Next stop, Mars.

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Here’s a quick rundown of what’s been established about your legal rights as a Mars citizen:

• The 1967 Outer Space Treaty says that your country is responsible for what gets launched into space — so spaceships launched from the United States answer to the United States
• SpaceX’s Starlink terms of service declare Mars is a “free planet” where no Earth-based government has control over its authority
• SpaceX’s former general counsel David Anderman argued in Musk Reads+ #97 that the city might need to declare access to basic resources like air and water
• Musk argued in 2018 that a direct democracy could make sense for the small settlement

Want to know more about how giving birth is a problem, how tips from 1612 could help out settlers in 3012, and whether you could brave the lowest temperatures on Mars? Read the full interview with writer Greg Bear, only in MUSK READS+.

SPACEX MARS CITY: 13 COLONIES

Science fiction writer Greg Bear, who previously participated in the National Space Society that advocates for greater access to space, tells Inverse that the first settlers will be “free thinkers.” They will have to come up with their own solutions for government, and as free thinkers in a strange new world, they may have radically different ideas.

“I keep changing my tune on this,” he says. “I just have no idea what people will decide to do when they get to another planet, especially a very difficult planet like Mars.”

It’s a question Bear has considered for a long time. His 1993 novel Moving Mars looks at a future Mars society governed by Earth in the interests of its corporations. An independence movement emerges over the course of generations.

Bear argues that, similar to Moving Mars, the early United States could offer lessons for the future city...

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New Anonymous: "Now This Is Terrifying" - Alien-Like Strange Implants Found in Humans (2021)

In ufology, alien implants is a term used to describe physical objects allegedly placed in someone’s body after they have been abducted by aliens. Claimed capabilities of the implants range from telepresence to mind control to biotelemetry (the latter akin to humans tagging wild animals for study). As with UFO subjects in general, the idea of “alien implants” has seen very little attention from mainstream scientists. Alien abduction (sometimes also called abduction phenomenon, alien abduction syndrome, or UFO abduction) refers to the phenomenon of people reporting what they believe to be the real experience of being kidnapped by extraterrestrial beings and subjected to physical and psychological experimentation.

Most scientists and mental health professionals explain these experiences by factors such as suggestibility (e.g. false memory syndrome), sleep paralysis, deception, and psychopathology.[2] Skeptic Robert Sheaffer sees similarity between the aliens depicted in science fiction films, in particular Invaders From Mars (1953), and some of those reported to have actually abducted people. People claiming to have been abducted are usually called “abductees” or “experiencers”.

Extraterrestrial life is hypothetical life that may occur outside Earth and which did not originate on Earth. Such life might range from simple prokaryotes (or comparable life forms) to intelligent beings and even sapient beings, possibly bringing forth civilizations that might be far more advanced than humanity. The Drake equation speculates about the existence of sapient life elsewhere in the universe. The science of extraterrestrial life in all its forms is known as astrobiology. Since the mid-20th century, active ongoing research has taken place to look for signs of extraterrestrial life. This encompasses a search for current and historic extraterrestrial life, and a narrower search for extraterrestrial intelligent life. Depending on the category of search, methods range from the analysis of telescope and specimen data to radios used to detect and send communication signals. The concept of extraterrestrial life, and particularly extraterrestrial intelligence, has had a major cultural impact, chiefly in works of science fiction. Over the years, science fiction communicated scientific ideas, imagined a wide range of possibilities, and influenced public interest in and perspectives of extraterrestrial life. One shared space is the debate over the wisdom of attempting communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Some encourage aggressive methods to try for contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. Others—citing the tendency of technologically advanced human societies to enslave or wipe out less advanced societies—argue that it may be dangerous to actively call attention to Earth. This is, “NOW THIS Is Terrifying..” Alien-like Strange Implants Found In Humans

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40 Meter Disk Found In Antarctica, Google Earth Map! UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Dec 18, 2021

Location of discovery: South Polar region, Antartica

Google coordinates: 74°35'37.57"S 164°54'28.90"E

Guys, I found this today and its just blowing my mind! Its in Antartica and its about 40 meters across sitting in an area the looks like a heart. I think this is the big one guys, the real deal. I imagine that soon after I release this video, some government somewhere will go and retrieve it.  Wow, and its in a heart shaped break in the ice, which really makes me wonder, did they do that on purpose for the fun of it? Or did the disk cause the shape in the ice when it landed in this area? Sure its the perfect hiding place for an alien ship, because no-one will ever see it hidden out there in Antarctica. No-one will ever wander past it or hike near it or even sail near it. Its just the perfect location for a UFO to hide. I really wonder, which government is going to get their hands on this baby first? 100% proof that aliens exist and are on Earth right now.  So...the treasure hunt begins. Winner gets all. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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White Sphere Over Fort Worth, Texas On 10-7-2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 10-7-2021

Location of sighting: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Source: MUFON

The first half of the video I made a close up so you can see it better, the second half is 100% original. The object is a round white sphere. Its easy to see its not Venus because Venus always appears to be a white glow, not a sphere. This object is flying very low and close to the eyewitnesses. White spheres are the most common type of UFOs seen which makes them harder to deny, when the research back up their existence. The UFO is watching them as they watch it. Each...learning about the other in their own ways. 100% proof of UFOs over Texas!

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

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News has recently emerged of global elites (aka cabal) going to Antarctica for a secret meeting. We know from public tweets that Claus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, and Cristina Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank attended a secret Antarctica meeting. Two others present were Brad Garlinghouse and David Schwartz, respectively the President and Chief Technical Officer of Ripple Labs, a computer software company specializing in online payment systems. 

The original source for the four twitter posts cited above has been found. The four tweets first appeared on the twitter account of XRP the Standard Productions on December 3. 

The XRP site posts satirical stories, and takes pride in misinforming people. Unfortunately, regarding the four Antarctica tweets, this does cast considerable doubt on their authenticity. 

However, disinformation is designed to muddy the waters about real events, and something did genuinely happen in Antarctica as one of the four sources, David Schwartz, is actively posting about his recent trip there. So we know one of the four twitter sources did go to Antarctica. Learn more at:exopolitics.org

  

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UFOs filmed over Calipatria, California YESTERDAY

Strange UFO sighting filmed in the sky above Calipatria, a city in Imperial County, California in 17th December 2021.

Witness report: 

I looked outside to my backyard and I saw these 2 orb’s glowing like sun but pulsating, I new it was a UFO but still doubted until I zoomed the video and I new for sure I yelled for my neighbor to come out so I have a witness I just didn’t ask him for permission to use his name since it’s late at night and I didn’t want to bother him anymore, he was also convinced it’s a ufo when I first went out I saw 2 of them hovering then they started moving south slowly until they disappeared then 1 appeared coming towards me then started heading south and it happened again 3 total sightings 2 on the first sighting then just 1 of them twice I live in Southern California 32 miles from the Mexican border and in between San Diego and Yuma Az these things looked as if they were going up and back looking for something and for a split second we both saw what appeared to be a beam of light come out of the sky with the ufo,s out of sight it was so fast and thin that we both didn’t know what we were looking at this concludes my sighting

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Spherical UFO filmed over London, UK

This daytime UFO sighting was filmed over London, UK on 12th June 2021.

Witness report: 

A spherical UFO spotted over Hampstead Heath, London, UK on 12 June 2021. Captured on a Huawei P30

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 Ancient Giant Stone Ball Found in Bosnia

Just when we thought the world couldn’t get any weirder and more mysterious, a huge stone ball was recently discovered in Bosnia.

It is an approximately 10-foot wide sphere, and it weighs well over 35 tons in total and its origins are a mystery to everyone involved.

Ancient Giant Stone Ball Found in Bosnia

Suad Keserovic is the man that we need to thank for this amazing discovery, and because of his discovery, the place was swarmed with fans of the strange and unexplained.

Everybody that went to see the huge sphere had the same question in mind, was this an incredible feat of nature, or is this yet another proof of an ancient lost civilization and their brilliant inventions?

Ancient Giant Stone Ball Found in Bosnia

Bosnia, Zavidovici is the area where it was discovered, more specifically in the Podubravlje village. Density wise, the boulder literally resembles iron, being about 7.8kg / m3.

A lot of people were quick to judge this off as definitive proof of an ancient lost civilization, but before we jump to any conclusions we do need to address the fact that the sphere is the most common form in nature.

What truly sets this finding apart from the rest though is the perfection in its craft.

It is simply put way too perfectly round and perfectly sized to be just a freak of nature. The area has been flooded by researchers and we definitely expect to hear more about it in the near future if it is proven to be proof of the lost civilization we spoke of before.

See the video below and tell us what you think about this gigantic stone ba

Ancient Star

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Unidentified object filmed over Stechford, England

A close-up of the object (see video below). 

Image Credit: YouTube / Peter Benton

The UK has certainly seen its fair share of UFO sightings over the years, with some the most memorable cases in history (such as the Rendlesham Forest incident) occurring there.

This recently released clip, which was filmed by Peter Benton, shows a rounded, dark-colored object that he spotted milling around in the sky over Stechford, England back in October.

He claimed that he had been filming the moon when the object entered his field of view.

"I like to film the moon during the day even if it's a crescent," he wrote on YouTube.

"I tend to catch things more frequently this way as is what occurred here in this clip, I lost track of it and quickly tried to get it back but lost it."

"It was moving right to left, if you notice it has a light at front and 2 lights or afterburners at back lighting up, it also turns on its side."

As for what the object could be, nobody has yet come up with a definitive explanation.

The full video can be viewed below.

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UFOs, UAPs — whatever they're called, the US needs to know what they are

A few years ago, it would have drawn jokes and scorn. But given the continuing mystery over what, exactly, U.S. military pilots are seeing in the skies, a congressional proposal to create an “Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office” — an office to investigate what used to be called UFOs — makes sense.

This is no laughing matter. In 2017, The New York Times reported that the U.S. military was gathering data from pilots who had reported unexplained encounters during their flights. Recently released video of some of those encounters defies conventional explanation — objects moving at speeds and in ways that don’t conform with current aviation technological capabilities. And unlike most of the wack-a-doodle stuff from UFO culture, the Pentagon confirms those videos are real.

It’s not to say these are little green men. This could be Russian or Chinese or North Korean technology being taken out for a test-drive under the noses of American military pilots to gauge U.S. reaction. Among the most startling aspects of the Pentagon’s recent new openness on this topic is its acknowledgment that this isn’t one or two or a half-dozen unexplained encounters. It’s happening with relative frequency, often in restricted airspace.

The acronym UFO — unidentified flying object — was a military creation from the 1950s but has since then been so thoroughly commandeered by pop culture that the military has ditched it and now uses a new acronym: UAP, for “unidentified aerial phenomena.” (No doubt it’ll appear in the title of a Steven Spielberg film some time soon.)

The Pentagon this summer issued a report on UAP sightings that raised more questions than it answered. It found no solid evidence that the still-unexplained sightings were from global adversaries or … something else … but it encouraged political leaders to begin taking the issue more seriously than they traditionally have.

Not so long ago, it would have sounded like science fiction, but today it makes perfect sense that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is proposing creation of the Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office, dedicated to investigating these sightings as they occur. Gillibrand has introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act establishing the office.

“If it is technology possessed by adversaries or any other entity, we need to know. … Burying our heads in the sand is neither a strategy nor an acceptable approach,” Gillibrand told Politico last month. “I can count on one hand the number of hearings I had in 10 years on this topic. That’s fairly concerning given the experience our service members have had over the last decade.”

The idea has wide bipartisan support — a rarity these days, and an indication of how seriously this once-snicker-inducing topic is now being taken in Washington. For once, Washington is right.

— From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board (TNS

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RESEARCHERS TEACH HUMAN BRAIN CELLS IN A DISH TO PLAY “PONG”

"WHEN THEY ARE IN THE GAME, THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE THE PADDLE."

CORTICAL LABS

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In the heart of Mars’ canyon system called Valles Marineris, the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected significant amounts of water. Measuring more than 2,500 miles in length, Valles Marineris stretches out nearly a quarter of the planet’s circumference around the equator. It is the largest canyon in our Solar System.

The water beneath the soil of the canyon was detected by the Trace Gas Orbiter’s (TGO) FREND instrument. The area in which it was detected overlaps a deep valley in the canyon called Candor Chaos. And the water-rich region is massive as it’s approximately the same size as the Netherlands.

Water ice has previously been detected in the cold polar regions of the Red Planet, so the fact that it was found near the equator where the canyon is located is even more astonishing.

Image of Valles Marineris from the 2001 Mars Odyssey.

(Via Wikipedia)

Igor Mitrofanov from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, and the principal investigator of the FREND (Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector) neutron telescope, went into further details, “With TGO we can look down to one metre below this dusty layer and see what’s really going on below Mars’ surface – and, crucially, locate water-rich ‘oases’ that couldn’t be detected with previous instruments,” adding, “FREND revealed an area with an unusually large amount of hydrogen in the colossal Valles Marineris canyon system: assuming the hydrogen we see is bound into water molecules, as much as 40% of the near-surface material in this region appears to be water.”

The team of experts studied observations made by FREND between May of 2018 and February of 2021 and that’s when they found neutrons as explained by Alexey Malakhov from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “Neutrons are produced when highly energetic particles known as ‘galactic cosmic rays’ strike Mars; drier soils emit more neutrons than wetter ones, and so we can deduce how much water is in a soil by looking at the neutrons it emits.”

Another image of Valles Marineris from the 2001 Mars Odyssey.

(Via Wikipedia)

Malakhov went on to say, “We found a central part of Valles Marineris to be packed full of water – far more water than we expected. This is very much like Earth’s permafrost regions, where water ice permanently persists under dry soil because of the constant low temperatures.” “Overall, we think this water more likely exists in the form of ice.” Further analysis needs to be conducted in order to know for certain which form of water is present.

Their study was published in the journal Icarus where it can be read in full.

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(Note: photo above  is not the one on Mars.)

Have you seen the photograph of what looks like a flying saucer that skidded across the surface of Mars before embedding itself in a pile of dirt? You haven’t? Take a look at it here while we point out that it has been making the rounds for the past few days under headlines like “Pretty Convincing Footage Of A UFO Crash On Mars,” “Mars orbiter image shows a crashed flying saucer…. or something else entirely” and “Could this be a Crashed Disc-Shaped Object Spotted Near Ceti Mensa on Mars?” That last one is from the YouTube video of Jean Ward, a system administrator and website developer whose hobbies include “Mars anomaly hunting.” It’s that hobby that gave him a bit of notoriety on the Internet when he posted his analysis of a photo taken in 2006 by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The original photo –  can you find the crashed flying saucer?

“This image shows spectacular layers exposed on the bottom of Candor Chasma, a large canyon in the Valles Marineris system.”

That’s the official NASA description of the photo taken by the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on December 29, 2006. (You can see many versions of it here, including one with an arrow pointing to the “saucer” location.)

Here is a cropped and compressed blow-up of the alleged anomaly.

Here is a cropped and compressed blow-up of the alleged anomaly.

Here is a cropped and compressed version of the entire image, with an arrow pointing to where the anomaly is, so you can find it easier.

NASA called it the “Swirls of Rock in Candor Chasma” because of the intricate swirls of sand- and dust-sized particles approximately 4 kilometers below the rim of one of the largest canyons on Mars. That was impressive enough for NASA, but Jean Ward is one of those people with time, interest and magnifying software, and when he started digitally digging into the swirls of Candor Chasma, he found something he believes resembles a crashed flying saucer.

“The anomaly looks like a disc-shaped object which hit the surface of Mars at a very low angle and left a trench behind it. The disc-shaped object measures approximately 12 to 15 metres in diameter.”

“Alternatives: Could this possibly be a ramp leading into an underground entrance or is this an incomplete Project Ice-Worm structure? Or are we seeing a strange arc-shaped dune?”

Ward is kind enough to link to the HiRiSE site and provides instructions on seeing the original photo. He also provides his speculations on what it might be. While the Internet obviously likes the crashed flying saucer explanation, he also suggests it could be a designed structure – a ramp or part of tunnel for moving around nuclear weapons – that’s what the U.S. Army’s Project Iceworm was in Greenland in the early 1960s during the height of the Cold War.

“As always, until we get to see these anomalies up close and personal, I can only speculate as to what these objects might be.”

Swirls of Rock in Candor Chasma

(credit: NASA)

Or … it could be an unusual dune. As always, anomalies are in the eye of the beholder, and if the beholder is a pareidoliac – one who sees faces in tortillas or on the surface of Mars – then it’s easy to see a crashed flying saucer. Most of us have a touch of pareidolia and a bit of wishful thinking, which explains why this ‘flying saucer’ photo won’t go away soon. Ward doesn’t say how close the Candor Chasma is to the Perseverance rover and its Ingenuity helicopter, but that would be an excellent road trip for the little chopper that could … and is still flying. After all, the Chinese space program is sending its lunar rover to inspect what appears to be a hut on the Moon.

The betting money right now is on a natural anomaly, but the really long odds are on whether NASA takes up the challenge and gets “up close and personal” to it. You’re probably better off buying a lottery ticket.

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A team of international astronomers have discovered four new giant exoplanets with very short orbital periods. The four planets, which have been named HATS-74Ab, HATS-75b, HATS-76b, and HATS-77b, are all about the same size as Jupiter.

The discoveries were made during the HATSouth photometric survey. HATSouth includes six astrograph telescope systems that are in South America, Africa, and Australia. Launched in 2009, the telescopes are trained to discover exoplanets that are orbiting bright stars that can be seen from the Southern Hemisphere and they have already found dozens of transiting exoplanets.

The four new giant planets were revealed with the HATSouth telescopes and were later confirmed by additional observations conducted by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) as well as several other facilities. The planets were found by transiting signals coming from four stars — HATS-74A, HATS-75, HATS-76, and HATS-77.

(Not any of the planets mentioned in this article.)

As for the newly discovered planets, HATS-74Ab is located about 934 light-years away from us and is approximately the same size as Jupiter but with 46% more of its mass. It is situated 0.024 Astronomical Units (AU) away from its host star (one AU is the distance that Earth is to our sun) with an orbital period of just 1.73 days. Its equilibrium temperature is 895 Kelvin (1,151 degrees Fahrenheit or 622 degrees Celsius). The 11-billion-year-old parent star has a radius around 0.57 of our sun and about 0.6 solar masses with a temperature of 3,777 Kelvin (6,339 degrees Fahrenheit or 3,504 degrees Celsius). Interestingly, it has a companion star that is approximately 80% less massive than our sun.

Located about 637 light-years away, HATS-75b is the smallest of the four exoplanets with a radius of about 0.88 of Jupiter and 0.49 of its mass. It is about 0.032 AU from its star and takes 2.79 days to complete a full orbit around it. It has an equilibrium temperature of 772.3 Kelvin (930 degrees Fahrenheit or 499 degrees Celsius). The 15-billion-year-old parent star has a radius of 0.58 of our sun and 0.6 of its mass with a temperature of 3,790 Kelvin (6,362 degrees Fahrenheit or 3,517 degrees Celsius).

The third planet is called HATS-76b and is located about 1,271 light-years away. It is approximately 2.63 times more massive than Jupiter and 1.08 of its radius. It is found 0.026 AU from its star with an orbital period of 1.94 days. It is the hottest planet of the four with an equilibrium temperature of 939.8 Kelvin (1,232 degrees Fahrenheit or 667 degrees Celsius). The 4.6-billion-year-old host star has 0.66 solar masses with 0.62 of its radius and a temperature of 4,016 Kelvin (6,769 degrees Fahrenheit or 3,743 degrees Celsius).

(Not any of the planets mentioned in this article.)

The fourth star named HATS-77b is located about 1,349 light-years away. It is around 16% bigger than Jupiter with a 37% greater mass. It travels around its host star at a distance of 0.036 AU and takes 3.09 days to complete a full orbit. Its temperature is 828.3 Kelvin (1,031 degrees Fahrenheit or 555 degrees Celsius). The 12.1-billion-year-old star is about 35% smaller and less massive than our sun with a temperature of 4,071 Kelvin (6,868 degrees Fahrenheit or 3,798 degrees Celsius).

The study on these four new planets can be read here.

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James Webb ruimtetelescoop, de grootste ooit, wordt 24 december in de ruimte gelanceerd

De James Webb ruimtetelescoop of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) wordt volgende week vrijdag 24 december in de ruimte gelanceerd, vanuit de basis op Frans Guyana. De telescoop is gebouwd door NASA, het Europees Ruimte Agentschap (ESA) en het Canadese Ruimte Agentschap (CSA), en is de grootste telescoop ooit die de ruimte wordt ingestuurd.

  Bron: Belga

"Het wordt een bijzonder uitzonderlijke missie", zegt onderzoeker Bart Vandenbussche van het Instituut voor Sterrenkunde (KU Leuven). "Vanuit de KU Leuven hebben we meer dan 15 jaar gewerkt aan één van de vier wetenschappelijke instrumenten die op de telescoop geïnstalleerd zijn. De lancering volgende week wordt een behoorlijk spannend moment.”

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Ook de kostprijs van het project getuigt van de bijzonderheid ervan. Waar een gemiddeld project van ESA geraamd wordt op 600 miljoen euro, heeft dit maar liefst 13 miljard euro gekost. De telescoop heeft een spiegel van 6,5 meter, samengesteld uit 18 hexagonale segmenten. Die andere bekende en belangrijke telescoop, de Hubble-telescoop die begin jaren negentig in de ruimte is gelanceerd, heeft een spiegel van 'slechts' 2,4 meter.

De James Webb ruimtetelescoop.  © Photo News

De JWST gaat infrarood licht in de ruimte waarnemen met een gevoeligheid die 100 keer groter is dan de Hubble-telescoop. Daardoor wordt het mogelijk om 13,5 miljard jaar 'terug in de tijd' te kijken en de eerste sterrenstelsels na de oerknal te zien. Door het infrarood te observeren kan Webb sterren en planetenstelsels bekijken die zich in stofwolken vormen. 

De lancering van de Webb-telescoop gebeurt vanop de Europese lanceerbasis in Frans Guyana, en met de Ariane 5-raket. "Een zeer betrouwbare raket", volgens Vandenbussche. De telescoop zal vervolgens in een baan komen te zweven, op anderhalf miljoen kilometer afstand van de aarde. 

Vanaf zes maanden na de lancering zullen de eerste routinematige metingen kunnen gebeuren. Verwacht wordt dat de telescoop minstens vijf jaar operationeel zal zijn, de ambitie is om dat tien jaar te blijven. 

Vrijdag 24 december omstreeks 13.20 uur Belgische tijd vindt de lancering plaats. De telescoop is vernoemd naar wijlen James Webb, de tweede directeur van het Amerikaanse ruimteagentschap NASA.

LEES OOK:

• Ruimtetelescoop Hubble hapert opnieuw: wetenschappelijk onderzoek ligt stil

• Voor het eerst voegt vrouwelijke zwarte NASA-astronaut zich bij bemanning ruimtestation

• Elon Musk: productie Raptor-raketmotoren loopt zo ver achter dat faillissement SpaceX dreigt

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Would Mars be More Habitable if it Orbited a Red Dwarf?

Thanks to the explosion in discoveries made in the last decade, the study of extrasolar planets have entered a new phase. With 4,884 confirmed discoveries in 3,659 systems (and another 7,958 candidates awaiting confirmation), scientists are shifting their focus from discovery to characterization. This means examining known exoplanets more closely to determine if they possess the necessary conditions for life, as well as “biomarkers” that could indicate the presence of life.

A key consideration is how the type of star may impact a planet’s chances of developing the right conditions for habitability. Consider red dwarf stars, the most common stellar class in the Universe and a great place to find “Earth-like,” rocky planets. According to a new study by an international team of scientists, a lifeless planet in our own backyard (Mars) might have evolved differently had it orbited a red dwarf instead of the Sun.

The research was conducted by an international, multi-disciplinary research team consisting of modelers, observational scientists and space physics, planetary science, and astrophysics theoreticians led by David Brain and fellow researchers from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the CU Boulder. Brain is also the leader of the Magnetic fields, Atmosphere, and the Connection to Habitability (MACH) NASA DRIVE Science Center, a NASA integrated multi-agency initiative located at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Brain and his colleagues from LASP and CU Boulder were joined by researchers from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), the California-based SRI International, the Swedish Institute for Space Physics (IRF), and universities from across the U.S., the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and the University of Tokyo and Tohoku University in Japan.

Their findings were recently shared in a series of presentations at the 2021 American Geographical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, held this week in New Orleans. As they explained, by applying our current understanding of Mars to rocky exoplanets, scientists will be able to characterize and identify habitable, Earth-like planets in other solar systems. As their results showed, the answer hinges on an exoplanets’ atmospheres and what it takes for each planet to retain its atmosphere.

For the sake of their research, the team examined the case of “Exoplanet Mars,” a Mars-sized rocky planet orbiting an M-type red dwarf star. Consistent with the dimmer and cooler nature of red dwarfs, this star would be only 4% as bright as our Sun and have an effective temperature of 2770 K (2,500 °C; 4532 °F) – about 3000 K cooler than our Sun. It would also be more variable than our Sun, meaning that it would be prone to flare-ups, which would impact Exoplanet Mars’ atmosphere.

The challenge, according to Brain, was to assemble the necessary expertise, observations, and modeling to understand the relative importance of each property and how they contribute to habitability over time. Interestingly enough, language was not a barrier to this international team, but its multi-disciplinary nature presented some problems. Because of how scientific disciplines and methodology have diverged in recent decades, there was a “language barrier” of sorts.

As a result, the multi-disciplinary team needed to develop a more effective means of communication that bridged the disciplines and their particular methods. This, said Brain, is where the MACH Drive Service Center (DSC) played an especially-important role:

“Our center has brought together experts from many scientific disciplines to collaboratively address big-picture questions like the habitability of alien planets. Together we are figuring out which physics are important to include and how to link models together, while making sure team members feel heard and are inclusive in the process.

The preliminary results indicate that Exoplanet Mars would have lost its atmosphere at a greater rate than the real Mars if it were orbiting a red dwarf star. This is consistent with what astronomers have observed from nearby red dwarf systems, many of which emit flares that are powerful enough to strip Earth’s atmosphere. At the same time, recent research has shown that these flares may be emitted from the poles, thus sparing any planets.

Regardless, the true significance of this research is how it will help scientists characterize and identify habitable, Earth-like planets in other solar systems. As we move into the next phase of searching for habitable planets in the cosmos, knowing what stars and planetary systems are likely to provide the best results is essential.

• Further Reading: LASP

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Strange Water Anomalies Occur At Same Time 2000 Miles Apart... Suggesting Western Hemisphere Tectonic Plates Beginning To Move And/Or Tilt!!

Strange Water Anomalies Occur At Same Time 2000 Miles Apart… Suggesting Western Hemisphere Tectonic Plates Beginning To Move And/Or Tilt!!

Looks like the Cocos and Nazca plates may have undergone a movement.  From what I understand Pacific plate is being loosened, and so then, would these two smaller plates.  Proof of this is recent Oregon earthquake swarm. There are reports of flooding in Playa Del Carmen and Cancun, Mexico areas 10 days ago. Is the water sloshing, or is it disappearing under the surface? Perhaps both!

• Is North American Continent Gonna Split Apart Soon… Zetas Say So, And So Does Astounding Splitting Of North America Prophecy!!
• We Are In The Last Days Before Major Imminent Earth Changes, Including New Madrid Unzipping!! Warnings You Don’t Want To Miss! Tons Of Proof To Back It All Up!!

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Atlantis 60,000 Years Ago: A War Between Poseidon People & The Sons of Belial History

Atlantis 60,000 Years Ago: A War Between Poseidon People & The Sons of Belial

Millennia ago, Lemuria and Atlantis were wiped from our planet, but the wisdom of these civilizations live on with us today. In this interview, Regina Meredith and Tom T. Moore discuss their experiences of past lives in Atlantis and Lemuria and how tapping into the wisdom of those times directly connects to humanity’s work in the present and future.

As we each follow the paths of our soul contracts, we have the potential to end all conflict in the world, moving humanity to a higher vibration in service of the greater good.

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Into the Eye of the Storm: NASA's Parker probe flying through the Sun’s Corona

Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 to explore the mysteries of the Sun by traveling closer to it than any spacecraft before. Three years after launch and decades after first conception, Parker has finally arrived. 

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. 

As Parker Solar Probe passed through the Sun's corona, the spacecraft flew by structures called coronal streamers. These structures can be seen as bright features moving upward and downward in the first video compiled from the spacecraft's WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe) instrument. 

Such a view is only possible because the spacecraft flew above and below the streamers inside the corona. Until now, streamers have only been seen from afar. They are visible from Earth during total solar eclipses.

   

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Stanford Professor Garry Nolanhas been testing the brains of people who say they’ve experienced a UFO encounter as well as he analysis anomalous materials from UFO crashes. 

Did the people who claimed that they'd had an encounter, especially the pilots, describe any perceivable decrease in neurological capacity? 

Of the 100 or so patients that we looked at, about a quarter of them died from their injuries. The majority of these patients had symptomology that's basically identical to what's now called Havana syndrome. 

But Dr. Nolan has also spent the past decade analyzing anomalous materials From UFO crashes 

One of the materials from the so called Ubatuba event, a UFO event in Brazil, has extraordinarily altered isotope ratios of magnesium. 

What that means is that if you find a metal where the isotope ratios are changed far beyond what is normally found in nature, then that material has likely been engineered, the material is downstream of a process that caused them to be altered. Someone did it. The questions are who… and why? 

Speaking to Vice’s Motherboard, Nolan opened up about his work and revealed what sparked his interest in UAP. Learn more at: Vice Motherboard

  

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SILVER UFO CAUGHT ON TAPE IN KANSAS

Not everything is as it seems in Wichita, Kansas. An eyewitness spots a strange object in the sky, in this clip from Season 2, “Wichita UFO & Booming Sea Sound.”

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Mystery of the massive explosion 200 million light years away: Strange flash 100 times brighter than a supernova that is growing at an incredible rate baffles scientists

• The blast appeared in a distant galaxy but scientists are unsure what triggered it 

• They theorise the flash is a 9,000°C (16,000°F) cloud of high-energy particles 

• It is bursting outwards at an incredible speed of 12,000 miles per second

• One researcher said 'there hasn't really been another object like this' 

By HARRY PETTIT FOR MAILONLINE 

A massive explosion spotted 200 million light years from Earth has baffled astronomers.

The strange spot, nicknamed 'the cow', is up to 100 times brighter than a supernova and is growing at an incredible rate.

Scientists say the flash is a 9,000°C (16,000°F) cloud of high-energy particles bursting outwards at 12,000 miles (20,000km) per second, but are still unsure what triggered the brilliant blast.

One researcher said 'there hasn't really been another object like this.'

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A massive explosion spotted 200 light years from Earth has baffled astronomers. The strange spot, nicknamed the cow, is 100 times brighter than a supernova and is growing at an incredible rate, but scientists have no idea what triggered it

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The explosion was captured on by the asteroid-tracking ATLAS telescopes at the Keck Observatory, which sits atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii.

Astronomers noted the flash was unusually luminous - between 10 and 100 times brighter than the average supernova - but it was the speed of its appearance that really caught the eye of space experts.

Most celestial explosions take weeks to reach peak brightness, but the distant flash had grown to a dramatic size in just two days.

'It really just appeared out of nowhere,' Dr Kate Maguire, an astronomer at Queen's University Belfast who is part of the ATLAS team, told New Scientist.

'There are other objects that have been discovered that are as fast, but the fastness and the brightness, that's quite unusual.

'There hasn't really been another object like this.'

The explosion was captured on by the asteroid-tracking ATLAS telescopes at the Keck Observatory, which sits atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii

(file photo)

Following the initial observation, scientists reported the flash to the star-gazing website Astronomer's Telegram, sparking a worldwide investigation into the spot.

It was nicknamed the cow after the site automatically categorised it as AT2018cow based on when it was added to the database.

Teams from around the world trained at least 18 telescopes on the flash in a response that constituted the largest number of reports for any single object on Astronomer's Telegram, according to the site's Editor-in-Chief.

The explosion was so bright it initially appeared to originate from our own galaxy, but observations by a group of Chinese scientists showed the spot was almost 200 million light years away - meaning it likely appeared in another nebula.

SUPERNOVAE OCCUR WHEN A GIANT STAR EXPLODES

A supernova occurs when a star explodes, shooting debris and particles into space.

A supernova burns for only a short period of time, but it can tell scientists a lot about how the universe began.

One kind of supernova has shown scientists that we live in an expanding universe, one that is growing at an ever increasing rate.

Scientists have also determined that supernovas play a key role in distributing elements throughout the universe.

In 1987, astronomers spotted a ‘titanic supernova’ in a nearby galaxy blazing with the power of over 100 million suns

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There are two known types of supernova.

The first type occurs in binary star systems when one of the two stars, a carbon-oxygen white dwarf, steals matter from its companion star.

Eventually, the white dwarf accumulates too much matter, causing the star to explode, resulting in a supernova.

The second type of supernova occurs at the end of a single star's lifetime.

As the star runs out of nuclear fuel, some of its mass flows into its core.

Eventually, the core is so heavy it can't stand its own gravitational force and the core collapses, resulting in another giant explosion. 

Many elements found on Earth are made in the core of stars and these elements travel on to form new stars, planets and everything else in the universe.

Readings from other groups suggested the flash was an explosion of high-energy particles travelling outwards at 12,000 miles (20,000km) per second.

The surface temperature of this cloud could be as high as 9,000°C (16,000°F), according to the observations.

The results left scientists baffled as to the origins of the strange explosion, with some suggesting it could be a special type of supernova called a type 1c.

'We're not sure yet what it is, but the normal powering mechanism for a supernova is radioactive decay of nickel, and this event is too bright and too fast for that,' Dr Maguire said.

Follow-up observations are ongoing and scientists said they should know more about the object over the next day or two.

Read more:

• We've just seen a huge space explosion and don't know what it is | New Scientist
• ATel #11727: ATLAS18qqn (AT2018cow) - a bright transient spatially coincident with CGCG 137-068 (60 Mpc)

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Having discussed the matter of the Bigfoot-UFO issue – and of the Loch Ness-UFO angle, too – I thought it would be a good idea to share with you the data that suggests a UFO connection to another monster: the creepy Dog-Man. Yes, really! Before I get to the strange link, however, here’s some background on the matter the beast. Certainly, wolf-like, upright creatures have been described for centuries. I am , of course, talking about werewolves. However, the relatively recent phenomenon of the Dog-Man takes things to another, much more intriguing, angle. Linda Godfrey is the key figure in this controversy and she has written a number of books on the phenomenon. But, there’s more than that. There’s one particular Dog-Man-themed story that needs to be aired, as it has an alien angle to it. Believe it or not. While there are numerous theories for what the Dogmen are (demonic entities, shape-shifters, a rare/unique kind of wolf; the list goes on) the strangest of all the theories is that which suggests the creatures are extraterrestrials. Yes, you did read that right. In 2005, Linda Godfrey was contacted by a man – a military whistle-blower, we might say – who was an expert in the field of remote-viewing. According to Godfrey’s Edward Snowden-like source, the U.S. Government has uncovered data suggesting that the Dogmen are a very ancient, extraterrestrial race that closely resembles the ancient deity of the Underworld. And who might that be? It’s Anubis, that’s who. Linday’s informant also discovered – via remote-viewing – that the Dogmen can “jump” from location to location via portals or doorways in the fabric of space and time. That’s quite a story told to Godfrey: Dogmen from the stars that have a connection to Anubis. The story isn’t finished, though.

(Nick Redfern)

Linda Godfrey with Nick Redfern

On March 24, 2017, “The Emoluments of Mars” blog ran an article that said: “Mike Bara, the world-renowned geneticist and physiologist, was invited once again to blather for three hours on Jimmy Church’s podcast Fade to Black this week. 90% of it was discussion of a series of images of odd-looking artifacts on Mars. There was the pistol, the sarcophagus, the fossilized dinosaur, and my personal favorite the 20ft high cat playing air guitar.” In my book, The Martians, I wrote of this: “An upright cat, standing precariously on a huge hill, on none other than Mars? That is what one particular and peculiar photograph, secured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, seems to show. The word ‘seems’ is the most important one in all of this. The picture shows what looks like a thin, humanoid-type figure – and that is so skinny it appears to resemble a classic, cartoon-like stick-man. We can see two arms (one of them raised), two legs, possibly two feet, and a head. Admittedly, the head is cat-like, and it has a pair of eyes and pointed ears. And, the “creature” appears to be standing in front of what looks like a shadowy entrance to a cave.” I have to say that Bizarre” is the word. Or, beyond bizarre.

(Nick Redfern)

Anubis from Mars?

I showed the picture to a well-known figure in the ““ancient aliens” world who, on seeing it, practically foamed at the mouth. I’ll avoid mentioning his name, as he has since moved on and relegated it to the “pareidolia basket.” Before doing so, however, he spent a couple of weeks working on a paper titled “Anubis on Mars?” The reason: the person in question felt that the “upright cat” looked far more like none other than Anubis. And who, precisely, was Anubis?  Let us take a look: “Anubis is the Egyptian name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in Egyptian mythology,” Crystalinks state. “Anubis was the god to protect the dead and bring them to the afterlife. He was usually portrayed as a half human, half jackal, or in full jackal form wearing a ribbon and holding a flail in the crook of its arm.” I’ve had people tell me that the Dog-Men and Anubis might have a connection. I have no evidence, at all, to support such a controversial thing. But, it’s worth keeping things in mind when it comes to the words of Linda Godfrey’s “Deep Throat”/whistleblower.

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Recent analysis of lunar rock samples that were brought back from the Apollo 17 mission have revealed even more information regarding our moon’s evolution, specifically how long it took for it to completely cool down after forming.

Scientists studied a rock called “troctolite 76535” and what they found has changed previous theories regarding the evolution of the moon. It was previously believed that after the moon formed, it took approximately 100 million years to completely cool down. However, new studies have dramatically lessened that time frame to around 20 million years.

The experts chose the troctolite 76535 sample because it wouldn’t have been altered much while on the moon as explained by William Nelson who is a researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, “It has not been strongly modified by impacts during its time on the moon’s surface.” “Such pristinity is rare for lunar rocks.”

Apollo 17 mission

(Via Wikipedia)

While measuring how much phosphorus was in the rock, the researchers also discovered other chemical variation patterns in the mineral grains, such as plagioclase and olivine. “This was unexpected, as previous studies had reported both of these minerals to lack any chemical variation,” Nelson told Space.com, adding that the variations found in the grains “could not have survived for as long as previously thought.”

In regards to the 20-million-year cooling period rather than the previous estimate of 100 million years, Nelson noted that “If the sample had cooled as slowly as previously suggested, then it should have no variations in P [phosphorus] content and that the variations would have been “ironed out” a very long time ago.

Even though it’s been nearly 50 years since the sample was collected, it is still revealing fascination information regarding the history of our moon, especially with help from new technology. “I believe quite a bit can still be learned from the Apollo sample collection,” Nelson said. “First and foremost, as demonstrated by this study, analytical techniques are always improving.” “Signals that were previously hidden because they were subtle can now be detected and leveraged in new ways.”

The lunar landing site from the Apollo 17 mission.

(Via Wikipedia)

It’s incredible to think that this new study has changed the timeline of about 80 million years in regards to how long it took the moon to cool down and solidify. And with more lunar missions, additional samples will be brought back to Earth to be analyzed. We will surely find out even more fascinating information regarding our lunar companion. The study was published in the journal Nature Communications where it can be read in full.

A photo of the moon rock troctolite 76535 can be viewed here.

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ExoMars discovers hidden water in Mars’ Grand Canyon

Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars

“FREND revealed an area with an unusually large amount of hydrogen in the colossal Valles Marineris canyon system: assuming the hydrogen we see is bound into water molecules, as much as 40% of the near-surface material in this region appears to be water.”

The water-rich area is about the size of the Netherlands and overlaps with the deep valleys of Candor Chaos, part of the canyon system considered promising in our hunt for water on Mars.

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Marsrover Perseverance op de Rode Planeet.  © EPA

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20km Spacecraft On Planet Ceres Map, Photos, UFO sighting News.

Date of discovery: Dec 16, 2021

Location of discovery: Planet Ceres

Photo Source: 

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I was looking over a map of Ceres, not a dwarf at all as some confused and inept scientists believe. This planet has signs of advanced technology on its surface in its northern polar region. The object I found is a landed spacecraft. Its distinct white color makes it stand out from its grey and black surroundings. The spacecraft is huge, about 20km long from nose to tail. That would be capable of holding a small city within it. Now technology like that normally would not just be laying around, except aliens often dump old ships on the moons and planets nearby so that they can reuse or recycle old parts of the craft for later. I have found spaceships on earth moon, Mars, and even under earths oceans. Now why doesn't' the US gov tell the public? Because, do you think the gov wants competition at getting to this and other abandoned alien ships and cities? No, they don't. Sometimes not telling others, leaves all the spoils for you. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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I Found A Pond In A Crater On Mars, Google Map Discovery, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Dec 16, 2021

Location of discovery: Mars
Google map coordinates: 

• https://www.google.com/mars/#lat=70.298700&lon=-257.205490&zoom=8&map=infrared

First off, when you click the URL above it takes you to the online Google Mars map, but you will need to hit the button in the upper left corner that says infrared. 

 

I found a pond in the center of a crater on Mars using google earth map. The pond clearly looks like a liquid and and is even on all sides of it. Its not a tunnel or a cave, but an area covered in a liquid. It could be water, but may be some there liquid entirely. I know its not a tunnel entrance because if I hit the button in the upper left that says Elevation, you can see that its depth is small, oval and similar to that of a pond. I just wanted to share this with you. Water on Mars, we all know it exists, but if this is water, its a lot. Over 3km across! 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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During the Apollo missions, many photos were taken by the crews including rare images of strange bright and glowing objects above, on or near the moon. 

The video below shows some rare images of these bright objects captured during the Apollo 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16 missions. 

Apollo 13 was to be the third mission to land on the Moon. An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled the spacecraft during flight and the crew were forced to orbit the Moon and return to the Earth without landing. During the orbit of the moon, the crew captured strange objects above and on the moon. 

Now, there seems to be a ”Moon Industry” to have held for at least the past fifty years in the crater Plato as moving and flashing lights have been observed at the bottom of the crater. 

For over hundred years the British Royal Astronomical Society has reported 1600 similar sightings of bright lights in the crater Aristarchus, lights at the eastern foot of the lunar Alps, in Mare Crisium a series of spots and streaks of light, and long light lines were seen from the crater Eudoxus.

These bright lights seem to be driven by electromagnetic energy. This energy will offer unlimited opportunities to build huge objects and to move and live in almost any environment. 

These electromagnetic spaceships emit a pulsing glow under different conditions as the density of the atmosphere, humidity, velocity and the height of the spacecraft. 

There can be no doubt, that many of these lights, especially the glowing moving objects, 'electromagnetic spaceships' are intelligently controlled. 

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The US Airforce Soldier Who Faced Aliens

The Rendlesham UFO Incident is the biggest UFO incident in the UK that happened in the days before Christmas back in year 1980. There are audio recordings of the airforce talking about these UFO sightings.

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Few alleged UFO abduction cases have received as much attention as the one which occurred in a small Argentine town less than a month ago. Even fewer have received as much GOVERNMENT attention as the case of Irma Rick of Jacinto Araúz in La Pampa, Argentina. Rick mysteriously disappeared after hearing a loud noise and seeing a bright light. She was found 24 hours later, 40 miles away, not remembering anything else but still in possession of her cellphone. If she was abducted by a UFO, that cellphone could be the first known to have been on an extraterrestrial spaceship. Wouldn’t ANY government be interested in getting its hands on that?

Who could that be?

“The 3rd Judicial District of General Acha (La Pampa) has intervened as the competent body in this case. Dr. Juan Bautista Méndez took over the case in the court of first instance, but within a few days, investigative continuity fell to Dr. María Virginia Antón, deputy prosecutor, who was elevated to the position in June 2021.”

The go-to guy on the alien abduction case of Irma Rick is Luis Burgos, a well-known South American UFO investigator. After his initial investigation, he focused on the cellphone, which would be evidence in any missing person case. Burgos was able to interview Dr. Antón, who gave him some interesting and some disappointing answers. (See more on his website.)

• The investigation aims at dismissing all “suspicious” that the event might have had: Spousal abuse, kidnapping, extortion, injury, etc.
• Irma Rick’s smartphone is in the hands of judiciary at Dr. Antón’s request.
• At first, a story circulated about Irma Rick’s spouse’s smartphone having also been taken. Dr. Antón denied this.
• A medical report has been attached to the cause of action.
• In principle, a report by an interdisciplinary team that visited the protagonist is yet to be attached.
• The expert report on the infamous smartphone should be ready by February/March, as this matter takes time and Judicial Recess begins in January.
• The results of the expert investigation will not be made public.

Antón’s department has Rick’s phone, appears to be treating it first as a criminal case, but will keep all results private. Luis Burgos doesn’t seem pleased with these answers. He notes on his website that the La Pampa area is a well-known UFO hotspot and the Irma Rick case is just the latest in a long string of unusual UFO-related occurrences there. He’s also worried that it will be ignored like so many other La Pampa incidents in the past.

“And it makes us wonder…if the Irma Rick case falls apart, collapses, or otherwise becomes uncertain, does it change Pampean case histories to any extent?”

Does no one care or are they hiding something?

Burgos hopes instead that the government will take its time and “the Irma Rick Case will serve to set a precedent in the subject of abductions and witnesses with smartphones.”

Will it? Let’s hope Luis Burgos keeps up the great work and keeps us informed.

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The UFO phenomenon often seems to happen in waves. Every once in a while a particular place will seem to draw these strange anomalies to it, On occasion, some of these spates of UFO sightings will take a sharp turn into the truly bizarre, and one of these was a case from Canada that ended with a piece of physical evidence in the form of a copper disk apparently left behind by aliens and which has never been deciphered.

In 1967, the city of Edmonton, of the Canadian province of Alberta, would experience a series of very strange events. It seems to have begun in the early morning hours of May 8, 1967, when a 14-year-old boy by the name of Ricky Banyard saw “a spaceship” in the sky as he walked through the Mount Pleasant Cemetery on his way home at around 2 a.m. It was described as being spherical in shape, with red and green lights and top and bottom parts that were spinning. From the bottom of the craft emanated a beam of bright white light that seemed to be scouting the ground like a searchlight. The boy went to get his friend, Glenn Coates, and they both watched as it made its way towards some trees in the cemetery. They decided to get some binoculars and hide behind a tree nearby, where they were able to get a close look at the object, and Banyard would explain of what they saw:

It was 200 to 300 feet in the air and made a muffled whistling noise as it hovered. A white ribbon of light came from the bottom of it and spread out in a rectangular shape about 15 centimeters above the ground. The ground was white, as though white hot under it. When I stepped out from the trees for a better look, the light disappeared then there was kind of a screaming noise like a jet starting up. All the lights in the ship went out and there were about seven or eight bangs and it took off.

Image by Steve Baxter

When they inspected the area where the light had hit the ground, they found some rectangular-shaped black streaks on the gravel road that wound through the cemetery. Banyard would make a sketch of the UFO, and when word got out he saw there were droves of curiosity coming to the cemetery every night hoping to get a glimpse of the mysterious object. Two days after Banyard’s experience, a middle-aged couple living nearby also saw what they described as a spherical craft with red and blue flashing lights on its edges and a beam shooting down from beneath it. Ten days after that, a 29-year-old school janitor by the name of Jack Strangman saw a “whitish, oval-shaped” object lurking over the cemetery, and at around the same time a “really bright, egg-shaped” craft with two pulsing red lights at each end was seen streaking away from the cemetery and into the night by a witness named Norman Fibke. This series of sightings stirred up a lot of media coverage and talk at the time, and strange lights would be seen in the skies of Edmonton throughout the summer, but it would not be until November of that year where the strangest case of all would emerge.

On November 4th, 1967, an Italian immigrant in the area known only as “L.R.” walked back to his home after dinner with friends at around 11:30 p.m. and then sat in his room having a cigarette and relaxing, when he looked out through the window and noticed an extremely bright red light streaking through the sky over the Saskatchewan River near the Riverside Municipal Golf Course. He watched as it took a trajectory towards the ground and then stopped to hover in the sky. Although he had at first thought it was a plane, he could now see that it was not, and his curiosity caused him to go to the window for a closer look. He could see that the object was round in shape, and had a very bright red, pulsating light, almost blinding in its intensity.

As he watched the strange object hover, it’s fierce red light suddenly blinked out, and it was as if the whole craft had vanished, and shortly after this, an ethereal blue ring appeared in the air, which then descended towards the ground to seemingly evaporate. Soon after, another blue ring did the same, then another, and after this the red light blazed on once again and a smaller light ejected from the bottom of the craft to go flying towards the ground. This smaller object seemed to be a silver sphere with a slight violet light, and as the larger craft remained stationary it flew around over the golf course, creating a buzzing noise as it did so, finally landing on the ground to seemingly vanish. A few minutes the light went on again and this smaller object flew up towards the larger one to disappear within it. After this, the larger object became brighter, its red light pulsating furiously, before the craft shot off into the distance.

The next day, L.R. went out to take a look at the area where he had seen the strange light show the night before. He made his way out over the golf course and after some time of looking around discovered where he surmised the smaller craft had landed. It was a circular patch of flattened grass about 16 feet wide, and off to the side were some anomalous holes in the ground. As he surveyed the area some more, something glinting in the grass nearby caught his eye, and when he went to see what it was he found lying there a plate made of what looked like copper, measuring approximately 17.3 cm (6.8 inches) wide by 12.5 cm (4.9 inches) high. Upon its surface were what appeared to be some sort of hieroglyphic-like drawings and symbols, their meaning inscrutable. Mesmerized by what he was seeing, L.R. picked up the plate to find that it was extraordinarily thin, only about 1 mm (0.04 inches) thick, and after studying the strange pictographs on its surface he took it home with him. At this time, he was convinced that this plate had come from one of the crafts he had seen, so he was very careful not to damage it as he had the impression that it was quite fragile.

Image by Steve Baxter

Back at his home, L.R. wondered what he should do next and whether he should show the mysterious plate to someone, but in the end he decided that no one would believe him and so he held onto it and kept it a secret for years. When he went back to Italy six years later, he brought the strange artifact along with him, and somehow word got out about it in an Italian magazine on unsolved mysteries called Il Giornale dei Misteri. This captured the attention of UFO researcher Daniela Giordano, who talked personally with L.R. and has said of their correspondence:

At that time I was living in Rome and after some telephone calls to the magazine I obtained the telephone numbers of L.R. who was living in Southern Italy, near Naples. Thus, I got in telephone contact with him. He confirmed the story and told me he was not interested in analyzing the plate, in spite of my insistence. It was just like a lucky mascot for him, stored in his strongbox, and all this interest about his story was starting to disturb him. Moreover, he didn’t have much interest in UFOs and related matters. So, after this conversation, I proposed to send a friend of mine, living closer to his town, with the task of taking a photo of this strange plate, nothing more. He agreed, and I sent my friend to see him. Since this I have had no further contact with him, but I have been working in my free time to try to understand this puzzling plate. As far as I know, no other researchers have ever studied or done research on this strange object.

The photo that Giordano managed to get of the plate is the only known photographic evidence of the mysterious object. Giordano would manage to track L.R. down again years later, and hear that he had lost the plate when the police had stopped him one day on his way to work and confiscated his car and the bag he always carried it around in after his vehicle had been hit by a mysterious gunshot. A week later he got his car back, but not the plate, and he would never see it again. Where it went is anyone’s guess, and this means the only sign that it ever existed at all are the testimonies of L.R. and Giordano and the photograph. You can see the photograph here. It is all a truly bizarre case tied in with other sightings from the same area, and we are left to wonder just what was going on here. Was this something dropped or intentionally left behind? Was it just a hoax? If it was real, then where did it go and what did it say? We will probably never know.

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Hundreds of dinosaur footprints have been discovered in a clay mine close to the village of Borkowice, Poland. It is such a significant find that experts have called it the most spectacular discovery ever made in Poland, as well as the largest find in all of Europe and possibly even the world.

The dinosaur tracks date back approximately 199 million years during the early part of the Jurassic Period that is known as the Hettangian Age (this was between 201.3 and 199.3 million years ago). They were found by Professor Grzegorz Pieńkowski from the National Geological Institute in Warsaw, as well as geologist and paleontologist Dr. Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki from Uppsala University.

(Not any of the footprints mentioned in this article.)

The tracks were so remarkably preserved that Dr. Niedźwiedzki explained them as looking like “…the dinosaurs were walking there yesterday,” adding, “This will make the site the largest collection of its type in Europe.” In fact, they were so well preserved that they have been compared to the best quality ones that were previously found in North America, Greenland, South Africa, and China.

The footprints were found in rocks with approximately 60 big blocks containing hundreds of tracks that have been recovered thus far. The researchers are planning on excavating over 200 additional blocks of rocks in the coming months and there could be as many as thousands more footprints that have yet to be found.

The prints were made by carnivorous and avian dinosaurs. Some of the tracks were made by sauropodomorphs (this group includes the Brontosaurus). The biggest footprints measured 40 centimeters in length (15.7 inches) which means that the dinosaurs that left them would have measured as tall as 6 meters (19.7 feet). What’s even more remarkable is that the claws and skin were imprinted in the rocks.

Another interesting fact is that even though hundreds of footprints were found, actual dinosaur bones are quite rare in Poland. The reason why not many dinosaur fossils have been found is because a lot of the country was under water millions of years ago and the fossil site near Borkowice was a coastal area.

This is certainly a very important and exceptional find as Professor Pieńkowski stated, “I have never seen such a treasure trove before.” Pictures of some of the footprints can be viewed here.

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‘Human Extinction Would Be Fine’ if Asteroid Hit – Say Woke Transhumanists

Artist’s impression asteroid colliding with Earth

(Image: Don Davis Via NASA Image and Video Library)

It is believed that an asteroid smashed into the Earth some 66 million years ago, landing near the the Yucatan Peninsula in modern-day Mexico, and wiping out the dinosaurs and other countless species in the process. It was certainly a Great Reset for its time. But could it happened again, and if so, what would that mean for the human race? 

When the “Chicxulub” asteroid struck the Earth back then, it triggered the equivalent of 100 nuclear winters, and is said to have wiped out roughly 75% of all species on the planet. If the same thing happened to day, it would, at the very least, go a long way towards wiping out the human race.

Surprisingly, some leading technocrats and radical environmentalists are in favour of an full-on Armageddon outcome… 

Wesley J. Smith at National Review writes…

Bioethicists Okay Human Extinction to Eliminate Suffering

These days, anti-humanism is as thick as molasses among the intelligentsia. That includes an ongoing conversation in bioethics whether — all things considered — human extinction would be a fine thing because of the suffering that never coming into existence would avoid.

Example: A few months ago, Oxford professor Roger Crisp opined that we might not want to stop a huge asteroid from hitting the Earth. From “Would extinction be so bad?”:

Consider the huge amount of suffering that continuing existence will bring with it, not only for humans, and perhaps even for “post-humans”, but also for sentient non-humans, who vastly outnumber us and almost certainly would continue to do so. As far as humans alone are concerned, Hilary Greaves and Will MacAskill at the University of Oxford’s Global Priorities Institute estimate that there could be one quadrillion (10¹⁵) people to come – an estimate they describe as conservative.

These numbers, and the scale of suffering to be put into the balance alongside the good elements in individuals’ lives, are difficult to fathom and so large that it’s not obvious that you should deflect the asteroid. In fact, there seem to be some reasons to think you shouldn’t….

Perhaps one reason we think extinction would be so bad is that we have failed to recognise just how awful extreme agony is. Nevertheless, we have enough evidence, and imaginative capacity, to say that it is not unreasonable to see the pain of an hour of torture as something that can never be counterbalanced by any amount of positive value. And if this view is correct, then it suggests that the best outcome would be the immediate extinction that follows from allowing an asteroid to hit our planet.

Crisp equivocates a bit at the end, writing, “I am not claiming that extinction would be good; only that, since it might be, we should devote a lot more attention to thinking about the value of extinction than we have to date.” Good grief. Is the issue really debatable?

Not to be outdone, writing in response to Crisp in the Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, University of Calgary professor Walter Glannon shrugs his big brain at the prospect of us being gone. From “A world without us”:

We cannot predict the sort of lives future people would have because we do not know the sort of world they would inhabit.  But the circumstances described above make it difficult to be optimistic. Regardless of the hypothetical value or disvalue of these lives, possible people are not deprived of anything if they do not come into existence.

We have an obligation to collectively act to prevent or reduce the suffering that present and future humans will actually experience. This depends on controlling natural habitats, deforestation, carbon emissions and other processes.  Future actual people have the same rights and interests in avoiding suffering as present actual people.  The extent of suffering may provide a pro tanto reason to prevent them from existing.  Even if there is no such reason, merely possible people do not have these rights and interests because they do not and will not exist.  If we become extinct, then the world will go on without us and will be good or bad for no one.

Why do ivory-tower discussions like this matter? Because these nihilists are teaching the society leaders of tomorrow, those who will exert tremendous influence over future public policies and cultural attitudes. With our supposedly best minds suggesting that human extinction could be desirable, is it any wonder why so many of our young people seem to be despairing?

Moreover, the utter terror of suffering is pathological and leads directly to evil and/or terribly wrongheaded utilitarian policies such as eugenics and social Darwinism. It is also the moving force behind the euthanasia movement, which seeks to eliminate suffering by eliminating the sufferer. Avoiding suffering is also the central philosophical core of the transhumanism quasi-religion, which seeks to create a corporeal immortality by instilling a new eugenics with very sharp teeth…

So, what should be our attitude toward suffering? It should not be utopian scheming. Nor, to be sure, should it be indifference. Rather, we have a human duty to mitigate each other’s suffering, to love and “suffer with” each other — which is the root meaning of compassion. And we can harness our own suffering to grow and become better individuals.

In this regard, for my Humanize podcast, I recently interviewed the quadriplegic Christian evangelist and disability rights activists Joni Eareckson Tada, who unexpectedly took a deep dive into this very issue, and in a very intimate and personal way. Regardless of faith issues, her attitude toward — and personal response to — her own deep suffering is much healthier than the nihilism that has grown so dark within utilitarian bioethics that some don’t reject the prospect of human extinction out of hand

Source: 

• https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/12/15/human-extinction-would-be-fine-if-asteroid-hit-say-woke-transhumanists/

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For The First Time in History, a Spacecraft Has 'Touched' The Sun

Michelle Starr

In an incredible historic first, a human-made spacecraft has swooped in and made contact with the Sun.

© NASA's GoddardSpace Flight Center/Joy Ng  Artist's impression of Parker entering the solar corona.

On 28 April 2021, NASA's Parker Solar Probe actually flew into and through the solar corona, the upper atmosphere of the Sun. Not only did it live to tell the tale – proving the efficacy of Parker's high-tech heat shielding – it took in situ measurements, giving us a wealth of never-before-seen data on the heart of our Solar System.

"Parker Solar Probe 'touching the Sun' is a monumental moment for solar science and a truly remarkable feat," said astrophysicist Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters.

"Not only does this milestone provide us with deeper insights into our Sun's evolution and its impacts on our Solar System, but everything we learn about our own star also teaches us more about stars in the rest of the Universe."

Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018, with its primary objective to probe the solar corona. In its planned seven-year mission, it should be making a total of 26 close approaches, or perihelions, to the Sun, using a total of seven gravity assist maneuvers from Venus to bring it ever closer. The April perihelion was the eighth, and the first to actually enter the corona.

In its nearly five hours inside the solar atmosphere, Parker measured fluctuations in the Sun's magnetic field and sampled particles. Previously, our estimates of these properties relied on external information.

"Flying so close to the Sun, Parker Solar Probe now senses conditions in the magnetically dominated layer of the solar atmosphere – the corona – that we never could before," said astrophysicist Nour Raouafi, Parker project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

"We see evidence of being in the corona in magnetic field data, solar wind data, and visually in images. We can actually see the spacecraft flying through coronal structures that can be observed during a total solar eclipse."

© NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory

Above: The bright features visible in the pictures here are coronal streamers, normally only seen from Earth during an eclipse. These were imaged by the Parker probe during the ninth perihelion in August this year.

The Sun doesn't have a solid surface. Instead, its boundary is defined by what we call the Alfvén critical surface, where gravity and the Sun's magnetic fields are too weak to contain the solar plasma.

Above this point, the solar wind emerges, blowing powerfully through the Solar System, so fast that waves within the wind break away from the Sun. What we call the 'surface' of the Sun, composed of roiling convection cells plasma and known as the photosphere, is far below.

One of the goals of Parker was to find out more about the Alfvén critical surface; namely, where it is, and what its topography is like, since we didn't know either of those things. Estimates had put the Alfvén critical surface at somewhere between 10 and 20 solar radii from the center of the Sun. Parker entered the corona at 19.7 solar radii, dipping down to as low as 18.4 solar radii during its corona jaunt.

Interestingly, the probe seemed to encounter the magnetic conditions of the corona sporadically, suggesting that the Alfvén critical surface is wrinkled. At lower depths, Parker encountered a magnetic structure known as a pseudostreamer, which we can see arcing out from the Sun during solar eclipses. Parker's data suggest that these structures are responsible for the deformation of the Alfvén critical surface, although we don't currently know why.

Inside the pseudostreamer, conditions were quieter than the surrounding solar atmosphere. Particles no longer buffeted the spacecraft quite so chaotically, and the magnetic field was more orderly.

Parker also investigated a phenomenon known as solar switchbacks. These are Z-shaped kinks in the magnetic field of the solar wind, and it's not currently known where or how they form. We've known about switchbacks since the 1990s, but it wasn't until Parker investigated them in 2019 that we learnt that they are rather common. Then on its sixth flyby, the probe's data showed us that switchbacks occur from patches.

Now Parker has detected them inside the solar atmosphere, suggesting that at least some of the switchbacks come from the lower corona.

"The structure of the regions with switchbacks matches up with a small magnetic funnel structure at the base of the corona," said astronomer Stuart Bale of the University of California, Berkeley, lead author on a paper on the phenomenon in press at The Astrophysical Journal. "This is what we expect from some theories, and this pinpoints a source for the solar wind itself."

We still don't know how these curious structures formed, but with dozens more perihelions ahead, going as close as 9.86 solar radii from the center of the Sun, we're likely to be getting some pretty fascinating answers.

"We have been observing the Sun and its corona for decades, and we know there is interesting physics going on there to heat and accelerate the solar wind plasma. Still, we cannot tell precisely what that physics is," Raouafi said.

"With Parker Solar Probe now flying into the magnetically-dominated corona, we will get the long-awaited insights into the inner workings of this mysterious region."

The research has been published in Physical Review Letters.

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Artistieke impressie van sonde Parker die de corona van de zon invliegt.  © NASA

Tijdens perihelium negen vloog het ruimtevaartuig Parker langs structuren die coronale stroomlijnen worden genoemd. Deze structuren zijn te zien als heldere lijnen die omhoog bewegen in de bovenste beelden en schuin omlaag in de onderste. De stroomlijnen zijn vanaf de aarde zichtbaar tijdens totale zonsverduisteringen.  © NASA/Johns Hopkins

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Glowing Spheres Over Paterson, New Jersey, 12-10-2021 (graphic language) UFO Sighting News. 

 

Date of sighting: Dec 10, 2021
Location of sighting: Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Source: MUFON

 

In this five minute video we see dozens of glowing circular objects moving across the sky. The objects are following each other in a line. Sometimes in the video I see a pair of the objects moving apart, then suddenly moving back together so it seem they are trying stay together. You can hear the eyewitnesses dismay and confusion in their voices as they watch the craft flying over them. At one point in the video one glowing object comes over them, he zoomed in on it, showing a whiteish sphere object, then it moves away. This moment excited the eyewitness who can be heard saying, "See! See I told you so!" meaning he said they were alien craft and this show of intelligence of the craft made that statement accurate. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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Cigar-shaped UFO over Albuquerque, NM

This huge cigar-shaped UFO was filmed hovering in the daytime sky above Albuquerque in New Mexico. This happened in the recent days.

Witness report: 

I watched it during an entire 15 minute drive and then filmed it once I got to the destination since the videos from the car were just awful. It stayed in that same spot. Then I sat and watched it about 5 more minutes before going inside.

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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack: Roswell/Area 51 and Abductees

Legendary episode of Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack (Season 7, Episode 21) from 1995 about Roswell, Area 51 and Abductees.

The Mysterious 1561 Nuremberg Event ‘UFO Battle’

It was in April 1561 when all residents of Nuremberg, Germany, came out of their houses to investigate mysterious lights and loud sounds. They watched the sky, in awe and fear as they witnessed what appeared to be some kind of air battle—and all of this in broad daylight of the early morning.

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Un crash d'ovni sur Mars ? Une photo de la NASA sème le trouble

Une photo de la sonde Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter où apparaît ce qui ressemble à un objet artificiel suscite un débat passionné.

Au bout de cette traînée, on distingue un objet circulaire d’une quinzaine de mètres de diamètre qui semble à demi enfoui dans le sable. Il n’en fallait pas plus pour déclencher un débat enflammé entre ceux qui y voient la preuve évidente du crash d’un vaisseau spatial et les sceptiques qui rappellent que les jeux d’ombres et de lumières peuvent créer les illusions les plus convaincantes. D’autant que Mars, désormais aussi photographiée qu’une star sur la Croisette, fournit régulièrement son lot de paréidolies, ces formes que le cerveau tend naturellement à forger aussi bien dans les nuages que dans le chaos de sable et de roches de notre proche voisine.

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The only thing more terrifying that someone saying “Look … a black hole!” is someone saying “Look … a black hole … and it sprung a leak!” That’s the strange message coming to us from the Hubble telescope – working again and sending scary photos to remind us why it’s still the reigning king of space telescopes until the James Webb one launches, deploys and proves itself. In the meantime, NASA reports that Hubble found evidence that Sagittarius A* — the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole – is leaking a jet of hot gas. Is it time to find a giant cork … or a new galaxy?

How big is that leak?

“Our central black hole clearly surged in luminosity at least 1 millionfold in the last million years. That sufficed for a jet to punch into the Galactic halo.”

That ready-for-Jeff-Goldblum-as-a-NASA-scientist movie line comes from Tsukuba University’s Alex Wagner, co-author of new research published in the Astrophysical Journal, explaining in a NASA press release how Sagittarius A* sprung a leak … if something which happened over a million years can be considered a ‘spring’. Wagner and Gerald Cecil of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill were studying data on Sgr A* from Hubble, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Jansky Very Large Array telescope in New Mexico and the ALMA Observatory in Chile when they noticed an expanding, narrow linear jet of molecular gas 15 light-years away from the black hole. Hubble infrared-wavelength images showed a glowing, inflating bubble of hot gas aligned to the jet at a distance of at least 35 light-years from the black hole. Wagner paints a better picture.

“The streams percolate out of the Milky Way’s dense gas disk. The jet diverges from a pencil beam into tendrils, like that of an octopus.”

In this annotated composite image, yellow represents Hubble data, blue is Chandra data, green is Alma data, and red is VLA data. The graphic of a translucent, vertical white fan is added to show the suggested axis of a mini-jet from the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s heart.

Credits: NASA, ESA, and Gerald Cecil (UNC-Chapel Hill); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

This schematic is based on multiwavelength observations of a suspected jet from the massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The wide view shows our galaxy edge-on, with two huge bubbles of plasma glowing in gamma-rays and X-rays. These are evidence for an explosive outburst from the black hole about 2 million years ago. Probing deep into the galaxy's core (inset), astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured a glowing cloud of hydrogen near the black hole. The interpretation is that the cloud is being hit by a narrow, columnated jet of material that was blasted out of the black hole merely 2,000 years ago. The black hole is still active, but on a smaller scale of energy output than previously known outbursts. When the jet slams into the hydrogen knot the outflow scatters into octopus-like tendrils that continue along a trajectory out of our galaxy.

Credits: NASA, ESA, Gerald Cecil (UNC-Chapel Hill), and Dani Player (STScI)

(Composite views of the leaking gas can be seen here.) While Sgr A* is said to be in a powered down state at the moment, it apparently still shows signs of activity when something gets sucked into its supermassive mouth and it belches out some gas. Unfortunately, the leak can’t be seen until it powers up again, but Cecil says that will happen soon … and it will be “cool.”

“The black hole need only increase its luminosity by a hundredfold over that time to refill the jet channel with emitting particles. It would be cool to see how far the jet gets in that outburst.”

We’re gonna need a bigger cork

When you’re an astronomer, you get your kicks wherever you can. The next step for the team is to use the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an international collaboration capturing images of black holes using a virtual Earth-sized telescope, to take images of the black hole’s shadow which may show where and how the leak is launched.

In the meantime, Hubble will keep sending back its fantastic images until the James Webb telescope gets its act together.

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“I think they are studying us. I don’t know what they really want.”

What kind of psychic says he knows for certain that extraterrestrials have been secretly watching humans for thousands of years … yet can’t tell us what they want? Uri Geller, of course! The Sultan of Spoon Bending has moved on from claiming to influence sports games and election results to warning that aliens are finally going to make themselves visible to us after studying humans from hidden locations.

“But I think they are preparing us for contact for the Steven Spielberg scenario of landing and it’s going to be spectacular. They will probably land on the White House lawn or somewhere. All our science fiction films about alien encounter will come true.”

Would Spielberg have an alien ship land on the White House lawn? Based on how his latest film is doing, he wouldn’t have them do a dance number as they exited the ship. In an interview with The Sun Online, Geller has expanded his earlier statements that ETs have been watching us for 50 years and now says they’ve been patiently observing for thousands. One would think Geller should have more accurate numbers since he has often claimed he received his psychic powers from aliens … although under hypnosis he once claimed he IS an ET sent here from another solar system. Whatever the case, he’s never been known to do anything as spectacular as bending spoons, so perhaps that’s what we should be prepared for the ETs to do on the White House lawn.

“There is no doubt in my mind that they are gentle and I’ll tell you why – if they weren’t we would have been destroyed a long time ago. Their ability to move in such erratic ways has never been seen before. It’s simply unbelievable. I think the Pentagon know much more but they’re not telling us.”

Geller conveniently piggybacks onto the Tic Tac UFO accounts with his comment about “their ability to move his such erratic ways.” However, to accuse the Pentagon of knowing more than they’re telling us conveniently sidesteps that fact that psychic Geller should also know more than he’s telling us … probably more than the Pentagon knows if he’s really an ET and/or a psychic. Is it any wonder why the late James Randi was so skeptical of Geller?

Will the aliens tell us how to bend spoons?

At this point, it doesn’t take a psychic to figure out what comes next. No, not an exact date of the spectacular arrival of the ETs – the best Geller can do is say “60 to 75 years it’s going to happen.” What Geller reveals next to The Sun Online is what he’s plugging – a new book on how anyone can use their own psychic powers to obtain “health, wealth, success and peace of mind.”

Sorry, Uri, we’d rather know when the aliens are coming and what kind of spoons they’ll be bending.

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Dark Disk Seen In Countryside of Argentina, Dec 11, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: December 11, 2021
Location of sighting: Balcarce, Argentina
Source: 

• https://www.cronica.com.ar/paranormal/Impresionante-ovni-sobre-Balcarce-20211212-0038.html

This is a great example of a classic disk UFO seen before it makes itself invisible. Ever seen a disk cloud, then instantly it disappears in front of your eyes, yeah thats what happens every time an alien telepathically senses its noticed. The UFO is dark red with a dome on its upper middle. The eyewitness (a young woman) even stated that she thought she saw a figure moving inside the craft for a few seconds. However most aliens have powerful telepathic senses amplified by their advanced technology, therefore its safe to assume that the alien was watching, recording the human activity below until it was noticed and it immediately cloaked, making it appear to evaporate in thin air, but in reality, its still sitting there watching the eyewitness. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: “I was looking for a place for a photo production -sweaters factory- and I had been looking for a location, photographing and filming for 3 hours. When I was taking the picture of Cerro Paulino I realized that was there, I shot the photo and looked up, it was something black and there was something red inside, but in a millisecond it was hidden among the clouds, "she said.

 

Above screenshot shows a closeup of the UFO and below is added focus to see some detail. 

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Alien Spacecraft Found Landed On Mars, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Dec 10, 2021

Location of discovery: Mars
Source photo:

• https://www.uahirise.org/PSP_009653_2275

Here is an amazing discovery of a oblong UFO found in a Mars map photo from NASA archives. The UFO has a shape unlike any I have ever seen before, but conforms to the balanced symmetry that one would expect it to have. The UFO is tilted 45 degrees due to it landing on a flat surface and the UFO itself having a rounded underbelly. Such objects are littered across Mars and even on the moon, which if salvaged by humans, could give humanity the technology it needs to survive indefinitely in the depths of space across the universe. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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30 Tornadoes Hit the US At Same Time, Did China Use the HAARP Program To Weaponize The Weather? Breaking News.

HAARP source:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program

China Radio Telescope: 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope

Have you heard China complaining and threatening to get back at the US for boycotting the olympics in Beijing and how the US tries to stop US from working with any China companies? Well, China is fighting back, covertly. 

Guys, across the Internet we are hearing about how upwards of 30 tornadoes that hit the United States late at night, killing about a hundred people or more. And just a few days ago the world heard about how China has been using weather control to make it rain and clean the air more in China in an area the size of Alaska. But there are a few things you probably don't know. 

China has the worlds largest radio telescope, five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, or FAST – which was declared fully operational as recently as January 2020. It's in China's Guizhou province. This is just the kind of instrument needed to create tornados. 

Back in 1993 the US Air Force created the HAARP program, research into how to use electronic waves to manipulate the weather around them world, by bouncing a signal up into the sky and bouncing it off the ionosphere onto a location somewhere on Earth. The program started in Gabona, Alaska and lasted until 2014, when it was announced that the HARRP program would shut down. However it may have continued in covert in order to escape the protests of the public. 

Somewhere along the line, China stole the details, research and tech knowhow to do their own HAARP program but not for research as much as research to be a weapon. China makes it a priority to steal any technology the US has...from the NASA space shuttle (they took it) to the newest Awacs (Fairborn warning control systems) military planes. 

Also the fact that tornados don't come 30 at a time! Let alone at night and...in December with temperatures below freezing. Tornados usually come in spring and summer months. Scientists say May and June the peek tornado months. All weather scientists know...cold weather limits tornados. And to compound it all...the tornado hit at night, when everyone was inside, unable to see any tornadoes coming, thus unable to escape them. This HAARP China program is a weapon to punish its adversaries, to hurt them, to kill them, and to hurt the economy financially from the destruction. 

Even President Biden said, "This is likely to be one of the largest tornado outbreaks in our history." 

So...I post here the facts, my thoughts, and let you make your own decisions. China has the means and the motivation. But all the facts point to weather manipulation, a new kind of war. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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A3D render created of what looks like an artificial anomaly discovered in Protonilus Mensae on Mars. 

The footage shows an anomaly what appears to a disc shape with a dome on top and two smaller semi-circular parts on either side. 

The anomaly is lying on it's side on a rectangular area that seems cleared out.

  

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Ross Coulthart returns on That UFO Podcast

Ross joins me for the second time on the podcast discussing:

• What’s changed the last few months
• His “ongoing” investigation Ross’s feelings on how this could still not go our way…
• What have politicians been briefed on in the U.S?
• Ross clears up his future humans opinion
• Listener Questions
• And much,much more…

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