Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
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Japanse capsule keert vandaag terug naar aarde met asteroïdemonsters
Na een reis door de ruimte van ruim 5 miljard kilometer heeft de Japanse ruimtesonde Hayabusa 2 een capsule naar de aarde gestuurd met monsters van asteroïde Ryugy. Verwacht wordt dat die zaterdag door de atmosfeer van de aarde zal vliegen en zal landen.
De capsule is succesvol vertrokken van de sonde op een afstand van 220.000 kilometer van de aarde, zegt het Japanse ruimtevaartagentschap Jaxa. De capsule bevat materiaal dat 4,6 miljard jaar oud is, van de vroegste momenten van het zonnestelsel, zei de missiemanager van Jaxa, Makoto Yoshikawa, vorige week.
De capsule zal de atmosfeer van de aarde naar verwachting 's avonds bereiken. Vervolgens zal ze afremmen, als de hitte toeneemt, en zal een parachute openen, op ongeveer 10 kilometer van de grond. Dat moet gebeuren rond 18.30 uur Belgische tijd.
De capsule, die amper 40 centimeter groot is, wordt verondersteld om op de aarde te landen tussen 18.47 en 18.57 uur Belgische tijd in de woestijn in de buurt van Woomera, een dorpje in het zuiden van Australië. Daarna vertrekt de capsule naar Japan, waar ze vanaf juni zal geanalyseerd worden.
De spectaculaire landing zal het einde betekenen van een missie die in december 2014 van start was gegaan met de lancering van Hayabusa 2 vanuit Japan. Hayabusa 2 is nu op weg naar een andere asteroïde nabij de aarde, die ze moet bereiken in ongeveer tien jaar.
Een voorloper van de Hayabusa 2 bracht in 2010 voor het eerst monsters van de bodem van een asteroïde naar de aarde.
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New footage of Arecibo Observatory collapsing in the jungle of Puerto Rico shows the moment its main cables snapped and sent a massive platform hurling to the ground - triggering a reaction that led to its destruction.
Drones were investigating cables around the telescope when the restraints failed and dropped the 900-ton platform onto to the reflector dish 400 feet below.
In one of the videos, the platform begins swaying in the air before letting out a loud roar as it dislodged from the supporting cable and snapping into pieces as it dropped.
The second part of the clip is a view of the cables at the top of a support tower, which shows a group of frayed wires and an empty spot where cables were that had previously failed this year.
One of the cables begins to strain and then violently flies out of its support, creating a cloud of smoke and debris.
The drone pans to the left and captures the catastrophic event of the fallen platform, catwalk and azimuth arm.
Devastating footage of Arecibo Observatory collapsing in the jungle of Puerto Rico shows the moment the telescope’s main cables snapped and sent a massive platform hurling to the ground
The collapse occurred around 8am local time Tuesday that scientists stunned who relied on what was once the world’s largest telescope to uncover cosmic wonders in deep space.
Ramon Lugo, director of the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida, which manages the 57-year-old radio telescope for the National Science Foundation (NSF), told Daily Mail.com in an email: ‘Well when I got the call the morning I felt like throwing up... then I felt very sad.'
‘I have worked with this team for almost 3 years... we have accomplished a lot, now there is uncertainty. I feel bad for the staff, some have spent their entire careers at the Observatory. I feel like I let them down.’
The National Science Foundation (NSF) released the footage of the collapse Thursday, which shows two different views of the event.
The first clip provides a view looking up at the platform and begins with the massive structure still attached to the cable. It begins to sway, which is when the main cable snapped from one of the three surrounding support towers
The platform breaks away from the cable, splits into pieces and disappears from the frame
The first clip provides a view looking up at the platform and begins with the massive structure still attached to the cable.
It begins to sway, which is when the main cable snapped from one of the three surrounding support towers.
The platform breaks away from the cable, splits into pieces and disappears from the frame.
Moments after, the tops of the towers, some which measure 60 feet long, tumble over from the pressure
The second portion of the video shared by NSF provides an up-close look at the main cable breaking from the top of Tower 4. The clip shows two cables are missing, both failed this year, and the main cable appears to be slowly fraying apart
Moments after, the tops of the towers, some which measure 60 feet long, tumble over from the pressure.
John Abruzzo, managing principal of Thornton Tomasetti, was sent in with a team to assess the collapse and said it involved ‘some violent and unpredicted behavior,’ Gizmodo reports.
The second portion of the video shared by NSF provides an up-close look at the main cable breaking from the top of Tower 4.
The telescope was built in the 1960s with money from the Defense Department amid a push to develop anti-ballistic missile defenses (pictured taken Nov. 19)
The middle of the three remaining cables violent breaks off from the Tower, which seems to have snapped another supporting the catwalk– triggering the entire structure to collapse
Scientists said they were aware of a deteriorating situation and notified NSF on Monday about their concerns that Arecibo would collapse this week
The clip shows two cables are missing, both failed this year, and the main cable appears to be slowly fraying apart.
Abruzzo said that each cable is made of 170 wires.
The middle of the three remaining cables violent breaks off from the Tower, which seems to have snapped another supporting the catwalk– triggering the entire structure to collapse.
Lugo said he and his team were aware of a deteriorating situation and notified NSF on Monday about their concerns that Arecibo would collapse this week.
Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto Rico played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century has collapsed
The giant telescope was also used in programs that search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) because its location provided scientists access to one-third of the cosmos
Arecibo Observatory was built in the 1960s with money from the Defense Department amid a push to develop anti-ballistic missile defenses
It is famous for detecting whirling pulsars, capturing geological features of Mars and helping astronomers discover the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, along with making an appearance in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye.
The giant telescope was also used in programs that search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) because its location provided scientists access to one-third of the cosmos.
SETI Institute gave the telescope a personal, Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomert wrote: 'Losing Arecibo is like losing a big brother. While life will continue, something powerful and profoundly wonderful is gone.’
Arecibo Observatory suffered another failure in August when an auxiliary cable broke that resulted in a 100-foot gash on the 1,000-foot-wide dish and damaged the receiver platform that hung above it.
The NFS said crews who evaluated the structure after the first incident, but determined that the remaining cables could handle the additional weight.
While the observatory was awaiting delivery of two replacement auxiliary cables, as well as two temporary cables, another main cable broke on the same tower on November 6.
Arecibo Observatory suffered another failure in August when an auxiliary cable broke that resulted in a 100-foot gash on the 1,000-foot-wide dish and damaged the receiver platform that hung above it. But another cable failed this month, which led to the devastating collapse
This tore a new hole in the dish and damaged nearby cables, leading officials to warn that the entire structure could collapse.
Ralph Gaume, director of NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences, said: 'Leadership at Arecibo Observatory and UCF did a commendable job addressing this situation, acting quickly and pursuing every possible option to save this incredible instrument.'
'In the end, a preponderance of data showed that we simply could not do this safely and that is a line we cannot cross.'
ARECIBO OBSERVATORY HISTORY
1963: Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory Commissioned for service on November 1 for $9.7 million.
1965: One of its first accomplishments was establishing the rotation rate of Mercury, which turned out to be 59 days rather than the previously estimated 88 days.
1968: Sporadic radio pulses from the direction of the Crab Nebula supernova remnant found at Green Bank were shown by Arecibo to come from a 33-ms period pulsar situated at the centre of the nebula.
1974: New high precision surface reflector installed, planetary radar transmitter installed.
1974: The first pulsar in a binary system was discovered, leading to important confirmation of Einstein's theory of general relativity and a Nobel Prize 1993 for astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor.
1974: On 16 November, the 'Arecibo message' was broadcast into space toward the globular star cluster M13 25,000 light years away.
The message's main purpose was to demonstrate the capabilities of newly installed equipment in the upgraded radio telescope and was an attempt to contact extraterrestrial intelligence.
1979: A large, anomalous travelling ionospheric disturbance (that is, an upper atmosphere wave) moving southeast to northwest was detected in the early morning hours - something researchers had never before witnessed. Data helped define the probable cause as an air nuclear blast over the Indian Ocean.
1981: First radar maps of the geologic surface of Venus are produced.
1982: The discovery of strong 'megamaser' emission from the hydroxyl (OH) molecule in the starburst galaxy Arp 220 (IC 4553).
1982: The discovery of millisecond pulsars, which rotate several hundred times per second. This demonstrated the existence of two classes of pulsars - the millisecond pulsars and the slower-rotating pulsars, which rotate about once per second.
1989: The first measurement of hydrogen escape flux from Earth is presented, based on velocity distribution measurements of the hydrogen airglow emission in the upper atmosphere.
Early 90s: The first planets outside the solar system were discovered around Pulsar B1257+12, a rapidly rotating pulsar with three Earth-like planets in orbit.
1992: In October, ice is discovered in shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. Later observations show ice in south pole craters as well.
1996: A layer of helium ions is shown to be a common, but previously unrecognised feature in the low-latitude ionosphere near 600 km.
1998: Arecibo Observatory 'found' the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft on July 28, after it lost communications with European Space Agency and NASA,. by bouncing a radar signal off the satellite. SOHO's mission was resumed and continues to produce data today.
May 2000: Radar Observations of Asteroid 216 Kleopatra reveal a 'dog bone' shaped metal-rich object.
September 2000: Discovery that 2000 DP107 was the first near-Earth asteroid identified by radar as a binary system. The primary is roughly spherical with a diameter of a half mile and the smaller secondary, which orbits it in 1.8 days, is about 1000 feet.
2003: Evidence for hydrocarbon lakes on the Saturn satellite Titan is established using the Observatory planetary radar.
April 2004: Installation of the Arecibo L-band Feed Array, enabling a wide variety of astronomical surveys including discovering pulsars, mapping the gas in our Galaxy, and searches for other galaxies.
2005-2012: Radar imaging of Mars reveals lava flows and near-surface geologic features not seen in visible images. This provides new insights into Mars surface geology.
2006: Search for water ice in the permanent shadow of the lunar Shackleton Crater disputes evidence for water ice on the lunar surface.
October 2006: Radar images of the south pole of the moon reveal no evidence for thick deposits of ice.
November 2006: Radar images of binary asteroid (66391) 1999 KW4 in May 2001 and again in June 2002 reveal exotic physical and dynamical properties which may be common among near-Earth binaries.
March 2007: Radar images of Mercury reveal features to be studied further by the Messenger spacecraft over the next several years.
2007: The near-Earth asteroid 2005 PH5 was observed to be increasing in spin rate, due to non-uniform absorption and emission of solar radiation.
2007: Previously undetected radio lines of the molecule hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and the presence of the molecule methanimine (CH2NH), were recently discovered in the distant 'starburst galaxy' Arp 220.
February 2008: Discovery of the first triple asteroid system among the near-Earth asteroids. The asteroid, 2001 SN263, is about 1.5 miles in diameter, with two moons orbiting it.
2008–2012: Observations discover a radio outburst in the nearby galaxy NGC 660, ten times brighter than a radio supernova.
2011: Observations of brown dwarfs find the coldest star to show radio emission.
November 2011: Radar imaging of near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55, which made a very close flyby. This dark, spheroidal asteroid was found to be about 1,148 feet in diameter.
2012: An ion-neutral chemistry model is developed to successfully describe thin layers of neutral metal atoms at above 62 miles altitudes.
Wat zit er achter de mysterieuze monolieten die overal opduiken?
Toen er een enorme metalen monoliet verscheen in een afgelegen deel van de woestijn in het zuidoosten van Utah veroorzaakte dat een sensatie. Vervolgens verdween het object plotseling. Er dook ook een soortgelijke monoliet op in Roemenië, maar ook die verdween. Op woensdag is een derde monoliet ontdekt in Californië. Niemand weet wie ze heeft gemaakt en of de drie monolieten dezelfde herkomst hebben.
Het begon allemaal toen een bioloog vorige maand vanuit een helikopter een groot object zag. Het leek rechtstreeks afkomstig te zijn uit de film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. “We vlogen er precies overheen,” zei piloot Bret Hutchings tegen de lokale zender KSL. “Eén van de biologen zag het en riep dat we om moesten keren.” De piloot schatte dat de zuil tussen de 3 en 3,5 meter hoog was.
Midden tussen het rode gesteente stak een vreemde metalen monoliet uit de grond. Hij leek niet te zijn achtergelaten, maar in de grond te zijn geplaatst. Internetspeurders ontdekten waar hij zich precies bevond en kwamen tot de conclusie dat hij ergens tussen augustus 2015 en oktober 2016 was verschenen.
De monoliet uit Utah leek vervolgens zomaar te zijn verdwenen, tot twee mannen beweerden dat ze hem hadden weggehaald. Sylvan Christensen en Andy Lewis plaatsten zelfs een video op YouTube waarin te zien is hoe ze de monoliet weghalen.
Nog één
Kort nadat de monoliet in Utah was ontdekt, dook er nog één op in Roemenië. Dit exemplaar, dat donkerder van kleur was en leek te zijn voorzien van concentrische ringen, zou inmiddels ook verdwenen zijn. “Het 2,8 meter hoge bouwwerk verdween van de ene op de andere dag,” schreef journalist Robert Iosub van de lokale krant Ziar Piatra Neamt.
Er is nu zelfs een derde monoliet gevonden in Californië, bovenop Pine Mountain in Atascadero, zo liet Connor Allen woensdag weten. Wandelaars trokken massaal naar de plek om een glimp van de metalen zuil op te vangen. Allen maakte de volgende foto’s:
Waar komen de monolieten vandaan en van wie zijn ze?
Guys a fourth monolith appeared on a sidewalk in San Antonio, Texas in front of a Lab today. They say its made of wood thats been painted silver, but who knows? As always, it seems to be too popular and the Americans are making jokes, memes and even fakes to get publicity and attention. I'm not sure why more fakes are being made of UFO, alien, ghost and even monolith videos and photos, but one thing is clear, if its from the US...I remain a bit skeptical about it. Well, with covid ruining the world, killing millions, its easy to understand how people need a few good laughs and need to blow off some steam to relax. I have to admit, the zoo posting the monolith with the hippos was extremely cute and funny.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
News states:
Social media images show the Alamo City’s version of the odd figure located on the North Side, tucked on a street in the back of the San Antonio International Airport.It is situated outside Canopener Labs, a business located in the 1200 block of Safari. The silver monolith first appeared on Thursday night, and by Friday morning, news crews had flocked to the site, according to employees with Canopener Labs.It is made of wood but spray painted silver to look similar to the metal objects seen elsewhere that have taken social media by storm.
New 3rd Monolith In California Found! Probes Sent Before Alien Invasion? Dec 3, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery:Dec 3, 2020 Location of discovery: California, USA
After mysterious monoliths were discovered and then vanished in Utah and Romania, a third metallic obelisk has appeared in California. It is more than three metres tall and is an upturned triangular prism. According to reports, the California monolith was not firmly attached to the ground, unlike Utah's. And from what I just heard moments ago...the California monolith is now gone. Yes you heard me correctly. However I do need to find sources to confirm that.
Whats this all mean? Remember when I said one was not an alien invasion? Well, three in three different parts of the world is a good start to probing the environment to a future invasion point. This is getting a bit creepy.
UFO Seen During Flight From Tijuana to Morelia, Mexico Dec 3, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 3, 2020 Location of sighting: Between Tijuana and Morelia, Mexico
The eyewitness was looking out the plane window when a white fist-like UFO passed under the plane. The object which looks like a clenched fist in a white glove passes through some clouds. This means its not a light reflection from inside the plane overhead compartments. The object is outside he plane and even below some of the clouds. But its big, really big, as big or bigger than the passenger jet itself. I would have loved to see the expression on the pilots face when he saw that! 100% proof that huge white UFOs are patrolling over Mexico.
Orb Follows Plane! Orb Fleet Over Los Angeles, California On Nov 29, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 29, 2020
Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA
This person recorded an entire orb fleet passing overhead in Los Angeles. However there is also a passing jet low and coming into an airport. The jet has an orb about 2 meters in front of it the whole time! The quality is bad, and the person didn't notice the orb in front of the plane, but its easy to see. Because its in front of the plane, I realize its not only a UFO, but the old Foo Fighter UFOs seen during WWII. Good to see they are back. You are wondering why the pilot didn't report it? Because, they don't want to jeopardize their job in an already hazardous covid ridden job market. Why risk your career on a single UFO report? Pilots get fired for less.
I’ve captured footage of a device that was detonated by the sun which caused a huge explosion.!!!!
Join me and others as we explore the existence of a world that has been kept in the shadows for far too long. A world that has been dismissed as nonexistent. Together we embark on a journey that has never been so important than right now, as we face the greatest awakening that has ever been known to mankind.
An awakening of the mind, spirit, body and soul. Some have spoken about the vastness of space and some have shown what exists in this vastness. Unlike those who have gone before us, we are now leading the way. My brothers and sisters, my friends and family and to all of those who feel these words within their being… It is time!
The Utah Monolith, What It Means, Why It Matters, and Whether It's Aliens
The Utah Monolith, What It Means, Why It Matters, and Whether It’s Aliens
In which John discusses a metal obelisk that stood for years unnoticed in the Utah desert before being discovered by some wildlife biologists, whereupon the monolith quickly disappeared. Also discussed: contemporary art in deserts, Gertrude Stein’s essay What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them, and John’s ongoing obsession with that one line from The Great Gatsby.
Unless otherwise noted, footage of the obelisk is from the Bureau of Land Management or the Utah Department of Natural Resources.
UFO Researcher Says He Saw Robbie Williams On A Spaceship
UFO researcher claims he met singer-songwriter Robbie Williams on a spaceship after aliens abducted him on Bradford’s outskirts.
Russ Kellett, a former Bradford businessman, said aliens abducted him when he was on his motorbike driving from a friend’s home to his home in Bingley.
Mr Kellett, 57, said he was near Druid’s Altar when he was brought to a military unit.
Detailing his experience, Mr Kellett said he went through a tunnel and winded up in a room with tall, bald aliens. He described these aliens as human-like 10 feet tall. He also saw smaller ones, and they all looked similar.
Mr Kellett, who now resides in Filey, North Yorkshire, stated he was placed in a chair and was given an injection in the back of his neck.
He was panic-stricken after seeing a tube into his mouth and down his throat.
He was then put in another room and provided a uniform and weapons.
During flashbacks, Mr Kellett started recalling the event. He remembered being in a military unit, preparing for a mission.
He said Williams was behind him, and they had helmets on, ready to go on a mission.
Mr Kellett said he looked at him and tried to confirm if he was Robbie Williams, but an alien shouted, ‘get back in line!’
Mr Kellett, who initially didn’t want to share his story as some people told him it was “too far-fetched,” said he’s not the only one to have experienced alien abduction and more than you think have been through the same experiences.
He’s currently working on a book about the alien abduction.
Linda Moulton Howe: Secret Underground Antarctica Base Discovered! It Was Buried Beneath The Ice!
Linda Moulton Howe: It Was Buried Beneath The Ice of Antarctica!
Could secret underground alien bases really exist in Antarctica? Well, according to special force soldiers the answer is a resounding YES!
Linda Moulton Howe interviews Brian “S” Linda received an email from a now 61-year-old Navy officer who was in Antarctica – his C130 crew encountered high strangeness from 1984/85 to 1987. Several times he and the crew all watched silver discs darting around the sky. He said he saw an entrance to a human/ET collaboration base. Brian was told by his superiors that, “you did not see…”.
David Wilcock: Military Officers Saw UFO With Aliens That Wore Egyptian Like Headdresses
David Wilcock: Military Officers Saw UFO With Aliens That Wore Egyptian Like Headdresses!
Military officer’s filmed a strange craft land on the Tarmac of the Air Force Base before engaging the occupants. They didn’t expect the beings to look like that!
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Darrell Miklos uses secret maps created by his ex-NASA astronaut pal Gordon Cooper to unearth shipwrecks. But during one of these trawls, intrepid explorer Darrell stumbled across huge mysterious structures that he thinks could change how we view our place in the universe forever.
The huge unidentified submerged “spaceship” is covered in 15 unusual “protrusions” — which Darrell describes as “unlike anything I have ever seen”. The mystery objects were found lying on the seabed near the Bahamas — within the notorious 1.3million km watery grave known as the Bermuda Triangle
Graham Hancock: Incredible Ancient Knowledge Lost To Time.. Was Humanity Reset?
It’s often been said that those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them. But what if we have forgotten an entire, hugely important episode in human history? Myths and legends from all over the world insist that a great civilization that was technologically advanced, powerful and wise existed in deep antiquity but was wiped from the face of the earth when it “angered the gods”.
Research and author Graham Hancock delve into the incredible ancient knowledge of our ancestors which was lost to the great flood.
Alien Disk Made Ring In Clouds Over Kediri City in Java, Indonesia, Nov 30, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 30, 2020 Location of sighting: Kediri, Indonesia
The eyewitness caught a rare sighting of a ring in the clouds. These are made from UFOs pressing down from above on the area of clouds and making the UFO shape. Here we see not a disk UFO but a ring shaped UFO. Ring UFOs have been seen on SOHO sun cameras, Space station live cams, and much more. They exist...but this one is huge! About 1km in diameter. This is an alien mothership over Indonesia last week. I will place some photos below of ring UFOs near our sun and near the space station.
Leaked photo from Pentagon UFO task force shows 'silver cube' hovering over the Atlantic at 35,000ft - as classified reports reveal concerns 'aliens' could be operating beneath the world's seas
New report reveals activities of DoD's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
Two 'position reports' circulated in intelligence community in 2018 and this year
Both included photos taken from the cockpits of U.S. military fighter jets
One leaked photo shows an unidentified 'cube-shaped' object hovering
Another is described as showing a triangular craft with lights on its corners
Pilots say the triangular object emerged from the open ocean and shot into air
It adds to speculation that unidentified craft are operating underwater
Officially, Pentagon refuses to comment on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
The existence of two classified Pentagon reports on UFOs has been revealed, the contents of which include a leaked photo depicting a mysterious object hovering over the Atlantic.
The DoD's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force issued the two classified intelligence 'position reports' in 2018 and the summer of this year, and they circulated widely in the U.S. intelligence community, according to a detailed account from The Debrief based on interviews with multiple intelligence sources.
The position reports' startling contents included a leaked photo that has never before been made public, accounts of 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' (UAP) emerging from the ocean and soaring through the sky, and an admission that extraterrestrial origins for the objects cannot be ruled out.
'These revelations are extraordinary, and give the public a genuine peek behind the curtain when it comes to how the US government is handling the UFO issue,' Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the UK Ministry of Defence, told DailyMail.com.
'What this new information does is confirm that the US government is taking the UFO phenomenon more seriously than ever before,' he added. 'I anticipate further revelations shortly.'
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to an inquiry from DailyMail.com requesting confirmation of the existence of the two position reports, as well as the authenticity of a leaked cockpit photo included in one of the reports.
This leaked photo, published by The Debrief on Thursday, was included in the 2018 position report, two DoD and one intelligence source told the outlet
The photo was previously described as depicting an 'unidentified silver 'cube-shaped' object' hovering over the ocean at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000
The leaked photo, published by The Debrief on Thursday, was included in the 2018 position report, two DoD and one intelligence source told the outlet.
The leaked photo was was captured in 2018 off the East Coast of the United States by a military pilot using his cell phone camera, the sources said.
The photo was previously described as depicting an 'unidentified silver 'cube-shaped' object' hovering over the ocean at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000.
It appears that the image was captured by the backseat weapons systems operator of what appears to be an F/A-18 fighter jet.
Experts were baffled by the photo, but noted that the object somewhat resembles a GPS dropsonde, an atmospheric profiling device designed to be dropped from aircraft, typically over a hurricane.
The object is shaped similar to the parachute on a dropsonde (above) -- but the atmospheric devices plunge quickly toward earth, and no GPS transponder is seen dangling below the object
However, the object in the photo does not have the GPS transponder dangling from it as a dropsonde does -- and dropsondes plunge toward the Earth at 10 to 12 meters per second, rather than hover in the air.
It is possible that the object is some other kind of weather balloon -- but the Pentagon task force found it baffling enough to include in their report.
The 2018 report is said to have provided a general overview of the UAP topic and included details of previous military encounters, as well as a frank admission that the origin of many UAP could not be determined.
As well as offering a list of other, more prosaic explanations, the report expressly stated there was a legitimate possibility that UAP represented 'alien' or 'non-human' technology.
Even more shocking were the revelations contained in a second, revised report issued by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force earlier this year.
The report delved deeply into the possibility that UAP are able to freely move both through the air and underwater, zipping through the ocean undetected and emerging into the air at incredible speeds.
The report contained an 'extremely clear' photograph of an unidentifiable triangular aircraft that emerged from the ocean in front of a F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot, sources told The Debrief.
An artist's recreation (above) shows the image in the 2020 report as described by sources: a large equilateral triangle with rounded edges and large, spherical white 'lights' in each corner
Researcher Dave Beaty created this image to depict the object as described by sources who had seen the report from the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
That photo has not been leaked publicly, but artist and researcher Dave Beaty's recreation shows it as described by sources: a large equilateral triangle with rounded or 'blunted' edges and large, perfectly spherical white 'lights' in each corner.
The encounter occurred off the East Coast in 2019, according to officials who had seen the latest report.
Two officials said said the photo was taken after the triangular craft emerged from the ocean and shot straight upwards.
Officials say the latest report focused specifically on the possibility of 'transmedium' craft that are able to operate both underwater and in the air.
It is not the first time that military sightings have suggested the existence of transmedium UAP.
In 2017, former Navy Commander David Fravor spoke out about the infamous USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter that occurred over the Pacific in 2004.
Fravor says he was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet when he made visual contact with the object, which seemed to be just below the water, before it emerged and sped out of sight when he tried to approach it.
The object was smooth, white and oblong, and had no visible wings or engines, Fravor said. He told the New York Times the experience left him 'pretty weirded out.'
2004 video shows Navy pilot tracking UFO over Pacific
Navy Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight had been flying about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego (pictured) in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets (pictured) when they encountered an unidentified flying object described as a 'Tic Tac'
In August of this year, the Pentagon officially acknowledged the existence of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, which authored the two newly revealed reports.
'The Department of Defense and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report,' the Pentagon said in a statement at the time.
However, an internal email obtained by The Debrief shows that almost one year before the DoD's announcement, the highest levels of the U.S. military were already being briefed on UAP.
The email, obtained through a FOIA request, shows an October 16th, 2019 exchange between former Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert Burke, and current Vice Chief of Staff for the Air Force, General Stephen 'Steve' Wilson.
Admiral Burke tells General Wilson: 'Recommend you take the brief I just received from our Director of Naval Intelligence VADM Matt Kohler, on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). SECNAV [Secretary of the Navy] will get the same brief tomorrow at 1000.'
In a 2019 email, former Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert Burke (left) advised current Vice Chief of Staff for the Air Force, General Stephen 'Steve' Wilson (right) to take a briefing he had just received regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)
The 'SECNAV' would have been then-Secretary of the Navy, Richard V. Spencer, who was fired about a month later over disputes about the court-martial of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.
Last year, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence received its own classified briefing on UAP -- and the committee has asked the Pentagon to release an unclassified report on such encounters. The request is not binding, however.
'People knew the Senate Intelligence committee had demanded a report from the Director of National Intelligence, and that an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon task Force has been set up,' Nick Pope, the British UFO expert, explained to DailyMail.com.
'What we now have is an insight into what's going on behind the scenes, and what this task force has been doing,' he added.
'I was genuinely surprised to see some of this information in an open source publication and I think some people within the defense and intelligence community are sailing very close to the wind here in discussing matters that are highly classified,' said Pope. 'I wouldn't be surprised if there's a leak inquiry going on at the Pentagon over this.'
While the intelligence community is required to grant Congress access to classified information, only the executive branch has the authority to declassify national security information in order to make it public.
'President Trump has hinted he knows some great secret about UFOs, that he might declassify,' said Pope. 'This might turn out to be the ultimate monkey wrench for the new administration!'
Airline passenger films UFO during flight from Tijuana to Morelia Michoacán
Airline passenger Luis Cabrera took a flight from Tijuana to Morelia Michoacán on December 3, 2020 when he noticed a strange object in the sky that apparently followed a steady course on which he started to record the Unidentified Flying Object.
The object is not a big bird because we don't see flapping wings, a Millar balloon at such a high altitude seems also unlikely. It is unknown what the object may have been, so far.
Leaked photo from Pentagon UFO task force shows mysterious UAP hovering over the Atlantic at 35,000ft
The existence of two classified Pentagon reports on UFOs has been revealed, the contents of which include a leaked photo depicting a mysterious object hovering over the Atlantic at 35,000ft.
Image credit The Debrief and edited by Dailymail.
The leaked photo, published by The Debrief on Thursday, was included in the 2018 position report, two DoD and one intelligence source told the outlet.
The DoD's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force issued the two classified intelligence 'position reports' in 2018 and the summer of this year, and they circulated widely in the U.S. intelligence community, according to a detailed account from The Debrief based on interviews with multiple intelligence sources.
Image credit The Debrief
According to the Dailymail, the position reports' startling contents included a leaked photo that has never before been made public, accounts of 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' (UAP) emerging from the ocean and soaring through the sky, and an admission that extraterrestrial origins for the objects cannot be ruled out.
Prince Philip Fascination with Aliens and UFOs Sparked by Lord Louis Mountbatten
Lord Louis Mountbatten’s official report about a bizarre encounter with a spacecraft on his estate has sparked British royal Prince Philip’s long-running obsession with UFOs and aliens.
The husband of Queen of England has reportedly spent decades building up a trove of books on space aliens. The fascination grew after Mountbatten wrote an official report about a strange experience one of his employees reportedly had with a silver spacecraft on his Broadlands estate’s ground in Romsey, Hampshire.
Mountbatten wrote about the 1955 incident involving Mr Briggs. He said that Mr Briggs was still dazed when he first saw him and worried that no one would believe his story. Mr Briggs reportedly told Mountbatten that he had never believed in stories about flying saucers and had been amazed at what he had seen.
Philip,99, is reportedly keeping a map of UFO sightings on a wall in Buckingham Palace. He also said to ask top-secret Ministry of Defence reports into UFO sightings and close encounters.
He reportedly spent last summer reading a book ‘The Halt Perspective,’ which looks into the Rendlesham Forest incident’s inside story.
The event saw a series of reported sightings of strange lights in December 1980. Two officers stationed from the nearby Woodbridge US Air Force base even claimed to have encountered a triangular UFO, displaying hieroglyphic symbols, which sped away after they touched it.
Retired US Air Force Col Charles Halt and retired West Midlands detective John Hanson penned the book.
Philip’s secretary Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell wrote a letter to the former detective, saying he is certain it will be read with serious interest over the summer.
Hanson voiced his approval of Philip’s curiosity. He told The Sun: “Why shouldn’t any sensible person have an interest in a phenomenon that has baffled mankind for millennia?”
After Philip received another book ‘Haunted Skies: The Encyclopedia of British UFOs,’ Miller-Bakewell stated that His Royal Highness will add the copy to his collection. It’ll make a most welcome addition to his library.
Chinese sonde op weg terug naar de aarde met stukjes maan
Chang’e 5, de onbemande Chinese verkenner die dinsdag op de maan landde, is eerder dan gepland klaar geraakt met het verzamelen van stenen en ander bodemmateriaal daar. Donderdagnamiddag is de sonde weer opgestegen van de maan en begonnen aan de terugreis naar de aarde, zo hebben Chinese staatsmedia gemeld.
Voor het eerst werd zo een Chinees ruimtetuig van op een ander hemellichaam gelanceerd. Dat gebeurde om 16.10 uur Belgische tijd, toen de motoren van de stijgmodule aanfloepten. Voordien werd nog een kleine Chinese vlag ontplooid, aldus de China’s Daily. Volgens de Chinezen vertrok het onbemande ruimtevoertuig zonder problemen van de maanoppervlakte.
De module zet nu koers naar het moederschip (“orbiter”) dat op een hoogte van zowat 200 km boven de natuurlijke satelliet van de aarde draait. Er volgt een koppeling, waarna de stalen naar de terugkeermodule verhuizen. Nog eens daarna ontkoppelen de opstijgmodule en het moederschip. De “orbiter” en zijn terugkeermodule zetten vervolgens koers naar onze planeet. In een baan rond de aarde scheiden ook de wegen van die twee modules.
De terugkeermodule moet dan “midden december” landen op de steppe van Binnen-Mongolië.
De Chang'e 5, vernoemd naar de godin van de maan in de Chinese mythes, werd vorige week gelanceerd. Dinsdag landde hij op Mons Rümker, een oude vulkanische formatie op het noordelijk halfrond van de maan. Die is ongeveer 1 miljard jaar geleden gevormd en is daarmee jonger dan veel plekken op de maan die tot nu toe verkend zijn.
De Chang'e 5 heeft enkele kilo's aan bodemmateriaal verzameld met een robotarm en een boor. Die stalen zijn in het laadruim opgeborgen. Wetenschappers willen de bodemmonsters onderzoeken om een beter beeld te krijgen van de samenstelling en de geschiedenis van de maan. Het is niet duidelijk of het materiaal alleen aan Chinese onderzoekers wordt verstrekt, of dat het ook wordt gedeeld met mensen uit andere landen.
De laatste keer dat maanstenen naar de aarde werden gebracht, was in 1976. Toen haalde de missie Luna 24 van de Sovjet-Unie ongeveer 170 gram stenen op. De twaalf Amerikanen die op de maan hebben rondgelopen, hebben ook allerlei maanrotsen meegenomen naar de aarde.
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China wordt de laatste decennia steeds actiever in de ruimtevaart. Het land doet dat voor het grootste deel zelf. In 2003 ging voor het eerst een Chinese 'taikonaut' de ruimte in. In 2013 landde voor het eerst een Chinees karretje op de maan. Eerder dit jaar vertrok een onbemande Chinese verkenner naar Mars, waar hij volgend jaar moet aankomen. In de komende jaren wil China ook een eigen ruimtestation bouwen.
Art Bell: The Reptilian Overlords... 20 Years of Encounters
COAST TO COAST AM INSIDER Archived Show - Abductee and author Jim Sparks returned to share more details of his encounters with aliens, which have persisted for almost two decades. His main experiences are with the ETs known as the Grays, though he’s also had contact with Reptilians, whom he believes are directing the Grays.
Sparks told of the time the aliens gave him a “gift,” which came in a square black box. After receiving telepathic instructions on how to open it, he found a black, tarry substance 2-3 inches thick that contained a horrible smell. The aliens informed him that it had been extracted from his lungs.
What is the mystery behind all of the “alien monoliths” that have been suddenly appearing and disappearing?
When a huge silver monolith was spotted in a very remote section of the desert in southeastern Utah, it immediately created a media sensation. But then it disappeared. A similar monolith had also been discovered in Romania, but now it is gone too. Then on Wednesday, everyone was buzzing about a third monolith that had been spotted in California. They are being called “alien monoliths”, but nobody knows who created them or if the three monoliths are even from the same source. But after being bombarded by the science fiction movies that Hollywood has been creating for decades, the world is definitely hungry for news that we are being contacted by someone from beyond.
The monolith saga started last month when a biologist spotted a large shiny object from the helicopter that he was flying in…
Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety’s Aero Bureau were flying by helicopter last Wednesday, helping the Division of Wildlife Resources count bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah, when they spotted something that seemed right out of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
“One of the biologists … spotted it, and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it,” pilot Bret Hutchings told CNN affiliate KSL. “He was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!’ And I was like, ‘What.’ And he’s like, ‘There’s this thing back there — we’ve got to go look at it!’”
The Utah monolith appears to have been riveted together, and that would seem to indicate that human technology was used to construct it. We are being told that it was definitely very sturdy, and helicopter pilot Bret Hutchings estimated that it was “between 10 and 12 feet high”…
And there it was — in the middle of the red rock was a shiny, silver metal monolith sticking out of the ground. Hutchings guessed it was “between 10 and 12 feet high.” It didn’t look like it was randomly dropped to the ground, he told KSL, but rather it looked like it had been planted.
Subsequently, Internet sleuths discovered exactly where the Utah monolith was located and they used Google Earth to determine that it had appeared some time between August 2015 and October 2016…
After that, a Reddit user was able to find the monolith on Google Earth. The coordinates of the strange monolith are 38.343080°, -109.666190° and plugging that into Google Earth shows you it’s just south of Dead Horse Point State Park, between the park and Needles Point, a tourist outlook. Others used Google Earth’s historical imaging data to narrow the appearance of the monolith in the area sometime between August of 2015 and October of 2016. As one of the internet sleuths pointed out, the three-sided monolith is miles from the closest paved road.
So it isn’t as if this monolith came out of nowhere. Apparently it had been there for as long as five years.
The world was stunned when the Utah monolith suddenly disappeared, and at first nobody knew what happened to it.
As mysteriously as it showed up, the strange monolith disappeared, and Sylvan Christensen and Andy Lewis now say they’re among those responsible, according to reports.
“We removed the Utah monolith because there are clear precedents for how we share and standardize the use of our public lands, natural wildlife, native plants, fresh water sources, and human impacts upon them,” Lewis and Christensen said in a statement sent to Grit Daily.
They even posted a video on YouTube that shows them removing the monolith.
Christensen and Lewis are just private citizens, and so it was rather presumptuous for them to grab what could have been a potentially important object.
I think that it is quite likely that they will be getting a visit from law enforcement authorities.
Shortly after the Utah monolith was discovered, another monolith popped up in Romania…
The mysterious metal structure in Romania was found a few metres from the well-known archaeological landmark the Petrodava Dacian Fortress.
It is a dark metallic colour and appears to be covered in concentric scribble-like rings.
The shiny triangular structure has a height of about four metres and one side faces Mount Ceahlau, known locally as the Holy Mountain.
This monolith appeared to be not constructed as well as the Utah monolith, and unlike the Utah monolith it suddenly appeared just recently.
But Reuters reported Tuesday that the shiny metal Romanian monolith has disappeared, quoting journalist Robert Iosub of the local newspaper Ziar Piatra Neamt.
“The 2.8 metre (9ft) tall structure disappeared overnight as quietly as it was erected last week,” Iosub said.
That could have been the end of the story, but now another monolith has been found in California…
Now, yet another monolith has been discovered, this time in California.
“There is currently a monolith at the top of Pine Mountain in Atascadero!” tweeted Connor Allen on Wednesday afternoon, with a trio of pictures capturing the strange new monolith at the top of Pine Mountain in Atascadero, California.
This new monolith appears to be fairly flimsy, and according to a local news report it was first spotted on Wednesday morning…
A few years ago, the “creepy clown” phenomenon took America by storm as hordes of copycats were inspired by a few initial news stories.
It looks like the same sort of thing may be happening again.
We live at a time when people are always looking for the next big social media stunt, and these monoliths have definitely gotten a lot of attention.
Meanwhile, our world is literally coming apart at the seams all around us, and things are only going to get worse in the years ahead.
When reality is unpleasant, many would rather focus on just about anything else, and these monoliths are definitely an interesting distraction. But all three of them appear to have been created by humans using very common technology, and so they aren’t signs that the “aliens” are about to arrive after all.
But without a doubt, our world has become a very strange place and it is getting stranger with each passing day.
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The new California monolith was torn down overnight by a group of right-wing young men who livestreamed their vandalism in a grainy video posted on the blockchain streaming site DLive.
In the video, a group of three men are seen pushing the statue over and chanting "America First" and "Christ is King." The men, one of whom was wearing a "Make America Great Again" headband, called part of the monolith's construction "gay" then replaced it monolith with a wooden cross. It is a decidedly bleak turn in the ongoing monolith saga that has generally been a delightful distraction for a world wracked by a pandemic.
“Christ is king in this country. We don’t want illegal aliens from Mexico or outer space,” a man in the video says. “So let’s tear this bitch down.”
As the group of three struggle to topple the 200-pound statue, they can be heard chanting as they sway it back and forth. Eventually, the monolith’s base breaks and it falls to the ground.
The group then places a wooden cross near the site of the monolith. They go on to pose and take pictures with the two pieces of plywood, all stepping with one boot on the monolith as if it’s a hunting trophy. After the photo shoot, they tie ropes around the monolith and drag it down the mountain, calling it names and cheering.
"It was a learning experience. Nobody got arrested … It was fine because it was funny," a man says on the stream after the monolith was taken down.
In a video posted to a DLive account run by someone with the username CultureWarCrimnal, the group of men claims to have driven for over 5 hours to get to the statue’s site, streaming most of the time. The man who appears in the later video is wearing military fatigues and camo face paint. He’s vaping while saying things like, “I will fuck you to death if you don’t sing.” The group goes on to sing "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and other military-centric songs, all while greeting his viewers with vulgar, racist commentary. Two other members in the back of the car have combat helmets on with night-vision goggles attached.
Throughout the video they mentioning burning crosses and white power.
On the way down Pine Mountain, the group is seemingly pursued by an unidentified party. CultureWarCriminal and others run into the bushes to hide and turn off their camera’s lights. The person with the camera claims someone is setting canines after them—no barking is heard. Shortly after, voices can be heard getting closer to the group. A person yells, “grab the cross and beat them with it.”
CultureWarCriminal and his crew then have an impromptu roundtable discussion in the bushes, contemplating if those pursuing them are a part of the Antifa movement. “Antifa isn’t one to underestimate,” the group concludes. They then devise a plan, seemingly getting excited using military vernacular, to call the police and frame those after them as the monolith destroyers. In the end, the crusaders left empty handed, back to their macho selves, bragging about their escape on the car ride home.
Previous videos posted to CultureWarCriminal’s DLive account show the man talking on Omegle about “the pedophile rape tunnels under Hillary Clinton’s house,” claiming to be a member of the Marines, and commending spitting on Black people. His Twitter further perpetuates his racist narrative and indicates his affinity towards far-right podcast host Nick Fuentes.
Calls to the Atascadero Police Department by Motherboard were not immediately returned.
Chang'e 5 has collected the first fresh moon samples in deceades.
China has launched a small spacecraft from the surface of the moon in the critical next step in the ambitious Chang’e 5 mission to bring lunar samples to Earth.
The small probe, which sat on top of the Chang'e 5 lander, lifted off from Oceanus Procellarum at 10:10 EST Thursday (15:10 GMT/23:10 Beijing time) carrying with it the first fresh lunar samples since 1976.
Six minutes later, the ascent spacecraft achieved lunar orbit, marking a huge milestone in the Chang'e 5 mission to return lunar samples to Earth. The ascent vehicle's job now is to meet up with the Chang'e 5 orbiter while still circling the moon, and then transfer its precious cargo to a return capsule for the journey home.
China's Chang'e 5 moon sample-return ascent vehicle lifts off from the lunar surface in this view captured by the lander itself at Mons Rumker in the Ocean of Storms on Dec. 3, 2020. (Image credit: CNSA/CLEP)
That next stage is an extremely challenging rendezvousing and docking between the small ascent vehicle and the Chang'e 5 orbiter while orbiting the moon. The activity needs to be automated due to the time delay in communicating across the roughly 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) between the Earth and the moon.
The two spacecraft will begin a final approach sometime on Saturday (Nov. 5)and complete the docking 3.5 hours later. If all goes well, China will then prepare for the final leg of the journey to deliver the first lunar samples to Earth in 44 years.
An artist's illustration of China's Chang'e 5 moon sample-return ascent vehicle lifting off from the lunar surface.
(Image credit: CNSA/CLEP)
The lunar samples won't be coming home immediately however. The Chang'e 5 spacecraft will need to wait in lunar orbit for a number of days for a narrow window in which to fire its engines and head for Earth.
The careful timing of this trans-Earth injection maneuver will allow the orbiter to deliver the reentry module to Earth at the precise time in order to land in Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia — the same site used by the China National Space Administration to return astronauts home aboard Shenzhou spacecraft.
The journey back to Earth will last 112 hours — just over four and a half days — before the reentry attempt. As spacecraft returning from the moon are traveling faster than those reentering from low Earth orbit, such as trips from the International Space Station, the Chang'e 5 reentry module will bounce off the atmosphere once to help it slow down before taking a final, fiery plunge to Earth.
The Chang'e 5 lander made its spectacular touchdown on Dec. 1 and almost immediately began taking images and collecting lunar samples with a drill and scoop. A special container for the lunar samples was filled and sampling completed within 19 hours of the landing and transferred to the ascent vehicle.
The ascent vehicle weighs just a few hundred kilograms and needed to accelerate to speeds of over 3,735 miles (6,011 kilometers) per hour per hour or just over 1 mile (1.67 kilometers) per second to achieve lunar orbit.
The Chang'e 5 orbiter, from which the lander and ascent vehicle separated in late November ahead of the lunar landing, is currently in lunar orbit awaiting the chance to rendezvous and dock with the ascender.
It will take around two days for the two spacecraft to synchronize their orbits enough to allow a rendezvous and docking attempt. The pair will have a small, 3.5-hour window in which to conduct the maneuver successfully.
If the spacecraft dock successfully the container with the samples will be transferred to the reentry capsule attached to the orbiter.
A mysterious object discovered in September is currently a new mini-moon for Earth. NASA confirmed on Tuesday, December 2, that the object is a lost-and-found 60s-era rocket from the Surveyor 2 moon mission, launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
View larger. | This 1964 photograph shows a Centaur upper-stage rocket before being mated to an Atlas booster. A similar Centaur was used during the launch of Surveyor 2 two years later and is now known as 2020 SO … a new temporary mini-moon for Earth.
NASA confirmed on Tuesday, December 2, 2020, that the object known as 2020 SO – noticed in September and given an asteroid name – is a lost-and-now-found 60s-era rocket from the Surveyor 2 moon mission. The rocket blasted off from Earth more than 50 years ago. The confirmation came from data collected at NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility on Maunakea, Hawaii, and from orbit analyses conducted at the the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Scientists first spotted this object on September 17, 2020, as it was approaching Earth’s vicinity. Orbit models quickly showed that both the low speed and trajectory of the approaching object were unusual. The models also showed that Earth would capture this object – temporarily – as a new mini-moon. And, on November 8, Earth did capture this object. Now, following a three-month analysis of its motion – and a close approach of the object on December 1 – NASA confirmed on Tuesday that the object is a relic of the early Space Age, a Centaur upper-stage rocket booster, once called America’s workhorse in space.
This particular rocket launched the ill-fated Surveyor 2 spacecraft toward the moon in 1966.
The lost rocket is expected to remain a captive of Earth from October 2020 until March 2021.
It appears to have been pushed from its original trajectory by a small but continuous pressure from sunlight.
This isn’t the first time Earth has captured a mini-moon. But it’s an awesome story of a lost-and-found rocket, originally launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
2020 SO came extremely close to Earth – about 30,000 miles (50,000 km or 0.13 of the average lunar distance) on December 1.
View larger. | This animation shows the orbit of 2020 SO as it was captured by Earth’s gravity on November 8, 2020. It will escape in March 2021. Its motion has been speeded up a million times faster than real time.
Astronomers first sighted the object in September using the 71-inch (1.8-meter) Pan-STARRS1 telescope at Haleakala, Hawaii. They gave it its designation – 2020 SO – and added it as an Apollo-type asteroid in the JPL Small-Body Database.
However, 2020 SO was quickly seen to have some features that set it apart from ordinary asteroids. According to NASA/JPL calculations, the object sped past Earth’s moon at a speed of 1,880 miles per hour (3,025 km/h) or 0.84 km per second (.5 mi/sec). That is an extremely slow speed for an asteroid.
These calculations also show the apparent “slow asteroid” orbiting the sun every 1.06 years (387 days). The low relative velocity, along with the Earth-like orbit, both suggest it as an artificial object launched from our planet.
Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Near Earth Object center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, first suggested the object might be the rocket booster of Surveyor 2, a robotic spacecraft that was launched to the moon on September 20, 1966. Surveyor 2 was meant to be the second lunar lander in the uncrewed American Surveyor program to explore the moon. The spacecraft blasted into space atop an Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
A mid-course correction failure caused ground controllers to lose contact with the craft three days later, after a thruster failed to ignite. The failure caused the spacecraft to tumble and ultimately to crash near the moon’s Copernicus crater.
View larger. | A model of the ill-fated Surveyor lander, which crashed on the moon in 1966.
Speed ahead to our time and the strange object designed 2020 SO. Astronomers noticed that the object had an estimated size between 20 and 45 feet (6 to 14 meters), a match for the dimensions of an Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D (approximately 41 feet or 12 meters).
How could we have lost an entire 41-foot-long rocket? Space archaeologist Alice Gorman of Flinders University in Australia told ScienceAlert that – before our modern era of reuseable rockets – the rockets that launched craft into space were surprisingly easy to lose. She said:
There are so many factors in the space environment, like gravitational factors and other things that affect movement, that it can sometimes be quite unpredictable.
You have to keep tracking these things, or you can just sort of lose sight of them really easily. And if they do something a little bit unpredictable, and you look the wrong way, then you don’t know where it’s gone. It is quite astonishing, the number of things that have gone missing.
NASA explained that pressure from the sun’s radiation caused the object to change its trajectory:
The pressure exerted by sunlight is small but continuous, and it has a greater effect on a hollow object than a solid one. A spent rocket is essentially an empty tube and therefore is a low-density object with a large surface area. So it will be pushed around by solar radiation pressure more than a solid, high-density clump of rock, much like an empty soda can will be pushed by the wind more than a small stone.
This isn’t the first time Earth has captured a mini-moon.
As you might have realized by now, space is chock-full of small asteroids. Once in a while, one of these space rocks is captured, temporarily, by our planet’s gravity, before being cast out back into the solar system at large. Two confirmed mini-moons are 2006 RH120 (in Earth orbit between 2006 and 2007), and 2020 CD3 (in our orbit between 2018 and 2020).
It’s also not the first time we’ve mistaken space junk for an asteroid.
Another small object that was initially thought to be an asteroid was WT1190F, detected in October 2015 on approach to Earth. Its trajectory suggested it was about to penetrate Earth’s atmosphere near Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean, an event that happens with ordinary asteroids several times every year.
As WT1190F was disintegrating in our atmosphere on November 13, 2015, scientists analyzed its light via spectroscopy.
This analysis suggested the object might be a spacecraft component or part of a spent rocket, another wandering piece of space junk, returning home.
Now that same suggestion has been confirmed for 2020 SO. Welcome home, Centaur D!
2020 SO isn’t the first object thought to be an asteroid, and later realized to be human-made space junk. Here’s an object tagged as WT1190F entering Earth’s atmosphere south of Sri Lanka on November 13, 2015.
Strange space object 2020 SO was discovered on September 17, 2020, on approach to Earth. On November 8, it slowly drifted into Earth’s sphere of gravitational dominance, a region called the Hill sphere that extends roughly 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) from our planet. That’s where 2020 SO will remain for about 4 months before it escapes back into a new orbit around the sun in March 2021. During that time, it will make 2 large loops around our planet. In this image, Earth is the blue dot in the center. The moon’s orbit is the white circle.
Bottom line: An “asteroid” spotted in September 2020 became a new mini-moon for Earth in November. In early December, NASA confirmed the object is a lost rocket from the Surveyor 2 mission, originally launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
Where did the famous mystery Wow! signal, detected in 1977, come from? Astronomer Alberto Caballero might have pinpointed the host star. It’s a sunlike star 1,800 light-years away, in the direction of the center of our Milky Way.
The famous Wow! signal, detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory in Ohio on August 15, 1977. It was a leading candidate for an extraterrestrial radio signal, but was never heard again.
In August 1977, astronomers detected an unusual radio signal coming from deep space that’s been the subject of debate ever since. Known as the Wow! signal, it was heard only once and never again. It still hasn’t been adequately explained. Enter amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero. He’s a founder of The Exoplanets Channelon YouTube and coordinator of the Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project, which, earlier this year, announced GJ 3470 c, the first exoplanet candidate fully discovered by amateur astronomers. On November 8, 2020, the non-peer-reviewed, open-access repository of electronic preprints arXiv published a scientific paper by Caballero. In it, he said he has narrowed down the source of the Wow! signal. He might even have identified the specific star of origin. It’s a sunlike star – labeled 2MASS 19281982-2640123 – 1,800 light-years away, in the direction of the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
The finding is based updated data about our Milky Way galaxy from ESA’s Gaia space observatory, which is in the process of creating a cool new 3-D map of our galaxy. Using data from Gaia’s first and second data releases, Caballero searched for sunlike stars in the region of the sky from which the Wow! signal emanated. Read more about the power of Gaia’s data, below.
For this study, Caballero focused on sunlike stars, from mid-K to G-type (our sun is a G-type star). So far, the only intelligent life we know is here on Earth, so it’s logical to look for extraterrestrial intelligence around stars similar to our sun.
His search of Gaia data revealed 66 potential candidate stars, but one in particular stood out: 2MASS 19281982-2640123, a sunlike star located in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, along our line of sight to the center of our Milky Way galaxy. As Caballero told Discover:
The only potential sunlike star in all the WOW! signal region appears to be 2MASS 19281982-2640123. This star sits in the constellation of Sagittarius at a distance of 1,800light-years. It is an identical twin to our sun, with the same temperature, radius, and luminosity.
2MASS 19281982-2640123, a sun-like star 1,800 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. It is the best candidate found so far for the origin of the Wow! signal.
Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero of The Exoplanets Channel and the Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project wrote the new paper on a sunlike star that might be the source of the Wow! signal.
Right now, according to Caballero, 2MASS 19281982-2640123 is the strongest candidate star for being the source of the Wow! signal. As for the other candidates, he said, astronomers need more data about their luminosities or sizes. It’s still possible that one of the other candidates could turn out to be a better fit, but as of now, 2MASS 19281982-2640123 is the one that’s of special interest.
From Caballero’s paper:
In this paper it is analyzed which of the thousands of stars in the WOW! signal region could have the highest chance of being the real source of the signal, providing that it came from a star system similar to ours. A total of 66 G and K-typestars are sampled, but only one of them is identified as a potential sunlike star considering the available information in the Gaia Archive. This candidate source, which is named 2MASS 19281982-2640123, therefore becomes an ideal target to conduct observations in the search for potentially habitable exoplanets. Another 14 potential sunlike stars (with estimated temperatures between 5,730 and 5,830 K) are also found in the region, but information about their luminosity and radius is unknown.
What is the Wow! signal?
The Wow! signal of the 1970s is still considered to be the most enigmatic cosmic radio signal yet. It hasn’t been easily explained by terrestrial satellites or other human activity. It was detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory at Ohio State University in Delaware, Ohio, on August 15, 1977. It was an unusually strong signal, easily discerned from the background noise, and lasted 72 seconds.
The signal earned the nickname “Wow!” when Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who found it in the paper data printout, circled it and wrote “Wow!”
The Wow! signal is highly suggestive of extraterrestrial intelligent origin, but little more can be said until it returns for further study.
The detection was exciting, and, in many ways, still is. Astronomers had pondered what a true artificial signal from an extraterrestrial civilization might be expected to look like. The Wow! signal tentatively fit the bill. The problem was it was heard only once, and never heard again, like a cosmic one-hit wonder.
At the time, Kraus also looked in star catalogs for sunlike stars that might be the source of the signals, but didn’t find any. He said:
We checked star catalogs for any sunlike stars in the area and found none.
The Big Ear Radio Observatory at Ohio State University. It was listed in the 1995 Guinness Book of World Records under the category of Longest Extraterrestrial Search: “The longest-running full-scale SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) project is the Ohio SETI Program at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, which has searched the universe for extraterrestrial radio signals for 22 years, beginning in 1973.”
Generally speaking, star catalogs are more complete than they were in the 1970s. But Gaia’s catalog is in a class by itself, the most detailed star catalog ever produced, with 1.3 billion stars.
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched Gaia in 2013. The mission is to create the most detailed 3-D map of the Milky Way galaxy ever made, and is scheduled to continue until 2024.
Gaia gathers its data via what’s called astrometry. That is, it measures not just the positions of stars, but also their movements through space. Gaia’s job is to scan the sky repeatedly, observing each of its targeted billion stars an average of 70 times over the course of its mission. So, for example, we know our sun and all the stars in the Milky Way are moving continuously in great orderly masses around the center of our galaxy. We know that … but we didn’t have many details about how each star moves. How could we? The data for so many stars would be (are) massive; collecting the data, storing it and analyzing it requires today’s spacecraft and computer technologies.
Over its years in space, again and again and again, Gaia will acquire data points on the positions of Milky Way stars. Thus astronomers have already been able to produce an illustration like the very wonderful one below, which shows median velocities (the distances and directions traveled by each star per unit of time) of stars in our Milky Way:
All-sky map of median velocities of about a billion stars toward or away from our sun, made possible by the Gaia mission. When you look at this map, you’re seeing a large-scale pattern caused by rotation of our Milky Way galaxy.
Whether 2MASS 19281982-2640123 is the source of the Wow! signal remains to be seen, but it is a tantalizing new development in a cosmic mystery that has perplexed astronomers for over 40 years.
And, by the way, Caballero is also working on coordinating with several different radio observatories, on different continents, to search for new radio cosmic signals that might be indicative of extraterrestrial civilizations. He has three such searches lined up so far, with more expected. It will be very interesting to follow the progress of his endeavors.
Bottom line: An amateur astronomer may have found the long-sought origin of the famous mystery Wow! signal detected by a radio telescope in 1977.
Meteor triggers sonic boom and "astonishing" flash of light across multiple states and Ontario
A noontime boom that was heard and felt from southern Ontario to Virginia was likely caused by a disintegrating meteor, according to an organization in western New York that keeps track of such phenomena. Witnesses across the area reported hearing the boom or seeing a fireball in the sky shortly after noon on Wednesday, said Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society in Geneseo.
By early Thursday, the organization had recorded more than 150 reports of the fireball seen in seven states. The group said the fireball was mainly seen in New York and Ontario but it also received reports from Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Lunsford told CBS affiliate WTVH that he estimated that the fireball could have been the size of a small car, moving at least 10 miles per second. When it disintegrated 22 miles above the surface in western New York, it produced a bright light. A camera on the CN Tower in Toronto captured a huge flash of light across the skyline.
Police agencies and fire departments around central New York received 911 calls reporting a boom that shook windows, but clouds prevented sightings in much of the area. Since most reports of the boom were around Syracuse, that's likely where the meteor blew to bits, Lunsford said.
NASA's track of the event computed shows that the fireball ended its visible flight somewhere over Cayuga Lake, New York, the American Meteor Society said.
The meteor likely blew to bits near Syracuse, said Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society.AMERICAN METEOR SOCIETY
On the society's website, an observer in western New York reported the fireball was bright white with shades of yellow. An observer in Hagerstown, Maryland reported a fireball with red and orange sparks, smoke and a persistent train. A report from Welland, Ontario, described a long, bright green train.
"Sunny day so it looked like a gold metallic flash against the blue sky," said a report from Winchester, Virginia.
"Astonishing, amazing, still get goosebumps talking about it," wrote an observer in Port Dover, Ontario. "The train was flaming white, wide and long, no smoke."
"We tend to notice fireballs more at night because they stand out better, but it's not terribly unusual for very bright ones to be noticed during the day. It happens several times a year over populated areas," said Margaret Campbell-Brown, a member of the Meteor Physics Group at Western University in London, Ontario.
All fireballs, which are bright meteors, produce sound waves, sometimes detectable only by sensitive microphones, Campbell-Brown said by email. A large one may produce a thunderlike sonic boom with possible extra bangs from fragmentation, she said.
As part of 2020’s latest act, a monolith suddenly appeared in the Utah desert on November 18, causing quite a stir — only to mysteriously disappear last weekend. Now, someone has come forward with an explanation.
Although a complete enigma to most, avid hikers can probably guess what happened to the 12-foot metal object that appeared in the desert: It was removed by a group of people looking to preserve and protect the Earth.
Photographer Ross Bernards took to social media on Monday to claim that he knows what happened to the monolith, because he witnessed the removal himself.
Bernards explained that while he was visiting the monolith after the crowds had left, a group of four men appeared at around 9 p.m., pushed the metal object over, broke it apart, and carried it away in a wheelbarrow.
“Leave no trace,” one of the men reportedly said to Bernards.
“If you’re asking why we didn’t stop them,” read the post. “Well, they were right to take it out.”
“Leave no trace” is a concept embraced by groups like the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, which says it aims to protect the outdoors by teaching people to enjoy it responsibility.
The organization works to ensure people “leave no trace” while hiking. That mandate includes the removal of huge metal structures and other pieces of art that attract masses of people typically foreign to the area.
“We stayed the night and the next day hiked to a hilltop overlooking the area where we saw at least 70 different cars (and a plane) in and out,” the post continued. “Cars parking everywhere in the delicate desert landscape. Nobody following a path or each other. We could literally see people trying to approach it from every direction to try and reach it, permanently altering the untouched landscape.”
“Mother nature is an artist,” Bernards added. “It’s best to leave the art in the wild to her.”
Will We See The Utah Monolith In An Auction House Soon? Or Was It Taken To Area 51? UFO Sighting News.
The first monolith in the Utah desert has...as I have already predicted earlier...disappeared. No sooner has it vanished than another metal monolith with a top slightly diagonal appeared in Romania. The Romania version is clearly a fake...a reproduction. How do I know? Easy, I worked on B1 bombers and KC135 tankers planes back in the USAF. I often would have to sand down the paint on the metal to repaint it. This Romanian monolith has the rounded grinding marks of a person with poor skills at using a grinder or sander. Had they held it correctly, the sanding marks would not exist.
What happened to the original monolith?
1. I place an 80% chance it was stollen due to its fame and the gov saying it wants theirs...so it will soon be sold anonymously at Christies Auction house.
2. I place a 15% chance that MIB or gov workers dressed in black military outfits and black trucks came and removed to object for fear its an actual alien probe or ship. NASA space probes are hollow...this monolith is said to have sounded hollow. Taken to Area 51 to cut it open and try to find out what it is and if any of its technology could be useful to the US military.
3. I place a 5% chance on this actually being an alien ship or probe and that the object itself has moved its location, because the pilot who had walked away from it...may have looked human and was mingling and living in a city not too far away and thought this desert location was safe to leave the ship. Invasion? No...just a single craft is not an invasion. Pre invasion? Why? To take by force our iPhones, TVs, Computers? We have nothing other than our friendship and this planet to share with them.
Rainbow UFO Caught Over Saint John New Brunswick, Canada Nov 28, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 28, 2020
Location of sighting: Saint John New Brunswick, Canada
This is one magnificent looking UFO! Its got some amazing detail to it and really wants to be seen. I have heard about such ultraviolet UFOs and beings near the Mount Shasta area, where an alien base of ancient and religious beings exist, but this...this is mind blowing. And far from Mount Shasta, California. The detail, colors and how it changes shape...almost angelic. Makes me wonder, is this an alien craft, or an actual alien species that evolves so high that they no longer need a ship to travel the universe? I believe...this is a ship, a craft that can travel both space and time. Great video catch by Youtuber William O'Leary. This is what a zoom on a camera is for!
UFO Lands Near Huts On Island In Jungle (November 30, 2020) Cali Colombia, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 30, 2020 Location of sighting: Cali, Colombia
This eyewitness caught a rare close up sight of a disk moving over a few huts on a tiny island in Colombia last week. This is very daring for the aliens and clearly they have a high interest in the native indians of the area. Its clear that the people in those huts would not have such technology that could easily compete and surpass that of the US military. This is 100% alien and absolute proof that aliens are interested in all people, all life everywhere.
Now I have more questions...did it Land earlier? If it landed, did the occupant walk out and talk to anyone? This would be one of the safest locations in the world to land and explore for an alien...since they are deep in the jungle.
Strange UFO With Legs Over Manchester, UK, Nov 22, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 22, 2020 Location of sighting:Manchester, UK
Very strange one here. It almost looks like a giant bug in the sky. UFOs with arms have been seen before. As a matter of fact, Buzz Aldrin himself saw a UFO while in space and it was a long white body with an arm appendage of some sort sticking out. So although we have an idea of what UFOs should look like because of the movies and TV shows...in reality alien ships do not stick to that perceived movie notion, but instead come in all shapes and sizes. And then ones like this comes along and truly confounds me. I know of nothing that could possible look like than other than a giant insect, and I have heard of one insect species...a mantis species that is much taller than humans. So there must be others out there too. Reality is like an onion, each layer only exposes a new layer of mystery.
I’ve discussed the idea that any aliens we meet someday may be machine-based artificial intelligence (AI). Paul Davies was one of the first astrophysicists to suggest the concept, although science fiction has been mining the idea for many decades. The reasoning is simple: machine-based intelligence is a lot more durable than a biological being, and easier to repair and reproduce. Humans are currently moving towards machine assisted living. Heart pumps and cochlear implants are just two basic examples. Computer interfaces with the brain are being tested. Davies points out that the development of machine assisted human biology is likely to continue. Eventually, we will reach a point where the human body is more machine than biological.
Philosophy professor Susan Schneider takes that idea a step further. In a presentation to a NASA conference, she suggested that aliens would likely be a highly developed form of artificial intelligence: a superintelligence. This is how Nick Bostrom with the University of Oxford defines it: “By a “superintelligence” we mean an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills. This definition leaves open how the superintelligence is implemented: it could be a digital computer, an ensemble of networked computers, cultured cortical tissue or what have you. It also leaves open whether the superintelligence is conscious and has subjective experiences.”
It may sound like an esoteric point to discuss superintelligence when any alien artificial intelligence would likely be much more intelligent than humans, just by existing. However, Schneider examines the difference between human thought and the workings of a superintelligence to tackle some important issues in the consideration of extraterrestrial First Contact.
One primary point in her paper is the issue of consciousness. Could a superintelligence be conscious? Consider the ramifications- the further an alien intelligence is from our biological state, the wider the gulf between us in terms of understanding, if we meet someday. Consciousness defines the human experience in many respects. We are a product of our interaction with our reality, in both physical and mental dimensions. Superintelligence could be so different from human intelligence that finding common ground between the two would be difficult. Schneider brings up an interesting possibility, once again relying on Nick Bostrom for the foundational idea- what if artificial intelligence is engineered to be like the intelligence of the biological originator? Humans are doing this currently as we design our own artificial intelligence. Many researchers are using the human brain and human attributes as a model for AI. Thus, the finished product would operate in a manner consistent with human intelligence. If we’re doing it, it seems quite possible biological aliens would have followed the same process. Why? Dr. Schneider brings up the concept of self-preservation. Many humans are uncomfortable designing AI that would eventually replace us. By designing AI with human thought patterns, we would be preserving part of who we are, even if the biological parts are eventually left behind. If aliens did the same, we could eventually meet a biologically-inspired superintelligent alien (BISA). That sounds daunting, so we probably need to consider the commonalities we still may have. Schneider examines the Bostrom Instrumental Convergence Thesis: “Several instrumental values can be identified which are convergent in the sense that their attainment would increase the chances of the agent’s goal being realized for a wide range of final goals and a wide range of situations, implying that these instrumental values are likely to be pursued by a broad spectrum of situated intelligent agents.”
Bostrom identifies these areas of commonality: “Resource acquisition, technological perfection, cognitive enhancement, self-preservation and goal content integrity (i.e., that a superintelligent being’s future self will pursue and attain those same goals).”
This states that alien AI, whether it be entirely artificial or BSIA in nature, will have a set of behaviors that we could recognize. That could provide a basis for understanding
You can see why I’ve included Nick Bostrom and his Future of Humanity Institute as one of the important experts to consult with in the wake of First Contact. He has been discussing such issues for more than 20 years. I will add Susan Schneider to that list. Applying these superintelligence concepts directly to extraterrestrials could be an important facet of First Contact.
Could the moon be a hollow-bodied construct that contains a hidden message encoding the deeper mysteries of our universe and life on Earth? The team of researchers examine evidence that suggests that our moon is of artificial origin, intentionally placed in exact orbit by advanced civilizations in ancient times.
With recent discoveries from NASA and the European Space Agency, the lunar enigmas have only compounded.
Mystery of Monolith Disappearance Solved? - Live Coverage (Plus Romania Monolith Update)
Mystery of Monolith Disappearance Solved? – Live Coverage (Plus Romania Monolith Update)
The mystery of why the Utah monolith disappeared has apparently been solved. Get the latest details, plus an update on the Romania monolith, in our LIVE COVERAGE.
In this interactive live stream, host Steve Lookner brings you the latest news on the Utah monolith & Romania monolith, and he’ll also read your comments and questions on the air!
Alien Craft Cloaked In Cloud Over Facatativá City in Colombia, Jan 15, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Jan 15, 2020 Location of sighting: Facatativa, Colombia
Now I have not seen this so I'm posting it now. Its a great sightings with an amazing disk shaped cloud...which holds a alien UFO within. Its a well known fact among UFO and alien researchers that UFOs not only make clouds to hide within, but can make contained disk clouds...disk because the aliens turn on the ships shields...the cloud is held within the shield, thus taking the shape of the ship itself. 100% proof that aliens frequent the area of Colombia.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
In Facatativá on January 15, 2020 in the early morning, a rather rare cloud shaped like a saucer was observed, a radiant object that came out of that cloud was also observed leaving that cloud.
I was looking through a Mars gigapan photo when I found a dragon skull carved into the local environment. Behind the dragon head was two bipedal aliens carved in the stone behind. One alien is taller and has its arm wrapped around the neck and chest of the other shorter aliens. Also the dragon head has a very visible mouth, nose, eye and forehead. The dragon may be another species of intelligent alien that may have lived among them. 100% proof that aliens once existed and thrived on Mars.
Mysterious lights over Ottawa, Canada On Nov 28, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 28, 2020 Location of sighting:Ottawa, Canada
The eyewitness noticed some strange lights shooting around in the sky sky. He was outside of town and there were not visible signs of search lights in the distance and no reason there would be lights in the sky. The lights moved differently than search lights and seemed to take a elliptical patter and shoot away. This appears to be a fleet of UFOs that have emerged from an underground base 6km below and began to shoot off to their destination.
Recalling the planet sized refueling UFO tethered to the Sun
Images captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 12, 2012, show what appears to be a planet-size shadowy object tethered to the sun by a dark filament.
In the image sequence, a burst of brightly lit material can be seen erupting from the sun's surface surrounding the dark object, after which the orb detaches from the sun and shoots out into space, suggesting it shows a UFO spacecraft refueling by sucking up solar plasma.
According to NASA scientists the strange appearance is less exciting than a refueling UFO, the feature is actually a type of solar activity called a "prominence," a feature containing cooler, denser plasma than the surrounding 3.5-million-degree Fahrenheit corona.
It isn't yet known exactly how prominences develop, but these dense plasma loops can extend from the sun's surface thousands of miles into space.
Now, almost 8 years after the incident, many people are still in doubt whether it was a giant UFO tethered to the sun before flying back into space or a solar activity called "prominence" as explained by NASA scientists.
Disk-shaped UFO Fastwalker flying right past a drone
Anew video has emerged showing a disk-shaped UFO Fastwalker flying right past a drone at an incredible speed.
The Fastwalker was captured in South Korea on June 2, 2020 and although these fastwalkers come in many different types, this is the first time such a UFO has been filmed consisting of two half disks connected to each other.
Check out our label: Fastwalkers to see more videos of these mysterious flying objects.
Check out this triangular-shaped formation of UFOs hovering in the night sky above Calgary, Canada on 18th November 2020.
Witness report:
A distant onrage-red object in the sky appeared to be sitting 80 degrees in the atmosphere, moving very slowly toward the west direction.
At 2:50 am, there was a bright light in the night sky. After viewing the object for a few moments, I noticed it was orange in color – and maybe every fifteen seconds a red signal began beeping on one side of it.
The object was not on any sort of path projectory, looked like it was floating at its elevation level. It was not close enough to make out a shape, however I could tell it was an object because of the red signal. The bright light was and consistently stayed mostly orange.
I decided to film the light with my smartphone and began examining the object for an hour and 5 minutes. In the time period, it moved further and closer to the west than its original position. It was a moonless-mostly clear sky, except for some clouds overhead.
When I viewed the object in camera, I noticed when zoomed in, the object looked diamond-shaped with an elongated bottom, with steam emitting from each side. The light was not glowing consistently.
Another mystery in my video footage is another object which appears, similar behavior but smaller in size. The object appears at 3:24 am, thirty four minutes after filming the first object.
At 3:25 am, the secondary objects appears to get brighter 3:34 am, the object is at a new position, maybe dropping elevation and altitude, behind the first object. 3:35 am, the object can be seen on its flight path, but its moving rate is nearly unnoticeable. 3:36 am, the two objects are in noticeable view, the first object looked like a cooler temperature and the second object a warmer temperature, appearing very active. 3:38 am, the two objects appear to be hovering in place. 3:41 am, the second-moving object disappears and is gone. 3:47 am, took one final video of the sky, with a single object continuing its hover on the edges of the city limits, but distant is too far to gather more video. 3:55 I end my investigation and go to sleep.
*Note, the second object was only noticed after review of the videos.
Chang'e 5 touched down on the moon at 10:11 a.m. EST (1511GMT, 11:11 p.m. Beijing Time) near Mons Rümker, a mountain in the Ocean of Storms (or Oceanus Procellarum), CNSA officials said. The probe deployed its solar array and antenna soon after to begin its work on the moon.
Two pieces of the four-module, 18,100-lb. (8,200 kilograms) Chang'e 5 mission hit the gray dirt today — a stationary lander and an ascent vehicle. If all goes according to plan, the lander will spend the next few days collecting about 4.4 lbs. (2 kg) of lunar material, some of it dug from up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) beneath the lunar surface.
The sample will then be transferred to the ascent vehicle, which will launch to lunar orbit and meet up with the other two Chang'e 5 elements — an orbiter and an Earth-return craft. The return vehicle will haul the moon dirt and rocks to our planet, with a touchdown planned in Inner Mongolia in mid-December.
That will be a landmark event; pristine lunar samples have not been delivered to Earth since 1976, when the Soviet Union's Luna 24 mission came home with about 6 ounces (170 grams) of material.
This view of the moon's surface was taken by the landing camera of Chang'e 5 shortly after its Dec. 1, 2020 touchdown in the Ocean of Storms. A shadow from one of the lander's legs is visible on the lunar surface. (Image credit: China National Space Administration/CLEP)
Chang'e 5 just launched on Nov. 23, so it's packing a lot of action into a few short weeks. The compressed timeline is driven largely by the mission's energy needs: The Chang'e 5 lander is solar powered, so it must get all of its work done in two Earth weeks at most, before the sun sets at Mons Rümker. (One lunar day lasts about 29 Earth days, so most moon sites receive two weeks of continuous sunlight followed by two weeks of darkness.)
Chang'e 5 is the latest mission in the Chang'e program of robotic lunar exploration, which is named after a moon goddess in Chinese mythology. The Chang'e 1 and Chang'e 2 orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010, respectively, and Chang'e 3 put a lander-rover duo down on the moon's near side in December 2013.
The Chang'e 5 T1 mission sent a prototype return capsule around the moon and back to Earth in October 2014 to help prepare for Chang'e 5. And in January 2019, the Chang'e 4 lander-rover duo pulled off the first-ever soft touchdown on the moon's mysterious, largely unexplored far side. Both Chang'e 4 robots remain operational today, as does the Chang'e 3 lander.
Though Chang'e 5 has a very short operational life, the mission is designed to have a long-lasting impact. After all, scientists are still studying the 842 lbs. (382 kg) of lunar material brought to Earth by NASA's Apollo missions from 1969 to 1972.
Some of the Apollo material came from Oceanus Procellarum, a huge volcanic plain that Apollo 12 explored in late 1969. But Mons Rümker rocks formed just 1.2 billion years ago, whereas all of the samples collected by the Apollo astronauts are more than 3 billion years old.
China's Chang'e 5 moon lander captured this view of the lunar surface as it approached its landing site in the Ocean of Storms region of the moon during a successful landing on Dec. 1, 2020 (Image credit: China National Space Administration/CLEP)
Chang'e 5 therefore "will help scientists understand what was happening late in the moon's history, as well as how Earth and the solar system evolved," the nonprofit Planetary Society wrote in its description of the mission.
Chang'e 5 isn't the only sample-return game in town. Japan's Hayabusa2 mission is scheduled to deliver pieces of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth on Dec. 5, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe collected samples of the space rock Bennu in late October. The Bennu samples are scheduled to come home in September 2023.
Editor's note:This story was updated at 12 p.m. EST with additional details on Chang'e 5's successful moon landing from the China National Space Administration.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life.
China has reached a major milestone in its quest to bring home moon rocks, with its Chang'e 5 mission spacecraft separating into two pairs of vehicles in preparation for a lunar landing.
The Chang'e 5 spacecraft launched on Nov. 23 intent on becoming the first mission to bring lunar samples to Earth since 1976; the mission reached lunar orbit on Nov. 28. According to China's state-run news agency Xinhua, the mission's orbiter/return vehicle and its lander/ascender vehicle separated in lunar orbit yesterday (Nov. 29) at 3:40 p.m. EST (2040 GMT; 4:40 a.m. Beijing time on Nov. 30). That move sets the stage for a landing near the peak of Mons Rümker, a mountain in the Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") region of the moon.
"The spacecraft is performing well and communication with ground control is normal," officials with China's National Space Administration (CNSA) said according to Xinhua.
China's Chang'e 5 moon lander and ascent vehicle separates from its orbiter/return vehicle early on Nov. 30, 2020 Beijing Time ahead of a landing in the moon's Ocean of Storms for a lunar sample-return mission. (Image credit: CCTV)
The lunar orbiter and the return spacecraft will continue circling the moon while the lander and ascent vehicle will head toward the lunar surface at a time yet to be announced by China. That landing should happen soon, as the solar-powered Chang'e 5 lander will only two weeks (one lunar day) in which to collect samples. The Chang'e 5 mission is expected to last about 23 days in all, CNSA officials have said.
If all goes well, the pair will touch down gently within the Oceanus Procellarum plain and collect about 4.4 lbs. (2 kilograms) of moon rock, including from a depth of about 6.5 feet (2 meters). Within two weeks, the samples will be packed into the ascent vehicle to blast off the lunar surface and meet up with the orbiting spacecraft.
China already has three active spacecraft on the lunar surface: the Chang'e 3 lander, which arrived in 2013, and the Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu 2 rover, which landed on the far side of the moon in January 2019. All of these missions are part of China's ambitious Chang'e lunar exploration program.
The Chang'e 5 mission is the country's first attempt at a sample-return mission. If it is successful, it will return its moon rock samples to China in mid-December.
Email Meghan Bartels at mbartels@space.com or follow her on Twitter @meghanbartels.
The M4.4-class solar flare was a medium-strength sun storm.
The most powerful solar flare in over three years erupted on Nov. 29, 2020. (Image credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/EVE/HMI)
The sun unleashed its most powerful solar eruption in more than three years on Sunday (Nov. 29).
The solar flare, which is a sudden, bright explosion of electromagnetic energy, measured as an M4.4 on the scale astronomers use for sun storms. M-class flares are medium-sized eruptions (compared to small C-class flares and large X-class flares) and rank on a scale from 1 to 9, with larger numbers representing stronger flares.
The M4.4 flare's bright burst was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, which can often accompany solar flares. Coronal mass ejections are large releases of plasma and magnetic fields from the sun's corona, or its outermost layer.
This flare kicked off a brand new solar cycle (solar cycle 25), which began in December 2019 and was announced in September. The previous solar cycle ran from 2008 to 2019 and, while this new solar activity phase started off with this powerful explosion, scientists estimate that it will be fairly quiet, much like solar cycle 24 before it.
Solar weather follows an 11-year activity cycle and tracking these cycles and the sun's ever-changing activity is critical not just for science but also for our daily lives here on Earth. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections release incredible bursts of electromagnetic radiation. These sudden energy expulsions can be so intense that their effects can reach Earth, causing radio blackouts and other technological disruptions.
But, while X-class solar flares might be capable of causing radio blackouts around the globe, M-class flares like the one we experienced on Sunday typically trigger only minor consequences on our home planet.
With this bright burst, X-rays and ultraviolet radiation from the solar flare created a shortwave radio blackout over the Southern Atlantic ocean, astronomer Tony Phillips reported at Spaceweather.com, detailing some of the technological effects of this flare.
Although the flare appeared as an M-class from Earth, it may actually have been a stronger flare, since the event took place partially behind the sun. "The explosion was partially eclipsed by the body of the sun. It might have been an X-class event," Phillips wrote. Spacecraft had a better view of the flare, however, so soon we should have more clarification on the exact size of the event.
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