At times, the field of Cryptozoology can be a violent one. Occasionally, a deadly one. With that said, let’s have a look at some of the most  dangerous monsters out there. We’ll begin with the Nyalmo. You may not have heard of that one. It is, however, a form of Yeti (also known as the Abominable Snowman). The Nyalmo, though, is a creature that should not to be approached. As legendary cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans said: “The Nyalmo are real giants, between 4 and 5 m high, with enormous conical heads.” He continued: “They wander in parties among the eternal snows above 4000m. In such empty country it is hardly surprising that they should be carnivorous and even man-eating [italics mine].” Heuvelmans asked of the Nyalmo: “Do they really exist, or are they just a myth?” He admitted to having heard of accounts of Yetis with feet around 45 to 60 cm in length, but was careful to qualify this by stating that: “…the evidence is far too slender for us to draw any satisfactory conclusions. Possibly the Nyalmo are an invented addition based on the belief that yetis increase in size the higher you go.” Now, there is the equally dangerous beast, the Kushtaka.

(Nick Redfern)

What lurks in the mountains?

In 2014, one of the most intriguing Bigfoot-themed books was published. The author was Dennis Waller. The title of his book was In Search of the Kushtaka: Alaska’s Other Bigfoot. This is an excellent read for anyone fascinated by cryptozoology in general and Bigfoot in particular. Waller’s title is not your average Bigfoot book. And that’s not a bad thing at all. As the book demonstrates time and again, the Kushtaka phenomenon is not just strange. Simply put: it’s very often downright too strange. We never, ever, find a body. The beast is seemingly impervious to bullets. There are reports of the creatures vanishing before the witness – and by “vanishing” I do mean that literally. There is, however, something very strange about the Alaskan beast. It has astounding abilities, including the power to seemingly vanish (and reappear) at will, to shape-shift, to take on the guise of a deceased person, and to engage in telepathic communication. It can also manipulate space and time. Many might be inclined to relegate such tales and claims to the worlds of folklore and myth-making – and all without giving matters any degree of second thought.

(Nick Redfern)

On the road

Waller takes us on a fascinating journey that does not deny the legends and folklore that have become part of the Alaskan Bigfoot puzzle. It is, however, a journey that – to make its point – also encompasses science. On this latter issue, Waller delves deeply into the domain of String Theory, quantum physics, and multiple-dimensions. In other words, ancient legend may have been borne out of a science that – to a significant degree – still very much eludes us to this day. It’s also a science that spills over into the realms of Shamanic activity, altered states of mind, the afterlife, and creatures that very possibly feast on human life-energy [italics].

Now, it’s time to take a look at the Wendigo. A terrifying thing that appears prominently within the lore of the Algonquin people – the most widespread and populated of the Native American groups, with tribes originally numbering in the hundreds – the Wendigo is an evil, cannibalistic, and rampaging creature with the ability to possess human sous and minds [italic mine], forcing them to do their dark bidding. Humans have the ability to transform into a Wendigo, especially if they have engaged in cannibalism. Notably, in centuries past, those who were suspected by the Algonquion of being Wendigos were decapitated after death, to prevent them from rising from the grave and going on slaughtering, people-eating rampages. Many of the reports of the Wendigo are focused around large forests, freezing cold and wintery environments, and dark woods. In light of that, there is a theory that the stories of the Wendigo are the result of (a) a distortion of real events, involving Native Americans who were forced to resort to cannibalism when food was scarce in the winter months; and (b) tales told to try and dissuade people from cannibalism, by making them think that eating human flesh would turn them into Wendigos. Now, let’s look at Bigfoot.

It’s not every day that a U.S. president makes comments and observations on Bigfoot. But, as incredible as it may sound, President Theodore Roosevelt may have done exactly that in the pages of his 1890 book, The Wilderness Hunter. The president, who was also a keen hunter and an avid outdoors-man, told a story that sounds eerily, and chillingly, like a close encounter with a killer-Bigfoot. An extract from his amazing, more than a century old, story follows: “Frontiersmen are not, as a rule, apt to be very superstitious. They lead lives too hard and practical, and have too little imagination in things spiritual and supernatural. I have heard but few ghost stories while living on the frontier, and those few were of a perfectly commonplace and conventional type. But I once listened to a goblin-story, which rather impressed me. A grizzled, weather beaten old mountain hunter, named Bauman who, born and had passed all of his life on the Frontier, told it the story to me. He must have believed what he said, for he could hardly repress a shudder at certain points of the tale; but he was of German ancestry, and in childhood had doubtless been saturated with all kinds of ghost and goblin lore.”

(Nick Redfern)

Roosevelt added: “So that many fearsome superstitions were latent in his mind; besides, he knew well the stories told by the Indian medicine men in their winter camps, of the snow-walkers, and the specters, [spirits, ghosts & apparitions] the formless evil beings that haunt the forest depths, and dog and waylay the lonely wanderer who after nightfall passes through the regions where they lurk. It may be that when overcome by the horror of the fate that befell his friend [italics mine], and when oppressed by the awful dread of the unknown, he grew to attribute, both at the time and still more in remembrance, weird and elfin traits to what was merely some abnormally wicked and cunning wild beast; but whether this was so or not, no man can say.” According to Roosevelt, the mysterious creature attacked Bauman’s friend and “…broke his neck by wrenching his head back with its fore paws, while it buried its teeth in his throat [italics mine]. It had not eaten the body, but apparently had romped and gamboled around it in uncouth, ferocious glee, occasionally rolling over and over it; and had then fled back into the soundless depths of the woods.”

Finally, we’re about to focus on a monster that first surfaced in very strange ways – and not too long ago: the Slenderman.  Imagine the scene: it’s the dead of night and you are fast asleep. Suddenly, though, things change radically and you find yourself far from asleep: you are now wide awake but unable to move. You are completely paralyzed. You try and cry out but it’s no use. Your heart pounds and your head spins chaotically. Worse still, you see hunched over in the shadows of the bedroom an eight-to-nine-foot-tall, skinny and emaciated creature. It is dressed in an old-style black suit, has a pale face that lacks eyes, a nose, ears and a mouth. As for its arms and legs, they are almost like those of a spider: long, thin and spindly. Rubbery, octopus-like tentacles protrude from its torso; they wave and flicker ominously in your direction. To your horror, the night-fiend slowly moves toward you and leans over. Its foul breath makes you wretch. It whispers that you are about to die. Or, that it is coming to take your soul. Maybe you will be its eternal slave in its forested, ancient abode. Now in a state of complete terror, you finally manage to cry out and wake up in a cold sweat. The terrible thing is suddenly gone. You have just had a trauma- and fear-filled encounter with the Slenderman.

(Nick Redfern)

A modern day monster

The Slenderman had a strange start: he began “life” purely as an Internet creation, specifically the work of a man named Eric Knudsen. In June 2009, Knudsen, via the pseudonym of “Victor Surge,” uploaded a couple of doctored photos of the Slenderman to the forum of the Something Awful website. In no time at all, others began writing – and posting online – their very own tales of the Slenderman. Short stories, blogs, novels, online games, chat-rooms, and more soon followed. Then, something menacing and sinister happened: people, all across the world, began to see the Slenderman. Not just on the Internet, not in novels or in the pages of comic-books, but in their homes. In their bedrooms. In mysterious woods. In dreams that rapidly escalated into full-blown nightmares. The Slenderman came to life in the form of a Thought-Form. All of the five monsters above are very different creatures. There is, however, one connection between them all: they should be avoided at all costs.

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Is there a lake under the South Pole on Mars? This has been debated since scientists first detected what they thought was a lake about a mile underneath the Martian south pole back in 2018, but the debates and theories have continued on to this day.

In 2020, it was reported that three additional salty lakes were found around the same area as the original South Pole one was detected. But the excitement turned to disappointment in August of 2021 when it was revealed that the “polar lakes” may have just been frozen clay.

And now, a new study conducted by planetary scientists from the University of Texas has claimed that the reflections of the radar images from the Martian South Pole may be nothing more than volcanic rock. In fact, the reflections from the South Pole are the same as those detected at volcanic plains in other locations on the Red Planet. Instead of there being a lake underneath the Martian South Pole, the authors of the study said that the volcanic rock claim is a “more plausible explanation”.

To test their theory, Cyril Grima put in an imaginary ice sheet across a radar map of the planet to see how the surface would look underneath a mile of ice. At that point, they compared the features with those detected underneath the polar cap. “For water to be sustained this close to the surface, you need both a very salty environment and a strong, locally generated heat source, but that doesn’t match what we know of this region,” he explained. His map was based on data collected over three years from a radar instrument called MARSIS on board the European Space Agency’s Mars Express.

The same thing has been detected here on Earth with rocks from iron-rich lava flows reflecting in a similar way to those at Mars’ volcanic plains.

While Mars may have had oceans many millions of years ago and could possibly still have pockets of water ice today, more research needs to be conducted. Isaac Smith, who is a Mars geophysicist at York University but was not involved with the study, gave his opinion about the new research, “I think the beauty of Grima’s finding is that while it knocks down the idea there might be liquid water under the planet’s south pole today,” he said that it “gives us really precise places to go look for evidence of ancient lakes and riverbeds and test hypotheses about the wider drying out of Mars’ climate over billions of years.”

The study was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters where it can be read in full.

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Giant Elon Musk rocket is about to CRASH into the Moon after ‘7 years of chaos’

A FOUR-TONNE chunk of a SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the Moon, according to online space junk trackers.

The out-of-control booster was launched from Florida in February 2015 as part of the rocket firm's first interplanetary mission.

ArsTechnica reports that the Falcon 9 second stage completed a long burn of its engines before deploying the NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory on a journey to a point more than 1 million km from Earth.

It did not have enough fuel left to take it back into Earth's atmosphere, leaving it on a chaotic orbit around our planet.

Now, space trackers have calculated that the rocket part's will intersect with the Moon at 2.58 kilometres per second within weeks.

The impact is estimated to occur on March 4, 2022, according to Bill Gray, who writes the popular Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects.

"This is the first unintentional case [of space junk hitting the Moon] of which I am aware," Gray wrote last week.

The astronomer recently put out a call to space-watchers to make observations of the booster to help refine his calculations.

He's hoping to nail down the exact time of the crash ahead of schedule.

Unfortunately, it won't be possible to see the impact live as the tumbling rocket part is expected to hit the Moon's far side – the part that faces away from Earth.

Instead, astronomers will rely on images snapped by satellites including Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to view the aftermath of the crash.

By analysing the resulting crater, scientists hope to observe subsurface material ejected by the crash to shed light on the Moon's composition.

As part of its LCROSS mission, in 2009 Nasa deliberately smashed a rocket booster into the Moon in hopes of learning something from the debris it left behind.

"In essence, this is a "free" LCROSS… except we probably won't see the impact," Gray wrote.

SpaceX's 2015 mission, dubbed DSCOVR, was its first to leave Earth's orbit, meaning the rocket's second stage couldn't be directed into the atmosphere.

That tactic is regularly used by the company and Western space agencies to reduce debris by ensuring that it burns up as opposed to remaining in orbit.

In other news, Boeing has sunk $450million into a flying taxi startup that hopes to whisk passengers across cities by the end of the decade.

Personalised smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers this year.

Scientists are embarking on a mission to unravel the mystery behind dozens of grisly child mummies buried in an underground tomb in Sicily.

And, police have caught an Italian mafia henchman who'd be on the run for 20 years after spotting the fugitive on Google Maps.

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Wat is er precies aan de hand en is de botsing gevaarlijk? Bekijk hier de uitleg van wetenschapsexpert Martijn Peters:

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Monolith Found On Moon In 1966 NASA Photo. UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: January 25, 2022

Location of discovery: Earths moon

Source photo: 

• https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/images/print/1038_h3.jpg 

I found a monolith in an old NASA photo. This is from the Lunar Orbiter 1 mission frame 1038. Its from August of 1966, unmanned mission. The monolith sits at an angle and is pointed at an angle...which may mean its a triangle craft that was crashed landed on the surface of the moon. It's been intelligently made, therefore it has a purpose...most likely a structure or ship...or both. The object is huge, about .5km long. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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Thousands of Crows Take Flight Over Washington, Bad or Good Omen, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of video: January 25, 2022

Location of event: Bothell Washington, USA

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UFO filmed over Edwards AFB, California On Jan 24, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 24, 2022
Location of sighting: Edwards AFB, California, USA
Source: MUFON

 

This video just in today. An eyewitness recorded a glowing object in California. The object was reported over Edwards Air Force Base and may have been aliens investigating the US military. There are hundreds of reports of not just UFOs, but also alien encounters at US military bases. These are usually covered up or ignored by the US government as being nothing more than a weather balloon or the reflection of Venus. This is an alien craft observing, recording and researching the reactions they get when flying over a USAF base. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

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If a time traveler took you to the future 100 years, what would you see? Video, UFO Sighting News.

In this emotionally moving scene from Doctor who series...Doctor Who travels to France to try to visit the artist Van Gogh, in hopes that he can inspire and influence him not to take his own life at age 37. The attempt failed, but for a moment in the future, he realized his greatness. 

Van Gogh, selling only one painting in his lifetime, wanted to be married, but no friendship ever worked out for him. A painting he gave to a friend, was used to fix a hole in a chicken coop for years. The world itself...ignored his greatness, never truly appreciating him. Only after his death, was his art seen for it true greatness. So...clearly during his lifetime...the world was wrong about him. 

This begs the question, if a time traveler took you 100 years into the future to show you how your life has influenced and changed the world...what would you see? Would you come back, inspired to try harder, to transform your pain and passion into something great? 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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3Km Alien Base Found On Mars, Google Mars Map, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Jan 24, 2022

Location of discovery: Mars

Google coordinates: 21°32'55.66"S 69°50'7.26"E

 

I found a huge ancient alien base on Mars using Google Mars map. The structure measured 3.8km across! Its huge and cube-like, but NASA did have those photos in false color and they used a smoothing program to take the detail out of it before creating the map. NASA does not exist to help the public learn about space. NASA exists to keep the public in the dark about the existence of intelligent aliens in our own solar system. This structure is at least .5km high, but looks like it could be 1 full km. It's not hard for NASA to hide the truth, since they have full access to all photos coming from Mars. Then they edit out the structures and then tone down the detail and add false color...all to hide these structures from you. But don't worry, I'm here for you, I'm on the job. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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Strange UFO activity over Corpus Christi, Texas 20-Jan-2022

This strange aerial phenomenon was filmed in the sky above Corpus Christi, Texas on 20th January 2022.

Witness report: 

For context I first thought this was a cloud but after watching it for several minutes it kept growing and got really bright. After this large bright spot appeared it quickly disappeared. No other clouds were in the sky and the sun was already going down. No airplane incidents were reported on the news either.

Very weird and I’m hoping someone can explain! I did not see the moon behind it, the sun was setting to my right and I do not know where the moon was. Stopped recording so I could phone a friend to determine if they could see it. I had called a friend to see if they had noticed it. He said he could find it in the sky but he lives about 20~ miles in a different direction. Girlfriend saw it though so I know I’m not crazy lol. It pretty much went away quickly after this video was shot.

We didn’t see any scheduled launches. This direction is towards south padre though. There is a Naval Air Base in this direction as well but I didn’t see any planes in the sky.

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The Piri Reis Map: Where’s The Lost Map Of Columbus?

In 1929, a map rolled up on a dusty shelf in a library at the Topkapi Palace in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), Turkey. The map is now famous as the “Piri Reis Map,” which has sparked a heated debate worldwide.

When discovered, the Piri Reis Map drew immediate attention as it was one of the earliest maps of America and the only 16th-century map that shows South America in its proper longitudinal position about Africa.

The map is drawn on gazelle skin and was compiled in 1513 by Ahmed Muhiddin Piri, better known as Piri Reis, who was an Ottoman-Turkish military admiral, navigator, geographer, and cartographer.

Approximately one-third of the map which survives shows the western coasts of Europe, North Africa, and the coast of Brazil. Various Atlantic islands, including the Azores and Canary Islands, are shown, as is the mythical island of Antillia and possibly Japan.

The most puzzling aspect of the Piri Reis Map is its depiction of Antarctica. The map not only shows a landmass near present-day Antarctica, but it depicts Antarctica’s topography as not being masked by ice and in great detail.

But according to the history books, the first confirmed sighting of Antarctica occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Mikhail Lazarev and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. On the other hand, it has been estimated that Antarctica has been covered with ice for around 6000 years.

Now many people have raised the question, how could a Turkish admiral from half a millennium ago map a continent’s topography that has been covered with ice for thousands of years?

Reports have been published claiming that the Ottoman Empire knew some form of ancient Ice Age civilization. However, these claims are generally considered pseudoscholarship, and the scholarly opinion is that the region sometimes thought of as Antarctica is more likely Patagonia or the Terra Australis Incognita (Unknown Southern Land) widely believed to exist before the Southern Hemisphere was fully explored.

On the map, Piri Reis gives resource credit to a map drawn by Christopher Columbus, which has never been discovered. Geographers have spent several centuries unsuccessfully searching for a “lost map of Columbus” that was supposedly drawn while he was in the West Indies.

After discovering the Piri Reis map, an unsuccessful investigation was launched to find the lost Columbus source map. The historical importance of the Piri Reis map lies in its demonstration of the extent of Portuguese knowledge of the New World in 1510. The Piri Reis map is currently located in the Library of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, but is not currently on display to the public.

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Ghostly glow in alien skies: 'Zodiacal light' possibly spotted on 3 exoplanets

By Meghan Bartels 

The display may be a clue to understanding other planetary systems.

An artist's depiction of zodiacal light at the surface of the planet Kepler-1229 b. 

(Image credit: SHAO/Yue Xu)

Watch the sun set from a particularly dark patch of Earth and you may spot a triangle of what scientists call zodiacal light extending from where our star passed below the horizon.

Zodiacal light in Earth's skies is created when sunlight bounces off the dust that fills the solar system, the remains of pulverized asteroids and flurry left by passing comets. And according to new research by a team of astronomers and high school students based in China, a similar phenomenon occurs in the skies of at least a few potentially habitable exoplanets. The light could be one more clue for scientists seeking to puzzle out what those exotic neighborhoods might look like

"If we can detect zodiacal light from a distant planet system, then this system likely has components like asteroids and comets, which can't be easily detected directly in other ways," lead author Jian Ge, an astronomer at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in China, said during a news conference held virtually on Jan. 13 by the American Astronomical Society. Ge had been scheduled to present the research at a meeting organized by the group that was canceled due to COVID-19.

• Related: The 10 biggest exoplanet discoveries of 2021

Ge and his colleagues — including a team of high school students — evaluated 47 different potentially habitable worlds studied by NASA's Kepler space telescope, which ended operations in 2018. For each planet, the team gathered a host of data, from sources including the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope and more.

These data helped the researchers determine which planetary systems were brighter in infrared light — wavelengths we feel as heat — than they might have expected. Next, the team checked whether other factors, such as background stars, might be to blame. The process left three planets where the researchers say zodiacal light may shine: Kepler-69c, Kepler-1229b and Kepler-395c, all of which are classified as "super Earths."

Exactly what skywatchers would see at the surface of these alien worlds likely varies from planet to planet, Ge noted during the news conference.

"You can imagine the zodiacal light may look very red," he said of Kepler-1229b, which orbits a red dwarf star.

An artist's depiction of zodiacal light at the surface of the planet Kepler-69 c.   (Image credit: SHAO/Yue Xu)

Kepler-69c, meanwhile, may be a "super Venus" world, larger than our next-door neighbor but equally inhospitable. "We can imagine that this planet's atmosphere and surface look like those of our Venus," Ge said. "It may have a runaway greenhouse effect on its surface, and the atmosphere may be thick and hot, while the surface would be extremely dry." (A thick atmosphere would likely make the zodiacal light more difficult to see.)

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Right now, with only three candidates among 47 planets, the researchers can't say that zodiacal light is a particularly common sight on potentially habitable worlds, but that may change when astronomers can use more powerful observations than those of NASA's WISE mission, Ge said.

"When the sensitivity improves, we may see more systems that have weaker dust emissions," Ge said.

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

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Tomb of ancient Egyptian King Djoser who lived more than 4,500 years ago is restored to its original glory of stunning turquoise stones, hieroglyphic carvings and labyrinth of corridors

• The South Tomb was constructed to honor King Djoser who ruled ancient Egypt some 4,500 year ago

• However, the pharaoh's body was not laid to rest in the tomb, but in the Step Pyramid that sits nearby 

• The tomb consists of stunning tiles and a labyrinth of corridors, decorated with hieroglyphic carvings

• Officials have been working at restoring the site for the past 15 years and it is now open to the public 

By ASSOCIATED PRESS and STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

The elaborate tomb of King Djoser, a pharaoh who lived more than 4,500 years ago in ancient Egypt, has been opened to the public following 15 years of extensive restorations. 

The structure - known as the South Tomb - is largely underground and includes a labyrinth of corridors, decorated with hieroglyphic carvings and tiles.  

However, the pharaoh was not buried in the South tomb, but was laid to rest in the famed Step Pyramid nearby, which was built by his personal architect Imhotep.

The South tomb, built between 2667 BC and 2648 BC, is thought to have been constructed for symbolic reasons, or perhaps to hold Djoser's internal organs, said Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. 

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The structure - known as the South Tomb - is largely underground and includes a labyrinth of corridors, decorated with hieroglyphic carvings and tiles

The two structures make up part of the Saqqara complex near Cairo - one of the country´s richest archeological sites. 

The Step Pyramid is the oldest known pyramid and one of the first examples of monumental architecture from the ancient world, according to UNESCO. 

And the massive structure is believed to have been the inspiration for the Pyramids at Giza.

The South tomb, however, features stunning turquoise stones lining the inside walls that also feature intricate carvings.

Kin Djoser, who ruled for about 19 years, is know for his use of stone architecture, which can be seen in the South tomb, along with the Step Pyramid and ancient ruins in Memphis - the capital city southwest of what is now Cairo

The South tomb, built between 2667 BC and 2648 BC. Pictured is a path leading to the opening of the massive tomb

The opening leads to a stairway that descends about 98 feet below the surface and leads to the burial shaft (pictured)and then to the labyrinth of corridors

A large structure sits above the desert landscape, in which visitors walk through to enter the tomb.

The opening leads to a stairway that descends about 98 feet below the surface and leads to the burial shaft and then to the labyrinth of corridors.

However, the burial vault, according to experts, is too small to hold adult human remains, revealing the tomb was never built as King Djoser's resting place. 

The South tomb is thought to have been constructed for symbolic reasons, or perhaps to hold Djoser's internal organs

 Kin Djoser, which ruled for about 19 years, is know for his use of stone architecture, which can be seen in the South tomb, along with the Step Pyramid and ancient ruins in Memphis - the capital city southwest of what is now Cairo

Kin Djoser, who ruled for about 19 years, is know for his use of stone architecture, which can be seen in the South tomb, along with the Step Pyramid and  ancient ruins in Memphis - the capital city southwest of what is now Cairo. 

The South tomb was crumbling due to neglect, fierce desert winds, and eventually damaged by an earthquake that hit the area in 1992. 

Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism said the opening of the South Tomb marked the completion of restoration work that started in 2006 and included reinforcing of the underground corridors, refurbishing the carvings and the tiled walls, along with installing lights throughout the once dark tunnels.  

In addition to the South Tomb, the Saqqara plateau hosts at least 11 pyramids, including the Step Pyramid, as well as hundreds of tombs of ancient officials and other sites that range from the 1st Dynasty (2920 B.C.-2770 B.C.) to the Coptic period (395-642). 

Pictured are just some of the intricate hieroglyphics that line the inner walls of the massive South tomb

Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism said the opening of the South Tomb marked the completion of restoration work that started in 2006 and included reinforcing of the underground corridors, refurbishing the carvings and the tiled walls, along with installing lights throughout the once dark tunnels

The inside of the tomb is designed like a labyrinth with corridors that and hallways throughout 

The Saqqara site is part of the necropolis of Egypt´s ancient capital of Memphis that includes the famed Giza Pyramids, as well as smaller pyramids at Abu Sir, Dahshur and Abu Ruwaysh. 

The ruins of Memphis were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1970s.

Egypt has publicized a string of recent archaeological finds over the past year in an effort to revive its key tourism sector, which was badly hit by the turmoil that followed the 2011 uprising. The sector was also dealt a further blow by the global coronavirus pandemic.

The Step Pyramid, built around 4,700 years ago, measures 200ft high (60m) and is believed to be the first pyramid in Egypt and the oldest building in the world. 

Egypt has publicized a string of recent archaeological finds over the past year in an effort to revive its key tourism sector, which was badly hit by the turmoil that followed the 2011 uprising. The sector was also dealt a further blow by the global coronavirus pandemic

The Step Pyramid (pictured), built around 4,700 years ago, measures 200ft high (60m) and is believed to be the first pyramid in Egypt and the oldest building in the world 

It was built entirely out of stone by the ancient Egyptian architect Imhotep in the vast Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, and was believed to be the final resting place of King Djoser, founder of the Old Kingdom.

Dosjer's pyramid was a revolutionary concept, the pyramid prototype providing the blueprint for all future Egyptian developments, including the three that stand beside the Sphinx at Giza 12 miles to the northwest.

The step pyramid is made up of six mastabas (rectangular structures) stacked on top of each other.

Dating to 2,680 BC, the Djoser pyramid was designed and built under the direction of Imhotep, described by some as the world's first architect and Djoser's vizier.

The Step Pyramid had its own series of extensive renovations and reopened to the public in March 2020.

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There are huge pyramids in Egypt and other places around the world, but there’s only one Great Sphynx (the one on the photo above) … or are there more? Not one but TWO giant sphynx statues were discovered recently in western Luxor – proving that Egypt’s sifting sands have many submerged secrets yet to be seen.

“The Egyptian-German archaeological mission headed by Dr. Horig Sorosian succeeded, during the current archaeological season, during the ongoing work of restoring the statues of Memnon and the funerary temple of King Amenhotep III, known as the “Temple of Millions of Years” on the western mainland in Luxor, in revealing a group of huge stones for two royal statues in the form of the Sphinx. and the goddess Sekhmet, in addition to revealing the remains of walls and columns decorated with ceremonial and ritual scenes.”

Experts have been looking into the site since 1998

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of two 26-feet-long “colossal limestone statues” of King Amenhotep III in the form of a Sphinx in a back area of the once-enormous mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, which was ironically called the Temple of Millions of Years – it was destroyed by an earthquake 200 years after his death in 1350 BCE. (Photos can bee seen here.)

Two large sphinx statues were discovered during the restoration of a temple in Luxor, Egypt. 

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

A non-sphinx statue of Amenhotep III

“Dr. Horig Sorosian, head of the mission, emphasized the importance of this discovery, as the discovery and discovery of two huge statues in the form of the Sphinx confirms the presence of the beginning of the procession road, which lies between the third edifice of the temple and the courtyard of the columns, in which the celebrations of the Beautiful Valley Festival were held every year.”

Having a long life and a peaceful 39-year-reign, Amenhotep III had plenty of time to build his temple honoring himself – the “the beloved of the god Amun-Ra” as attested by an inscription on the chest of one of the sphinx statues. At 26 feet (8 meters) in length, these sphinxes of Amenhotep III were huge, but would still be dwarfed by the Great Sphinx of Giza – which measures 73 meters (240 feet) long, 20 meters (66 feet) high and 19 meters (62 feet) at its widest point. However, their size vaults them into a tie for the #2 spot on the list of largest sphinxes with the so-called “Alabaster Sphinx” of Memphis, discovered in 1911 buried in the ruins of the Great Temple of Ptah at Memphis and still unidentified. Rumors of the discovery of a sphinx the size of the Great Sphinx circulated in late 2021 but the were denied by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

“This is in addition to the discovery of a number of inscriptions on a sandstone wall with scenes representing celebrations for Valentine’s Day – a dam and a small black granite statue of an employee sitting perhaps next to his wife. Studies have indicated that it is likely that this statue dates back to the post-Amarna period when the works continued Restoration in this temple by artists and writers.”

No, not THAT February 14th Valentine’s Day – Egypt has its own day of love celebration on November 4 which this press release dates back to the post-Amarna period starting in 1332 CE with the reign of Tutankhamun. Not called “Valentine’s Day” back then, it seems to have been popularized in the 1950s, possibly as a modern Islamic alternative to the Christian capitalistic chocolate-consuming celebration, although Egyptians also celebrate that one.

Dr. Horig Sorosian announced that all of the statues and pieces of statues, columns and other remains will be grouped with those found previously at the site and eventually be displayed in their original locations in the places in the Temple of Millions of Years for historians, Egyptologists and tourists to view.

And for sphinx fans to cheer: “We’re at #2! We’re at #2!”

A granite bust of the goddess Sekhmet, a goddess of war also associated with healing who is often depicted as part lion. 

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

Inscriptions on the remains of a wall or column. 

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

It's not the first artefacts experts have uncovered at the site

Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

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Bleeding Beneath Antarctica - Euclid - Extraterrestrial SCP

Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14,200,000 square kilometres, it is the fifth-largest continent and nearly twice the size of Australia. It is by far the least populated continent, with around 5,000 people in the summer and around 1,000 in the winter. About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages 1.9 km in thickness, which extends to all but the McMurdo Dry Valleys and the northernmost reaches of the Antarctic Peninsula. Wikipedia

Bleeding Beneath Antarctica – Euclid – Extraterrestrial SCP 

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Webb Has Arrived Successfully at L2

It’s really happening. The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully reached its orbital destination in space, 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from Earth. A final 5-minute thruster firing on January 24, 2022 put JWST in its halo orbit at the Sun-Earth Lagrange 2 (L2) point. The formal commissioning process can now begin.

“We’re excited to announce today that Webb is officially on station at its L2 orbit, capping off a remarkable 30 days,” said Webb’s commissioning manager Keith Parrish in a January 24 news conference. “It’s an incredible achievement by our team.”

Since it launched on December 25, Webb has been undergoing the nail-biting and complicated unfolding and deploying while cruising through space. Everything so far has gone perfectly.

“During the past month, JWST has achieved amazing success and is a tribute to all the folks who spent many years and even decades to ensure mission success,” said Bill Ochs, Webb project manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in a blog post. “We are now on the verge of aligning the mirrors, instrument activation and commissioning, and the start of wondrous and astonishing discoveries.”

Parrish reiterated how efficient the launch by the Ariane 5 rocket and the course correction maneuvers have been, potentially giving the JWST mission twice the lifetime as originally announced, as long as 20 years.

“We used a tiny amount of fuel in today’s maneuver,” he said, “We’re very, very happy with our estimated lifetime, and it’s going to extensively exceed our 10 year estimate. Everybody’s thrilled by it. It’s just a degree of how thrilled.” Parrish added that the team will review the data and put an exact number on that lifetime over the next few months.

Parrish said approximately once every 21 days, the telescope’s orbit around L2 will need to be tweaked by briefly firing JWST’s thrusters.

The telescope team will now begin the months-long process of calibrating its mirrors and turning on the science instruments.  

Lee Feinberg, JWST’s Optical Telescope Element Manager said the 3-month process of aligning the 18 mirror segments to act as one large 6.5 meter telescope will begin in about a week, after the primary near-infrared camera, NIRCam, is cold enough to turn on. That instrument will help align the mirrors.

“We’ll look at a bright, isolated star,” Feinberg said, “and we’ll get 18 different images — which will all be blurry because the individual mirror won’t be aligned. Then we can begin the slow process that we call phasing, which will align the mirrors to work as one.”

Feinberg said the mirrors will be aligned to within 1/5000^th the width of a human hair. He also revealed the identity of the star they will use: HD 84406, a G-type main sequence star that is a lot like our own Sun.

“It’s a Ursa Major near the bowl of the Big Dipper,” he said noting that the star is not visible to the naked eye, but it can be seen with binoculars.

While everything has gone well so far, there is still a lot of work to get the telescope ready for action.

“We’re a month in and the baby hasn’t even opened its eyes yet,” said Jane Rigby of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. “Everything we’re doing is about getting the observatory ready to do transformative science. That’s why we’re here.”

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS

Fiery Red Orb Over Brazil & Triangular Shaped UFO Over California. Plus An Update On My Last Video

Update to the video about "The Moon Sized Object Next To The SUN" well guess what, Its not a UFO....

Thanks to Dan At Smasho Mash for looking deeper into this and guys please check out his channel:

• https://www.youtube.com/c/smAshomAsh/...

Clip one: This was captured on January 22, 2022 over São Paulo in Brazil. In the footage we can see this fiery red UFO orb just flying over his head and i have to say that this guy has great timing as he is in the right place at the right time... This isn't the first the he has filmed something over São Paulo as he has filmed a group of blue orbs flying around an apartment block, check out the the footage if you missed it:

• https://youtu.be/7FwPvDBEWAA

Again Thanks to Eduardo Ferreira for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original: "ovni em sao paulo"

• https://youtu.be/mCUO5GwYJzY

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Clip Two: This footage was taken on January 13, 2021 at around 6:00 PM Pacific Time in Victorville, California. I can't tell if this is three orbs or one solid craft but the witness is sure that this is the Top Secret TR-3B craft but what do you guys think?

Thanks to S. G. for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original:

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Hidden UFO Found On Google Map, South Africa! UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: January 20, 2022

Location of discovery: South Africa

Google coordinates:  25°53'41.03"S 27°48'5.82"E

 

I was exploring on Google Map when I came across a metallic disk landed in South Africa. It's hidden in a grove of trees and far from any city. The object looks like a classic disk with a pointed hump at its center. One photo even shows a huge circle around it...similar to that of a crop circle, but then disappears in the next photo months later. It looks like this is a landing location of an alien craft that attempted to hide its existence from the world. The pilot has created a dirt road to the area and is probably in a city nearby manipulating the direction the human race will go by introducing new technology, cures, ideas and such. This needs further investigation. We need someone on location. I'll ask around to see if it's possible to get more info on it. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

South Africa’s ‘Crashed UFO’
(Picture: Google Maps)

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UFO Fleet Caught Leaving Sun In NASA Photos, Video, 1-16-2022 UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 16, 2022
Location of sighting: Earths Sun
Source: 

• https://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/IswaSystemWebApp/

Watch this amazing discovery by Youtuber Gina Hill. She caught two groups of brown UFOs exiting our sun. She used a NASA ISWA site where she found the evidence. As the sun begins to have a small solar explosion...suddenly in a single frame of the video are six small brown rectangles. Had this been a glitch in the program, it would be black or white, but brown? I have never seen this color on the photos. This is new, this is something important, this is alien ships exiting our sun! Now this back up my theory about the sun having a hollow space within it, where there could be the legendary planet X that we have all heard about. There may even be a mini solar system within it of several planets and moons. Brown objects exiting our sun in groups of six...that screams alien fleet. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

 

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On the same day and almost at the same time NASA satellites captured two unknown objects flying past the sun. 

Two spheres in front of a triangular object (Satellite Stereo A AIA 304 2019-10-22) and a cylindrical object (Satellite Stereo A AIA 335 2019-10-22).

  

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It's amazing that satellites caught so many crop circles over the years.

The crop circles found by a Chinese researcher are mapped and published on November 14, 2018, below is the link showing the crop circles captured over the years. µ

Link: 

• https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lzKhTEuzapa8w0kl9UEU_l3F2LhzYP6y&ll=51.457497162904914%2C-34.912859109754436&z=3&entry=yt 

The crop circles can be found on Google Earth by moving the timeline cursor to earlier dates. 

Coordinates:

51°33'45.84"N 1°36'19.67"W - 51°25'56.41"N 1°50'49.15"W - 51°33'48.32"N 1°30'8.88"W - 53°32'1.94"N 1°12'11.20"W - 53°31'54.29"N 1°21'24.29"W - 53°32'15.49"N 1°30'18.47"W - 53°32'11.98"N 1°30'16.40"W - 53°32'29.06"N 1°32'9.19"W - 53°41'40.43"N 1°33'34.19"W - 51°28'22.09"N 1°49'28.76"W - 51°28'33.55"N 1°49'15.92"W - 51°24'20.98"N 1°56'3.29"W - 51°21'23.22"N 0°11'53.20"E - 51°25'26.18"N 1° 9'56.93"W - 51°25'27.62"N 1°51'14.27"W - 51°25'7.63"N 1°51'36.82"W - 53°18'12.24"N 0° 1'13.18"E - 52°41'54.83"N 1°37'5.23"E - 52°42'4.70"N 1°38'58.74"E - 52°38'30.78"N 1°35'46.12"E - 52°40'54.48"N 1°34'10.12"E - 52°42'43.80"N 1°37'34.60"E - 52°43'7.95"N 1°38'49.11"E - 50°58'26.14"N 0°53'10.79"W - 50°58'22.67"N 0°53'14.00"W - 51°19'35.89"N 1°43'38.05"W - 51°25'34.92"N 1°46'42.47"W - 51°39'7.97"N 1°11'58.14"W - 52°16'12.10"N 1°28'40.87"W - 51°24'0.70"N 0°59'6.56"W - 51°33'0.68"N 0°45'58.13"E - 47°53'54.56"N 11° 6'21.86"E - 47°59'6.02"N 11°12'34.43"E - 48° 9'46.93"N 11°16'15.75"E - 51° 6'19.48"N 9°15'38.16"E - 51°19'7.25"N 9°17'18.33"E - 51°38'7.06"N 4°32'55.67"E - 50°55'25.91"N 4° 1'42.91"E - 47°31'44.78"N 8°31'6.14"E - 45° 1'56.51"N 8°59'40.56"E - 40°51'12.06"N 81°56'17.62"W

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UFO filmed over Edwards, California YESTERDAY

This strange sighting of a possible triangle-shaped UFO was filmed over Edwards Air Force Base in California on 24th January 2022.

Witness report: 

My wife was driving northbound on the 14 near Edwards AFB at 17:56 today 1/24/22. She recorded a strange 3 light craft in the sky and drove right underneath it. It was stationary or moved very slowly from the video and what she told me. She said the three bright lights on each corner were “kind of like iron man’s thrusters”, almost as if they are causing optical effects from heat generation. I work in aerospace so I can differentiate aircraft. I looked at her video and checked the flight radar for that timeframe and there were no aircraft above the highway.

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Don't look up! Astronomer captures footage of huge 3,451ft asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth in almost 90 years

• Footage of asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) captured by Italy's Virtual Telescope Project

• The huge rocky body shows up as just a tiny white dot shooting among the stars 

• Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) was first discovered by Australian astronomers in 1994 

• It made a close approach of Earth on Tuesday, a day after the footage was taken 

By JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE 

An astronomer has captured footage of a huge asteroid 3,451 feet in diameter as it made its closest approach to Earth in almost 90 years.

Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) could be seen as a small white dot as it travelled towards our planet at around 19:00 GMT on Monday (January 17). 

The following evening, at 21:51 GMT (16:51 EST) on January 18, the asteroid made its closest approach to Earth since 1933, coming within 1.2 million miles of our planet. 

The clip was captured by Gianluca Masi, an astrophysicist and manager of the Virtual Telescope Project, provided by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy. 

Another eight so-called near-Earth objects (NEOs) are set to pass safely by Earth this month, according to NASA.  

This image, a still from the footage, comes from a single, 60-second exposure, remotely taken with the 'Elena' robotic unit available at Virtual Telescope

The telescope tracked the fast apparent motion of the asteroid. This is why stars show as long trails, while the asteroid looks like a sharp dot of light in the centre of the image, marked by an arrow

ASTEROID 7482 (1994 PC1)

The space rock 7482 (1994 PC1) was first discovered in 1994.

It was spotted by RH McNaught using the Siding observatory in Australia.

It orbits the Sun every 572 days, although has an eccentric orbit taking it from 0.9 to 1.8 AU from the star. 

One AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun. 

The last known approach this close was in 1933, when it was 699,000 miles from the Earth. 

'We captured several images of the potentially hazardous asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 while safely approaching us,' said Masi. 

'We made a still picture and nice animation. The image above comes from a single, 60-second exposure, remotely taken with the "Elena" robotic unit available at Virtual Telescope. 

'The telescope tracked the fast apparent motion of the asteroid, this is why stars show as long trails, while the asteroid looks like a sharp dot of light in the centre of the image, marked by an arrow. 

'Using all the images of the sequence, we could make the animation below, showing 1994 PC1 in motion against the stars.' 

NASA puts the diameter of asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) as 3,451 feet (1.052km), much larger than the tallest building on Earth, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which measures 2,722 feet.  

Following its close approach on Tuesday, 7482 (1994 PC1) won't be this close to Earth again until the year 2105, according to NASA JPL-Caltech's Solar System Dynamics.     

Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1), which orbits the sun every 1.5 years, was first discovered in 1994 by astronomer RH McNaught using the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. 

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Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) was first discovered by Australian astronomers in 1994 and made a close approach of Earth this week

NASA puts the diameter of asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) as 3,451 feet (1.052km), much larger than the tallest building on Earth

Its orbit is very well known, according to astronomers, and varies from 0.9 AU to 1.8 AU, where 1 AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun. 

It is a common stony S-type asteroid, and every close approach gives astronomers the chance to study the surface and learn more about these ancient space rocks. 

NASA and other agencies regularly track more than 28,000 known asteroids as they orbit the Sun, and occasionally cross Earth's orbit.

The massive asteroid, more than twice the size of the Empire State Building in New York, came within 1.2 million miles of the Earth

Sun (yellow) · Earth (blue) · 1994 PC1 (magenta) 

DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPACE ROCKS

An asteroid is a large chunk of rock left over from collisions or the early Solar System. Most are located between Mars and Jupiter in the Main Belt.

A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane and other compounds. Their orbits take them much further out of the Solar System.

A meteor is what astronomers call a flash of light in the atmosphere when debris burns up.

This debris itself is known as a meteoroid. Most are so small they are vapourised in the atmosphere.

If any of this meteoroid makes it to Earth, it is called a meteorite.

Meteors, meteoroids and meteorites normally originate from asteroids and comets.

DEFLECTING AN ASTEROID WOULD REQUIRE 'MULTIPLE BUMPS', STUDY SAYS

Deflecting an asteroid such as Bennu, which has a small chance of hitting Earth in about a century and a half, could require multiple small impacts from some sort of massive human-made deflection device, according to experts.

Scientists in California have been firing projectiles at meteorites to simulate the best methods of altering the course of an asteroid so that it wouldn't hit Earth. 

According to the results so far, an asteroid like Bennu that is rich in carbon could need several small bumps to charge its course.

Bennu, which is about a third of a mile wide, has a slightly greater chance of hitting Earth than previously thought, NASA revealed.

The space agency upgraded the risk of Bennu impacting Earth at some point over the next 300 years to one in 1,750.

Bennu also has a one-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth on the afternoon of September 24, 2182, according to the NASA study.  

Scientists have been seriously considering how to stop an asteroid from ever hitting Earth since the 1960s, but previous approaches have generally involved theories on how to blow the cosmic object into thousands of pieces.

The problem with this is these pieces could potentially zoom towards Earth and present almost as dangerous and humanity-threatening an issue as the original asteroid. 

A more recent approach, called kinetic impact deflection (KID), involves firing something into space that more gently bumps the asteroid off course, away from Earth, while keeping it intact. 

Recent KID efforts were outlined at the 84th annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society held in Chicago and led by Dr George Flynn, a physicist at State University of New York, Plattsburgh.  

'You might have to use multiple impacts,' Dr Flynn said in conversation with The New York Times. 'It [Bennu] may barely miss, but barely missing is enough.'

Researchers have been working at NASA's Ames Vertical Gun Range, built in the 1960s during the Apollo era and based at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley, for the recent KID experiments.

They fired small, spherical aluminum projectiles at meteorites suspended by pieces of nylon string.

The team used 32 meteorites – which are fragments of asteroids that have fallen to Earth from space – that were mostly purchased from private dealers. 

The tests have allowed them to work out at what point momentum from a human-made object fired towards an asteroid turns it into thousands of fragments, rather than knocking it off course as desired. 

'If you break it into pieces, some of those pieces may still be on a collision course with Earth,' Dr Flynn said. 

Carbonaceous chondrite (C-type) asteroids, such as Bennu, are the most common in the solar system. 

They are darker than other asteroids due to the presence of carbon and are some of the most ancient objects in the solar system – dating back to its birth. 

According to the findings from experiments at AVGR, the type of asteroid being targeted (and how much carbon it has in it) may dictate how much momentum would be directed at it from any human-made KID device.   

From the experiments, the researchers found C-type meteorites could withstand only about one-sixth of the momentum that the other chondrites could withstand before shattering. 

'[C-type] asteroids are much more difficult to deflect without disruption than ordinary chondrite asteroids,' the experts concluded.  

'These results indicate multiple successive impacts may be required to deflect rather than disrupt asteroids, particularly carbonaceous asteroids.'

Therefore, around 160 years in the future – when Bennu is most likely to collide with Earth, according to NASA – a KID device would have to give it a series of gentle nudges to prevent it from breaking up and sending dangerous splinter fragments flying towards Earth.

NASA's recent study about Bennu, published in the journal Icarus, did point out there is more than a 99.9 per cent probability Bennu will not smash into Earth over the next three centuries. 

'Although the chances of it hitting Earth are very low, Bennu remains one of the two most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system, along with another asteroid called 1950 DA,' NASA said in a statement.     

NASA says none of the known asteroids are expected to collide with the Earth at any point in the near future, but there are asteroids whose orbits aren't known.  

Asteroids and other space objects are being monitored by NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies. 

It defines 7482 (1994 PC1) as a near-Earth object (NEO) and a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA). 

NEOs are an asteroid or comet whose orbit brings it into or through a zone between approximately 91 million and 121 million miles (195 million km) from the Sun, meaning that it can pass within about 30 million miles (50 million km) of Earth’s orbit. 

If the object is larger than 460 feet (140 meters) across, it is considered a potentially hazardous object (PHO). 

'NEOs are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood,' said NASA.

'Composed mostly of water ice with embedded dust particles, comets originally formed in the cold outer planetary system while most of the rocky asteroids formed in the warmer inner solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. 

'The scientific interest in comets and asteroids is due largely to their status as the relatively unchanged remnant debris from the solar system formation process some 4.6 billion years ago.' 

According to publicly available NASA data, there have been 27,948 NEOs discovered, as of Tuesday.   

The space rock, called 7482 (1994 PC1), poses no threat to the Earth as it will be five times further away from the planet than the Moon, as it shoots by at 43,000 mph (pictured, an artist's impression of an asteroid)

Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) orbits the Sun every 1.5 years. Its orbit is depicted here in relation to the planets in our Solar System

It is estimated that there are about 25,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) larger than 460 feet (140 metres).

And there are also an estimated 1,000 NEOs larger than 3,280 feet (one kilometre), highlighting the need to keep track of these space rocks.

Between January 20 and January 28, eight more NEOs will pass by Earth, according to NASA data. 

One of these, Asteroid 2022 AB, could be up to 361 feet wide, which is not much in comparison to asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) but still larger than Big Ben.

On average, Earth is hit by a football pitch-sized rock every 5,000 years, and a civilisation-ending asteroid every one million years, according to NASA's Near-Earth Object Program.      

In an attempt to tackle the threat of asteroids that may one day get a little too close for comfort, NASA formed a planetary defence program, that includes the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, that launched in November. 

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Ancient Space Dust Analysis Could Solve Mystery of Origins of Earth’s Water

An international team of scientists may have solved a key mystery about the origins of Earth’s water, after uncovering persuasive new evidence pointing to an unlikely culprit—the Sun.

In a recent paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from the UK, Australia, and America describe how new analysis of an ancient asteroid suggests that extraterrestrial dust grains carried water to Earth as the planet formed.

The water in the grains was produced by space weathering, a process by which charged particles from the Sun known as solar wind altered the chemical composition of the grains to produce water molecules.

The finding could answer the longstanding question of just where the unusually water-rich Earth got the oceans which cover 70 percent of its surface – far more than any other rocky planet in our Solar System. It could also help future space missions find sources of water on airless worlds.

Planetary scientists have puzzled for decades over the source of Earth’s oceans. One theory suggests that one type of water-carrying space rock known as C-type asteroids could have brought water to the planet in the final stages of its formation 4.6 billion years ago.

To test that theory, scientists have previously analyzed the isotopic ‘fingerprint’ of chunks of C-type asteroids which have fallen to Earth as water-rich carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. If the ratio of hydrogen and deuterium in the meteorite water matched that of terrestrial water, scientists could conclude that C-type meteorites were the likely source.

The results weren’t quite that clear-cut. While some water-rich meteorites’ deuterium/hydrogen fingerprints did indeed match Earth’s water, many did not. On average, these meteorites’ liquid fingerprints didn’t line up with the water found in Earth’s mantle and oceans. Instead, Earth has a different, slightly lighter isotopic fingerprint.

In other words, while some of Earth’s water must have come from C-type meteorites, the forming Earth must have received water from at least one more isotopically-light source which originated somewhere else in the Solar System.

The University of Glasgow-led team used a cutting-edge analytical process called atom probe tomography to scrutinize samples from a different type of space rock known as an S-type asteroid, which orbit closer to the sun than C-types. The samples they analyzed came from an asteroid called Itokawa, which were collected by the Japanese space probe Hayabusa and returned to Earth in 2010.

Graphic showing solar wind (+) creating water molecules from dust on Itokawa asteroid.

Credit: University of Glasgow

Atom probe tomography enabled the team to measure the atomic structure of the grains one atom at a time and detect individual water molecules. Their findings demonstrate that a significant amount of water was produced just below the surface of dust-sized grains from Itokawa by space weathering.

The early solar system was a very dusty place, providing a great deal of opportunity water to be produced under the surface of spaceborne dust particles. This water-rich dust, the researchers suggest, would have rained down onto the early Earth alongside C-type asteroids as part of the delivery of Earth’s oceans.

Dr. Luke Daly, of the University of Glasgow’s School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, is the paper’s lead author. Dr. Daly said: “The solar winds are streams of mostly hydrogen and helium ions which flow constantly from the Sun out into space. When those hydrogen ions hit an airless surface like an asteroid or a spaceborne dust particle, they penetrate a few tens of nanometres below the surface, where they can affect the chemical composition of the rock. Over time, the ‘space weathering’ effect of the hydrogen ions can eject enough oxygen atoms from materials in the rock to create H2O – water – trapped within minerals on the asteroid.

“Crucially, this solar wind-derived water produced by the early solar system is isotopically light. That strongly suggests that fine-grained dust, buffeted by the solar wind and drawn into the forming Earth billions of years ago, could be the source of the missing reservoir of the planet’s water.”

Itokawa’s curious, varied terrain and lack of impact craters indicate it is a rubble pile asteroid.

Credit: JAXA

Prof. Phil Bland, a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Curtin University and co-author of the paper said “Atom probe tomography lets us take an incredibly detailed look inside the first 50 nanometres or so of the surface of dust grains on Itokawa, which orbits the sun in 18-month cycles. It allowed us to see that this fragment of space-weathered rim contained enough water that, if we scaled it up, would amount to about 20 liters for every cubic meter of rock.”

Co-author Prof. Michelle Thompson of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University added: “It’s the kind of measurement that simply would not have been possible without this remarkable technology. It gives us an extraordinary insight into how tiny dust particles floating in space might help us balance the books on the isotopic composition of the Earth’s water, and give us new clues to help solve the mystery of its origins.”

The researchers took great care to ensure that the results of their testing were accurate, undertaking additional experiments with other sources to verify their results.

Dr. Daly added: “The atom probe tomography system at Curtin University is world-class, but it had never really been used to for the sort of analysis of hydrogen we were undertaking here. We wanted to be sure that the results that we were seeing were accurate. I presented our preliminary results at the Lunar and Planetary Science conference in 2018, and asked if any colleagues in attendance would help us validate our findings with samples of their own. To our delight, colleagues at the NASA

">NASA Johnson Space Center and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Purdue, Virginia, and Northern Arizona Universities, Idaho and Sandia national laboratories all offered to help. They gave us samples of similar minerals irradiated with helium and deuterium instead of hydrogen, and from atom probe results of those materials it quickly became clear that what we were seeing in Itokawa was extraterrestrial in origin.

“The colleagues that offered their support on this research really amounts to a dream team for space weathering, so we’re very excited by the evidence that we’ve collected. It could open the door to a much better understanding of what the early Solar System looked like and how the Earth and its oceans were formed.”

Professor John Bradley, of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, a co-author of the paper, added: As recently as a decade ago, the notion that solar wind irradiation is relevant to the origin of water in the solar system, much less relevant to Earth’s oceans, would have been greeted with skepticism. By showing for the first time that water is produced in-situ on the surface of an asteroid, our study builds on the accumulating body of evidence that the interaction of the solar wind with oxygen-rich dust grains does indeed produce water.

“Since dust that was abundant throughout the solar nebula prior to the onset of planetesimal accretion was inevitably irradiated, water produced by this mechanism is directly relevant to the origin of water in planetary systems and possibly the isotopic composition of Earth’s oceans.”

Their estimates of just how much water might be contained in space-weathered surfaces also suggest a way future space explorers could manufacture supplies of water on even the most seemingly arid planets.

Co-author Professor Hope Ishii of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa said: “One of the problems of future human space exploration is how astronauts will find enough water to keep them alive and accomplish their tasks without carrying it with them on their journey.

“We think it’s reasonable to assume that the same space weathering process which created the water on Itokawa will have occurred to one degree or another on many airless worlds like the Moon or the asteroid Vesta. That could mean that space explorers may well be able to process fresh supplies of water straight from the dust on the planet’s surface. It’s exciting to think that the processes which formed the planets could help to support human life as we reach out beyond Earth.”

Dr. Daly added: “NASA’s Artemis project is setting out to establish a permanent base on the Moon. If the lunar surface has a similar water reservoir sourced by the solar wind this research uncovered on Itokawa, it would represent an enormous and valuable resource to aid in achieving that goal.”

The team’s paper, titled ‘Solar Wind Contribution’s to the Earth’s Oceans’, is published in Nature Astronomy.

For more on this discovery, see Mystery of the Origins of the Earth’s Water: Sun Is a Surprising Likely Source.

Reference: “Solar wind contributions to Earth’s oceans” by Luke Daly, Martin R. Lee, Lydia J. Hallis, Hope A. Ishii, John P. Bradley, Phillip. A. Bland, David W. Saxey, Denis Fougerouse, William D. A. Rickard, Lucy V. Forman, Nicholas E. Timms, Fred Jourdan, Steven M. Reddy, Tobias Salge, Zakaria Quadir, Evangelos Christou, Morgan A. Cox, Jeffrey A. Aguiar, Khalid Hattar, Anthony Monterrosa, Lindsay P. Keller, Roy Christoffersen, Catherine A. Dukes, Mark J. Loeffler and Michelle S. Thompson, 29 November 2021, Nature Astronomy.
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01487-w

Researchers from the University of Glasgow, Curtin University, the University of Sydney, the University of Oxford, the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, the Natural History Museum, Idha National Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, NASA Johnson Space Center, the University of Virginia, Northern Arizona University and Purdue University all contributed to the paper.

The research was supported by funding from the Science and Technologies Funding Council, part of UKRI; Scottish Alliance for Geoscience; Environment and Society (SAGES); United Arab Emirates (UAE) Seed Grant; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Science and Industry Endowment Fund (Science & Industry Endowment Fund); Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (ARC DECRA) DE190101307; Australian Research Council LIEF program (ARC LE130100053); DOE | LDRD | Idaho National Laboratory (Idaho National Lab) DOE | National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Radian Aerospace comes out of stealth and raises $27.5M for orbital space plane development

BY ALAN BOYLE

More than five years after its founding, Renton, Wash.-based Radian Aerospace is emerging from stealth mode and reporting a $27.5 million seed funding round to support its plans to build an orbital space plane.

The round was led by Boston-based Fine Structure Ventures, with additional funding from EXOR, The Venture Collective, Helios Capital, SpaceFund, Gaingels, The Private Shares Fund, Explorer 1 Fund, Type One Ventures and other investors.

Radian has previously brought in pre-seed investments, but the newly announced funding should accelerate its progress.

One of the company’s investors and strategic advisers, former Lockheed Martin executive Doug Greenlaw, said Radian was going after the “Holy Grail” of space access with a fully reusable system that would provide for single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) launches.

It’ll take much more than $27.5 million to grab the grail: In the late 1990s, NASA spent nearly a billion dollars on Lockheed Martin’s X-33 single-stage-to-orbit concept before the project was canceled in 2001. But Radian’s executives argue that technological advances have now brought the SSTO vision within reach.

“What we are doing is hard, but it’s no longer impossible thanks to significant advancements in materials science, miniaturization and manufacturing technologies,” Livingston Holder, Radian’s co-founder and chief technology officer, said today in a news release.

Holder was part of the U.S. Air Force’s Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in the 1980s — and went on to become a program manager at Boeing, focusing on reusable space systems. The design for Radian’s space plane was inspired by Boeing’s 1970s-era concept for a Reusable Aerodynamic Space Vehicle, or RASP.

For the past few years, Radian has been working on rocket engine development at its Renton headquarters and at a testing facility near Bremerton, Wash. Ars Technica reported that the liquid-fueled engine is designed to provide about 200,000 pounds of thrust, and that the space plane would be powered by three of the engines. The current design would support carrying up to five people and 5,000 pounds of cargo into orbit, Ars Technica reported.

Radian says its space plane, called Radian One, would make sled-assisted takeoffs and airplane-like runway landings, with a turnaround time of as little as 48 hours between missions.

“Over time, we intend to make space travel nearly as simple and convenient as airliner travel,” said Richard Humphrey, Radian’s CEO and co-founder. “We are not focused on tourism, we are dedicated to missions that make life better on our own planet, like research, in-space manufacturing and terrestrial observation, as well as critical new missions like rapid global delivery right here on Earth.”

Previously: 

• Radian Aerospace pursues an unorthodox plan for orbital space plane

The company hasn’t announced a timetable for development or operations, but its founders hope to have the plane available to service commercial space stations that could be in orbit by the 2030s. Radian says it already has launch service agreements with commercial space station ventures as well as in-space manufacturers, satellite operators and cargo companies, plus agreements with the U.S. government and “selected foreign governments.”

For what it’s worth, one of Radian’s early-stage investors is Dylan Taylor, chairman and CEO of Voyager Space Holdings. Voyager Space is one of the partners in a commercial space station project known as Starlab.

“On demand space operations is a growing economy, and I believe Radian’s technology can deliver on the right-sized, high-cadence operations that the market opportunity is showing,” Taylor said. “I am confident in the team working at Radian and look forward to cheering them along in this historical endeavor.”

Update for 12:15 p.m. PT Jan. 20: In an emailed response to GeekWire’s questions, Radian CEO Richard Humphrey confirmed that there are 18 full-time employees in Renton, and that the latest funding round brings total investment to $32 million.

“This funding will primarily be used to support our next series of risk-reducing milestones that include main engine testing, composite tank testing, design maturation, aero analysis and customer development,” he said.

Humphrey said Radian is “planning to undergo an upgrade” at the Bremerton engine testing facility and expects to resume increased testing by midyear.

He declined to be more specific about Radian’s partners or potential customers. “Nearly all of our agreements are subject to NDA [non-disclosure agreements] so we are not able to share the specific names or values,” he said. “Notable is that we have a number of mission sets that we are focused on that include habitation, Earth observation, in-space servicing, downmass, launch and delivery, and over a dozen companies have signed on across all those areas.”

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Unknown objects at the heart of Milky Way are sending Earth signals

Researchers detected radio waves coming from objects at the center of the Milky Way, and then they mysteriously disappeared.

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A team of researchers detected radio signals coming from the center of the Milky Way, and then they mysteriously disappeared.

The ASKAP radio telescope located in Australia performed a survey that included 2 million objects, and each of the objects was being classified by a computer and researchers. One object, in particular, wasn't able to be classified by the computer or researchers and became an immediate object of interest as, throughout 2020, the object emitted six radio signals over the course of nine months. The researchers hadn't seen anything like this before.

Scientists attempted to locate the object that was causing the radio signals in infrared, visible, and X-ray wavelengths but were unable to spot anything. Additionally, the object stopped emitting signals for months on end, and then researchers re-detected it around a year after it was first discovered. While the signals aren't officially classified as anything yet, researchers are using the placeholder name "galactic center radio transients" (GCRTs).

"Unfortunately, we don't quite know what behaves like that," said Murphy.

Notably, Tara Murphy, a professor at the University of Sydney who led Wang's research team, told Insider that she is "100% confident" the signals aren't coming from aliens as signals coming from technology would cover a much narrower range of frequencies.

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If you believe in the ‘Zoo Theory’ or one of the other conjectures centered around the idea that extraterrestrials are watching Earth and its inhabitants – either for our protection or their entertainment – then you might agree with recent comments by Nick Pope, England’s most well-known UFO expert. Pope implies that ETs are no longer worried about our own well-being — especially with our propensity to build nuclear weapons and plants, but instead are worried about their own safety. And the human they seem to fear the most is … Vladimir Putin?

The Daily Star obtained quotes from Nick Pope, former UFO investigator at the British Government’s Ministry of Defence (MoD), about the chances of ETs revealing themselves in some greater and confirming way – rather than just teasing us with glimpses of UFOs and their crews – anytime soon. Pope points to the escalating tensions between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine, the U.S.s, the U.K. and most of western Europe as the reason we shouldn’t hold our collective breaths.

“Highly evolved extraterrestrials probably regard warfare as something that only primitive civilizations engage in, so the Ukraine situation means we’re unlikely to get an invitation to join the Galactic Federation for the time being.”

Pope’s comments seem to imply the Galactic Federation – the alleged council of various alien species that rule over the cosmos – thinks Putin’s posturing will lead to war and that makes humans not worthy of further investigation or observation  … even as captives in a galactic zoo. Pope thinks the impetus for this ET evacuation is the UK’s commitment to join in the fight to resist Putin.

“Aliens might wonder at the wisdom of the UK going up against Russia, but would probably realize that being in a coalition helps. And if they knew their Earth history, they’d know never to write off the Brits.”

Spoken like a true Brit – even though Pope has lived in the U.S. since 2012. Does he really think these things: a) ETs observing us think the history British military tells them everything they need to know about humanity; b) the current situation in Ukraine is the best indicator of the warring instinct of humans; c) Vladimir Putin is the most powerful force on Earth?

“Russia is increasingly preparing its military strength in the midst of the threat of the outbreak of World War 3.”

That quote from Bulukumba News matches many other media sources who think the buildup on the Ukraine border is a big deal. Only Nick Pope seems to think it’s a big deal to ETs. Does he know something we don’t?

On the other hand, what if he’s right? The U.S. and other world governments seem to suddenly be spending a lot of time and money on UFO investigations. If Putin is chasing them away, couldn’t those expenses be used elsewhere – like for bringing about world peace? Then again, if humans are no longer warmongers, that means the ETs will see Earth as a safe place to … to what? Pope thinks they would invite us to join the ‘Galactic Federation’. Wouldn’t that be like inviting an ant colony to join the United Nations?

Coming or going?

All of this discussion seems to point to the real issue – humans aren’t too happy with how other humans are treating other humans … something which has nothing to do with UFOs and extraterrestrials and which we still have no idea how to deal with.

Sometimes it seems our problem is not the Fermi Paradox – it’s the Woe is Me Paradox.

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Meet Shep-en-Isis: Scientists reconstruct the face of a female mummy who died 2,600 years ago, revealing she was 'probably a beautiful young lady' despite having a set of protruding teeth

• Researchers have created an amazing facial reconstruction of an Egyptian mummy found in the 19th century 

• 'Shep-en-Isis' was found in 1819 at Deir el-Bahari, a complex of temples and tombs on the west bank of the Nile

• She is considered to be the most famous Egyptian mummy in Switzerland, where she's been kept since 1820

• She was likely 'a beautiful lady during her lifetime' with deep brown eyes and slightly protruding upper teeth

By JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE 

A forensic reconstruction of the face of a female mummy who died about 2,600 years ago reveals a 'beautiful young lady' with deep brown eyes and slightly protruding upper teeth. 

Scientists have spent months creating the reconstruction of what they call the most famous Egyptian mummy in Switzerland known as Shep-en-Isis, or Schepenese, using CT scans and morphological data from her skeleton. 

Shep-en-Isis was found in 1819 at Deir el-Bahari, a famous complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile River in Egypt, before being transported to Switzerland in 1820. 

The remains are currently kept in the São Galo Abbey Library, in the Swiss city of St Gallen.  

Inscriptions on her sarcophagus suggest she belonged to a wealthy upper-class family and would have had some degree of formal education during her existence in the 7th century BC. 

She was the daughter of a priest in the city of Thebes, according to experts, and lived in the late period, the early 26th Dynasty – the last heyday of Ancient Egypt – prior to her death by 610 BC. 

However, it's not possible to identify the name or profession of Shep-en-Isis's husband or whether or not she gave birth to children. 

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a female mummy who died 6,200 years ago, revealing a beautiful young lady despite having a set of protruding teeth

Scientists have spent months creating the reconstruction of what they call the most famous Egyptian mummy in Switzerland known as Shep-en-Isis, or Schepenese, using CT scans and morphological data from her skeleton. The mummy of the young woman arrived in Switzerland as early as 1820 and has been the star among mummies in Switzerland ever since

Reconstructed tissue looking up towards the upper thoracic cavity. Very similar packages have also been found in the mummy of Shep-en-Isis's father in Berlin

The reconstruction project was conducted by FAPAB Research Center in Sicily and Flinders University in Australia in collaboration with Cicero Moraes, a 3D designer from Brazil. 

Moraes has previously created a series of facial reconstructions of historical figures such as Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ.  

It was commissioned by the Abbey Library of Saint Gall, which had owned the CT, (computerised tomography) scans of the mummy for years.  

'The harmonious and well-proportioned skull suggests that Schepenese was probably a beautiful lady during her lifetime,' the experts say. 

Mentioned in the first reports from 1820 after her discovery 'is the good and complete preservation of the teeth', the team say, which is one of her most notable physical features in the reconstruction. 

The team built up the living layers bit by bit, adding tissue, eyes and skin before fine details such as hair and tiny freckles around the nose to complement the effect.   

Shep-en-Isis was found in a 'family tomb' located within the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari temple, along with her father Pa-es-tjenfi, whose mummy is Berlin. 

'Based on Shep-en-Isis' anatomical age and the style of her inner coffin, she must have been born by around 650 BC and died between 620 and 610 BC,' Dr Michael Habicht from Flinders University told Aventuras na História.   

Due to her mummified ear, the shape of the ear could be reconstructed quite accurately, in contrast to pure skeletons where ears are reconstructed with a generic ear.  

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The final reconstruction in high resolution: Unlike many other facial reconstructions, jewellery, clothing and wigs were not used, as these are hypothetical assumptions

Researchers built up the living layers bit by bit, adding tissue, eyes and skin before fine details such as hair and tiny freckles around the nose to complement the effect

The reconstruction of the soft tissues is carried out using anatomical measuring points and the empirical mean values determined from forensic studies

Mentioned in the first reports from 1820 is the good and complete preservation of the teeth. The harmonious and well-proportioned skull suggests that Schepenese was probably a beautiful lady during her lifetime

Certain details may also not have been recorded for Shep-en-Isis, for example, the team do not know the exact eye colour or the exact skin complexion. 

Due to her Egyptian ancestry, brown eyes and a somewhat more olive skin colour were assumed. 

 Unlike many other facial reconstructions, jewellery, clothing and wigs were not used, as these are hypothetical assumptions, according to the team.

'Our reconstruction focuses exclusively on the forensically reconstructed appearance and the anatomical evidence,' they say.  

The results of their efforts have been published in the form of a monograph entitled 'The Forensic Facial Reconstruction of Shep-en-Isis', listed on Amazon.    

AN ANCIENT CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY? EGYPTIAN MUMMY IS REVEALED NOT TO BE THE NOBLEWOMAN NAMED ON THE 3,000-YEAR-OLD COFFIN 

In a potentially ancient case of mistaken identity, a 2021 found that an Egyptian mummy likely wasn't the person named on the front of its coffin. 

Australian scientists performed computerised tomography (CT) scans and radiocarbon dating on the mummy and coffin, currently housed at the University of Sydney. 

The mummified female body dates as far back as the year 1200 BC, while the coffin in which the mummy resides was constructed in the year 1000 BC, they found. 

Mummified individual and coffin in the Nicholson Collection of the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney. An Egyptian mummy has been revealed not to be the noblewoman named on the coffin it was found in

The body may have been inserted by a crafty Egyptian dealer into what was at the time an empty coffin at some point during the 19th century, just before it was bought for the university.  

Sir Charles Nicholson, an English explorer who spent much of his career in Australia during the 19th century, bought the mummified body, lidded coffin and mummy board as a set during a trip to Egypt in between 1856 and 1867.

In 1860, Sir Nicholson donated it to the University of Sydney and two years later returned to live in England. 

Read more: Egyptian mummy 'doesn't match the name on 3,000-year-old coffin' 

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Experts have revealed what a 2,600-year-old mummy looked like when she was alive. Named Shep-en-Isis (or Schepenese), she has been described as being a “beautiful young lady”.

Shep-en-Isis lived during the 7^th century BC in Egypt. Her skeleton was unearthed back in 1819 at an area near the Nile River where mortuary temples and tombs are located. In fact, her remains were discovered alongside her father’s in a mortuary temple named Pharaoh Hatshepsut (her father was a priest in the city of Thebes).

Based on inscriptions found on her sarcophagus, it is believed that she was part of a wealthy family and was educated. However, her husband’s name and what he did for a living is still unknown, in addition to whether or not she had any children. It is believed that she died in her 30s as Dr. Michael Habicht from Flinders University explained to Aventuras na História, “Based on Shep-en-Isis’ anatomical age and the style of her inner coffin, she must have been born by around 650 BC and died between 620 and 610 BC.”

(Not Shep-en-Isis)

In 1820, Shep-en-Isis’ skeleton was brought to Switzerland and is currently held in the São Galo Abbey Library in St. Gallen. People have described her as being the most famous Egyptian mummy in Switzerland.

For numerous months, scientists worked on reconstructing the facial features of the female mummy (the project included experts from the FAPAB Research Center in Sicily, Flinders University in Australia, and a 3D designer from Brazil named Cicero Moraes). They did the recreation by using CT scans as well as morphological data based on the mummy’s remains.

They reconstructed the tissue, skin, and eyes prior to adding more details like a few small freckles around her nose. They were able to reconstruct the shape of her ear as it was very well preserved. Her slightly protruding teeth were incredibly well preserved as well. On the other hand, experts had to assume that she had brown eyes and olive skin based on her Egyptian ancestry. Additionally, wigs, clothes, and jewelry were not added as they may not have been properly assumed.

(Not Shep-en-Isis)

The experts described their facial recreation project by stating, “Our reconstruction focuses exclusively on the forensically reconstructed appearance and the anatomical evidence,” adding, “The harmonious and well-proportioned skull suggests that Schepenese was probably a beautiful lady during her lifetime.” Their results have been published in a monograph called “The Forensic Facial Reconstruction of Shep-en-Isis”.

Several pictures of what Shep-en-Isis was believed to have looked like based on facial reconstruction can be seen here.

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UFOs have captured the popular imagination for the past seven decades. For most of this time, the subject has been treated with casual derision by mainstream media—as the butt of a lighthearted story at the end of the nightly news, underscored by X-Files music and obligatory references to “little green men.”

The media’s dismissive attitude towards UFOs stands in stark contrast to the views of numerous, highly-respected individuals in the spheres of politics and science who have, over the years, stated either publicly or confidentially their firm belief that the UFO enigma is not only worthy of serious study, but that it may even be representative of non-human intelligences.

Here are 10 of the most shocking statements about UFOs by scientists and government officials…

General Nathan Twining.

10. General Nathan Twining

General Nathan Twining served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force between 1953 and 1957, and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff between 1957 and 1960. A highly distinguished officer, Twining rose through the ranks from a lowly private to a four-star general answering directly to the Secretary of Defense and the President himself.

In a once secret letter to Air Force Headquarters dated 23 September 1947, General Twining, then head of Air Materiel Command, stated that flying saucers were “real and not visionary or fictitious,” that they had “metallic or light reflecting surface[s],” that they were “circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top,” and were sometimes sighted in “well-kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.”

Twining’s unambiguous comments in this then-secret letter about the physical reality of flying saucers were in direct contradiction to the USAF’s public position at the time that UFO reports were the product of mass hysteria or misidentifications of mundane phenomena.

Wilbert. B. Smith.

9. Wilbert B. Smith

Between 1947 and 1969, the US Air Force operated UFO investigation projects under three different codenames: Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book. Less well known is that America’s Northern neighbour was also taking a keen interest in flying saucers during the Cold War. Between 1950 and 1954, the Canadian government officially operated its own UFO study project—Project Magnet—with the objective of collecting data about the phenomenon and applying it in the spheres of military engineering and technology. The project was headed by Wilbert Brockhouse Smith, a senior radio engineer for Transport Canada’s Broadcast and Measurements Section.

In a previously top secret Canadian government document dated 21 November, 1950, drawing from information he had obtained via the Canadian embassy in Washington D.C., Smith noted of UFOs that: “The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.”

Professor Hermann Oberth.

8. Hermann Oberth

One of the boldest perspectives on UFOs during the 1950s came from Professor Hermann Oberth. A pioneer of rocketry and astronautics, and mentor to Werhner von Braun, Oberth was arguably one of the most influential engineers of the 20th Century. In an article for the American Weekly on 24 October, 1954, Oberth wrote:

“It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our earth for centuries. I think that they have been sent out to conduct systematic, long-range investigations, first of men, animals and vegetation, and more recently of atomic centers, armaments and centers of armament production. They obviously have not come as invaders, but I believe their present mission may be one of scientific investigation.”

Roscoe Hillenkoetter.

7. Roscoe Hillenkoetter

Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter became America’s first CIA Director in 1947 and, before that, was head of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG). He had previously been wounded during the attack on Pearl Harbor and commanded the USS Missouri in 1946. He retired from military service with the rank of Vice Admiral. In 1960, in a letter to Congress, Hillenkoetter famously wrote:

“Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel.”

Curiously, during his retirement years, Hillenkoetter joined the board of directors for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)—America’s leading civilian UFO investigations group. In their ground-breaking book, Clear Intent, authors Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood describe Hillenkoetter’s high-level involvement with NICAP as being a key move in the CIA’s successful infiltration and dismantling of NICAP. More men with CIA ties would join NICAP in the years to follow, and these individuals came to control the organization from within during the 1960s and 1970s as its founder, Donald Keyhoe, was pushing ever harder for government disclosure of UFO reality. Eventually, Keyhoe was ousted as NICAP Director by Joseph Bryan, former chief of the CIA’s psychological warfare staff. By 1980, NICAP was defunct.

Senator Barry Goldwater.

6. Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater was best known as the five-term Senator from Arizona and as the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in 1964. Goldwater was a significant force in American politics across four decades. In an official United States Senate letter dated 28 March, 1975, in response to an enquiry regarding his publicly stated interest in UFOs, Goldwater wrote:

“About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the [UFO] information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.”

In another Senate letter, dated 19 Oct. 1981, Goldwater further stated: “I have had one long string of denials from chief after chief, so I have given up… this thing [the UFO issue] has gotten so highly classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it.”

Victor Marchetti.

5. Victor Marchetti

Victor Marchetti served in the CIA from 1955 to 1969. Towards the end of his CIA career, Marchetti worked for several months as special assistant to CIA Deputy Director Rufus Taylor. Marchetti was also involved in establishing the Top Secret Pine Gap satellite ground station near Alice Springs in Central Australia—long rumoured by UFO conspiracy theorists to be Australia’s Area 51.

In an article for Second Look magazine in May, 1979, Marchetti raised eyebrows with the following statement:

“I do know that the CIA and the US government have been concerned over the UFO phenomenon for many years and that their attempts, both past and recent, to discount the significance of the phenomenon and to explain away the apparent lack of official interest in it have all the earmarks of a classic intelligence cover-up… My theory is that we have, indeed, been contacted – perhaps even visited – by extraterrestrial beings, and that the US government, in collusion with other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.”

Col. Gordon Cooper.

4. Gordon Cooper

The late, great astronaut Colonel Gordon Cooper was legendary for his role in the first human space flight program, Project Mercury, and his exploits were chronicled in the classic 1983 movie The Right Stuff (which co-starred Dennis Quaid as Cooper). Cooper had a number of UFO sightings during his military career and maintained until his death in 2004 that the US government had long been engaged in a large-scale UFO cover-up.

In a letter to Ambassador Griffith, Mission of Grenada to the United Nations in New York, dated 9 September, 1978, Cooper wrote:

“For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us… I feel that we need to have a top-level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the Earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.”

Lord Hill Norton.

3. Lord Hill Norton

One of the most high-ranking military officials (retired) ever to speak out on the UFO issue was the late five-star Admiral of the Fleet the Lord Hill Norton, who served as Britain’s Chief of Defence Staff and as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Lord Hill Norton maintained a longstanding interest in UFOs during his later years. In his foreword for Timothy Good’s bestselling expose of government UFO secrecy, Beyond Top Secret (1996), Lord Hill Norton wrote:

“The [UFO] evidence is now so consistent and so overwhelming that no reasonably intelligent person can deny that something unexplained is going on in our atmosphere… there is a cover-up: in the United States on a massive scale, in Great Britain, and in several other countries.”

Fife Symington.

2. Fife Symington

One of the most famous mass UFO sightings of the past 30 years has to be the Phoenix Lights incident, in which thousands of individuals reported seeing a series of stationary lights over the Arizonian capital on the night of March 13, 1997. A delta or triangular-shaped craft of immense proportions was also widely reported as travelling low and slow over Arizona more broadly on the same night. The US air force was quick to attribute the sightings to misidentifications of military flares, and the then-governor of Arizona, Fife Symington, joined the debunking bandwagon when he staged a comedic press conference in response to the concerns of his constituents, going so far as to parade a man in front of the cameras dressed a ridiculous rubber alien costume.

Unknown at that time, however, was that the Governor himself had been among the witnesses to the Phoenix Lights. 10 years later, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. in November of 2007, Fife Symington stated in front of the world’s media:

“In 1997, during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality… I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking. I was absolutely stunned… As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object I’d ever seen. The incident was witnessed by hundreds—if not thousands—of people in Arizona, and my office was besieged with phone calls from very concerned Arizonians. There are many high-ranking military, aviation and government officials who share my concerns… We want the government to stop putting out stories that perpetuate the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth conventional terms. Investigations need to be re-opened, documents need to be unsealed and the idea of an open dialogue can no longer be shunned. Incidents like these are not going away. When it comes to events of this nature that are still completely unsolved, we deserve more openness in government, especially our own.”

1. Luis Elizondo

In December 2017, the New York Times broke a dramatic story: the American government had been operating a secret UFO study program between 2008 and 2012 called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The conclusions of the $22 million Pentagon project, which, according to the Times, continues quietly to this day, were that “aircraft” of apparently unearthly origin are routinely penetrating America’s airspace.

The man who headed the Pentagon UFO project, Luis Elizondo, told journalists that these “aircraft” or “UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena),” were performing manoeuvres that fly in the face of our known laws of physics. Even more shockingly, Elizondo revealed that the Pentagon has been recovering bizarre metal alloys from alleged UFO crashes which currently are being studied and stored by billionaire defense contractor Robert Bigelow.

Discussing the Pentagon UFO project live on air in December 2017, Elizondo told CNN:

“We have identified some very, very interesting anomalous types of aircraft… let’s call them ‘aircraft.’ Things that don’t have any obvious flight surfaces, any obvious forms of propulsion, and [that have] extreme manoeuvrability beyond the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological; hypersonic velocities; low observability; [and] positive lift, seemingly defying the laws of aerodynamics.”

When encouraged by the news anchor to speculate as to the nature and origin of these mystery aircraft, Elizondo replied: “We’ve deliberately stayed away from going down the rabbit hole of ‘who’s behind the wheel and what are their intentions’… what we wanted to do was to let the data speak for itself.”

The anchor responded by nudging Elizondo again: “Let me ask you point blank the question: do you believe that life from somewhere else, while you ran this program, came here, visited, observed?” Elizondo stunningly replied: “There is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.”

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UFO Watches Astronaut During Space Walk At Space Station, Video, March 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 2017

Location of sighting: International Space Station
Source: History Channel

 

Now this same video was circulating for a few years, but this is the first time that I have heard that NASA takes credit for it truly happening. This white alien craft flew near the ISS during a spacewalk so that they can see the human astronaut in action. Watching on computer screens is not like really being there...and aliens think so too.  There are a lot of UFOs in space, a lot of species with space faring capabilities. Maybe one day humanity will join them on other planets, moons and systems. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

 

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6KM Tall Tower Found On Mars Google Map, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Jan 2022
Location of discovery: Planet Mars
Google Coordinates: 31° 3'48.78"S 74°15'18.46"E

 

There is a tower on the planet Mars. Its on all the versions of Google Mars map...there are seven...but one of them wont allow it visible...the most clear of them. The version choices are on the far left on the map.

 

When I measured this tower, it was over 6km tall! Thats amazing! No mountain could ever exist that was so tall and thin. This was created by intelligent beings, far more advanced than humans. This tower is so big, it could hold over tens of thousand of people in it. Its its been abandoned, its a perfect structure for humans to take over and adapt the alien technology so that humans can survive on Mars. 

 

This isn't the only structure on Mars. There are thousands of structures many kilometers across. NASA has been hiding it to keep China and Russia from finding out and thus creating a race to Mars to take over some of these ancient cities. The country that does...will be a world power for centuries to come. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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Catherine Austin Fits: "We have what we have been building for the last 20 or 30 years, and it's getting much more obvious, but it's been covert most of the time. They basically want digital control systems through the financial system, through the health system and government systems to implement control. 

It's important to understand what they are trying to do. They are trying to create complete transaction control. If they don't want you going five miles from your home, your electric car will not work more than five miles from your home. . . . 

If they don't want you to buy pizza, your credit card will not allow you to buy pizza. They are talking about putting in extraordinary digital control systems and literally turning your car and your home into a digital concentration camp."

Read more at: usawatchdog

HEADED FOR A DIGITAL CONCENTRATION CAMP (Video) – CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS

• Headed for a Digital Concentration Camp -Catherine Austin Fitts

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UFO crash lands in Antarctica

An investigator comes across something extraordinary while scanning images of Antarctica, see more in this clip from Proof Is Out There “Solar Spaceship & Invisibility Cloak.”

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2022 could be a turning point in the study of UFOs

Many of these objects are ultimately identified. Others, however, remain mysterious. 

Nonetheless, in 2022, UAP will get more attention from both the scientific community and the federal government, experts told Space.com. 

• Related: 9 things we learned about aliens in 2021

Coordinated effort

In June 2021, the U.S. military and intelligence community issued a report on UAPs. It was followed by congressional urging to establish a formal office to carry out a "coordinated effort" on collection and analysis related to UAP. 

"Our national security efforts rely on aerial supremacy, and these phenomena present a challenge to our dominance over the air. Staying ahead of UAP sightings is critical to keeping our strategic edge and keeping our nation safe," Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said on Dec. 9, 2021, when announcing the inclusion of her UAP amendment in the $768.2 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden on Dec. 27.

Although the new office within the Pentagon, called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, will not explicitly focus on the search for alien life, it will be tasked with providing a full spectrum of intelligence, as well as scientific and technical assessments, related to UAP. 

One of the new UAP office's responsibilities will be to implement a plan to "test scientific theories related to UAP characteristics and performances," Gillibrand said in a statement.

So, what now?

For one thing, there's a concerted effort to build UAP-spotting hardware and to decide where it will be stationed. This year could be a turning point in the study of UAP/UFOs.

• Related: UFO watch: 8 times the government looked for flying saucers

UFO detection

One potential major development in 2022 will be UFO detection, according to Mark Rodeghier, scientific director of the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago. 

"The effort to detect, track and measure the UFO phenomenon in the field, in real time, has recently entered a new phase," Rodeghier told Space.com. "The technology has gotten better, software tools have improved and the current interest in UFOs has attracted new, qualified professionals.

"While one can't predict how soon we will gain new, fundamental knowledge about UAP/UFOs, I believe that these efforts are very likely to succeed and set UFO research onto a new foundation of reliable, physical data," Rodeghier added. "And as a consequence, we will have even more evidence — as if it was needed — that the UFO phenomenon is real and can be studied scientifically."

One upcoming initiative, called the Galileo Project, will search for extraterrestrial equipment near Earth. It has two branches. The first aims to identify the nature of interstellar objects that do not resemble comets or asteroids — like 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to visit the solar system. The second branch targets UAP, similar to those of interest to the U.S. government.

"The Galileo Project's data will be open to the public, and its scientific analysis will be transparent," said Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who is spearheading the project. "The related scientific findings would expand humanity's knowledge, with no attention to borders between nations."

The Galileo research team includes more than 100 scientists who plan to assemble the project's first telescope system on the roof of the Harvard College Observatory in spring 2022. 

"The system will record continuous video and audio of the entire sky in the visible, infrared and radio bands, as well as track objects of interest," Loeb said. "Artificial intelligence algorithms will distinguish birds from drones, airplanes or something else. Once the first system will operate successfully, the Galileo Project will make copies of it and distribute them in many geographical locations."

The truth is out there

An outlier in all the UAP and UFO chatter — that is nonetheless attracting some attention within the scientific community — is the possibility that UFOs are actually human time travelers.

"The human time travelers model to explain UFOs has been gaining traction over the last couple years," said Michael Masters, a professor of anthropology at Montana Technological University. 

Masters is the author of the 2019 book "Identified Flying Objects," which examines the premise that UFOs and aliens may simply be our distant human descendants using the anthropological tool of time travel to visit and study us, as members of their own hominin evolutionary past.

"I think people are starting to realize that it makes a lot of sense in the context of how these ships operate, how they can achieve such incredible accelerations and decelerations if they are manipulating space-time in their own reference frame in and around these craft, and if we can take seriously the description of beings seen in association with them, how they are ubiquitously described in such human terms, regarding their behavior, technology and morphological form," Masters told Space.com.

Masters appreciates that the UFO/UAP topic is being taken seriously by a broader group of professionals in various fields. 

"The more we continue to whittle away the stigma that has surrounded this subject for so long, the faster we may begin to understand the nuances of this mysterious phenomenon," he said. "Further reducing the stigma will hopefully also mean that more scientists and scholars will continue to enter the conversation without fear of retribution or shame being cast upon their existing research program, which can only help to advance our knowledge farther and faster."

Thanks to the official acknowledgement of the reality of these objects, Masters said, "the conversation can now move on from 'Are these real?' to 'What are they, and from where, or potentially when, are they coming?'"

• Fermi Paradox: Where are the aliens?

Lack of coordination

Currently, there is a lack of coordination among organizations involved in UAP detection equipment, but that may change this year, said Robert Powell, an executive board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) in Austin, Texas.

"I believe that will improve as we go into 2022," he said.

A number of SCU members are involved with the Galileo Project, and the organization has partnered with several groups, including UFODATA, the UFO Data Acquisition Project (UFODAP) and UAPx. 

"UFODAP already has a working model that has been sold into the marketplace and is reasonably priced in the $2,000 to $5,000 range, depending on the accessories desired," Powell told Space.com. "This system has already been used by a group known as UAPx to collect data. Our goal is to coordinate these activities in a way such that we use a system with standardized equipment set to collect data."

But before that happens, Powell said, the groups need to plot out exactly what that equipment is trying to measure and verify that the system can achieve that goal. 

Challenges ahead

"These are exciting times, as there are a growing number of groups focused on UAP detection and study," said Kevin Knuth, an associate professor of physics at the University at Albany and vice president of UAPx, which intends to incorporate a network of distributed sensors that interested parties can host locally to contribute to UAP spotting.

Still, there are some challenges involved with the interaction of various groups, he said.

"While some coordination among groups might be beneficial, especially in the context of efficiency, the fact that we currently know precious little about UAPs implies that the potential for discovery is higher if the groups begin by working independently, trying different equipment and procedures and watching in different places," Knuth told Space.com. 

As lessons are learned and the results are made public, the various groups will begin to adopt equipment and procedures that have been demonstrated to be fruitful, he added.  

"For this reason, it is probably not wise to coordinate the groups at this time," Knuth said. "Instead, as we learn more about how to best observe and study UAPs, communication across groups — facilitated by the sharing of data and publishing of results — will lead to improvements in general. This is the benefit of independent scientific studies."

Taking a broader view, Knuth said the scientific groups are planning on publishing peer-reviewed scientific papers. The upshot will be further advancement of the scientific studies of UAPs "while encouraging and compelling more scientists to get involved in studying what could very well be among the most important discoveries in human history," he said.

Leonard David is author of "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" (National Geographic, 2019). A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. 

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Scientists Want To Send a Spacecraft to Catch Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua

 Vladislav Tchakarov

Scientists have figured out how to catch up and study the first known interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua. Project Lyra envisions the launch of a probe for February 2028, four years to perform gravity maneuvers near Earth, Venus, and Jupiter, and finally reaching 'Oumuamua around 2050-2054.

What do we know about Oumuamua?

Object 1I/Oumuamua was discovered on October 19, 2017, as a result of analysis of data obtained by the Pan-STARRS Panoramic and Rapid Response Telescope System, which is primarily designed to search for near-Earth asteroids. ‘Oumuamua was originally thought to be a comet but was later classified as an asteroid.

It was moving too fast for a simple asteroid, and with acceleration, but it did not leave a gaseous tail, which is considered a sign of icy comets from the outer part of the system. Its brightness also did not change, which is typical for asteroids, and not for comets.

Comet Borisov, the first interstellar comet, was discovered by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov in August 2019 using a 65-cm telescope of his own design.

The extrasolar origin of ‘Oumuamua and Comet Borisov makes them extremely interesting objects to study, but they transit through the solar system and were already detected on the departure trajectory, it is quite difficult to catch up with them.

Scientists are especially intrigued by the possibility of an artificial origin of such objects, which may be hinted at by the extremely elongated shape of Oumuamua.

Since the object can no longer be properly studied through telescopes, there is only one way to understand its origin. The published document describes a mission called Project Lyra to send a probe from Earth that can catch up with ‘Oumuamua and find out its more about its structure.

Catching up with Oumuamua: Project Lyra

The document contains a proposal to organize an updated mission, which should start in February 2028, and spend four years on acceleration using gravitational maneuvers – to use the so-called Oberth effect.

If the impulse of the device’s engine is given at maximum approach to a gravitating body, then part of the energy can be taken away from this body and thereby additionally disperse the apparatus.

Gravity maneuvers, or Oberth maneuvers, in this case, should be performed twice at the Earth and once at Venus and Jupiter, until at last the device acquires sufficient speed and reaches the vicinity of ‘Oumuamua in 2050-2054.

This is far from the first attempt to plot a course to ‘Oumuamua, but most previous attempts have focused on using the Oberth maneuver to fly around the Sun. This tactic involves the spacecraft falling into a gravity well and as it falls, it uses its thrusters to increase its acceleration.

The disadvantage of boosting with the help of the Sun is that to protect the probe from powerful solar radiation, one would have to use a complex and heavy shield, like the one currently carried by the American Parker Solar Probe, designed to study the outer solar corona.

While this maneuver looks great on paper, it has never been done before and therefore has a low level of technological readiness.

Another advantage of the maneuver with Jupiter is the final speed of the spacecraft’s arrival at ‘Oumuamua, which will be much lower than that of the spacecraft using the maneuver with the Sun – 18 km/s versus 30 km/s.

This will give the Lyra project more time to study the interstellar asteroid from a flyby trajectory. Based on a launch window of 2028, the researchers determined that the craft could catch up to Oumuamua by 2054.

What if we find another similar object?

Another option could be, of course, to simply wait until another object similar to ‘Oumuamua is found and take the time to organize an expedition to it.

After all, every year, an estimated seven interstellar wanderers can fly through our solar system . It is even possible that some of the comets from the outer Oort cloud are actually of extrasolar origin.

However, according to the same article, it would be unwise to wait for such an event, because the second interstellar object ever discovered – comet 2I / Borisov 2019 – resembles small bodies already found in the solar system.

This makes ‘Oumuamua a more unique object, and it is unclear what the likelihood of a re-encounter with a similar celestial body in the future is. The possible scientific return from such a mission makes the ‘Oumuamua expedition an opportunity that should not be missed.

An artist's impression of the 'Oumuamua probe.

Maciej Rebisz/Initiative for Interstellar Studies

An illustration of 'Oumuamua. 

Source: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser

Sources:

• Dickinson, D. (2022, January 18). Interstellar probe proposed to explore the Solar Neighborhood. Sky & Telescope.
• Hibberd, A., Hein, A., Eubanks, M., & Kennedy III, R. (2022, January 11). Project Lyra: A mission to 1I/’OUMUAMUA without Solar Oberth manoeuvre. arXiv.org.
• Tangermann, V. (2022, January 20). Scientists propose mission to catch up with mysterious interstellar object. Futurism.
• Williams, M. (2022, January 21). If launched by 2028, a spacecraft could catch up with Oumuamua in 26 years. Universe Today.

Breakthrough Starshot's light sail concept could reach Alpha Centauri in 20 years.

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Alien Beings May Actually Live Among Us And We Can’t See Them

Because there is no proof of life elsewhere, science claims that mankind evolved organically on Earth to become the most sophisticated species in the universe. The reality, on the other hand, is the polar opposite.

Humans are not the most intellectual creature in the universe, and we do not evolve organically on this planet. This galaxy is home to numerous extraterrestrial civilizations, many of which are millions of years older than our own.

For a long time, the most evolved aliens have visited Earth; some are responsible for seeding human life on Earth and other compatible worlds.

-This implies that humans did not begin on the planet. So, theoretically, we’re aliens as well, despite the fact that we’ve been here for so long that we view things differently.

Aliens still inhabit this world, residing in underground or underwater bases or deep beneath mountains, and moving in disguised ships, underground tunnels, or teleportation portals.

Only a few alien species are highly negative or highly positive, despite the fact that there are at least fifty different extraterrestrial species on Earth.

Humanity is used as a natural resource by the negatives. Neutral aliens are mostly interested in living, observing, and learning.

Positive aliens want to assist people in escaping the energy farm and becoming superhumans.

Things are more convoluted than that because each alien faction can serve many objectives, but the idea is that the negatives are mostly interested in exploiting us, while the positives are primarily interested in assisting us.

Grays, Reptilians, Mantids, and Norsemen are the most common extraterrestrial species. The grays are small robotic beings with large heads, pale skin, and dark eyes.

Reptilians have slit pupils and scaly skin and are tall and intelligent. Mantids are human-sized versions of the praying mantis insect.

Norsemen are indistinguishable from humans, although they are more muscular, have only blond hair, and have very light eyes.

It is impossible to state that one alien species is entirely positive and another is absolutely negative, because there may be examples of both classifications within the same species, yet the orientation of some types is more distinct than that of others.

These aliens do not have the same physical characteristics as humans. They have the ability to dematerialize and pass through walls, travel back in time, use their minds to move items, communicate with us telepathically, and become invisible.

All of these abilities are part of the superhuman stage, and they are more sophisticated because they exist in a higher dimension that intersects with ours.

Higher-dimensional entities must focus on a tighter spectrum of vibrations in order to intercept our dimension, otherwise, they will stay invisible to us.

We’re like fish who are oblivious to the fact that people outside the aquarium are watching us, people who can make themselves known by tapping on the glass or sticking their fingers in the water.

Despite coming from a higher level, these entities technically exist between us and that dimension. What are your thoughts?

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West Yorkshire, England, is what’s known as a metropolitan county and includes the larger cities of Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, as well as enough smaller towns to have a population of over 2.3 million people … and a number of extraterrestrials. In a surprising report, the West Yorkshire police revealed their area of responsibility summoned them to at least nine instances where a county constituent reported an encounter with a UFO and/or extraterrestrials. Is West Yorkshire a UFO hotspot or should someone check the water supply?

An average day in West Yorkshire?

“Caller is reporting he thinks he has seen a UFO. He could (see) this ‘thing’ in the sky that kept appearing then disappearing. This occurred 22 times where ‘something flashed’ then it disappeared, then it flashed again. (He) says he watched this happen for approx 15 mins.”

Yorkshire Live recently provided a list of the West Yorkshire UFO and alien reports and many sound like this one from Morley, Leeds – unusual lights that could be planes, drones or those pesky Starlink satellites. However, some defy those explanations, like this one from Knottingley, Wakefield.

“Caller reporting white orbs in the sky; two shot off like shooting star; he’s seen some disappear; he has this on video; he’s seen 10 tonight; and they’re moving really weird; He can’t see them now. But he’s seen them last two nights. He’s just seen another now, and another one.”

Then there are the alien encounters, like this one from Skircoat, Halifax:

“Reporting he has seen an alien…he has seen something floating in the sky, talking to him.”

A woman in Weetwood, Leeds, reported being abducted, and a man in Skircoat, Halifax, said he had a close encounter.

“Reporting he has seen an alien…he has seen something floating in the sky, talking to him.”

While nine UFO/alien reports in one year in a county of 2.3 million residents might not qualify it as a paranormal hotspot (read about all of them here), West Yorkshire has a history of them that probably influences its police force to give the calls special attention. The most infamous involves former constable Alan Godfrey who claimed to have seen a UFO hovering over Burnley Road in Todmorden in 1980 and, under hypnosis, claimed to have been abducted and spent time in a spaceship. This was five months after finding the body of a missing man, Zigmund Adamski, who was reported to be strangely dressed, had his head shaved and sporting a bore a ring of burn marks, showed a slimy yellow-green substance seeping from a neck wound, and appeared to have been dropped into a railroad cola bin from a high altitude. To this day, Godfrey claims the two incidents ruined his life because of media coverage and investigations by the government.

Another typical day in West Yorkshire?

Then there was Russ Kellett, who in 2020 revealed a 1999 UFO abduction in Bingley, West Yorkshire, in which he remembers being in a spaceship with British pop star Robbie Williams. And in December 2021, a woman also from Todmorden broke her 40-year silence about witnessing a diamond-shaped UFO there in 1981 because it was approximately one year after Godfrey’s famous incident because she didn’t want her life ruined. Then there’s this — Todmorden has had unexplained cattle and sheep mutilations since the 1960s which many people blame on alien experiments, and there have been many alien big cat sightings which some have also attributed to ETs.

If you were a West Yorkshire constable, would you pay special attention to UFO and alien reports?

Or would you put in for a transfer to another county?

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Like one those mysterious people who shows up uninvited at a party, proceeds to blow everyone away with their karaoke singing, and then disappears before anyone can get their name or learn where they came from, the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua blasted through our solar system in 2017, surprising astronomers with its origin, strange oblong shape, weird behavior and hasty exit. No one got a good look at it, prompting many to speculate it may have been a spacecraft that may or may not have been occupied. Fortunately, astronomers collected enough data on ‘Oumuamua that they believe a craft from Earth could track it and even catch up to it. Recently, one such group of scientists laid out a plan and a schedule to do just that.

“In this paper, we identify an alternative route to the interstellar object 1I/’Oumuamua, based on a launch in 2028, which does not require a SOM but has a similar performance as missions with a SOM. It instead employs a Jupiter Oberth Manoeuvre (JOM) with a total time of flight of around 26 years or so.”

In a newly published paper, a team from the UK-based Initiative for Interstellar Studies (I4IS) – a diverse group of volunteers “committed to the vision of seeing interstellar flight achieved in the very near future” – proposed a technique that would allow a conventional spacecraft to take an unconventional path that would allow it to quickly catch up with ’Oumuamua. Most long-mission crafts launched from Earth gain speed by using the Solar Oberth Manoeuvre (SOM) – heading towards the Sun, falling into its gravitational well, using its engines to accelerate the fall, and then using the additional speed to slingshot far out into space. Many spacecrafts then perform a similar maneuver around other planets, including Earth, to gain more speed. In what they call Project Lyra, the I4IS team bypasses the SOM and sends a craft to Jupiter for that Oberth boost.

“In January / February 2019, our team has worked on potential missions after 2024, leaving enough time for spacecraft development.”

The I4IS team realizes public and private space programs have the heavy rockets today but not the interstellar probe needed to catch ’Oumuamua, but expect one to be developed by 2024. They then propose a series of gravity-assist maneuvers – around Earth, Venus, Earth again and then Jupiter over four years – before shooting towards ’Oumuamua with an arrival time of either 2050 or 2054 depending on options. That’s a speed far faster than the Voyager and New Horizons probes. (You can view the study with its excellent charts and illustrations here.)

‘Oumuamua’s route through our Solar System.

Eliminating the trip around the Sun reduces weight on the interstellar probe by eliminating the need for a heat shield. Adam Hibberd, a researcher with the i4is and lead author of the new study, tells Universe Today the Jupiter Oberth Manoeuvre allows the probe to arrive at ‘Oumuamua at a slower speed than a SOM assist would, giving it more time to analyze ‘Oumuamua during approach and departure. The JOM would also reduce risks on the mission.

“Finally, our results rather strengthen the feasibility of a mission to 1I, as we demonstrated that such a mission may resemble existing interplanetary missions and not rely on significant new technology developments or unprecedented space Manoeuvres.”

In other words, a Project Lyra to catch ’Oumuamua can be done and would potentially solve the mystery of what it is. Now all they need to do is convince NASA, ESA, or another public or private space organization to take on the project.

As a certain shoe company likes to say: Just do it!

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Are Curiosity and Perseverance, NASA’s two operational rovers on Mars, in a robotic rivalry to be the first to find a confirmed sign of life on the Red Planet? It would seem that way this week as Curiosity’s onboard lab analyzed some soil it had dug up and found it contained an unusual carbon signature that is considered to be one of the signs of life. Not to be outdone, NASA just announced that Perseverance has been finding a purple coating on rocks everywhere it roams and scientists think this could also be a sign of past life – or at least hold clues on what that life might have been. Purple rocks on Mars? Wouldn’t that have made an excellent Bowie/Prince collaboration?

“These particular purple patches we haven’t really seen with past rover missions.”

At a recent conference of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Purdue University scientist Bradley Garczynski explained how he’s using the “scientific eyes of the rover” — a pair of cameras called Mastcam-Z – to study the purple images taken by Perseverance through various filters that can help determine their composition. National Geographic was at the conference and also reports on Ann Ollila, a geochemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who is also studying the purple coatings, splotches and blobs in Jezero crater, which was formed by a meteorite impact billions of years ago, once hosted an ancient lake, and is now the home of Perseverance and its little helicopter friend Ingenuity.

Ollila is taking a more weaponized approach – she’s using the rover’s SuperCam to blast the rocks with a laser to vaporize a hole and make a sound that is picked up by microphones and analyzed – the sound tells Ollila how hard the rock is and reveals other properties. The Supercam then compares the inside of the hole to the purple surface – it found the purple layer is softer and contains hydrogen and magnesium. Add that to the discovery by the Mastcam-Z that it also contains iron oxide and you’ve got … what?

“I don’t really have a good answer for you.”

That’s not what conference attendees and future Mars explorers wanted to hear from Ollila – they want to know if geological processes are similar among the solar system’s planets, what are the differences and how did they happen. And most importantly – what the heck is the purple stuff? If it’s a sign of ancient life, it’s in the wrong place – the spots in Jezero where Perseverance roams are not where there was water but where magma flowed. Also, the pings don’t match and neither do the compositions of the zapped holes and the purple coating around them. That doesn’t mean they aren’t potential signs of Martian life, says Nina Lanza, the team leader for Space and Planetary Exploration at Los Alamos National Laboratory studying the purple.

“Who knows what Martian microbes do?”

(Wouldn’t that have made a great opening line to a Bowie song?)

On Earth, a purple coating on a rock might mean microbes hid on it to escape from the sun’s ray, metabolizing metals in the rock or dissolved in water flowing over it. Ultimately, the purple rocks need to be brought back to Earth for intense analysis in a lab.

Perseverance

If the purple surface on these Martian rocks was really once purple Martian microbes in a Martian lake, that means it could have heated up, vaporized into clouds and formed something Prince could sink his musical teeth into.

Purple rain, Martian pain
Purple rain, Martian pain
I didn’t mean to step on you
Thought you were just a stain

OK, maybe David Bowie.

Take a look at the ground, man
Purple rock, I wonder why
Oh man, wonder if we’ll ever know
Is it purple Martian pee
Is there life on Mars?

Don’t you miss those guys?

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 New evidence suggests a huge asteroid DID hit EARTH 12,800 years ago causing an ice age, wiping out dozens of species and decimating humans

• A team of scientists discovered a 'platinum spike' suggesting a meteorite had hit

• Found in Wonderkrater in the Limpopo Province, north of Pretoria in South Africa

• Findings could prove mini-ice age Younger Dryas was triggered by a meteoroid

By MILLY VINCENT FOR MAILONLINE

A huge asteroid may have hit the Earth 12,800 years ago causing global climate change and extinction, according to new evidence found in South Africa.

Scientists analysed ancient soil at a site called Wonderkrater and found high levels of platinum - which they say supports the The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis that a disintegrating meteor hit Earth and caused a mini ice age. 

The resulting ice age is believed by many scientists to have wiped out dozens of mammals species including the Mammoth and giant wildebeest and decimated the human population. 

Scientists believe 'platinum spikes' found in ancient soil samples across the world are evidence of the meteor fragments that crashed into Earth.  

Meteorites are rich in platinum and the Wonderkrater site  in the Limpopo Province, north of Pretoria in South Africa adds to almost 30 other platinum spikes found worldwide, mostly in the northern hemisphere. 

This map shows the locations of platinum spikes which have been observed around the world, suggesting a meteorite may have smashed into Earth and scattered debris everywhere

WHAT IS THE YOUNGER DRYAS IMPACT HYPOTHESIS?

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis proposes that fragments of a disintegrating comet struck the Earth around 12,800 years ago.

These fragments bombarded North and South America, Europe and western Asia.

This generated a thin layer of detritus covering around 19.3 million square miles (50 million square kilometres).

This layer contained concentrations of platinum, meltglass and nano-diamonds from the impactors. 

Experts argue that this episode saw large-scale biomass burning, an impact-induced winter, longer-time climatic shifts and the extinction of late Pleistocene megafauna.

Until now, proof that meteoroids had impacted during that period and potentially led to a mini-ice age had only been documented across the northern hemisphere.

A total of 28 areas with high levels of platinum had been found. 

The findings from the researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa partially support the theory that a meteorite crashed into earth with global consequences – along with another meteorite site discovered in Chile.

An episode of rapid cooling named the The Younger Dryas is a well documented period believed to have contributed to the extinction of many species of large animals around 12,800 years ago.

Theories previously pointed to this post-ice age cooling as a result of changes in oceanic circulation systems.

Another theory was presented by American scientists in 2007 – that the cooling was triggered by the dust fallout of an asteroid impact.

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Dust circulating in the atmosphere after an impact could have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching the earth, affecting plant growth and temperatures on earth.  

Now Francis Thackeray of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa believes a platinum spike found in South Africa proves the extinction of many large animals globally could have been caused by one or multiple meteoroid impacts.

Researchers have discovered their first evidence in the southern hemisphere that a mini ice age almost 13,000 years ago may have been caused by clouds of dust thrown up by an asteroid impact

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Dr Thackeray who was working with researcher Philip Pieterse from the University of Johannesburg and Professor Louis Scott of the University of the Free State, said: 'Our finding at least partially supports the highly controversial Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH).

'We seriously need to explore the view that an asteroid impact somewhere on earth may have caused climate change on a global scale.

'And [it may have] contributed to some extent to the process of extinctions of large animals at the end of the Pleistocene, after the last ice age.' 

Many mammals became extinct in North America, South America and Europe at the time of the Younger Dryas. 

In South Africa a few extraordinary large animal species became extinct around that period including the giant African buffalo, a large zebra, and a very big wildebeest each weighing around 1,100lbs (500kg) more than its modern counterpart.

Human populations may also have been indirectly affected at the time in question. 

Thackeray argues that a dramatic halt in the development of the use of stone tools by the Clovis people in North America and the Robberg stone artefacts used by populations in South Africa around that period could indicate that an asteroid may have caused global consequences.

Dr Thackery said: 'Without necessarily arguing for a single causal factor on a global scale, we cautiously hint at the possibility that these technological changes, in North America and on the African subcontinent at about the same time, might have been associated indirectly with an asteroid impact with major global consequences.'   

WHEN WERE EARTH'S 'BIG FIVE' EXTINCTION EVENTS?

Traditionally, scientists have referred to the 'Big Five' mass extinctions, including perhaps the most famous mass extinction triggered by a meteorite impact that brought about the end of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. 

But the other major mass extinctions were caused by phenomena originating entirely on Earth, and while they are less well known, we may learn something from exploring them that could shed light on our current environmental crises.

1. The Late Ordovician: This ancient crisis around 445m years ago saw two major waves of extinction, both caused by climate change associated with the advance and retreat of ice sheets in the southern hemisphere. This makes it the only major extinction to be linked to global cooling. 
2. The Late Devonian: This period is now regarded as a number of 'pulses' of extinction spread over 20m years, beginning 380m years ago. This extinction has been linked to major climate change, possibly caused by an eruption of the volcanic Viluy Traps area in modern-day Siberia. A major eruption might have caused rapid fluctations in sea levels and reduced oxygen levels in the oceans.
3. The Middle Permian:  Scientists have recently discovered another event 262m years ago that rivals the 'Big Five' in size. This event coincided with the Emeishan eruption in what's now China, and is known to have caused simultaneous extinctions in the tropics and higher latitudes.
4. The Late Permian: The Late Permian mass extinction around 252m years ago dwarfs all the other events, with about 96% of species becoming extinct. The extinction was triggered by a vast eruption of the Siberian Traps, a gigantic and prolonged volcanic event that covered much of modern day Siberia, which led to a cascade of environmental effects.
5. The Late Triassic: The Late Triassic event, 201m years ago, shares a number of similarities with the Late Permian event. It was caused by another large-scale eruption, this time of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, which heralded the splitting of the supercontinent Pangaea and the initial opening of what would later become the Atlantic Ocean.

A meteor glowing as it enters the earth's atmosphere

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He added: 'We cannot be certain, but a cosmic impact could have affected humans as a result of local changes in environment and the availability of food resources.'

At Wonderkrater, the team has also uncovered evidence from pollen to show that about 12,800 years ago there was temporary cooling.

This linked up with the 'Younger Dryas' drop in temperature that is well documented in the northern hemisphere, and now also in South Africa. 

According to some scientists, this cooling in widespread areas could have been caused by the global dispersal of platinum-rich atmospheric dust after a meteorite hit. 

Thackeray's team believes their discovery of a platinum spike at about 12,800 years ago at Wonderkrater is just part of the strengthening view that an asteroid or cometary impact might have occurred at that time.

This is the first evidence in Africa for a platinum spike leading to the mini-ice age of the Younger Dryas.

Younger Dryas spikes in platinum have also been found in Greenland, Eurasia, North America, Mexico and recently also at Pilauco in Chile.

Wonderkrater is the 30th site in the world discovered with evidence of platinum spikes.

Thackeray said: 'Our evidence is entirely consistent with the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis.'

The discovery in South Africa is expected to be analysed in context with those made in other parts of the world.

A large crater 31 kilometres in diameter was discovered in northern Greenland beneath the Hiawatha Glacier last year. 

Thackery recognises that the source of the platinum at Wonderkrater could hypothetically be cosmic dust that was dispersed in the atmosphere after a meteorite impact in Greenland. 

The South African research has been supported by the National Research Foundation and the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for the Palaeosciences and was published in Palaeontologia Africana.

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Asteroid Impact vs. Pole Shift as Cause of Catastrophic Destruction 12,900 Years Ago

I often write about a periodic cycle of pole shift catastrophes that alter the entire surface of the Earth and reduce civilizations to ruins every 12-13,000 years (probably every half-precession cycle of about 12,900 years.) But many researchers, including Graham Hancock, suggest that this (last) catastrophe roughly 12,800 years ago was caused by a comet impact – not a pole shift. Does evidence favor one theory over the other? From a Russian article I found recently:

What was the largest catastrophe in the history of the Earth: theories and facts

Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) have evidence that the Earth was hit by a comet or asteroid almost 13,000 years ago.

“A global catastrophe led to climate change known as the Dryas Cooldown (10730-9700 BC) and also caused the extinction of many animal species. In 2019, South African researchers analyzed rock samples recovered from peat deposits in the Limpopo province of South Africa. As a result, they found a high concentration of platinum, which is also found in celestial bodies.

According to the researchers, this is another evidence in favor of the hypothesis of a large space object colliding with the Earth – a comet or an asteroid, which probably fell in Northern Greenland, where a crater 31 kilometers in diameter and 12,800 years old was discovered under the Hiawatha glacier. Climate change has been caused by the dispersion of dust and soot in the planet’s atmosphere. Platinum has also been found in rocks of the same age in Greenland, Eurasia, North America, Mexico, and Chile.”

The image directly above does not show impact craters under the ice, like the recently discovered Hiawatha Crater in NW Greenland. It doesn’t show the ones in South Carolina or anywhere outside North America. What it does show, however, is that the last ice cap in Pleistocene times was centered near Hudson Bay, not our current North Pole.

Notice most of Alaska and all of Siberia (where so many remains of mammoths – which ate 500 pounds of vegetation a day – have been found) were not covered by an ice sheet but in fact were much warmer – before Asia moved north by 30 degrees of latitude (suddenly freezing the region) and the Americas moved 30 degrees south (thawing eastern Canada) during the last pole shift.

I feel the following adequately sums up the asteroid theory: we found impact craters, and the surface of the entire world shows a layer of dust rich in platinum (and other elements far less common on Earth) covered our world roughly 10,800 B.C. Therefore, the resulting climate changes and mass extinctions were caused by the comet (or fragments) impact.

While there are many impact craters from approximately the first century of the Younger Dryas climate change events, there is massive evidence supporting another cause – the idea that our entire galaxy has a positive and negative side separated not by a flat sheet but by a rippling, wave-like undulation between positive and negative charge. This ripple or wave reaches us roughly every 12,900 years and causes stellar micronovas and planetary pole shifts.

Many nearby stars between our sun and the galactic center have already erupted in recent years. It is only a matter of time before the strength of the incoming galactic wave overpowers and reverses the electromagnetic fields of our sun and our Earth.

Our sun’s magnetic field will eventually be overwhelmed and reversed by the galactic field changes, and our planetary magnetic field is overwhelmed with both the galactic wave (which takes centuries to make the full polarity reversal) and the solar micronova (which is over in hours and is the direct and immediate trigger of the pole shifts on Earth.) This is supported by many ancient myths, legends, and religions – such as Egyptian records of the sun rising in the west and setting in the east prior to the last catastrophe – or the Greek myth of Phaethon failing the handle Apollo’s sun-chariot and coming to close to Earth and scorching it before Zeus intervened by “tilting the table” to flood the burning lands and put out the fires and returning the reins to Apollo – or the description of an intensely brightened sun from Isaiah 30:26 “…the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days…”

As our terrestrial magnetic field weakens to zero and reverses, our protection from cosmic radiation and dust temporarily disappears. The flow of the extended and greatly strengthened solar magnetic field flows right through the Earth, north to south, and carries extra cosmic dust pushed in from the galactic wave and a much greater amount of solar particles blasted out with the micronova. This also explains the high levels of platinum and other elements on the surface of the Earth at the time of pole shift events.

Earth is rarely hit by comets or asteroids, partially because the ones that intersect Earth’s orbit usually hit within the first thousand years of the establishment of such intersecting orbits, followed by long periods of stability and virtually no impacts for many thousands of years (our recent history) because Earth has cleared the path of its orbit by impacting the problems earlier…. Until the next galactic wave and micronova blasts disturb the orbits of everything in the solar system, followed by centuries of newly dislodged objects pushed into new trajectories. This causes at least a few centuries of much more frequent impacts on Earth.

So yes, there are impact craters and high levels of rare elements approximately 12,800 years ago. But I think the evidence suggests that was a result of the galactic ripple, solar micronova, and pole shift which occurred around 12,850-12,900 years ago. If the evidence truly favors a periodic (recurring) cycle of pole shift catastrophes, and not a one-time random impact event for the Pleistocene extinction that happened almost 13,000 years ago – why does our government – which funds the scientific establishment that won’t bite the hand that funds it – not admit or acknowledge the recurring pole shift cycle? (Or any other cyclic theory, such as our sun having a distant binary companion such as Sirius – or even that the sun is in one of the filaments/threads of a galactic rope of Birkeland currents of charged plasma, making it look like we are rotating with another nearby star or two as our filament channels and spirals us around the larger “rope” of entwined filaments?)

Because a one-time impact won’t happen again. Governments often love to incite fear and make the public take the action they want and have planned for. But in this case, they want the public to remain ignorant and take no action beyond continuing to work and pay taxes right up to the end, so that the elite get build, supply, and retreat into their bunkers without millions or billions of informed and angry unselected useless eaters like us banging down their doors or detonating nukes or burying their exits under tons of concrete. To avoid that, they must not teach about recurring cycles of destruction, especially if another event is due within our lifetimes. Instead we are offered distractions and lies.

The next pole shift is due in the 2nd quarter of the 21st century. There are plans to survive it. But you and I are not invited. I can find no acknowledgement of pole shift cycles by the American government. But I did recently find declassified KGB files offering Soviet acknowledgement – and they comment on known American preparations and even the Nazi archives they found on the subject. (The Nazis also expected the next pole shift in the early 21st century.)

If interested in any of these theories, check the links below for what I consider the best sources.

• English translation of over 200 pages of the KGB’s “Project Orion”
• The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
• Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson, Michael Shermer, and Joe Rogan discuss the Impact Theory
• Doug Vogt of the Diehold Foundation explains the cycle of Stellar and Solar Novas
• Ben Davidson (Suspicious0bservers channel on Youtube) explains the Solar Micronova cycle

This post, with the links to files and videos above – is in my opinion the best source of information on these subjects except for my last book:

Pole Shift: Evidence Will Not Be Silenced

Thank you for reading this. If you are convinced – please tell others.

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Ancient Alien Base Found On Mars, NASA Source, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: January 2022

Location of discovery: Planet Mars, Moreux Crater

NASA Source: 

• https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_036685_2220

An ancient structure sits in this crater on Mars. The structure is buried by thousands of years of wind blown dirt and sand, but it's still there, standing out proudly...an achievement of an ancient culture of long ago. Had this been found on Earth in Egypt...archeologist would jump all over it thinking its some ancient tomb of an Egyptian king. However on Mars...a planet 34 million miles away makes it impossible to investigate it. The mystery will remain for decades to come. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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The Megalithic Unfinished Obelisk St Aswan In Egypt, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of video: January 8, 2022

Location of Obelisk: St Aswan, Egypt

 

This video was taken by the famous Brian Foerster in Egypt. He is a tour guide and history expert who is looking at the unfinished Megalithic obelisk that is still laying in the ground. Although carving this huge megalith would be possible for humans if years of work were put into it...it would however be impossible to move such a massive stone structure hundreds of miles to Cairo which is 650km (404 miles) away. The structure is 137 feet (42 meters) long if completed and would weigh and estimated 1,200 tones. Thats like carrying a cargo ship loaded with containers on it...and carrying it not sailing it...across the mountains, desert, rocks and scorching earth to Cairo 650km away...we cannot even do that today! Its insane! 

 

The only way such a megalithic structure could be moved is by using alien anti gravity technology. Even today, with all our modern equipment, technology and methods of transportation...we could never create and move this structure in one piece. This is 100% proof that aliens were here a long time ago, creating ancient Egypt. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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Four Lights Over University place, Washington Jan 8, 2022, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Jan 8, 2022

Location of sighting: University place, Washington, USA

Source: MUFON

 

I really like the conversation happening during this video. Its 100% authentic and keeping it real is important in such cases. The eyewitness calls up her husband or boyfriend in order to tell him so he might see it and you can really hear their conversation about focusing on the UFO. Also a third eyewitness, a woman stood with her and then they attempted to get closer by taking the car. Which worked for a little bit. The videos are short and sweet, but they are hard core evidence that UFOs exist. Absolutely amazing, wish more folks were this excited about seeing a UFO, then maybe more people would be aware of the existence of aliens today. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states:

Random bouncing lights with three stagnant lights that appeared and reappeared. In one of the videos there is a reflection of a light in my car but the other video I took outside of my car sitting on my carport. I’ve lived here most of my life and I have never seen those lights located where we saw them. Also, pardon our French.

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British Police Force Shares Array of Bizarre UFO and Alien Reports from 2021

By Tim Binnall

In a testament to the kinds of strange calls that authorities receive on a fairly regular basis, a police department in England has shared details on a variety of very weird UFO and alien reports that their emergency operators fielded in 2021. Responding to an FOIA request, the West Yorkshire Police Force reportedly revealed that over the past year there were several incidents, ranging from fairly benign to outright bizarre, wherein bewildered residents said that they witnessed or encountered something from out of this world.

The first report, received in April, concerned a man who claimed to have seen a UFO "that kept appearing, then disappearing" for about 15 minutes. Another call came in to authorities in May when a resident said that they spotted "a number of solid lights that look like stars moving in the sky." The witness went on to describe the objects as being "spaced evenly out," which makes one suspect that the 'UFOs' could have been SpaceX Starlink Satellites which have sparked similar reports in the past.

A more difficult to explain report from July saw a man call police with concerns about "white orbs in the sky" that were "moving really weird." These odd objects, the witness said, would occasionally take off "like a shooting star" or simply disappear. According to the caller, the eerie activity occurred over the course of two nights and, in total, he observed ten of these mysterious lights in the night sky. Although the man claimed to have captured video of the peculiar objects, it would appear that he did not turn it over to police.

Amazingly, the West Yorkshire Police Force say that 2021 saw a staggering six calls from residents who said that they had encountered visitors from another world! In one instance, a woman simply told the emergency operator that "an alien has attacked her," while another woman later in the year reported that she had been abducted by ETs. Meanwhile, a disappointingly brief report came in from a man who declared that "an alien has put drugs in his eyes."

Two separate callers in 2021 reported seeing an alien floating outside their window and, in one the cases, the being purportedly spoke to the witness. Sadly, the police logs do not include whatever message the 'space brother' shared with the witness. And perhaps the strangest of all the reports contained in the released files came from a man who talked to the operator about "life savers and aliens" and then went on to reveal that he "has a vision that the Queen sent him to another galaxy."

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SCIENTISTS DISCOVER BLACK HOLE THAT’S CREATING STARS INSTEAD OF DEVOURING THEM

IS THIS THE LEAST DEADLY BLACK HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE?

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We'll fight them in the stratosphere! Forgotten papers from 1939 reveal how Winston Churchill believed alien life probably DID exist

• Churchill wrote an extraordinary essay speculating on existence of aliens

• Previously undiscovered article suggested Mars and Venus could harbour life

• Sci-fi enthusiast wrote piece in 1939 a year before he entered Downing Street 

By MATT DATHAN, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR MAILONLINE

Winston Churchill penned an 11-page essay about the prospect of alien life on other planets despite Europe being on the brink of war as he wrote, newly discovered documents revealed today. 

In an article written in 1939 entitled 'Are We Alone in the Universe?' the wartime hero correctly predicted decades before time that large numbers of stars could have families of planets. 

He also identified the importance of liquid water for alien life to survive in the typewritten essay, published a year before he became Prime Minister in 1940. 

Before becoming Britain's greatest wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill found time to muse in an essay on whether aliens exist

Churchill suggested in his newspaper article that the planet Mars, pictured, could harbour life

The article, which was hidden away in a museum in the US until rediscovered last year, revealed how Churchill believed there may well be life on Mars.

In it he muses about the possibility of life evolving elsewhere in the Solar System and beyond.

Pre-empting discoveries of extra-solar planets by more than five decades, he defines what scientists later called the 'habitable' or 'Goldilocks' zone - the narrow orbital region where a planet is not too hot or too cold but 'just right' to support life. 

He also correctly concluded that many planets 'will be the right size to keep on their surface water and possibly an atmosphere of some sort' and some would be 'at the proper distance from their parent sun to maintain a suitable temperature'.

Churchill famously ordered that reports of UFO sightings should be kept secret in 1952 to avoid public panic.

The 'closet science fiction fan' suggested in the article - believed to have been intended for publication in the News of the World - that Mars and Venus could harbour life.  

Churchill's 11-page essay was rediscovered last year by the museum's new director Timothy Riley, left, who passed it on to Israeli astrophysicist, author and former Hubble Space Telescope scientist Mario Livio, right

The article was written a year after the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles dramatising The War Of The Worlds by HG Wells - later made into a film, pictured - which caused widespread panic among listeners in the US who thought they really were being invaded by Martians

The lengthy essay was never published but was passed to the US National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri in the 1980s, where it was unearthed by a museum director and is published in the journal Nature today.

Writing as the Second World War broke out, Churchill wrote: 'I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilisation here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time.'

The article was written a year after the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles dramatising The War Of The Worlds by HG Wells, which caused widespread panic among listeners in the US who thought they really were being invaded by Martians

The document was rediscovered last year by the museum's new director Timothy Riley, who passed it on to Israeli astrophysicist, author and former Hubble Space Telescope scientist Mario Livio.

Describing the find in the journal Nature, Professor Livio said it came as a 'great surprise,' despite Churchill's well-known interest in science.

It is not the first time the Conservative leader and historian's love of science fiction has come to light. 

Churchill was the first prime minister to hire a science adviser, and in the 1920s and 30s wrote a number of popular science essays for newspapers and magazines on topics such as evolution and cells  

Churchill's famous phrase 'the gathering storm', used to describe the rise of Nazi Germany, crops up twice in The War of the Worlds to describe pending attacks on Britain by the Martians.

Historian Richard Toye, who has suggested that the Prime Minister borrowed the line, said of Churchill: 'He was not a scientist but science appealed to his imagination because he liked to play with ideas and was visionary in his understanding of scientific issues.

Churchill's lengthy essay was never published but was passed to the US National Churchill Museum, pictured, in Fulton, Missouri in the 1980s, where it was unearthed by a museum director and is published in the journal Nature today

'It is fair to say that Martians and life elsewhere in the universe are subjects he would have been happy to speculate about.'

Churchill's article builds on the 'Copernican principle' – the idea that, given the vastness of the universe, it is hard to believe that humans on Earth represent something unique.

He started by defining the most important characteristic of life, the ability to 'breed and multiply', going on to note that living creatures can only survive where liquid water exists.

Decades before today's search for water on Mars, Churchill correctly identified the 'Goldilocks zone' – the narrow region around a star that is neither too cold nor too hot, so that liquid water may exist on the surface of a rocky planet.

He wrote that life could survive only in temperatures 'between a few degrees of frost and the boiling point of water'.

Correctly predicting man reaching the Moon, he did however get it wrong with his assumption that planets are formed from the gas torn off a star when another star passes close to it. The model suggested by astrophysicist James Jeans in 1917 has since been ruled out, although the Tory leader did foresee the 1990s discovery of exoplanets around stars other than our sun.

Venus was another planet that Churchill speculated might have the ability to sustain life

He wrote: 'I am not sufficiently conceited to think that my sun is the only one with a family of planets.'

The essay concludes that Mars and Venus are likely to be the only planets apart from Earth capable of sustaining life. And it finishes on a positive note, stating: 'With hundreds of thousands of nebulae, each containing thousands of millions of suns, the odds are enormous that there must be immense numbers which possess planets whose circumstances would not render life impossible.'

The article was written a year after the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles dramatising The War Of The Worlds by HG Wells, which caused widespread panic among listeners in the US who thought they really were being invaded by Martians.

It was a year before Churchill would become Prime Minister, and is one of a number of popular science pieces on topics such as evolution and cells he penned in the 1930s to pay for the upkeep of his house in Kent, Chartwell.

His longstanding interest in science began when aged 22 he read Darwin's On the Origin of Species while stationed with the British Army in India and continued during the Second World War when he supported the development of radar.

Israeli astrophysicist Mario Livio, who was given the Churchill essay by the US museum, writing a comment piece on it in Nature, said: 'At a time when a number of today's politicians shun science, I find it moving to recall a leader who engaged with it so profoundly.'

WHAT IS A GOLDILOCKS ZONE? 

The Goldilocks zone is the belt around a star where temperatures are ideal for liquid water to pool on a planet's surface - a key ingredient for life.

Earth inhabits the sun's Goldilocks zone, and astronomers are searching for other rocky planets in the Goldilocks zones of distant stars.

Bigger, hotter stars have their Goldilocks Zones further out, while smaller cooler stars such as M-type red dwarf stars have habitable zones much closer in.

Red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the Milky Way galaxy, and have very long life expectancies.

This means that Red dwarf Goldilocks zones are good places to search for alien because organisms have plenty of time to evolve into complex lifeforms.

To determine the location of a star's habitable zone, scientists have to first learn how much total radiation it emits.

Knowing precisely how far away a habitable zone needs to be from a star also depends on chemistry.

For example, molecules in a planet's atmosphere will absorb a certain amount of energy from starlight and radiate the rest back out.

How much of this energy is trapped can mean the difference between a turquoise sea and erupting volcanoes.

Looking for planets in the Goldilocks Zone is a way for scientists to hone in their search for Earth-like planets that could contain life. 

Looking for planets in the Goldilocks Zone, such as Earth's nearby Kepler-22 system, is a way that allows scientists to hone in their search for Earth-like planets that could contain life

Since Churchill's letter in 1939, scientists have discovered several exoplanets outside of the Milky Way that occupy a distant star's Goldilocks zone.

The nearest, named Proxima b, orbits within the habitable zone of our sun's closest star, Proxima Centauri, and may have a mass just 1.3 times that of Earth.

Astronomers believe Proxima b may have a massive ocean and gassy atmosphere perfect for harbouring alien life.

Earlier this month, scientists unveiled plans for a soap-sized probe that measures only a few inches and weighs just 100 grams (0.2lbs) that could explore the mysterious planet. 

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