
Is Fearn declaring victory? Unfortunately, something else was going on in June 2020 – the coronavirus shutdown. Woodward is a survivor of stage IV lung cancer living with COPD, and is being treated for relapsed Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In other words, he can’t travel to demonstrate the prototype. Not only that, most labs are in limited operation. Once that changes, he and Fearn will send the device to other physicists for testing. They know it will be met with skepticism, and that won’t be helped by the fact that the vibration frequency needed to charge the piezoelectric crystals and create thrust varies due to heat build-up. They’re using the extra time to work with an engineer to build an amplifier that will maintain a sustained thrust.
Will it work? That remains to be seen. If it does, how soon can a ship be built to use it? Who knows? Two things are certain – Woodward is pleased with his lifetime of work on advanced propulsion and his peers look at him as the leader in the field. Greg Meholic, an engineer at the Aerospace Corporation working on advanced propulsion, puts it best.
“There is a worldwide effort looking at Jim’s devices, because this is really the only game in town at this point. It’s been wonderful to have someone like him in the community that actually is doing something to advance these things, because that’s what’s really critical.”
Let’s hope Jim Woodward gets to see his creation in operation.
Glowing UFO Fleet Over Utica, New York On Sept 3, 2020, MUFON, UFO Sightings Daily.
Date of sighting: Sept 3, 2020 Location of sighting: Utica, New York, USA Source: MUFON #111282 This footage just came in a few hours ago. Glowing cubes and cylinders dropping glowing objects slowly to the ground. I have never seen anything like this before. Its not often a glowing UFO fleet is cylinder shaped and then shape shifts to cubes. I have seen other UFO videos from Utica over the years, but never this close and with such great detail. New York is famous for its UFOs...most famous case was John Lennons sighting in 1974. For an alien species to allow it to be seen this much...something big must be about to happen. I think this could be a sign a much bigger sighting is going to come out of New York soon. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Chris is never around when you need him lol. Crafts Ejecting Objects footage Sept 3 2020.
I found another structure on Mercury today. The structure does not look like its made by nature, but more of an intelligent rounded design with a metallic glint to it. I also believe it to be a ship. The craft appears to have no dust or dirt on its surface which tells me its been there only a few years at the most. Its not an abandoned craft, but a craft that has been docked in the crater. I have long believed that aliens in our solar system have 95% of their structures under the surface in underground cities. This is absolute proof that we are not alone in the universe.
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UFO Shoots Out Of Chem Trail, Sept 4, 2020, Mills New York, MUFON, UFO Sighting News.
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