A Single Dust Devil on Mars

Mars has a great combination of dust and wind. The result of that combination is often dust devils.

The HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured several dust devils in action, including this lonely whirling dust cloud traversing across a small crater on the Red Planet.

The orbiter’s main objective of this observation, the HiRISE science team said, was to track changes over time of the dunes north of Antoniadi Crater. While HiRISE often catches nature in action (such as an avalanche on Mars), in this case, it’s a well-defined dust devil traversing the dunes, leaving exposed, darker subsurface material in its wake.

Scientists say that dust devils form when sunlight warms up the air near a dry surface. Warm air then rises quickly through the cooler air above and starts spinning, causing a forward motion. These spinning columns of air become visible by the dust they pull off the ground. The spinning, forward-moving cell picks up dust and sand as it advances, leaving behind a “clean” track.

This black & white full image from HiRISE is less than 5 km across, while the lead image in enhanced color is less than 1 km across.

Over the years, scientists have monitored the appearance of dust devil on Mars. They have seen that on each Martian spring or summer day, dust devils can begin appearing about 10 AM (local time) as the ground heats, and start abating about 3 PM as the ground cools. The dust devils typically last only a few minutes.

On Mars, dust devils can be up to 20 kilometers (12 miles) high, as the one in the image above captured in action by HiRISE in 2012. Dust devils have been credited with unexpected cleanings of solar panels on the Mars Exploration Rovers. Right now, scientists and engineers with the InSight mission are hoping a dust devil will come clean off the lander’s solar panels so they can return to full scientific capabilities.

You can see a collection of high-resolution images here of dust devils from the HiRISE camera on board MRO.

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• You can see a collection of high-resolution images here of dust devils from the HiRISE camera on board MRO.

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UFO Sighting News: Unknown Craft Over Waynesburg, Pennsylvania 8-2-2020, MUFON.

Date of sighting: 8-2-2020
Location of sighting: Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Source: MUFON 114052 

 

Watch this strange craft flying across the sky over Pennsylvania last year. It was reported today. The object does not resemble a plane, rocket, helicopter or blimp. What ever this object is...one thing is for sure...its strange. Cools sighting and could be a plane if the sky, heat, wind and lighting were working together at the right moment, but seems like it something much more...this could be a UFO. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

Eyewitness states: 

Unexplainable Object observed flying the evening of August 2, 2020. This object was observed flying in the sky on the eastern side of our house. In the video it appears white but to the eye it appeared to be a grey silver color. The object appeared to be shaped like an elongated tic tac or cigar shaped, no wings. The most alarming thing is that it didn't make a sound. Planes fly over here frequently, and when they fly as low as this object did they are normally so loud you can here them inside the house. This object also appeared to not be flying as fast as planes normally do. The video of it was taken on a Samsung Note 9. The sounds you here in the video is mostly the water running out of my fountain and into my pond. There's also the sound of my brothers fiance talking, and crickets chirping. The thing is flying without making a noise.

  

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Clear Photo Of An Alien Craft Over L.a. California

JANUARY 23, 2021……THOUSAND OAKS CALIFORNIA

We got another UFO sighting on our hands here in L.A., folks — but this one stands alone, as it offers some the best clear shots we’ve seen of what appears … well, you make the call.

An eyewitness shot these photos last Saturday while heading south on the 101 Freeway, just outside of Thousand Oaks as she was approaching Westlake Village around sunset. We’re told she was on her phone when she saw this thing hovering in the sky, flying in the same direction she was heading … with a group of lights trailing behind it.

The eyewitness says she shot three consecutive photos as quickly as she could, and as you can see … the unidentified object appears to have changed positions, both tilting ever so slightly and moving to a new spot in the sky. We’re told this UFO was only visible for a few seconds, before it literally vanished into thin air. We know … far-fetched, right?

That’s what we thought too — but we’ve been assured these photos are NOT altered, and they show what they show. We were skeptical — thinking these could’ve been tweaked in Photoshop — so we had one of our art gurus take a closer look to see what she thought.

Turns out, our own photoshop wiz seems to agree … these don’t look like fakes.

Our graphic artist tried an experiment with stock images of “glowing discs,” “UFO’s” and “flying saucers” … to see if the images could be manipulated in a similar fashion as the tipster’s photos. She concluded it would be hard to cut/paste these images with the exact angles of the tipster’s images. So, these photos do appear to be legit … or at the very least, probably not photoshopped.

We also reverse image searched these pics, BTW, and couldn’t track down ANY that were exactly the same — so again, it lends credence to the idea these were taken on the spot, without being doctored after the fact.

So, where does that lead us in the end??? Welp, depends on what you want to believe. On its face, this looks to be a straight-up UFO sighting. IF that is in fact the case — who woulda thought Hollywood had it right all along in its depictions?!?

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UFO Sighting News: Glowing Lights Over Jersey City, New Jersey 11-5-2020, MUFON.

Date of sighting: 11-5-2020 

Location of sighting: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA 

Source: MUFON 114047 

This eyewitness was lounging on the roof when she noticed some glowing lights over a building in the distance. There were four lightings glowing over the building. The UFOs were probably checking out the activities of the people in the buildings and their current health levels. This way the UFOs don't need to come lower, but instead only need to got to the top of the building. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

Eyewitness states: 

Hanging out in my complex we have an area that faces New York City. I always see them because the sky is open and they’re very obvious. That day it was strange because there were 4 just hovering together as though they were having a meeting. They were there for a very long time but seemed as though no one even noticed. I wanted to film it until they separated to see what would happen but they were there for too long, then out of no where they were all gone.

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UFO Sighting News, Black Disk Over Keasbey, New Jersey, 10-18-2019, MUFON.

Location of sighting: Keasbey, New Jersey, USA

Date of sighting: 10-18-2019, but reported today. 

Source: MUFON 114039  

 

This event happened back in 2019, but was reported today by the eyewitness. The person was siting in the back seat of the car and noticed a black object in the distance. They recorded it with a phone best they could and the video it produced blows me away. At first I thought it was something stuck to the window, however I slowed it down and the UFO does pass behind the lamp poles (screenshot below). The object looks like a non reflective black disk. Similar to the one that Bob Lazar worked on at Area S4 many years ago. This thing was seen over New Jersey, so there is a huge chance that this is a USAF top secret project...using alien technology from Area S4. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

lack diamond in the sky. Video proof. On a road trip to Vermont. Visualized a black diamond in the sky and decided to film it. Wasn't driving, was in the back seat.

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Witness was on a road trip to Vermont when he noticed the black diamond shaped UFO on which he decided to film the strange appearance in the sky over Keasbey, New Jersey. 

Furthermore, Bright Jellyfish-like space creature in the sky over Hillsboro, Tennessee, Unexplainable object flying through the clouds over Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, Front door camera recorded mysterious Orb in North Brunswick, New Jersey and Strange Lights hovering over Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona.

  

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UFOs over Phoenix filmed from a plane during landing

This UFO video was filmed back in April 2019 but it was just published on MUFON’s website today. It shows these stationary UFOs hovering in the sky, witness caught this from a plane during landing.

Witness report: 

As I was landing at Phoenix International airport I witnessed multiple lights to the right of the aircraft, outside my window. At first I thought it was the line of other flights to land after us, but after watching them for a few minutes I noticed our elevation changed but their did not. I decided to focus a bit more on them to see if they were blinking as beacon lights would on planes, but nothing. The lights stayed at the same elevation during my entire landing and I captured 3 of them with my iPhone just before we landed. You can’t tell in the video but we are already below the mountain peaks so this can’t be a landing line for planes. Others on the flight were talking about them but we don’t know what they were. I know at night our cameras create an “orb” effect than many mistake for UFO’s but that is not the case here. Take a look at the video, I’m sure many others saw these hovering.

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Spinning UFO over Norwalk, CA 6-Mar-2021

Daytime UFO video of a bright unidentified flying object above Norwalk in California. This was filmed on 6th March 2021.

Witness report: 

Round organic looking glowing orb with flashing white light randomly, also seemed to be spinning. I was looking up at a clear blue sky in the afternoon when I noticed this white glowing object moving with random flashing white lights moving quite fast in the sky. It seemed to be spinning around and when the lights were off it looked like a black mass, it was hovering ( still ) at times, and then moving again changing direction one time at a 90 degrees angle. It looked like it was very high up in the sky, so it must have been big in size ! Don’t know what it was, definitely no airplane or balloon or any other known craft. Also this was not the first time I have seen a sighting like this above my house, this was the fourth time I have seen an UFO like this in the past year, only this time I had a clearer view on it then before.

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“Black diamond in the sky. Video proof.” Keasbey, NJ

This diamond-shaped black UFO was filmed over Keasbey, New Jersey back in in 2019 (18th October) but it was just posted on MUFON’s website today!

Witness report:

 Black diamond in the sky. Video proof. On a road trip to Vermont. Visualized a black diamond in the sky and decided to film it. Want driving, was in the back seat.

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Tianwen-1 : ses premières images de Mars en haute résolution - PART I

Rémy Decourt - Journaliste

[EN VIDÉO] Pourquoi les lancements vers Mars ne peuvent se faire que tous les 26 mois ?  Lancer un engin vers Mars, ce n’est pas facile. Il ne suffit pas d’attendre que notre Terre soit au plus près de la Planète rouge... Explications en vidéo ! 

Découvrez les trois premières images de la surface de Mars acquises par la sonde Tainwen-1. Ces images, rendues publiques par l'Agence spatiale chinoise, ont été acquises seulement quelques jours après l'arrivée de la sonde chinoise autour de Mars. 

L'Agence spatiale chinoise a rendu publiques trois images de la surface de Mars acquises par la sonde Tianwen-1, arrivée autour de Mars le 10 février 2021.

Il s'agit de deux images en noir et blanc et une en couleur qui ont pour but de montrer les capacités des caméras embarquées à bord de la sonde. L'image en couleur, de moyenne résolution, montre le pôle nord de la planète et sa calotte polaire très représentative de cette région.

Des images techniquement attrayantes 

Quant aux images en noir et blanc, elles ont été acquises avec une caméra ayant une résolution de 70 centimètres le pixel. Dit autrement, les plus petits détails visibles mesurent un peu plus de deux mètres. Une résolution inférieure aux images de la Nasa et néanmoins supérieure à celles obtenues par la sonde Mars Express de l'Agence spatiale européenne mais dont la conception remonte au milieu de la décennie 1990. 

Ces deux images ont été acquises alors que la sonde se trouvait à environ 330 à 350 kilomètres au-dessus de la surface martienne. On peut voir des cratères, des crêtes de montagnes et des dunes de sables. L'Agence spatiale chinoise n'a pas fourni d'informations sur la localisation de ces deux sites.

Ces deux images en noir et blanc de la surface de Mars font partie de la première série d'images obtenues par la sonde Tainwen-1. Elles ont été acquises depuis une altitude entre 330 et 350 kilomètres, quelques jours après l'arrivée de la sonde autour de la Planète rouge. La résolution est de 70 centimètres, ce qui signifie que les détails les plus petits visibles mesurent un peu plus de deux mètres.

© CNSA 

Mars : la Chine réussit l'insertion en orbite de sa sonde spatiale Tianwen-1

Article de Rémy Decourt publié le 10/02/2021

Après la sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis, c'est autour de la sonde chinoise Tianwen-1 d'arriver autour de Mars au terme d'un voyage de sept mois. La sonde s'est insérée en orbite vers 14 h 00 (heure française). La Chine devient donc le sixième pays et groupe de pays à rejoindre la Planète rouge, neuf ans après une première tentative ratée (Yinghuo-1).

C'est fait ! Dix ans après l'échec de la mission Yinghuo-1, un petit orbiteur qui devait être amené autour de Mars par la sonde russe Phobos-Grunt, la Chine est en orbite autour de Mars. Oubliez l'échec de Phobos-Grunt, qui n'avait pas réussi à quitter la Terre, la sonde Tianwen-1 s'est mise en orbite autour de la Planète rouge. La sonde serait entrée en orbite autour de Mars un peu avant 14 h, heure française, avec un périgée de seulement 385 kilomètres. L'Agence spatiale chinoise devrait confirmer les paramètres orbitaux de la sonde dans le courant de l'après-midi.

La première image rendue publique de la Mars acquise par la sonde chinoise Tianwen-1, alors distante de quelque 2,2 millions de km de la planète rouge.

© CNSA 

Une mission à « la Viking »

Cette mission chinoise est techniquement et scientifiquement très ambitieuse. Elle comprend un orbiteur, un atterrisseur et un rover. Depuis les missions Viking des années 1970, la Nasa a abandonné cette architecture de mission, lui préférant des missions uniques, c'est-à-dire soit un orbiteur, soit un lander, ou soit un atterrisseur avec un rover. La Chine n'a donc pas vraiment choisi la simplicité avec cette mission...

Étonnamment, l'atterrissage du rover est prévu fin avril-début mai. Pour comprendre ce délai de plusieurs mois après l'arrivée de la sonde, il faut savoir que l'Agence spatiale chinoise, contrairement à la Nasa ou l'ESA, ne dispose pas de cartes à haute résolution de la planète Mars. Ainsi, l'orbiter MRO (et sa caméra Hirise) de la Nasa a pu fournir des cartes très détaillées, de seulement quelques dizaines de centimètres de résolution, du site d'atterrissage de Perseverance bien avant son lancement.

Afin de préparer au mieux l'atterrissage du rover chinois, dans la partie sud d'Utopia Planitia, la sonde Tianwen-1 cartographiera la région de façon à tracer des cartes les plus détaillées possible. Le but est de localiser l'endroit le plus propice pour faire atterrir le rover en sécurité dans un environnement pas trop encombré de gros rochers et le plus plat possible. Dès le point d'impact connu et pour réaliser un atterrissage en douceur avec la précision requise, les contrôleurs au sol devront calculer le point d'entrée dans l'atmosphère martienne, qui ne sera évidemment pas choisi au hasard. Un calcul déterminant pour poser en douceur le rover.

Des objectifs ambitieux

Comme pour la sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis, les objectifs scientifiques de la mission sont annoncés comme élevés et focalisés sur une grande variété thématique (morphologie, géologie, structure interne minéralogie, eau, atmosphère, environnement spatial). Avec ces deux missions, la communauté scientifique s'attend à des avancées.

Parmi ces objectifs, on citera ceux qui font le pari de rechercher des signes de vie possibles ou des processus biologiques qui accréditeraient cette hypothèse. Le rover (240 kilogrammes environ) devrait photographier, étudier la composition du sol et fournir des informations sur l'environnement proche et l'atmosphère. Il recherchera également des traces d'eau à l'état solide, voire gazeux ou liquide, et son radar sondera le sous-sol afin d'obtenir des indices sur le passé de la planète. Quant à l'orbiteur, il se focalisera notamment sur l'atmosphère martienne et le méthane qui peut s'y trouver.

Mars en vue ! La sonde chinoise Tianwen-1 envoie sa première photo

Article de Rémy Decourt publié le 08/02/2021

L'Agence spatiale chinoise (CNSA), dont la sonde Tianwen-1 s'apprête à se mettre en orbite autour de Mars le 10 février, a rendu public un premier cliché de la planète Mars, acquis par la sonde. Et des images de Mars, la CNSA va en avoir besoin pour préparer l'atterrissage de son rover, en mai.

En février, les trois missions martiennes lancées à l'été 2020 devraient arriver autour de la Planète rouge. La sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis le 9 février, suivie un jour plus tard de la sonde Tianwen-1 de la Chine (10 février) et enfin l'Américaine Perseverance le 18 février.

À quelques jours de la mise en orbite de Tianwen-1, une phase très délicate, l'Agence spatiale chinoise (CNSA) a publié un premier cliché en noir et blanc de la planète Mars. Si peu de détails sont visibles, c'est tout à fait normal. La sonde a pris ce cliché quand elle se situait à quelque 2,2 millions de kilomètres de la planète Mars. D'une masse au lancement de cinq tonnes, Tianwen-1 est une mission de type Viking. C'est-à-dire qu'elle comprend un orbiter, une plateforme d'atterrissage et un rover conçu pour fonctionner et rouler pendant au moins 90 jours.

Atterrir dans la vaste plaine d’Utopia Planitia

Étonnamment, l'atterrissage du rover est prévu au mois de mai. Pour comprendre ce délai de plusieurs mois après l'arrivée de la sonde, il faut savoir que l'Agence spatiale chinoise, contrairement à la Nasa ou l'ESA, ne dispose pas de cartes à haute résolution de la planète Mars. Ainsi, l'orbiter MRO (et sa caméra Hirise) de la Nasa a pu fournir des cartes très détaillées, de seulement quelques dizaines de centimètres de résolution, du site d'atterrissage de Perseverance bien avant son lancement.

Afin de préparer au mieux l'atterrissage du rover chinois, dans la partie sud d'Utopia Planitia, la sonde Tianwen-1 cartographiera la région de façon à tracer des cartes les plus détaillées possible. Le but est de localiser l'endroit le plus propice pour faire atterrir le rover en sécurité dans un environnement pas trop encombré de gros rochers et le plus plat possible. Dès le point d'impact connu et pour réaliser un atterrissage en douceur avec la précision requise, les contrôleurs au sol devront calculer le point d'entrée dans l'atmosphère martienne, qui ne sera évidemment pas choisi au hasard. Un calcul déterminant pour poser en douceur le rover.

Tianwen-1 : lancement réussi de l'ambitieuse mission chinoise vers Mars

Article de Rémy Decourt publié le 23/07/2020

La Chine a lancé ce matin la mission Tianwen-1 à destination de la planète Mars qu'elle atteindra en février 2021.

Tôt ce matin, la sonde chinoise Tianwen-1 a été lancée en direction de la planète Mars pour un voyage long de sept mois. La sonde a décollé à bord d'un lanceur Long March 5 du centre spatial de Wenchang, située sur l'île de Hainan à 06 h 41, heure de France. Tianwen-1 doit arriver autour de Mars en février 2021 et s'installer sur une orbite elliptique avec un périgée à 265 kilomètres et un apogée à quelque 12.000 kilomètres. L'atterrissage du rover est prévu en avril dans d'Utopia Planitia, une vaste plaine de l'hémisphère Nord de Mars où des observations radar ont indiqué la présence de vastes quantités de glace sous la surface.

Cette seconde mission martienne de la Chine est très ambitieuse car elle prévoit l'atterrissage d'un rover et la mise en orbite autour de la planète d'une sonde. Neuf ans plus tôt, la sonde russe Phobos-Grunt, qui embarquait le petit orbiter chinois Yinghuo-1, avait raté son départ de Terre. L'orbiteur, qui embarque sept instruments, est conçu pour fonctionner pendant au moins une année martienne, soit deux ans. Quant au rover, il devrait rouler sur la planète pendant au moins 90 jours et dispose de six instruments.

Une mission scientifique annoncée comme ambitieuse

Tianwen-1 bénéficie de l'héritage technique du programme d'exploration lunaire chinois avec trois sondes et deux rovers sur la Lune, dont un est actuellement en activité sur la face cachée. Cela dit, malgré d'indéniables avancées technologiques et une politique cohérente de rattrapage dans les technologies spatiales, les Chinois ont tout de même été contraints de solliciter une assistance étrangère pour le bon déroulement de la mission et la fourniture d'instruments scientifiques. Il faut se rappeler que sur la quarantaine de missions lancées vers la Planète rouge depuis le début de la conquête spatiale, plus de la moitié ont échoué. Un peu d'aide de spécialistes étrangers n'est donc pas une si mauvaise idée que cela.

Comme pour la sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis, les objectifs scientifiques de la mission sont annoncés comme élevés et focalisés sur une grande variété thématique (morphologie, géologie, structure interne minéralogie, eau, atmosphère, environnement spatial).

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Tianwen-1 : ses premières images de Mars en haute résolution * PART II

La Chine part à la conquête de Mars avec le rover Tianwen-1 demain

Article de Emma Hollen publié le 22/07/2020

L'été 2020 s'annonce particulièrement propice aux lancements des missions martiennes. Ce jeudi, c'est la mission chinoise Tianwen-1 qui prévoit de quitter le plancher des vaches pour rejoindre la Planète rouge.

Le rover Hope des Émirats arabes unis et celui baptisé Perseverance par la Nasa ne seront pas les seuls à se rendre sur Mars ce mois-ci. La Planète rouge se trouvera en effet en opposition avec la Planète bleue vers la fin de l'année : elle, la Terre et le Soleil seront alors dans le même alignement, et Mars sera au plus proche de la Terre. Leurs positions respectives permettront par ailleurs aux missions de suivre une trajectoire optimale pour se rendre sur place. Les orbites asynchrones de la Terre et de Mars impliquent que les fenêtres de tir avantageuses sont rares, généralement espacées de deux ans. Mais l'année 2020 offre des conditions particulièrement propices pour les agences spatiales, qui ne connaîtront pas de nouvelle chance comme celle-ci avant 2033.

Trajectoire typique d'une mission vers Mars (ici, la mission Insight, lancée en 2018).

µ© Phoenix7777, Wikipedia  

La Chine se lance sur Mars

C'est pourquoi la première mission martienne entièrement conçue en Chine devrait se joindre au mouvement ce jeudi si tout se déroule comme prévu. Baptisée Tianwen-1 (un nom tiré d'un poème du VI^e siècle avant notre ère, et signifiant littéralement « questions adressées au paradis »), elle se compose d'une sonde, d'un atterrisseur et d'un rover. Les appareils devraient se placer en orbite martienne en février 2021, avant que l'atterrisseur et le rover ne soient envoyés à la surface, dans la plaine Utopia Planitia, deux à trois mois plus tard.

L'ESA, le Cnes, et les agences spatiales argentine (Conae) et autrichienne (FFG) ont apporté leur soutien au lancement de la mission Tianwen-1.

© CNSA 

Rendez-vous dans l'Utopia Planitia

La région sélectionnée par l'Agence spatiale chinoise possède plusieurs avantages notables pour le bon fonctionnement de la mission. Premièrement, l'atterrisseur devra traverser une plus grande couche d'atmosphère avant d'atteindre le fond du cratère d'impact formant Utopia Planitia (jusqu'à cinq kilomètres de profondeur), bénéficiant ainsi d'un temps supplémentaire pour ralentir sa chute. Deuxièmement, la zone possédera une exposition au Soleil suffisante pour alimenter les batteries du rover. Enfin, le terrain plat offrira une zone d'exploration idéale au robot, qui sera en opération pendant 90 jours martiens, équivalent chacun à 24 heures et 37 minutes sur Terre. Au programme : étude de la géologie martienne, analyse des sols et de la distribution d'eau glacée, mesure de l'ionosphère et des champs gravitationnels et magnétiques.

La Chine va lancer sa première mission d'exploration de Mars en juillet

Article de l'AFP-Relaxnews, publié le 25 mai 2020

La Chine investit des milliards d'euros dans son programme spatial et vise la Planète rouge avec une première mission baptisée « Tianwen ». Elle prévoit d'envoyer, en juillet, une sonde et un petit robot pour y mener des analyses.

La Chine prévoit de lancer en juillet une sonde et un petit robot téléguidé vers Mars, sa première mission en direction de la Planète rouge, a annoncé le promoteur du projet. Le pays investit des milliards d'euros dans son programme spatial : il lance des satellites, prévoit d'envoyer des Hommes sur la Lune, et vient courant mai de lancer un nouveau vaisseau.

« Notre objectif était d'envoyer la sonde vers Mars courant 2020, a indiqué la China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). Ce grand projet avance comme prévu et nous visons un lancement en juillet », a-t-elle souligné dimanche dans un communiqué.

L'atterrisseur du rover martien de la Chine testé dans des conditions simulant la gravité martienne.

© Andy Wong, AP, SIPA 

Tianwen, la première mission chinoise à destination de Mars

Il faudrait sept mois pour parcourir la distance Terre-Mars et la sonde chinoise n'arrivera pas à destination avant 2021. La distance change constamment mais est au minimum de 55 millions de kilomètres. Baptisée Tianwen (Questions au ciel), la mission chinoise a trois objectifs : placer en orbite martienne une sonde, la faire atterrir sur la Planète rouge, puis téléguider à la surface un robot pour y mener des analyses. La Chine a déjà réalisé une opération similaire sur la Lune, où elle a déposé dès 2013 un petit « rover » téléguidé à roues (baptisé Lapin de jade), puis son successeur en janvier 2019 (sur la face cachée de l'astre lunaire, une première mondiale).

Le pays asiatique n'est pas le seul sur le créneau des missions martiennes. Les États-Unis, qui ont déjà envoyé quatre véhicules exploratoires sur Mars, doivent lancer entre juin et août leur cinquième (nommé Perseverance). Il devrait arriver vers février 2021. Les Émirats arabes unis vont lancer le 15 juillet la première sonde arabe en direction de la Planète rouge, depuis le Japon. Par contre, la mission russo-européenne ExoMars, victime de difficultés techniques aggravées par l'épidémie de Covid-19 et qui espérait lancer cet été un robot vers Mars, a été reportée à 2022.

La Chine dévoile des informations inédites sur sa mission martienne de 2020

Article de Rémy Decourt, publié le 26 août 2016

Après le lancement d'un satellite qui embarque un système de communication quantique, la Chine a profité de cette exposition médiatique internationale pour lever le voile sur sa première mission martienne. Quelques images de synthèse et une brève présentation d'un des responsables de la mission ont suffi pour susciter un vif intérêt en raison d'objectifs scientifiques passionnants et à la clé une course avec la Nasa qui s'ouvre...

La Chine qui depuis son premier vol habité réalisé en octobre 2003 est devenue une puissance spatiale de premier plan s'éloigne encore plus de la Terre. Après la Lune en 2013, elle met le cap à destination de Mars et vise un atterrissage en 2021. On rappellera que la République populaire de Chine a d'abord tenté de rejoindre la Planète rouge à bord de la sonde russe Phobos-Grunt sur laquelle se trouvait l'orbiteur chinois Yinghuo-1. Malgré un lancement parfait le 8 mars 2011, cette sonde n'a jamais réussi à quitter l'orbite terrestre pour rejoindre Mars. En janvier 2012, elle est retombée dans l'océan Pacifique.

A présent, la Chine vient de publier quelques images de synthèse de cette future mission martienne qu'elle compte lancer en 2020. Ces clichés, au-delà de l'aspect ludique, nous renseignent sur le profil et l'architecture de la mission. À cela s'ajoute qu'en marge de cette publication, Zhang Rongqiao, un des responsables de la mission, a profité de l'occasion pour donner quelques détails intéressants que nous synthétisons ci-dessous.

Pour une première mission à destination de Mars, avec un orbiteur, un atterrisseur et un rover, la première puissance économique mondiale n'a pas vraiment choisi la simplicité. Si la mission ExoMars 2016 de l'Agence spatiale européenne a la même architecture, la Nasa, qui lance une mission à chaque fenêtre de tir a pris le parti de lancer soit un orbiteur, soit un engin de surface (lander ou rover). Bien que la Chine ait réussi à poser avec succès un petit rover sur la Lune (décembre 2013), atterrir sur Mars est autrement plus difficile. Sans surprise, le site d'atterrissage se situera près de l'équateur, là où les conditions atmosphériques pour se poser sont les plus favorables.

2020, grande année de lancements à destination de Mars

Cette mission martienne sera lancée lors lors de la fenêtre de tir de 2020, à l'été en vue d'un atterrissage au printemps 2021. Cette fenêtre de tir verra également le décollage des rovers Mars 2020 de la Nasa et d'ExoMars 2020 de l’Esa ainsi que de la mission Hope des Émirats arabes unis. Il s'agit d'un orbiteur dédié à la météorologie martienne qui viendra compléter les données de la sonde Maven, de la Nasa.

Compte tenu d'un grand nombre d'instruments, les objectifs scientifiques sont nombreux et variés. Les plus excitants sont ceux qui font le pari de rechercher des signes de vie possibles ou des processus biologiques qui accréditeraient cette hypothèse. Le rover (200 kg environ) emportera 13 instruments qui lui permettront, entres autres, de photographier, d'étudier la composition du sol et de fournir des informations sur l'environnement proche et l'atmosphère. Il recherchera également des traces d'eau à l'état solide, voire gazeux ou liquide et un radar sondera le sous-sol afin d'obtenir des indices sur le passé de la planète. Quant à l'orbiteur, il se focalisera notamment sur l'atmosphère martienne et le méthane qui peut s'y trouver.

Battre la Nasa sur le fil

Alors qu'on doit aux Russes et aux Américains la plupart des grandes premières spatiales, la mission de retour d’échantillons martiens se fait toujours attendre. Et si la Nasa, qui a cet objectif en point de mire depuis plusieurs années, se faisait souffler la vedette ?

Vu la vitesse à laquelle la Chine rattrape son retard technologique, il y a fort à parier que vient de s'engager une course entre ces deux agences spatiales. La Nasa comme la CNSA visent toutes les deux le début de la décennie 2030. Avec sa mission Mars 2020, la Nasa devrait prendre un peu d'avance. En effet, elle prévoit de déposer dans des conteneurs quelques précieux grammes du proche sous-sol martien. Quant aux Chinois, cette première mission martienne leur servira à démontrer un certain nombre de technologies nécessaires à ce retour d'échantillons sur Terre.

VIDEO:On Mars They Discovered A New Mystery: The Mysterious Statue Is A Proof Of Intelligent Life.

The Red Planet is a magnet for extraterrestrial survivors. They regularly come up with new information on what strange and mysterious they have been able to find on Mars. This time, it seems to them that aliens from space could even be religious foundations.

UFO lovers have recently been greeted by a NASA snapshot on a soche-like unit to prove the existence of intelligent life on the planet.

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Elon Musk Says Settlers Will Likely Die on Mars. He's Right.

BY CAROLINE DELBERT

NISIAN HUGHES

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When Elon Musk said there’s a “good chance” the first settlers on the Red Planet will die there, at an August 31 conference, the outcome was easy to imagine. It is a dangerous place, after all. But that obscures the ultimate goal of any colony: to have people comfortably die on Mars after a long life of work and play that, we hope, looks at least a little like life on Earth.

Several necessities for achieving this feat are in use or development already. The long-term life-support technology aboard the International Space Station, for example, already recycles air and water. Mars, however, will require life support for the same group of people, not a group that rotates every few months with frequent short trips from Earth.

The key to surviving the desperate conditions that await the first Martian settlers lies in balancing our response to predictable events—limited water, no atmosphere, radiation—and developing a resiliency against unpredictable events, says Jennifer Buz, Ph.D., an areologist (one who studies Mars) at Northern Arizona University. “There’s a lot you can plan for, so you could kind of prolong your life to an extent, but there’s always going to be something that’s not perfectly accounted for.”

What will settlers need to do? “The first thing is figuring out the shelter and sealing it so you’re not losing all your resources,” Buz explains. “Shelter could be like a cave or a subsurface shelter; it doesn’t have to be an external thing. It’s so cold there, and because of the radiation, that’s going to be critical. If you’re in an enclosed place, you can keep your atmosphere.”

Plus, she says, you need “a way to get at the resources that it does have, like soil and water. A 2019 paper described how you could easily melt the subsurface ice and basically cover the planet in aerogel. You could put down a layer of it and it will heat the surface.” That research, started by the University of Colorado Boulder and Northern Arizona University and continued by Harvard and the University of Edinburgh, showed that the silica aerogel layer could block radiation, enable photosynthesis, and heat the ground to a stable point above freezing to create islands of habitability.

“If I can go to Mars and be a human guinea pig, I’m willing to sort of donate my body to science. I feel like it’s worth it for me personally, and it’s kind of a selfish thing, but just to turn around and look and see Earth. That’s a lifelong total dream.”

- Elon Musk

Even with the right structures and technology in place, if one piece fails, it can throw the whole system out of equilibrium. “Then you’re going to have a runaway effect,” says Buz. She cites an example of runaway effect from the science fiction series The Expanse. A carefully balanced space settlement loses its air supply after a single piece of hardware is disabled. “Their sunlight is reduced, so their plants produce less air. Slowly the air becomes harder to breathe and they start losing food,” she says.

Scientists at NASA and under Musk’s SpaceX umbrella can also only prepare so much before they run into the firm limitation of human factors like discipline and interpersonal dynamics, Buz says. “There’s not going to be options for people to interact with, and you have to constantly face your own mortality,” she says. “It will be very easy to die there—lose your atmosphere, lose your water—so you have to live a very rigid lifestyle.”

Humans have done it before. “Polar explorers like [Ernest] Shackleton planned everything well in advance since they couldn’t just eat whatever they wanted,” says Buz. “They had to be very careful because of the temperatures and because it was a very small group. They all had to pull their weight.”

Besides, added Musk at that conference, there’s an upside if you don’t fall to hardship or accident. “It’s going to be tough going,” he said, “but it will be pretty glorious if it works out.”

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‘UFO’ is filmed flying at 35,000ft over Pakistan by shocked airline pilots who say it was not a balloon or aircraft

• WARNING: FOOTAGE CONTAINS SWEARING 

• Pilots saw UFO while operating a flight between Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan 

• Object looks like a circular light and it flares and pulses above 35,000ft

• The Pakistan Airlines pilots said that it wasn't a plane or a balloon they saw

• Pilots reported incident and it's now being investigated by airspace authorities 

By RYAN FAHEY FOR MAILONLINE 

A mystery object has been filmed flying 35,000ft over Pakistan by shocked airline pilots who claim it was not a balloon or aircraft. 

In the video, a group of Pakistan International Airlines pilots can be heard trying to figure out what the object is pulsing above their plane. 

'It's not a balloon, it's not an aircraft', one pilot says in English.

The object, which looks like a circular light, flares and launches what look like small explosions of gas in the sky. 

Pilots on a Pakistan Airlines flight have captured an unidentified object flying in the sky during a routine flight between Lahore and Karachi

The object, which the men said was not a balloon or aircraft, can be seen pulsing in the sky over Pakistan 

Local media reported the pilot saying: 'The UFO was extremely bright despite the presence of sunlight.'

The pilot did not think the object was a planet, and thought it could be a 'space station' or an 'artificial planet'. 

One local media report quoted the pilot recalling a metal ring wrapped around the object and a brilliant light coming from its centre.

The unidentified flying object was seen over Rahim Yar Khan, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. 

The pilots were operating a routine flight from Lahore to Karachi.  

The object periodically pulses as it hovers, 1,000ft above the cruising aircraft, as pilots watch it on a flight between Lahore and Karachi 

Pakistani journalist Zain Khan, who tweeted the footage, wrote on Twitter: 'It is too early to say for sure what he had actually witnessed. 

'It cannot necessarily be a flying saucer.'

Khan said the pilot immediately reported the incident when he saw it last Saturday, adding that authorities were now investigating as to what the object is.   

A spokesman for PIA confirmed the captain of the flight saw an 'extraordinary object' flying 1,000ft over his aircraft, which was cruising at 35,000ft, and made a video which is being circulated on social media.

'At this time we don't know what the object was', the spokesman said. 

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When it comes to UFOs, most people accept the eyewitness accounts of astronauts, military and professional pilots over sightings by the general public. That may explain why a sighting by a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilot and crew on a domestic flight over Pakistani airspace is getting intense scrutiny worldwide. It helps that someone in the cockpit captured the UFO on video and the sighting was in bright daylight against a clear blue sky. With that many witnesses, including reports from the ground, Pakistan International Airlines felt obligated to issue a statement. What did all of these people see? What did the airline think?

“The video was shot over Multan-Sialkot region by Captain Faisal Qureshi and his First Officer Captain Talha while piloting the Karachi-Lahore flight at an altitude of 35,000 feet.”

The Express Tribune reports that the UFO was spotted by the crew of domestic flight PIA flight PK304 from Karachi to Lahore. At about 4 pm on January 23 near Rahim Yar Khan, the pilot saw the UFO about 1,000 feet above the Airbus A-320. According to the records, Captain Qureshi immediately reported the sighting back to the control room. After landing in Karachi, the pilot shared the video with officials of Pakistan International Airlines. They were sufficiently concerned that a spokesperson made a statement to the public:

“It is too early to say what that object was. In fact, we might not be able to tell what the object was at all. However, something was spotted and it was reported in accordance with the required protocol.”

Better call the tower on this one.

Somehow, as usual, the 41-second video appeared on social media. (Watch it here.) Speaking in English, the pilot can be heard saying “It’s not a balloon, it’s not an aircraft.” Some of the video was censored due to language, but reports say the pilot was also heard commenting “The UFO was extremely bright despite the presence of sunlight” and speculating that it was not a planet but could be a “space station” or an “artificial planet.” One report also stated the pilot saw what looked like a metal ring surrounding the UFO and a brilliant light coming from its center.

Despite the pilot’s expert opinion that the object was not a balloon, that was the prevailing comment on media posts. The Express Tribune contacted Pakistan Meteorological Department spokesman Khalid Malik, who explained they have some balloons that fly at an altitude of 6,000 to 7,000 feet, and Radiosondes balloons which can reach 70,000 feet. However, private weather station operator Jawad Memon pointed out that Radiosondes, which he claims the Meteorological Department no longer uses, are non-reflective rubber while the UFO was obviously very shiny. Some commenters and media sites referred to the UFO as an alien Foo fighter, but that term – first used during WWII – has been explained to be either electrical discharge from the wings of a plane or reflective ice crystals – both of which follow the plane and are close to it, unlike the Pakistan UFO. And, since it was recorded on video, it’s not a hallucination due to fatigue or stress.

Foo fighter?

“A similar incident was also reported in January 2019 by PIA pilots in Karachi. A UFO was spotted by the flight crew flying 105 feet above the aircraft, while the plane was flying at an altitude of 2,500feet. The flight captain suspected it could be a drone. The incident was immediately reported to the Air Traffic Control (ATC) in Karachi.”

Was this one a drone too? The altitude rules out commercially available drones, but it could be a military drone, although the pilots didn’t make that connection. That puts this object solidly in the “unidentified” category with a slight lean towards “balloon” but a contrary pull towards UFO because of the inability of the pilots to identify it.

Which way do YOU lean?

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As long as the UFO phenomenon has existed there have been those looking to tap into it, shape it, mold it to their wishes, and convince others of their version of the “truth.” This way lies the myriad UFO cults existing out there, which range from the harmless to those that have ended in tragedy. These are some very weird stories of people who have somehow been convinced to believe some very fringe beliefs, often only on the word of one leader who exudes authority and who is respected as being in the know. Rarely have such UFO cults ended up in a good place, and here we will look at another such belief system based on UFOs and an enigmatic leader with some rather strange messages for the world.

The whole strange affair begins with a man named Sheldon Nidle. Born on November 11, 1946, he would later claim that almost from his very birth he had been contacted by alien intelligences from the planet Sirius, who were allegedly part of a larger “Galactic Federation.” These aliens apparently contacted him throughout his entire life, communicating with him telepathically, taking him into their spaceship, and implanting him with what he calls “direct core knowledge inserts.” He would claim that he was a “star seed from Sirius” destined to do great things. Nidle would say that he then ceased contact with the aliens for some time while he attended Ohio University and the University of Southern California, graduating with an M.A. in Southeast Asian government and an M.A. in American politics and international public administration, eventually earning a PhD and pursuing research into alternative energy sources. He is obviously no fool, well-educated and eloquent, but in the 1990s he would get back to talking about aliens again when he claimed that the Galactic Federation had approached him once more, making him their representative on Earth.

Sheldon Nidle

In 1996, Nidle began talking of telepathic communications he had had with the Federation that dealt with some urgent business, indeed. The aliens allegedly told him of an incoming cataclysm that would wipe out Earth as we know it. According to Nidle, the planet would be transformed into a more pristine state by passing into the path of what he called the “Photon Belt,” which was an area of space imbued with strange energy properties that would metamorphize human DNA and give us super powers and the ability to regenerate and live forever, as well as telepathic abilities. Are you with me so far? Sounds pretty awesome so far, but the intelligences also told Nidle that passing through the Photon Belt would destroy much of the surface of the planet, with only those who hid underground or were whisked away on spaceships assured to be safe. Luckily for us, Nidle also claimed that the aliens were drilling out subterranean caverns for us to cower in, as well as calling in a fleet of, wait, let me see if I’m reading this right, yes, 15 million spaceships ready to take many of us away from certain doom to join a “deep space brotherhood.”

At the time, we were running out of time, as the channeled messages stated that Earth would pass through this Photon Belt no later than December 17, 1996, but not to worry, because the fleet was closing in, due to arrive in early December, and most of humanity would be saved and achieve “a paradise of sociological and ecological evolution.” The ships on the way to our planet were said to be coming from numerous far-flung spacefaring races, such as the Pleiadians, Sirians, Cassopeans, and Arcturians, all of them willing to help us out, as well as apparently actual angels. Nidle would give one message that reads of all of this:

Our planet is moving from third dimensional awareness (physical-material reality-what you can see, feel, hear, taste and touch), to a fourth and a fifth-dimensional consciousness. In these dimensions you will be fully conscious, you will exist in a state of love not fear. You will be telepathic and have much more light in your body. You will be able to create anything you want with your mind and the new technology that will be provided for you. This technology will be beyond your wildest imagination. You will be able to live for hundreds or thousands of years. You will be completely healed of anything that is now wrong with you. You could be 85 years old now and manifest a 20-year-old body. Very soon, we will have millions of space ships and visitors from outer space on this planet. Our government knows this is happening but they want you to be afraid so they can keep life as it has been. Our visitors will be joined with angels that you will see coming down with the ships. They are benevolent and loving. They will bring counselors, supplies, teachers and new technology. We are being assisted by all of Creation – the Spiritual Hierarchy, Angelic Realms, the Galactic Federation of Light, Ascended Masters, and our space brothers and sisters.

You are very blessed and very special to be on this planet at this time. Within a short period of time our planet will be receiving the Photon Belt. This belt of light comes around every 25,000 years. This time it will be ushering in the Golden Age. The photon energy is an extremely loving energy that is comprised of Photons, Gamma Rays, and Anti-matter Particles. When the Photon Belt hits we will have three days of darkness and one day of coldness. Then we will have 16 years of light, 24 hours a day. You will become fully conscious within the first hour when the light beam hits your pineal gland. It will activate all 12 strands of your DNA and you will be able to use all of the rest (90%) of your brain that you currently have not been able to use. You will be able to create with your thought, whatever you need, light up a room, warm yourself, whatever you need. There is nothing to fear. A paradise is being created on this planet that is beyond your furthest imagination. We send much blessings of love and light to you.”

Pretty odd, indeed. There were some strict stipulations laid out for all of this awesome weird space stuff to pan out, such as neutralizing all earthly weapons, which were to be beamed up onto these spaceships, and all technology and mechanical devices were to be shut down upon the aliens’ arrival. We also had to agree to shut down all of our earthly government systems and give ourselves over to these beings, letting them take over with a “Spiritual Hierarchy,” which would help us ascend to higher beings. To help facilitate all of this, Nidle got online and began recruiting his “Ground Crew,” all of this almost exclusively done via the Internet, and this crew was given the task of acting as aides and ambassadors for the coming of the aliens, the training for which would be beamed into their heads as they slept through implant technology. They were also tasked with trying to raise spiritual awareness of what was to come, help us reach a “critical mass of spiritual energy,” and to carry out efforts to ecologically help out the planet. Unfortunately, even with all of these efforts, the aliens’ planned landing in December of 1996 never materialized. Many were dejected, but for Nidle this wasn’t a problem.

The leader of the Ground Crew simply blamed the failure of the arrival on numerous setbacks, such as solar storms, unforeseen technical issues, and humanity simply not being ready yet. It is pretty par for the course for any self-proclaimed prophet whose predictions did not come to pass, but he handled it like a pro. Nidle’s followers believed him and anxiously awaited their spiritual revolution. With the approach of the Hale-Bopp comet in February of 1997, Nidle found the perfect way to continue the mythology by working the comet into the lore, and for good measure he increased the number of approaching spacecrafts to 25 million (!). Nidle claimed that the comet was actually one immense starship with a crew of 20,000, that was merely using holographic cloaking technology to camouflage itself, and that it was followed not far behind by the rest of the massive fleet. To make it sound legit, Nidle even concocted a story that Ground Crew members had had a meeting with alien scouts in the Australian desert at Ayers Rock.

Of course, Hale-Bopp came and went with no such alien space force appearing, so Nidle was once again forced to think on his feet. He began spinning stories of “dark forces” seeking to sabotage the plans, forcing the benevolent forces to delay their arrival until “the right divine time.” According to Nidle, in the meantime we were to act as stewards of the planet and seek to help it recover ecologically and spiritually. Behind the scenes there was some turmoil within the organization, with Nidle clashing with his secretary and the Ground Crew’s chief administrator, Valerie Donnell, causing Nidle to break off and form the “Planetary Activation Organization,” still claiming to be the only one in direct contact with the aliens. His rhetoric would change and evolve, now saying that the aliens were placing “Star Gates” in the upper atmosphere and that there was a secret cabal of Earth leaders who were actively trying to stop the coming of the fleet. Somehow, even with the date of the supposed alien force pushed back again and again, Nidle was able to maintain hundreds of thousands of followers in 29 countries. The organization continues to this day, and we are left to wonder, how does this all keep chugging along? Whatever the case may be, it is certainly an entertaining and intriguing look into some far out stuff.

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A newly discovered exoplanet called Gliese 486 b may be able to help astronomers understand atmospheres on other rocky worlds. The planet is approximately 1.3 times bigger than Earth with a mass that’s about 2.8 times greater.

It takes Gliese 486 b just 1.47 Earth days to orbit a dim red dwarf star that is approximately 26 light-years away from us. This means that it is the third-closest “transiting” exoplanet that has been found thus far and since the star is around 30% as massive as our own sun, Gliese 486 b is the closest ever world that whips around a red dwarf with a measured mass.

The “super Earth” was discovered with the CARMENES spectrograph instrument on a telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain by Trifon Trifonov (from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and the lead author of the study) as well as his colleagues. Then they analyzed more data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to find out more information about the planet and its host star (they also studied data collected by a spectrograph called MAROON-X on the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii).

(Not Gliese 486 b)

Based on their data, the experts believe that the exoplanet is made up of iron-silicate which is similar to Earth’s composition. It is tidally locked which means that only one side of the planet faces its host star at all times. The estimated surface temperature on Gliese 486 b is about 800 degrees Fahrenheit (427 degrees Celsius) which means that although it’s very hot on the planet, it is more than likely cool enough to support an atmosphere that can be analyzed from right here on Earth.

Interestingly, the temperature on Gliese 486 b is very similar to Venus where it reaches about 880 degrees Fahrenheit (471 degrees Celsius), but that also means that there probably isn’t any life on the exoplanet.

(Not Gliese 486 b)

Nevertheless, since it is located so close to our planet, we will be able to study it in further detail and hopefully learn more about its potential atmosphere. And with the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, we should find out even more data in the near future. “Future observations of Gliese 486 b will help us understand how well rocky planets can hold their atmospheres, what they are made of,” Trifonov stated, adding, “Optimistically speaking, in about 2.5 to 3 years from now, we may know if the planet has an atmosphere or not, and, if yes, what is its composition.” Artist impressions of Gliese 486 b can be seen here.

Artist's illustration of the newly discovered exoplanet Gliese 486 b, which lies just 26 light-years from Earth. 

(Image credit: RenderArea)

The newfound exoplanet Gliese 486 b orbits a red dwarf star about 30% as massive as Earth's sun. 

(Image credit: RenderArea)

Artist's illustration of the surface of the newly discovered exoplanet Gliese 486 b. With a temperature of about 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius), Gliese 486 b possibly has an atmosphere.  

(Image credit: RenderArea)

The study was published in the journal Science where it can be read in full.

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On March 7, 2021 the Perseverance mars rover took a remarkable image of the sun, (Sol 16) with its left navigation camera (Navcam) but surprisingly the image also shows an unknown object next to the sun.

Maybe a sungazing comet that passes extremely close to the Sun or... could it be that the rover captured a huge spacecraft? 

Suppose the object is not a comet, but artificial, then who designed this unidentified flying object capable of withstanding the extreme heat of the sun 

Source:

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UFOs in the sky above Vancouver, Washington 6-Mar-2021

UFO activity in the sky above Vancouver, Washington on 6th March 2021.

Witness report: 

Numerous bright orange lights traveling from southwest to northwest of Portland Oregon at 8:15pm local time. Ominous.

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Just a couple of weeks ago I was asked about the famous April 24, 1964 UFO case involving police-officer Lonnie Zamora. My view is that what was seen was a device of the U.S. military. And, I’ll explain why. First, some background on the case for those who may not be fully aware of it all. It was on the afternoon of the day in question that local police-officer Lonnie Zamora broke off from pursuing a teenager in a speeding car and headed to a nearby dynamite shack. The reason? A sudden roaring sound coming roughly from the area where the shack was positioned. Quite naturally, Zamora thought that there may have been an explosion at the site. He was wrong. What Zamora came across – many UFO researchers believe – was nothing less than a landed UFO, piloted by two smallish humanoids dressed in white. A close encounter? For many, yes. For me, too – but I just don’t think the incident had anything to do with aliens. Bear in mind that the location was barely any distance from White Sands, where, for decades, new devices and technologies have been flown. But, there’s another issue. For me, the most important angle.

One of the key things that Zamora said was that the craft spewed flames out of it. That suggests the craft was rocket-powered. As NASA state: “Rocket engines are distinguished b the type of mechanism used to produce exhaust material. The simplest ‘engine’ is a compressed air bottle attached to a nozzle. The exhaust gas is stored in the same form as it appears in the exhaust. Ejection of compressed air, or other gas, from a nozzle is a perfectly satisfactory rocket operation for some purposes. The most common rocket engine is the chemical type in which hot exhaust gases are produced by chemical combustion. The chemicals or propellants, are of two types, fuel and oxidizer corresponding to gasoline and oxygen in an automobile engine. Both are required for combustion. They may be solid or liquid chemicals.”

In light of all the above, I find it very difficult to believe that aliens from a faraway world (or even a far away solar-system or galaxy, even) would be using rocket-powered craft, even in certain stages of their time spent on our world – namely, when landing and taking off. Surely, by 1964, their technology would have been way ahead of ours by then? My line of thinking applies to another famous case, too. The Cash-Landrum incident of December 1980. Now, let’s have a look at that one.

When, shortly before 9:00 p.m., Vickie Landrum, her grandson, Colby, and Betty Cash exited the restaurant where they had just eaten a fine Texan dinner, they couldn’t imagine what was just around the corner. As they headed towards the town of Huffman, they were terrified by the sudden sight of an unknown object in the sky. Worse, it was descending on a flight-path guaranteed to ensure it landed on the road they were on. As they got closer, they could see the aerial thing was giving it out flames and shaped not unlike a diamond.

It reached a perilously low level of around twenty-five feet, something which ensured a screeching of brakes and the car brought to a shuddering standstill. The interior temperature of the car suddenly reached intolerable levels. The three jumped out of the vehicle and could only stare in awe and fear. Then, out of the blue, around two dozen, double-rotor helicopters were on the scene, clearly intent on caroling the UFO. Or, perhaps they were escorting it. Cash was sure they were Boeing CH-47 Chinooks. They watched as both the UFO and the helicopters left the area and were finally lost from sight. Within days, all three fell sick: nausea and vomiting were at the forefront. Betty Cash was the one affected most of all – which may be explainable by the fact that she was the one member of the group who got closest to the object. Her hair started to fall out, her skin was covered with pustules and blisters, and the nausea got worse.

Despite attempts to force the US Government to come clean on what went down, there was nothing but denial after denial from the authorities. The case is a puzzling one, with some UFO researchers believing the three encountered a real UFO, while others suspect they were unfortunate enough to cross paths with a top secret prototype aircraft that was in deep trouble. This makes me think it was not an extraterrestrial craft – because, again, “rocket-ships” would be way too primitive for an alien civilization far ahead of us. I should stress I don’t think the cases were hoaxes at all. I think the witnesses described exactly what they saw. But, that what they saw did not come from another world.

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Are you frustrated with the quality of UFO/UAP sightings these days – the lack of details, the blurry photos, etc.? Do you fancy yourself as a Fox Mulder who would like to search for the truth that’s out there … if you only had the time, the training or the financial wherewithal? Good news, friends – you can now take the ‘wanna’ out of your ‘wannabe’ dreams and become part of a worldwide UFO-watching group with do-it-yourself equipment.

“Our mission is straightforward: connect a network of civilian-owned sensor arrays, use machine learning to catalogue anomalous events, and share this data with researchers.”

Credit: Sky Hub

Sky Hub is the project of Chris Cogswell, host and creator of The Mad Scientist Podcast with a doctorate in chemical engineering and an interest in UFOs, and a team of hardware and software experts with an interest in UFOs. He explained recently to Space.com that Sky Hub’s recommended hardware – three do-it-yourself sensor kits based on the Jetson Nano and Jetson Xavier NX computers designed for running multiple neural networks – is in alpha testing and Sky Hub is looking for early adapters to help test them. The sensor or “tracker” kits – which run from $700 to $1400 — collect high-resolution data and upload it to an eventual worldwide, digital UFO database accessible to the public with Sky Hub’s open-source software.

“There are lots of reports of objects in the sky that we don’t know how to categorize that I think are interesting and worthy of study.”

Sky Hub is not in this for the money – while it sells the enclosure shell and asks for a monthly subscription to maintain the database and software, the rest of the components can be purchased off-the-shelf and it recommends to shop around for the best prices. The Jetson computers are easy to use and Sky Hub’s website has excellent instructions and chat services available for both setup and usage.

“In my opinion, there is something interesting happening here that’s worth investigating. You can’t deny that there are people who still make reports of UFOs every year. If it’s all fake, in my mind, that’s almost more interesting. How did something untrue become such a social phenomenon like this?”

Credit: Sky Hub

Cogswell’s observation is interesting – there hasn’t been such strong interest in UFOs since the late 1950s and early 1960s — and prescient as well. Space.com points out that there are already a number of projects searching for UFOs, plenty of meteor trackers, astronomers and militaries all searching for UFOs and UAPs with far more sophisticated equipment – and those people have logical explanations like space objects, drones, secret test aircraft and the like. However, Cogswell is right – there are a few UFO/UAPs that have defied all explanation attempts … and coverups are indeed as interesting as actual sightings. That sounds like something one has to go to his podcast to discuss.

If nothing else, the Sky Hub do-it-yourself UFO/UAP kit sounds like a great project for riding out the pandemic lockdown.

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Clif High: Woo UFO Ships - Magnetic Propulsion - Mag Drive

Clif High: Woo UFO Ships – Magnetic Propulsion – Mag Drive 

Woo Ships – discussion about Mag Drive – Floaty cars – Woo Ships – Magnetic propulsion – How to become incredibly wealthy.

Clif High has a patent on computer-assisted reading technology which allows reading from computer screens at up to 2000 words per minute. Reaching into other areas of hidden potential within language use by humans, he has been developing a system of software internet agents (like search engines use) and other proprietary processing methods to predict future events. The software project, begun in 1997, captures near-real-time changes in language patterns within internet discussions. Then, employing radical linguistic techniques of his own devising, he develops a model which anticipates future events with some seeming accuracy. The processing has, at its core, a method of assigning emotional values to complex content and time carry-values to predict changes in future behavior based on how people are using language now.

Since June 2001 when the work projected a major ‘tipping point’, that is a ‘life-changing event’ with aspects of ‘military and accident’ that would forever change the way we live to occur inside 90 days, the web bot project has continued to give archetype descriptors of future events such as the anthrax attack in Washington, the crash of American 587, the Columbia disaster, the Northeast Power outage, the Banda Aceh earthquake and most recently the flooding of the Red River. As a continuing project, reports are offered from the extracted archetype information at his web site, www.halfpasthuman.com.

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Incredible Fastwalker Caught On Drone Camera! LIVE Tsunami Coverage In Hawaii! 2021

Incredible Fastwalker Caught On Drone Camera! LIVE Tsunami Coverage In Hawaii! 2021

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You Won’t Believe What Just Happened Again! What The HECK Is Going On? 2021

Black Diamond shaped UFO footage – Medellin, Colombia – 31.01.2021 | @SECRET SPACE

Air Force 1 tracked or protected by SSP UFO 

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Antigravity Technology Hidden for Decades from the Public

Antigravity Technology Hidden for Decades from the Public

Antigravity Technology is Hidden for Decades From the Public We have been indoctrinated to believe that antigravity technologies are not available to us and that most likely we’ll never get more.

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Art Bell and Dr. Steven Greer on UFOs & E.T Disclosure Project

Art Bell and Dr. Steven Greer on UFOs & E.T Disclosure Project

COAST TO COAST AM INSIDER Archived Show – Dr. Steven Greer joined Art to talk about ET disclosure. Dr. Greer had just returned from the Disclosure Project Press Conference from the National Press Club in Washington, DC. He mentioned that the BBC was covering the conference but that the US media often ignores this type of information. He discussed a government meeting with Ronald Reagan’s science team about an alleged UFO.

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What’s the point/purpose of a UFO explanation?

Copyright 2021, InterAmerica, Inc.

Our pal Dominick may find this tiresome, but it’s pertinent to the UFO discussion…

Why are we seeking to discover the source or essence of UFOs?

It’s not just to satisfy the long-desire to sate our curiosity as to what the phenomenon is.

That is a means to another end surely.

We, as a human species, need to know the purpose of our being, why we exist and to what end. It’s the enduring question of mankind, since the very beginning of human consciousness.

Where UFOs come from, what their essential substance is, who guides them, and all the other ufological questions point to a denouement that tells us the purpose of life.

Grabbing a Big Foot (Sasquatch, Yeti) or finding the Loch Ness “monster” will not answer those pertinent philosophical questions, just as philosophical debate can’t and hasn’t answered them either.

Trapping a ghost might provide the ultimate answer(s) but that probability is as ephemeral as the thing (ghosts) that some pursue relentlessly.

A UFO, on the other hand, can, I believe, tell us what reality truly is.

I keep harping on the matter but it seems to suit the possibility of what surrounds us as a reality.

In a protracted paper I’m working on for my new Substack account, I’m stymied by the origin of the “God idea.” It is surrounded by so many, ifs, ands, or buts, that one can get lost in the web of possibilities, snared by hypotheses or conjectures that intrigue but take us no further than the question “What is the purpose of existence, life?

Yet, a downed or captured UFO could slide us into an answer by telling us what reality is extant elsewhere, and I don’t mean just on another planet somewhere in the Cosmos.

The innards of a UFO – not some leftover debris from a supposedly crash “machine” – but the actual workings, possible entities (organic or machine-created), and other accoutrements can fill us in on what lies beyond our percepted reality.

Dominick and his “don’t muddy the UFO waters with philosophical/theological queries or suggestions” buddies are off-track. UFOs, without those inquiries, are as meaningless as the footprints of Sasquatch or humps on alleged sea monsters.

When I push for UFO sightings where appearances of “beings” show up in what may be windows, I’m trying to establish a possibility of some kind of rationale for reality from those “beings.”

But we don’t need those “entities.” Their “construct” can tell us as much as we need, without back-engineering their supposed crafts, although back-engineering could help.

Again, getting photos of UFOs, examining UFO debris, tracking UFO sightings, are as flimsy as the quest for existential meaning that absorbs philosophers and even scientists.

So, let’s have at UFOs by getting our hands on one or seeing what’s “inside” them. And let’s forget the dumpy idea that just congregating UFO information, by itself, is worthwhile. It isn’t.

[N.B. the picture of Preston Dennett’s book shown above doesn’t mean I’m recommending it as a panacea for my plea. Mr. Dennett’s book is replete with tales from people who are either deranged or foolish, but some who might have actually seen something worthwhile. Readers can decide.)

Images used are from peculiarium.com, magicball.net, and

•  https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/24/new-book-first-ever-photos-actual-interior-ufo-7255737/
• http://www.zamandayolculuk.com/html-2/ufodrawings.htm

RR

• http://ufocon.blogspot.com – The UFO Iconoclast(s)

Source: 

https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2021/03/whats-pointpurpose-of-ufo-explanation.html

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UFO Sighting Over Hillsboro, Tennessee On 7-26-2020, MUFON News.

Date of sighting: 7-26-2020

Location of sighting: Hillsboro, Tennessee

Source: MUFON 114015 

 

Watch this ten minutes of raw footage of a UFO over Tennessee last year. It happened last year, but was submitted today into MUFON. The footage shows a thick disk with an antenna on its top center and a glowing window around its center. It's actually a classic disk, but is attempting to create a cloud form around it causing it to appear thicker than it really is. The second photo above is proof of this. This is a rare sighting of a real glowing disk at night over Tennessee. The real kicker is that it has an antenna on its top center...just as scientist Bob Lazar who worked in Area S4 inside Area 51 said some disks have and will fly tiling at an angle. The antenna is actually the source of its movement. Not engines...but direction movement. The actual propulsion systems are separate. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

Appeared to be a planet like Venus looks in the evening but was in the wrong part of the sky. So I got my telescope out and was amazed at what I saw. Almost jelly fish like with bright blinding lights evenly spaced around the rim.

  

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Pink UFO Seen Over New York and New Jersey, March 3, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 3, 2021
Location of sighting: New York and New Jersey, USA

 

Dozens of eyewitnesses in New York and New Jersey are reporting seeing a pink-red glowing object over the area. It's actually a glowing UFO over the area. Twitter lit up with these tweets and some of them included the most amazing photos. The eyewitnesses said that the glowing object was seen before, during and after sunset. This is an alien ship and it's lit up on purpose to try to slowly get people use to seeing aliens, to make them accustomed to them, to feel less afraid of them. The movies portray aliens as the enemy, but aliens want to be seen as friends. 

 

NASA tried to tweet out that its not a UFO, but instead its the rocket exhaust from a recent launch. Thats typical of NASA to try to spread disinformation in hopes of confusing the public and creating doubt. NASA is an agency that was created to hide the alien evidence from the public. Doubt my words? What monumental discoveries were made from sending the last four NASA rovers to Mars? Yeah....none! That how they are, drop feed info to the public in order to control the publics curiosity of space. Check out the tweets below and decide for yourself. I know the truth, and I hope you do too. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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Baby Penguin On Mars In Newest NASA Photos! UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of discovery: March 6, 2021
Location of discovery: Mars Perseverance Sol 4
Source photo: 

• http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/224843

Guys, I found something on Mars that is a little strange. I was looking at Sol 4 of the Mars Perseverance rover when I discovered that there is a baby bird sitting in the middle of it all. I say baby, because it looks like it has no feathers yet, but still has the feathery fuzz the chicks have. I can easily make out the black beak, white cheek and head, neck, tail, butt, wing and even the extra long feet are visible. Its feet are so long, it's more similar to penguin feet than anything else. So...If I had to guess...I would say it's a penguin. How it got there is anyones guess, but I have only two theories. First it could be an alien species of bird on Mars. Second it might not be Mars at all, but instead is actually on Devon Island, which...may have similar bird life there.

 

I also found a lot of other things of interest in the same photo. The screenshots can be found below.

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

This looks like a guy sitting down on a rock. 

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UFO Sighting News: Black UFO Over Bogota, Colombia Jan 24, 2021.

Date of sighting: Jan 24, 2021
Location of sighting: Bogota, Colombia

Source: MUFON 

 

This report just came in today, but occurred back in January. A black disk was seen over the city edge of Bogota along the forest. The video shows some shaky footage, but three photos that came with the report show a more clear image of the craft. The photos reveal the incredible detail of the black craft. The eyewitness appears to be a high school boy wrote simply, "On January 24, at 5:56 p.m. on the road that leads from La Vega to Bogota, there was a UFO sighting." He gives no other details, but still very impressive. Most kids his age would not bother reporting a sighting. It takes real courage to report a sighting, in the face of ridicule from other non believers. This kid is a lion among men. This is 100% a real alien craft over the forest of Bogota. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

 

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David Morris and his son walking along a beach near Gillan in England when they noticed a huge ship apparently floating in the sky. Although they were stunned to see the strange phenomenon, they say that they had seen this phenomenon before. 

Credit image: David Morris.

It turns out they witnessed a so-called superior mirage, an optical illusion which occurs because of the weather condition known as a temperature inversion. 

Although most of these phenomena are optical illusions, not all of these appearances can be explained. Apparitions or similar events that cannot be explained are often interpreted as a "holographic" display from a parallel universe or glitches in reality. 

Glitches in reality, might just be some of the weirdest phenomenon occurring today. Also known as 'glitches in the matrix,' these unusual events help provide evidence to the theory that our existence may be nothing more than part of a computer simulation, a simulated reality that keeps humanity unaware that intelligent machines have actually taken over the world. In other words, the plot of the movie The Matrix is our reality.

  

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What Caused China’s ‘Floating City’ In The Sky?

Thousands of residents from Jiangxi and Foshan in China reported seeing a "floating city" in the sky earlier this month. The images and grainy video footage appear to show towering skyscrapers poking out of the clouds and looming over the ground below.

Of course, the news has got people's imaginations turned up to overdrive when trying to figure out what was going on. Explanations for the event have ranged from a glitch in the matrix, alternate universes opening up and NASA attempting to establish a new world order through a plan called the "Blue Beam Project".

However, it appears the explanation is actually a rare type of mirage called Fata Morgana. It’s essentially an optical illusion caused by specific weather conditions bending light rays. As Wired explains, it occurs when the Sun heats up a layer of the atmosphere but the layer of air below it remains cool. When different layers of the atmosphere are different temperatures, a temperature gradient is generated. These different temperatures also mean differing densities between the layers.

When light hits a boundary between two layers of the atmosphere that are different temperatures and thus densities, it is bent, or refracted, and subsequently enters the next layer at a different angle. Our brain can't automatically account for this, so when light hits our eyes, our brain assumes that it traveled in a straight path. When it has been refracted, we therefore perceive the object is where it would be if the light had run straight – which is higher than it actually is.

Fata Morganas have been confusing people and messing with minds for centuries. They’re named after Morgan le Fay, a powerful enchantress from the tales of King Arthur. It’s believed they are the explanation behind the legendary ghost ship the Flying Dutchman and sailor’s stories of floating castles which lured men to their deaths.

So there you have it. Although, we’ve got our eye on you NASA…

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Strange UFO filmed with a telescope over Hillsboro, Tennessee

This strange object was hovering above the Hillsboro, Tennessee and it was filmed with a telescope. This happened last year on 26th July (2020).

Witness report: 

Looked like Venus does in the evening but was way out of place so I grabbed my telescope to have a closer look. Appeared to be a planet like Venus looks in the evening but was in the wrong part of the sky. So I got my telescope out and was amazed at what I saw. Almost jelly fish like with bright blinding lights evenly spaced around the rim.

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UFOs maneuvering over Lake Elsinore, CA 5-Mar-2021

This UFO sighting was submitted to me a few minutes ago through our report form. This strange event happened over Lake Elsinore in California on 5th March 2021.

Witness report: 

Just some orbs I seen in the sky. Never seen them before.

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CIA Document Reveals the UFO Incident Before the Sickness and Death of Russian Pilots

A CIA document released recently reveals the Russian pilot’s death and a draining illness of another after a close encounter with a UFO.

Soviet aircraft reported spotting a massive flying disk nearby emanating five beams of light. Three lights were beamed toward the ground, and two were directed upward when the mysterious object was first seen. The ground controller gave instruction to one of the planes to alter its course and fly toward the object, at which point the disk went to the same level and aimed one of its beams at the approaching plane, illuminating the cockpit.

At this time, the copilot was at the controls, observing the maneuver and raising his hand to shield from the unbearable light. The aircraft commander rested in the adjoining seat, and a bright beam of light projected a spot with a diameter of 20 cm, passed across his body. The duo felt the heat.

Both pilots became invalids shortly after the strange event. The copilot experienced a sudden deterioration in his health, including losing consciousness for prolonged periods and forced to quit his job. Within a few months, the aircraft commander died, with the cause of death being listed as cancer. Injury to the organism as a result of radiation from UFO was listed as a contributing factor.

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Alien Abduction Of Linda Napolitano That Was Pulled Up Into Giant UFO, 23 Witnesses

Around 45% of Americans believe that UFOs exist and have visited the Earth, while 25% believe that aliens have similar societies like humans, according to Ipsos 2020 report. There are many victims who claimed to had been abducted by small gray-colored humanoids (Greys) and then taken to spaceships for some experiments or mating. Among them, Linda Napolitano’s case is the most well-documented UFO encounter.

Linda Napolitano (who uses the pseudonym Linda Cortile), a young woman in her 20s claimed that in November 1989 she had been pulled by grey humanoids from her bedroom window while her husband was asleep next to her. Soon after this horrific incident, she contacted Budd Hopkins, an American UFO researcher who even wrote a book entitled “The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions,” describing the UFO events that occurred on November 30, 1989.

Napolitano, an Italian-American young woman said that on November 20, at 3:15 in the morning, she suddenly woke up, finding herself paralyzed, and saw three non-human figures, gray in color and with big heads that were floating in her bedroom. She could not call her husband as the beings told her in their language to stay quiet. She was pulled by a blue beam from her apartment’s window (on the 12th floor) in Manhattan. She was levitating inside that beam with three other aliens until they reached a giant spaceship that opened like a clam.

Read also:

• USAF Lt. Col. Richard French Saw Two ETs Repairing Their Spacecrafts Underwater In 1950s
• Did Alien Civilization From Aldebaran Solar System Help Hitler To Create UFOs?
• Aliens From Andromeda Told US Army Personnel That Humans Are Composite of 22 different E.T. races
• Maury Island UFO Incident: Dog Killed In UFO Explosion & Birth Of MIB

“I’m standing up on nothing. And they take me out all the way up, way above the building. Ooh, I hope I don’t fall. The UFO opens up almost like a clam and then I’m inside. I see benches similar to regular benches. And they’re bringing me down a hallway.

Doors open like sliding doors. Inside are all these lights and buttons and a big long table. I don’t want to get up on that table. They get me on the table anyway. They start saying things to me and I’m yelling. I can still yell. One of them says something that sounds like {Nobbyegg}. I think they were trying to tell me to be quiet because he put his hand over my mouth.”

Napolitano could not remember much about what had happened inside that ship but she recalled some sort of medical examinations that had been done on her, and she remembered that had passed through some procedures. Besides, she remembered that one of the aliens put something into her nasal cavity, and the pain was so unbearable that she lost her consciousness. Three hours later, she surprisingly found herself lying next to her husband who was still sleeping. Interestingly, she did an x-ray of her head, and the doctor found something strange lodged inside her nose.

“There was an oval-shaped object hovering over the top of the apartment building two or three blocks up from where we sat.

We didn’t know where it came from. It happened too fast. Its lights turned from a bright reddish orange to a whitish blue coming out of the bottom. Green lights rotated round the edge of the saucer. A little girl or woman wearing a white gown sailed out of the window in a fetal position – and then stood in mid-air in this beam of light. I could see three of the ugliest creatures I ever saw. I don’t know what they were. They weren’t human.

Their heads were out of proportion, very large heads with no hair. Those buggers were escorting her into the craft. My partner screamed, ‘We have got to get them.’ We tried to get out of the car but couldn’t. After the woman was escorted in, the oval turned reddish orange again and whisked off.”

Actually, Hopkins got his interest in Napolitano’s case after he received a letter from Richard and Dan in 1991. Upon researching more on these two men, Hopkins found out that they were the bodyguards of an important political figure. Hopkins reportedly believes they were the bodyguards of former U.N. statesman, Javier Perez de Cuéllar.

The founder and director of Mutual UFO Network, Walter H. Andrus strongly believed Napolitano’s story and called it a “definitely authentic’ case of human abductions by aliens.”

However, there is much skepticism about Napolitano’s case. Some people compared it with the sci-fiction novel “Nighteyes,” originally published on March 1, 1989. But at the same time, there are 23 eyewitnesses who saw this strangeness that night.

References:

• https://untoldherstoryblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/linda-napolitano-and-the-brooklyn-bridge-abduction-of-1989/
• http://www.tricksterbook.com/ArticlesOnline/LindaCortileCase.htm
• https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/07/07/Woman-to-recount-tale-of-UFO-abduction/3938773553600/
• https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2018/06/alien-abduction-stories/

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NEW DOCUMENTARY REVEALS HOW STAR TREK CHANGED NASA FOREVER

SCIENCE FICTION FANS OFTEN THINK OF 1977 AS THE YEAR OF STAR WARS. But, more importantly, 1977 was when space exploration actually made strides toward Star Trek's vision of a diverse future. During a roughly four-month period in early 1977, Nichelle Nichols worked to recruit astronauts for NASA's then-new Space Shuttle program. Her goal was simple and self-fashioned: Get as many women and non-whites to apply as possible.

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Perseverance : découvrez le laser de la SuperCam qui cherchera des traces de vie sur Mars

Rémy Decourt - Journaliste

 [EN VIDÉO] Perseverance : découvrez l'instrument SuperCam, ses yeux et ses oreilles  Présentation de l'instrument SuperCam qui équipe le rover Perseverance de la Nasa. Plus de 300 personnes en France ont été impliquées dans son développement et sa fabrication. SuperCam réalisera des tirs lasers dont l'objectif est d'analyser la composition chimique des roches et de détecter la présence éventuelle de molécules organiques. 

Plus d'une semaine après l'atterrissage de Perseverance sur Mars, la mise en route et le check-up des sept instruments du rover se poursuivent. En attendant les premiers tirs du laser de SuperCam, qui serviront à déterminer la composition chimique et organique des roches martiennes, dont celles qui seront rapportées sur Terre, Futura s'est entretenu avec Franck Leibreich. Directeur des solutions laser chez Thales, Franck Leibreich nous explique ce laser français qui va chercher des traces de vie.

L'instrument SuperCam, qui succède à la version précédente à bord de Curiosity (ChemCam), est conçu pour déterminer la composition chimique et organique des échantillons des roches. Au cœur de cet instrument se trouve le laser Thales, « encore plus performant que celui déjà en opération depuis huit ans à bord de la mission Curiosity », nous explique Franck Leibreich, directeur des solutions laser chez Thales, dont l'entreprise a fourni les lasers des instruments ChemCam et SuperCam. 

Pour cela, comme le laser de ChemCam, le laser de SuperCam pourra envoyer un « faisceau infrarouge pour chauffer la matière qu'il impacte jusqu'à une température d'environ 10.000 degrés Celsius et pour la vaporiser ». Cette méthode, appelée spectrométrie d'émission optique de plasma (Laser induced Breakdown Spectroscopy ou Libs) permet, en étant combinée à une caméra spéciale, de « déterminer la composition chimique d'un échantillon, en l'occurrence des roches martiennes, à partir de l'émission lumineuse du plasma ainsi créée ».

Mais, contrairement à ChemCam, qui ne faisait qu'une seule analyse de détection des atomes, le « laser de SuperCam peut émettre un deuxième faisceau laser » ! De couleur verte, ce deuxième faisceau « contribuera à déterminer la composition moléculaire des matériaux de surface ». Une avancée scientifique importante qui devrait permettre d'identifier de nombreuses molécules comme le carbone, le soufre ou, autre exemple, l'oxygène « afin de définir si Mars était habitable dans son passé ».

Ce faisceau vert excite les liaisons chimiques d'un échantillon et produit un signal différent selon les éléments liés ensemble. Cette technique d'analyse, appelée spectroscopie Raman, sera « expérimentée pour la première fois sur Mars et permettra de repérer d'éventuels marqueurs de la vie ». Le laser vert sera aussi utilisé pour faire fluorescer certains composés minéraux et organiques et pour permettre aux scientifiques de mieux déterminer les composants en présence.

Le laser de Thales Alenia Space installé dans SuperCam permettra de repérer d’éventuels marqueurs de vie sur la Planète rouge et de déterminer la composition chimique et organique des roches martiennes, dont celles qui seront rapportées sur Terre.

© Thales Alenia Space 

SuperCam un instrument plus complet

Alors que les tirs au laser de ChemCam ont montré l'existence d'un environnement favorable à l'apparition de la vie sur Mars dans un lointain passé -- qui se mesure en milliards d'années, mais sans savoir précisément à quelle époque et pendant combien de temps --, SuperCam pourrait nous raconter la suite de cette histoire en « montrant si Mars a été habitée ou pas par une forme de vie qui ne devrait pas avoir dépassé le stade de la bactérie ». La période d'habitabilité de Mars, estimée à quelques centaines de millions d'années, est trop courte pour avoir permis à des formes de vies plus complexes d'émerger.

SuperCam sera également utilisé pour guider Perseverance en direction des roches identifiées comme intéressantes qui seront ensuite étudiées de près par les instruments de contact (Pixl et Sherloc) et sur lesquelles seront prélevés des échantillons. En fonction des résultats, l'équipe du rover décidera de leur intérêt scientifique et s'il faut réaliser un prélèvement afin de le rapporter sur Terre. Dans ce cas, un carottage sera réalisé et l'échantillon placé dans un des 36 tubes. Ces échantillons seront récupérés par le Fetch rover de l'ESA qui sera lancé en 2026 sur l'atterrisseur américain équipé du MAV...

Une performance technologique remarquable

Malgré cette fonctionnalité supplémentaire, ainsi qu'un mode de commutation entre les fonctionnalités Libs et Raman, Thales a réussi à réaliser « l'équipement tout en gardant un volume et une masse identiques à celui du laser ChemCam ». Au-delà du défi de l'encombrement, les équipes ont également réussi à augmenter les capacités d'analyse de façon significative : « Le laser SuperCam peut enchainer des salves de tirs 10 fois plus longues, 1.000 tirs d'affilée contre 100 tirs maximum pour ChemCam, à une fréquence 3 fois supérieure (10 Hz) ».

Si une troisième version d'un laser devait être développée pour un futur instrument, une possible évolution pourrait être de le doter « d'une troisième fonctionnalité qui pourrait être une longueur d'onde dans l'ultraviolet », ce qui permettrait d'affiner les mesures (datation Argon/Potassium, spectroscopie Raman de contact, par exemple).

Note
SuperCam est le fruit d'une étroite collaboration entre le Los Alamos National Laboratory (Lanl) aux États-Unis et l'Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (Irap, CNRS / Cnes / Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier) en France, avec des contributions de l'université d'Hawaï et de l'université de Valladolid (UVA) en Espagne. La conception et la fabrication du Mast Unit, partie française de SuperCam située en haut du mât du rover, ont été réalisées par un consortium de laboratoires français rattachés au CNRS, à des universités et à des établissements sous la direction scientifique des équipes de l'Irap et la responsabilité du Cnes. C'est dans le Mast Unit qu'est logé le laser fourni par Thales.

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Just recently, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled: “Why Do So Many Bigfoot Researchers Ignore the Paranormal Side of the Mystery?” It was a study of how and why the Bigfoot creatures are not the equivalents of African gorillas. Rather, as I see it, they are 100 percent supernatural/occult in nature. So, with that in mind, today, I thought I would share with you my thoughts on how and why the equally supernatural aspect of the Men in Black mystery is important. There’s no doubt at all that when those three words “Men in Black” are brought up in conversation, it creates images of “secret agent”-type characters. Certainly, the hugely popular (and massively entertaining) M.I.B. movies starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones helped to expand the idea that the Men in Black were (and still are) the employees of a government agency – or of more than one. The fact, though, is that the Men in Black do not come from any kind of government. They may not even be from the Earth.

Over the years, a number of books have been written on the Men in Black (and on the Women in Black, too). They include Jim Keith’s Casebook on the Men in Black; my The Real Men in Black and The Black Diary; and Jenny Randles’ The Truth Behind Men in Black). There’s a handful more too, such as those by Albert Bender and Tim Beckley. In all of those books, there’s a paranormal aspect to the M.I.B. puzzle. Albert Bender, of Bridgeport, Connecticut began the Men in Black mystery in the early 1950s. It’s very important to note that Bender, prior to his involvement in the M.I.B. mystery, was deeply tied to the domains of the occult and magic  (no, not the “rabbits in hats” magic). He turned his attic-room into a “Chamber of Horrors,” and got into the worlds of Alchemy and the occult. It was after his digging into the occult that Bender was visited by the M.I.B. As for the three Men in Black that came to visit Bender, they were pale, gaunt and had shining, silvery eyes. In the wake of all that, Bender suffered from a case of what can only be described as “psychic backlash.” He got sick and, finally, walked away from the subject.

Most of the Men in Black that John Keel described in the pages of his classic book, The Mothman Prophecies,  were downright weird. Most M.I.B. are described as pale, gaunt, sometimes with bulging eyes – and on occasion with wigs and make-up to hide their real appearances. In the 1970s, most of the Men in Black cases that Brad Steiger looked into were very much the same: vampire-like, sick-looking things. Nothing like anyone coming out of the Pentagon or of the CIA. And that’s not just in relation to what happened years, or decades, ago. Today’s Men in Black are still described as being cadaverous, pale, gaunt and not entirely human. Take my word for it: the Men in Black of Hollywood are totally different from the real world.

That all brings us to the matter of the real world. Forget the “secret agents” issue; that’s complete and utter nonsense. The genuine M.I.B. may very well be a combination of a number of things: Tulpas, paranormal creatures, biological robots and more. What they are not, though, are “secret agents” of the government. Or, of any government. Of course, that particular angle of “agents” is one that a lot of people like – and particularly when it comes to TV shows and movies. But, if you want to see what the real Men in Black look like, I recommend you watch the 1998 movie, Dark City. That’s right on target.

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A newly discovered comet may provide us with a sky treat when it passes by Earth at the end of the year. In fact, it may even become the brightest comet of the year. Comet Leonard (or C/2021 A1) was first spotted on January 3^rd by astronomer Gregory J. Leonard at the Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona.

When it was first discovered, the comet was exceptionally dim with a magnitude of 19 (approximately 160,000 times dimmer than the faintest stars we see in the sky with the naked eye) but that was because it was close to Jupiter’s orbit of about 5 astronomical units (AU) from our sun (the distance of Earth to the sun is equal to one AU).

When the comet was first spotted, it was beginning to feel the effects of the sun’s rays and slowly started transforming out of its completely frozen state with some pictures even capturing what appeared to be a tail on it.

(Not Comet Leonard)

Since it has an exceptionally long, flat elliptical orbit that can bring the comet as far away as 3,500 AU from the sun, it isn’t a “new” comet that came from the Oort Cloud (those comets have never traveled near the sun before). Instead, it is believed that it actually flew past the sun on at least one occasion around 70,000 years ago. This means that it wouldn’t have “new” materials on its surface like frozen carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide that would vaporize and end up not being as bright.

Based on how bright the comet currently is, it is believed that it will be bright enough by the year’s end to possibly be seen without any optical aid (maybe a brightness magnitude of 4).

Those who are willing to wake up a couple of hours before the sun rises, they’ll be able to see Comet Leonard in the lower portion of the east-northeast sky (traveling through the constellations Coma Berenices, Boötes and Serpens Caput) during the first two weeks of December. At that point, the comet will be visible with a small telescope or binoculars, and hopefully with the naked eye as well. It will make its closest approach to Earth on December 12^th at a distance of 21.7 million miles (34.9 million kilometers) from us.

(Not Comet Leonard)

In the second half of December, the comet will approach the sun so the light of dawn will obstruct our view of it; therefore, the best time to see it would be in the very early morning hours from early to mid December. It will make its closest approach to the sun on January 3, 2022 at a distance of 57.2 million miles (92 million kilometers).

However, as we all know, comets can be unpredictable, but we’ll find out more information as the year goes on and Comet Leonard gets closer.

An image of Comet Leonard’s trajectory around the sun can be seen here.

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Origin of Life: The Chicken-and-the-Egg Problem

A LMU team has shown that slight alterations in transfer-RNA molecules (tRNAs) allow them to self-assemble into a functional unit that can replicate information exponentially. tRNAs are key elements in the evolution of early life-forms.

A replicator made of tRNA-like sequences 

Credit:  © Kudella / LMU

Life as we know it is based on a complex network of interactions, which take place at microscopic scales in biological cells, and involve thousands of distinct molecular species. In our bodies, one fundamental process is repeated countless times every day. In an operation known as replication, proteins duplicate the genetic information encoded in the DNA molecules stored in the cell nucleus – before distributing them equally to the two daughter cells during cell division. The information is then selectively copied (‘transcribed’) into what are called messenger RNA molecules (mRNAs), which direct the synthesis of the many different proteins required by the cell type concerned. 

Complex relationship

Strikingly, in terms of their sequences and overall structure, tRNAs are highly conserved in all three domains of life, i.e. the unicellular Archaea and Bacteria (which lack a cell nucleus) and the Eukaryota (organisms whose cells contain a true nucleus). This fact in itself suggests that tRNAs are among the most ancient molecules in the biosphere.

Like the later steps in the evolution of life, the evolution of replication and translation – and the complex relationship between them – was not the result of a sudden single step. It is better understood as the culmination of an evolutionary journey. “Fundamental phenomena such as self-replication, autocatalysis, self-organization and compartmentalization are likely to have played important roles in these developments,” says Dieter Braun. “And on a more general note, such physical and chemical processes are wholly dependent on the availability of environments that provide non-equilibrium conditions.”

In their experiments, Braun and his colleagues used a set of reciprocally complementary DNA strands modeled on the characteristic form of modern tRNAs. Each was made up of two ‘hairpins’ (so called because each strand could partially pair with itself and form an elongated loop structure), separated by an informational sequence in the middle. Eight such strands can interact via complementary base-pairing to form a complex. Depending on the pairing patterns dictated by the central informational regions, this complex was able to encode a 4-digit binary code.

It is therefore conceivable that such a replication mechanism could have taken place on a hydrothermal microsystem on the early Earth.PROF. DIETER BRAUN, SYSTEMS BIOPHYSICS, LMU

Source: 

• http://www.ineffableisland.com/2021/03/origin-of-life-chicken-and-egg-problem.html

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UFO Sighting News, Jellyfish UFO Over Mexico, Video, On 3-1-2021.

Date of sighting: March 1, 2021
Location of sighting: Mexico

 

The eyewitness often scans the skies in search for UFOs. On March 1st, they got lucky and spotted a unique jellyfish like object floating over head. The object was very shiny and sometimes appeared white, but was not white itself, but instead it was a swirling of colors on a sometimes transparent craft. Jellyfish shaped UFOs with tentacles hanging are not unheard of. They are actually seen several times every year, but most often over land, flying low near the ocean. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

 

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UFO Sighting News. Mysterious Lights Over Missoula, Montana Disappear When Jet Appears! Feb 28, 2021.

Date of sighting: Feb 28, 2021

Location of sighting: Missoula, Montana, USA

 

Strange glowing lights appeared over Missoula, Montana on Feb 28. Each light seemed to have a mind of its own going into different directions. But as a jet was taking off from the airport the UFOs suddenly faded and disagreed. It seems only a UFO would have that ability to cloak suddenly to hide from other aircraft. Most UFOs do not show up on radar, but some rare cases do. Its clear these UFOs didn't want to get any more attention than they already did. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

Multiple orange UFO lights over Missoula disappear and a jet avoids them after taking off from the airport.

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UFO Fleet Over Indianapolis, Indiana On March 1, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 1, 2021
Location of sighting: Indianapolis,  Indiana, USA

 

The eyewitness caught sight of somethings strange during a rainstorm in Indianapolis last week. They noticed a string of lights going up to the sky, holding position. The glowing lights were almost like the famous Star Link satellites from SpaceX, however the angle of the lights didn't line up with the correct location. These objects looks like a fleet of UFOs rising up from the ground to the sky. Strange indeed, especially since everyone would be hiding in their homes during the rain, no reason to fly drones, balloons or kites at all. So...if all that is ruled out, that leaves only UFOs. But...you knew that already. 

Scott C. Waring - UFO Sighting News. 

 

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Thousands of Stars Vanished from the Sky and Extraterrestrial advanced Civilizations is One of the Hypothesis

Over a period of 70 years, thousands of stars have vanished from the sky; Which prompted a team of astronomers to shed light on this phenomenon .. and perhaps a (very weak) hope of uncovering traces of intelligent civilizations outside the planet.

In a report published by the French magazine "L'OBS", writer Jean-Paul Fritz says that when looking at the sky on a clear night, it is possible to notice that the thousands of stars that appeared in astronomical images taken 70 years ago have disappeared, which seems strange to the assumed age of the stars.

In light of the many questions and hypotheses about the secret of the disappearance of these stars, a team of researchers from the "Vasco Network" of astronomy launched a scientific study to monitor the causes of this phenomenon.

The lost blue star

In the Kinman dwarf galaxy, which is about 75 million ly away, there was a very massive blue star, and astronomers saw this star between 2001 and 2011, and it is about 2.5 million times brighter than the sun.

But when the European Southern Observatory's telescope focused on it in 2019, it did not appear in the image, nor did it appear in repeated observations during the following months.

What happened to this star? 

This type of star - known as the "bright blue variant" - is unstable, but its disappearance in this way is incomprehensible because it is supposed to leave a mark!

For the researchers, there are two hypotheses: Either its recent explosion made it less bright and partially invisible due to interstellar dust, or it entered directly into a black hole without going through a "supernova" stage, which is a very rare event. Professor Jose Groh (one of the researchers involved in the study) comments, "We may have discovered that one of the largest stars in the observable universe slowly decays at night."

Study sample and alternative hypotheses

Given the various interpretations of this phenomenon, the Vasco network team - led by Beatrice Villarroil, a researcher at the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics in Spain - outlined its goals in a study published in The Astronomical Journal in December 2019.

In the first phase of the study, the team decided to compare 600 million stars that appeared in images taken by the US Naval Observatory in the 1950s, with a recent database from the Pan-STARRS Observatory. In a sample of 150,000 cases of difference between the images of the two observatories, the researchers selected 100 stars to further study the phenomenon of star disappearance.

What could explain the disappearance of a star? 

In theory, there are two main hypotheses: Either the star gradually changes and becomes a white dwarf due to the absence of nuclear reactions in its core, or it explodes in the last stages of its life, which is known as the "supernova" phenomenon. Either way, traces of these stars could be seen, but this was not the case for the lost stars studied by Vasco's team.

With the exclusion of the two previous hypotheses, the team had to find other causes for the disappearances, and scientists thought of other natural causes, such as the failure of the supernova process of the star, which may apply to the case of the disappearance of the blue star of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy.

There may also be another phenomenon that explains the matter, such as the passage of an irregular dark cloud of interstellar dust, which would obscure the star or reduce the brightness of its light; Hence, it cannot be spotted.

It can also be explained by what is known as a "gravitational micro-lens". In this case, a massive object might enlarge the image of the star behind it and make it appear temporarily even though it is not a star bright enough to see in normal situations. According to the author, these hypotheses seem interesting, and may lead to unprecedented discoveries that enrich our knowledge of stellar evolution.

Extraterrestrial advanced civilizations

Can we explain the disappearance of the stars by other reasons, and assume the existence of sane life outside the planet Earth? And can we think, for example, that very advanced civilizations may be the cause of this phenomenon because they built giant structures that mask the starlight.

This theory was formulated by physicist Freeman Dyson, and is known as "the Dyson ball," and he posits that there is a giant ball that captures the energy of the star in order to meet the needs of a more advanced civilization than ours. 

The SETI project - which is concerned with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - is working to uncover any advanced extraterrestrial technology traces that could prove this theory.

According to the author, the study of Vasco can more accurately define the field of observation to try to understand these mysterious factors that lead to the disappearance of stars, which some explain by the existence of distant intelligent civilizations. By revealing where a large number of stars disappear, the SETI project or others interested in these theories can direct their observatories to try to discover the potential technological implications of these advanced civilizations.

It is unlikely, in any case, to discover any traces of strange civilizations, but the Vasco project will help solve a number of mysteries in space, and perhaps reveal phenomena not yet known. 

"Finding a lost star or a star that appears out of nowhere will be a valuable discovery, and it will provide new knowledge of astrophysics, beyond the ones we have reached until today," says Beatrice Villarroil.

Sources:

• https://www.nouvelobs.com/sciences/20210221.OBS40494/des-etoiles-ont-disparu-et-on-ne-sait-pas-pourquoi.html
• https://www.seti.org/seti-institute/project/details/project-phoenix

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