Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
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Mysterious Vortex/Portal Anomalies Appear On Weather Radars Over Mexico and Europe
On September 1, 2020 meteorologists detected a huge huge donut-shaped anomaly over Mexico on their weather radar and published by the website Windy.com, a European company that offers forecasting services interactive weather reports around the world.
The chief Meteorologist in Wilmington, NC wrote on his Twitter account: I have never seen anything like that. As you note, the center of the doughnut is not the radar site. And seems to bold a returtn for a roost ring. Gotta be honest: I don't know! Curious if you see the same pattern around the same time tomorrow?
I is not the first time that these donut-shaped anomalies appear on weather radars. On August 6 and 7, 2020 a weather radar located in Europe detected a similar donut-shaped anomaly.
But something strange is showing up on this radar as it shows white arrow-shaped clouds that appear over Germany, moving to Belgium and the Netherlands. Then gradually more similar arrow-shaped clouds appear, after which a clear circle becomes visible suggesting that it might be the effect of weather control.
While there are people speculating that the donut-shaped anomalies could be signatures of huge cloaked UFOs or vortex/ dimensional portals that opened in the sky over the city of Guanajuato Mexico and Belgium / The Netherlands, others say that these mysterious circles are the effect of weather manipulation implemented by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) or the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP).
Although similar mysterious weather radar anomalies have been detected throughout the world in recent years, to our knowledge no one has ever been able to find an explanation for this phenomenon.
This video was submitted to MUFON today. Alleged UFO is releasing some kind of orbs in the sky above Utica in New York. This was filmed on 3rd September 2020.
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Filer’s Files 36, 2020 Life Likely Within Tubes on Mars - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Www.nationalUFOcenter.com.
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Back Engineering UFOs, Mars Civilization in Giant Tubes, Erasing America. Why She Quit Planned Parenthood, C-60 and Strange Craft
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and England and Wales 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
Back Engineering UFOs
“Perhaps the most difficult part of back engineering a UFO is the metals. The propulsion system and even the structure would not likely work very well without the proper metals. We know the metals are a mixture of metals with strong electrical capabilities. Additionally, they need to absorb punishment from meteorites and return to the ordinal shape. A report claimed you could actually stick your arm into the side of craft for 12 inches or so, pull out your arm and the structure would immediately heal itself. Possibly the most difficult part is to make the craft think and accept instructions. I’m told if you tell the craft to turn left out loud in English it will turn left. If you tell it to go to a particular destination and it will follow verbal instructions with no apparent computers visible it will fly to the destination. The computers could be built into the metal walls since the craft follows verbal instructions.
New inventions or discoveries of methods of evenly infusing dense nano-particles to enhance the performance of metals to meet energy and sustainability challenges will enhance the performance of many different kinds of metals
It’s been proposed that nano-particles could really enhance the strength Image: At left, a deformed sample of pure metal; at right, the strong new metal made of magnesium with silicon carbide nanoparticles. Each central micropillar is about micrometers across. Image credit: UCLA Scifacturing Laboratory
of metals without damaging their plasticity, especially light metals like magnesium, but no groups have been able to disperse ceramic nano particles in molten metals until now,” said Xiaochun Li, the principal investigator on the research and Raytheon Chair in Manufacturing Engineering at UCLA.
“With an infusion of physics and materials processing, our method paves a new way to enhance the performance of many different kinds of metals by evenly infusing dense nano-particles to enhance the performance of metals to meet energy and sustainability challenges in today’s society.”
This new procedure opens the door for improving existing materials used in the aviation, space, and automotive industries, among others, by including nano particles that improve their performance in extreme conditions to meet energy and sustainability challenges in today’s society.
The new material called a metal nano-composite can prove to be a revolutionary material that could possibly change specific segments in our society, with transportation and space exploration possibly being its number one clients.
Magnesium infused with dense silicon carbide nanoparticles could be used for airplanes, cars, mobile electronics, and UFOs. By Matthew Chin
A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus, or stiffness-to-weight ratio. The Professor Xiaochun Li states, “New metal is composed of magnesium infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes, spacecraft, and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as in mobile electronics and biomedical devices.”
To create the super-strong but lightweight metal, the team found a new way to disperse and stabilize nanoparticles in molten metals. They also developed a scalable manufacturing method that could pave the way for more high-performance lightweight metals.
“It’s been proposed that nanoparticles could really enhance the strength of metals without damaging their plasticity, especially light metals like magnesium, but no groups have been able to disperse ceramic nanoparticles in molten metals until now,” said Xiaochun Li, the principal investigator on the research and Raytheon Chair in Manufacturing Engineering at UCLA. “With an infusion of physics and materials processing, our method paves a new way to enhance the performance of many different kinds of metals by evenly infusing dense nanoparticles to enhance the performance of metals to meet energy and sustainability challenges in today’s society.” Professor Xiaochun Li
Structural metals are load-bearing metals; they are used in buildings and vehicles. Magnesium, at just two-thirds the density of aluminum, is the lightest structural metal. Silicon carbide is an ultra-hard ceramic commonly used in industrial cutting blades. The researchers’ technique of infusing a large number of silicon carbide particles into magnesium added significant strength, stiffness, plasticity, and durability under high temperatures.
Nanoscale particles, by contrast, can enhance strength while maintaining or even improving metals’ plasticity. But nanoscale ceramic particles tend to clump together rather than dispersing evenly, due to the tendency of small particles to attract one other. To counteract this issue, researchers dispersed the particles into a molten magnesium zinc alloy. The newly discovered nanoparticle dispersion relies on the kinetic energy in the particles’ movement. This stabilizes the particles’ dispersion and prevents clumping. To further enhance the new metal’s strength, the researchers used a technique called high-pressure torsion to compress it. The results we obtained so far are just scratching the surface of the hidden treasure for a new class of metals with revolutionary properties and functionalities,” Li said.The paper’s lead author is Lian-Yi Chen,
The honey comb material has been found at two UFO crash sites.
Honeycombs nearly identical were found 6000 miles apart and 41 years later, Magdalena, New Mexico Plains UFO crash debris honeycomb on left, Shikoku Island debris found in 1971, on the right. A Mr. Shinto saw the UFO explode and found the debris.
All of the samples were tested with a volt-ohmmeter, and were found to conduct electricity. Fifty-six (56) elements were detected in at least one sample. The aluminum contained alloys not available in aluminum in 1947. The coatings on all metals were blended with metal and rich in silica, titanium, magnesia, sulfate, phosphate, and chloride, were almost certainly not available in 1947. The coatings are similar to those removed from people claiming alien contact. The samples still emit magnetic and electrical energy indicating these samples include nano technological smart metals and of probable alien origin. Analysis of some of the metal indicated it was not from Earth.
Skin of St. Augustin UFO
Campbell found many items which are as follows: The major component of the metallic portions of all of the samples proved to be aluminum (Al). All of the samples appeared to be composed of aluminum alloys, with varying amounts of alloying elements. Other elements detected included beryllium (Be), carbon (C), oxygen (O), sodium (Na), magnesium (Mg), silicon (Si), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), chlorine (Cl), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), titanium (Ti), iron (Fe), and palladium (Pd). The coating layers of the coated samples were much different in composition from the metallic portions of the samples.
Various light weight metals were recovered has the craft crashed
Aluminum was still a major component of the coatings, but was present to a lesser degree than in the metallic portions of the samples. The amount of oxygen in the coatings was much greater than in the metallic phase of the samples, indicating that the aluminum was probably present as an oxide layer, rather than as free metal. The proportions of carbon, silicon, and chlorine in the coatings were also higher than in the metal, indicating.
Mars Civilization in Giant Tubes
Curiosity Rover finds building blocks of Life
NASA the US space agency announced Mars has the building blocks of life, in a discovery that could suggest the planet was once inhabited – or even still is today. During a press conference at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Goddard, Md., and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., scientists noted that the molecules provide fresh insight into Mars. “We found organic molecules in rocks from an ancient lake bed,” explained Jen Eigenbrode, research scientist at Goddard. A variety of molecules were identified in rocks billions years old, she added. the Red Planet could have building blocks of life.
Curiosity rover has revealed the latest results from its Curiosity rover gathering samples from the surface of March 1, 2019 suggesting the planet was once inhabited – or even still is today. We found organic molecules in rocks from an ancient lake bed,” explained Jen Eigenbrode, research scientist at Goddard.
Life Found on Mars in 1976
Similar Landers reached Mars in 1976, with Labeled Release (LR) experiments developed for NASA’s Viking Landers by Dr. Gilbert Levin who states, “The scientific process forces me to my conclusion, the Viking LR experiment detected living microorganisms in the soil on Mars”.
Mars Viking Lander’s 1 and 2 Labeled release microbial life signs detectors … the two devices which BOTH gave positive signs for Martian Life, back in 1976.
The LR test was one of three performed by the Lander that were designed to look for life. JPL used the results of another test, the gas chroma/to/graph which was designed to test for the presence of organic chemicals. NASA has claimed these experiments approved by them were in error when they actually found life.
All of the multiple rationales attempting to explain the Mars LR results as chemical or physical in origin have now been effectively refuted, but their impact remains.
Big Joe Rock with lichen growing on it in 1976
I spoke with Dr. Levin whois convinced life exists on Mars and his experiments and Mars Photographs of Moss or lichen of many of the rocks are proof. The color film coming back from Mars showed blue skies and only some red soil and grey rocks. The red color was increased to delete the blue sky.
Argument is made that each of the vital links in the chain of life connecting Earth and Mars has a probability of one. Today’s knowledge makes it very difficult to conceive of a sterile Mars. Indeed, it now seems that Earth and Mars form one biosphere. This sheds new light on the results of the Viking LR experiment on Mars. Together with growing acceptance[ ] of the fact that no chemical or physical experiment or theory has satisfactorily explained the extensive and consistent LR data, significant support is found for the conclusion that it detected microbial life in the soil of Mars.
Earth and Mars were hospitable over epochs that would have permitted infection of Mars by Earth microorganisms carried by meteorites or space ships—and from other sources.
It is now more difficult to propose a sterile Mars than a live one.
Tubes or Canals on Mars
Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who in 1877 reported the appearance of certain long, thin lines he called canali, meaning channels in Italian. He was followed by Percival Lowell an American the wealthy astronomer who ‘discovered civilization’ on Mars. Lowell built his own observatory and studied in detail Mars and what he called canals. A giant tube system on Mars is similar in scope to the 125 year old Percival Lowell canal system. Lowell had excellent views of Mars and may have seen the canals before the tubes were built or covered. Lowell was far and away the most influential popularizer of planetary science in America and published several books.’
The canals or tubes he thought must “run for thousands of miles as far as from Boston to San Francisco.” What Lowell was likely seeing were a series of tubes or tunnels perhaps under construction a hundred years ago.
Crater with Waterfall and Dam-Like Structures
Norman Bryden writes, “This is an interesting image of a crater taken by the Mars Global Surveyor. The crater has what looks like a modified wall to the upper right. You can see the cut out portion and it looks as if it is a dam-like structure, with possibly water tumbling over the edge.
There are structures that look like walls and dams, and I believe that they are water reservoirs intelligently created to intentionally harness the water supply on Mars. Many craters seem to have modified walls, and other interesting water collection features.
The white area in the bottom of the crater suggests a spillway or dam to collect water.
Water is needed to support life and water seeps into the craters bringing life saving water to the Martians.
These craters are all about water, its preservation, and the capitalization on it by life of some kind including perhaps more than one life form.
The most obvious conclusion is that the bottoms of the craters are artificial constructs of some higher intelligent life form.
The craters are often photographed with water seeping in from their sides and water being collected and likely carried to the tubes.
Water is collected at the bottom of the crater with dam like structures.
Reservoir and Hieroglyphics
Engineer Harold Carver writes,“While looking at images that the Rover Opportunity took, I noticed Endurance Crater lacks the profile of a typical crater, yet everything about it suggests that it was built to hold a body of water.”
This water flows out of the sides of the crater into a reservoir. The angles are too precise to be a freak of nature and are suggestive of a purpose. Mars photos are at left and compare to a dam and spillway on Earth. The entire walls and floor of Endurance image seem to be made of fitted slabs of rock neatly put together. There is also evidence of artificially made spill-ways used for the collection of water.
Spillway Mars and Earth
Editor’s Note: I was looking at some of JPL photos and noticed numerous petroglyphs on the crater walls that seem to depict writing or symbols. The surface of Mars is pocked by more than 63,500 impact craters at least 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) wide, which is a good reason to develop a civilization underground. Infrared cameras pick up large amounts of heat from underground areas of Mars that suggest underground cities. Many of the craters have ice in them until the summer when temperatures reach 92* degrees. There is growing suspicion that the ice doesn’t just sit there but has a dynamic roll to play as it now appears to move. It moves reshaping Mars surface. Ice can be collected in winter months and melted creating water to feed the thirst of the Martians.
Numerous tubes are spotted throughout Mars. Most are buried but some are uncovered by winds and when they wind thru craters.
Tubes are similar in size to Manhattan, New York and could actually contain skyscrapers as shown
Investigator Joseph P. Skipper, writes, “The most obvious conclusion is that the fully blown tubes are artificial constructs of some higher intelligent life form based on a super elongated dome principle forming a protective shielded habitat of some kind.” Such technology is in evidence of sophisticated life on Mars as I have reported on in previous reports.
On Mars there are a series of tubes several miles wide that show up within several craters and natural low valleys. According to the MSSS supplied statistics, the strip above is 2.98 km wide or 1.85 miles wide. Remember that the tubes extend from one side edge of the crater to the other and off the strip with no signs of diminishment in size. 156.44 N 63.42*S MOC12.03186 as big as New York City.
These tubes within the craters are 8.92 km or 5.54 miles of tube length. However, we can also reasonably assume that there is still plenty of tube system unseen off the left or west edge of the E12-03186 strip and off the right or east edge of the E11-03408 strip that appear to go underground. Note that the dark area spread on the crater floor that is mostly the tube mass tends to confirm a much greater mass size beyond the limitations of the strip views and therefore there is probably substantial more tube length. So, we’re talking about a colossal tube system hundreds of miles longer than that.
Additionally, much smaller tubes are found in valleys and places where the soil has been blown away. MOC strip E12-03186, we now see one tube slitting off from the larger and heading off in a different direction.
For example, the top or northern most tube is again the most fully formed tube borders natural adjacent terrain to the immediate north. You can more clearly see the sunlight reflections gleaming off of the top surface of the main top tube system. Notice the clear at least semi-translucent equality of the main tube. Notice also the many vague light color spots all over the mass and their not well defined but still uniform spacing as well as size and shape appearance. This is new evidence. The appearance of these spots in this evidence tends to encourage speculation that these spots may not just be discolorations on the surface of the mass, but something under and/or within the tube as seen through its semitransparent surface. The tube may provide hollow air and/or water canal space rather than making full and complete flattened contact with the ground. . The dark narrow band that separates the north perimeter edge of the main tube from the terrain is a little too fuzzy and streaky appears to have image tampering. That dark narrow band of tampering is likely hiding something indicating construction.
Tube Switch, Tubes Heading in two New Directions
Notice to that the light gleam and reflection reveals the edges of a narrow band of depression indentation that runs the entire longitudinal length axis of the main tube top surface. This looks very much like something due to fairly recent expansion stress. This factor may be an indicator that this entire giant tube system may have undergone an enlarging expansion as to its width and girth after it was already fully formed.
I’ve included the above E12-03187 wide-angle context image to give you an idea of where these two Part II evidence strips and the tubes in them are in the crater and in relation to each other
Such evidence clearly points to a dynamic construction and the fully formed tubes as being constructs of some kind rather than natural geological sediment collection processes of any kind at work here. To exist in such a massive elevated rounded unsupported form, the most obvious explanation is that they are lighter and less massive because they are hollow and their dome like semi-translucent quality and rounded dome like shape and very glassy smooth outer surface clearly supports such a conclusion. Their tremendous size suggests an advanced civilization protecting its people.
Editor’s Note: I have been told by high ranking NASA scientists who attended my briefings that there is life on Mars today. The evidence for life is classified secret and they cannot release it.
Additionally, much smaller tubes are found in valleys and places where the soil has been blown away. These tubes are all about water, its preservation, and the capitalization on it by life of some kind. The most obvious conclusion is that the fully blown tubes are artificial constructs of some higher intelligent life form making a protective shielded habitat from radiation and meteorites. Such technology is in evidence on Mars in numerous places such as open pit mining and numerous pyramids.
Besides the giant tubes that have been found in the Mars crater photographs, there are much smaller “tubes” often referred as glass or Plexiglas tubes because they are translucent or even transparent. There are miles and miles of them … some mostly buried with a few completely exposed as in these photos. The diameter of the smaller tube is 20-50 meters (66 to 164 feet) in general. That’s about big enough to put two interstate highways through plus water pipes. Supposedly, they are exposed by geological weathering of the surface soil. It does not appear that these tunnels or tubes are geologic or natural construction. This leaves us with the awesome conclusion that they have another origin of which there are only two possibilities they are organic or they are artificial.
I should point out NASA claims these tubes are actually sand dunes. While the European Space Agency feels many of the tubes are lava flows. Prevailing winds form sand dunes in one direction, while the tubes run in many directions. Notice these tubes head in four different directions.
Tubes Running in four Directions
We can speculate a Mars civilization may have decided to go underground due to being hit repeatedly by meteorites and radiation from space. The tubing appears somewhat transparent and likely allows some light to penetrate while stopping the radiation. Underground water appears to seep in on the sides of the craters and dams to collect the water. There is oxygen, water, and the building blocks of life found on Mars indicating life likely exists. There’s no magnetic field on Mars so the ceaseless hazard of ionizing radiation could result in shortened lifespan for Martians, Using absorber materials such as Plexiglas for beta particles and lead for X-rays and gamma rays is an effective way to reduce radiation exposure
Glassy Tube up close With Ribs
Skipper writes. I have seen too much evidence of JPL tampering on such a fine level and small scale to convince me that this could have been done only with much larger closer in views. The MOC cameras are capable of much higher resolutions than are being publicly reported and someone is pulling images back to lesser resolution to hide evidence of life on Mars.
Mars is also pockmarked with absolutely massive lava tubes much larger than Earths, as well as the constructed tubes with ceilings as high as the Empire State Building. Some of the natural lava tubes are probably used near volcanoes. The series of translucent glassy tubes may hold cities and a transit system.
These subterranean lava caverns, could be used as sites for future human bases. Lava tubes tend to role downhill from various volcanoes and may also be used by the Martians.
A lava tube is a tunnel under a world’s surface, formed by an intense flow of molten rock during a volcanic explosion. On Earth, they’re most easily spotted when they collapse, forming long furrows in the dirt. Partial collapses sometimes form chains of “skylights” that reveal hidden lava tubes that are mostly intact. Researchers have speculated that lava tubes might exist on Mars and the moon since orbiters have beamed home images showing how common these formations likely are. Now, researchers argue in a new paper published July in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, it’s time to explore them in earnest.
Lava Tubes With Skylights
Image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a possible lava tube on Mars near the southern flank of the Martian volcano Arsia Mons.
(Image credit: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/NASA)
These may be Martian built glassy or acrylic tubes of a mile wide and a thousand feet tall. They appear translucent and have ribs for stability.
That’s certainly big enough space for some people to fit inside with housing, roads, or canals. A lava tube on the moon, Pozzobon told Live Science, could easily contain a small city within its walls.
The sheer scale of these extraterrestrial lava tubes is likely a result of low Martian and lunar gravity. “Lava tubes some 25 miles long could provide stable shields from cosmic and solar radiation and micrometeorite impacts which are often happening on the surfaces of planetary bodies Thanks to Norman Bryden Link to NASA Image.
KIYAncient City
There are over two dozen pyramids in this area of Mars and it looks like it might have been an ancient city long ago. The edges of the structure are absolutely perfect. This incredible attention to detail could only be attained by intelligent design. Some pyramids in Egypt have terraces like these. These structures are absolute proof that aliens not only lived on Mars, but thrived in bustling cities such as this.
Sign at bottom of larger pyramid is KIY upside down is YIK.
I found a pyramid in a Mars photo today. The pyramids geometric shape is 90 % matching that of the Egyptian pyramids. The structure is on the lower base of a hill and may be surrounded by a few other pyramids that were covered with dirt and debris over time. I wonder why NASA did not notice this structure or go to investigate it. The rover’s job is to explore, and yet it’s doing zero exploration. That should make the whole world suspicious that NASA does not really want to explore Mars, but only wants to drop feed the public boring facts to make it look like they care charging billions for each rover mission. Scott C. Waring
Remember America? There may come a time when no one will.
There will be no monuments to American heroes, no stories that will praise them. The United States will have become a dark chapter in human history, best forgotten.
In Erasing America: Destroying Our Future by Erasing Our Past, James Robbins reveals that the radical Left controls education, the media, and the Democratic party … and they seek to demean, demolish, and relentlessly attack America’s past in order to control a socialized America.
This toxic movement has already brainwashed an entire generation and is rapidly changing the cultural, historical, and spiritual bonds of our nation. American exceptionalism, history, and patriotism are a magnificent legacy, Robbins warns, but to pass it on to our children, we must view the past with understanding, the present with gratitude, and the future with hope. Many schools teach abortion and Marxism.
Wondering if it’s really that bad? Here are some facts you’ll learn in Erasing America:
. In Massachusetts, Simmons College claims saying, “God bless you” is an “Islamophobic microaggression.” In Virginia, school districts seek to ban To Kill a Mockingbird and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finns. Across the country, Christmas songs and movies are labeled as racist and sexist and banned. I n California schools teach oral and anal sex to 7th graders, a San Francisco school district wants to rename George Washington High School because our first president owned slaves. In Arkansas, a monument engraved with the Ten Commandments was smashed to smithereens by a protester. And in parks and squares across the South, statues of confederate generals and soldiers are disappearing.
Robbins wants you to understand the critical situation in America, and to use Erasing America to equip your fellow Americans against this Leftist propaganda—before it’s too late!
Shadow Gate: Very scary. Explains who is behind Dem agenda
Editor’s Note: When I almost died 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.”
Speaker at RMC Abby Johnson was awarded the Planned Parenthood Employee of the Year Award and Director of a Texas Clinic. Abby Johnson spoke about her decision to leave Planned Parenthood after watching an ultrasound-guided abortion with unborn baby attempting to live when parts of the baby are pieced back together and the parts sold. She criticized its founder, Margaret Sanger, as “a racist who believed in eugenics and the organization has killed 15.5 million black babies often with false information to the mothers.”
Planned Parenthood is the leading cause of death of Black people. Five million babies will be murdered in the next four years so it’s mandatory to vote to help save their lives.
Filer’s Files 36, 2020 Life Likely Within Tubes on Mars - PART II
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 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.
. 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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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Planaba– On August 15, 2020, a couple saw a red ring in the sky. The husband first noticed it while smoking a cigarette. He then called his wife to see it. The red ring slowly went away. The red ring covered about5% of the sky. A video was taken.
UpdateThe witness sent photos and videos of his sighting. One of the photos is shown above. It appears that the red ring is the reflection of the setting sun off of the clouds. There are also other clouds in the photo showing the redness. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Photos courtesy of MUFON
Glendale – On July 31, 2020, I was taking photos early evening in Carr Park in Glendale, CA. The park is right next to my apartment building. I was experimenting taking night photographs of trees, etc. I took one photo looking directly up in the sky.
I saw nothing when I took the photo, but when I was looking through the photos later I saw what appears to be a UFO in the sky
Florida Light
Palm Coast – On August 23, 2020, my security video caught a bright light over my home just after midnight. I did not hear or see the light at the time but it was captured on my security camera. Light seems to be moving south east and is gaining altitude just as it passes over my roof.
Michigan Object
Westland— My son and I were in front of our local metro PC’s store waiting to buy a new phone. I was looking around and saw what at first glance looked like a large balloon in the shape of a donut flying across the sky. But when it dawned on me as to the largeness of this thing and my poor distance eye sight without my glasses was amazing and new it couldn’t possibly be a balloon, so I started filming and showed my son. Video taken on June 25, 2020.
Missouri Cylinder
Rolla — During an inspection of my game cameras on May 15, 2020, that I use for security purposes I discovered some strange photo’s on two different days around the same times. It appears to be translucent cylinder and it moves in a zig zag patters with in a split seconds then re appears in a cigar shape that is white and moves with the clouds. At the time it was visible I had no idea it was over head.
Very strange for sure but I have lots of frame by frame photos,
New Jersey Lights
Blackwood – On August 22, 2020, while driving down the highway noticed aircraft flying close together too low and close to be airplanes had a fire glow to them. After getting off the highway I saw several of them just floating in the sky. I wanted to pull over and get a better picture and video. When I tried to take video it would not work on my phone. I was having trouble making phone calls during this time and got freaked out and took off thinking I did not get any pictures or videos. After leaving the area I was able to use my phone and did indeed get a few seconds of videos and pictures. In the different pictures the objects appear to be different shapes upon zooming in.
New Mexico Lights
Grants— Acoma Pueblo UFO sighting in a canyon on the Acoma Reservation at around 12:49 am. Pictures taken on August 24, 2020,
New York Lights
New York– I was looking out the window since the sky looked nice and decides to take a picture when I noticed the bright blue lights.
The lights may be lens reflections. Pictures were taken on August 25, 2020
Pennsylvania Cylinder
Bethlehem — Ufo seen in sky in a picture above a sunflower.
Picture taken on August 26, 2020,
Texas Lights
Rosenberg – On August 24, 2020, I stepped on to my porch and observed a very bright star like object hovering in the sky directly in front of my porch.
Behind the bright light I could see a dark cigar shaped object with what appeared o be darkened windows.
I watched he object for about 20 minutes. I went back inside my house and then stepped back onto my porch and noticed the object had moved almost directly over my porch and hovered there. The object remained and. I stayed outside and watched it for 30 minutes.I’m not sure how long it remained. I took numerous photos.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Lights
Newcastle– On August 20, 2020, I filmed up to 3 flashing lights above the horizon on my iPhone on the evening of in Wallsend NSW East Coast Australia looking north. Both I and my wife watched all these lights slowly ascend slightly into the sky as they flashed all over the place from left to right above street lights. I believe it was either over Wetlands National Park or over the mountains far away in the distance. Duration of this sighting was around 20 minutes before the flashing lights moved to the left and could no longer be visible.
Canada Object
Sherbrooke — My wife and I Saturday August 22, 2020 observed shinny silver donut shaped objects in the sky with orange/red lights beaming. It was a clear day, blue skies, and no clouds. It hovered slowly 1000 feet in the sky approx half a mile away. We saw the objects slowly hovering in a direct path for approx. 15 minutes, enough time to shoot these photos with my point and shoot camera with zoom. Suddenly they were gone.
Chile Round Object
Atacama– On August 17, 2018, around 3:15 p.m., I meet my family visiting the flowery desert at kilometer 623 of Route 5 Norte, Vallenar Desert Commune, and Chile.
I took several photographs and after 2 years to date, I have reviewed them and I realized that one of them had an unknown object, which can be seen when zooming in.
UK/ England
Paignton, Devon –I pulled over in the car to take some photographs of some large radio masts that were opposite me in a field. I got out the car and zoomed in on the masts with my Nikon P900 camera and then started to take some photographs as an oval shaped object appeared from out of nowhere and then promptly disappeared. After flicking through several photographs I could see that I had indeed captured the object in one of the photographs. Looking at the photo I could see that the oval shaped object had appeared next to the left radio mast before it had disappeared and I got the distinct feeling that it had appeared to let me know that they were still watching me. The photograph was taken at 5:34 PM on the 20th of August 2020.
Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
UK/North Wales
North Wales— I had a sense to look up at the sky and take a picture on August 20, 2020. .I knew something was there without seeing anything at first. There was a glimpse of bright lights for an instance. In the photo three separate points of light appear in a triangular formation. They did not remain for a second photo.
Venezuela Light
Caracas— On the night of the August 20, 2020, from the window facing east, a bright light could be observed that seemed static, but it was blinking and emitting colors red, blue, and yellow. It blinked randomly and it changed in shape and place in a small radius, it was at a great height, but it was not a satellite or an airplane or a drone. I proceeded to film the phenomenon with my cell phone.
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CHINA JUST LAUNCHED A MYSTERIOUS “REUSABLE TEST SPACECRAFT”
VICTOR TANGERMANN
Mysterious Spacecraft
China quietly launched a mysterious reusable spacecraft into orbit this morning, atop a massive Long March 2F rocket at the country’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
China’s state news website Xinhuacalled the launch a success. “The test spacecraft will return to its intended domestic landing site after a period of orbit, during which reusable technical validation will be carried out as planned,” reads the report, as translated by Google Translate.
Top Secret
It’s still unclear what the spacecraft, likely a project by the country’s main space contractor China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC), is designed to do — or what it even looks like, for that matter.
Some experts suggest it could be a spaceplane, reminiscent of the US’s top secret X-37B project, which recently carried out its sixth mission in orbit.
“China has been looking into a few different concepts for spaceplanes for quite a few years,” Andrew Jones, a freelance reporter specializing in China’s space program, told The Verge.
China’s Long March 2F rocket on a launchpad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Imaginechina Limited / Alamy
Wider Payloads
In 2017, China announced plans to test a reusable spaceplane in 2020, as SpaceNews reports. Adding to the rumors was apparent modification work on the launch tower, reportedly allowing wider payloads to be launched using the Long March 2F rocket.
The 2017 reports also claimed that such a reusable spacecraft would be designed to carry both crew and payloads, according toSpaceNews.
Prescott, Arizona flying object photo on August 19, 2020
Filer’s Files 35, 2020 Mining on the Moon ad Mars - 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: Tic Tok Video, Mars Mining, Executive Order to Support Moon Mining, Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth – the Closest Flyby on Record, One Party Pledges Allegiance of our Nation without God, Strange Craft, Mt Shasta Conference, and C-60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, and New Jersey.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Eire, India, Spain, Turkey, , and England in the United Kingdom.
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Tic Tok Video
JACK SARFATTI Re Tic Tac:
Why did you need my drawing? This was discussed in my video interview with Sid Goldberg Aug 17. I don’t know how much will survive the cutting room floor. The answer is simple To the Stars Academy is not mentally equipped to deal with this problem intelligently. It’s completely stupid for Senator Marco Rubio and Tucker Carlson to rely on their expertise.
Mike Turber wrote:
This is a link to the first in my series of debunks to get to the bottom of why “To the Stars Academy (TTSA) is doing such a sloppy job at research. https://youtu.be/q3Rnm609tSg
Text from the description below.
The Star Academy released 3 Videos. Each video has not met the scrutiny necessary to be able to actually identify the objects we see in them. In this case, the NAVY GoFast video from the Roosevelt battle group taken during a training exercise off the coast of Jacksonville Florida, we see an object which at first glance appears to be flying fast and near the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
But is it really flying low and fast? Using the information supplied in the actual video we are able to determine the actual altitude that the UAP is flying at. The results that we have calculated tell us that the object is actually flying at 13,000 feet and roughly 40 or so miles an hour plus or minus 10-15 mph.
This is nowhere near the speed and altitude claimed by TTSA in their “Unidentified” television series which covered the GoFast video. In fact, the TV show actually brings in two experts to look at the GoFast video. based on what appears to be just a cursory observation of the evidence provided in the video, the two experts conclude that the object is flying at 2/3 the speed of sound (507 mph and at a altitude which is very close to the water surface. We do not know if the two experts actually did any calculations to determine the real altitude and speed of the object shown in the GoFast video. We also do not know if the members of the team at “To the Stars Academy” or if analysts from the Department of Defense have, in fact, reviewed this video, to determine what these objects actually are, how fast they are flying and at what altitude they fly etc..
We are told by Lue Elizondo that the program called AATIP, which he ran inside the Department of Defense and left in October of 2017 actually determined that these might be a threat to national security. This brings up many questions and in this 5X5 NEWS release which is Part 1 of a new series of videos we plan to release, we mainly tackle the altitude issue. By proxy the speed of the object is clearly not the claimed speed either and this will be covered soon as well. How could Mr Elizondo release this video without having such basic information such as airspeed and altitude verified when all the data needed to determine this is actually in the video? You would think that TTSA, DoD or any of the experts would have been able to determine this BEFORE releasing a description of the video on their website and their release version of the video, stating such information on various news programs and actually restating the obvious mistake on the television program called Unidentified which airs on the History Channel. Several debunkers including Mick West, Mike Turber and others have concluded that the object clearly, and most likely, is not of such advanced technology that it would exhibit very high speeds, or other abilities that would make it seem extraordinary. TTSA has failed to respond to these claims made by debunkers and have instead remained silent. It is clear to at least us at 5X5 NEWS, Namely Mike Turber, that the “GoFast” video is the simplest and easiest video to debunk and yet not one individual has been able to prove that this object is actually flying low and fast, as claimed by “To the Stars Academy”.
Carl Sagan once stated that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof”. This quote was also stated by Christopher Mellon in the unidentified episode that covered the “Go Fast” video. Perhaps the best debunking to date of all 3 videos was made by Mick West which we are also looking at in an informal peer review alongside our own independent investigation. Based on the information that Mike Turber has gathered since 2005, it is our belief that these objects are a combination of many technologies that have been tested by both the US Air Force and also the Navy on systems that are in a training mode. Allegedly the Air Force showed up and confiscated all tapes?
. More on this soon but we have already stated this in the past as well. We hope that members of the “To the Stars Academy” and/or the Department of Defense, will look at these videos and analyze them using the data that was allegedly taken during the Nimitz event and possibly the Roosevelt event, and release data so we can get to the truth or just admit it is advanced United States Technology which has been Mike Turber’s stance all along. Raytheon, Lockheed Martin & Skunkworks, Boeing and others are clearly involved. GoFast = Balloon More parts of this series are coming.
Tic Tac and two F-18s
Editor’s Note As a former Air Force Officer with 5000 hours flying using radar I agree with Commander Fravor’s statements concerning his and his Weapons Systems Officers analysis. I’ll agree the GoFast video does not show much and can be misinterpreted. Cdr Fravor was the Commanding Officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 41, flying the newest aircraft in the US Navy, the F/A-18F Super Hornet. Commander Fravor had 16 years of experience flying tactical aircraft for the Navy with over 3,500 flight hours and was a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School, better known as TOP GUN and visually spotted the Tic Tac.
Commander David Fravor
On November 14th, 2004, CDR Fravor and his WSO (Weapon Systems Officer) were flying with another F/A-18F Super Hornet from VFA-41 on a routine training mission that was focused on Air Defense of the carrier battle group using
Soon after the two aircraft joined together as a flight, CDR Fravor was told that the training event was going to be suspended and that real world tasking would take precedence. The flight of two F/A-18F Super Hornets were to investigate an unknown aerial contact. The contact was one of many that had been descending from above 80,000 feet and hovering around 20,000 ft during the previous two weeks. This was the first time that the contacts were seen while aircraft were airborne.
ELECTRO-OPTICAL SENSOR (A HIGH-RESOLUTION CAMERA EQUIPPED WITH A TELEPHOTO ZOOM LENS) THAT DETECTS THE MAGNITUDE AND COLOR OF EMITTED OR REFLECTED LIGHT AND RECORDS THE INFORMATION IN THE FORM OF PIXELS.
When the Navy aircraft reached the location, the crews noticed a white “Tic Tac” shaped object that was hovering over a disturbance in the ocean. CDR Fravor descended to get closer to the object. Soon after he began the descent, the object began to mirror his flight path. When CDR Fravor and his WSO made a vertical move to get even closer, the object accelerated at a rate well beyond any aircraft technology that they had ever seen and disappeared. He said, “He would love to fly a craft with that technology.”
The object then did reappear at the location that the F/A-18F Super Hornets were supposed to be holding.
An aircraft that launched just prior to CDR Fravor’s aircraft landing aboard USS Nimitz managed to obtain video footage of the object. It is possible the Air Force or someone else has an advanced experimental craft they were testing against modern fighters but there was also craft underwater.
To this day, the crews do not know what it was that they saw, but they feel that it was nothing that was developed with the known technology on earth at that time.
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, Jack Sarfatti wrote: Feynman told me at least twice in my private meetings with him in 1960s. “Jack, always try to prove yourself wrong.”So in that spirit: T he only way radar could be fooled is Xmas Light effect.
Experimental Drone
If USAF fooling Navy on Nov 14, 2004 have two hovering drones at A and B say 60 miles apart and they have advance Intel of what Fravor et-al will do under the pre-planned test (not known to Fravor et-al) then they can cloak (new stealth tech) the drone at A and “instantly” uncloak the identical drone at B to make it look like a teleportation on the radar. However, that does not seem to be able to explain Fravor et-al’s direct close up visual Tic Tac sightings. However, even if it turns out that ALL Tic Tac evidence is fraudulent a trick by USAF on Navy testing STEALTH CLOAKING technology.
The joke is on them because the kinds of low energy warp/wormhole metric engineering physics my equations are modeling still stands.
And yes some manufacturing is done at Area 51 but most is don’t at Plant 42 and 44.
Let’s hope they mention submarine launched drones and balloons with radar reflectors, and spoofing technology developed by DARPA, USAFRL and later developed into NEMISIS for the NAVY or Netted
NEMISIS appears on enemy radar as fleet of ships
Emulation of Multi-Element Signature against Integrated Sensors.
The Navy has been developing and integrating multiple types of unmanned vehicles, shipboard and submarine systems, countermeasures and electronic warfare payloads, and communication technologies to give it the ability to project what are, in essence, phantom fleets of aircraft, ships, and submarines.
More later. These realistic-looking false signatures and decoys have the ability to appear seamlessly across disparate and geographically separated enemy sensor systems located both above and below the ocean’s surface. Thanks to JACK SARFATTI <
Mars Mining
Open Pit Mine on Mars
Mars may contain ores that would be very useful to potential colonists as well as Martians or other aliens. These photos from the European Space Agency appear to show open pit mining the most common type of mining on Earth.
The abundance of volcanic features together with widespread cratering from asteroids is strong evidence for a variety of ores. This open ore pit on Mars is likely on the edge of a crater where abundant ores are often located.
The mine appears fairly recent suggesting aliens of some type developed the mine before the Martian winds could obliterate it.
While nothing may be found on Mars that would justify the high cost of transport to Earth, the more ores that future colonists can obtain from Mars, the easier it would be to build colonies there. Ore deposits are produced with the help of large amounts of heat. Olympus Mons a massive volcano on Mars is the largest in the Solar System. On Mars heat can come from molten rock moving under the ground and from crater impacts. Liquid rock under the ground is called magma. When magma sits in underground chambers, slowly cooling over thousands of years, heavier elements sink.
These elements in open cut mining, including copper, chromium, iron, and nickel become concentrated at the bottom. When magma is hot, many elements are free to move. As cooling proceeds, the elements bind with each other to form chemical compounds or minerals. Because some elements do not bond easily to form minerals, they exist freely after nearly all the other elements have bonded into compounds or minerals. The remaining elements are called incompatible elements. Some of them are quite useful to humans. Some examples include niobium, a metal used in producing superconductors and specialty steels, lanthanum and neodymium, and europium for television monitors and energy-efficient LED light bulbs.
Martian Open pit, open-cast or open cut mining, is a surface mining in layers.
After the mass of magma has cooled and has mostly frozen or crystallized into a solid, a small amount of liquid rock remains. This liquid bears important substances such as lead, silver, tin, bismuth, and antimony. Sometimes minerals in the magma chamber are so hot that they occupy a gaseous state. Others are mixed with water and sulfur in aqueous solutions. The gases and mineral-rich solutions eventually work their way into cracks and become useful mineral veins. Ore minerals, including the incompatible elements, remain dissolved in the hot solution, and then crystallize out when the solution cools. Deposits created by means of these hot solutions are called hydrothermal deposits. Some of the world’s most significant deposits of gold, silver, lead, mercury, zinc, and tungsten started out this way.[10]Nearly all the mines in the northern Black Hills of South Dakota came to be because of hot water deposits of minerals.[13] Cracks often form when a mass of magma cools because magma contracts and hardens when it cools. Cracks occur both in the frozen magma mass and in the surrounding rocks, so ore is deposited in any kind of the rock that happens to be nearby, but the ore minerals first had to be concentrated by way of a molten mass of magma.[14]
Sign on Mars Pit Mine suggests Yahweh (God)
Research carried out at Louisiana State University found different types of volcanic materials around volcanoes in Elysium Mons. This showed that Mars can have a magma evolution. This leads to the possibility of finding useful minerals for a future human population on Mars.”
Hard rock minerals could be mined from an asteroid or a spent comet or those that have impacted with Mars. Precious metals such as gold, silver, and platinum group metals could be transported back to Earth, while iron group metals and other common ones could be used for construction in space.
Want to go to Mars? It will cost you. In 2016, SpaceX founder Elon Musk estimated that manned missions to the planet may cost approximately $10 billion per person. As with any expensive endeavor, it is inevitable that sufficient returns on investment will be needed in order to sustain human presence on Mars. So, what’s underneath all that red dust?
Mining Technologyreported in 2017 that “there are areas on Mars, especially large igneous provinces, volcanoes and impact craters that hold significant potential for nickel, copper, iron, titanium, platinum group elements and likely gold and gems.”
Were a SpaceX-like company to establish a commercial mining presence on the planet, digging up these materials will be sure to provoke a fraught debate over environmental preservation in space, Martian land rights, and the slew of microbial unknowns which Martian soil may bring?
Based on known terrestrial reserves, and growing consumption in both developed and developing countries, key elements needed for modern industry and food production could be exhausted on Earth within 50 to 60 years.[3]
Trump Signs Executive Order to Support Moon Mining, Tap Asteroid Resources
Mining in Space
The U.S. sees a clear path to the use of moon and asteroid resources. The water ice and other lunar resources that will help the United States establish a long-term human presence on the moon are there for the taking, the White House believes. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 6, 2020, establishing U.S. policy on the exploitation of off-Earth resources. That policy stresses that t he current regulatory regime — notably, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty — allows the use of such resources. In 2015, Congress passed a law explicitly allowing American companies and citizens to use moon and asteroid resources. The executive order, called “Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources,” has been in the works for about a year, a senior administration official said during a teleconference with reporters today. The order was prompted, at least in part, by a desire to clarify the United States’ position as it negotiates with international partners to help advance NASA’s Artemis program for crewed lunar exploration, the official added. (Engagement with international partners remains important, the official said.)
Artemis aims to land two astronauts on the moon in 2024 and to establish a sustainable human presence on and around Earth’s nearest neighbor by 2028. Lunar resources, especially the water ice thought to be plentiful on the permanently shadowed floors of polar craters, are key to Artemis’ grand ambitions, NASA officials have said. The moon is not the final destination for these ambitions, by the way. Artemis is designed to help NASA and its partners learn how to support astronauts in deep space for long stretches, lessons that will be key to putting boots on Mars, which NASA wants to do in the 2030s. From Wikipedia, t he free encyclopedia
Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth – the Closest Flyby on Record
JPL Watches Closely as Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth – the Closest Flyby on Record. An SUV-size space rock flew past our planet over the weekend and was detected by a NASA-funded asteroid survey as it departed.
Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday, Aug. 16 at 12:08 a.m. EDT (Saturday, Aug. 15 at 9:08 p.m. PDT).
At roughly 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 meters) across, asteroid 2020 QG is very small by asteroid standards: If it had actually been on an impact trajectory, it would likely have become a fireball as it broke up in Earth’s atmosphere, which happens several times a year.
By some estimates, there are hundreds of millions of small asteroids the size of 2020 QG, but they are extremely hard to discover until they get very close to Earth. The vast majority of NEAs pass by safely at much greater distances – usually much farther away than the Moon.
“It’s really cool to see a small asteroid come by this close, because we can see the Earth’s gravity dramatically bend its trajectory,” said Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. “Our calculations show that this asteroid got turned by 45 degrees or so as it swung by our planet.”
Zipping along at almost 8 miles per second (12.3 kilometers per second) – a little slower than average, Chodas noted – 2020 QG was first recorded as just a long streak in a wide-field camera image taken by the Zwicky Transient Facility. The image was taken six hours after the closest point of approach as the asteroid was heading away from Earth. A sky-scanning survey telescope funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, the Zwicky Transient Facility is based at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County. NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program funds data processing for NEO detections.
Asteroid 2020 QG enters the record books as the closest known nonimpacting asteroid; many very small asteroids impact our planet every year, but only a few have actually been detected in space a few hours before impacting Earth. On average, an asteroid the size of 2020 QG passes this closely only a few times a year.
This is the first image of Asteroid 2020 QG, captured by Caltech’s Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) after the asteroid’s closest approach to Earth at a distance of 1,830 miles above the planet’s surface. The asteroid shows up as a streak because it is closer than the background stars, and zipped past ZTF’s camera.
Credit: ZTF/Caltech Optical Observatories
In 2005, Congress assigned NASA the goal of finding 90% of the near-Earth asteroids that are about 460 feet (140 meters) or larger in size. These larger asteroids pose a much greater threat if they were to impact, and they can be detected much farther away from Earth, because their rate of motion across the sky is typically much smaller at that distance.
“It’s quite an accomplishment to find these tiny close-in asteroids in the first place, because they pass by so fast,” Chodas said. “There’s typically only a short window of a couple of days before or after close approach when this small of an asteroid is close enough to Earth to be bright enough but not so close that it moves too fast in the sky to be detected by a telescope.”
A division of Caltech in Pasadena, JPL hosts CNEOS for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program in NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. More information about CNEOS, asteroids and near-Earth objects can be found at https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov
One Party Pledges Allegiance of our Nation without God
Committee Chairman A.J. Durani a Super Delegate for the Democratic National Committee
The new dogma of the Democratic Convention was given with Under God’ skipped in the pledge of allegiance in at least two Democratic convention meetings.
Last year Planned Parenthood bragged that one million three hundred thousand babies with hearts beating had been aborted (murdered) that has God upset. Planned Parenthood also admitted in court to selling babies body parts and donated $45 million to the Democrats.
Father Robert E. Morey of Saint Anthony Catholic Church denied Biden communion because of the presidential candidate and lifelong Catholic’s aggressive pro-abortion beliefs. Morey said “Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other and the Church. Our actions should reflect that,” “Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself outside of Church teaching.”
The party would also have a national mandate that everyone must wear masks or else and close the economy if the virus continues. He will raise taxes to support socialism. As a former Democrat I cannot support the killing of 40 million babies, riots and defunding the police in the in the last few years.This election is critical, Vote to prevent the slaughter of five million US Citizen’s babies in the next four years.
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.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
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Arizona Flying Object
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Prescott – On August 19, 2020, I was watching some nice cloud formations and started taking photos w/my cell phone. I am in central Arizona at about 5,200’ we do have some bugs flying around right now. I tried to wipe a bug off and realized it was part of the photo. Normally with my camera if I catch a photo of a moving object, it will show the object’s motion when flipping from photo to photo and then it stops for the “still.” This did not happen with this photo. It appears to be pretty far from where I was standing. Posting a few before and after photos for reference. You will see the object in the upper right hand side of the one photo. It looks like a little sliver in the original. The last photo is an enlarged copy
California Object
San Pedro –August 8, 2020.While on patrol at the Coast Guard Base I heard a helicopter overhead. When I looked up I saw past the helicopter I saw a triangular shaped object hovering in one spot. Then it started to move north bound slowly. So I turned to grab my camera, which took seconds, and by the time I looked for it, it was gone. At first I thought it was a commercial airline or military. But the shape threw me off because it was a perfect triangle. This week I saw this on social media.
Note: This is an incredible sighting by a credible witness. UFO’s are still out there! Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Colorado Drawing
Longmont – Om August 8, 2020, I saw this object out my window almost due north at 4am. It appeared as a slightly domed rectangular shaped object with a slightly glowing blue grey dull color. It seemed to be 7:1 unit’s width to height. Slowly moving left to right with quick wobbles and never changed altitude. I never saw the object change heading or rotate so I have no idea what the 3d shape is beyond a rectangle with a slightly trapezoidal narrowing towards the top. The object did appear to have a brighter outline with very tiny pinpoints of light that appeared to shimmer. The motion was very consistent with no change in altitude aside from a random ‘wobble’ back over the path already traveled. A maximum travel of around 10-20% of the length of the object and then back to steady rate. This wobble occurred every 10s or so I would estimate. My wife and son and I observed it for about 5 minutes as it slowly flew eastward and disappeared behind a tree.
Florida Lights
Austin – On August 15, 2020, I saw a deep black object with a dark green solid light hovering over freeway. Also posted to Reddit for more details and some mocked-up photos.
Georgia Lights
Carrollton —I am reporting this on behalf of my friend Craig, who along with his wife saw and photographed 2 separate UFO encounters.
I told him how (according to Bob Lazar) 2 modes of flight are usually observed – 1. Where the saucer is pretty much flat/horizontal when travelling at slower speeds and then 2.
When it flips on its side right before going into hyper mode and disappearing in seconds.
Louisiana Triangle
Gonzales — The triangle UFO in your show is absolutely legitimate. I’ve seen it once about 300 feet off the ground, moving about 40 mph almost one year ago. Each side was as long as a football field and had a white light under each corner and a red semi-sphere light at the center of the bottom. The sheer size, slow speed, and the fact that it was completely silent with no con-trails was amazing. I only wish I had presence of mind to get video and photo. I watched for a few minutes until it passed the horizon. Love the show.
Maryland Light
Rural Maryland — My elderly aunt and uncle viewed this object and have been trying to get info on it,
It was taken from the driver’s side of vehicle. They live in
Picture taken on April 22, 2020. Photo courtesy of MUFON.com
Michigan Lights
South Lyon — On August 13th, my wife and I were sitting on our deck looking at the Perseid Meteor Shower, when we noticed a strange object moving east of us, which was headed due south. We live about 40 miles west of Detroit, MI.
The Object had 2 flashing lights, and appeared rather large and was wider than 2 of our neighbors houses. There was also a third one that appeared overhead of us, alone and had a little bit of a rumble noise to it. We are interested to know what it was.
Minnesota Lights
Scandia – On August 18, 2020, object hovered over the water with light reflected off the water making it appear to be two images. There was no sound and the light seemed to be moving. Both lights were independent of each other at first and l viewed it for 7 minutes. At the end, the light went from being brilliant to dull to white in less than 10 seconds. After that it was not visible. The shape of the light was disk like with no defined outline. It just glowed so pictures and video are taken through an 80 power telescope and 8 times magnification with my phone.
Lakeville – On August 14, 2020, a large bright light of circular shape was silent and lasted about 5 minutes.
I noticed at lights on our deck and the circle lit up with various colors and then moved away and took off high into the sky at like 45 degrees. Photo courtesy of MUFON.com
Nebraska Objects
Fremont– On August 16, 2020, I was sitting in my car when I thought the clouds looked strange. Snapped a photo and I noticed two unknown objects in the zoomed photo. I can’t tell what these objects are, but zooming in on the objects I think if they were planes I would have hear some sort of noise
New Jersey Objects
Roebling — Taking pictures of a daytime moon and didn’t notice object right away.
The daytime picture when blown to 100% shows more detail Photos taken on May 20 2020,
Ewing Township– On August 18, 2020, with my convertible top down I, noticed something glimmering in the sky. Facing northeast I saw white dot randomly flashing and started to record before I lost it behind some trees. A woman rolling slowly downhill on the sidewalk in a wheelchair singing loudly can be heard on the recording. I posted video on Reedit; someone mentioned it could have been an escaped metallic party balloon.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Lights
Nanaimo– In a large lightning storm in our area over several hours I filmed various flashes to show family who were asleep at the time. I could see that tic-tac shape in the video when the lightning flashes. It moves in an unnatural way before the lightning ceases to provide light to show what happened next. Reviewed all other videos I took and nothing similar is seen. I have posted this on r\UFOs as well.
Eire Object
Bundara— I have witnessed several orbs moving and burning brighter and brighter almost illuminating for my attention. Then after one and a half hours of viewing taking pictures I used my video recorder on my iPhone to tape a triangular craft move over my head, after an orb shot across the sky. I understand their able to reach me telepathically and they said that I am ready for third kind. And last night at 3:30 am I was awoken by a large hissing of air and a figure appeared behind me and said R was responsible. It was loud enough to wake me. I am so scared now. They mentioned they were Russians. I don’t know what to believe.
India Cylinder
Osmanabad– On August 19, 2020, I was on the journey to my home on Aurangabad-Beed Highway. At sunset I was taking pictures when I saw the UFO in the west. It was moving SW for 30 minutes. The UFO was bright and far away in the sky. It was moving from this one point to another too fast for anything a human could have made. I believe that it was unbelievable, and after 30 minutes it just vanished
Spain Lights
Atlantic Ocean –A series of strange lights were seen moving above the ocean.
Picture taken on August 15, 2020.
Turkey Light
Rize— When I zoomed in with the camera, I saw that the object got bigger and then smaller. The object disappeared as it rose up as the weather began to lighten.
Picture taken on August 20, 2020,
United Kingdom Lights:
Brierley Hill— On, August 11, 2020, I was filming a massive electrical storm and 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 and went off screen in .40 seconds. 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 in the middle, which appears to be a bluish/green and is intense and shimmers. I’m not sure what this craft is, but it flew straight up in a huge electrical storm which is not normal. All the editing I did was to lower the brightness and raise the contrast. I just pulled out details using Light room and Photoshop. At one point it only shows as a slim disc of light then it heads up from the left and then you can then clearly see the 3 sections of the craft. It seems like it changed or was cloaking until it really started to climb and accelerate. It looks like a real UFO, no normal craft would fly straight into a storm like that and those lights are strange and it covered 20 miles or so in a flash.
Note: The witness extracted images from the video and performed various enhancements to better illustrate the craft. He also displayed part of the video in slow motion. In the original video the object streaked across the sky in a few seconds. Given that a thunderstorm was occurring there is a chance that the object could be ball lightning, but this is speculation. Ball lightning can behave strangely and it is not completely understood. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
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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.”
DEFORMED DISC OF GAS AND DUST IN THE ORION CONSTELLATION COULD BIRTH EVEN WEIRDER PLANETS
"It’s a new mechanism of forming planets."
IN THE INFINITE COSMOS, PLANETS ARE BIRTHED FROM THE SWIRLING DISC OF GAS AND DUSTTHAT FORM AROUND YOUNG STARS.
In our own Solar System, this disc was relatively stable and flat, resulting in Earth and other planets of the Solar System all orbiting on the same plane.
But not all planets may be so lucky. Recent observations of a strangely warped disc in the Orion constellation reveal it was likely torn apart by its own stars — a catastrophic process. The disfigured disc may in turn give rise to even stranger planets, a new study suggests.
The new finding is detailed in a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA,) a team of astronomers found the first direct evidence that stars can tear apart the planet-forming, or circumstellar, disc that surrounds them. The result is a broken-apart disc with a misaligned inner ring, where a giant planet may soon form.
The image on the right is the image taken of the disc, with the misaligned ring while the left image is an artist's impression of what the inner ring would look like while surrounded by the disc.ESO/L. Calçada, Exeter/Kraus et al.
Stefan Kraus, an astrophysics professor at the University of Exeter and lead author of the new study, has been observing the star system for more than a decade.
"It’s one of the very few star systems where we know all the orbits of the stars of the system, and we know all their properties," Kraus tells Inverse. "Since we know the specific orbits that the stars are on, we can simulate what happened."
The GW Orionis star system is made up of three stars, and is located 1300 lightyears away from Earth in the constellation of Orion.
The three stars do not orbit in the same plane. Rather, their orbits are misaligned with one another and with the circumstellar disc that surrounds them.
Based on what they already knew about the star system, the team behind the new study combined observations with computer simulations to reconstruct what happened over the lifetime of GW Orionis. The simulation revealed that the stars had torn apart their disc themselves due to their conflicting gravitational pull, with each one pulling on the disc in a different direction.
"We started with the disc, then we put in the orbits of the stars that we measured over 11 years to see how the system evolved," Kraus says. "And it shows that the tearing effect is kicking in and is tearing the disc apart."
The circumstellar disc was broken apart into smaller rings in the simulation, which matches the astronomers' observations of the star system.
Astronomers had long theorized this disc-tearing effect may occur, but this marks the first time the effect has been observed in a real star system.
This composite image shows both the ALMA and SPHERE observations of the disc, with the rings separated from the disc.ESO/Exeter/Kraus et al., ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
ARE THERE EXOPLANETS IN ORION? — Interestingly, the inner ring of the disc contains at least 30 Earth-masses of dust, which could be enough to form planets.
"The intriguing thing is that the planets that would form there would be on completely tilted and highly eccentric orbits," Kraus says. "It’s a new mechanism of forming planets."
The researchers have already scheduled future observations of the star system to image it in more detail, and find out if planets could form within the inner region of the disc so close to the stars.
Abstract:
Young stars are surrounded by a circumstellar disk of gas and dust, within which planet formation can occur. Gravitational forces in multiple star systems can disrupt the disk. Theoretical models predict that if the disk is misaligned with the orbital plane of the stars, the disk should warp and break into precessing rings, a phenomenon known as disk tearing. We present observations of the triple star system GW Orionis, finding evidence for disk tearing. Our images show an eccentric ring that is misaligned with the orbital planes and the outer disk. The ring casts shadows on a strongly warped intermediate region of the disk. If planets can form within the warped disk, disk tearing could provide a mechanism for forming wide-separation planets on oblique orbits.
NEURALINK: 3 NEUROSCIENTISTS REACT TO ELON MUSK’S BRAIN CHIP REVEAL
With a pig-filled demonstration, Neuralink revealed its latest advancements in brain implants this week. But what do scientists think of Elon Musk's company's grand claims?
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE FOR HUMANS AND MACHINES?
Elon Musk would argue that it involves wiring brains directly up to computers – but neuroscientists tell Inverse that's easier said than done.
On August 28, Musk and his team unveiled the latest updates from secretive firm Neuralink with a demo featuring pigs implanted with their brain chip device. These chips are called Links, and they measure 0.9 inches wide by 0.3 inches tall. They connect to the brain via wires, and provide a battery life of 12 hours per charge, after which the user would need to wirelessly charge again. During the demo, a screen showed the real-time spikes of neurons firing in the brain of one pig, Gertrude, as she snuffed around her pen during the event.
It was an event designed to show how far Neuralink has come in terms of making its science objectives reality. But how much of Musk's ambitions for Links are still in the realm of science fiction?
Neuralink argues the chips will one day have medical applications, listing a whole manner of ailments that its chips could feasibly solve. Memory loss, depression, seizures, and brain damage were all suggested as conditions where a generalized brain device like the Link could help.
Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology at California Institute of Technology, tells Inverse Neuralink's announcement was "tremendously exciting" and "a huge technical achievement."
Neuralink is "a good example of technology outstripping our current ability to know how to use it," Adolphs says. "The primary initial application will be for people who are ill and for clinical reasons it is justified to implant such a chip into their brain. It would be unethical to do so right now in a healthy person."
"But who knows what the future holds?" He adds.
Adolphs says the chip is comparable to the natural processes that emerge through evolution. Currently, to interface between the brain and the world, humans use their hands and mouth. But to imagine just sitting and thinking about these actions is a lot harder, so a lot of the future work will need to focus on making this interface with the world feel more natural, Adolphs says.
Achieving that goal could be further out than the Neuralink demo suggested. John Krakauer, chief medical and scientific officer at MindMaze and professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University, tells Inverse that his view is humanity is "still a long way away" from consumer-level linkups.
"Let me give a more specific concern: The device we saw was placed over a single sensorimotor area," Krakauer says. "If we want to read thoughts rather than movements (assuming we knew their neural basis) where do we put it? How many will we need? How does one avoid having one’s scalp studded with them? No mention of any of this of course."
While a brain linkup may get people "excited" because it "has echoes of Charles Xavier in the X-Men," Krakauer argues that there's plenty of potential non-invasive solutions to help people with the conditions Neuralink says its technology will treat.
These existing solutions don't require invasive surgery, but Krakauer fears "the cool factor clouds critical thinking."
But Elon Musk, Neuralink's CEO, wants the Link to take humans far beyond new medical treatments.
The ultimate objective, according to Musk, is for Neuralink to help create a symbiotic relationship between humans and computers. Musk argues that Neuralink-like devices could help humanity keep up with super-fast machines. But Krakauer finds such an ambition troubling.
"I would like to see less unsubstantiated hype about a brain 'Alexa' and interfacing with A.I.," Krakauer says. "The argument is if you can’t avoid the singularity, join it. I’m sorry but this angle is just ridiculous."
Neuralink's link implant.
Neuralink
Even a general-purpose linkup could be much further away from development than it may seem. Musk told WaitButWhy in 2017 that a general-purpose linkup could be eight to 10 years away for people with no disability. That would place the timescale for roll-out somewhere around 2027 at the latest — seven years from now.
Kevin Tracey, a neurosurgery professor and president of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, tells Inverse that he "can't imagine" that any of the publicly suggested diseases could see a solution "sooner than 10 years." Considering that Neuralink hopes to offer the device as a medical solution before it moves to more general-purpose implants, these notes of caution cast the company's timeline into doubt.
But unlike Krakauer, Tracey argues that "we need more hype right now." Not enough attention has been paid to this area of research, he says.
"In the United States for the last 20 years, the federal government's investment supporting research hasn't kept up with inflation," Tracey says. "There's been this idea that things are pretty good and we don't have to spend so much money on research. That's nonsense. COVID proved we need to raise enthusiasm and investment."
Neuralink's device is just one part of the brain linkup puzzle, Tracey explains. There are three fields at play: molecular medicine to make and find the targets, neuroscience to understand how the pathways control the target, and the devices themselves. Advances in each area can help the others. Neuralink may help map new pathways, for example, but it's just one aspect of what needs to be done to make it work as planned.
Neuralink's smaller chips may also help avoid issues with brain scarring seen with larger devices, Tracey says. And advancements in robots can also help with surgeries, an area Neuralink has detailed before.
But perhaps the biggest benefit from the announcement is making the field cool again.
"If and to the extent that a new, very cool device elevates the discussion on the neuroscience implications of new devices, and what do we need to get these things to the benefit of humanity through more science, that's all good," Tracey says.
Stonehenge enhanced sounds like voices or music for people inside the monument
Scientists created a scale model one-twelfth the size of the ancient site to study its acoustics
Acoustic research using a scale model one-twelfth the size of Stonehenge (above) finds that the completed monument would have magnified speech and improved musical sounds, but only for those inside the stone circle.
Welcome to Soundhenge. Better as Stonehenge, this ancient monument in southern England created an acoustic space that amplified voices and improved the sound of any music being played for people standing within the massive circle of stones, a new study suggests.
Because of how stones were placed, that speech or music would not have projected beyond Stonehenge into the surrounding countryside, or even to people standing near the stone circle, scientists report in the October Journal of Archaeological Science.
To explore Stonehenge’s sound dynamics, acoustical engineer Trevor Cox and colleagues used laser scans of the site and archaeological evidence to construct a physical model one-twelfth the size of the actual monument. That was the largest possible scale replica that could fit inside an acoustic chamber at the University of Salford in England, where Cox works. This room simulated the acoustic effects of the open landscape surrounding Stonehenge and compacted ground inside the monument.
Stonehenge Lego, as Cox dubbed the model, was assembled assuming that Stonehenge’s outer circle of standing sarsen stones — a type of silcrete rock found in southern England — had originally consisted of 30 stones. Stonehenge today includes 63 complete stones, including 17 standing sarsen stones in the outer circle. Based on an estimated total of 157 stones placed at the site around 4,200 years ago, the researchers 3-D printed 27 stones of all sizes and shapes. Then, the team used silicone molds of those items and plaster mixed with other materials to re-create the remaining 130 stones. Simulated stones were constructed to minimize sound absorption, much like actual stones at Stonehenge, Cox says.
Acoustical engineer Trevor Cox works with a scale model of Stonehenge in a sound chamber at England’s University of Salford.ACOUSTICS RESEARCH CENTRE/UNIV. OF SALFORD
Finally, the team placed speakers and microphones at various points inside and just outside Stonehenge Lego. Each speaker emitted chirping sounds that swept from low to high frequencies. Sound frequencies were modulated so that the speakers’ sounds interacted with the model stones much as natural sounds behave at actual Stonehenge.
Despite many gaps between stones, sounds briefly lingered inside Stonehenge Lego, the team found. Reverberation time, a measure of the time it takes sound to decay by 60 decibels, averaged about 0.6 seconds inside the model for mid-frequency sounds. That effect would have boosted the ability to hear voices and enhanced sounds of drums or other musical instruments, Cox says. For comparison, reverberation time reaches about 0.4 seconds in a living room, around two seconds in a large concert hall and roughly eight seconds in a large cathedral.
Stonehenge Lego did not project sounds into the surrounding area or boost the quality of sounds coming from external speakers. And sounds did not echo in the scale model. Inner groups of simulated stones obscured and scattered sounds reflected off the outer sarsen circle, blocking echo formation.
Previous research has been done on Stonehenge’s acoustics, but was incomplete, says archaeologist Timothy Darvill of Bournemouth University in England who has excavated at Stonehenge but did not participate in the new research. That work includes sound measurements taken at what remains of Stonehenge today and at a Stonehenge replica in Washington state made of concrete blocks. Another acoustic study employed a computer model of the ancient site.
Although the new study was “carefully and rigorously done,” questions remain about sonic effects at Stonehenge, says musicologist Rupert Till of the University of Huddersfield in England, who conducted some of the previous research. A wider range of acoustic measures is needed, for instance, to detect echo effects in the scale model that are also present at Stonehenge, Till argues. Further research also needs to untangle why “Stonehenge hums when the wind blows hard,” he says.
It’s not known what, if any, ceremonies or activities occurred at Stonehenge, though the site did serve as a cemetery between around 5,000 and 4,400 years ago (SN: 8/2/18). And Cox cautions that designers of Stonehenge were likely less concerned about acoustics than about issues such as treatment of the dead and astronomical alignments.
Whatever people once did at Stonehenge, the new study “shows that sound was fairly well contained within the monument and, by implication, [Stonehenge] was fairly well insulated from sounds coming in,” Darvill says. Hearing sounds of some kind circulating inside the ancient monument “must have been one of the fundamental experiences of Stonehenge.”
Researchers in France affiliated with the Institut Langevin and Sorbonne Université have pulled off quite the ‘magic’ trick. By exploiting a counter-intuitive anti-gravity-like phenomenon in physics that arises when fluids are vibrated, the researchers not only made a fluid levitate but also had a small toy boat float upside down.
Credit: Nature, Apffel et al.
Since the 1950s, physicists have noticed that fluids under relatively high-frequency vibrations (100 Hz or more) can cause gas bubbles to sink unearth the liquid, causing it to rise and to levitate.
In their new study, researchers led by Benjamin Apffel from the Institut Langevin in Paris, now report a new quirk of this phenomenon: objects can actually float upside down on the bottom layer of the levitating fluid.
During their experiment, the researchers filled small tubs with either glycerol or silicone oil, then proceeded to shake the tub with a vibrating machine. The liquids quickly rose from the bottom of the tub, hovering on top of a layer of gas bubbles. No surprise there.
What was truly eye-opening was the fact that a small toy boat (7 grams in mass and 2.5 cm in length) could float and even move partially submerged on the underside of the levitating fluid, seemingly defying gravity.
Writing in the journal Nature, the authors of the study claim that the vertical vibrations cause oscillations on the effective gravitational force exerted on both the fluid and any objects submerged onto the fluid. This leads to a time-averaged force applied to the submerged body, enabling the body to float on the lower interface of the fluid.
“Bodies can thus float upside down on the lower interface of levitating liquid layers. We use our model to predict the minimum excitation needed to withstand falling of such an inverted floater, which depends on its mass. Experimental observations confirm the possibility of selective falling of heavy bodies. Our findings invite us to rethink all interfacial phenomena in this exotic and counter-intuitive stable configuration,” the authors wrote.
Beyond a simple oddity or curiosity of science, the effects of high-frequency oscillations on systems could have implications for research in chemistry, physics, and biology.
In the year 221 BC, the man called Qin Shi Huang had accomplished what no one had ever done before. His powerful Qin dynasty had managed to conquer the various warring states that had for centuries fought each other and from the ashes and destruction was able to unify China for the first time in its history. Rather than name himself “king,” he would be the first to proclaim himself Emperor of this new unified China, becoming the first Emperor and setting the stage for what all future leaders would call themselves for the next 2,000 years. Under Qin Shi Huang’s rule, China saw rapid and immense expansion, major economic and political reforms, an ambitious national road system, as well as architectural marvels such as the Lingqu Canal and famously the Great Wall of China. Yet for as many as he had conquered and subjugated there was one enemy that he knew he could not escape, and that was death itself. However, Emperor Qin Shi Huang was not about to let death get in the way of his plans to rule eternally, and to him death was another enemy that could be beat.
Just as important to this formidable leader as building his country up was his obsession with immortality, and to live forever was a goal that absolutely consumed him over his lifetime. Qin Shi Huang was convinced that immortality was possible through a concoction of special herbs, plants, and other ingredients, and he surrounded himself with his own personal herbalists, doctors, scholars, magicians, wise men, and alchemists, all on hand to advise him on what he needed in order to achieve his goal of eternal life. It was not the first time a Chinese leader had sought a mythical elixir of immortality, but Qin Shi Huang really took it to new levels. He had already managed to install a surprisingly advanced medical system for its time, with all manner of innovative treatments and medicines developed under his rule, but this was not enough for the Emperor. He did not want to be healed or cured, he wanted to never have to be healed or cured ever again.
In order to find what he was looking for, the Emperor sent out men to every corner of the country, scouring the wilderness and remote villages of the land in search of the elusive key to immortality. Bamboo strips with historical records on them even indicate that he issued an executive decree that the secret to immortality be found, and so every village and city across the empire was tasked with the responsibility of fulfilling this order with haste. Indeed, the executive decree proclaimed that finding immortality was the top priority, and that everyone should drop whatever else they were doing in order to pursue it. The race was on to find the secret to immortality, and the people, both the upper class and commoners alike, toiled away looking for that one key ingredient that would allow a potion of eternal life to be created. There are records showing that some villages apologized to the Emperor for not being able to find what he was looking for and promising they would increase their efforts, while on occasion some remote outpost would report that they had found a promising herb, flower, or mushroom. However, the most promising response came from a magician who lived at a place called Zhifu Island.
The magician was called Xu Fu, and he had quite the story to tell. According to him, there was a secret cabal of eight immortals who lived away from civilization on a mysterious island called Penglai, and that they had long ago discovered the secrets to immortality. In fact, Xu Fu claimed that those immortals had been living there on that remote island for hundreds of years, led by a 1,000 year old sorcerer by the name of Anqi Sheng, and the best part was that he knew where they were and how to find them. Qin Shi Huang was convinced that Xu Fu knew what he was talking about, and he made immediate preparations to travel to Zhifu island, where he offered the magician a huge harem of 6,000 women and a fleet of ships to offer the immortals in exchange for their services. Xu Fu told the Emperor that the immortals would only speak with him, and so he promised to travel out to the mysterious island and return with the elixir of immortality. And so Emperor Qin Shi Huang stood at the sea watching the fleet of ships and the magician Xu Fu sail off over the horizon, after which he needed only wait. And wait some more, for years on end.
Xu Fu never did return, and the theory is that he either got lost at sea or took off with the free harem and ships, but others have speculated that Xu Fu did indeed find the island and its immortals, and decided to stay and join them, or that he even fled to Japan. Whatever the case may be, the years went on and Xu Fu never came back, and so Emperor Qin Shi Huang was left without his promised elixir of life, and was back to scouring the land looking for it. This mission became even more urgent when he was almost killed in an assassination attempt, and he doubled his efforts to find the elusive elixir he sought even as he became more reclusive, hiding behind his palace walls and in constant paranoia. He sent out a group of his best men to try and find the island of Penglai, but they were never able to find it. In fact, only one of the men returned, and he would say that although he had found the island, he had seen no sign of the purported colony of immortals.
Qin Shi Huang took to taking various remedies offered to him, including one called cinnabar, basically mercury sulfide, which was supposed to prolong his life as he searched for immortality, but in fact did just the opposite. Mercury is something many readers will recognize as a dangerous, poisonous substance that one should not ingest, and so the Emperor became weak and sick as time passed. As this was going on, a meteor crashed near the lower reaches of the Yellow River and someone had then inscribed into it the sinister warning “The First Emperor will die and his land will be divided.” Qin Shi Huang became so furious, frustrated, and suspicious of his advisors, who he had now come to believe were trying to poison him, that he had many of them executed. In the meantime, realizing that he was not long for this world and that it was very likely he was not ever going to get his elixir, he had built an immense, sprawling underground mausoleum built and populated by 8,000 terracotta warriors and horses in order to serve as his residence in the afterlife. He would need it when he eventually did of mercury poisoning at the age of 39. The complex is as mysterious as it is huge, and has still not been completely explorer or excavated.
In the void left behind by the death of “The Immortal Emperor,” there was immediately civil war as factions squabbled over the scraps, leading to the formation of the Han Dynasty that would be the second imperial dynasty of China. It is ironic that his own quest to live forever likely contributed to his early demise, and all of this remains a very curious historical oddity that stands out as something as if from some fantasy story. The quest for immortality is still alive within us, but perhaps no one in history has pursued it with such passion and resolve as Qin Shi Huang. One wonders if he in the afterlife regretted what had happened or if he embraced his new role, but these are things we will ever know. It remains a grand tale melding history, madness, and a touch of the paranormal.
If traveling down a dark road at night isn’t creepy enough, imagine having something mysterious jump right in front of your car. That’s exactly what happened one night recently — a driver was traveling down a road in Falmouth, Maine, when a dark shadow darted across the street directly in front of the vehicle.
At first, the driver thought that it was a deer that ran quickly across the road, but after reviewing the dash cam footage, it’s apparent that it was not a deer. So, what exactly was it? Nobody seems to know for sure what the shadowy, transparent figure could be.
Those who have seen the video are also confused as to what it actually was. While some believe that it was a fisher cat, others are convinced that it was something supernatural. You can decide for yourself as the video was posted on 207 Paranormal’s Facebook page which can be viewed here as well as here.
Mysterious things happen on dark roads.
The state of Maine is no stranger to unexplained sightings. As a matter of fact, there have been quite a few Bigfoot sightings over the years.
Several sightings took place in the 1970s which included several hunters in Baxter State Park (Piscataquis County) who heard loud thumping sounds followed by a large tree crashing to the ground. A few years later, there were several sightings of a creature with a “monkey face” and looked like an ape that was close to Brunswick and Durham. Another witness reported seeing a “large, hairy creature, either dark brown or black, striding swiftly across the southbound lanes from the treed median to the woods on the right side of the road,” in Penobscot County.
The mid 1980s consisted of an alleged sighting in York County while a man was cutting wood and a creature was staring at him from about 30 feet away. Another occurred in Androscoggin County when two men were driving down a back road when they witnessed a “very hairy animal standing upright on the side of the road”. They said it was about 6 feet tall and weighed around 200 pounds.
Maine is full of alleged Bigfoot sightings.
Two sisters in Hancock County witnessed a creature standing on two feet with “very dark, shaggy hair” on a road in the late 1990s. The following year, a family was driving down a wooded area in Oxford County when they saw an upright creature “covered with long brown hair/fur” taking long strides into the woods.
In 2015, a trail camera in Waldo County captured a picture of a figure that “appears to be hiding behind a small fur tree,” but interestingly, the area is also rumored to be haunted. The following year in Oxford County, a couple noticed a large five-toed track that measured between 20-22 inches in length by 8-10 inches in width. Trees in that area were also broken which could have been a sign that a Bigfoot was around. Additional footprints – believed to be made by a juvenile Bigfoot – were reported that same year in York County.
Needless to say, Maine is full of mysteries with quite a few strange sightings from an unexplained shadow figure darting across a dark road, to numerous Bigfoot sightings, and even haunted locations.
Steve Quayle: The Discoveries That Shocked Archaeologists... Earth's Ancient Giants
Steve Quayle: The Discoveries That Shocked Archaeologists… Earth’s Ancient Giants
COAST TO COAST AM INSIDER Archived Show – Author Steve Quayle discussed the origins and historical accounts of giants.
A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFOs, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena.
I found another structure on Mercury today. The structure is in the center of a crater and has two long legs on each side of its square body. It has a dark circle on its top which is probably a window allowing some light to get in, but tinted because maybe the species likes it a bit dark. The maps ruler says this building is about 10km across. Thats huge. But the fact that it has legs is making me think that aliens use nature as their guide for innovations.
What if we could build a space megastructure like the Alderson Disk?
The Earth might not remain habitable forever. It could get engulfed by a massive solar flare, or become too hot due to climate change, or have all its life wiped out by one enormous asteroid. What if I told you we could outlive all these disasters? And that we could do that by building a space megastructure bigger than the Sun itself?
The Alderson disk is such a (hypothetical) artificial space megastructure, like the Dyson sphere, that might one day become humanity's home. The disk is a giant platter with a thickness of several thousand miles, but what would life be like on a structure like that?
The Sun rests in the hole at the center of the disk. The outer perimeter of an Alderson disk would be roughly equivalent to the orbit of Mars or Jupiter. According to the proposal, a sufficiently large disk would have a larger mass than its Sun.
The hole would be surrounded by a thousand-mile-high wall to prevent the atmosphere from drifting into the Sun. The outer rim would take care of itself.
The mechanical stresses within the disc would be far beyond what any known material can stand, thus relegating such a structure to the realm of exploratory engineering until materials and construction science become sufficiently advanced.
Building a megastructure of this magnitude would require an amount of material that far surpasses the amount of material found in the Solar System.
Life could exist on either side of the disk, though close to the Sun the heat would make life impossible without protection. Conversely, farther away from the Sun living beings would freeze. Therefore, for the entirety of such a structure to be made habitable, it would have to include a vast number of life support systems. Even without such systems the habitable surface area would be an equivalent of tens of millions of Earths.
Because the Sun remains stationary, there is no day/night cycle, only a perpetual twilight. This could be solved by forcing the Sun to bob up and down within the disk, lighting first one side then the other.
*MUST SEE* Fast UFOs over Hastings, Michigan 1-Sep-2020
Here’s one really interesting UFO video filmed over Hastings, Michigan. This happened on 1st September 2020.
Witness report:
Possible UFO(s) streak across the sky and turn around. UAP flies seriously close and at a much faster rate than the ETV that pauses and then turns around and exits the frame. It appears as if the ETV changes its course because of the object that flies super close in proximity. Once the ETV turns, it seems to accelerate quickly and then exit the frame.
Goodrington, Devon, England on the 6th of July 2020.
Filer’s Files 33, 2020 Fox Questions Trump on UFOs - PART I
Major George A. Filer III at 20 years old
New Jersey MUFON State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Soviet Plan to Attack US in 1986, Lou Dobbs Questions Trump About UFOs, Lebanon Attack or Accident, Musk Says ET Constructed the Pyramids, Jack Sarfatti claims Musk is wasting Money,UFO Metals and Construction, and Adolf Hitler’s Political Platform is Oddly Familiar Today
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Russia, 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
Soviet Plan to Attack US in 1986
Soviet Typhoon class nuclear ballistic missile submarines
In June of 1986, the Soviet Union’s Submarine fleet conducted a massive buildup of nuclear missile submarines off the coasts of the United States. Gary Austin writes that he was part of the crew of a P-3 Orion aircraft.VP-24, Patrol Squadron that was part of the United States Navy anti-submarine warfare squadron that flew out of Bermuda to track Soviet subs.
P-3 Orion
Normally there would be one Soviet sub on station. This night they tracked two and the normal turnover was two weeks ago. He called his pilot and informed him of the sudden build up of the Soviet subs. The pilot climbed his aircraft and called Navy Headquarters and a ready crew was immediately launched. Two more aircraft were launched as soon as possible each picking up more ballistic nuclear missile submarines.
Soviet Typhoon class nuclear ballistic missile submarines are the largest in the world. Many subs can carry 16 to 20 nuclear tipped missiles such as the R-29 some with multiple warheads than could hit the US in a few minutes essentially without warning. The next morning the Bermuda Tarmac had 20 Orion aircraft to track the Soviet subs. Numerous Soviet subs were found and the P-3 hovered above them has Navy attack subs moved into position. The SS-N-8, with a range of 7,700 kilometers (4,200 nautical miles), entered service on the first Delta-I boat in 1972, before the Yankee class was even completed. A total of 43 Delta-class boats of all types entered service starting in 1972, with the SS-N-18 on the Delta III class and the R-29RM Shtil (SS-N-23) on the Delta IV class. The new missiles had increased range and eventually multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV), multiple warheads that could each hit a different target in the United States. There were probably at least 50 Soviet Ballistic missile subs in firing position with a thousand ballistic missiles where previously there had been only a few. The US Navy and Air Force confronted them with numerous air and sea weapons and the Soviets left for home on the surface of the ocean. A nuclear war was averted.
President Reagan and Gorbachev came together in 1988 and essentially the Cold War was over. In 1990, I met with two Soviet KGB Colonels who explained their facilities were being attacked and destroyed by Triangle shaped craft with laser type weapons. They claimed Gorbachev was visited by alien beings who demanded the devolvement of the Soviet Union. The world had come too close to nuclear war to allow the Cold War to continue.
In 1988. President Reagan said, “Mr. Gorbachev deserves most of the credit, as the leader of his country.” The KGB said, President Reagan and later his Vice President, George H. W. Bush, who won the 1988 presidential election with Reagan’s support knew about the attacks.
Lou Dobbs Questions Trump About UFOs
Lou Dobbs of Fox Business Network discussed the nation’s UFO situation with President Donald Trump in an interview on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump called into Lou Dobbs’ show on Fox Business for a half-hour of flattery, and rants about their enemies on the left. Dobbs stated, “Your administration, you promised would be transparent and you have done your level best to do that despite the Deep State’s efforts to bury everything about as deeply as they could,” Dobbs said toward the end of Tuesday’s segment. “But I have one question as we conclude here.”
Striking a very somber tone, Dobbs cut to a question about undocumented aliens from afar.
“Actually a lot of my friends are very concerned about what the federal government is doing when it comes to UFOs,” Dobbs said “So if I could just ask you are we going to commit, are you going to commit more resources to exploring UFOs and open the documents to the public.”
President Trump stated “Well I think probably in this country you are the UFO expert, so I’m going to be totally guided by the great Lou Dobbs and I will tell you that I will do whatever you ask me to do, including total transparency,” Trump said. “I got to tell you, there’s probably some pretty good transparency needed there, there’s no doubt about that.”
Lapping up the praise and laughing gleefully, Dobbs said “Well Mr. President, I couldn’t have asked for a better answer and I’ll be calling your office soon to get that underway.” Thanks to Fox News
Lebanon Attack or Accident
Photo courtesy of MUFON com.
Beirut — I am a retired physician who is interested in Physics and origin of humanity and the universe. I am well Read. This picture was forwarded to me from Lebanon and shows what appears to be a jet fighter flying over the site of the massive explosion that destroyed the Port of Beirut and portion of the city on August 4, 2020. Destruction was seen up to 15 miles around the site. It was heard in Cyprus 150 miles away. Several eye witness interviewed consistently said they heard a jet in the sky shortly before the explosion. In the center of the picture above the jet appears as s round dark object with a halo. I did not take the picture. It was published on line by an amateur. I shall contact the photographer and ask him to submit to me or you the actual digital picture. Editor’s Note: UFOs are often seen over scenes where death occurs suggesting they collect the energy, spirits, soul’s .or are curious.
The explosion was the most powerful ever to rip through Beirut, leaving the port district a wreck of mangled masonry and disabling the main entry port for imports to feed a nation of more than 6 million people. Lebanese rescue workers dug through rubble on Wednesday (August 5) looking for survivors. Officials said the toll was expected to rise in a city still reeling from civil war three decades ago and reeling from an economic meltdown and a surge in coronavirus infections. By Samia Nakhoul
Initial investigations
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Initial investigations into the Beirut port blast indicate years of inaction and negligence over the storage of highly explosive material caused the explosion that killed more than 137 people.
The prime minister Tamman Salam and presidency have said that 2,750 tones of ammonium nitrate, used in fertilizers and bombs, brought in a disabled Russian ship had been stored for six years at the port without safety measures. “It is negligence,” the official source told Reuters, adding that the issue on storing the material safely had come before several committees and judges and “nothing was done” to order the material be removed or disposed of,
The source said a fire had started at port warehouse 9 on Tuesday and spread to warehouse 12, where the ammonium nitrate was stored. Another source close to a port employee said a team that inspected the material six months ago warned it could “blow up all of Beirut” if not removed.
Tuesday’s explosion was the most powerful ever suffered by Beirut, a city still scarred by civil war three decades ago and reeling from a deep financial crisis rooted in decades of corruption and economic mismanagement.
The head of Beirut port and the head of customs both said on Wednesday that several letters were sent to the judiciary asking for the dangerous material to be removed, but no action was taken.
Port General Manager Hassan Koraytem told OTV the material had been put in a warehouse on a court order, adding that they knew then the material was dangerous but “not to this degree”.
“We requested that it be re-exported but that did not happen. We leave it to the experts and those concerned to determine why,” Badri Daher, director general of Lebanese Customs, told broadcaster LBCI. The likely cause of the explosion at Beirut’s port was the gross incompetence of Lebanese authorities. The devastation could hasten Lebanon’s economic collapse and stoke unrest.
Musk Says ET Constructed the Pyramids
Elon Musk irked officials in Egypt when he suggested that extraterrestrials constructed the country’s iconic pyramids. The weirdness reportedly began on Friday when the mercurial SpaceX founder tweeted that it was obvious that “aliens built the pyramids.” Musk’s strange musings caught fire online as over a half-million people liked the conspiratorial tweet and tens-of-thousands of people on social media shared the extraterrestrial declaration.
Egypt’s former Minister of Antiquities, Zawi Hawass was less diplomatic, declaring to Musk that “what you said about the pyramids is completely hallucination.” He went on to point out several pieces of evidence which indicate that the construction of the structures was “a national project of the whole nation” during the reign of the pharaoh Khufu. Offering something of a conspiracy theory of his own, Hawass postulated that Musk’s tweet was simply an attempt at garnering attention.
As one can imagine, the Tesla CEO’s comments did not sit well with officials in Egypt, who have undoubtedly heard the theory countless times and insist that there is no scientific basis for such a claim. To that end, the country’s Minister of International Cooperation,
Rania al-Mashat, wrote that while she admires Musk’s work, she encouraged him to “explore the writings about how the pyramids were built and also to check out the tombs of the pyramid builders.”
For his part, Musk subsequently backed down from the alien assertion and shared a BBC article which he argued “provides a sensible summary for how” the pyramids were actually built by humans. The bizarre dust up is not the first time that the billionaire has made news by way of an odd extraterrestrial tweet as, back in January of 2019, he sparked headlines when he shared a meme which connected Neil Armstrong to aliens. While some might suspect that he may be tipping his hand about some kind of secret knowledge concerning the subject. Editor’s Note: Several contactees with various ETs have been told the original Giza pyramid was built by aliens
Jack Sarfatti claims Musk is wasting Money
No you don’t get it. Tic Tac is part of my contact. My Tic Tac equations are from that contact. The evidence is now overwhelming. There is no alternative explanation that compares in plausibility using Bayesean inference.
On Aug 2, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Robert Addinall wrote: ‘Sure, you may have had a contact from an AI from Earth’s future. Other people report having different kinds of contacts. The most significant iron posts of observation for each person will probably depending on their own experiences – many of which don’t need to be mutually exclusive.
Subject: Re: Seth Shostak: Pentagon admits UFO program still exists. But Navy’s alien sightings don’t quite add up. There is only one explanation based on an iron post of observation that makes sense to me.
My 1953 contact is confirmed by Tic Tac happening now.
In 1953 Jack Sarfatti allegedly received a series of mysterious phone calls, presumably from the future. The voice or voices which informed the thirteen year old were likely alien.
Apparently Jack had contact at an early ageYou must give your decision now. You’ll link up with others in 20 years.
On Aug 2, 2020, at 1:31 PM, Robert Addinall wrote: There are many feasible explanations. Humans in fields such as biology and zoology today do, in fact, spend a great deal of time going around studying less technologically developed species. A whale may have a slightly analogous experience when being followed around by scientists in a boat as a fighter pilot does when buzzed by a flying saucer or tic tac. Also, anthropologists in the 19th and early 20th centuries liked to go and study what were considered more “primitive” groups of people living in places like rainforests.
It seems very likely that there would be hundreds, if not thousands or more, of advanced civilizations per galaxy. If it turns out that bending and folding spacetime into warp bubbles and wormholes is as straightforward as something like Sarfatti’s theory suggests, then most of them would probably have that technology once they had been around several to a few dozen millennia.
So you could reasonably expect that various, not just one, group of aliens (by this I include different species of aliens) would show up to investigate at least out of curiosity whenever some of them become aware of a new potentially intelligent species. They might also reasonably do so, and investigate the new species’ military behavior, to determine whether or not that species might become a threat when it starts FTL travel with warp bubbles and wormholes (a bit like the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still).
Furthermore, in some UFO lore the theory has been around for decades that UFOs/UAPs sometimes hover over and switch off the electronics in nuclear weapons bases such as ICBM silos as a sort of warning to us not to destroy ourselves. They don’t want to be bothered to get directly involved, but they also don’t want us to get destroyed. SETI would not detect any radio signals from any of these civilizations for the very simple reason that if they had warp bubbles and wormholes, they would not bother trying to send long range radio signals between star systems. So we cannot conclude that there are no other civilizations in the galaxy based on a failure to detect radio communications. Now, I agree with Sarfatti and Tessman that quite likely some of the UFOs/UAPs are operated by humans, or whatever humans turn into, from the future. However, given the likelihood of other civilizations also existing around the universe, and the capability of civilizations with warp bubble/wormhole tech to get in contact with each other, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the UAPs originate from or are crewed by a mixture of future humans/post-humans, and aliens. I suspect that the humans from the future and the alien’s explanations are both correct.
One possibility which answers the various caveats which “disprove” whatever source is being proclaimed—The answer is (tada!) future humans, perhaps 25 years in advance, perhaps 100 years in advance. Not talking’ about 5 million years in advance. I doubt that whoever/whatever it is, feels it MUST engage the Navy, but it is enough like us, to figure, what the hell, let’s do it and be the obvious top gun. And they don’t want to phaser us because we are their beginning. Eric W. Davis, Ph.D., Baylor University
Elon Musk is wasting his money on the wrong tech
UFO Metals and Construction
I felt it would be important to review some of the incredible data Art Campbell sent me based on his recovery of debris from the July 2, 1947 crash of an extraterrestrial craft on the Plains of St Augustin, New Mexico not far from the Roswell crash. There is speculation that the two UFOs collided or were both affected by radars or thunder storms. Art Campbell has been interested in UFO research since the 1950’s and worked closely with Major Donald E. Keyhoe. He was a Navy veteran, with a Masters Degree in Education.
Art Campbell writes, “In May of 2012 a group of 15 people found a great deal of important Exterrestrial material near the San Augustin, NM crash site that is thought to have happened at the same time as the Roswell crash. One of the most important finding when crash site was examined was this I-beam.
Alien beam found at crash site
It is 2 inches across at the flanges and 13 1/4 inch long. Rather crude flanged holes at each end indicate it may have been a repair. Some excitement occurred when a faint triangle, circle and other markings were found near the right end of beam. The beam is one of the most significant finds at the crash site and I want to make sure everybody knows about it. The beam looks more like an H-beam used to distribute horizontal loads. Crude flanged holes are a mystery. It is possible it was used more than once in a repair of some sort. Bottom skin, honeycomb, and I-beam might have been scraped off a craft on the first skip down. Below the I-beam is another piece of honeycomb. This one had some skin attached, believed to be just inside the interior.
The beam has a metallurgical composition primarily aluminum with high silicon, manganese, copper, and iron. It is my guess that a grid of beams covered the entire bottom of the UFO (probably crisscrossing the bottom of the craft in 10-12″‘squares) supporting the honeycomb sandwich.
Our craft when it skipped down lost allot of its bottom and this beam was probably ripped out. The honey comb material has been found at two crash sites.
Honeycombs nearly identical were found 6000 miles apart and 41 years later, Magdalena, New Mexico Plains UFO crash debris honeycomb on left, Shikoku Island debris found in 1971, on the right. A Mr. Shinto saw the UFO explode and found the debris.
All of the samples were tested with a volt-ohmmeter, and were found to conduct electricity. Fifty-six (56) elements were detected in at least one sample. The aluminum contained alloys not available in aluminum in 1947. The coatings on all metals were blended with metal and rich in silica, titanium, magnesia, sulfate, phosphate, and chloride, were almost certainly not available in 1947. The coatings are similar to those removed from people claiming alien contact. The samples still emit magnetic and electrical energy indicating these samples include nano technological smart metals and of probable alien origin. Analysis of some of the metal indicated it was not from Earth.
Skin of St. Augustin UFO
Campbell found many items which are as follows: The major component of the metallic portions of all of the samples proved to be aluminum (Al). All of the samples appeared to be composed of aluminum alloys, with varying amounts of alloying elements. Other elements detected included beryllium (Be), carbon (C), oxygen (O), sodium (Na), magnesium (Mg), silicon (Si), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), chlorine (Cl), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), titanium (Ti), iron (Fe), and palladium (Pd). The coating layers of the coated samples were much different in composition from the metallic portions of the samples.
Various light weight metals and skin were recovered has the craft crashed
Aluminum was still a major component of the coatings, but was present to a lesser degree than in the metallic portions of the samples. The amount of oxygen in the coatings was much greater than in the metallic phase of the samples, indicating that the aluminum was probably present as an oxide layer, rather than as free metal. The proportions of carbon, silicon, and chlorine in the coatings were also higher than in the metal, indicating.
UFO Crash Book
An artificial 3-layered container about the size of a human fist is believed to be some kind of an artificial body organ.* There were seven kinds of unusual foil containing high levels of silicon, iron and manganese (unknown to the foil industry.)* Some strange wax material which may have been some kind of an insulation coating inside the UFO* Also found of a similar material was the remains of a small structural member (possibly a tiny I-beam. There wer3 possible alien sole shoes found of different sizes of an extremely narrow width.
Adolf Hitler’s Political Platform is Oddly Familiar Today
Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1938
Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf quotes are very familiar today. Oddly the, Nazis were National Socialists that tore down statues, banned free speech, blamed economic hardships on one group of people, instituted gun control, put the state before God, and placed strict government controls on industry.
Hitler stated, “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence
“If any such idiot tried to put into practice such an order [forbidding abortion] in the occupied Eastern territories, he would personally shoot him. In view of the large families of the native population, it could only suit us if girls and women there had as many abortions as possible. Active trade in contraceptives ought to be actually encouraged in the Eastern territories, as we could not possibly have the slightest interest in increasing the non-German population.”_+
“If you win, you need not have to explain…If you lose, you should not be there to explain!” “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
Note: I abhor Hitler and his policies but if you are not aware of history it will be repeated.
Goodrington, Devon, England on the 6th of July 2020.
Filer’s Files 33, 2020 Fox Questions Trump on UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are courtesy of MUFON CMS
Arizona Object
Sightings are courtesy of MUFON CMS
Chandler –We witnessed and filmed an object that moved, changed color and shape, and appeared to move away from us in a straight path. Upon our leaving the area, it changed direction and moved back to the original area. This was south of Queen Creek Road on July 25, 2020. Photo courtesy of MUFON.com
San Jose California to Dallas Texas over Arizona
On July 28, 2020, as we were flying when I saw two bright lights coming towards the plane. I took pictures of it and as we were closer it was the sun’s reflection on a metal object. It was extremely large object in the middle of nowhere. As we got closer the reflection of the sun looked like lights. I took close-up pictures and video from my cell phone and as we got further away I went into normal size without enlarging so you can compare how far the plane was from the object by the wings of the plane, I am not sure if the object was on the ground and I am not sure what city state or county we were flying over but it was approximately two hours prior to landing in Dallas Texas. We might’ve been over Arizona or New Mexico unsure
California Object
Glendora– On August 1, 2020, I started to record because I saw a light that appeared around. I described the video what I saw because it disappeared and reappeared. After reviewing the video I observed a flash or zoom of light zoom into space and curve around frames 19 and: 24. That surprised me and caught my eye so I slowed down the video and applied a night vision filter. You can see something appear out of thin air from the base of the mountain then zoom about 45 degrees then went 180 degrees then back to 45 degrees then out into space leaving a trail of light. Granted this thing moved that quickly even in slow motion. Then a friend of mine noticed on the original video at frame: 29 and: 30 you hear a sonic boom. Then the orb that I originally started to record disappeared from the top of the ridge. Also it is not a bug, this thing moved faster than light and left light in its trail.
Colorado Lights
Medellin — At 19:15 hours on August 1, 2020, I saw 5 bright blue objects to the east of me. The moon was out sky in a clear sky with a few clouds. The objects were equal distance apart and stationary. I had an 8×36 monocle optic watching the objects a mile from the moon. They started making very erratic rapid movements in unison. At first I thought maybe someone had a laser with 5 beams moving them in unison but then I realized there was nothing to reflect the laser off of. The sky was clear behind them as the objects started drifting to the NE in formation. From the first to the fifth it would be some kilometers apart ascend and descend and make rapid irregular movements always in unison. The last time I could view the last one was at 18:31 hours. I am a former Green Beret combat soldier and was a trained sniper.
Florida Square Object
Ormond Beach — On July 22, 2020, my best friend Terri and I were sitting on the pier as usual round 9 pm. I noticed a huge dark grey square cloud that just didn’t belong in the sky. The winds were whipping and tearing the other clouds to shreds but this one big dark cloud just held onto its cube shape. I watched it sitting in the southeast sky, just across the river from our pier at Ames Park. I watched it and we chatted for a couple of minutes how it resembled a Borg ship, before it dawned on me that we might want to capture this weird cloud. So I began filming with my Nikon P1000 and got 4 minutes of this cube sitting there before it disappears into the giant puffy white cloud.
Then! After it morphs into the other cloud, that big cloud begins projecting actual alien faces at us and my camera picked them up before the battery drained completely and it shut off. Now that I think back, that battery should have had a full charge and lasted me at least 2 hours of constant use. Anyways, I uploaded that video directly to my Youtube channel: Melly CeesEwe.
Georgia Light Below Aircraft
Atlanta — We were flying from Pensacola to Atlanta on July 7, 2020. I was filming out of one of the windows as I saw another airliner heading towards the same airport. When I reviewed the video, I noticed that there was an object hovering behind the jet liner in the distance. I’m not sure what it was but it appears to be in the air.
Louisiana Cylinder
Morgan City — One afternoon while taking a bike ride with my wife and kids my daughter says, What’s that?. When we looked up we saw what I can explain was basically an airplane with no wings and no windows. There was no sound and nothing coming from the object as if it had an engine. Just completely silent moving south southwest across the sky then it went away and came back for a totaled time of 8 minutes. A neighbor went inside and grabbed a scope from a rifle, looked at it and handed it to me and said “I ain’t supposed to be looking at that on September 18, 2019”!!!
Missouri Cylinder
Troy— On August 6, 2020, this object appeared to be a plane but, I could not see wings. It moved east to west across my southern view at a modest rate of speed. I had the impression of sailing. Having snapped a set of photos I looked at my phone to close my camera app then looked up and it was gone. When checking the photos at home I noticed the second dark object but, only in one photo.
New Jersey Flying Object
Blackwood — On August 22, 2015, I only know the date from my time stamp on my phone) I was sitting at a traffic light when I noticed a glint of light in the sky above. When I was driving through the traffic light I snapped a few pictures then I blinked and it was gone. I don’t know where it went. There were a few other cars in the area. I don’t know if they saw it. It sat stationary and then spun very slowly end over end? Then I blinked and lost sight of it.
New York Light
Syracuse– On August 2, 2020, at around 9:20PM I observed an extremely bright red light in the western sky. I had been taking my cat outside on a leash. I spotted the object when there had been nothing in the same spot seconds earlier. Upon noticing the object I had an immediate sensation of fear and panic and my cat and lay near my feet.
Upon further inspection I could see a faint outline and the bright red light appeared to be in the center of an ovular shape. The light at first seemed to be hovering or moving extremely slowly at a distance of about 2 miles away. The object hovered and made no sound arid got larger approaching. I became afraid grabbed my cat, put him indoors and told my mother to come out we both spotted the object. My father came outside and viewed the object to the right of Jupiter and shined brighter than the planet. I was able to capture a photo using the phone’s night mode. The object abruptly dimmed the light before disappearing completely from the sky.
Pennsylvania light Triangle
Philadelphia– On August 5, 2020, I was standing outside with my roommate when I t looked up at the sky and saw three bright lights in the shape of a triangle. As soon as I started to record they began rotating where you could sort have see these lights were connected. The object then took off to my left where it went behind some clouds then only one light was visible but when it appeared from behind the cloud it was no longer glowing and was disc shaped and dark. It moved very fast I couldn’t run fast enough to follow it. It made no sound.
South Dakota Cylinder
Spearfish— On August 7, 2020, a large cigar / dish shaped object flying and slowly rotating with radon flashing blue/white lights. I have video evidence.
Texas Cylinder
Georgetown – On August 6, 2020 I saw a large, white upright cylinder shaped object flying Northwest on a clear evening night. A similar one was seen in Centerville, Massachusetts the day before.
Washington Lights
Buckley– On July 18 2020, this flew over our house so fast like a rocket. The time of the sighting was 7:45 PM. Look at this. It looks a lot like this one. (The witness is referring to the second photo above. The witness downloaded this photo from another site.
Note: The craft may be a commercial jet. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Flash
Ettalong Beach, New South Wales on September 13, 2017
I took my then girlfriend out to get engaged at the Mantra Hotel at 730 at night. I noticed flashing lights outside our hotel and asked my girlfriend to look at this. We saw two bluish greenish lights that flew so fast and swirled around. They flew at each other at speed and we thought they were going to crash but missed each other.
It just launched up into outer space flashing red for hours also the other one flew over the top of power station turned into two lights. I took three more pictures of tic tac metallic origin above me in the pictures around the hotel
Canada Cylinder
Port Coquitlam – On July 29, 2020, I saw a long white cylinder way off in the distance over Golden Ears. I noticed it wasn’t moving and it didn’t appear to have a tail. Took one photo, played with phone brightness and focus for about a minute, took another. When I looked at the sky again I didn’t see the object. First photo revealed a small spec when zoomed in, second photo had nothing.
Indonesia Wingless Craft
Srengseng, West Jakarta City, Jakarta – On July 31, 2020, I saw this object at exactly 07:33 am. It appeared to be 500 +meters away. It made no sound and had no wings. It was too high to be a kite. The direction was WSW. It was almost hovering or moving very slow towards the Northwest. When I switched the camera to video and looked up it was gone. The whole event lasted no more than a couple of minutes. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Russia Object
Saint Petersburg— Om 2 August, 2020 15:24 MSK, UTC +3 saw objector and air currents didn’t seem to affect its movement as it maintained a steady speed and was spinning. It was the size of a single engine Cessna aircraft or slightly bigger. No lights, no trails, no sounds or vibrations and I didn’t feel anything strange. It was flying several hundred meters above the ground. There was something pendulum-like in its movement. Unfortunately, I didn’t capture it at its closest point to me as I was taken aback. When I came to film it, the object had already flown several hundred meters to the left. Video GD link below. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sW6i_R4NG22AmyPZOPHp_ToUl2OV-ptv/view
UK/England Objects
Goodrington — Unidentified Submerged Object (USO) and Anomalous Objects: I was at looking down from Roundham Gardens at the sea below when I spotted something moving under the water. Whatever it was I could see that it was black and it appeared to be heading right in my direction. With that a saucer shaped object flew out of the water right in front of me before it flew up into the sky and disappeared from view.
I had been looking through the viewfinder of my Sony HX-300 Camera at the time which allowed me to capture the whole event in several photographs utilizing burst mode. I then looked around the area for any other anomalous objects and I then spotted three objects that were hovering above the cliffs at Brixham. Two of the objects were black while the other one was glowing a bright white. I was just about to take some photographs of them when they all shot off in different directions causing me to lose sight of them. I had spotted four separate objects that are incredible. The photographs were taken at 4:18 PM on the 6th of July 2020, at Paignton Goodrington, Devon, England.
Note:This same witness has taken many compelling photos of UFO’s. He obviously lives in a UFO hotspot near the English Channel. I have never had any reason to doubt the authenticity of any of his photos. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
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WATCH ABOVE: Images from Haida Gwaii of tidelines in a form of a gird are lighting up social media in the coastal community. Some speculate it's a natural phenomenon or even the work of aliens. But a University of Oregon beach processes expert says otherwise.
There’s a mystery brewing on Haida Gwaii, where photos of an unusual beach formation have locals scratching their heads.
“I’ve asked quite a few of the elders here if they had ever seen and none of them said they had ever seen it,” said Skidegate Chief Councillor Bill Yovanovich, who took the photos Saturday on Lina Island.
They show small bits of white shells arranged into what appears to be an intentional grid pattern that stretches at least a hundred metres along the beach.
“I had never seen anything on the beach like that before. You’ll see the horizontal tide lines, but never the vertical ones.”
“It could possibly have been somebody collected those and made the formations … but it would be tedious and would take a long time, and it really looked like the tide had done it.”
Yovanovich posted the photos to his Facebook page and on a local Facebook group for First Nations food gathering, where they’ve attracted significant interest — and debate.
Some people suggested the shapes were caused by a rare oceanic phenomenon known as “square waves.”
Others were convinced the grid was man-made, while others have cast further afield for theories.
“Locally, here, our elders are thinking it might be the work of some of the supernatural beings. A lot of other people are jokingly saying it was aliens,” said Yovanovich.
Another suggestion was that the shapes reflected ancient clam beds at the site, but Yovanovich said the shell pieces were all on the surface of the sand, and didn’t appear to have been recently unearthed.
Professor Robert Holman, an expert in beach processes and near-shore waves and currents at the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, told Global News it’s unlikely the shapes occurred naturally.
“I would say the chances are a little less than 0.00000 per cent,” said Holman.
“You can see that there have been several high tide lines since the lines were done (wrack lines in the near field at two elevations).”
Holman said his first thought was that the grid had been laid out to help with social distancing at the beach.
However, the remoteness of the location renders that explanation unlikely.
80-year-old lung cancer survivor and California State University, Fullerton physics professor emeritus Jim Woodward has an out-of-this-world idea to allow spacecraft to travel to neighboring star systems: tiny crystals that vibrate tens of thousands of times per second when an electric current is applied.
His invention, dubbed the Mach-effect gravitational assist (MEGA) drive, makes the extraordinary promise of a propulsion system that relies on nothing but a source of electricity — no heavy combustion fuel necessary, as Wired reports in a fascinating new feature.
The idea is to accelerate slowly, but over a very long period of time. According to Woodward, a spacecraft with a MEGA drive could eventually reach velocities approaching the speed of light, with the help of an onboard nuclear reactor to supply decades worth of electric power.
The MEGA drive relies on Mach’s principle, named by Albert Einstein himself, which claims that inertia is related to distant gravitational effects. As an object’s energy changes, the very matter of space and time changes around it as well, a controversial an interpretation of Einstein’s famous mass-energy equivalence principle E=mc².
In other words, according to Wired, if part of an object — in the case of the MEGA drive, parts of tiny piezoelectric disks — were to simultaneously change its mass and energy state, it could theoretically start accelerating.
Woodward’s work on his MEGA drive has been ongoing for over thirty years. He was even awarded funding through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program in 2017.
With the grant money, Woodward and his collaborators have even designed a conceptual uncrewed spacecraft called SSI Lambda, an unusual-looking craft that houses an array of about 1,5000 scaled-up MEGA drives.
More recently, Woodward’s latest MEGA drive produced far more thrust than all his previous prototypes.
“I was shocked at the huge increase in measured force,” Hal Fearn, close collaborator and physicist at California State University, Fullerton, told Wired.
Yet other researchers are still skeptical of the novel device.
“I’d say there’s between a 1-in-10 and 1-in-10,000,000 chance that it’s real, and probably toward the higher end of that spectrum,” Mike McDonald, an aerospace engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory in Maryland, told the magazine.
“But imagine that one chance; that would be amazing,” he added. “That’s why we do high-risk, high-reward work. That’s why we do science.”
Woodward and Fearn are now planning to send a demonstration of the device into orbit to test how it fares in space.
Scientists Found Rust on the Moon. That Should Be Impossible
Rust requires oxygen, water, and the right conditions, all of which the Moon lacks. So where did a newly discovered iron oxide come from? Earth is one possibility.
Contrary to what was thought to be a scientific impossibility, scientists detected rust—a product that requires oxygen, water, and oxidative conditions—on the surface of the Moon, a famously oxygen-poor, liquid water-less, and reducing environment that prohibits oxidation.
The scientists speculated that the oxygen needed for the reaction that forms rust had been carried to the poles of the Moon by wind from the Earth, and a paper detailing the discovery was published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
Rust is the reddish-brown material left behind when iron atoms react with oxygen and water in what is known as an oxidizing, or electron-losing, reaction. The Moon’s very thin atmosphere does not trap much oxygen, and solar winds constantly blast the surface of the Moon with charged hydrogen, causing it to have highly reducing, or electron-gaining, conditions.
So while rust is common on Earth, its discovery on the Moon caught researchers by surprise.
“I don't think anyone expected this on the Moon's surface,” said Shaui Li, the first author of the paper and a researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. “This is basic chemistry—we all know that the lunar surface is highly reducing, so there is no reason you would be able to see a high-valence iron like hematite.”
By comparing reflectance data collected by the Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission to pure samples of rust, Li’s group identified material at latitudes above 60 degrees on the Moon’s surface as hematite, or iron (III) oxide. Li said that the comparison was fairly straightforward, and he is very confident that the reflectance spectra were of hematite.
“The methodology was quite simple,” he said. “When we compared the data to measurements of pure hematite under lab conditions, we could see that the spectra were so similar to each other, and so different from other minerals.”
The grouping of rust at the poles reminded Li of his own discovery of water ice in the polar regions of the Moon; unlike that 2018 finding, however, the hematite didn’t collect uniformly around the poles but were distributed more densely and sparsely at different directions. One candidate that could oxidize iron and provide the rust’s irregular distribution was Earth wind, which transports oxygen to the Moon and shields it from solar wind for a few days in its cycle.
This discovery serves as a reminder of how intimately connected the Earth and Moon are, even though they are over 200,000 miles apart, Li said. Additionally, the Earth wind has likely transported material to the Moon that is billions of years old—sampling this material in locations demarcated by the rust could help scientists understand the conditions of early Earth.
Finally, the research could even affect space exploration and colonization of the Moon. Areas of the Moon’s surface that have hematite might also have higher levels of oxygen and water, making these regions comparably better than the rest of the Moon for agriculture. The rust could even help lunar miners, Li said.
“In the future, if you want to use the resources on the surface of the Moon, this type of iron could be one type that humans could use.”
Many will be familiar with the opening scene of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” where a giant stone sphere nearly crushes Indiana Jones to death. While everyone recognises the movie as a work of fiction, the giant stone spheres are not.
While clearing the jungle for banana plantations in 1940 in Costa Rica's Diquis Delta region, employees of the United Fruit Company uncovered numerous large stone spheres partly buried in the forest floor.
Almost immediately, the mysterious spheres became prized ornaments, ending up on the front yards of government buildings and fruit company executives throughout Costa Rica. Many spheres were also broken or damaged and others were dynamited in a time when few realized their archaeological value.
According to John Hoopes, associate professor of anthropology and director of the Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, around 300 spheres are known to exist, with the largest weighing 16 tonnes and measuring eight feet in diameter, and the smallest being no bigger than a basketball. Almost all of them are made of granodiorite, a hard, igneous stone.
What Were They For?
Since their discovery the true purpose of the spheres, which still eludes experts, has been the subject of speculation ranging from theories about the balls being navigational aids, to relics related to Stonehenge or the product of an unknown ancient civilization.
Part of the mystery surrounds the way in which they were created as the near-perfect spheres appear to have come from a quarry that was more than 50 miles away and they were created in a time in which metal tools had apparently not been invented yet as it is estimated that the stones were made around 600 AD. However, the dating method for stones is speculative in itself as it really only reveals the latest use of the spheres not when they were first created.
"These objects can be used for centuries and are still sitting where they are after a thousand years. So it's very difficult to say exactly when they were made," explained Hoopes.
However, the biggest mystery remains what they were used for. "We really don't know why they were made," Hoopes said. "The people who made them didn't leave any written records. We're left to archaeological data to try to reconstruct the context. The culture of the people who made them became extinct shortly after the Spanish conquest. So, there are no myths or legends or other stories that are told by the indigenous people of Costa Rica about why they made these spheres."
Much like the Easter Island moai, one theory assumes that the spheres were simply status symbols. The stones, which are now protected by UNESCO, also might have been arranged into massive patterns that had astronomical significance as many of the balls were found to be in alignments, consisting of straight and curved lines, as well as triangles and parallelograms.
“The exceptional stone spheres, which continue to leave researchers speculating about the method and tools of their production, represent an exceptional testimony to the artistic traditions and craft capabilities of Precolumbian societies,” reports UNESCO.
Since almost every sphere has been moved from its original location, researchers are sceptical that the true meaning of the spheres will ever be discovered.
Throughout history, many cultures have artificially deformed the skulls of babies in order to achieve a flattened or elongated shape which was often associated with the ruling, or elite classes. Examples of artificial cranial deformation have been uncovered in Australia, the Middle East, Europe, Russia and the Americas in ancient times, as well as Oceanic and African tribes in modern times. When examined, most of these skulls exhibit features common to modern skulls, such as 3 cranial plates and sutures as well as a brain size of around 1200-1400 ccm.
On the other hand, some of the large elongated skulls unearthed from a cemetery in Paracas, Peru , possess other anomalous anatomical features such only 2 cranial plates and sutures, as well as a brain capacity of over 1500 cm, which is larger than many skulls today. These skulls, which are between 1500 and 3000 years old, have been described by some alternative researchers as evidence of extra-terrestrial aliens. While recent DNA results indicate they are entirely human, their genetic origin has yielded surprising results.
A case of skulls from the Andean Paracas culture, as seen in the Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú in Lima.
Cone headed/elongated (dolichocephalic) skulls were first mentioned in 1851 in the book ‘Peruvian Antiquities’ by Mariano Rivero and John James von Tschudi. Dr. Tschudi, with credentials in philosophy, medicine and surgery, described dolichocephalism in two distinct Peruvian races which existed before the Incas; the Aymares and Huancas. The Huancas had the most pronounced dolichocephalic traits, although Tschudi had little historical data on them. The Aymares had intermediate dolichocephaly.
Even at that time scientists, influenced by Samuel Morton who had a huge collection of Amerindian skulls, were proclaiming that the skulls had been artificially elongated by head binding , a belief which remains the dominant paradigm encompassing the Paracas skulls, the Australian Kow Swamp 5 and Cohuna skulls and dozens of crania from Europe. However, as far back as 1851 Dr. Tschudi observed, “Two crania (both of children scarcely a year old), had in all respects, the same form as those of adults. We ourselves have observed the same fact in many mummies of children of tender age…The same formation of the head presents itself in children yet unborn, and of this truth we have had convincing proof in sight of a foetus enclosed in the womb of a mummy of a pregnant woman…aged 7 months!”
Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello excavated a large and elaborate graveyard on the Paracas peninsula from 1922 to 1925, and discovered family tombs containing 429 mummies which were individually wrapped in coloured woven cloth. At least 90 of these bodies exhibited large, elongated skulls, some larger than modern skulls!
These extraordinary skulls remained relatively unknown to the world until filmmaker Robert Connolly produced a CD of them in 1995 titled ‘The Search for Ancient Wisdom.’ Researcher Lumir Janku studied these photos of the anomalous skulls and divided them into 3 types; pre-modern, Conehead 1,2 and 3 and a large skull he named the ‘J’ skull. The ‘pre-modern’ skull has some archaic features such as pronounced brow ridges, a robust lower jaw and an occipital ridge on the bottom back of the skull. Its massive cranial arch, to Janku, suggests “that the skull belongs to a representative of an unknown premodern or humanoid type.” However, this classification creates problems because pre-modern hominins are not recognised in the ancient Americas by mainstream archaeologists.
His illustration indicates that the brain of the ‘premodern’ was of a similar capacity to modern humans but lacking in developed frontal lobes, despite its extreme elongation.
The Coneheads, as evidenced from three different specimens, C1, 2 and 3 may have developed from the ‘pre-modern’ type but exhibit a much larger brain. Many also possess a pronounced bump above the frontal lobes. They may have belonged to hominins of a larger stature than modern populations.
Janku also identified a ‘J’ type of skull which has an enormous cranial vault ranging from 2600 ccm to 3200 ccm, and eye sockets which are about 15% larger than in modern populations. Whether he was able to measure these skulls or merely made an educated guess from observing the photos, is unknown.
Ignored by anthropologists who consider all elongated skulls to be the result of head binding, the phenomenon was highlighted in the 2012 book by researchers David Childress and Brien Foerster, ‘The Enigma of Cranial Deformation.’ Childress and Foerster were careful to avoid sensationalizing the skulls by calling them a separate or alien species, but their research has raised many questions about the origins and purpose of cranial deformation . Their suggestion that an elite race of elongated skull people once roamed the planet would also account for the large number of skulls around the world which were artificially deformed by people who wanted to emulate their ‘gods’.
In 2014, Juan Navarro, owner of the Museo Arequeologico Paracas, which houses 35 unique skulls, allowed a team of researchers led by Brien Foerster and L.A. Mazulli to facilitate preliminary DNA testing of five of them. Initial reports from an unnamed geneticist in Texas claimed that the skulls have mitochondrial DNA “with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far….a new human-like creature, very distant from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans…I’m not sure it will even fit into the known evolutionary tree.” Unfortunately, numerous alternative websites proclaimed that the skulls were from aliens or Nephilim, the giants mentioned in the book of Genesis, which negatively impacted the research.
After complaints from archaeologists that the original samples were contaminated, a second round of DNA testing in 2016 involved samples taken from three of the skulls, including an infant. These skulls were dated from 2,000 to 800 years old. The samples, taken from hair and bone powder, were sent to three different labs with no mention of their origin. The results were surprising , showing a strong link between Mesopotamian and Eastern European populations. Three hair samples all showed Haplogroup H2A which is most frequently found in Eastern Europe, while the bone powder from the most elongated skull came back as T2B, which originates in Syria. Many of the Paracas skulls still contain traces of red hair which is not found in South American populations. Foerster exclaimed, “No academics as far as we can tell can explain why some of the skulls that still have hair are red or even blond. The idea that this is from time or bleaching has now been disproven by 2 hair experts. For the ancient Paracas people, at least, they had blonde to reddish hair that is 30% thinner than NATIVE American hair. It is GENETIC!”
He also commented , “We are likely looking at a sub-species of humanity as regards to the Paracas. It seems to be a lot of DNA evidence from extreme eastern Europe and extreme western Asia. More specifically, I’m talking about the area in between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea where ancient elongated skull people lived about 3,000 years ago…It appears that the largest elongated skulls on the planet have been found A in Paracas, Peru and B in the Caucasus area between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea.”
Independent ancient researcher and filmmaker, L.A. Marzulli, describes other anomalies of the Paracas skulls.
The foramen magnum “is completely different than a normal human being, it is also smaller, which lends itself to our theory that this is not cradle head boarding, it is genetic.”
Some of the skulls have a pronounced zygomatic arch (cheek bone).
Many skulls have no sagittal suture, a connective tissue joint between the two parietal bones of the skull. However, this fusing of the sagittal suture may be a direct result of head binding or an indication of advanced age of the individuals
They have unusual eye sockets.
Left: Modern skull foramen. Right: L.A Mazulli points out foramen magnum on Paracas skull.
An ancient Mexican burial site near the village of Onavas in Sonora in 1999 has yielded 25 skulls, 13 of which are elongated. Seventeen of the skulls belonged to children and only one was female. The steep angle of the forehead indicates childhood head binding.
Malta
Dolichocephalic skulls have also been discovered in some of the earliest Old-World cultures of Malta and Iraq.
Discoveries in the Maltese temple tombs at Tarxien, Ggantja and Hal Saflieni have yielded three classes of skull anomalies. Much of the research on Maltese skulls comes from the Italian writer Adriano Forgione who classified three types:
Highly dolichocephalic, “above all, strange lengthened skull, bigger and more peculiar than the others, lacking of the median knitting or suture, linking bones in the roof of the skull.”
Skulls which were more ‘natural’ in appearance yet “still presented pronounced, natural dolichocephalous’ shapes ‘distinctive of an actual race.’
Many of the 7,000 skeletons dug out of the Hypogeum exhibit “artificially performed deformities.”
Maltese archaeologists Dr. Mark Mifsud and Anthony Buonanno told Forgione, “They are another race although C14 or DNA exams haven’t yet been performed.”
Forgione complained that the skulls had been removed from display at the Maltese Archaeological Museum of Valletta in 1985. About 15 years later he was given permission when Michael Refalo, the Minister for Tourism, accompanied him to the museum and obtained the director’s cooperation. A few days later the Museum’s archaeologist Mark Anthony Mifsud placed the skulls before Forgione, some with pronounced dolichocephalism. They also lacked a median sagitta which is highly anomalous.
In an article for Atlantis Rising Magazine called ‘Mystery of Malta’s Long-Headed Skulls’, Forgione postulated, “The long head and Drawn features must have given an almost serpent-like appearance , stretching the eyes and skin. Lacking the lower part we can only speculate, but the hypothesis seems plausible. Such deformities would certainly have created walking problems, forcing him almost to slither! The lack of the cranium’s medium knitting and therefore, the impossibility of the brain’s consistent, radial expansion in the skullcap must have caused terrible agony from infancy.”
Two of Malta’s mysterious skulls, the dolichocephalous (long-headed) one below.
The other skulls also showed anomalies, including mild dolichocephalism, suggesting that a separate race, distinct from the native populations of Malta and Gozo, existed about 5,000 years ago. They also showed signs of trepanning and artificially performed deformations, such as cranial bondage.
Iraq
In 1933, Max Mallowan excavated Neolithic graves at Tell Arpachiyah in Iraq dated from 4600 BC to 4300 BC (Halaf and Ubaid periods). He reported the discovery of skulls having a “marked degree of deliberate, artificial deformation”, leading to an “elongated skull.”
A 1996 monograph on Mallowan’s discoveries by Stuart Campbell remarked, “Skull deformation at Arpachiyah appears, on current (1995) knowledge, striking…Skull deformation seems to occur with regularity at other sites of this general period over a very wide area…Jericho, Chalcolithic Byblos, Ganj Dareh, and Ali Kesh.”
Dolichocephaloids also appeared in predynastic Egypt and in the art of the New Kingdom Armana period which covered the era of King Akhenaton. Professor Walter Emery excavated Saqqara in the 1930s and discovered amongst other skeletons a dolichocephalic skull larger than the others. He postulated it was from a different ethnic group which wasn’t indigenous to Egypt but had performed priestly and government roles. He associated them with Shemsu Hor, ‘the disciples of Horus’.
Forgione believes that the skulls originated with a race who settled in Mesopotamia about 7,000 years ago. In urbanized centres such as Jarmo, the mother goddesses were represented as divinities with the faces of vipers and lengthened heads. They are also associated with the ‘Nephilim’ of Genesis and eventually settled Egypt in predynastic times. They reached Malta in about 2500 BC and survived a millennium later in the mysterious pharaoh of Akhenaton who was always depicted with an extremely elongated skull.
Numerous elongated skulls have been unearthed in the Caucasus area of Russia, which is significant considering the DNA results of the Paracas skeletons.
Pravda News reported on October 6, 2005, that extremely dolichocephalic heads had been discovered in the Caucasus. The Pyatigorsk skull was found near Kislovodsk and dates from between the 3 rd and 5 th century AD. “Researchers have repeatedly proved that the skulls had been deformed on purpose,” said Dr. Kuznestov. "Ropes or special blocks were tied tightly round the heads of infants, over the temples. The custom went out of fashion by 17th century. The reason behind the deformation phenomenon is still unknown. It is hard to say whether the methods worked effectively or not since nobody ever conducted scientific experiments regarding the binding of the infants' heads.”
In January 2009, it was reported on digitaljournal.com that extreme dolichocephalic skulls had been dug up in Omsk, Siberia by Russian archaeologists which were dated to 400 AD.
Igor Skandakov, director of the Omsk Museum of History and Culture said that the skulls have marks which could be evidence of artificial deformation of a normal skull. He claimed that the skull was kept away from the public because of its unusual shape which shocked and frightened people.
Archaeologist Alexi Matveyev felt that the deformation was carried out as a status symbol of belonging to the elite of society, or as a way to enhance brain function. “It’s unlikely that the ancients knew much about neuro-surgery. But it’s possible that somehow they were able to develop exceptional brain capabilities.”
Another elongated skull dated to 300 AD was discovered at a cemetery in Arkaim, in the southern Urals in 2015. It is believed the female belonged to the Sarmati tribe in what is now modern-day Ukraine.
The remains of a one-year old boy with a large elongated skull were found in a Crimean village called Yakovenkovo. According to the Archeology Fund, the grave of the boy dates back to the second century AD.
Various elongated skulls from the early Medieval period have been discovered in Germany and particularly in the Bavarian region. Some, which have been DNA, tested belonged to women from Bulgaria and Romania. Other skulls have been excavated from Dossenheim, Stuttgart, Altenerding and Franconia.
Elongated skulls in the Carpathian region of eastern Europe date from the late Iron Age until early medieval times and were found in both Goths and Huns, as the recreation on the right shows. More than 200 skulls have been found in this region which are probably related to the Hun invasions of the 4th and 5th centuries AD.
An article in JNS ‘Artificially deformed crania from the Hun-Germanic period (5th-6th AD) in north-eastern Hungary’ historical and morphological analysis’ (2014) concludes that the custom spread from east to west in 6 phases up to 4,000 years ago, beginning in Central Asia, before expanding through the Caucasus to the Danube basin in central Europe. From there it split into three distinct regions in France, Germany and Switzerland, and died out in early Medieval times.
However, the authors fail to explain why so many groups deliberately deformed their skulls. Nor did they look at the genetic link between the Paracas people and those from the Black Sea area. The implications of large-scale migration from Eurasia to South America via the Persian Gulf in ancient times are huge and threaten to rewrite the history books.
China
In 2019, scientists announced that a site called Houtaomuga has yielded 25 skeletons dating to between 12,000 to 5,000 years ago. Eleven of these skulls have ‘artificially elongated braincases and flattened bones at the front and back of the head’ according to team members Quanchao Zang and Qian Wang. One of the four males was found in a tomb dating to between 13,000 to 11,000 years ago while another sediment layer with skulls was dated to between 6,300 and 5,000 years ago. A 3-year-old child with an elongated head was also buried with large amounts of pottery and artifacts.
As more elongated skulls come to light around the world, serious research needs to differentiate the cranially deformed skulls from the genetically dolichocephalic skulls which can be seen in babies and foetuses in the Paracas population. If a new species such as the Denisovans can be assigned on the basis of a finger bone, why have the Paracas people with enormous skulls lacking vital cranial sutures and displaced foramina magna been ignored by anthropologists?
The designation of a new South American hominin species or subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens paracas would challenge several cherished theories:. 1. There were no pre-Homo sapiens populations in the Americas. 2. No unknown hominin species existed less than 2,000 years ago.
On the other hand, DNA evidence shatters the long-held belief that East Asia was the sole homeland of the earliest migrants to the Americas across the now sunken land bridge of Beringia. Scientists will not only have to trace migration routes from Eurasia to the Americas during the ice age, but consider the possibility that such migrations were occurring well into the common era.
Rivero and Tschudi's fetus with naturally elongated head from their 1851 "Antigüedades peruanas".
With a virtually non-existent atmosphere and no liquid water, you’d think the moon would be the last place you’d find hematite — basically rusted iron that requires the presence of both iron and water. But that’s exactly what researchers have recently discovered at high latitudes on the moon.
Enhaned map of hematite on the moon’s nearside. Credit: Shuai Li.
The reddish dust we all know as rust is essentially a chemical product of the reaction between iron and oxygen. It’s very common on Earth (you can find iron oxides almost everywhere) but since there is no oxygen on the moon, you wouldn’t really expect any hematite. In fact, sample return missions during the Apollo era and subsequent satellite observations have only been able to find pristine metallic iron devoid of any sign of rust.
However, when planetary scientist Shuai Li of the University of Hawaii at Manoa was examining spectral data from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), as well as from the Chandrayaan-1 orbiter operated by the Indian Space Research Organization, he noticed signatures typical of hematite.
“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,” said Li in a statement. “I was curious whether it is possible that there are water-rock reactions on the Moon. After months of investigation, I figured out I was seeing the signature of hematite.”
Researchers had quite a mystery on their hands. Hematite requires both water and oxygen to form. For water, researchers had a hunch. Hematite was most abundant at the lunar poles, where there’s also ice water. But what about the oxygen — where could that come from?
Here too, geography might hold the answer. According to the data analyzed by Li and colleagues, most of the hematite on the lunar surface seems to be distributed on the lunar nearside, which always faces Earth. So the likely culprit was Earthly oxygen.
“This reminded me of a discovery by the Japanese Kaguya mission that oxygen from Earth’s upper atmosphere can be blown to the lunar surface by solar wind when the Moon is in Earth’s magnetotail. So, Earth’s atmospheric oxygen could be the major oxidant to produce haematite,” Li said.
Map of hematite on the moon. Red corresponds to more hematite.
Credit: Shuai Li.
That’s not to say that hematite is absolutely absent from the far-side of the moon — it’s just that much fewer oxidative events were seen there, the researchers added.
“The tiny amount of water observed at lunar high latitudes may have been substantially involved in the haematite formation process on the lunar far-side, which has important implications for interpreting the observed haematite on some water poor S-type asteroids,” Li said.
Scientists may be able to learn more about how exactly oxidation occurs on the moon when NASA’s ARTEMIS mission return hematite samples from the polar regions. Beyond confirming the source of oxidation for lunar minerals, the sampled hematite could still retain oxygen isotopes from Earth’s ancient atmosphere. This way, scientists can learn more about our planet’s history.
“This discovery will reshape our knowledge about the Moon’s polar regions,” said Li. “Earth may have played an important role on the evolution of the Moon’s surface.”
What do we make of Tom DeLonge … former Blink-182 front man and current proponent of UFO research and disclosure? It’s true that his fame has propelled attention to UFOs and ufology to levels never seen before and his involvement in the To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences (TSAAS) has resulted in the release of UFO videos and Pentagon admission of their legitimacy. Yet the hype seems to exceed the reality with DeLonge, as he has made many promises and few truly blockbuster revelations. Will that change with his latest hints?
“Would I leave rock and roll just to go do something that there’s no data for and it’s just, like, pie in the sky and we’re just imagining things? No! Why would I? I mean, that’s insane.”
Tom knows what you’re thinking. In an exclusive interview with Sky News, he admits people had a hard time understanding why he left the world of rock for the world of UFOs, although it’s telling that he’s still addressing the question 5 years later.
“I’ve been brought into a group of people and I’m a big part of a mechanism that is absolutely profound and [has] already started changing the world. And it’s going to do a lot more.”
That’s true, although his initial involvement seemed to lean towards creating UFO-related entertainment rather than research and revelations. That changed with the release of the Nimitiz UFO recordings and the involvement with Luis Elizondo, a bona fide former government insider involved with the formerly secret government UFO investigation group (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)). Elizondo was in on the Zoom interview with Sky News, which was promoting “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation,” now entering its second on the History Channel.
Promoting the show? Will they really tell Sky News anything new or will they save it for the show?
Good question. The show hasn’t really made any big revelations or disclosures to date. That seems strange, since DeLonge told Sky News there’s plenty to tell.
“I personally have seen enormous amounts of data.”
And?
“I’ve been brought into a group of people and I’m a big part of a mechanism that is absolutely profound and [has] already started changing the world. And it’s going to do a lot more.”
Like what?
“Over time, as science moves and it evolves and we’re starting to take these things more seriously and understand some of the other parameters about it, I just think that we’re gonna find – I assume, I don’t know – but my gut is that we’re going to find out there’s a lot more to this.”
Sigh. Spoken like the producer of a TV show, not a true investigator and whistleblower. And not even a good PR person either. I assume? I don’t know? My gut? Tom, if you want to be taken seriously, you have to divulge something serious … good or bad … ratings be damned. Otherwise, you’ll still be “Remember that guy who left Blink-182? Wonder what he’s doing now? He’s what? Are you serious?” You can’t live on the fame of Blink-182 and you can’t live on the fame of the Nimitz recordings.
It’s time to step up to the mic, Tom, and then give us a ‘drop the mic’ announcement.
UFO encounters happen all over the world and come in a variety of forms. Our story here begins on the evening of May 18, 1946, when a 28-year-old ice hockey player by the name of Gösta Carlsson was walking along through a forested area of Kronoskogen, Sweden, near a place called Ängelholm, on his way back from a trip to a beach called Skälderviken where he had gone to do some birdwatching. As he hiked through the peaceful forest taking in the sounds of the night, a bright light through the trees caught his attention as he passed over a hill. It was a strange thing to find out there in the darkened woods, and he decided to hike down to investigate and came to a clearing at a place that would later be known as Kronoskogen. Sat within that clearing was a brilliantly illuminated, vaguely disc-shaped object that he at first took to be a lit up carnival carousel until he realized how unlikely that was out there in the middle of nowhere.
Carlsson would describe the object in quite a lot of detail to the Swedish UFOlogist Clas Svahn as follows:
The object has a shape that is somewhat similar to a disc and it rests partly on a strong fin in the direction of the furan, partly on two telescopic supports, all distributed so that it seems as if these supports are placed at equal distances from each other on the circular craft. Directly in front of the fin on the lower part of the vessel is a hatch lowered with a ladder and ladders similar to those seen on boats. The hatch is one and a half meters above the ground and I see how light flows out of the cabin. I make an attempt to look into the craft but the angle is too narrow. All that is visible is the strong light. On the upper side of the vessel is a streamlined cabin that I estimate to be about eight meters in diameter. At about one meter intervals I see oval windows, maybe half a meter long and about 30 centimeters high. While I look at the craft, I cannot help but think that someone is trying to joke with me. One thought that goes through my mind is that it may be German pilots who have fled from some camp. But deep down, I do not believe in it myself.
On top of the cabin is a telescopic mast, almost like a periscope on a submarine. The height is about the same as the pine and I estimate the thickness of the vessel in the middle to be about four meters, at the sides to almost one meter and the height of the mast should be about five meters. At the top, it is divided into four parts. A bit down I discover the lamp that emitted the strange violet glow that I discovered from the path. It is directed downwards and covers the entire craft like a cheese dome with a few meters to spare outside. The light cone itself pulsates from the lamp almost like the water from a fountain. And strangest of all: in this way the light has a curved path. Where it hits the ground or the grass, it disappears with a spark phenomenon similar to that caused by sparklers. An odor that of ozone spreads through the air. It is as if an electric curtain has sunk over the craft. The hull and cabin appear to be made in one piece. You can neither see joints nor rivets anywhere. Around the lower edge of the vessel’s circumference there are a number of holes, not different from those found on turbines, directed downwards and provided with dampers.
The startled man looked upon this outlandish site, things got even more bizarre when he noticed what appeared to be the figure of a man standing outside the circle of light the craft was projecting. This mysterious stranger was apparently dressed in a skintight white suit with no visible buttons, zippers or other fasteners, with black boots and belt and what looked almost like a camera hanging from his neck. He then noticed that there were other figures around the ship, including both men and women, the women with light colored hair, and he says of the completely surreal scene that unfolded:
Up on the craft by one of the windows are three more men, apparently busy with some work. Just below, I see two more assisting and inside the circle of light, facing me, stand three girls. Everyone is dressed in the same way, in the same all-cast white aviator suit, with the same color on boots and waist belt. Everyone inside the circle of light has the transparent hood folded back in the neck. The strange thing was that everyone turned to me when I entered the clearing. It was as if I was expected but not wanted …The man standing outside the circle of light – and who I now understand afterwards served as some kind of guard – makes a perfect stop sign with one hand raised. It is an event that cannot be misunderstood and I will stay too. The guard turns his black bellows camera-like thing towards me and I get the impression that it is to take some kind of picture. I’m about to go a few steps closer to him, but he immediately raises his hand and at the same time I think I hear a click from my headlamp. I stand still and at the same time the guard makes a turn around the craft, all the time on the outside of the circle of light. The two men and girls return to work at the cabin window. It is possible that there are two guards with one placed on the back of the vessel. This might explain why there is always a man against the side where I stand.
I kind of feel like a wild animal has to do outside the circle of light that safari hunters usually make in Africa. Then suddenly a dark-haired girl comes down the stairs of the cabin under the craft. In her hand she has something resembling a bag and she hands out cups to both men and women. Everyone quits their jobs and drinks from these cups. Then I suddenly feel like walking up to them and talking a little, but as soon as I have taken a step, the guard stands in front of me again with his hand raised to the stop sign and everyone looks at me seriously. The guard also looks serious, like a determined policeman – here but no longer! He does not let go of his gaze for a second. It is as if the “cheese hive” of light shields the craft from the surroundings and that the sentry is placed outside to ensure that no one tries to enter. Maybe I would have been hurt if I tried to pass the light. When I take a step back, everyone continues with their job and I feel a little flattened. Two of the girls smile so beautifully at me and I see their sparkling white teeth. I can boast that I am not usually afraid of anything, and I have spent enough time in the woods and on the ground to believe neither the devil nor the trolls. But this is still too strange.
Carlsson decided that he had seen enough and left the meadow in order to head back to the beach from which he had come in order to regain his composure and get his heads straight. At this point he was under the impression that he had been hallucinating, and he thought that calming down would make that unearthly scene with the spaceship and its occupants go away. He waded through the cold water, sat upon a dune for some time, and then noticed a red light through the trees back the way he had come. He would explain of what happened next:
At first I think it’s the moon that is rising but then I see that this is not the case. Slowly and majestically, the heavy craft rises, which I can now see clearly. It’s almost like a balloon rising. Only a whistling sound heard from a vacuum cleaner motor. Higher and higher it rises with a wreath of red light from the turbine holes. At an altitude of 400-500 meters, it slows down a bit, oscillates a little sideways, and I can now see that the antenna is pulled down and that the fin and landing sites are probably also recessed.
It’s a bit hazy but the whole maneuver is clearly visible and the whole craft radiates light from the force field and the cabin windows. Then it skews so that it is at an angle to the bright night sky. The red light becomes more intense and then it begins to shoot violently. After a while, the red glow turns purple and now it seems to move at almost the same speed as a sun cat. It oscillates a bit, just as if it were looking for something. Then the glow begins to turn reddish, the craft slows down for a moment, then the violet light comes again and the same terrible speed. Three times I see the craft do this maneuver before it definitely disappears over Ängelholm. I stay on the dunes for a while and am quite overwhelmed and shaken by what I have seen.
Carlsson managed to make it back to his home without further incident, and the next morning he went back out to that clearing he had found the night before. He claims that he found evidence of the landed craft such as impressions in the ground and browned grass. He also would say that he had found some strange objects the crew had seemingly left behind forgotten, including two mugs containing a yellowish-white, fragrant liquid, a gold ring and a transparent crystal rod with rune-like characters engraved into it. He would later go on to exhibit these objects, although he never let anyone get too close to them or give them any sort of analysis. He also claims that he later had the site tested and found that there was a high amount of radiation present there in the clearing.
In 1963, a concrete monument in the shape of the spaceship Carlsson claimed to have seen would be erected in the very same clearing outside Ängelholm in which it had originally appeared. The monument has become a popular tourist attraction and it is often visited by those passing through to go bird watching at the nearby bird sanctuary. In later years Carlsson become a wealthy CEO of pharmaceutical companies Cernelle and Allergon, partially built from what he said were secret medicinal recipes he had learned from the aliens. He would also come into contact with the Swedish UFOlogist and chairman of chairman of UFO-Sweden Clas Svahn, who worked closely with him and spent years interviewing Carlsson and investigating the case, culminating in his book on his 1995 book on the matter titled The Meeting in the Glade.
The UFO monument
Carlsson and Svahn actually formed a close friendship, although they had different takes on the whole UFO affair. While originally very intrigued and lending the story credibility, over time Svahn came to the conclusion that Carlsson’s tale had too many problems with it and had to be taken with a grain of salt. Svahn would lament that the witness’ story over the years lacked consistency, details would change or contradict each other, and many of the “facts” that Carlsson cited often turned out to be false or unverifiable, for instance, he was never able to prove that radiation had ever been detected in the clearing and gave references to people who could not be confirmed to be who he said they were. Most suspicious of all was that Svahn and his team were never able to get a good look at the alleged artifacts left behind by the aliens, nor did he allow access to his own personal documents on the matter. Svahn would say:
As early as 1995, Gösta promised that UFO-Sweden would be allowed to analyze the staff at an independent laboratory, a promise he repeated on the radio during our National Assembly and exhibition in Ängelholm in 1996. He also promised that I would receive it when everything was ready. But the promises never materialized. Maybe because he understood that an analysis would not strengthen his story. Nor did I get to see the papers he kept in his archive in the basement and which later when Gösta was taken into a retirement home in Strövelstorp were moved to another room inside Ängelholm. Although I explained to him how important it was to be able to take part in the analysis that he himself once had done, to be able to read the letters from all those who must have written to him over the years or to see original notes from the years after the event met I constantly of half promises and evasions. I actually managed to get a few original documents, but considering how much more there was, it was a quiet gutter.
Svahn would come to the conclusion that it was unlikely that the event had happened as Carlsson had described it, if at all. Carlsson would end up passing away in 2003 of a stroke, and take any secrets he had to the grave with him. We are left to wonder just how real any of this really was, and just what happened to those amazing artifacts the witness claimed to have found. Is there anything to this, or is it just the ramblings of a delusional mind? There is no way to really know, but the incident has gone on to become one of the most famous UFO encounters in Swedish history.
An Unexpected Origin Story for a Lopsided Black Hole Merger
Researchers suggest a novel process to explain the collision of a large black hole and a much smaller one.
A lopsided merger of two black holes may have an oddball origin story, according to a new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere.
A lopsided merger of two black holes may have unusual origins, based on a reanalysis of LIGO data.
Credits:Image: MIT News
The merger was first detected on April 12, 2019 as a gravitational wave that arrived at the detectors of both LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), and its Italian counterpart, Virgo. Scientists labeled the signal as GW190412 and determined that it emanated from a clash between two David-and-Goliath black holes, one three times more massive than the other. The signal marked the first detection of a merger between two black holes of very different sizes.
Now the new study, published today in the journal Physical Review Letters, shows that this lopsided merger may have originated through a very different process compared to how most mergers, or binaries, are thought to form.
It’s likely that the more massive of the two black holes was itself a product of a prior merger between two parent black holes. The Goliath that spun out of that first collision may have then ricocheted around a densely packed “nuclear cluster” before merging with the second, smaller black hole — a raucous event that sent gravitational waves rippling across space.
GW190412 may then be a second generation, or “hierarchical” merger, standing apart from other first-generation mergers that LIGO and Virgo have so far detected.
“This event is an oddball the universe has thrown at us — it was something we didn’t see coming,” says study coauthor Salvatore Vitale, an assistant professor of physics at MIT and a LIGO member. “But nothing happens just once in the universe. And something like this, though rare, we will see again, and we’ll be able to say more about the universe.”
Vitale’s coauthors are Davide Gerosa of the University of Birmingham and Emanuele Berti of Johns Hopkins University.
A struggle to explain
There are two main ways in which black hole mergers are thought to form. The first is known as a common envelope process, where two neighboring stars, after billions of years, explode to form two neighboring black holes that eventually share a common envelope, or disk of gas. After another few billion years, the black holes spiral in and merge.
“You can think of this like a couple being together all their lives,” Vitale says. “This process is suspected to happen in the disc of galaxies like our own.”
The other common path by which black hole mergers form is via dynamical interactions. Imagine, in place of a monogamous environment, a galactic rave, where thousands of black holes are crammed into a small, dense region of the universe. When two black holes start to partner up, a third may knock the couple apart in a dynamical interaction that can repeat many times over, before a pair of black holes finally merges.
In both the common envelope process and the dynamical interaction scenario, the merging black holes should have roughly the same mass, unlike the lopsided mass ratio of GW190412. They should also have relatively no spin, whereas GW190412 has a surprisingly high spin.
“The bottom line is, both these scenarios, which people traditionally think are ideal nurseries for black hole binaries in the universe, struggle to explain the mass ratio and spin of this event,” Vitale says.
Black hole tracker
In their new paper, the researchers used two models to show that it is very unlikely that GW190412 came from either a common envelope process or a dynamical interaction.
They first modeled the evolution of a typical galaxy using STAR TRACK, a simulation that tracks galaxies over billions of years, starting with the coalescing of gas and proceeding to the way stars take shape and explode, and then collapse into black holes that eventually merge. The second model simulates random, dynamical encounters in globular clusters — dense concentrations of stars around most galaxies.
The team ran both simulations multiple times, tuning the parameters and studying the properties of the black hole mergers that emerged. For those mergers that formed through a common envelope process, a merger like GW190412 was very rare, cropping up only after a few million events. Dynamical interactions were slightly more likely to produce such an event, after a few thousand mergers.
However, GW190412 was detected by LIGO and Virgo after only 50 other detections, suggesting that it likely arose through some other process.
“No matter what we do, we cannot easily produce this event in these more common formation channels,” Vitale says.
The process of hierarchical merging may better explain the GW190412’s lopsided mass and its high spin. If one black hole was a product of a previous pairing of two parent black holes of similar mass, it would itself be more massive than either parent, and later significantly overshadow its first-generation partner, creating a high mass ratio in the final merger.
A hierarchical process could also generate a merger with a high spin: The parent black holes, in their chaotic merging, would spin up the resulting black hole, which would then carry this spin into its own ultimate collision.
“You do the math, and it turns out the leftover black hole would have a spin which is very close to the total spin of this merger,” Vitale explains.
No escape
If GW190412 indeed formed through hierarchical merging, Vitale says the event could also shed light on the environment in which it formed. The team found that if the larger of the two black holes formed from a previous collision, that collision likely generated a huge amount of energy that not only spun out a new black hole, but kicked it across some distance.
“If it’s kicked too hard, it would just leave the cluster and go into the empty interstellar medium, and not be able to merge again,” Vitale says.
If the object was able to merge again (in this case, to produce GW190412), it would mean the kick that it received was not enough to escape the stellar cluster in which it formed. If GW190412 indeed is a product of hierarchical merging, the team calculated that it would have occurred in an environment with an escape velocity higher than 150 kilometers per second. For perspective, the escape velocity of most globular clusters is about 50 kilometers per second.
This means that whatever environment GW190412 arose from had an immense gravitational pull, and the team believes that such an environment could have been either the disk of gas around a supermassive black hole, or a “nuclear cluster” — an incredibly dense region of the universe, packed with tens of millions of stars.
“This merger must have come from an unusual place,” Vitale says. “As LIGO and Virgo continue to make new detections, we can use these discoveries to learn new things about the universe.”
This research was funded, in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and MIT’s Solomon Buchsbaum Research Fund.
Contacts and sources:
Jennifer Chu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Publication:
Astrophysical Implications of GW190412 as a Remnant of a Previous Black-Hole Merger. Davide Gerosa, Salvatore Vitale, Emanuele Berti. Physical Review Letters, 2020; 125 (10) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101103
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. Thus, 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 Li.
Map of hematite on the moon—redder color means more hematite.
Photo credit: Shuai Li
To make the discovery, Li, HIGP professor Paul Lucey and co-authors from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and elsewhere analyzed the hyperspectral reflectance data acquired by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) designed by NASA JPL onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission.
“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,” said Li. “I was curious whether it is possible that there are water-rock reactions on the Moon. After months of investigation, I figured out I was seeing the signature of hematite.”
The team found that the locations where hematite is present are strongly correlated with water content at high latitude Li and others found previously and are more concentrated on the nearside, which always faces the Earth.
“This discovery will reshape our knowledge about the Moon’s polar regions,” said Li. “Earth may have played an important role on the evolution of the Moon’s surface.”
Widespread hematite at high latitudes of the Moon. Shuai Li, Paul G. Lucey, Abigail A. Fraeman, Andrew R. Poppe, Vivian Z. Sun, Dana M. Hurley and Peter H. Schultz. Science Advances, 2020 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba1940
A “Bang” in LIGO and Virgo Detectors Signals Most Massive Gravitational-Wave Source Yet
A binary black hole merger likely produced gravitational waves equal to the energy of eight suns.
For all its vast emptiness, the universe is humming with activity in the form of gravitational waves. Produced by extreme astrophysical phenomena, these reverberations ripple forth and shake the fabric of space-time, like the clang of a cosmic bell.
Now researchers have detected a signal from what may be the most massive black hole merger yet observed in gravitational waves. The product of the merger is the first clear detection of an “intermediate-mass” black hole, with a mass between 100 and 1,000 times that of the sun.
Numerical simulation of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. The black holes have large and nearly equal masses, with one only 3% more massive than the other. The simulated gravitational wave signal is consistent with the observation made by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors on May 21st, 2019 (GW190521).
Credits:Credit: N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration
They detected the signal, which they have labeled GW190521, on May 21, 2019, with the National Science Foundation’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), a pair of identical, 4-kilometer-long interferometers in the United States; and Virgo, a 3-kilometer-long detector in Italy.
The signal, resembling about four short wiggles, is extremely brief in duration, lasting less than one-tenth of a second. From what the researchers can tell, GW190521 was generated by a source that is roughly 5 gigaparsecs away, when the universe was about half its age, making it one of the most distant gravitational-wave sources detected so far.
As for what produced this signal, based on a powerful suite of state-of-the-art computational and modeling tools, scientists think that GW190521 was most likely generated by a binary black hole merger with unusual properties.
Almost every confirmed gravitational-wave signal to date has been from a binary merger, either between two black holes or two neutron stars. This newest merger appears to be the most massive yet, involving two inspiraling black holes with masses about 85 and 66 times the mass of the sun.
The LIGO-Virgo team has also measured each black hole’s spin and discovered that as the black holes were circling ever closer together, they could have been spinning about their own axes, at angles that were out of alignment with the axis of their orbit. The black holes’ misaligned spins likely caused their orbits to wobble, or “precess,” as the two Goliaths spiraled toward each other.
The new signal likely represents the instant that the two black holes merged. The merger created an even more massive black hole, of about 142 solar masses, and released an enormous amount of energy, equivalent to around 8 solar masses, spread across the universe in the form of gravitational waves.
This artist's concept illustrates a hierarchical scheme for merging black holes. L
“This doesn’t look much like a chirp, which is what we typically detect,” says Virgo member Nelson Christensen, a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), comparing the signal to LIGO’s first detection of gravitational waves in 2015. “This is more like something that goes ‘bang,’ and it’s the most massive signal LIGO and Virgo have seen.”
The international team of scientists, who make up the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the Virgo Collaboration, have reported their findings in two papers published today. One, appearing in Physical Review Letters, details the discovery, and the other, in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, discusses the signal’s physical properties and astrophysical implications.
“LIGO once again surprises us not just with the detection of black holes in sizes that are difficult to explain, but doing it using techniques that were not designed specifically for stellar mergers,” says Pedro Marronetti, program director for gravitational physics at the National Science Foundation. “This is of tremendous importance since it showcases the instrument’s ability to detect signals from completely unforeseen astrophysical events. LIGO shows that it can also observe the unexpected.”
You Will Be Shocked to See These Creepy Looking Deep Sea Ocean Creatures
There’s enough to be frightened about in this green earth from Pandemics to global warming, not forgetting killer bugs and venomous reptiles from around the globe. Now there’s a whole segment of creatures living down under which will make your skin tingle. This underwater creatures rarely comes into contact with humans but that said they all have one thing in common they reside in the deep blue sea. Here are 15 scary-looking and fear inducing creatures.
UFO Flying Near Military Base, Newport Virginia, Aug 25, 2020, MUFON, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 25, 2020 Location of sighting: Newport, Virginia, USA Source: MUFON #111258 This UFO was recorded flying over Newport, Virginia last week. There is a military base there and the eyewitness often sees millard craft, but this surprised him. This object in the video tilts for a few seconds (3 screenshots below) and at that moment it looks like a thick disk. But then it tilts and we see it from its side looking thin. Very odd craft. Old Project Blue Book reports have reported dozens of alien craft near US military bases. It looks like aliens are worried and want to show the military they can do as they want, when they want and even shut down nuclear missiles. For aliens do do this they probably predicted that in the near future an armed conflict with China is about to occur. 100% alien and proof aliens still watch over humanities safety. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan Eyewitness states:
I stepped outside to smoke a cigarette, the moon was out and it was daylight outside. I like looking at the moon during the day. I looked down and then back up at the moon and saw this. I have lived near military bases for over a decade. I frequently see F22s and all manner of commercial and military aircraft.
Witness went outside for a cigarette and filmed a UFO! Newport News, Virginia 25-Aug-2020
Some kind of cigar-shaped object was caught on tape by a witness in Newport News, Virginia. This happened on 25th August 2020.
Witness report:
I stepped outside to smoke a cigarette, the moon was out and it was daylight outside. I like looking at the moon during the day. I looked down and then back up at the moon and saw this. I have lived near military bases for over a decade.I frequently see F22s and all manner of commercial and military aircraft.
A team of scientists from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania has developed a new class of microscopic robots that incorporate semiconductor components, allowing them to be controlled — and made to walk — with standard electronic signals.
Miskin et al built microsopic robots that consist of a simple circuit made from silicon photovoltaics and four electrochemical actuators; when laser light is shined on the photovoltaics, the robots walk.
Image credit: Miskin et al, doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2626-9.
The new walking robots are about 5 microns thick, 40 microns wide and between 40 and 70 microns in length.
Each consists of a simple circuit made from silicon photovoltaics that essentially functions as the torso and brain and four electrochemical actuators that function as legs.
The robots operate with low voltage (200 millivolts) and low power (10 nanowatts), and remain strong and robust for their size.
“In the context of the robot’s brains, there’s a sense in which we’re just taking existing semiconductor technology and making it small and releasable,” said co-lead author Professor Paul McEuen, of Cornell University.
“But the legs did not exist before. There were no small, electrically activatable actuators that you could use. So we had to invent those and then combine them with the electronics.”
The robots developed by Miskin et al are roughly the same size as microorganisms like Paramecium.
Image credit: Miskin et al, doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2626-9.
Using atomic layer deposition and lithography, Professor McEuen and colleagues constructed the legs from strips of platinum only a few dozen atoms thick, capped on one side by a thin layer of inert titanium.
Upon applying a positive electric charge to the platinum, negatively charged ions adsorb onto the exposed surface from the surrounding solution to neutralize the charge.
These ions force the exposed platinum to expand, making the strip bend.
The ultra-thinness of the strips enables the material to bend sharply without breaking.
To help control the 3D limb motion, the scientists patterned rigid polymer panels on top of the strips.
The gaps between the panels function like a knee or ankle, allowing the legs to bend in a controlled manner and thus generate motion.
The authors control the robots by flashing laser pulses at different photovoltaics, each of which charges up a separate set of legs.
By toggling the laser back and forth between the front and back photovoltaics, the robot walks.
“While these robots are primitive in their function — they’re not very fast, they don’t have a lot of computational capability — the innovations that we made to make them compatible with standard microchip fabrication open the door to making these microscopic robots smart, fast and mass producible,” said co-lead author Professor Itai Cohen, also from Cornell University.
“This is really just the first shot across the bow that, hey, we can do electronic integration on a tiny robot.”
The team is exploring ways to soup up the robots with more complicated electronics and onboard computation — improvements that could one day result in swarms of microscopic robots crawling through and restructuring materials, or suturing blood vessels, or being dispatched en masse to probe large swaths of the human brain.
“Controlling a tiny robot is maybe as close as you can come to shrinking yourself down,” said lead author Dr. Marc Miskin, from the University of Pennsylvania.
“I think machines like these are going to take us into all kinds of amazing worlds that are too small to see.”
The team’s work was published in the journal Nature.
Astronomers Witness Birth of Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Astronomers using the twin LIGO detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector located near Pisa, Italy, have detected gravitational waves from the most massive binary black hole merger ever discovered. The two spinning black holes merged when the Universe was only about 7 billion years old, which is roughly half its present age, and formed a larger black hole weighing a whopping 142 times the mass of the Sun — a so-calledintermediate-mass black hole.
An artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide.
Image credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Australian National University.
Astronomers know that stellar-mass black holes — black holes ranging from 10 times to 100 times the Sun’s mass — are the remnants of dying stars, and that supermassive black holes, more than 1,000,000 times the mass of the Sun, inhabit the centers of most galaxies.
But scattered across the Universe are a few apparent black holes of a more mysterious type. Ranging from 100 to 10,000 solar masses, these intermediate-mass black holes are so hard to measure that even their existence is sometimes disputed.
The final 142-solar-mass black hole produced by the newly-discovered merger lies within this intermediate mass range between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes.
“Right from the beginning, this signal, which is only a tenth of a second long, challenged us in identifying its origin,” said Professor Alessandra Buonanno, a researcher at the University of Maryland and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.
“But, despite its short duration, we were able to match the signal to one expected of black-hole mergers, as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and we realized we had witnessed, for the first time, the birth of an intermediate-mass black hole from a black-hole parent that most probably was born from an earlier binary merger.”
Dubbed GW190521, the gravitational-wave signal was detected on May 21, 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC.
It came from two black holes weighing in at 85 and 66 times the mass of the Sun, respectively.
The larger of the two black holes is considered ‘impossible.’ Astronomers predict that stars between 65 and 130 solar masses undergo a process called pair instability, resulting in the star being blown apart, leaving nothing behind.
“The mass of the larger black hole in the pair puts it into the range where it’s unexpected from regular astrophysics processes,” said Professor Peter Shawhan, a scientist at the University of Maryland.
“It seems too massive to have been formed from a collapsed star, which is where black holes generally come from.”
“The ‘impossible’ black hole formed by the collision lies in the black hole desert between 100 and 1,000 times the mass of the Sun,” added Professor Susan Scott, a researcher in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at the Australian National University.
“We are very excited to have achieved the first direct observation of an intermediate-mass black hole in this mass range.”
“We also saw how it formed, confirming that intermediate-mass black holes can be produced through the merger of two smaller black holes.”
The GW190521 signal, resembling about four short wiggles, was extremely brief in duration, lasting less than one-tenth of a second.
From what the researchers can tell, it was generated by a source that is roughly 5 Gpc away, when the Universe was about half its current age, meaning that the signal traveled across space for 7 billion years before reaching Earth.
GW190521’s source is the most distant gravitational-wave source detected so far.
“This doesn’t look much like a chirp, which is what we typically detect,” said Dr. Nelson Christensen, a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
“This is more like something that goes ‘bang,’ and it’s the most massive signal LIGO and Virgo have seen.”
Using the Zwicky Transient Facility, the astronomers may have spotted a light flare from the GW190521 collision. This is surprising, as black holes and their mergers are normally dark to telescopes.
One theory is the system may have been orbiting a supermassive black hole.
The newly-formed black hole may’ve received a kick from the collision, shooting off in a new direction and surging through the disk of gas surrounding the supermassive black hole, causing it to light up.
“There are a number of different environments in which this system of two black holes could have formed, and the disk of gas surrounding a supermassive black hole is certainly one of them,” said Dr. Vaishali Adya, a postdoctoral researcher in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at the Australian National University.
“But it is also possible that this system consisted of two primordial black holes that formed in the early Universe.”
“Every observation we make of two black holes colliding gives us new and surprising information about the lives of black holes throughout the Universe.”
“We are beginning to populate the black hole mass gaps previously thought to exist, with ‘impossible’ black holes that have been revealed through our detections.”
R. Abbott et al (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration). 2020. GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 MSun. Phys. Rev. Lett 125 (10): 101102; doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101102
R. Abbott et al (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration). 2020. Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M Sun Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521. ApJL 900, L13; doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aba493
Lynn Murphy claims to have witnessed two UFOs hovering next to her Flintshire home in July
(Image: Lynn Murphy)
A woman claims to have witnessed two UFOs hovering next to her Flintshirehome moments after her friend saw the same thing 20 miles away.
Lynn Murphy told how one of the objects was spinning and looked similar to a “white tic tac” that had “two black crossed underneath it”.
Next to it was a “very clear orange circle” that was like nothing she had ever seen before.
The 60-year-old from Connah’s Quay claims she saw them both through her bedroom window after waking at 2.41am on July 21.
After noticing a friend from Prestatyn had shared some images on Facebook minutes earlier of some strange objects in the sky, she was shocked when she could see exactly the same thing above the house opposite her window.
She told how one of the objects was spinning and looked similar to a white tick tack that had two black crossed underneath it(Image: Lynn Murphy)
"At first I thought it looked like a giant star that was out of place, it was massive and looked like it shouldn’t have been there," Ms Murphy said.
“It wasn’t the space station or a satellite, it wasn’t an airplane or a drone - it wasn’t anything I know of, it was just this bright light turning quickly."
Around two weeks later, her neighbour claimed to have also witnessed the same thing that night.
“There were four witnesses to that that I know of,” she added.
“It’s very intriguing. There was no noise so it couldn’t have been a helicopter."
However, it wasn’t the first time Ms Murphy experienced something she believed to be extraterrestrial.
Several unidentified flying objects have appeared right before her eyes over the year, she says.
Next to the spinning object, she saw a very clear orange circle(Image: Lynn Murphy)
The most bizarre was in the early hours of the morning in April 2011, during a camping trip to Cardigan.
Ms Murphy said when she stepped outside the tent after being woken in the night by the sound of “screaming sheep”, she witnessed a “massive horse shoe shaped object” in the sky.
“The sheep sounded like they were being tortured,” she said.
“I walked to the end of the field to see if I could see any sheep but there was nothing.
NASA’s 56-year-old satellite that weighs more than 1,000 POUNDS is set to fall into the South Pacific this weekend – but experts say it will burn up before hitting the ocean
One of NASA's satellites is set to fall back to Earth on Saturday at 5:01pm ET
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 1 has been in space for 56 years
The satellite has succumb to Earth's gravity and will meet its end
However, experts say it will break up and burn in the atmosphere in re-entry
After spending over five decades in space,NASA’s Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 1 (OGO-1) spacecraft is set to retire.
New data shows that the 1,070-pound satellite has fallen victim to Earth’s gravity and will descend back to our planet over the South Pacific this weekend – ending its life in a blaze of fire.
Details of OGO-1’s demise surfaced when astronomers observed a very small object that appeared to be on an impact trajectory with Earth.
The violent death of the craft is set for Saturday, August 29 around 5:00pm ET, however, experts say the satellite to break up in the atmosphere and poses no threat.
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Details of OGO-1’s demise surfaced when astronomers observed a very small object that appeared to be on an impact trajectory with Earth
NASA launched OGO-1 September of 1964 as part of a mission with Goddard Space Flight Center to study Earth's atmosphere, magnetosphere, and the space between the our planet and Moon.
The craft was the first of six other satellites to journey into space – all tasked with understanding Earth.
OGO-1 was launched into an eccentric orbit around Earth that took the spacecraft approximately two days to complete one orbit and allowed the spacecraft to sweep through Earth’s radiation belts to study our planet’s magnetosphere—the region of space surrounding Earth that is controlled by Earth’s magnetic field.
The craft operated and returned scientific data for five years until 1969, after which point the spacecraft was placed in standby mode when scientists were unable to return any more data.
After spending over five decades in space, NASA’s Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 1 (OGO-1) spacecraft is set to retire
The violent death of the craft is set for Saturday, August 29 around 5:00pm ET, however, experts say the satellite to break up in the atmosphere and poses no threat
And in 1971, all support for the mission was terminated.
Although OGO-1 was the first to launch, the satellite will be the last to retire – the others have all decayed and fell into Earth’s atmosphere.
Astronomers at the University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), funded by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office notified the American space agency of the object heading to Earth.
The team first speculated that it may be an asteroid, but following a further investigation the object was confirmed to be the aging satellite.
‘OGO-1 is predicted to reenter on one of its next three perigees, the points in the spacecraft’s orbit closest to our plant, and current estimates have OGO-1 re-entering Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday, August 29th, 2020, at about 5:10 pm EDT, over the South Pacific approximately halfway between Tahiti and the Cook Islands,’ NASA shared in statement.
NASA launched OGO-1 September of 1964 as part of a mission with Goddard Space Flight Center to study Earth's atmosphere, magnetosphere, and the space between the our planet and Moon
‘The spacecraft will break up in the atmosphere and poses no threat to our planet—or anyone on it—and this is a normal final operational occurrence for retired spacecraft.’
OGO-1 may be moving towards Earth’s atmosphere but there are many satellites that are dead and still floating around our planet – adding to the millions of pieces of junk in space.
There are an estimated 170 million pieces of so-called 'space junk' - left behind after missions that can be as big as spent rocket stages or as small as paint flakes - in orbit alongside some US$700 billion of space infrastructure.
But only 20,000 are tracked, which are mostly from Russia and the US.
WHAT IS SPACE JUNK? MORE THAN 170 MILLION PIECES OF DEAD SATELLITES, SPENT ROCKETS AND FLAKES OF PAINT POSE 'THREAT' TO SPACE INDUSTRY
There are an estimated 170 million pieces of so-called 'space junk' - left behind after missions that can be as big as spent rocket stages or as small as paint flakes - in orbit alongside some US$700 billion (£555bn) of space infrastructure.
But only 22,000 are tracked, and with the fragments able to travel at speeds above 16,777 mph (27,000kmh), even tiny pieces could seriously damage or destroy satellites.
However, traditional gripping methods don't work in space, as suction cups do not function in a vacuum and temperatures are too cold for substances like tape and glue.
Grippers based around magnets are useless because most of the debris in orbit around Earth is not magnetic.
Around 500,000 pieces of human-made debris (artist's impression) currently orbit our planet, made up of disused satellites, bits of spacecraft and spent rockets
Most proposed solutions, including debris harpoons, either require or cause forceful interaction with the debris, which could push those objects in unintended, unpredictable directions.
Scientists point to two events that have badly worsened the problem of space junk.
The first was in February 2009, when an Iridium telecoms satellite and Kosmos-2251, a Russian military satellite, accidentally collided.
The second was in January 2007, when China tested an anti-satellite weapon on an old Fengyun weather satellite.
Experts also pointed to two sites that have become worryingly cluttered.
One is low Earth orbit which is used by satnav satellites, the ISS, China's manned missions and the Hubble telescope, among others.
The other is in geostationary orbit, and is used by communications, weather and surveillance satellites that must maintain a fixed position relative to Earth.
Planetary defenses spot ‘UFO’ on collision course with Earth, turns out to be a NASA relic (VIDEO)
An unidentified object was spotted on a collision course with Earth, triggering the alarm among planetary defense specialists. Thankfully, the object was identified before any drastic emergency measures were taken.
Given the slew of space rocks which shoot through our cosmic backyard each week, it’s unsurprising that an unidentified object spotted headed right at the Earth would raise the alarm. The University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey, funded by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), spotted the UFO late on August 25.
The sighting was corroborated by the University of Hawaii’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.
After crunching some numbers, and consulting ancient tomes from the 1960s, the specialists had cracked the case. The UFO was, in fact, NASA’s Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 (OGO-1), headed home after 56 years in space.
Having arrived in orbit in September 1964, the satellite burned up harmlessly in the atmosphere, raining down fiery debris over the Pacific Ocean some 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Tahiti, in French Polynesia on Saturday, August 26 at 20:44 UTC according to NASA.
OGO-1, along with five other satellites, was launched to chart and study the Earth’s magnetosphere, atmosphere, the Earth’s relationship with the Moon and the impact of the Sun’s rays on the space immediately surrounding our planet.
Its function began diminishing after five years in space at which point the decision was made to place it in standby mode in November 1969, before being decommissioned two years later.
At this point, the 487-kilogram (1,074-pound) satellite joined the thousands of other fragments of space junk clogging up Earth’s backyard.
It then proceeded to fall ever so slowly back down to Earth thanks to its eccentric orbit, which brought it just close enough for Earth’s gravity to convince it to come back down in a blaze of glory this past week.
Despite being the first of six OGO satellites launched, it was the last to come back down, the other five burned up upon reentry between 1972 and 2011, their debris falling harmlessly into the ocean.
The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it.
When two black holes merge, a significant portion of their mass can get converted into energy in one... [+]
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Last week, NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory made history by announcing the most energetic explosive event ever discovered in the Universe. In a galaxy cluster some 390 million light-years away, a supermassive black hole emitted a jet that created an enormous cavity in the intergalactic space of that galaxy cluster. The total amount of energy required to create this observed phenomenon? 5 × 1054 J: more energy than any event seen since the Big Bang.
But there's another class of event that definitely exists in the Universe that can output even more energy in a shorter amount of time: the merger of two supermassive black holes. Although we've never seen such an event, it's only a matter of time and technology until one reveals itself to us. When it does, the old record-holder will be shattered, possibly by an enormous amount. Here's how.
This simulation shows two stills from the merger of two supermassive black holes in a realistic,... [+]
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There are lots of events that can be considered either explosions or cataclysms in the natural Universe, where a large amount of energy is released over a short period of time. A very massive star that reaches the end of its life will explode in a cataclysmic type II supernova, creating either a black hole or neutron star as a stellar corpse. Over the final few seconds of its life, it will release some ~1044 J of energy, with hypernovae (or superluminous supernovae) reaching up to 100 times that amount.
For a long time, supernovae were used as the standard by which all other cataclysms were measured. As the brightest electromagnetic events in the sky, they could outshine entire galaxies, dependent on their individual brightnesses and the overall mass of the galaxy in question.
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The only things that rivaled or exceeded the energy released in a supernova were gamma-ray bursts or larger-scale, extended events such as merging galaxies or galaxy clusters, or supermassive black holes feeding on enormous amounts of matter. During the 2010s, we uncovered the origin of at least some gamma-ray bursts: kilonovae, or the merging of two neutron stars. Between gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, a significant amount of mass — about ~1029 kilograms worth — gets converted into pure energy, leading to an energy release of about 1046 J.
On the other extreme, active galaxies and quasars can be even more energetic. Enormous amounts of mass, perhaps millions or even billions of solar masses worth, can get funneled into a central, supermassive black hole, where it gets torn apart, accreted, and accelerated. The matter and radiation emitted can reach a total of ~1054 J of energy, although it's emitted over about a million years (or more) in time.
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But the Universe gives us a way to emit even larger amounts of energy, and to do so on much shorter timescales. The key to unlocking this came last decade, when the NSF's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) direct detected the first gravitational wave event: from two merging black holes. For the very first one ever seen, two black holes of two different masses (36 and 29 Suns' worth, respectively) merged together to produce a final-state black hole of a lesser (62 Suns' worth) mass.
This was an enormously big deal, netting a number of scientists the 2017 Nobel Prize for the discovery of gravitational waves. Over the subsequent years, many more black hole-black hole mergers and merger candidates have been detected, with approximately 50 known so far (to date). In all cases, the same bizarre and fascinating behavior has been observed: large amounts of mass are converted into pure energy over a timescale of just a few milliseconds.
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Two points, in particular, are extremely interesting about these black hole-black hole mergers.
In all cases, the peak power that was emitted, or energy-per-time, was about the same. They all outshone all the stars in the Universe, combined, for a tiny fraction-of-a-second, but the more massive mergers had their peak power output occur over longer periods of time, emitting more total energy.
You can make a very simple approximation for the total amount of energy released in gravitational waves in a black hole-black hole merger: about 10% of the mass of the lower-mass black hole gets converted into pure energy, via Einstein's E = mc2.
For the first black hole-black hole merger ever discovered, the total amount of energy emitted was ~1047 J, and that occurred over a time interval that spanned just 200 milliseconds or so, leading to a fascinating possibility.
The messy cores of these colliding galaxies hide the final stage of two merging galactic nuclei. The... [+]
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Instead of two "stellar mass" black holes merging together, where the masses of each black hole range from a few to a few dozen solar masses, we could look to the most massive black holes in the Universe: the supermassive ones found at the centers of galaxies. When they merge together, a series of events will unfold, resulting in the largest release of energy that — at least theoretically — should ever occur in our post-Big Bang Universe.
In particular:
when two galaxies merge, their black holes will preferentially sink towards the new mutual center, due to gravitational interactions between other masses.
Interactions with gas and other normal matter will dominate for a time, leading to a relatively tight, short-period orbit for these black holes.
In the final merger stages, lasting ~25 million years, gravitational waves will dominate, resulting in a scaled-up inspiral and merger scenario, albeit one that's far beyond the reach of detectors like LIGO.
The most massive pair of black holes in the known Universe is OJ 287, whose gravitational waves will... [+]
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When two black holes merge together, their mutual inspiral causes the deformation of space, and their motion through that deformed space leads to the emission of gravitational radiation, which carries energy away from the black hole-black hole system and out to the Universe beyond. Given that we know of black holes that are many billions of times the mass of our Sun, the merger of black holes that are hundreds of millions of solar masses with multi-billion solar mass black holes is an inevitability.
One system in particular, OJ 287, consists of a 150 million solar mass black hole in close orbit around an ~18 billion solar mass black hole. When they merge, ~3 × 1054 J of energy will be released over a timespan of just a few hours. The frequency will be all wrong for LIGO or even LISA to detect, unfortunately. But in the lead-up to a merger, a different technique — one based on pulsar timing — could reveal a large merger like this, especially if the two masses were closer to one another in magnitude, after all.
This illustration shows how many pulsars monitored in a timing array could detect a gravitational... [+]
DAVID CHAMPION / MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY
The first supermassive black holes that are inspiraling, according to our best modern estimates, should be detectable this decade by advanced pulsar timing arrays such as NANOGrav, the European Pulsar Timing Array and the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. As these supermassive black holes inspiral, they should emit gravitational waves with a large enough amplitude and at a predictable, observable frequency that means — if we understand how to model the frequency and population of these supermassive binary black holes — the 2020s should see us detect our first one.
When we detected our first black hole-black hole merger, there was a brief time period lasting under 200 milliseconds where that merger produced more energy than all the stars in the Universe combined. If we can find a supermassive black hole merger where the smaller mass is more than 500 million solar masses, not only will it emit more energy than all the stars in the Universe for about a week, but it will become the most energetic event since the Big Bang, emitting more than ~1055 J over that time interval.
This illustration maps out the various stages of a supermassive black hole merger, and the expected... [+]
ESA – S. POLETTI
But it's eminently plausible that there are many examples, particularly in rich galaxy clusters, where two black holes of billions or even tens-of-billions of solar masses will merge together. In the Coma Cluster for example, the two most massive galaxies are NGC 4889, with a 21 billion solar mass black hole, and NGC 4874, which looks to be more massive and possesses twice as many globular clusters, but its black hole is of an unknown mass.
We won't have merely gravitational waves to look for when two supermassive black hole-containing galaxies merge, either. They ought to emit telltale signs of electromagnetic radiation, particularly in the X-ray, which should offer the potential to study these mega-events in gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals simultaneously, even before they merge. With ESA's Athena and NASA's Lynx potentially coming to augment our X-ray astronomy arsenal, we might finally discover the prototypical example of what promises to be the Universe's most energetic event of all.
When two supermassive black holes orbit one another, they not only perturb and accelerate the matter... [+]
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One of the most remarkable facts about merging black holes is that the maximum rate of emitted gravitational wave energy isn't dependent on their mass at all, but rather is determined by the fundamental constants of the Universe. The heavier your black holes are, the more energy they emit, but they do so over a longer period of time, rather than in a greater-magnitude burst. They should still represent the most energetic events in all the Universe, but the most massive ones of all should have their most energetic signals spread out over the final years or even decades, rather than emitted all in a few milliseconds.
With an ever-improving suite of instruments, detectors, and new techniques, the first hints of a supermassive binary black hole merger might appear later this decade, which would be an incredible development for gravitational wave astronomy, a science that only saw its first success less than 5 years ago. Supermassive binary black hole mergers are, undoubtedly, the most energetic single event in the entire post-Big Bang Universe. For the first time, they may be finally within our detectable reach.
The author thanks Drs. Chiara Mingarelli, Leo Stein, Joey Neilsen, Bernard Kelly and Karan Jani for graciously providing detailed facts about merging black holes that were used in constructing this article.
A team of astronomers have spotted what they claim is the most massive collision of two black holes ever observed.
Prior to the gigantic collision, at least one of the massive colossal space objects had the mass of 85 Suns. The collision itself created a black hole about 150 solar masses — putting it into a mass range previously thought to be possible — and ejected the equivalent of eight solar masses in the form of energy in the form of gravitational waves, as detailed in papers published today in the journals Physical Review Lettersand The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
“Everything about this discovery is mindboggling,” Simon Portegies Zwart, a computational astrophysicist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, who was not involved in the research, said in a Nature statement.
The size of the black holes involved in the merger would make them more massive than a regular star, but lighter than the supermassive black holes often found at the center of galaxies.
The event, which occurred approximately seven billion light years away, was observed in May 2019 using the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Antenna (LIGO) detectors in the US and the smaller Virgo observatory in Italy.
The researchers made the discovery by observing gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that can give away these galactic events. The relatively new technique has allowed scientists to make discoveries of dozens of other black hole collisions like it.
But even by the epic standards of black hole collisions, this one takes the cake.
“This doesn’t look much like a chirp, which is what we typically detect,” Virgo member Nelson Christensen, researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), who compared the new results to the first detection of gravitational waves using LIGO dating back to 2015, said in an MIT press release.
“This is more like something that goes ‘bang,’ and it’s the most massive signal LIGO and Virgo have seen,” Christensen added.
The masses of the two merging black holes are highly unusual as there is a “mass gap,” roughly between 65 and 135 solar masses, where black holes aren’t expected to exist. That’s because at those sizes, stars theoretically tend to be ripped apart and disintegrated by the explosive fusion of oxygen nuclei, a process known as “pair instability.”
“This is quite neatly in the range one would expect the pair-instability mass gap should be,” LIGO astrophysicist Christopher Berry of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, said in the Nature statement.
Scientists suspect that at least one of the black holes may not have formed from a collapsing star — the more conventional way smaller black holes are formed.
Another scenario is that smaller black holes could have merged together over time, accumulating into the one involved in this collision. Yet such a theory is hard to back up as we still haven’t found any other intermediate black holes.
“That’s why astronomers have been looking for these extensively, because they would help in solving this puzzle,” Salvatore Vitale, an assistant professor at the LIGO Lab of MIT, told The Verge.
“LIGO once again surprises us not just with the detection of black holes in sizes that are difficult to explain, but doing it using techniques that were not designed specifically for stellar mergers,” Pedro Marronetti, program director for gravitational physics at the National Science Foundation, said in the MIT press release.
“This is of tremendous importance since it showcases the instrument’s ability to detect signals from completely unforeseen astrophysical events,” he added. “LIGO shows that it can also observe the unexpected.”
There can be no doubt that one of the creepiest phenomena to have surfaced in the last two decades is that of what have become infamously known as the Black-Eyed Children. It would be overly simplistic to suggest they are merely the offspring of the Men in Black and the Women in Black, who will surface later in this book. Admittedly, though, there are deep similarities, as will soon become apparent. And, also like the MIB and the WIB, the BEC are definitive drainers of energy. Before we get to this aspect of the story, let’s first take a look at how, and under what specific circumstances, the Black-Eyed Children came to prominence. We’ll also take a look at a few classic cases. None of them are particularly heartwarming. As if you really needed to be told that. Although, today, we have people who claim to have seen the BEC in the period from the 1930s to the present day, the very first reported case didn’t surface until January 1998. The location was the Lone Star State, specifically the city of Abilene. The story revolves around a man named Brian Bethel, a journalist who works for the Abilene Reporter News. It was late one night when Bethel’s life was changed and he came to realize that there are dangerous, supernatural entities in our midst.
It was close to 10:00 p.m. when Bethel had the kind of close encounter that one never, ever forgets. He had pulled up at a mall not too far from his home, to deposit a check in a mail-box. All was quiet and dark. Bethel, using the lights of the mall to illuminate the interior of his vehicle, was writing the check when he was rudely interrupted. He jumped with surprise at the sight of a couple of kids who were standing next to the car, on the driver’s side. But, there was something about these kids that rang alarm bells in Bethel’s head. In fact, as Bethel would imminently learn, things were wrong in the extreme.
Bethel stared at the pair and couldn’t fail to see just how incredibly pale the face of one of the boys was. The other had what Bethel described as olive-colored skin. Both boys were around ten to fourteen years of age, Bethel estimated, and both were dressed in pullovers. Only one of the two boys spoke – he claimed that they wanted to see a movie, Mortal Kombat, at the local cinema. But, there was a problem: they had left their money at home. Could Bethel take them to their homes to get some cash? Bethel near-instantly realized that this whole situation had an air of dark and disturbing theater about it. There was an undeniably unsettling agenda at work, and it had absolutely zero to do with movies.
Bethel awkwardly hemmed and hawed for a few moments, something which caused the talkative boy to become ever more insistent that Bethel let them in the car. Then, things became downright eerie and chilling: Bethel found himself almost mind-manipulated, to the point where, to his horror, he could see that his hand was heading to the driver’s-side door – with the intent of opening it, but without his control. Bethel, fortunately, broke the enchanting spell and didn’t open the door, after all. This clearly incensed the talkative boy, who amped up the pleas to allow them into Bethel’s car. It was then, for the first time, that Bethel finally got a good look at their eyes. In his own words – referenced in Pararational’s May 16, 2013 article titled “Brian Bethel – The Black Eyed Kids”” – Bethel stated: “They were coal black. No pupil. No iris.”
The two boys realized that, by now, they were losing the battle to be permitted to get into Bethel’s car. On this very point, Bethel himself said that the boy who did all of the talking “wore a mask of anger.” The boy, now displaying a look on his face which was part-frustration and part-anger, almost shouted: “We can’t come in unless you tell us it’s okay. Let us in!” Bethel, terrified, did nothing of the sort. What he did do was to slam the car into reverse and head for home, completely panicked by the whole thing. Oddly, as he drove away, Bethel looked back, only to see that the boys were nowhere in sight. In what was clearly and impossibly quick time, they had vanished. And, thus was quickly born a legend. It’s a legend that shows no signs of stopping. It’s only getting worse.
The most powerful nuclear bomb in history was dropped by the Soviet Union above a remote island in October of 1961 that was felt hundreds of miles away. The bomb, which was called RDS-220 or “Tsar Bomba”, was detonated about 2.5 miles above the Novaya Zemlya islands, north of the Arctic Circle.
An aerial bomber brought the 27-ton, 26-foot-long weapon over the islands before dropping it by a parachute. When the bomb detonated, the explosion was so strong that it caused the plane to drop 3,000 feet before the pilot could steady it.
Even though it was detonated a couple of miles above the ground, the island was still left flat and bare. The flash from the bomb was seen for over 600 miles and its massive heat was felt up to 160 miles away, capable of causing third degree burns as far as 62 miles from the detonation site.
(Not Tsar Bomba)
Even the huge mushroom cloud stretched so high up that it almost reached the edge of space (it reached an altitude of 210,000 feet). Incredibly, nobody died from the detonation.
In July of 1961, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered the construction of the bomb. He had initially ordered a 100-megaton nuclear weapon, but the engineers gave him a 50-megaton weapon instead. To put this into better perspective, the “Tsar Bomba” was thousands of times more powerful than the nukes that were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Another jaw-dropping comparison was that the United States’ extremely powerful nuclear weapon that was tested in 1954 called “Castle Bravo” was 15 megatons.
No bomb even close to being as powerful as “Tsar Bomba” has ever been tested again. Although, a lot of that probably has to do with the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty that the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and United States all signed in August of 1963. According to the treaty, nuclear weapons were not allowed to be tested in outer space, in the atmosphere, or underwater.
(Not Tsar Bomba)
There have, however, been several atomic tests that have occurred underground with one example being North Korea who conducted such a powerful test in 2018 that a mountain near the testing site (Mount Mantap) actually moved and compressed after the explosion.
Now, getting back to the Soviet Union’s “Tsar Bomba”, Russia’s state atomic agency called Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation declassified a 40-minute video of the bomb – from the manufacturing process, to being dropped via a parachute and the gigantic mushroom cloud. The video can be seen here on YouTube with the countdown to the bomb being detonated starting at around the 22:20 mark.
WETENSCHAP Een enorme trilling is in mei vorig jaar langs de aarde door het heelal getrokken. De zogenoemde zwaartekrachtgolf werd opgepikt door speciale detectoren in Italië en de Verenigde Staten. De meting is vandaag bekendgemaakt in twee wetenschappelijke tijdschriften.
De trilling bestond uit vier golfjes, die in totaal maar een tiende van een seconde duurden, maar de schok was uitzonderlijk. “Dit lijkt niet op de ‘tsjirp’ die we meestal meten. Dit is ‘bam’, het is het grootste signaal dat we hebben gezien”, aldus onderzoeker Nelson Christensen.
De schokgolf is veroorzaakt door twee zwarte gaten die ongeveer 7 miljard jaar geleden zijn samengesmolten, toen het heelal half zo oud was als nu. Een van de twee zwarte gaten was ongeveer 85 keer zo zwaar als onze zon, het andere ongeveer 66 keer zo zwaar. Die zijn zelf zo groot, dat ze misschien ook ooit door fusies zijn ontstaan. Door de samensmelting ontstond een nieuw zwart gat met ongeveer 142 keer de massa van onze zon. Ongeveer acht zonnemassa’s aan energie werd weggeslingerd door het heelal, en dat zijn de zwaartekrachtgolven die nu zijn gemeten, de rimpels in een vijver wanneer iemand daar een steen in laat vallen.
Tot nu toe kenden wetenschappers twee soorten zwarte gaten. Als grote sterren sterven, ontstaat een gat dat hooguit enkele tientallen keren zo zwaar is als onze zon. In het midden van onze Melkweg staat daarentegen een ‘superzwaar zwart gat’, en zulke objecten kunnen miljarden keren zo zwaar als de zon zijn. Het zwarte gat dat bij deze fusie ontstond, is het eerste dat daar tussenin valt, te groot voor het servet en te klein voor het tafellaken. “Deze gebeurtenis roept meer vragen op dan ze beantwoordt”, aldus onderzoeker Alan Weinstein.
Albert Einstein stelde meer dan een eeuw geleden dat het heelal bestaat uit ruimte en tijd. Die vormden volgens hem één geheel, dat hij ruimtetijd noemde. Deze is de ruggengraat van het heelal. Bij een grote gebeurtenis kan ruimtetijd iets uitrekken of krimpen, en die golf trekt het hele heelal door. Dat gebeurt bijvoorbeeld als zwarte gaten of neutronensterren botsen. Pas nu kunnen extreem gevoelige detectoren die trillingen meten. In Italië en de Verenigde Staten schijnen laserstralen door kilometerslange armen. Als een zwaartekrachtgolf langs de aarde trekt, verschuift de straal een miljoenste van een miljoenste van een miljoenste van een meter. In 2015 werd zo voor het eerst een zwaartekrachtgolf waargenomen.
How is this even possible? Even I am baffled at the purpose and the reason for such a massive structure to exist. I found this archway using a Mercury map thats online. According to the measuring device at the bottom of the map...this archway is 5km across and over 7km tall. Yeah you read right. I am just shaking my head as I write this. Its nuts I know...but its there and if you click on the link I give you, you will see it with your own eyes, and compare its size to the ruler in the lower right hand corner of the map and make your own estimates of its hight. Its not often I come across something that...makes me go wow! But todays that day. 100% proof that aliens exist on Mercury and are technologically advanced far beyond humanity. Maybe a possible stargate of some type for ships to travel through. Now I say 7km to be conservative, because at points it looks 10km on ruler. You be the judge. I found it, so I'm naming it. Warings' Gate.
Alien life conspiracy theorists believe they have stumbled-across a miniature UFO after an odd-looking metal disk was dredged from the Delaware River on Monday, September 1. Controversial alien researcher Scott Waring claims he is convinced this is possible evidence extraterrestrials have visited Earth.
He then proceeds to contradict local media by claiming: “The object will soon be investigated by the US government and analysed by scientists to verify what it is.
“I do believe it is an authentic drone disk that either outlived its usefulness and it ditched itself in the water.
“Or a disk that was struck by lightning which would be too much for a little drone to handle.
“The disk may have been there for hundreds of years from the looks of it.”
UFO sighting: An n odd-looking metal disk was dredged from the Delaware River
(Image: City of Delaware)
The Akron Beacon Journal offers a far more realistic explanation for the find.
The site reports the city sent a light-hearted tweet along with pictures of the operation.
The wrote: “Hey @NASA if you’re missing an Apollo capsule, it overshot the ocean and splashed down in our Olentangy River.”
And although the concave disk does bear a striking resemblance to a rocket’s heat shield, Lee Yoakum, city spokesman, said the likely explanation is more earthly.
Years ago, White Sands Campground had a water park and a small lake nearby.
Yoakum said: “It appears that might have been some kind of water feature that broke free of its moorings and sank."
The paper added the disk was taken for ‘analysis’ and eventual salvaged at a local recycling centre, putting to bed any further thoughts the item was alien in any way.
Mr Yoakum added: “The value: $17.68.”
UFO sighting: The 'disk' was eventually salvaged at a local recycling centre
Sceptics and NASA say the so-called spacecraft and other similar findings could be explained by the term 'pareidolia'.
This is a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks people into seeing familiar objects or shapes where they do not exist.
NASA said: "Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon where people see recognisable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data.
"There are many examples of this phenomenon on Earth and in space."
This large metal disk was pulled out of the Delaware river this week. The object has perfect dimensions of being a self contained disk. It is similar in size and appearance to may drone disks seen coming out of larger UFOs. Although the locals in Delaware were joking about it. This object will soon be investigated by the US government and analyzed by scientists to verify what it is. I do believe its an authentic drone disk that either outlived its usefulness and it ditched it self in the water, or a disk that was struck by lightning which would be too much for a little drone to handle. The disk may have been there for hundreds of years from the looks of it. Scott C. Waring
News states:
Work crews dredging the Olentangy River in August had gathered tires, rusted metal and assorted garbage when their equipment felt a solid “thunk.” A backhoe operator wrestled with the 880-pound object before watching in awe as it emerged from the river just north of Mingo Park in Delaware. The discovery quickly inspired theories: military equipment, amusement park ride, UFO? Lee Yoakum, city spokesman, said the likely explanation is more earthly. Years ago, White Sands Campground had a water park and events at a small lake just east of the river. “It appears that might have been some kind of water feature that broke free of its moorings and sank,” Yoakum said. The disk was taken for “analysis” and eventual salvage at Sims Brothers recycling center. The value: $17.68, said Yoakum, laughing. “We have asked them to set it aside, just in case White Sands wants it back.”
This UFO in the clouds was formed when a cloaked UFO came down and settled among the cloud ceiling. The UFOs great bulk pushes the clouds aside leaving a huge disk hole. This UFO looks to be 1/2km across.
Such evidence was gathered from the 90 page MUFON investigative report of the Ohio Airport incident, which had hundreds of eyewitnesses and as the UFO shot up through the clouds, it left a gapping hole that lasted 15 minutes.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
News states:
Melissa French snapped the spooky sight at around 8.45pm yesterday (August 30) above her home in Cumberland Road, Sidley. She said: "I was looking out of the window at the moon with my grandson, that’s when I noticed it. "I wasn’t sure what to make of it to be honest as it looked peculiar; the shape of it made me think of a UFO, so I took a photo of it and posted it on Facebook.
UFO-Fastwalker almost hits amateur drone over Mukachevo, Ukraine
On August 24, 2020 an amateur drone operator in Mukachevo, Ukraine accidentally captured a so-called "Fastwalker when it was flying towards his drone on which the "Fastwalker" then flies right past the drone.
For those unfamiliar with the "Fastwalker" phenomenon we recommend you to check our label - Fastwalker - to learn more on these unidentified flying objects which, due to the very high speed, are not visible to the naked eye.
Once again huge space objects filmed next to the Sun
Huge unknown space objects have been captured while flying next to the sun. Maybe just a coincidence, but for some reason a lot of UFOs have been spotted in the vicinity of the sun, lately.
Besides the UFOs near the sun, the video shows us large objects hitting the moon and as well as other unidentified aerial phenomena in a live footage filmed with a telescope of 14 inches with a High Definition option and a Nikon D-850 at the back on September 1, 2020.
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