Mini-moons are a unique space phenomenon that usually happen when an asteroid is caught by Earth's gravitational pull and temporarily orbits the planet.

But now, astronomers are baffled by an object which is on track to enter Earth's orbit in November and it doesn't seem like an asteroid.

According to the director of NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, this 'mini-moon', which they have called asteroid 2020 SO, could be a lost booster rocket from the 60s.

So they're basically suggesting that this man-made booster rocket traveled through space only to resurface close to Earth after more than 50 years. Is that possible or this object isn't man-made at all?

  

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On September 27, 2020 an unknown object came into the view of the International Space Station live cam until it disappears behind the earth and goes out of the field of view. About 30 minutes later it reappears.... 

Meanwhile the ISS is leaking air and till now they cannot find the leak. Since it looks like the object has the same color as the space station we may wonder whether something did come off the ISS or not.

  

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Two silver objects behaving oddly in the sky above Sydney TODAY!

This was filmed today over Sydney, Australia!

Witness report: 

About 11am 28/09/2020 two office associates noticed a round silver object moving at steady pace from north to south coming from about above the Gladesville area. After returning from getting a phone to record the object we noticed a second object high in the sky about Balmain/ Pyrmont area. The two objects began to slowly dance about in the sky by a cloud and one began to tumble forward whilst the other moved straight up into and through the cloud. Both objects were very shiny they caught and reflected the sun brightly. The objects continued this behavior for about 10 minutes and disappeared.

This area is directly in the flight path from Sydney airport. They were far too small to be areoplanes and they were too round and without a tail or visible rotor to be helicopters. I don’t believe they were drones as they were about the size of a small (pinky) fingernail to the naked eye.

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Big UFO/ORB over Odessa, Ukraine 8-Sep-2020

Check our this huge bright unidentified flying object flying over the sky above Odessa in Ukraine. This happened on 8th September 2020.

Witness report:

 I noticed a faintly glowing object that stood out from the background as it was 10 degrees above the horizon. A bright white glow with increasing intensity, the brightness has increased to a magnitude of -3 or -4, it’s like the brightness of Jupiter or Venus, one of the brightest planets. It took me about 15 seconds to pick up a 5x magnification night vision device. A UFO arose in the south over the sea, near the coast 5 km away, filmed from the village of Kotovsky, a wanderer was moving towards the city of Odessa, and Zhivakhova Gora, this place with a hill in the form of a mountain by the sea, in ancient times was a cult place of Greek colonists, now a place of anomalous zones. I rotated focus on the night vision device in an attempt to sharpen and see the possible outlines of the object emitting light but saw nothing but a bright circular sphere, even when the object faded, the sphere shrank to a small point and disappeared. I shot for another minute, in case an object suddenly reappears, but it disappeared from the sight of even infrared radiation invisible to humans, but visible to the device.

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UFO Documentary THE PHENOMENON Lands On October 6

A Treasure in Ruins: Ancient Mehrgarh Lost to Thieves and Violence

Mehrgarh is an archaeological site situated in the Balochistan, in the southwestern part of Pakistan. In the native Balochi language, ‘mehr’ is said to mean ‘love’, and ‘garh’ means heaven. Thus, the name of the site may be taken to mean ‘the heaven of love’.

Mehrgarh is considered one of the most important Neolithic sites in South Asia, with some of the earliest evidence of agriculture discovered there. Thus, Mehrgarh is sometimes referred to as the earliest farming settlement in South Asia. Additionally, Mehrgarh is a precursor to the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the cradles of civilization . Archaeologists have divided the occupation of Mehrgarh into seven chronological periods, which provides a picture of how the site developed over the millennia.

Passing Traders, Invaders, and Nomadic Tribes

Mehrgarh is located on the Kachi Plain, not far from the Bolan Pass, to the west of the Indus River. The Kachi Plain provides a favorable environment for human settlement due to the presence of water and arable soil, while the Bolan Pass is an important and strategic geographical feature that connects the region to the west.

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A historical sketch from 1842 of Bolan Pass, Balochistan, Pakistan.

( Public Domain )

This pass is the gateway to the Indus Valley from the highlands of Afghanistan, beyond which is the Iranian Plateau and the Fertile Crescent in the Near East. In other words, it was this mountain pass that facilitated movement between the Indus Valley in the east and the other early civilizations in the west. Traders, invaders, and nomadic tribes have traversed this important pass over the millennia.

The Bolan Pass retained its strategic value well into modern times, when the British colonialists used it for their campaigns in Afghanistan. Mehrgarh lies between the modern Pakistani cities of Quetta, Kalat, and Sibi, while Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, the two major urban centers of the Indus Valley Civilization , are located to its southeast and northeast respectively.

Discovering and Excavating Mehrgarh

Unlike Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, the discovery of Mehrgarh occurred at a rather late date. The existence of Mohenjo-Daro was known by archaeologists as early as 1911, although excavations only began in the 1920s. Harappa was already discovered in 1826, with the first excavations taking place in 1920.

Mehrgarh, on the other hand, was only discovered in 1974. It was the French archaeologist, Jean-François Jarrige, who made this discovery. Jarrige was a specialist in South Asian archaeology, and, apart from Mehrgarh, was also responsible for the excavation of sites such as Nausharo (located about 6 km (3.73 miles) from Mehrgarh), Pirak, Sibri, Dauda Damb, Lal Shah, Damboli, and Shah Ghair.

Ruins of Mehrgarh.

(M. Thoury et al./ CC BY 4.0 )

The site of Mehrgarh covers an area of 495 acres (200 hectares, 2 km ²). Jarrige and his team worked continuously there from 1974 to 1986. The excavations at Mehrgarh then stopped for a period of 10 years, before commencing once more in 1997. The archaeologists worked for another four years, and the campaign ended in 2000.

The excavations were carried out jointly by the French Archaeological Mission and the Department of Archaeology of Pakistan. The findings made by Jarrige and his team during their work at Mehrgarh have provided much insight into the lifestyle of the ancient people who lived there.

Mehrgarh’s Extensive Occupation History

Mehrgarh is a classic tell site , a tell being an artificial mound created over time. As the occupants of the site built new structures over the ruins of old ones, the mound gradually increased in height, and, after many generations, forms a tell. A number of these artificial mounds have been excavated at Mehrgarh, and an archaeological sequence has been formed. The sequence has been divided into seven chronological periods – Mehrgarh Period I – VII.

Ruins of Mehrgarh. 

(mhtoori/CC BY SA 4.0 )

The earliest known settlement at Mehrgarh can be found in the site’s northeastern corner, in an area referred to as MR3. In the archaeological sequence, this period is known as Mehrgarh Period I, and has been dated to between 7000 and 5500 BC. During this phase, which corresponds to the Neolithic period, Mehrgarh was a small village that relied on farming and animal husbandry for its survival.

The culture at this point was aceramic, which means that they were not making pottery, which is one of the features distinguishing the Neolithic from preceding ages. Instead, the inhabitants of Mehrgarh were using basket containers lined with bitumen (which made the vessels water-proof). The archaeological evidence also shows that people at that time were using copper ore that was obtained locally, as well as various stone and bone tools.

A 6,000-year-old copper "wheel" amulet from Mehrgarh.

(Abbas dhothar/ CC BY SA 4.0 )

The presence of foreign goods, seashells from distant seashores, and lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, suggests that the people of Mehrgarh were already in contact with the outside world.

During the Mehrgarh I Period, the occupants of the site lived in simple mud buildings that had four internal divisions. These houses were free-standing and rectangular in shape, while the mudbricks used for their construction have a long, cigar shape.

The form of these structures is quite similar to those found in 7th millennium BC Mesopotamia, and a connection between the two areas has been proposed. Further evidence supporting the link between Mehrgarh and Mesopotamia include the similarities in crafts, agricultural, and funerary practices.

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7000 BC well in Mehrgarh.

(mhtoori/ CC BY SA 4.0 )

Early Farmers and Dentists

Mehrgarh is also notable for having the earliest archaeological evidence of agriculture in South Asia. The people who lived during the Mehrgarh I Period had access to plant foods such as domesticated and wild six-rowed  barley, domestic einkorn and emmer wheat, and wild Indian jujube ( Zizyphus spp ) and date palms ( Phoenix dactylifera ).

In addition, meat was being consumed at Mehrgarh.  The faunal remains of herded animals, such as sheep, goat, and cattle, as well as those of wild animals, including gazelle, water buffalo, and elephant were found in this archaeological layer. The types of hunted animals suggest that during this period the area of Balochistan was dominated by savannah.

Two other exciting findings were made by archaeologists – the earliest known example of cotton in the Old World and the earliest evidence for the drilling of human teeth in vivo , i.e. in a living person. The former was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science in 2002 and the latter was published in Nature in 2006.

An experimental reconstruction of a bow and flint-tipped drill used to bore through molar teeth found at a Neolithic graveyard in Mehrgarh, Pakistan.

( University of Poitiers )

The discovery of the cotton threads was made during the metallurgical study of a copper bead that came from a burial at Mehrgarh. As a result of mineralization, a few cotton threads were preserved, and therefore could be analyzed. With the aid of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and a reflected-light microscope, the researchers were able to study the morphology of the fibers, and concluded that they were from cotton.

As for the discovery of the practice of proto-dentistry in Mehrgarh , the researchers identified a total of 11 drilled permanent crowns in nine individuals. The teeth were studied using light microscopy, SEM, and microtomography, and the results of these analyses showed the presence of conical, cylindrical, or trapezoidal cavities, as well as concentric ridges preserved on some walls.

All these are signs that the teeth had been drilled. In all cases, the researchers observed marginal smoothing of the cavity walls. This led them to the conclusion that the drilling had been done while the individuals were still alive, as they continued to chew with these teeth, hence the marginal smoothing.

Flint drill heads were part of the lithic assemblages of the site, and using experimental archaeology, the researchers found that less than a minute was needed to produce similar holes in human enamel with these tools. The researchers also postulated that the knowledge of drilling may have been first developed by artisans for the production of beads, and was later used to drill human teeth .

Ceramics and Craftworks at Mehrgarh

The next level of occupation is referred to as Mehrgarh Period II, and dates to between 5500 and 4800 BC. By this time, the people of Mehrgarh were producing ceramics . It seems that there was a shift in focus from the area of MR3 to a new one, MR4. During this period, agriculture was firmly established at the site, and the archaeologists found that locally domesticated barley (about 90%) was the main crop, though wheat from the Near East was also available to its inhabitants.

Mehrgarh painted pottery. 3000-2500 BC.

( CC0)

The archaeologists also excavated a number of sun-dried brick buildings. These were large and rectangular and were divided symmetrically into smaller squares or rectangles. The archaeologists were of the opinion that these were not houses like the ones excavated in the Mehrgarh Period I layer, as they did not have doors, and there was a lack of residential remains. Instead, they suggested that these structures were either granaries, or other warehouses that were shared by the entire community.

Other structural remains found at this level indicate that large scale production of craft goods had begun in Mehrgarh. These are standardized rooms surrounded by a large open space where the craftsmen would work. This aspect of life in Neolithic Mehrgarh is also evident in the material culture left behind at the site.

Seated Mother Goddess, 3000–2500 BC. Pakistan (Baluchistan) Mehrgarh style.

( CC0)

The primary product of these craftsmen were beads which are characteristic of the region. This tradition of bead making would last up until the time of the Indus Valley Civilization. During Mehrgarh Period II, craftsmen were making various types of beads. For instance, soft stone beads, such as limestone and steatite, were being made, possibly with stone or copper drills.

For harder types of stone, including agate and jasper, specialized stone drills would have been used. Marine shell ornaments were also being made in Mehrgarh. The beads and shell ornaments show that during the Mehrgarh II Period, there was an increase in the importation of non-local raw materials to the site.

This situation continued into the next period, Mehrgarh Period III, which lasted from around 4800 to 3500 BC, and is considered to be the Early Chalcolithic period. The focus of the settlement, however, shifted once more, this time to the area MR1. Like the preceding period, storage facilities and houses were unearthed by the archaeologists, though these structures were much more elaborate than their Neolithic counterparts. For instance, they had foundations of pebbles embedded in clay, and the buildings’ bricks were made with molds.

Mehrgarh Periods IV – VII lasted from about 3500 to 2500 BC and these levels belong to the Chalcolithic period. The inhabitants of the site shifted to MR1. During these periods, pottery and crafts continued to be manufactured at the site, though it is clear that there were stylistic changes.

Stylistic depictions of the Togau ware found at Mehrgarh shows how the Mehrgarh people moved towards a mass-production model for their pottery ware.

(Arun Reginald/ CC BY SA 4.0 )

Mehrgarh is Abandoned

At the end of the Mehrgarh Period VII, the site was largely abandoned. Around the same time, the Indus Valley Civilization was in its middle stages of development. It has been hypothesized that as a result of climatic changes, the region of Balochistan had become more arid and unsuitable for agriculture. As a consequence, the people of Mehrgarh migrated to the Indus Valley, where environmental conditions were more favorable.

Despite its significance, the site of Mehrgarh is in a sorry state today. While Mehrgarh is currently on UNESCO’s Tentative Heritage List, it has been alleged that the central government has not taken the site seriously. The blame has been placed on the government’s failure to present the site to UNESCO in an effective way.

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Mehrgarh also faces other, more serious, problems. In 2002, the site became an unfortunate victim of a tribal feud between the Raisani and Rind tribes. Rockets fired by both tribes badly damaged the site. Additionally, although the site was under the control of the Raisani, the Rind also had claims over it. Not content with the way things were, the latter decided simply to bulldoze the site.

In addition to local problems, Mehrgarh faces international ones as well. In October 2014, the Italian authorities confiscated antiquities in Rome that were stolen from Mehrgarh. In a 2015 article, it was reported that the objects have not been repatriated yet due to bureaucratic red tape and the lack of interest from Pakistani authorities.

Archaeological Site of Mehrgarh in September 2018.

(mhtoori/ CC BY SA 4.0 )

Although the seizure of the smuggled antiquities in Rome is commendable, it does not address the root of the problem. The illegal trade of antiquities is rampant in Pakistan and is an issue that needs to be addressed if the future of Mehrgarh and other sites is to be guaranteed.

• Top Image: Ruins of Mehrgarh. (M. Thoury et al./ CC BY 4.0 ) Insert: Detail of a female figure made of terracotta from Mehrgarh, circa 3000 BC. (Denis Biette/ CC BY SA 1.0 )

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ALS ER ALIENS ZIJN OP VENUS - MET HOEVELEN ZIJN ZE DAN?

Caroline Kraaijvanger 

Snelle berekeningen suggereren dat hun aantallen iets tegenvallen.

Het was wereldnieuws vorige week: in de atmosfeer van Venus was fosfine ontdekt. Een gas dat hier op aarde door bacteriën wordt geproduceerd en ook op Venus dus wel eens een spoor van leven zou kunnen zijn.

Andere kijk
De studie heeft onze kijk op Venus voorgoed veranderd. Waar de planeet tot voor kort gezien werd als het onleefbare tweelingzusje van de aarde – dat ongeveer net zo groot is als onze thuisplaneet, maar door een uit de hand gelopen broeikaseffect oppervlaktetemperaturen van zo’n 465 graden Celsius kent – bleek het nu opeens weleens leven te kunnen herbergen. Dat leven zou zich dan hoog in het wolkendek ophouden, waar de temperaturen rond de dertig graden Celsius liggen.

Het onderzoek deed het hart van menig astrobioloog harder kloppen en direct werd er al gefantaseerd over missies naar Venus, waarbij we actief naar die organismen op zoek zouden kunnen gaan. Maar het onderzoek riep ook heel wat vragen op. Want om wat voor organismen zou het dan gaan? En hoeveel waren het er? En zouden we wel in staat zijn om ze te detecteren?

Biomassa
Een eveneens vorige week verschenen studie gaat – met wat snelle berekeningen – op de twee laatste vragen in. Aan de hand van de fosfine-observaties hebben de onderzoekers Manasvi Lingam en Abraham Loeb de biomassa berekend die nodig is om de fosfine die in het wolkendek van Venus gespot is, te produceren. En de berekeningen wijzen uit dat die biomassa enkele malen kleiner is dan de gemiddelde biomassa die we in het wolkendek van de aarde aantreffen.

Volgens de onderzoekers ligt de gemiddelde dichtheid van de biomassa in Venus’ wolkendek rond de 10^-4 microgram per kubieke meter. “We moeten hierbij wel opmerken dat onze schattingen voor de gemiddelde dichtheid van de biomassa enkel geldt voor hypothetische microben die fosfine produceren,” zo schrijven de onderzoekers. De werkelijke biomassa kan dus veel hoger liggen, als er ook nog microben zijn die een andere stofwisseling kennen.

Bemoedigend
Op dit moment kunnen onderzoekers nog niet met zekerheid zeggen dat de fosfine in de atmosfeer van Venus het resultaat is van ijverige microben. Ze kunnen namelijk niet uitsluiten dat er op Venus een niet-biologisch proces speelt dat resulteert in de aanmaak van het gas. Het feit dat de hoeveelheid fosfine volgens dit onderzoek overeenkomt met een beperkte biomassa, is echter bemoedigend. Want afgaand op het feit dat Venus grotendeels onleefbaar is, zou je ook geen enorme biomassa verwachten, zo stellen de onderzoekers.

Detectie
Tegelijkertijd kun je je natuurlijk afvragen of het met zo’n beperkte biomassa niet veel lastiger wordt om dat leven op Venus te detecteren. Ook daar laten Lingam en Loeb zich in hun paper uit. “Het is plausibel dat kleine ruimtevaartuigen die gedurende een paar uren functioneel zijn in staat zijn om biomakers in Venus’ wolkendek te detecteren.”

Vervolgonderzoek is hard nodig. Hieruit zal allereerst moeten blijken of het fosfine-signaal inderdaad in de wat gematigdere regionen van Venus’ atmosfeer zijn oorsprong vindt. Als het bewijs voor leven op Venus zich tijdens die vervolgstudies blijft opstapelen, ligt een missie naar de planeet, met als doel het detecteren van leven, voor de hand. Studies zoals die van Lingam en Loeb kunnen dan helpen om zo’n missie vorm te geven. Nu blijven Lingam en Loeb benadrukken dat hun studie slechts een grove voorzet is; er zijn meer data en observaties nodig om een nauwkeuriger beeld te kunnen krijgen van eventueel leven op Venus. “Maar (onze analyse, red.) wijst er wel op dat missies gericht op het detecteren van leven betekenisvolle resultaten op kunnen leveren, zelfs als de dichtheid van de microben in Venus’ atmosfeer enkele malen lager ligt dan in de atmosfeer van de aarde.” En daarom is het volgens de onderzoekers ook belangrijk om na te gaan denken over wat er vanuit een engineering-oogpunt nodig is om een missie te ontwerpen die het voor eventuele levensvormen op Venus onmogelijk maakt om zich nog langer voor ons verborgen te houden.

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DE AARDE KRIJGT ER IN OKTOBER - TIJDELIJK - EEN MAANTJE BIJ!

De aarde staat op het punt om het object 2020 SO in te vangen. Onduidelijk is nog of het een ruimtesteen of ruimtepuin is.

Het object 2020 SO cirkelt momenteel nog rond de zon. Maar dat gaat veranderen, zo voorspellen astronomen. Zoals het er nu naar uitziet wordt het object ergens in de komende weken door de zwaartekracht van de aarde ingevangen, wat betekent dat het object – net als de maan – rond de aarde gaat cirkelen.

Invangen
We krijgen er in zekere zin dus een maantje bij. Maar hoe gaat dat nu precies in zijn werk? We vroegen het Paul Chodas, directeur van NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). “In feite is er tussen de twee Lagrange-punten (L1 en L2) een soort ‘poort’ waardoor een object dat een heliocentrische baan heeft (oftewel om de zon cirkelt, red.) door de aarde kan worden ingevangen. Voorwaarde is wel dat het object in vergelijking met onze planeet relatief langzaam beweegt. En dat geldt voor 2020 SO.”

Alles wijst er dan ook op dat het object op termijn door de zwaartekracht van de aarde in een baan om de aarde wordt gedwongen. “Het is in feite een samenspel tussen de zwaartekracht van de planeet en de zwaartekracht van de zon,” vertelt Chodas. “Op vergelijkbare wijze heeft Jupiter in het verleden tijdelijk meer dan twaalf kometen ingevangen, waaronder ook de beroemde komeet Shoemaker-Levy 9: de komeet draaide jaren rond Jupiter voor deze uiteindelijk op de planeet klapte.”

Tijdelijk en ongevaarlijk
2020 SO zal straks in een langgerekte baan om de aarde belanden en net als de kometen die Jupiter inving slechts tijdelijk om de aarde cirkelen. “Het object zal uiteindelijk weer vertrekken (…) En als dat gebeurt, gaat het weer rond de zon cirkelen.” Zorgen hoeven we ons niet te maken. “We kennen de baan van het object goed genoeg om met zekerheid te kunnen zeggen dat het niet zal inslaan op onze planeet.”

Rakettrap
Onduidelijk is op dit moment nog wat 2020 SO nu precies is. Het zou een planetoïde kunnen zijn. Maar ook een stuk ruimtepuin. Chodas zet voorlopig in op het laatste. “Ik denk dat het een onderdeel van een raket is.” Hij kan dat zelfs nader specificeren. “Ik vermoed dat het de bovenste rakettrap is waarmee de Surveyor 2 op 20 september 1966 naar de maan werd gestuurd.” Chodas baseert zich op een analyse van de baan en bewegingen van 2020 SO. Daaruit blijkt onder meer dat het object zich eind 1966 in de buurt van de aarde moet hebben bevonden.

De Surveyor 2 moest een zachte landing op de maan maken, maar helaas ging er iets mis, waardoor deze op de maan crashte.

Afbeelding: NASA.

Stralingsdruk en spectrum
Nu is het nog gissen naar de ware aard van 2020 SO, maar daar komt binnenkort verandering in. “We verwachten over een maand wel meer over de aard van het object te kunnen zeggen, omdat we dan de invloed van de stralingsdruk van de zon kunnen gaan zien. Als 2020 SO een rakettrap is, heeft het een beperkte dichtheid en zal het zonlicht er meetbaar tegenaan duwen. Als het een natuurlijk object is, zal het een veel grotere dichtheid hebben en zal het effect van de stralingsdruk verwaarloosbaar zijn.” Daarnaast kan men in december ook uit het spectrum van het object afleiden met wat voor soort object we te maken hebben. “Het object zal de aarde rond 1 december relatief dicht naderen en ook relatief helder worden. Als het spectrum overeenkomt met dat van verf, weten we dat we te maken hebben met een raketonderdeel.”

Of 2020 SO nu een natuurlijk verschijnsel is of niet, maakt eigenlijk niet uit; Chodas verwacht dat we in beide gevallen heel wat kunnen leren in de periode waarin de aarde het object ingevangen houdt. “Als het een natuurlijk object is, leren we dat natuurlijke objecten extreem aardachtige banen kunnen hebben en dat zou heel opwindend nieuws zijn voor de In-Situ Resource Utilization.” Chodas verwijst hiermee naar de ambitie om in de toekomst belangrijke grondstoffen van andere hemellichamen te gaan halen. “Een natuurlijk object in zo’n baan is vrij goed toegankelijk en kan bijvoorbeeld tijdens een missie naar Mars gebruikt worden als een tussenstation waar astronauten bepaalde grondstoffen kunnen verzamelen. En als het object een rakettrap blijkt te zijn, leren we weer iets meer over hoe deze rakettrappen (waarvan we de fysieke kenmerken precies kennen) gedurende meerdere decennia beïnvloed worden door de stralingsdruk van de zon.” Al met al genoeg reden voor astronomen om het object de komende maanden uitgebreid te volgen.

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In my previous article here at Mysterious Universe – which was on the subject of my new book, The Martians: Evidence of Life on the Red Planet – I made a brief reference to what may very well have been nothing less than life on Mars. And not in the distant past, but just a handful of years ago. I thought that today I would expand on this admittedly strange story as it is – without any shadow of a doubt – undeniably weird. Let us take a careful look at the story and the relevant photo that comes with it. It has become known as the “Face-Hugger photograph.” And there is a very good reason as to why the picture was given that particular name. Taken in July 2015 by NASA’s Curiosity Rover, the photo appears to show nothing less than a strange, multi-legged creature that looks astonishingly like the monstrous face-invading creatures that appeared in the phenomenally successful series of Alien movies. For those who may not know, they starred Sigourney Weaver as Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley – and they reaped in an incredible amount of dollars. When the story broke wide open in early August 2015, the headlines were predictably sensational. The U.K.’s Metro newspaper ran with the story and titled their feature as follows: “Crab-like alien ‘facehugger’ is seen crawling out of a cave on Mars.”

It might be very wise to avoid the Martian Face-Huggers!

(NASA)

The same Metro article included the words of Seth Shostak, a skeptic when it comes to the matter of life on Mars, and the Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research; “SETI” standing for “search for extraterrestrial intelligence.” Shostak said of the strange looking thing and other allegedly anomalous photos that reach him from time to time: “Those that send them to me are generally quite excited, as they claim that these frequently resemble something you wouldn’t expect to find on the rusty, dusty surface of the Red Plane. It’s usually some sort of animal, but occasionally even weirder objects such as automobile parts. Maybe they think there are cars on Mars.” On the other side of the coin were the words of Scott Waring who, at UFO Sightings Daily, said that: “It does appear alive. It may be a crab-like animal, or it also may be a plant. This object has many arms and one of them goes to the left of the picture a very long ways. That arm is longer than all others. Plant or animal it really doesn’t matter. The significance of this is that it shows signs that it is alive. That is everything, but not to NASA.”

“The Martians: Evidence of Life on the Red Planet”

(Nick Redfern)

And, that’s pretty much how the online debate went on: for the world of science the face-hugger was nothing but a spectacular example of pareidolia. UFO seekers and conspiracy theorists, however, said otherwise. They suggested that what looked like an eerie, creepy animal was exactly that – an eerie, creepy animal on a faraway world. That it appeared to be in the opening to a small cave and maneuvering up (or, possibly, scuttling down to the ground) the cave wall with its multiple limbs only seemed to add to the theory that NASA had inadvertently captured on camera a genuine Martian animal – and a very hair-raising one, too! In my view, the spidery, crab-like animal is not a case of the eye seeing what it sorely wants to see. And, the story isn’t quite over. In my The Martians book I take a close and careful look at the incredible story of a skilled remote-viewer who, in late 2019, was able to add further – and undeniably astonishing – data to this particular story of the closest things to real-life face-huggers.

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In 1966 and 1967 there was a sudden flurry of UFO activity around the United States, especially within the Ohio River Valley, and from here a great many weird cases have sprung up, including the Mothman phenomenon and countless UFO reports. A curious report from the era appeared in the book The Mothman Prophecies, by John Keel, and revolves around a usually nondescript man by the name of Tad Jones, of Dunbar, a suburb of Charleston, West Virginia. He was by all accounts a God-fearing man who did not drink or do drugs, and to was known as an honest, hard-working man not prone to fights of fancy or tall tales. Yet, on one January morning in 1966, Jones was driving to work, an appliance store he managed about 10 miles outside of Charleston. It was a route he took every day, and the rive started just like any other, but things were about to take a turn into the surreal, and it would become  a case that blends all manner of strangeness, odd clues, and inexplicable events that have never really been solved.

As he drove along, at around 9 AM Jones came to something blocking the road up ahead. Since the road he was on, Route 64, was a fairly new multi-lane highway he at first assumed that this must be a road construction crew, and so he dutifully slowed down, yet as he crawled closer, he realized that this was far stranger than that. It appeared to be a large sphere with a luster like dull aluminum, but what was even weirder was that it was not sitting upon the road, as he had first thought, but rather hovering several feet over it. The sphere was described as being around 20 feet in diameter, with two antennae-like protrusions jutting out from the top, and four legs and what looked like a propeller attached at the bottom. Jones would say of the sphere:

There were four legs attached to it, with casterlike wheels on the bottom of each one. And there was a small window about nine inches in diameter on the side facing me, but I couldn’t see anything inside the sphere. On the underside there was something like a propeller. It was idling when I first drove up, then it started spinning faster and the whole object began to rise upward. It disappeared into the sky and I drove to my store. I believe what I saw. It was there. I never saw anything like it before, and I haven’t seen anything like it since, but it was there that morning on I-64.

The incident had left him shaken and afraid, and after some time pondering what he had seen, he decided to contact the police, and before long his bizarre experience was being featured all over the local papers. At around this time, Jones woke one morning to find that a slip of paper had been deposited under his front door. Not really thinking much of it at first, he picked up the paper and a glance at it caused his heart to drop. There scrawled upon it in handwriting was a note that read; “We know what you have seen and we know that you have talked. You better keep your mouth shut.” It was all very sinister, indeed, and there was no indication of who had written the note or where it had come from. Jones became paranoid, and began constantly looking over his shoulder.

A local UFO expert by the name of Ralph Jarett soon became aware of Jones story right after having his own strange experience, when a mysterious unidentified phone call had turned out to be just a few minutes of a low beeping, as if in code. Jarett would reach out to Jones and uncover many extra details about the sighting, including the fact that the UFO appeared to have been hovering directly over a major gas line. During his extensive investigation of Jones’ case, Jones would once again receive an ominous note slipped under his door. This time it was written on a piece of torn cardboard with burnt edges, and simply read: “There won’t be another warning.” All of this attracted the attention of the imminent researcher John Keel, who happened to be in the area investigating a UFO flap in the Ohio River Valley and the infamous Mothman sightings that were going on at the time. When Keel began questioning Jones and looking into the case, he would unearth even more strangeness.

Jones would mention to Keel an incident that he hadn’t really thought much of at the time, but which he had become convinced was somehow connected to his sighting. He said that one week after his UFO incident, he had been driving along the same road at around the same time when he had passed a lone man on the side of the road. He pulled over to see if the man needed help, but got no response, merely a wave. The next day, Jones passed the same man again at the same spot at the same time, and he would tell Keel that there had been something unsettling and “off” about him. Jones would describe the mysterious stranger:

He was very tanned or his face was very flushed. He looked normal and was wearing a blue coat and a blue cap with a visor… something like a uniform, I guess. I noticed he was holding a box in his hand. Some kind of instrument. It had a large dial on it, like a clock, and a wire ran from it to his other hand.

Thinking that it may have been a utilities worker, Keel checked with the gas company, but it would turn out that not only had they not had any personnel out there at the time, but that they did not wear the uniform described by Jones and also did not use such an instrument. What mysterious connection does any of this have with Jones’ experience? No one really knows. It would only get even more curious still when Keel went out to the site himself and found a strange series of footprints that looked like the tracks of a huge dog that he estimated must have weighed upwards of 200 pounds. In addition to the “dog tracks” found at the site of the Jones encounter, Keel turned up among them a human print that in some ways struck him as unusual, as well as some other weird things. He describes this as follows:

Aside from the dog tracks, we found a single footprint of what appeared to be a large, naked human foot. This was planted in the center of a muddy section with no other footprints of any kind around it. But a short distance away I came across some old friends… a type of footprint that has appeared at many UFO sites around the country. They look like the type of prints made by ripple-soled shoes, but their spacing is always peculiar. They don’t start anywhere and they don’t lead anywhere. Ripple soles had been in fashion since the early 1960s and had then faded out. But these phantom prints had a ridge around the edges. Years later, when the first men walked on the moon, I realized that the photos of the prints left by their moon-walking shoes were identical to the footprints I had seen over and over again in my travels.

Plaster casts taken of the dog tracks were sent to be analyzed and were found to not be dog tracks at all, and indeed no local wildlife experts could identify them as any animal known to the area. Oddly, Keel claims that the imminent cryptozoologist Ivan Sanderson had told him that very similar dog-like tracks often appeared in places where paranormal activity had occurred, and also said that he would later encounter similar tracks around the country in completely separate cases. What did all of this footprint weirdness have to do with Jones’ encounter, if anything? No one really knows, but Keel was certain that it was all connected somehow. In the end we are left to wonder, what did Tad Jones encounter out there on that road? What is the meaning of the strange tracks, the mysterious stranger on the road, and the sinister notes he received? It is unclear, and it continues to be a weird case surrounded by oddness that we may never fully understand.

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If you are wondering what the “Australian tektite field” is, its formal title is the “Australasian strewn field.” What it demonstrates is that in ancient times certain portions of our world were effectively torched. Meteoritics and Planetary Science said: “Early workers, including such astute observers as Charles Fenner, George Baker, and Edward Gill, who picked up pristine tektites on the arid and ancient surface of Australia, became convinced that this shower of glass had arrived very recently. Ages around 10,000-20,000 years were usually quoted. As some early radiometric age determinations of tektites gave spuriously old ages, these data fueled the notion that the age of the fall was disconnected to the time of formation of tektites.” And what – you may very well ask – are tektites? This is where things get really interesting. Tektites are small, glassy bodies that are near-identical to the equally glassy trinitite that was found at the detonation site of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico in July 1945, just a few weeks before the destruction of the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory state the following on all of this: “Trinitite has also been referred to as atomsite or Alamogordo glass (after a nearby city). Ultimately, it is a glasslike substance that was created from the sand and other materials at the Site during the intense heat of that first atomic test. Relatively recent research (2005) indicates that, upon explosion, the ground was likely pushed down initially, then rebounded, forcing material into the fireball. As indicated in the display, the ground was vaporized before eventually raining down in the form of trinitite droplets. While most trinitite is light green (due to the iron that was present in the sand), other samples contain some of the iron from the tower on which the ‘Gadget’ was detonated, and those look black. Yet other slightly red samples contain copper from the electrical wire used in the experiment.”

Forbes say the following: “It’s often hard to appreciate how quickly energy gets released in something like a nuclear explosion. The shockwave from the initial blast was so powerful it was felt from over 100 miles (160 km) away, with the mushroom cloud reaching 7.5 miles (12 km) in height. The above photo, taken just 16 milliseconds (0.016 seconds) after detonation, shows a blast explosion about 660 feet (200 meters) high, but it’s what happened below, on the ground, that really was surprising. Beneath the explosion location, an enormous crater formed. The landscape was incredibly scarred, and in many place, melted by the nuclear explosion.”

The Smithsonian Magazine provides these words: “No one commented on the glass at the time—its creation was the least of the Gadget’s spectacular effects—but visitors to the site after the war noticed the unusual scattering of glassy mineral that surrounded the shallow bomb crater and began collecting pieces as souvenirs. ‘A lake of green jade,’ Time magazine described it in September 1945. ‘The glass takes strange shapes—lopsided marbles, knobbly sheets a quarter-inch thick, broken, thin-walled bubbles, green, wormlike forms.'”

Perhaps like this?

In 2001, Science Frontiers stated the following: “The extent of the immense Australasian-tektite strewn field implies a hard-to-miss crater about 100 kilometers in diameter. Yet, despite the geological recency of the event and despite much geological surveying, no convincing crater has been discovered…The mystery deepens when one realizes that whatever cataclysm sent the Australian tektites aloft may have been comparable in magnitude to the impact that extinguished the dinosaurs (and other fauna) some 65 million years ago. This much older event has its crater buried below the Yucatan and is further marked by widespread biological extinctions. In contrast, the Australasian-tektite event is not only minus an obvious crater but seems to have had scant effect on the earth’s cargo of sensitive life forms. It was a strangely ‘gentle’ event despite the rocky deluge of tektites. What really happened?”

What, indeed?

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Dark Outpost: American Whistleblower On UFO Program The Majestic 12

The Majestic 12 is a purported organization that appears in UFO conspiracy theories. The organization is claimed to be the code name of an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft. The concept originated in a series of supposedly leaked secret government documents first circulated by ufologists in 1984.

Upon examination, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declared the documents to be “completely bogus”, and many ufologists consider them to be an elaborate hoax. But in our continuing conversation with patriot whistleblower John Carman, he reveals the truth about MJ-12, the UFO cover-up by our government, and a possible connection to the COVID-19 vaccination.

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Huge UFO Seen Near Earths Moon On Sept 25, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 25, 2020
Location of sighting: Earths Moon

Watch as a glowing UFO was caught near our moon on Sept 25. The UFO displays several different colors and often has a myst around it. UFOs have been seen around our moon for decades. As a matter of fact, if you focus your camera on the outer edge of the moon, you will see UFOs hit the horizon edge ever 30 seconds. To see them they must be huge! Yes, even I have tried and succeeded the first time of recoding the moon. Todays cameras can really zoom in on it well. 
Scott C. Waring 

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UFOS Caught Over Towers In Malaysia On Sept 26, 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 26, 2020

Location of sighting: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  

 

Its obvious that these UFOs were checking out a the newest and most technologically advanced structures in the area. Aliens are highly interested in how and what humans have in technology. Even alien drones with AI (cloud orbs) will buzz aircraft to scan for technology. These UFOs in Malaysia are a great example of tech seeking UFOs scanning humanities latest developments. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

Eyewitness states: 

 I was driving past the iconic Petronas twin towers in Kl, the city I am currently living in and have been living in since 1996. When I stopped at the red light I wound down my windows to take a photo of the twin towers using night mode with a 3 second timer. In 2 shots I reviewed back I saw 2 lights at the top right hand corner of the 2 photos and it looks like a boomerang shaped craft with the yellow orange lights, one side is long while the other side is slightly less visible. In the 2 shots I took it looked like it was moving across d sky from the direction of the twin towers to the right side of the photo. I took a 3rd photo of the twin towers and the two lights were not inside that 3rd photo.. Can someone take a look at the photos and tell me what's going on?

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Ahistoric moment is on the horizon for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. In just a few weeks, the robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will descend to asteroid Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface, touch down for a few seconds and collect a sample of the asteroid’s rocks and dust – marking the first time NASA has grabbed pieces of an asteroid, which will be returned to Earth for study.

On Oct. 20, the mission will perform the first attempt of its Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event. This series of maneuvers will bring the spacecraft down to site Nightingale, a rocky area 52 ft (16 m) in diameter in Bennu’s northern hemisphere, where the spacecraft’s robotic sampling arm will attempt to collect a sample.

Site Nightingale was selected as the mission’s primary sample site because it holds the greatest amount of unobstructed fine-grained material, but the region is surrounded by building-sized boulders. During the sampling event, the spacecraft, which is the size of a large van, will attempt to touch down in an area that is only the size of a few parking spaces, and just a few steps away from some of these large boulders.

To ensure that the spacecraft touches down on a safe area that avoids the region’s many boulders, the navigation system is equipped with a hazard map of site Nightingale, which delineates areas within the sample site that could potentially harm the spacecraft. 

If the spacecraft’s NFT system detects that it is on course to touch one of these hazardous zones, the spacecraft will autonomously wave off its approach once it reaches an altitude of 16 ft (5 m). This keeps the spacecraft safe and allows for a subsequent sample collection attempt at a future date.

OSIRIS-REx is charged with collecting at least 2 oz. (60 grams) of Bennu’s rocky material to deliver back to Earth – the largest sample return from space since the Apollo program.

The spacecraft is scheduled to depart Bennu in 2021 and it will deliver the collected sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023.

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This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface.

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UFOs filmed over Brentwood, California 26-Sep-2020

These triangular-shaped UFO formation was filmed in the sky above Brentwood, California yesterday (26th September 2020).

Witness report:

Triangle shaped w/ 4 witnesses. At around 7pm, my family of 3 plus an Xfinity internet installer witnessed a UFO hover in a position near a star/planet to the right of the moon for about 10 minutes. It appeared out of nowhere. It was triangular in shape, had 2 blinking red lights and one blue/green light that fluctuated but seemed to have a rhythm. We also spotted an occasional white light near it, a couple of which seemed to shoot out like falling stars. The lights were patterned and consistent at first, then starting blinking very quickly and changed color. At that point, the object descended from a celestial location directly downward so fast, it fell from view in about 10 seconds. About 10 minutes later, we saw it ascend at equally high speed until it disappeared from our view. I took 2 videos, but they are crappy as it was dark.

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Physicists have discovered that rotating black holes might serve as portals for hyperspace travel

• Scientists once thought that traveling into a black hole would kill you.
• But now, physicists have run computer simulations to show that certain types of black holes – large, rotating ones – could serve as portals for hyperspace travel.
• Some physicists believe that you’d arrive at a remote part of the Milky Way or perhaps in another galaxy altogether.
• One of the safest passageways might be the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*.

Following is a transcript of the video.

So, whatever happens beyond that boundary, inside of a black hole, is anyone’s guess. Scientists agree that if you travel far enough into a black hole, gravity will eventually become so strong that it kills anything in its path. But sci-fi films are more optimistic, depicting black holes as portals through space and time or gateways to other dimensions. And it turns out, some scientists now think the sci-fi buffs may be onto something. Black holes might be suitable for hyperspace travel, after all; it just takes the right kind of black hole.

At the center of every black hole is a point of infinite density, called a singularity. It’s what gives black holes their strong gravitational pull. And for decades, scientists thought singularities were all the same, so anything that passed the event horizon would be destroyed the same way: by being stretched and pulled like an infinitely long piece of spaghetti.

But that all changed in the early 1990s when different research teams in Canada and the US discovered a second singularity called a “mass inflation singularity.” It still has a strong gravitational pull, but it would only stretch you by a finite amount, and potentially NOT kill you in the process, meaning, you might survive the trip through a black hole. More specifically, through a large, rotating black hole, which is where these types of singularities exist.

Now, astronomers obviously can’t travel through a black hole yet to test this theory. In fact, the best place to test this is at the supermassive black hole in the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, which is 27,000 light years away. Not conveniently close to the least.

Therefore, scientists instead run computer simulations to see what would happen if we did manage to reach an isolated, rotating black hole, and now, for the first time, a team of scientists at UMass Dartmouth and Georgia Gwinnett College has done exactly that.

Lior Burko: “You would feel a slight increase in temperature, but it would not be a dramatic increase. It’s just that you don’t have enough time to respond to the very strong forces. It would just go through you too quickly.”

Narrator: He added that passing through a weak singularity is like quickly running your finger through a candle flame that’s 1,000 degrees Celsius. If you hold your finger in the flame long enough, you’ll get burned, but pass your finger through quickly, and you’ll barely feel a thing. Similarly, if you pass through a weak singularity with the right speed and momentum, and at the right time, you may not feel much at all.

As for what happens once you get through to the other side, no one really knows, but Burko has his own ideas. He says one possibility is that we’d arrive at some other remote part of our galaxy, potentially light years away from any planets or stars, but a second, and perhaps more intriguing, possibility is that we’d arrive in a different galaxy altogether. That’s if you even make it that far.

Scientists say more research is needed before we’re anywhere close to successfully traveling through a black hole. But when we are ready, one of the safest passageways might be the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy called Sagittarius A*, and it might just be our ticket out of the Milky Way.

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Math may be hard, but it sure is handy – even in the world of fairies. Looking for an explanation for the so-called fairy circles – mysterious circles of grass found in Namibia and Western Australia — researchers turned to one of the greatest mathematical minds of modern times, and Alan Turing, speaking from beyond the grave, gave them the answer. Was there any secret Turing couldn’t decode?

“Turing’s concept was that in certain systems, due to random disturbances and a “reaction-diffusion” mechanism, interaction between just two diffusible substances was enough to allow strongly patterned structures to spontaneously emerge.”

Patterns like these

What? Fortunately, most of the press release on a new paper published in the Journal of Ecology is written at a more understandable level. In 1952 (he died in 1954 at the age of 41), Turing published a paper on mathematical biology considered by many to be his masterpiece: “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.” Morphogenesis is the development of patterns and shapes in biological organisms and Turing used a set of partial differential equations to model catalytic chemical reactions that could create regular patterns in nature. While Turing couldn’t take it any further, many other scientists did, using his work to explain spots and stripes on animals and the growth patterns of feathers and hair follicles. While it was thought that Turing’s pattern theory might help explain the patterns fairy circles formed, no one had accomplished it … until now.

“The data show that the unique gap pattern of the Australian fairy circles, which occur only in a small area east of the town of Newman, emerges from ecohydrological biomass-water feedbacks from the grasses. In fact, the fairy circles – with their large diameters of 4m, clay crusts from weathering and resultant water run-off – are a critical extra source of water for the dryland vegetation. Clumps of grasses increased shading and water infiltration around the nearby roots.”

An international research team led by Göttingen University scientists converged on Newman with a tool that had never been used to study these fairy circles before – one that Turing could only have imagined … drones. Using a drone equipped with a multispectral camera, the researchers mapped Triodia grasses over time in five one-hectare plots and classified them according to how well they grew. (Photos here.)

They found that the areas doing well did so by cooperating to ring a small section in order to capture and hold moisture that normally would have run off. The mounded circle of grass also provided shade for new seedlings. However, the best part was that the photos showed that the grasses knew exactly how big to build the circles for irrigation and growth efficiency, and all of them did it the same way.

Patterns like these

“The intriguing thing is that the grasses are actively engineering their own environment by forming symmetrically spaced gap patterns. The vegetation benefits from the additional runoff water provided by the large fairy circles, and so keeps the arid ecosystem functional even in very harsh, dry conditions.”

The circles of grass reacted with each other, just as Turing’s pattern theory had predicted. No fairies, gods, spirits, dragons or any other mythical beings formerly used to explain the fairy circles were needed – just the mathematical mind of Alan Turing.

Still think math is hard? Turing had an answer for that too.

“Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.”
― Alan Turing

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This week I have a new book out from Red Wheel/Weiser’s New Page Books. Its title: The Martians: Evidence of Life on the Red Planet. The story dates back into the distant past and right up until the present day. And, it’s a highly controversial story, too. For example, the book addresses such issues as the “Face on Mars,” unusual pyramid-like structures on the planet, additional so-called faces, and even what appear to be strange creatures on the surface of Mars. On top of that there are certain, curious monoliths – on Mars and on one of its moons: Phobos. And what about the CIA’s secret remote-viewing of Mars back in 1984? The most important aspect of the latter issue is not just what the CIA found, but why the agency felt there was such a pressing need to uncover the secrets of the Red Planet. Add to the planet’s “Banyan Trees,” and Mars’ own equivalent of Stonehenge (“Marshenge,” of course!), and you begin to see how incredibly weird Mars really is. What about the sensational possibility that an advanced Martian civilization might still exist – albeit in a very precarious situation? All of these questions and issues are guaranteed to provoke debate – and a great deal of controversy.

Many will tell you that Mars is an utterly dead world. No animal life, no plant life. Nothing. That is not the case, though. As I demonstrate, Mars is absolutely teeming with life; both flora and fauna, no less. Some of that life is highly advanced and incredibly old. There’s no denying that the planet guards its incredible and disturbing secrets both diligently and carefully. It has done so for a long time; an amazingly long time. None of that, however, has stopped us from uncovering a wealth of what can only be described as “anomalies” on Mars. The Martians: Evidence of Life on the Red Planet is an in-depth study of the theory that Mars was once a world which teemed with life. Perhaps, even, life that is not at all too dissimilar to ours. Incredibly, the Martians may still be there. Alive. Hiding deep below the surface of a ruined world.

There can be absolutely no doubt whatsoever that it was the discovery of the “Face on Mars” back in the 1970s that energized the interest and controversy that surrounded (and that still continues to surround) the possibility that Mars may once have been a world not too dissimilar to ours – even a world inhabited by beings who resembled us to a staggering degree. Some would put all of that down to nothing stranger than pareidolia. I don’t. Although I don’t see NASA engaged in a huge cover-up of the Martian structures, what I do see is a mistake on its part. That mistake has been to ignore and summarily dismiss the many undeniable oddities away as the results of nothing but pareidolia. The purpose behind all of this lack of interest or involvement by the space agency? Probably NASA’s fear of its reputation being besmirched, and the risk of its staff presented by an over-sensational media as “alien hunters.”

Mars’ “Banyan Trees”

(NASA)

I should stress that while I don’t think NASA is sitting on some sensational secrets on Mars, that certainly cannot be the same for a number of other agencies. I mentioned the CIA earlier. They were not alone, however. During the course of my investigations I found evidence showing that other agencies and shadowy departments have certainly taken a very deep interest in what might have occurred on Mars – and what might still be going on there. Moving on: when it comes to the scientific community, it is almost exclusively unwilling to address the mysteries of Mars in a fashion that just might have a potentially adverse bearing on their lofty, much-cherished reputations. Some, I suspect, are fearful of what they might find if they dare to go looking too closely: what we might call a skewed case of deliberate self-censorship. As a species, we are woefully unaware, and largely ignorant, of a series of incredibly ancient events that revolved around a nightmarish, irreversibly-collapsing Mars. And, of death on an almost incomprehensible scale for the Martians, most of them killed before they could flee their world for ours. But, not all of them. When? Without doubt millennia ago – probably even way back further than that. The secrets of Mars are about to be revealed…

“Marshenge”

(NASA)

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Just recently, experts have revealed their findings of phosphine in the upper atmosphere of Venus. And scientists are baffled as they can’t figure out how the chemical could appear in Venus without the help of living organisms. This may be the best sign yet of life on Venus. There are, however, several other places that may contain life, so let’s take a look at four of the most favorable locations in our Solar System that are the best candidates for supporting alien life.

1. Mars

In addition to Venus, Mars is also an excellent candidate for alien life. It’s actually very similar to Earth as it has 24.5 hour days, polar ice caps, and even a lake underneath a polar ice cap in the southern part of the planet as well as methane in the atmosphere. While the Red Planet is now dry and full of cosmic radiation, back around 3.7 billion years ago, it had an atmosphere that supported large amounts of liquid water and maybe even life that perhaps still exists today.

2. Enceladus

Two of Saturn’s moons have been listed as being promising places for alien life. The first one is Enceladus which is covered with ice and has a subsurface ocean of liquid water as well as over a hundred gigantic geysers located close to the south pole. Scientists found that the small grains of rocky silicate particles that spray out of the geysers could have only come from water touching the ocean floor at 90 degree Celsius temperatures (194 degrees Fahrenheit). Additionally, it has been reported that fresh ice has resurfaced the northern hemisphere, indicating recent geologic activity.

3. Titan

Saturn’s largest moon is another location that’s favorable to host alien life. It is the only moon in our Solar System that has a dense mostly-nitrogen atmosphere along with an orange haze and seasons where it rains. According to a map that NASA released last year of the moon, there are dunes, plains, large methane lakes, hummocky terrain (small mountains), labyrinth terrain, and craters. And since experts are currently working on a concept where a submarine may eventually be sent to Titan, we may finally get an answer to the question of whether there is life on Saturn’s largest moon.

4. Europa

Jupiter’s moon Europa is thought to be geologically active with possible liquid water hiding underneath the frozen surface. In fact, it is believed that there is so much water that it could be more than 100 kilometers deep (62 miles) and the reason why it is there is because the heat from the tidal flexing of the moon keeps it from freezing. Since the moon has geysers, tumultuous terrain, and a weak magnetic field, it is believed that those are caused by a subsurface liquid ocean. And NASA reported that they found evidence of sodium chloride on the surface of the moon which suggests that the subsurface liquid water on Europa would be very similar to the oceans here on Earth.

These are just four locations, but there are many other spots in our Solar System and beyond that may very well have alien life. We’ll just have to wait and see what scientists may uncover.

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Jim Marrs: Naval Officer Admits He Has Been on Secret Spaceships Via Coast to Coast AM Classics

Jim Marrs: Naval Officer Admits He Has Been on Secret Spaceships via Coast to Coast AM Classics

COAST TO COAST AM. Author and journalist Jim Marrs discussed the latest on the secret space program and alleged missions to Venus using covert technology. The data uncovered by hacker Gary McKinnon led him to believe that there was some credence to claims of a secret space program. Eventually, Marrs met with a naval officer who told him that he’d been on secret spaceships.

“He said they’d given him an operation that allowed him to breathe and operate in a facility on Venus.” There seems to be fairly good evidence that there may be a deep space military presence, Marrs surmised, adding that there’s been rumblings of bases on the moon and Mars for years.

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The Hidden Remote Viewing Programs! UFOs, There Are No Simplistic Answers

The Hidden Remote Viewing Programs! UFOs, There Are No Simplistic Answers

What are these mysterious objects of unknown origin? Where do they come from and more importantly why are they here? There have been countless secret programs formulated in an effort to understand the UFO Phenomenon, most have been barely successful. Did we ever really understand what we were really dealing with?

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Jeff Rense & Credo Mutwa & David Icke - Reptilian agenda & The Greys aren't Grey in Color !

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Jordan Maxwell: The Reptilian Presence on Earth

Jordan Maxwell continues as a preeminent researcher and independent scholar in the field of occult/religious philosophy. His interest in these subjects began as far back as 1959. He served for three and a half years as the Religion Editor of Truth Seeker Magazine, America’s oldest Freethought Journal (since 1873). His work exploring the hidden foundations of Western religions and secret societies creates enthusiastic responses from audiences around the world.

He has conducted dozens of intensive seminars, hosted his own radio talk shows, guested on more than 600 radio shows, and written, produced and appeared in numerous television shows and documentaries (including three 2-hour specials for the CBS TV network, as well as the internationally acclaimed 5-part Ancient Mystery Series – all devoted to understanding ancient religions and their pervasive influence on world affairs today).

His work on the subject of secret societies, both ancient and modern, and their symbols, has fascinated audiences around the world for decades. Considering the rapidly moving events of today, and the very real part that hidden religious agendas play in our modern war-torn world, he feels these controversial subjects are not only interesting to explore, but too important to ignore! His extraordinary presentations includes documents and photographs seldom seen elsewhere.

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MUFON: Glowing UFOs Over New York Mills, NY On Sept 24, 2020, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 24, 2020
Location of sighting: New York Mills, New York, USA
Source: MUFON #111576

Here is a new video that just came into MUFON a few minutes ago. A few eyewitnesses had gathered on the patio in the back yard when they saw some glowing lights in the distance. The glowing lights would move and changes positions but never fall. One person compares them to the Phoenix Lights UFO event. Another person compares to flares but dismisses it because they never fall or dim. There is a bit of lighting on the right side so there is a bit of a storm clouds overhead. Its very possible these UFOs actually are causing the lighting in the area. 
Scott C. Waring 

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Long Moon Size UFO Shoots Past Sun On Sept 19, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 19, 2020
Location of sighting: Earths Sun
Source:

•  https://helioviewer.org
  
  

This video from Heliviewer actually has a massive tube like UFO shoot past. The UFOs is huge and its shape is even on both sides. This really looks like an intelligently made craft. The UFO is actually seen twice by two different filters, once in black and once in white. The UFO is about the size of earths moon. Why didn't NASA alert the world about it? Because...they know its not a meteor or asteroid. 
Scott C. Waring

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UFO Shoots Out of Cloud Across Sky Over UK, Sept 9, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 9, 2020
Location of sighting: UK

This eyewitness set up a camera on a tripod and went through the video later to see if he caught anything. He was surprised to find out he caught a UFO disk shooting across the screen. But it doesn't shoot from right to left of the screen. Instead its shoots from within a cloud on the left side and its much smaller so we know its very far away. I believe it came from the cloud itself and was searching for another cloud to hide within. The speed, shape and cloud it exited from...all indicate this is an alien craft.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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UFO sighting filmed over Chandler, Arizona, July 25, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 25, 2020
Location of sighting: Chandler, Arizona, USA

The eyewitnesses were out near a field and caught sight of a silver round object gliding over the field. The UFO was not a perfect circle but almost cube like in shape. The speed of the craft was much faster than the wind, so we know it was not a balloon. The object had no wings, propellers or tail, so its not a drone or plane. It flew in a straight line, never deviating form it. Arizona is famous for having UFOs sightings...so much so they have a highway passing through called the Extraterrestrial highway. Thats how frequently they get sightings. They name freeways after them. Because of the perfect hight from the ground it hovers, its unique curved cube shape, its metallic outer shell and its location...this is 100% alien in origin. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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UFO Hiding In Tiny Black Cloud Over Missouri, Sept 9, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 9, 2020
Location of sighting: Des Peres, Missouri, USA

They eyewitness said he was chasing a strange tiny cloud formation that seemed to have a solid object inside. The eyewitness is correct. There is a small orb or alien drone hiding in this small black cloud. Notice how the solid object has control of the cloud so well and tilts it to one side without losing its shape. The faster a cloud goes the more of its shape it loses due to the wind speed, however this loses zero. It remains the same only tilting from right to left. 100% proof of an alien probe hiding within it. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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This anomaly is located in an inhospitable area at Antarctica and I'm wonder whether it is something that has formed naturally over the years or man-made, since it looks like a base or storage facility, but is it?

The anomaly is 105x40 meters and 10 meters high.

In addition, there is another strange brownish object located above the large anomaly which is very similar to an old settlement or entrance.

In either case I have no idea whether it is just natural or artificially created but in case it is artificially, I suppose perhaps something important has been found there on which they have decided to cover it up. 

Please take a look, here are the coordinates: 66°37'37.57"S 110°16'39.19"E 

Set timeline on 2004.

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Were These Historic Moments Actually Secret Alien Invasions?

What are some of the biggest mysteries around UFO sightings? Are UFOs real? Do aliens exist?

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NASA gearing up for epic asteroid-sampling maneuver next month

By Mike Wall  

Circle Oct. 20 on your calendars

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending toward asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface.

(Image: © NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

NASA is poised to make history next month.

The OSIRIS-REx probe is scheduled to pull off NASA's first-ever asteroid-sampling operation on Oct. 20, snagging precious dirt and gravel from a 1,640-foot-wide (500 meters) space rock called Bennu. 

"I can't tell you how excited I am," OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta, of the University of Arizona, said during a news conference on Thursday (Sept. 24). "I'm confident that we're up to the challenge that's ahead of us."

• Related: NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission in pictures

That challenge is considerable. OSIRIS-REx, which has been orbiting Bennu for nearly two years, will spiral down toward a small crater dubbed Nightingale on Oct. 20, aiming for a relatively flat, boulder-free region just 26 feet (8 m) wide. That will be a pretty tight squeeze for the spacecraft, which is the size of a 15-passenger van.

"This spot is just the width of a few parking places and is surrounded by large, boulder-like structures the size of small buildings," said Mike Moreau, OSIRIS-REx deputy project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. (The OSIRIS-REx team has nicknamed the most perilous of those obstacles "Mt. Doom," by the way.)

"So, for some perspective: The next time you park your car in front of your house or in front of a coffee shop and walk inside, think about the challenge of navigating OSIRIS-REx into one of these spots from 200 million miles away," Moreau said.

And OSIRIS-REx must make this bold move on its own. It will take signals more than 18 minutes to travel from Earth to the spacecraft on Oct. 20, far too long for real-time control.

The safe-touchdown zone is far smaller than the one originally envisioned by the mission team, which designed OSIRIS-REx with a 165-foot-wide (50 m) cushion in mind. But Bennu proved to be far more bouldery than observations by ground-based scopes had suggested. And the best sampling material — fresh and fine-grained stuff that hasn't been exposed to the harsh space environment for long — happened to reside in Nightingale.

OSIRIS-REx won't stay parked there for long. The probe will kiss the fine-grained dirt with its sampling mechanism, which is affixed to the end of an 11-foot-long (3.4 m) robotic arm, for just a few seconds. That dirt will be stirred up by a blast of nitrogen gas and collected by the sampling head, which team members have likened to a car air filter.

OSIRIS-REx will then back slowly and carefully away from Bennu, and the mission team will assess its catch. The goal is to get at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of asteroid material. If the Oct. 20 haul is deemed insufficient — and the team expects to decide one way or another on Oct. 30 — OSIRIS-REx could make another attempt, at a backup site called Osprey, no earlier than January 2021. (The probe has three nitrogen bottles, so it could theoretically take three swings at sample collection.)

• Related: Pieces of heaven: A brief history of sample-return missions

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission's view of the asteroid Bennu on Aug. 11, 2020, during a rehearsal for the spacecraft's sampling maneuver this fall.  (Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

If all goes according to plan, OSIRIS-REx will depart Bennu in March 2021 and head back toward Earth with its cosmic cargo. The asteroid sample will land in the Utah desert, encased in a special return capsule, on Sept. 24, 2023. 

The material will then be studied by scientists around the world who want to learn about the solar system's early days and how life got started on Earth, among other topics. After all, asteroids are "time capsules" left over from the planet-formation epoch, NASA officials have stressed. 

And Bennu is rich in carbon-containing organic compounds and hydrated minerals. It's therefore similar to the space rocks that many researchers think helped, via countless impacts, make Earth a habitable world long ago.

The $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission — whose name is short for "Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer" — launched in September 2016 and arrived in orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31, 2018. 

The probe's work over the past 21 months hasn't been entirely devoted to prepping for the sample-collecting kiss. For example, its observations are also helping scientists better understand how asteroids move through space, which could lead to better trajectory forecasting for potentially hazardous asteroids (a class that includes Bennu).

OSIRIS-REx won't be the first probe to bring pristine asteroid bits down to Earth. Japan's Hayabusa probe delivered a few grains of the stony asteroid Itokawa in 2010. And the Hayabusa2 spacecraft recently collected samples of the carbon-rich asteroid Ryugu, which are scheduled to arrive here this December.

The OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 teams have been working together over the years, and their collaboration will continue after both missions' samples come home, Lauretta said.

"Combined, it's an amazing data set — to be able to have information from these two near-Earth asteroids, which superficially look similar to each other but in detail are actually quite distinct," Lauretta said. "We're really excited to have an international coordinated sample-analysis program looking at both of the materials from these asteroids, and learning a lot more about asteroids in general and these carbon-rich asteroids in particular."

Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook. 

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Where to next in the outer solar system? Scientists have big ideas to explore icy moons and more.

By Meghan Bartels

An artist's depiction of the Enceladus Orbilander mission concept.

(Image: © Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)

If you had a few billion dollars and some of the most talented space scientists and engineers in the world, where would you go?

There's no wrong answer, really. Even if you narrow it down to just the outer solar system — planets, moons, rings and other cosmic rubble — you'll never get bored. But that abundance of solar system destinations has downsides, of course, since there's little chance of ever flying all the missions scientists can dream of. But dreaming up those missions anyway is a vital piece of space exploration, and one that scientists do regularly.

During a recent virtual meeting of the Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG), a science advisory group focused on everything past the asteroid belt, scientists walked the audience through three different mission concept studies that were commissioned to inform the Planetary Science Decadal Survey, which will guide NASA programs between 2023 and 2032.

• Related: 25 weirdest facts about the solar system

The decadal survey, managed by the National Academies of Sciences, gives NASA an independent assessment of the priorities of the scientific community and guidance in assessing where to send larger and smaller missions. And for the panel putting together the decadal survey, it's easier to evaluate those priorities with a picture of what sort of science is on offer at different locations.

"To be honest, I'd be shocked if the exact incarnation of these mission studies were to fly," Shannon MacKenize, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland and lead author of one of the mission concept studies, said of the project during the question and answer period on Sept. 2. "They're really meant to demonstrate the possibilities and the scope and are not mission proposals."

All three concept studies examined the category of mission that NASA calls flagship — projects like the Mars rovers Curiosity and Perseverance, the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Cassini mission to Saturn. They're big missions, with massive price tags (Perseverance cost $2.7 billion) and science agendas alike, meaning NASA certainly can't take on three at a time.

But even if none of these specific missions fly, they could still shape where spacecraft go in future decades, just by offering a tantalizing look at what sort of science is really feasible.

So let's take a spin through the most daring dreams in outer solar system science.

An artist's depiction of NASA's Cassini mission flying through the plumes on Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus.  (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Search for life on Enceladus

Stop one: Saturn's icy, outburst-prone moon, Enceladus, which is one of scientists' top targets for searching for life in the solar system. The Cassini mission, which ended in 2017, found compelling evidence of salty plumes spitting out of the moon's icy shell, making it much easier to sample the hidden ocean than would be true of a less temperamental world.

But no mission has ever prioritized this small moon, which is why scientists designed a mission concept dubbed Enceladus Orbilander. Led by MacKenize, the researchers wanted to send a mission that could tell potentially tell scientists whether the moon hosts life.

Orbilander represents two spacecraft in one. The spacecraft would orbit first Saturn to tour its moons, then Enceladus for 200 days, studying the world at a distance and collecting material spat out by the moon's distinctive geysers to analyze in its internal chemistry labs.

"Every time we fly through the plume, we build up an amount of sample," MacKenzie said. "Once we have enough to run a given subset, we take some time off from doing remote sensing and dedicate a couple orbits to doing the life-detection suite."

Then, Orbilander would settle down onto the surface for a second phase of operations, collecting the material that snows back to the icy crust and scooping some up for additional analysis for 150 days more. The mission's dual approach would allow Orbilander to study the material in Enceladus' plumes in a variety of forms — larger and smaller particles, fresher material and that which has been out in the open for longer.

The hypothetical mission would launch in the late 2030s, arrive at the Saturn system in the mid 2040s, enter orbit around Enceladus in 2050 and land the next year. It would be packed with a host of instruments designed to tell scientists whether there is life on this tantalizing moon, including mass spectrometers that can identify materials and a microscope to enhance the scientists' view. The team priced the mission idea out to about $2.5 billion, MacKenzie said during the meeting.

An artist's depiction of Neptune and its largest moon, Triton.  (Image credit: NASA GSFC/Dan Gallagher)

Swim around Neptune and Triton

Venture a bit farther out into the solar system and a different sort of opportunity awaits: the chance to visit an understudied planet and its strange, stolen moon.

Neptune and its moon Triton make a compelling pair of targets, since no ice giant has ever had a dedicated spacecraft mission. Scientists suspect that Neptune's largest moon is an object trapped from the Kuiper Belt fringing the planets of our solar system, rather than a locally born moon. But in orbit around Neptune, Triton is easier to reach than its siblings still banished to the Kuiper Belt proper.

"This is an important part of the buffet of options that are available to us as we decide how to visit the only class of planet in our solar system that hasn't yet had a dedicated orbital mission," Abigail Rymer, a space physicist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, said during the presentation.

The mission concept study she led would arrive at Triton while the sun is shining on its southern hemisphere, since that's how the Neptunian moon appeared when Voyager 2 flew past the system in 1989 and scientists want to be able to compare the same terrain over time. Voyager 2 saw what look like a few active and many former plumes on Triton, and scientists want to understand how such features work.

In addition to studying Neptune, its rings and Triton, the mission concept, which the team dubbed Odyssey, would also study the strange magnetic field created by Neptune and how it interacts with the moon and its potential outflow.

Odyssey would spend four years touring through the Neptune system, studying both the ice giant and its strange moon, and would cost about $3.4 billion, Rymer said. The journey out to Neptune would take about 16 years, during which the spacecraft could study the sun's influence on the solar system, study our neighbors as if they were exoplanets and perhaps fly past some asteroids.

An artist's depiction of Pluto and its moon Charon.  (Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)

To Pluto and beyond

The third mission concept study targeted the former most-distant planet, Pluto, and its neighbors. Building on the legacy of the New Horizons flyby of the dwarf planet in 2015, this mission concept, dubbed Persephone, would orbit the tiny world, in particular to tell scientists whether it hides an internal ocean. Such a subsurface ocean, something that is not usually associated with the icy outer reaches of the solar system, could be an indicator of a potential habitable environment.

"If tiny Pluto on the edge of our solar system could be an ocean world, then maybe they're more ubiquitous than we expected," Carly Howett, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado and lead author of the Persephone mission concept study, said during a presentation.

The New Horizons flyby offered a tempting glance at the surface of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. But a longer stay would be necessary for scientists to gather enough data to understand what the two bodies look like right now and how they got that way. That science could include studying the atmospheres of these bodies, determining whether Pluto has a magnetic field and establishing what the dwarf planet might look like below the surface.

Like its predecessor, Persephone would also seek to fly past one or more Kuiper Belt objects. New Horizons' flyby of the object called Arrokoth was scientists' first glimpse of what such an ancient body could look like.

Of the three mission concept studies, the $3 billion Persephone would require perhaps the most patience: With a launch in 2030, it will take at least 26 years to get out to Pluto, and 27 if the spacecraft makes a small detour to visit a Kuiper Belt object before the rendezvous. After arriving, the spacecraft would spend a bit over three years orbiting Pluto and its moons; depending on its fuel reserves, scientists would hope to send the spacecraft to visit a second Kuiper Belt object, arriving perhaps in the 2070s.

Vast journeys, vast challenges

While Enceladus is a bit less challenging as a destination, the Odyssey and Persephone mission concepts highlight two key issues that would-be outer solar system explorers will face in the coming decades. The first is that the usual approach for traveling so far, flinging around Jupiter to pick up some speed, won't work very well for launches after the early 2030s due to how Jupiter aligns with the other planets.

"Jupiter doesn't play nicely in the next decade if you want to get to the outer solar system," Howett said.

That inconvenience means that either scientists need approval to start designing missions now or spacecraft will need more powerful rockets and longer cruise times to arrive at their destinations.

The second issue facing future outer-planet missions is that spacecraft bound for the deep solar system typically can't get their energy from the sun. That means scientists want to use nuclear-powered batteries to run their spacecraft. The Enceladus Orbilander mission design calls for two of these nuclear generators, called Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators; Odyssey would need three and Persephone five.

But the U.S. only recently began producing spacecraft-ready plutonium again after decades out of the practice, and current plans don't include enough production quickly enough to meet the desires of planetary scientists.

The challenges of Jupiter's deadline and plutonium production act as bookends narrowing the launch window for upcoming missions to the outer solar system, increasing the urgency of making decisions about which spacecraft to send where.

• Email Meghan Bartels at mbartels@space.com or follow her on Twitter @meghanbartels. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.

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Are some black holes wormholes in disguise? Gamma-ray blasts may shed clues.

By Charles Q. Choi 

Brilliant flashes could be a clue.

Artist's conception of a wormhole.

(Image: © Shutterstock)

Unusual flashes of gamma rays could reveal that what appear to be giant black holes are actually huge wormholes, a new study finds.

Wormholes are tunnels in space-time that can theoretically allow travel anywhere in space and time, or even into another universe. Einstein's theory of general relativity suggests wormholes are possible, although whether they really exist is another matter.

In many ways, wormholes resemble black holes. Both kinds of objects are extremely dense and possess extraordinarily strong gravitational pulls for bodies their size. The main difference is that no object can theoretically come back out after crossing a black hole's event horizon — the threshold where the speed needed to escape the black hole's gravitational pull exceeds the speed of light — whereas any body entering a wormhole could theoretically reverse course.

• Video: Last 500 years around Milky Way's supermassive black hole

Assuming wormholes might exist, researchers investigated ways that one might distinguish a wormhole from a black hole. They focused on supermassive black holes with masses millions to billions of times that of the sun, which are thought to dwell at the hearts of most, if not all, galaxies. For example, at the center of our Milky Way galaxy lies Sagittarius A*, a monster black hole that is about 4.5 million solar masses in size.

Anything entering one mouth of a wormhole would exit out its other mouth. The scientists reasoned that meant that matter entering one mouth of a wormhole could potentially slam into matter entering the other mouth of the wormhole at the same time, a kind of event that would never happen with a black hole.

Any matter falling into a mouth of a supermassive wormhole would likely travel at extraordinarily high speeds due to its powerful gravitational fields. The scientists modeled the consequences of matter flowing through both mouths of a wormhole to where these mouths meet, the wormhole's "throat." The result of such collisions are spheres of plasma expanding out both mouths of the wormhole at nearly the speed of light, the researchers said.

"What surprises me most of all is that no one has proposed this idea before, because it is rather simple," study lead author Mikhail Piotrovich, an astrophysicist at the Central Astronomical Observatory in Saint Petersburg, Russia, told Space.com.

The researchers compared the outbursts from such wormholes with those from a kind of supermassive black hole known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), which can spew out more radiation than our entire galaxy does as they devour matter around them, and do so from a patch of space no larger than our solar system. AGNs are typically surrounded by rings of plasma known as accretion disks and can emit powerful jets of radiation from their poles.

The spheres of plasma from wormholes can reach temperatures of about 18 trillion degrees Fahrenheit (10 trillion degrees Celsius). At such heat, the plasma would produce gamma rays with energies of 68 million electronvolts. 

In contrast, "accretion disks of AGNs don't emit gamma radiation, because their temperature is too low for that," Piotrovich said. Moreover, although jets from AGNs can emit gamma rays, these would mostly travel in the same direction as the jets — any traveling out in a sphere might suggest they came from a wormhole, he noted.

In addition, if an AGN resided in a kind of galaxy known as a Type I Seyfert — one in which hot gas was expanding rapidly — prior work suggested it would likely not generate many gamma rays with energies of 68 million electronvolts. If astronomers did see an AGN in a Type I Seyfert galaxy with a significant peak of such rays, that could mean that seeming AGN was actually a wormhole, the researchers said.

The scientists detailed their findings online Aug. 21 in a study accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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UFO Sightings in the United States

Sightings are from MUFON CMS

Arizona Light

Kingman — Spotted and recorded from window seat of United 5042 Prescott to LAX
for approximately 10minutes.
Showed the flight captain one of the still shots on my phone and asked if he saw this earlier and if he had any ideas what it might be?
His reply was that it was the mirror reflection of the solar plant.

California Object

Lemon Grove — On September 6, 2020, I took a picture of the sky and sent it to my mom. I noticed an object in the picture that is unidentified. I sent it to my dad who has 25 years military experience and he told me to send it to MUFON

Mt. Shasta — Smoke was too thick to see Mt. Shasta. But when looking at the photo it looked clear and the object was in the photos. Pictures were taken from a moving car on I-5 near the Black Butte that is a cluster of lava domes overlapping a satellite cone of Mount Shasta. Witness was trying to take pictures of the smoke, but when looking at the photos the object was on them instead. Pictures taken on August 25, 2020,

Illinois Object

Chicago – On September 5, 2020, I caught something in a photo that I never saw. I am sending this so maybe you could identify it, tell me what it is. I’ve sent a second photo I took. It was about 6 minutes after, for perspective. I also attached a close up from using the edit feature on the iPhone.

Missouri Object

Des Peres – On September 9, 2020, I was driving 270S to Manchester when I first saw these odd cloud formations. At first glance they looked like trash bags about 50 feet off the ground.
The big one kept circling and would stop around 180 degrees. The big one looked like the shape of an airplane without wings. I don’t think was a drone. The big one changed between white and storm color several times but appeared fluffy on top and sides but almost a defined shape on the bottom of a squared off surface. I’m a storm chaser but this had a different gut feeling.

New Jersey Black Mass

Kearny — Saw a black mass in the sky below the clouds flying across the sky heading west, no sound, and no clear shape. Thought maybe it was a group of balloons but there was no shimmer. Photos taken on May 16, 2016.

New York Orb

Millos — The UFO flew out of the strange chemtrail then it vanished then came back then it was gone. I added a slow motion video to the footage so it would be easier to see the craft. Video was taken on September 5, 2020

Ohio Object

Troy — UFOs hovering just above light clouds in Troy, Ohio in early evening hours of August 30, 2017. Noticed in sky as I exited Wal-Mart. Loaded groceries in my car and watched object remain stationary for a handful of minutes and took cell phone picture. Rather uneventful.

Oklahoma Orb

Hobart — I saw a bluish orb hovering around the moon. I took some photos.

Note: A check of astronomical tables shows that the planet Jupiter was very close to the Moon on Aug 29, 2020. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/

Washington Lights

Bellevue – On August 28, 2020, I was walking my dog and I gazed upward to view the stars. I witnessed two objects, which looked identical to other stars; move together in a synchronized manner. They were positioned ‘side by side, they both made one full rotation, at the same speed, in a circular pattern and then one stopped moving, while its partner sped off in a NW direction at the speed of your average satellite. I have witnessed other ‘stars’ moving up, down, side to side, and in semi-circles n the southern sky at about 10:30 PM.

Wisconsin Orb

Barron — A friend took a picture of a craft in the sky glowing red. The craft hovered for about 5 minutes and then took off fast. Picture was taken in September 8 2020. Photo courtesy of MUFON.com

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Canada Object

Kamloops – On August 31, 2020, as I got into my car at 5:47 pm I had the urge to take some pictures. Upon later examination an object came into view over the medical building with a tiny object next to it. The next picture shows it way larger flying straight up with two emanations coming out of each side? Final picture shows it morphing into a disk shape?

Toronto — I just wanted to capture bright full moon on September 3, 2020. When I checked the photo later, noticed something else was also in the frame. It looks nothing like an airplane or anything I’ve ever seen.

Italy Object

Vatican — Never noticed flying disc while shooting scores of photos from Rome’s Pincio Promenade looking towards Vatican City. UFO only appeared during photo review after returning from travels. Clearly a disc less than 100 feet in diameter in upper left of picture on October 11, 2007.

Russia Light

Moscow — These objects pursues one person since 2016 year. At that time there were 2 objects and they were hanging above our dwelling much closer. Now only one object appears almost every day from 1:00 am up to 5:00 am and injures this person’s health. It applies unknown radiation against this person. The object attacks the basic 7 chakras of human body. As the result this person is without aura and her health is crashed seriously.

South Africa Lights

Cape Town — Friday night 4th September 2020, I witnessed technology we do not know about. I saw it tonight at 20:05:30 to 20:06:10. Tina walks into the lounge and points out that the camera is showing a car in front of the farm entrance gate. The Nature conservation sign has been vandalized. I arrive at front gate there moments later to find that it two chaps Nature conservation doing patrols. I greet them and noticed tracer fire with no trail in the sky. There are white lights moving in a straight line cutting through the atmosphere and disappearing back into it a few stars further. About 50 to a hundred white very small lights were moving through the sky

UK/England

London – On September 2, 2020, the object consisted of 4 separate “panels” that together appeared to form a rugby ball shape or the Xbox logo. I zoomed in closer into the photo and noticed they appeared to be different sizes, with the largest one seem to have two “nodules” on it. I’ve included the original photo and a montage of my efforts to zoom into the photo

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It wasn’t until just a few years ago that astronomers revealed the Earth’s Moon is a big brother to one or two minimoons or mini-moons – tiny objects that are captured in the planet’s gravity and kept in orbit. In 2016 they discovered 2016 HO3, a 40-meters-(131-feet)-wide rock that may have been in a wide orbit (38 to 100 times the distance of the Moon) for over 100 years. Other minimoons are just temporary satellites – 2020 CD3 found in 2017 is only 12 feet (3.5 meters) wide and on its way out, as was 2006 RH120 which was only in Earth orbit from September 2006 to June 2007. DN160822_03, discovered in 2016, wasn’t so lucky – it ended up crashing to Earth. Astronomers estimate that Earth picks up at least one minimoon per year, so the latest one had to do something to be noticed. It did.

Not this, but that would be noticed too.

“2020 SO has been classified as an Apollo asteroid in the JPL Small-Body Database – a class of asteroids whose paths cross Earth’s orbit. This class of asteroid often has near-Earth encounters. But there are a few clues that 2020 SO is not like the others.

The object is on an orbit that’s just a smidge over a year, and on a very low inclination with respect to Earth’s orbit; that is, it’s not tilted, but on the same orbital path. Its eccentricity – the deviation of the shape of its orbit from a perfect circle – is just a little higher than Earth’s. And its velocity is much, much lower than the velocity of an Apollo asteroid.”

Space.com points out why 2020 SO is a strange minimoon, although a low velocity and a near-circular orbit don’t sound like much to get excited about. According to Dr. Paul Chodas, the director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, it is.

“I suspect this newly discovered object 2020 SO to be an old rocket booster because it is following an orbit about the Sun that is extremely similar to Earth’s, nearly circular, in the same plane, and only slightly farther away the Sun at its farthest point.”

Chodas theorized to CNN that 2020 SO may actually be the return of a Centaur rocket used to boost the Surveyor 2 lunar lander into space in September1966 (a course correction failure caused Surveyor 2 to crash on the Moon). The Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D rocket had been discarded and eventually passed by the Moon before entering an orbit around the Sun – never to be seen again. Unless …

“In a month or so we will get an indication of whether or not 2020 SO really is a rocket body, since we should start being able to detect the effect of sunlight pressure has on the motion of this object: if it really is a rocket body, it will be much less dense than an asteroid and the slight pressure due to sunlight will produce enough change in its motion that we should be able to detect it in the tracking data.”

Centaur rocket on the launch pad

(SANA)

In other words, if it starts to wobble, that bauble isn’t a minimoon but a 54-year-old rocket coming back for a visit. If it is, it’s a rarity – only one other rocket stage has ever returned like this … a Saturn V upper stage from the Apollo 12 launch. After all that time, what will this 46-foot-long object look like? Space archaeologist Alice Gorman of Flinders University in Australia shared her thoughts to ScienceAlert.

“It would be interesting to do some reflectance spectroscopy, which would show how rough the surfaces are, how much it’s been pitted and decayed from being bombarded by dust and micro meteorites.”

So, we’re looking for something that looks like an old, battered rocket stage that’s been traveling through space for five decades. Unfortunately, at its closest point while it’s in Earth orbit between October 2020 and May 2021, 2020 SO will be 50,000 km (31,000 miles) away on December 1, 2020, so it will be tough to see . The wobble may be the best sign.

If 2020 SO is manmade, it’s further proof of how hard it is to get rid of space junk. And, if it’s not the Centaur? It’s still one weird minimoon.

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Massive three mile wide meteorite crater that formed some 100 MILLION years ago is discovered by gold miners in Australia's Outback

• A meteorite crater was discovered in Western Australia's Outback
• The crater stretches three miles across and formed 100 million years ago
•  The team found shoot cones at the site, which is a sign of a meteorite impact
• These form from the high pressure, high velocity shock waves produced by a large impacting object

By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Gold miners stumbled upon a massive meteorite crater in Western Australia's Outback that was created some 100-million-years-ago.

Using electromagnetic surveys, researchers were able to create images of the impact site, dubbed Ora Banda Crater, below the surface to determine it stretches three mile across.

Shoot cones were recovered from the earth that formed from the high pressure, high velocity shock waves produced by a large impacting object – 'tell-tale signs of a meteorite impact.' 

The newly discovered crater is thought to be five times bigger than Wolfe Creek Crater (pictured), one of the largest meteorite craters in the world.

(ABC Kimberley: Matthew Moreton-Deakin)

Ancient plant material was also discovered in sediments, which will be further analyzed for microscopic pollen to gather a more accurate date of when the hole was filled. 

Gold miners stumbled upon a massive meteorite crater in Western Australia's Outback that was created some 100-million-years-ago. Using electromagnetic surveys, researchers were able to create images of the impact site below the surface to determine it stretches three mile across

Miners were working near the historic Goldfields mining town of Ora Banda, north-west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, when they spotted rocks that looked out of place.

Geologist and geophysicist Dr Jayson Meyers said: 'The Ora Banda crater was a bit of a gift.'

'The geologists who were working on it were drilling holes for gold, and they saw some very unusual rocks.'

'They had it in the back of their mind that this really didn't fit in to anything else they have seen and thought this could be a result of a meteorite impact.'

Shoot cones were recovered from the site, which form from the high pressure, high velocity shock wave produced by a large impacting object – 'tell-tale signs of a meteorite impact'

The miners were working near the historic Goldfields mining town of Ora Banda, north-west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, when they spotted rocks that looked out of place

He told ABC that 'based on its position and levels of erosion and some of the soil that is filling the sides, we estimate it could be around 100 million years old.'

The team discovered sediments with ancient plant material that will be analyzed by paleontologists looking for microscopic pollen that could reveal when the crate was filled.

Curtin University is assisting Meyers and will investigate droplets of glass along with zircons and other minerals cemented in the shoot cones to hopefully determine a more exact date of when the impact occurred.

Although the team estimates the crater is 100-million-years old, they said it likely happened between 250 million and 40 million years ago.

Zircons and other materials deep in the hole that were vaporized and re-crystallized may also shed light on when the event occurred, resource.ly reports.

'The energy released when the asteroid impacted would have been more than the combined energy from every atomic test ever conducted,' Meyers told resource.ly.

Curtin University is assisting Meyers and will investigate droplets of glass along with zircons and other minerals cemented in the shoot cones to hopefully determine a more exact date of when the impact occurred

Ancient plant material was also discovered in sediments, which will be further analyzed for microscopic pollen to gather a more accurate date of when the hole was filled

The Or Banda crater is, however, five times larger than Australia's famous Wolfe Creek Crater located more north in the state. Wolfe Creek was formed by a meteorite which is estimated to have crashed into earth 300,000 years ago

If this crater hit during the Cretaceous period it would not have had an impact on the dinosaur era, which fell victim to an asteroid that left an impact crater of about 90 miles across in what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula some 66 million years ago.

The Or Banda crater is, however, five times larger than Australia's famous Wolfe Creek Crater located more north in the state.

Wolfe Creek was formed by a meteorite which is estimated to have crashed into earth 300,000 years ago.

The meteorite left a massive 2,890 feet hole in the ground, which is visible on the surface.

And it was believed to be the second largest crater in the world.

KILLING OFF THE DINOSAURS: HOW A CITY-SIZED ASTEROID WIPED OUT 75 PER CENT OF ALL ANIMAL AND PLANT SPECIES

Around 65 million years ago non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out and more than half the world's species were obliterated.

This mass extinction paved the way for the rise of mammals and the appearance of humans.

The Chicxulub asteroid is often cited as a potential cause of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.

The asteroid slammed into a shallow sea in what is now the Gulf of Mexico.

The collision released a huge dust and soot cloud that triggered global climate change, wiping out 75 per cent of all animal and plant species.

Researchers claim that the soot necessary for such a global catastrophe could only have come from a direct impact on rocks in shallow water around Mexico, which are especially rich in hydrocarbons.

Within 10 hours of the impact, a massive tsunami waved ripped through the Gulf coast, experts believe.

Around 65 million years ago non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out and more than half the world's species were obliterated. The Chicxulub asteroid is often cited as a potential cause of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event

(stock image)

This caused earthquakes and landslides in areas as far as Argentina.

But while the waves and eruptions were  The creatures living at the time were not just suffering from the waves - the heat was much worse.

While investigating the event researchers found small particles of rock and other debris that was shot into the air when the asteroid crashed.

Called spherules, these small particles covered the planet with a thick layer of soot.

Experts explain that losing the light from the sun caused a complete collapse in the aquatic system.

This is because the phytoplankton base of almost all aquatic food chains would have been eliminated.

It's believed that the more than 180 million years of evolution that brought the world to the Cretaceous point was destroyed in less than the lifetime of a Tyrannosaurus rex, which is about 20 to 30 years.

Read more:

• Drilling for gold reveals massive asteroid hit on WA outback - Resourc.ly
• Meteorite crater discovered while drilling for gold in outback WA estimated to be 100 million years old - ABC News

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Gold miners have discovered a gigantic impact crater in Australia that measures more than two football fields. It has been estimated that the impact occurred between 250 million and 40 million years ago, although the researchers’ best guess is that it hit around 100 million years ago – the same time that dinosaurs would have been living on Earth.

The crater, which is about three miles across, was discovered close to the Australian town of Ora Banda. Based on the size of the impact zone, the meteorite that hit the spot would have been as big as 200 meters in width (656 feet) – longer than two football fields. For comparison, the gigantic asteroid that hit Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago that killed the dinosaurs measured approximately 6 miles in width and made a crater about 90 miles across (called the Chicxulub Crater).

As a matter of fact, when the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit the planet, it had the same amount of force as 100 million megatons of TNT which is about two million times more powerful than the world’s strongest man-made bomb. The impact caused earthquakes and volcanic eruptions across the planet which resulted with mega-tsunamis that reached heights of thousands of meters.

A geophysicist named Jayson Meyers was called to the location in Ora Banda after geologists at a gold mining company in Australia called Evolution Mining found some odd rock cores. When he began studying the rocks from the site, he found shatter cones which are present when a huge impact or explosion creates high-velocity, high-pressure shock waves in that area. Rocks are broken into shatter cone shapes from the large shock waves – similar to when rocks leave marks on the windshield of a car. In an interview with Resourc.ly, Meyers stated that since no nuclear tests have been conducted at Ora Banda, the shatter cones would have been made by a meteorite.

Additionally, he found a pucker in the middle of the crater which was where shattered rocks appeared back on the surface following the meteor striking the area. It is also where the geologists located the shatter cones.

Scientists from Curtin University in Perth are currently analyzing the site in order to find out if the minerals would have been vaporized prior to re-crystallizing from the extreme pressure of the impact. Meyers explained this further, “The energy released when the [meteorite] impacted would have been more than the combined energy from every atomic test ever conducted.”

The impact in Ora Banda may not have been as big as the one that killed the dinosaurs, but it certainly left one massive crater near the Australian town.

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Huge Tunnel Cloud For UFOs Seen Over San Bernardino, California, Sept 18, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 18, 2020
Location of sighting: San Bernardino, California, USA

This unusual cloud was seen over San Bernardino a few days ago. This is a very long UFO cloud with a very flat bottom and top area with a flat edges. This cloud was created for more than one craft, but several UFOs at the same time. Aliens create the clouds to move from one place on earth to another without being seen. This also allows them to slowly observer and record data below. 

This particular cloud was made by a cloud maker craft, which creates a tunnel of cloud that is contained (keeps its shape) for other UFOs to use by flying through the tunnel from one location to another. I actually was eyewitness to such an event and saw over 25  huge glowing lights 747 size and four cloud tunnels...one by one they took turns shooting down a tunnel into the horizon. Starting from above my home when I was in the USAF in Rapid City, South Dakota back in 1989-90. 
Scott C. Waring

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UFO Cloaked In Cloud Seen Over Indonesia, Sept 19, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 19, 2020
Location of sighting: Indonesia 

This eyewitness saw a disk cloud in the distance in Indonesia this week. Disk clouds are known for having a high probability of being a cloaked UFO that actually created a cloud around it. Its a smart way for aliens to fly low and slow scanning and recording everything in the environment from the pollutants in our streams, health of the environment, animals and of course humans. 

If you look carefully at the cloud one side is 80% invisible but you still see its flat edge, the other side also has a flat edge, but 100% visible. The UFO has perfect symmetry and balance. Its absolute an alien craft. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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Glowing Entities Flying Over City Of Athens, Greece On Sept 17, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 17, 2020
Location of sighting: Athens, Greece

In this video which was recorded this week, an eyewitness noticed some mysterious lights moving about over the city of Athens. The lights seem to change shape from circle to oval. The lights also dim and brighten at different times and locations. These are energy entities. An evolution of an alien species that may be the highest attainable evolutional stage of any life form. The lights existed for under 3 minutes and quickly disappeared. These are not spotlights, spotlights would have a long beam and round contact point on the cloud. Spotlights would have a pattern to follow and repeat for hours, but this was just 3 min or less. Thats 100% alien. Maybe one day...humanity will survive long enough to attain that evolutionary level of pure energy. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

Eyewitness states: 

This is real, no filters! For 2-3 minutes the lights were moving only inside this cloud and then disappeared with it. What was that?!? This video was filmed by me.

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Crystal Emerald City Found On Moon Of Saturn, Sept 24, 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Sept 24, 2020

Location of discovery: Moon Enceladus, Saturn moon

Source photo: 

• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Color_polar_maps_of_Enceladus_PI

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It looks like the emerald city is real. NASA posted a photo of the moon Enceladus on Wiki and its really big. Most of the detail has been blurred out, but about 15% of the moon is still mostly in high detail. In this 15% I found some giant green emerald buildings. The structures have lots of right angles and some are attached to one another. The structure reminds me of the emerald city from the Wizard of Oz. It really does look like giant green crystals. Absolutely mind blowing and 100% proof that Enceladus is already owned and occupied by an intelligent species. This totally explains why NASA blurred out most of the moon...they did it to hide the green crystal structures. Oh...the screenshots color are untouched. 

Scott C. Waring 

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Alien Structure Discovered On Mars, Sept 13, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Sept 13, 2020
Location of discovery: Nereidum Montes, Mars
Source photo: 

• https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_065515_1400
  
  

Here is a great discovery by Youtuber Jean Ward. He found what looks like an alien building thats in the shape of a four sided star fish. The starfish structure is sitting on a large rectangle block. Excellent detail and the structure has perfect symmetry. Jean got this photo from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from July 18, 2020. Absolute proof that aliens exist on Mars. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states: 

Here I feature a strange object which is disc-shaped with two 'fin'-like parts on either side of it (could this be some kind of craft or fossilized coral or ancient creature?) as well as stacked rectangular objects arranged in parallel and next to each other.

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Energy Entity Gets Caught On Doorbell Camera, IT HAS A FACE! Sept 24, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 24, 2020

Location of sighting: unknown

 

The eyewitness has a ring doorbell monitor camera which records any movement outside the door. On Sept 24th it happened to record a huge orb the size of a beach ball coming down within view and then going back up and disappearing. The object doesn't not go in front of the white ceiling or in front of the bars so I know the objects size from its distance from the door. This looks like an energy being that came down from the clouds to explore and look around. 

 

When I added contrast and sharpening to the orb screenshot, I noticed a face became visible. The face is looking in the direction of the steps into the house. This face is 100% proof that this is an energy entity. You can see as the orb comes down, the face is also upside-down, but as it turns toward the door it turns right side up. This is one of the best examples of energy entities I have seen in years. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

The above and below screenshots are from the top of this post, which reveals the face. 

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