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Scientists think we may have received a signal from a parallel universe via a WORMHOLE

Scientists think we may have received a signal from a parallel universe via a WORMHOLE

In 2019, gravitational wave detectors on Earth picked up a signal that left scientists baffled.

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time, usually created when massive, dense objects like black holes collide. 

But at less than a tenth of a second long, this sudden burst was far shorter than the drawn-out chirps normally produced by merging black holes. 

Now, researchers think this strange signal, dubbed GW190521, could have arrived from a parallel universe. 

In a pre-print paper, a team led by Dr Qi Lai of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences argues that GW190521 could be an 'echo' of a wormhole collapsing.

If a collision of two black holes was powerful enough to create a tunnel between universes, the gravitational signal could pass down the wormhole's throat into our cosmos.

Since the wormhole would only be open for a very short time, this would explain why GW190521 seems to cut off abruptly. 

Although their modelling suggests this scenario isn't very likely, Dr Lai says evidence cannot rule out that the signal travelled to Earth from another universe. 

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say that the strange signal might have travelled to Earth from another universe (stock image)

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say that the strange signal might have travelled to Earth from another universe (stock image)

The signal, known as GW190521, was less than 10 milliseconds in length and lacked the normal rising signal associated with two black holes spiralling towards each other

The signal, known as GW190521, was less than 10 milliseconds in length and lacked the normal rising signal associated with two black holes spiralling towards each other

The researchers modelled what this wormhole signal would look like (illustrated) and compared it to the real data from GW190521. They found that the data could not rule out a wormhole as the explanation

The researchers modelled what this wormhole signal would look like (illustrated) and compared it to the real data from GW190521. They found that the data could not rule out a wormhole as the explanation 

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, objects with mass stretch and pull the fabric of spacetime, like weights placed on the surface of a trampoline.

One important consequence of this is that collisions between very massive objects create ripples which spread throughout the fabric of reality over enormous distances.

When pairs of black holes, known as binary black holes, spiral in towards each other, their gravitational fields interact and generate ripples of their own that get stronger as the voids grow closer.

That gives the signal produced by merging binary black holes a rising chirp-like pattern, which is a telltale sign of a black hole collision. 

So far, scientists have used gravitational waves to detect about 300 collisions between binary black holes, each producing the same drawn-out chirp. 

What makes GW190521 so unusual is that it is missing the rising part of the signal produced when the black holes spiral inwards.

Given that the resulting object was roughly 141 times the mass of the sun, scientists should have been able to detect this part of the signal if it occurred. 

Currently, the best explanation for this unusual signal is a chance encounter between two black holes that smashed directly into one another without spiralling. 

In 2019, scientists detected a burst of gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime usually caused by colliding black holes, that didn't match any other signal previously recorded. Pictured: artist's impression of two black holes colliding

In 2019, scientists detected a burst of gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime usually caused by colliding black holes, that didn't match any other signal previously recorded. Pictured: artist's impression of two black holes colliding 

If the collision between two black holes briefly created a wormhole, the echo of their collision would pass through the throat of the wormhole into our universe, where it would appear as a brief burst of gravitational waves

If the collision between two black holes briefly created a wormhole, the echo of their collision would pass through the throat of the wormhole into our universe, where it would appear as a brief burst of gravitational waves 

What are gravitational waves?

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space-time which are caused by the collision of massive, dense objects.

When objects like black holes or neutron stars violently accelerate in collisions, they squeeze and stretch the space in their path.

This creates waves which spread through spacetime at the speed of light over vast distances. 

Scientists use very long laser beams to measure these very slight disturbances in the fabric of space.  

However, Dr Lai says that a wormhole in another universe is also a plausible explanation. 

In their paper, Dr Lai and his co-authors write: 'The wormhole represents such an object connecting either two separate universes or two distant regions in a single universe through a throat.' 

If the merger of two black holes produced a short-lived wormhole like this, we might be able to hear a brief snippet of the chirp echoing into our own universe.

When the wormhole snaps shut, the signal would be cut off to leave a very brief burst of gravitational waves.  

Dr Lai adds: 'The ringdown signal after BBHs (binary black holes) merged in another universe can pass through the throat of a wormhole and be detected in our universe as a short-duration echo pulse.'

Dr Lai and his colleagues created a mathematical model of what this wormhole signal would look like and compared it to the data from the real GW190521 signal captured by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors.

The researchers also created a model for a sudden collision in our own universe and compared the results.

They found that the standard collision model did fit the data better, but only just.

Currently, the best explanation for GW190521 (illustrated) is that a chance encounter between two black holes that collided suddenly without spiralling around each other. But a wormhole is still a viable explanation

Currently, the best explanation for GW190521 (illustrated) is that a chance encounter between two black holes that collided suddenly without spiralling around each other. But a wormhole is still a viable explanation 

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That means the wormhole model is still a viable explanation for the GW190521 collision.

In their paper, the researchers write that the preference for the standard collision was 'not significant enough to rule out the possibility that the echo-for-wormhole model is a viable hypothesis for the GW190521 event.'

If true, this would not only prove that wormholes exist but also give scientists a powerful new tool to study them.

That would allow scientists their first-ever glimpse into a universe beyond our own. 

LIGO DETECTOR: TWO OBSERVATORIES SPOTTING GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM GALACTIC SCALE EVENTS

LIGO is made up of two observatories that detect gravitational waves by splitting a laser beam and sending it down several mile long tunnels before merging the light waves together again.

A passing gravitational wave changes the shape of space by a tiny amount, and the LIGO was built with the ability to measure a change in distance just one-ten-thousandth the width of a proton.

However, this sensitivity means any amount of noise, even people running at the site, or raindrops, can be detected. 

The LIGO detectors are interferometers that shine a laser through a vacuum down two arms in the shape of an L that are each 2.5 miles (four kilometers) in length.

The light from the laser bounces back and forth between mirrors on each end of the L, and scientists measure the length of both arms using the light.

If there's a disturbance in space-time, such as a gravitational wave, the time the light takes to travel the distance will be slightly different in each arm making one arm look longer than the other.

LIGO (pictured) is made up of two observatories that detect gravitational waves by splitting a laser beam and sending it down several mile (kilometer) long tunnels before merging the light waves together again

LIGO (pictured) is made up of two observatories that detect gravitational waves by splitting a laser beam and sending it down several mile (kilometer) long tunnels before merging the light waves together again

Ligo scientists measure the interference in the two beams of light when they come back to meet, which reveals information on the space-time disturbance.

The ensure the results are accurate, LIGO uses two observatories, 1,870 miles (3,000 kilometers) apart, which operate synchronously, each double-checking the other's observations.

The noise at each detector should be completely uncorrelated, meaning a noise like a storm nearby one detector doesn't show up as noise in the other.

Some of the sources of 'noise' the team say they contend with include: 'a constant 'hiss' from photons arriving like raindrops at our light detectors; rumbles from seismic noise like earthquakes and the oceans pounding on the Earth's crust; strong winds shaking the buildings enough to affect our detectors.'

However, if a gravitational wave is found, it should create a similar signal in both instruments nearly simultaneously. 

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Terrifying gigantic sea monsters with 70 foot tentacles wash up across Texas beaches

In a video by the Harte Research Institute in Texas, Director of Community Engagement Jace Tunnell revealed that the pink meanies have flooded the Texas coast, searching for moon jellyfish to feed on.

Pink meanies, whose official scientific name is Drymonema larsoni, can weigh up to 50 pounds and have a collection of tentacles which grow to be 70 feet long.

Although Tunnell said they were first spotted in the Gulf around 25 years ago, their appearances on Texas beaches are pretty rare, and Tunnell added he had been looking for this species for nearly a year.

With their favorite food swimming into the warm waters of the Gulf this summer, sightings have spiked, with Tunnell noting he's discovered over 10 of these giant jellies in a just a 10-miles stretch of US beaches.

Others on social media added they've seen even more giant pink meanies in the ocean, including one man on Facebook claiming to see 30 to 40 a few hundred miles south of Galveston this month.

'When the moon jellies are there, these are eating on them and then once the moon jellies are gone, you're not going to find them anymore' Tunnell explained.

Pink meanies, also known as Drymonema larsoni, have been washing up on Texas beaches this month

Pink meanies, also known as Drymonema larsoni, have been washing up on Texas beaches this month

Jace Tunnell of the Harte Research Institute in Texas (pictured) revealed that sightings of these jellyfish can be fairly rare

Jace Tunnell of the Harte Research Institute in Texas (pictured) revealed that sightings of these jellyfish can be fairly rare

Catching these giant creatures in the wild can be an extremely hard task.

The marine expert from Corpus Christi explained that pink meanies die off quickly if their supply of moon jellyfish dwindles.

If the water gets too cold, that will also kill off pink meanies before they reach their full size in the wild.

Right now, the jellyfish predators are thriving in the warm ocean temperatures of late summer and early fall, especially in the Gulf, the Mediterranean, and along the coast of South Africa.

'I saw one of these for the 1st time while snorkeling this weekend!' another person on Facebook commented next to a picture of the giant pink jellyfish.

Underwater, these creatures can look like a huge pink cloud, with a long flowing mass of tentacles that extends for several yards.

When they wash up on shore, both large and small pink meanies look like a ball of jelly with a deep pink color making them easy to spot.

However, Tunnell warned viewers that this type of jellyfish is not edible and added that they do sting when touched.

Pink meanies can grow to weigh 50 pounds and have tentacles that reach 70 feet in length

Pink meanies can grow to weigh 50 pounds and have tentacles that reach 70 feet in length

This species of jellyfish only eat moon jellyfish. If moon jellyfish aren't around, pink meanies tend to die quickly

This species of jellyfish only eat moon jellyfish. If moon jellyfish aren't around, pink meanies tend to die quickly

As the wildlife expert held a baby jellyfish in his hand, he admitted that his fingers were beginning to tingle, noting that the pain of the pink meanie's sting was about a 'two out of 10.'

Despite Tunnell's comments about the pain, others revealed that the stings of the pink meanie could be much worse than the expert felt. 

'I got stung on my back it hurt pretty bad,' one woman posted on social media.

'I encountered one today at South Packery just free swimming. And they ARE mean, definitely pack a punch,' another person wrote. 

Jace Tunnell revealed that the pink meanie (pictured) has a mild sting, but others claim the pain can be much worse

Jace Tunnell revealed that the pink meanie (pictured) has a mild sting, but others claim the pain can be much worse

According to National Geographic, when scientists discovered that the pink meanies were a new species, they also concluded that Drymonema larsoni was unique enough to have its own biological family, known as Drymonematidae.

The jellyfish got its name from marine scientist Ron Larson, who conducted early research on the species.

However, its more popular nickname comes from its bright color and aggressive nature towards the common moon jellyfish.

If you happen to be stung by one of these creatures, Tunnell recommended pouring vinegar on the area.

This can help remove the tentacles from your skin and also cut down some of the stinging sensation the creature left behind. 

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Meet NASA's newest recruits! Space agency introduces 10 new astronauts – with one set to be the first person to step on MARS

Meet NASA's newest recruits! Space agency introduces 10 new astronauts – with one set to be the first person to step on MARS

NASA has revealed 10 new astronaut candidates, with one set to be the first to step on Mars. 

The four men and six women make up NASA's 24th astronaut class – the space agency's first since 2021. 

The recruits include scientists, fighter pilots, engineers, and even a former member of the USA Rugby Women's National Team. 

These aspiring astronauts were chosen from over 8,000 candidates and will now be subject to two years of gruelling training.

Those who make it through the preparation phase will become eligible to take on missions for NASA's increasingly ambitious human spaceflight programme.

Although they will likely graduate too late to join NASA's first Artemis missions to the moon, they could be the first astronauts to serve on a commercial space station or become the first humans to set foot on the Red Planet. 

Revealing the astronauts during a ceremony at NASA's Johnson Space Centre, NASA administrator Sean Duffy said: 'The 10 men and women sitting here today embody the truth that in America, regardless of where you start, there is no limit to what a determined dreamer can achieve – even going to space.

'Together, we'll unlock the Golden Age of exploration.'

NASA has revealed the 10 new astronauts who will make up its first new recruits since 2021, including some who may be the first people to set foot on Mars

NASA has revealed the 10 new astronauts who will make up its first new recruits since 2021, including some who may be the first people to set foot on Mars 

The six women and four men were announced during an event at NASA's Johnson Space Centre

The six women and four men were announced during an event at NASA's Johnson Space Centre 

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Ben Bailey

Like many astronauts, Ben Bailey, 38, is both a member of the military and an experienced pilot.

Mr Bailey is a chief warrant officer, a senior non–commissioned officer, in the US Army and an experienced test pilot with over 2,000 flight hours in 30 different aircraft.

Prior to joining NASA's astronaut programme, Mr Bailey was responsible for testing experimental technologies for Army helicopters such as the UH–60 Black Hawk and CH–47F Chinook.

Mr Bailey has also worked as a nuclear engineer, creating propulsion systems for aircraft carriers.

In addition to his military experience, Mr Bailey has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia.

Currently, he is completing a master's degree in systems engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Mr Bailey was born in Charlottesville, Virginia and lives with his wife, Dylan Bailey.

Ben Bailey, 38, is a chief warrant officer, a senior non-commissioned officer, in the US Army and an experienced test pilot with over 2,000 flight hours in 30 different aircraft

Ben Bailey, 38, is a chief warrant officer, a senior non–commissioned officer, in the US Army and an experienced test pilot with over 2,000 flight hours in 30 different aircraft

Dr Lauren Edgar, 40, is a geologist who has spent 17 years supporting Mars exploration rovers as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and even helped to train NASA's astronauts

Dr Lauren Edgar, 40, is a geologist who has spent 17 years supporting Mars exploration rovers as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and even helped to train NASA's astronauts

NASA's 10 new astronauts

  1. Ben Bailey, test pilot
  2. Lauren Edgar, geologist
  3. Adam Fuhrmann, test pilot
  4. Cameron Jones, test pilot
  5. Yuri Kubo, engineer
  6. Rebecca Lawler, test pilot
  7. Anna Menon, medical officer
  8. Imelda Muller, undersea medical officer
  9. Erin Overcash, test pilot
  10. Katherine Spies, test pil

Dr Lauren Edgar

Dr Lauren Edgar, 40, is a geologist with almost two decades of experience in space exploration and scientific research.

She has spent 17 years supporting Mars exploration rovers as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and even helped to train NASA's astronauts.

Prior to becoming an astronaut candidate, Dr Edgar was the deputy principal investigator for the Artemis III Geology Team and helped NASA prepare for its return to the moon.

Her extensive work on planetary exploration has earned her over a dozen awards and honours, including several NASA Group Achievement Awards.

Dr Edgar has earned a bachelor's degree in Earth sciences from Dartmouth College, as well as a master's degree and doctorate in geology from the California Institute of Technology.

She was born in Washington, D.C., but says she considers the city of Sammamish, Washington, to be her hometown.

Dr Edgar's interests outside of science include backpacking, running, yoga, kayaking, and outdoor activities with her dog.

Adam Fuhrmann is an engineer, experimental test pilot, and a Major in the US Air Force. He has 2,100 hours of flight time, including 400 hours combat ¿ primarily in the F¿16 and F¿35 supersonic fighter jets.
Adam Fuhrmann is an engineer, experimental test pilot, and a Major in the US Air Force. He has 2,100 hours of flight time, including 400 hours combat – primarily in the F–16 and F–35 supersonic fighter jets.

Adam Fuhrmann 

As an experimental test pilot and major in the US Air Force, Adam Fuhrmann, 35, has logged over 2,100 flight hours, including 400 hours of combat.

After graduating from MIT with a degree in aerospace engineering and political science, he joined the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and earned his master's in flight test engineering.

While training to be a pilot, Mr Fuhrmann also completed a second master's degree in systems engineering at Purdue University.

He has experience flying 27 different types of aircraft, primarily the F–16 and F–35 supersonic fighter jets.

At the time of his selection, Mr Fuhrmann was serving as director of operations for a flight test unit and had recently completed a test assignment at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Mr Fuhrmann comes from Leesburg, Virginia, and lives with his wife, Shauna Fuhrmann, a U.S. Army veteran and small animal veterinarian, and their three children.

He enjoys camping, hiking, skiing, hunting, leatherworking, and classic car restoration.

Cameron Jones

Cameron Jones, 35, is an Air Force Academic Fellow at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and former experimental test pilot for the US Air Force

Cameron Jones, 35, is an Air Force Academic Fellow at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and former experimental test pilot for the US Air Force

Do you have what it takes to be an astronaut? 

  • US citizenship required  
  • Frequent travel will be required
  • Must complete a financial disclosure statement
  • Must meet all qualification/education and experience requirements by the closing date of the announcement
  • Applicants may only select one discipline group to apply under
  • Selectees will be designated Astronaut Candidates and will undergo a training and evaluation period lasting approximately two years
  • Applicants must submit all STEM related transcripts

Cameron Jones, 35, is also an experimental test pilot with the US Air Force with experience in more than 30 different aircraft.

After graduating with a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Mr Jones earned a master's degree in flight test engineering from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base.

Following his graduation, Mr Jones held a number of roles in the US Air Force, including director of operations for a test flight squadron at Edwards Air Force Base.

Mr Jones has over 1,600 flight hours, including 300 hours of test flights and 150 combat hours – mainly spent flying the F–22 Raptor.

At the time of his selection, Mr Jones was an Air Force Academic Fellow at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Born in Iowa, Jones considers Savanna, Illinois, to be his hometown.

He is married to Cristi Jones, and they are parents of one daughter.

In his spare time, Jones enjoys spending time with his family and dog, hiking, camping, and rafting.

Yuri Kubo, 40, is an engineer who spent over a decade overseeing commercial rocket launches for SpaceX. Mr Kubo also played professional Ultimate Frisbee for the Indianapolis AlleyCats

Yuri Kubo, 40, is an engineer who spent over a decade overseeing commercial rocket launches for SpaceX. Mr Kubo also played professional Ultimate Frisbee for the Indianapolis AlleyCats

Yuri Kubo

Yuri Kubo, 40, is an electrical and computer engineer who has spent more than a decade working on commercial rocket launches.

Early in his career, Mr Kubo interned at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, supporting the Orion spacecraft, the International Space Station in mission control, and the Space Shuttle Program.

After graduating with a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, Mr Kubo joined Elon Musk's SpaceX.

During his 12 years with the company, Mr Kubo was responsible for helping design the launch site for the Falcon 9 rockets used to take astronauts to the ISS.

He also worked as the launch director for the Falcon 9 launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Mr Kubo would go on to become director of avionics for the Starshield program, a secure satellite network used by government entities for national security purposes.

At the time of selection, he was the senior vice president of Engineering at Electric Hydrogen, a company that designs and manufactures electrolysers.

The ten astronauts will now undergo two years of rigorous training to become eligible for human spaceflight missions. Some may be included in NASA's lunar or Mars missions in the future

The ten astronauts will now undergo two years of rigorous training to become eligible for human spaceflight missions. Some may be included in NASA's lunar or Mars missions in the future 

NASA's plans for Mars

NASA's latest 'Mars Future Plan' identifies three goals for Martian exploration.

Those are: to explore the potential for Martian life, to study Mars as a dynamic planetary system, and to support the human exploration of Mars.

NASA has targeted putting a human on Mars by 2030 at the latest, meaning this latest astronaut class would graduate at just the right time. 

The plan would be to send humans on a scientific round trip to the Red Planet.

The journey would last six to seven months each way, and the astronauts may need to spend up to 500 days on the planet's surface.  

Outside of his work, Mr Kubo also played professional Ultimate Frisbee for the Indianapolis AlleyCats.

He is married with two children and enjoys sports, outdoor activities of all kinds, and playing piano.

Rebecca 'Becky' Lawler

Becky Lawler, 38, is a former lieutenant commander in the US Navy and an experienced experimental test pilot.

Ms Lawler earned her bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, followed by a master's degree in space systems engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

During that time, Ms Lawler also graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.

Ms Lawler served in the US Navy for 11 years as a pilot flying the P–3C Orion anti–submarine and surveillance aircraft, accumulating over 300 hours of combat time.

In 2020, she transferred to join the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a hurricane hunter and test pilot.

Rebecca 'Becky' Lawler, 38, worked as a hurricane hunter and test pilot for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In two years, Ms Lawler flew aircraft into the eyewalls of 32 hurricanes and 11 tropical storms to gather scientific data

Rebecca 'Becky' Lawler, 38, worked as a hurricane hunter and test pilot for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In two years, Ms Lawler flew aircraft into the eyewalls of 32 hurricanes and 11 tropical storms to gather scientific data

In two years, Ms Lawler flew aircraft into the eyewalls of 32 hurricanes and 11 tropical storms to gather scientific data.

Overall, she has logged 2,800 hours in over 45 different aircraft across the military, general, and commercial aviation domains.

At the time of her selection, Ms Lawler was a test pilot with United Airlines, where she flew the Boeing 737 and 787 and the Airbus A320 series.

She comes from Little Elm, Texas, is married with one child and enjoys running, painting, reading, and spending time with her family.

Anna Menon

Ms Menon, 39, is the only member of NASA's latest astronaut cohort who has already flown to space.

In 2024, Ms Menon served as a mission specialist and medical officer aboard SpaceX's Polaris Dawn – the first ever commercial spacewalk.

During the mission, Ms Menon and her crewmates broke the record for the highest altitude above Earth reached by humans at a distance of 875 miles (1,408 kilometres).

Anna Mennon, 39, is the only member of NASA's latest astronaut cohort who has already flown to space. In 2024, Ms Menon served as a mission specialist and medical officer aboard SpaceX¿s Polaris Dawn - the first ever commercial spacewalk

Anna Mennon, 39, is the only member of NASA's latest astronaut cohort who has already flown to space. In 2024, Ms Menon served as a mission specialist and medical officer aboard SpaceX's Polaris Dawn – the first ever commercial spacewalk

Before working for SpaceX, Ms Mennon earned a dual–major bachelor's degree in mathematics and Spanish from Texas Christian University and a master's degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University.

She then became a biomedical flight controller in Mission Control at NASA Johnson, helping to keep NASA astronauts safe aboard the ISS.

At SpaceX, she worked for seven years, shaping crew operations for the Dragon and Starship spacecraft used in NASA operations.

She also worked in SpaceX mission control as a mission director and crew communicator, serving in these roles for the agency's historic SpaceX Demo–2 mission and six other SpaceX Dragon flights.

Ms Menon is married to NASA astronaut Anil Menon, and the couple has two children.

Dr Imelda Muller

Dr Muller, 34, is a former lieutenant in the US Navy, where she served as an undersea medical officer.

Dr Muller served as deputy Medical Department head and chair of the Institutional Review Board, overseeing protections for human subjects involved in high–risk diving and hyperbaric research.

Dr Imelda Muller, 34, was a undersea medical officer with the US Navy, responsible for testing decompression safety and psychological resilience for saturation divers

Dr Imelda Muller, 34, was a undersea medical officer with the US Navy, responsible for testing decompression safety and psychological resilience for saturation divers 

NASA's Artemis Mission Timeline

Artemis I

  • Uncrewed lunar flight test
  • Launched November, 2022

Artemis II 

  • Crewed Lunar Flyby
  • Launch planned for April, 2026

Artemis III

  • Crewed Surface Landing
  • Launch planned for mid-2027

Artemis IV

  • Building First Lunar Space Station
  • Launch targeting September 2028

In that role, she supported testing focusing on decompression safety, medical support, and psychological resilience for saturation divers – who are often used as analogues for astronauts.

During that time, Dr Muller also competed as an elite triathlete on the U.S. Military Endurance Sports team and was a member of the All–Navy Triathlon team in 2022.

Prior to her role in the Navy, Dr Muller earned a bachelor's degree in behavioural neuroscience from Northeastern University and a medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

At the time of her selection, Muller was completing a residency in anaesthesia at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Dr Muller was born in Mineola, New York, but she considers the rural area of Copake Falls, New York, her hometown.

Erin 'LOFT' Overcash

Ms Overcash, 34, is both an experienced pilot and a world–class rugby player with the US National team.

After earning a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a master's degree in bioastronautics from the University of Colorado, Ms Overcash joined the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School.

Erin 'LOFT' Overcash, 34, is an experimental test pilot with 1,300 flight hours in 20 different aircraft, including 249 carrier arrested landings. She is also a former member of the USA Rugby Women¿s National Team

Erin 'LOFT' Overcash, 34, is an experimental test pilot with 1,300 flight hours in 20 different aircraft, including 249 carrier arrested landings. She is also a former member of the USA Rugby Women's National Team

Ms Overcash was deployed multiple times in the Pacific and Middle East and has logged more than 1,300 flight hours in 20 different aircraft, including 249 carrier arrested landings.

Earlier in her career, she was also a member of the U.S. Navy's World Class Athlete Program, living and training full–time at the Olympic Training Center with the USA Rugby Women's National Team.

Ms Overcash earned three Caps with the US national team and is also an Ironman Triathlete.

At the time of her selection, she was training for an operational tour as an F/A–18E department head at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia.

Ms Overcash comes from Goshen, Kentucky, is married to another naval aviator and enjoys reading, adventure motorcycling, and challenging workouts.

Katherine Spies

Ms Spies, 43, is an AH–1 attack helicopter pilot and Marine Corps test pilot, with over 2,000 hours of flight time.

A native of San Diego, California, Ms Spies earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Southern California before graduating from the United States Naval Test Pilot School.

Katherine Spies, 43, is an AH-1 attack helicopter pilot and Marine Corps test pilot, with over 2,000 hours of flight time. She also worked for Amazon Prime Air to develop autonomous drone systems

Katherine Spies, 43, is an AH–1 attack helicopter pilot and Marine Corps test pilot, with over 2,000 hours of flight time. She also worked for Amazon Prime Air to develop autonomous drone systems 

She then went on to earn a master's degree in design engineering from Harvard University.

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While serving in the US Marine Corps, Ms Spies was promoted to Captain and logged more than 300 hours of combat time.

Following her active military service, Spies joined Amazon Prime Air as a developmental flight test and engineering leader, helping to create autonomous drone systems.

At the time of her selection, she worked with Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation as the director of flight test engineering.

Outside her work as a pilot, Ms Spies is an avid skier and worked as an alpine ski instructor in Utah.

How does Katy Perry stack up against the astronauts?  

On April 14, 2025, Katy Perry flew to the edge of space aboard a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket.

Her 'mission' was met by immediate backlash as fans claimed that the crew didn't have the right to call themselves astronauts. But would Katy Perry be qualified to join a NASA astronaut class?

On April 14, 2025, Katy Perry flew to the edge of space aboard a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket

On April 14, 2025, Katy Perry flew to the edge of space aboard a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket

NASA has strict requirements for its astronauts and, unfortunately for the pop star, Katy Perry wouldn't meet many of them. 

Education: A master's degree in a STEM field, including engineering, biological science, physical science, computer science or mathematics, from an accredited institution.

  • Katy Perry does not have any academic qualifications as she dropped out of school to pursue her music career, and later earned a General Educational Development diploma.

Experience: Two years of related professional experience or 1,000 hours of command time on a jet aircraft.

  • Katy Perry doesn't have any relevant experience or a pilot's licence.

Other qualifications: Astronauts can also be eligible if they are part of a test pilot programme, a medical doctor, or have two years of work towards a PhD.

  • Katy Perry does not have any of these qualifications. 

Height: Must be between 62 and 75 inches tall.

  • At 67 inches tall, Katy Perry is the right height to be an astronaut.

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Purple UFO over Beirut, Lebanon 🇱🇧 Sept 10, 2025 UAP Alien Sighting News 👽 What’s your thoughts?

Purple UFO over Beirut, Lebanon 🇱🇧 Sept 10, 2025 UAP Alien Sighting News 👽 What’s your thoughts

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Date of sighting: Sept 10, 2025
Location of sighting: Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon...Nord Lebanon, Bchaaleh Village
Source: NUFORC website
 
Hey this is fantastic! What looks like a sphere is actually light around a square craft. What a catch! I only see UFO reports from Lebanon once every few years and this one is so close, but he said he saw others too. This purplish pink sphere was seen just last week but we just got the report today. UFOs love something most the public don't know...a focused human mind...a disciplined mind that can focus and send thoughts outward...like a laser beam to find its destination. We all can do it, but few in this lifetime will ever learn due to fear of ridicule. I do it and it works, this person believes it was his prayers calling to them...and I believe him. Prayers, meditation and summoning are so similar that they all can summon UFOs. I have practiced summoning for years and yes it works and sometimes it doesn't due to my mind thinking about other problems in back of my mind...daily life stuff. The UFO wants to be seen, to be understood and to say "we too have peace and love in our hearts and minds." 
Scott C. Waring 
 
Caracteristiques

Shape: Orb 

Color: Blue/white/orange 

Estimated Size: Varied star like dot to bright aspirin sized orbs Viewed From: Land 

Direction from Viewer: 300 NW to 330 NW of my location (is the most intense corridor) 

Angle of Elevation: 60 

Closest Distance: Impossible to estimate varied from overhead to far Estimated Speed: Varied slow drift to rapid zigzags leaf like dorps Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby Clusters of luminous orbs observed nightly in NW sky over Lebanon showing intelligent flight formation changes & sudden disappearances 

Title: Continuous Orb Phenomena in Lebanon (July 2024 – September 2025) 

Location: Bchaaleh, Lebanon (northwest sky corridor, 300°–330° azimuth) 

 
Eyewitness states: 
Nightly observations from July 2024 to present (ongoing). The intensity has increased significantly. Groups of 5–7 orbs appear together, moving in different directions, brightening, fading, and reappearing. On some nights, the sky feels like a crescendo of light phenomena, with activity happening every few seconds. Since the beginning of my observations, I have gathered at least ten different witnesses who have seen these orbs with me on multiple occasions. Most of them are religious and skeptics, yet they are now openly questioning what is happening after seeing the phenomena firsthand.
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Two UFOs Seen Turning, Then Entering Ocean Off Rhode Island, New York Sept 22, 2025, Photos, UFO UAP Sighting News.

Two UFOs Seen Turning, Then Entering Ocean Off Rhode Island, New York Sept 22, 2025, Photos, UFO UAP Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Sept 22, 2025
Location of sighting: Rhode Island, New York, USA
Source: Facebook user Fancy_Assignment1626
 
Hey check this out. A persons grandmother was watching outside her home in Rhode Island an took this close up photo of not one, but two UFOs heading into the ocean to enter an underwater alien base off New York. Look at the tail of the UFOs...it goes back, but then turns...a 45 degree turn! Meteors, Venus and other excuses can make such maneuvers. But UFOs can. Also each is flying side by side...that means this is two alien military craft or one ET military and one craft escorting some alien of high importance to Earth. Like a fighter jet escorting Air Force One to its location. This is big! Just look at the ships, they are using a shield to protect themselves...causing a fake meteor burning around the outer parts, but we can see its clearly two long oval craft in its centers. This is 100% proof that aliens live off Rhode Island below the ocean floor. 
Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily
 
Eyewitness states: 
Grandmother snapped this photo nearby a Navy vase in Rhode Island. She said they were two balls of light that fell into the ocean. 
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Very strange looking craft found on Google Earth Map, UAP UFO sighting news 📰 What are we looking at?

Very strange looking craft found on Google Earth Map, UAP UFO sighting news 📰 What are we looking at?

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Date of discovery: Sept 2025
Location of discovery: Russia (republic of Dagestan)
Coordinates: 41°56'25"N 48°22'45"E
 
Now this is just mind blowing stuff. This strange aircraft or spaceship is parked along the Caspian Sea and it's like nothing I have ever seen. It's some kind of strange, futuristic spaceship from another planet. It's just crazy! I have to admit, this is a great place for a Russian secret military base to test alien technology, but then I wonder...could this actually belong to aliens who were given an area to live underground in a base and this craft...is their ship? It really makes me wonder. 
Scott C. Waring 
 

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UFO making cloud to hide in Bountiful, Utah Sept 19, 2025 UAP sighting news 👽 aliens are watching.

UFO making cloud to hide in Bountiful, Utah Sept 19, 2025 UAP sighting news 👽 aliens are watching.

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Date of sighting: Sept 2025
Location of sighting: Bountiful, Utah, USA
 
Hey all, I recorded this myself over my city from my back yard. I meditate and they come daily. So I post them on my account and share they with others. Why would aliens make clouds around their UFOs? They just don't want to terrify the humans below. Sure you are fine with seeing a real UFO, but you don't speak for everyone on Earth. Most people would be blown away and frightened to a level of that of seeing a ghost. Sure people play it cool and say nah...it wouldn't frighten me...but then the day comes and it does. So they hide. Maybe not from me, but from the people in the area where I live. 
Scott C. Waring 
 

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Underwater alien civilization found in Massachusetts, USA UFO UAP sighting news

Underwater alien civilization found in Massachusetts, USA UFO UAP sighting news 

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Date of discovery: Sept 2025
Location of discovery: Ocean floor
Coordinates: 42°36'21.2"N, 70°36'25.1"W
 
Hey I found this underwater city, made with domes one after the other. They are perfectly lined up, impossible for nature to imitate such things. This is absolute proof that aliens not only live on our planet, but...they have cities under the ocean right off the coastlines. 
Scott C Waring - UFO Sightings Daily 
 

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China fires missile at unknown object – What exactly was hit?

China fires missile at unknown object – What exactly was hit?

A fiery explosion lit up the skies over China on September 12, around 9 p.m. local time, near the cities of Weifang and Rizhao fueling wild speculation that the military may have just shot down an unidentified flying object. 
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Residents in Shandong Province captured videos of a strange, slow moving object flying unusually close to the ground before it suddenly disintegrated in a blinding flash and plummeted to Earth. Moments before the impact, a red fireball looking very much like a surface to air missile was seen streaking toward the object, followed by two thunderous explosions that shook the region. 
So far, no official statement has been released by the Chinese government or military. But the timing is suspicious: the blast happened during live fire military exercises in the nearby Bohai Sea, where China had already announced tests involving advanced weaponry. 
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Although it is suggested that the missile struck a drone or mock target during the drill, the timing, coming just after revelations that a U.S. Hellfire missile bounced off a mysterious object, has many questioning if this was another direct clash with something far beyond routine military exercises.

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Glowing UFO Over Helper, Utah On Sept 9, 2025, UAP Alien Sighting News. Video.

Glowing UFO Over Helper, Utah On Sept 9, 2025, UAP Alien Sighting News. Video.

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Date of sighting: Sept 9, 2025
Location of sighting: Helper, Utah, USA

Source: NUFORC

Now this is an orb maker. Thats a larger orb UFO that creates smaller ones. If you watch carefully you will see smaller orbs shooting past every now and then and even a few very close to the UFO. The smaller craft are ai living drones that record data to be retrieved later. 
Amazing catch and it's only an hour away from where I live. 
Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily
Shape: Teardrop
Color: White-blue-cyan
Estimated Size: 30-45ft in diameter
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: We were facing south and the object first appeared SSE and continued towards NE.
Angle of Elevation: 40
Closest Distance: 800Yds
Estimated Speed: 80-100mph
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects
 
Eyewitness states:  
Strange silent high altitude craft My wife and I were watching the clouds and sitting outside talking and eating watermelon and we are used to seeing airplanes and helicopters coming from the nearby airport or coastal airliners. This one was completely silent, no blinking lighs, no wings and moved slowly. I'd say the speed was approximately 80-120mph then dissapeared. It moved straight across at first then veered at a 75° angle westward. It was maneuvering in a sinewave pattern. I will have to review the video footage to see if it was going behind the clouds or was turning the craft lights off and on.
This was not ball lightning, a drone, a satellite, plane, helo, or anything else that is natural or (as far as we know) man-made. The shape of the craft at first I thought was an orb but it seems to be a conical structure. It looked very similar to a very bright craft we saw driving some trails this past Sunday during daylight hours between 18:30 and 19:00. I started feeling the hair on my arms stand up like an electrostatic effect and my wife felt like she had to pretend not to see it. ( strange ) I recorded a video on my phone as soon as I could. This is the third sighting I have noticed since living here in Helper, UT.

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Wat als het geen buitenaardse wezens zijn? Wat anders erachter het UFO-mysterie kan zitten

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Wat als het geen buitenaardse wezens zijn? Wat anders erachter het UFO-mysterie kan zitten

Wanneer mensen spreken over UFO’s, denken velen onmiddellijk aan buitenaardse bezoekers uit verre melkwegstelsels. De beelden van schijnbaar onverklaarbare lichtbollen, snelle figuren die door de lucht schieten of ongewone vormelijke forenzen aan de horizon blijven hangen, roepen een verhaal op waarin het onbekende buitengewoon fascinerend lijkt. Toch is het de moeite waard om het verhaal vanuit meerdere hoeken te bekijken. Wat als de ware verklaring voor veel waarnemingen niet buitenaards is, maar voortkomt uit menselijke technologie, natuurlijke verschijnselen, psychologische processen of gewoon misinterpretatie? Dit artikel onderzoekt verschillende mogelijke alternatieve verklaringen achter het UFO-mysterie en laat zien waarom sommige waarnemingen uiteindelijk niet hoeven te leiden tot de conclusie van buitenissige visitaties.

1. Misidentificaties en perceptuele fouten

Een van de grootste factoren achter de UFO-waarnemingen is simpelweg menselijke misidentificatie. Onze zintuigen zijn niet feilloos, vooral wanneer we onder druk staan, in het donker kijken of een snelle beweging proberen te volgen. Een door de zon verlicht uitziende satelliet kan bijvoorbeeld worden gezien als een vreemd object, net als een verlichte drone die onverwacht reflecteert in het glas van een ruit of het geblauwde spoor van een vliegtuig met contrail. In drukke luchtruimten kunnen weersomstandigheden zoals wolkenranden, silhouetten van bomen of gebouwen en de combinatie van snelle bewegingen met beperkte referentiepunten leiden tot interpretatiefouten. Het is ook belangrijk te erkennen dat mensen vaak op zoek gaan naar patronen en betekenis, zelfs als die er niet is. In de psychologische literatuur wordt dit fenomeen wel aangeduid als pareidolie: het herkennen van bekende vormen in dat wat ogenschijnlijk willekeurig is.

2. Natuurlijke verschijnselen die onverklaarbaar mooi lijken

De geschiedenis laat zien dat veel UFO’s uiteindelijk worden herkend als natuurlijke fenomenen wanneer men uitgebreid onderzoekt. Zeldzame atmosferische optische verschijnselen zoals pilaren van licht, opraamlucht, halo-boogvorming, fogs of iriserende parels kunnen op een verkeerde manier worden geïnterpreteerd als vreemde objecten. Ook lenticolored refractions door ijskristallen kunnen vreemd aanvoelen wanneer ze op onverwachte manieren bewegen of veranderen van helderheid. Comotie rondom lentikulair wolkenvormen of brokstukken van brandend meteoren die kortstondig zichtbaar zijn, kunnen lijken op vliegende schotels of onbekende luchtvaartuigen, terwijl ze simpelweg natuurlijke fenomenen zijn.

3. Menselijke technologie en geheime projecten

Een plausibele en vaak onderschatte verklaring is dat sommige UFO-waarnemingen het gevolg zijn van geheime militaire of ruimtevaartprojecten. Drones, testballonnen, experimentele vliegtuigen, en zelfs satelliettechnologie die nog niet openbaar bekend is, kunnen objecten creëren die door burgers als onverklaarbaar worden ervaren. In de Koude Oorlog-tijd waren er tal van beschuldigingen en geruchten over obscure vliegtuigen die later als prototypes of afgeschermde projecten werden bevestigd. Zelfs vandaag kunnen stealth-technologie en hypersonische programma’s aan de basis liggen van waarnemingen die later “onverklaard” lijken totdat meer officiële informatie beschikbaar komt. Het feit dat sommige regeringen bewust informatie beheren en beperken kan bijdragen aan het mysteriegevoel: het ontbreken van transparantie voedt speculatie.

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4. Satellieten, ruimteafval en technologische pareidolie

In een tijdperk waarin ruimtevaart en satellietcommunicatie wijdverspreid zijn, is het logisch dat veel UFO-waarnemingen te maken hebben met ruimteafval en satellieten die op verschillende manieren reflecteren. Een maanverlichte satelliet die voorbij schiet kan in een oogopslag frenetic lijken en verschillende vormen aannemen afhankelijk van hoeken en luchtdichtheid. Veranderende invallingshoek van zonlicht kan ook leiden tot abrupte helderheidsveranderingen en bewegingen die als onregelmatig of zelfs buitenaards lijken. Daarnaast kan de aanwezigheid van luchtvaartjes en draden die in het zicht komen bij snelle transits van vliegtuigen bijdragen aan het beeld van een onverklaard object.

5. Dak- en hemelprocedures:

hoaxes, misleiding en sociale media De hedendaagse digitale cultuur heeft het makkelijker gemaakt om misleiding te verspreiden. Hoax-video’s en misleidende beelden kunnen door sociale media snel viral gaan, waardoor mensen denken dat ze een werkelijk niet-herleidbaar fenomeen hebben gezien. In sommige gevallen zijn de personen die de video’s produceren bewuste grappenmakers; in andere gevallen ontstaan misinterpretaties en delen mensen de clip zonder volledig begrip van wat de camera heeft vastgelegd. Sociale druk en de wens om een “grandioze ontdekking” te doen kunnen ook leiden tot overdreven of geneutraliseerde beschrijvingen van schijnbaar onverklaarbare verschijnselen.

6. Cognitieve biases en journalistieke misvattingen

Onze interpretatie van wat we zien is ook gekleurd door bekende biases. Confirmation bias – de neiging om informatie te zoeken die onze bestaande overtuigingen bevestigt – speelt een grote rol. Als iemand gelooft dat er buitenaards leven bestaat, zullen waarnemingen die in de buurt komen van zo’n idee sneller als bewijs gezien worden. Evenredige reflectie van onzekerheid in rapportages is cruciaal, omdat sommige getuigen niet de volledige context kunnen geven: waar precies zagen ze het object, hoelang duurde de waarneming, welke referentiepunten waren er en welke andere elementen speelden een rol in de waarneming? Teleurstelling of angst kan ook de verslaggeving beïnvloeden; mensen proberen vaak een verhaal te construeren uit fragmenten van informatie die ze waarnemen.

7. Alternatieve perspectieven vanuit de wetenschap

Er is een dagelijkse realiteit waar wetenschap en technologische vooruitgang een grote rol spelen in wat we als “niet-verklaard” beschouwen. In de astronomie en meteorologie zijn er natuurkundig uitlegbare fenomenen die onder bepaalde omstandigheden op “onverklaarmakend” lijken. Een voorbeeld zijn het覰 tori van plasma of luminiscentie die door stralingsvelden in de atmosfeer kunnen worden gevormd, of de manier waarop bliksem of andere elektrische fenomenen het vlak van de hemel beïnvloeden. Onderzoekers kunnen theoretische modellen ontwikkelen die deze verschijnselen voorspellen, waardoor de behoefte aan extraterrestrische verklaringen afneemt. Een open houding ten aanzien van de wetenschap is essentieel; sommige nep-waarheden ontstaan wanneer mensen vasthouden aan het idee van het onbekende zonder de mogelijkheid van een natuurlijke verklaring te overwegen.

8. De sociologie van het UFO-mysterie

Naast individuele waarnemingen heeft het UFO-mysterie ook een rijke sociologische kant. Het blijft een cultureel fenomeen omdat mensen er betekenis aan ontlenen: het idee van het onbekende dat mogelijk de menselijke achterdeur van kennis opent. Verhalen over buitenaards contact zijn vaak geladen met thema’s zoals ethiek, macht, technologie, oordeelsvermogen en de angst voor vernietiging of verlies. Het vertellen van dit soort verhalen fungeert soms als een manier om onzekerheid te beheersen of gemeenschapsgevoel te versterken. In deze zin is het niet slechts een wetenschappelijke puzzel maar ook een sociaal en psychologisch fenomeen.

9. Wat betekent dit voor waarheidsvinding en beleid?

Het onderzoeken van UFO’s vereist een zorgvuldige afweging van al deze mogelijkheden. Voor onderzoekers betekent dit een systematische aanpak: het verzamelen van getuigenissen met specifieke vragen, het verifiëren van beelden via fotometrie en bewegingsanalyse, en het uitsluiten van vaak voorkomende misinterpretaties door onafhankelijke peer review en replicatie. Voor beleidsmakers en defensie kan het betekenen dat transparantie en duidelijke communicatie met het publiek cruciaal zijn om angst en speculatie te verminderen. Het stimuleren van samenwerking met civiele onderzoekers en academische instellingen kan bijdragen aan een genuanceerd begrip van het luchtruim en de factoren die waarnemingen beïnvloeden.

10. Welke lessen kunnen leken trekken?

- Waarnemingen zijn zelden “simpel”: de context is cruciaal. Vraag naar tijd, locatie, hoogte, richting en beweging.

- Vergelijk wat je zag met bekende fenomenen. Vaak zijn er natuurlijke of menselijke verklaringen die niet meteen voor de hand liggen.

- Wees kritisch ten aanzien van beelden en bronnen. Een clip kan zonder geluid of met beperkte metadata misleidend zijn.

- Durf twijfel te benoemen. Een open houding ten opzichte van alternatieve verklaringen versterkt de geloofwaardigheid en bevordert een betere begrip.

Een evenwichtige conclusie

Het UFO-mysterie is geen eenduidig vraagstuk met één vaste oplossing. Het is eerder een kruispunt van verschillende mogelijke verklaringen: van misidentificaties en natuurlijke verschijnselen tot geheime technologische projecten en psychologische processen die de interpretatie kleuren. Dit maakt het onderzoek zowel complex als waardevol. Door een brede blik te hanteren en telkens de basale wetenschappelijke methode toe te passen, kan men gerichter nagaan welke factoren het meest plausibel zijn voor een bepaalde waarneming. In sommige gevallen zal de ware oorzaak gemakkelijk herkenbaar zijn als een bekend verschijnsel; in andere gevallen zal het mysterie onverminderd bestaan. Wat zeker is, is dat het vertellen van een verhaal zonder voorzichtigheid en zonder bewijs niet dezelfde waarde heeft als een zorgvuldig, gelaagd onderzoek.

Een van de meest aansprekende aspecten van dit onderwerp is hoe menselijke perceptie en mentale bias een rol spelen. Een ooggetuige kan een lichte beweging, een vertekende interpretatie door beperkte omstandigheden, of een toevallige combinatie van factoren beschrijven als iets buitengewoons. De kracht van het verhaal ligt dan niet in de objectieve waarheid van de waarneming, maar in de manier waarop herinnering en verbeelding erbij betrokken raken. Daarom is het cruciaal om de context van elke melding te scheiden van de interpretatie die erdoor wordt gevormd. Analyse van verlichting, wegligging, weersomstandigheden, hemellichamen en satellietposities kan tal van misverstanden afvlechten. Een zorgvuldige verslaglegging vereist dan ook concrete data: tijd, locatie, classificatie van objecten, helderheid, hoogte en snelheid. Zonder zulke details blijft een waarneming vatbaar voor akoestische of visuele ruis en kan elk verhaal uiteen vallen in uiteenlopende, soms tegenstrijdige reconstructies.

Daarnaast kan men niet voorbijgaan aan het belang van transparantie en replicatie in elk onderzoek. Wanneer onderzoekers waarnemingen op de kaart zetten, moeten ze niet alleen hun conclusie tonen, maar ook de route ernaartoe: welke alternatieve verklaringen zijn overwogen, welke data zijn uitgesloten, en welke methodes zijn toegepast om tot de eindconclusie te komen. Het is pas wanneer bevindingen herhaalbaar en onafhankelijk toetsbaar zijn, dat het gewicht van een verklaring toeneemt. Dit is een van de hoekstenen van wetenschap: dat elke claim onderworpen kan worden aan toetsing door anderen, die dezelfde of vergelijkbare data onder hetzelfde requirese proces onderzoeken.

Tot op zekere hoogte dragen publieke belangstelling en media-aandacht bij aan het debat door nieuwsgierigheid te stimuleren en expertise uit verschillende disciplines te verbinden: astronomie, atmospherische wetenschap, ruimtevaarttechniek, statistiek en cognitieve psychologie. Een interdisciplinair debat biedt de mogelijkheid om grenzen te verleggen en minder vooringenomen conclusies te trekken. Toch kan overdaad aan media-aandacht ook leiden tot overgeneralisering en sensationele, vooringenomen rapportage. Daarom is het essentieel dat journalisten, analisten en wetenschappers samenwerken aan heldere, onderbouwde verslaggeving die zowel het vermoeden als het bewijs presenteert, zonder sensatie te verheffen tot feit.

Tot slot:  blijft het wonder behouden, maar laat het ook groeien door kritisch denken

Het idee dat sommige waarnemingen mogelijk buitenaards zijn zal altijd genoeg fascinerend blijven om onze verbeelding te prikkelen. Maar het vergroten van de waarheid vereist dat we onszelf en elkaar blijven uitdagen met alternatieve verklaringen en solide bewijs. Door nieuwsgierigheid te combineren met scepsis kunnen we het UFO-debat niet alleen spannend houden maar ook productiever maken. De komende decennia kunnen we wellicht meer antwoorden krijgen naarmate technologieën zich verbeteren, data toegankelijker wordt en internationale samenwerking toegenomen. Tot die tijd blijft het mysterie van UFO’s een uitnodiging om de grenzen van wat we weten en wat we nog niet begrijpen te verkennen — met een open geest en een kritisch oog. En wie weet, misschien ontdekken we uiteindelijk dat wat we ooit als “ongeïdentificeerd” beschouwden, slechts een ingewikkeld hoofdstuk was in het grotere verhaal van de menselijke nieuwsgierigheid.

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De VZ-9 Avrocar n een geheim vliegtuig uit de jaren 60, dat op een vliegende schotel leek

Het is een proces dat voorzichtigheid vereist, maar ook vol hoop mag zijn. We kunnen leren van wat bekend is, en tegelijk openstaan voor wat nog onderzocht dient te worden. Door elk mogelijk scenario met integriteit te benaderen, dragen we bij aan een verstandige, genuanceerde aanpak van het onbekende. Zo wordt het UFO-onderwerp geen sensationalistische saga, maar een continu onderzoek naar waar onze conclusies eindigen en onze vragen beginnen. In die zin blijft het mysterie een motor voor wetenschap, verbeelding en bescheidenheid tegelijk.

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What If They’re Not Aliens? What Else Could be Behind the UFO Mystery?

What If They’re Not Aliens? What Else Could be Behind the UFO Mystery?

What If They’re Not Aliens? What Else Could be Behind the UFO Mystery?

The chances are, when someone mentions UFOs, most people, both inside and outside the UFO community, will automatically think of aliens – visitors of an extraterrestrial nature or origin from another planet elsewhere in the universe. However, more and more researchers are concluding that there could be many other explanations for these strange aerial anomalies other than extraterrestrial visitors, with some even suggesting that at least some of these other suggestions are not only plausible, but perhaps more likely. 

If we completely remove extraterrestrials from the equation for a moment, then arguably the most likely scenario would be that UFOs are highly advanced, secretive military aircraft. We know, for example, that militaries around the world have various reconnaissance aircraft, and despite what is made public, it is also widely agreed that they are likely decades ahead behind closed doors. In fact, having the public believe they are seeing vehicles from another world is a great way of covering what they, potentially, are testing. It is worth highlighting the suggestions of the former CEO of Lockheed Skunkworks, Ben Rich, who stated quite bluntly that “we have the technology to take ET home!” He continued that “anything you can imagine, we already have the technology to do, but these technologies are locked up in black budget projects. It would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity!”

These statements are interesting for several reasons. Not only is Rich stating that advanced technology is available in military circles, but that aliens might already be here if we can “take them home!”

It is also worth noting some of the comments of former President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, particularly his thoughts in his 2009 book The Reagan Diaries. In an entry from April 1985, for example, he wrote that he had “lunch with five top scientists” during which he was informed that “some of the developments are like science fiction, except they are real!” He then stated that he learned that “our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people!” Given that space shuttles the time could only carry passengers in single figures it is interesting to contemplate exactly what Reagan meant in this entry. Is this further proof that the United States military was (and is) much advanced in terms of technology than most of us might think? 

Of course, we might contemplate where this technology came from. Whie many people suggest that these crafts are the result from reverser engineering of the craft recovered from the Roswell crash, the origins could go back further than many people think, and very well could have been transplanted to the United States following the Second World War under the cover of Operation Paperclip, that saw multiple top Third Reich engineers and scientists taken to the United States to continue their work (already highly advanced) for America and the West. Perhaps the most famous of these Third Reich scientists was Wernher Von Braun, who, essentially, guided NASA to the Moon.

Here, it is worth briefly exploring the Haunebu program of the Third Reich, which was a disc or saucer-shaped craft that began as far back as the mid-1930s, and utilized electromagnetic fields and anti-gravity technologies as a means of propulsion. This craft was approximately 25 feet across and could carry eight people. Although it isn’t confirmed, some researchers have stated that the Haunebu disc could reach speeds of 3000 miles per hour, with these speeds increasing, according to some, to over 10,000 miles per hour within a decade, although it could only move at relatively low altitude. 

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We might ask if this technology was the result of human ingenuity or whether there was some kind of assistance from elsewhere. With this in mind, it is very much worth our time exploring an account from Ken Hudnall in the book The Occult Connection: Unidentified Flying Objects. In it, Hudnall puts forward that a craft of unknown origin crashed in the Black Forest in Germany at some point in 1936. This craft was quickly recovered by SS troops and then transported to Wewelsburg Castle, the main headquarters of the Third Reich. From there German scientists and engineers began attempts to reverse engineer the craft, not only for their own technological ends, but also for any potential weaponry they could unleash in the impending war that they were already preparing for. Given how far ahead the German military was by the end of the 1930s, we might question if this alleged crashed UFO account is true, as well as whether the Third Reich did indeed manage to utilize this otherworldly technology. Hudnall highlights, for example, that the German military had a total of 57 submarines as the Second World War began. During the course of the conflict, however, they had no less than 1163 submarines, and these subaquatic vessels were among the most advanced on the planet. 

It is also worth examining the British and American war files, which contain several intriguing details that are surprisingly similar to each other. During bombing missions over Germany, for example, there are reports of “flying apparatuses resembling British military helmets”. Moreover, several pilots opened fire on these strange objects, but despite being on target, they failed to cause any damage whatsoever. During a bombing mission over Schweinfurt, Major R. Holmes of the British Air Force reported seeing several “big bright discs” which he fired at. Like other pilots, he noted how his rounds failed to cause any damage to the strange aerial objects. 

Were these reports simply misidentified craft or other aerial anomalies? Or might we consider, given the familiarity with aviation that military pilots clearly would have had, that the Third Reich did manage to reverse engineer the object that crash-landed in the Black Forest? Or could it be that this potential alien technology came from another downed object three years previously, which, according to several researchers, fell into the hands of their Second World War allies, the Italians?

According to the reports, during the summer of 1933 in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, a strange and mysterious object sped across the sky before crashing to the ground. Mussolini’s regime recovered the object and immediately established Cabinet RS/33 – a top-secret department that was tasked with reverse-engineering the crippled craft. One thing worth mentioning here is the advancement of the Italian Air Force, seemingly overnight, from the early 1930s to the Second World War era. Writing in the book UFO Contact in Itay: Volume Two, Roberto Pinotti stated:

“…just before the Second World War, the Italians were able to produce the prototype of the first jet airplane in history (the Campini Caproni 1). But we also know that the aviation industry in Italy was the last in Western Europe at the end of WW1. So the question is: can it be that the study of the UFO stored in hangars near Milano gave the Italians the needed technology?...”

Could it be, as speculative as it is, that this sudden advancement in Italian aviation could have been a result of reverse-engineered technology? Even more intriguing, we see this sudden advancement of aviation technology continue after the war in the United States, perhaps as a result of Operation Paperclip, or perhaps, as some researchers insist, because the downed UFO from Italy in 1933 was recovered by the American military at the end of the war and discreetly transported back to the United States. Moreover, according to documents that have come to light in the decades after the war, it appears that there was a secret project involving both the German and Italian regimes during the late 1930s and into the war years. Could this project have involved recovered extraterrestrial technology?

There is, of course, another possibility: that this technology didn’t come from elsewhere in the universe, but from right here on Earth, from the distant past. As strange as it might sound, various governments and intelligence agencies around the world have shown interest in ancient sites and relics, and this is especially the case with the Third Reich, and the reason, according to some, was to recover advanced technology from antiquity. The Third Reich spent considerable time, money, and effort searching for all manner of ancient relics, including alleged Biblical artifacts. They also showed a particular interest in the ancient civilizations of the Indus Valley. Given their aerial advancements, we might consider whether they recovered technology or blueprints of Vimanas, alleged ancient flying machines from thousands of years ago. We will explore Vimanas and how they might fit into all of this a little later. For now, though, we will turn our attention to another possibility to explain UFOs – mind control experiments. 

Although many people believe it is the stuff of science fiction only, the fact is, mind control is very real. Moreover, rather than simply making people “act like a chicken” as most typical hypnotists can do, the realities of mind control are a lot darker. Of concern to us here, some researchers have put forward that at least some UFO sightings and even cases of alien abduction are, essentially, continuations of government mind control experiments, specifically, in-the-field testing of the infamous MK Ultra program, which used a combination of mind-altering drugs and implanted screen memories. Arguably one of the most thought-provoking of these is one of the first documented cases of alien abduction of the modern UFO era, that of Antonio Villas Boas. 

According to the account, on the evening of October 16th, 1957, in the São Francisco de Sales region of Brazil, 23-year-old farmer Antonio Villas Boas was working late on his land. Out of nowhere, he suddenly noticed an object that he described as looking like a “red star” in the night sky. This strange object, however, was moving. Of more concern to Boas, it was heading in his direction. Within moments, he could see that the “star” was, in fact, an oval-shaped object with a rotating top. He stood watching the craft as it landed close by, resting on three small legs. 

After watching the object for a moment, Boas felt a sudden surge of fear and turned to get on his tractor in an attempt to flee. However, to his despair, the tractor’s engine simply wouldn’t start. He tried several more times before jumping back off the tractor in an attempt to run away. Then, he felt a hand grab his shoulder, and he turned to see a strange humanoid behind him. Moments later, several more humanoids appeared and surrounded him before dragging him towards the landed object. 

Once inside, Boas was immediately stripped of his clothes before his entire body was covered with a strange gel-like substance. Following this, he was taken into another room where he recalled seeing strange red symbols on circular walls. In this room, the humanoids took blood samples from him before moving him into a different room where he was left alone. Moments later, a strange gas filled the room, which made Boas feel immediately sick. After several minutes, the gas dissipated, and another humanoid entered the room. This one was female, with Boas describing her as “Asian-looking” and decidedly different from the others. Here is where the encounter took a bizarre turn. 

According to Boas, he and the female humanoid had sex, with the female humanoid pointing to her torso afterward, as if to say she was pregnant, and that the child would be born on another world. Following this, Boas was given back his clothes. After he dressed, he was led back through the ship the way he had come. As he was led through the craft, he attempted to take a nearby device to have proof of the encounter, but one of the humanoids prevented him from doing so. Then, the next thing Boas realized, he was standing outside the craft. He watched as it ascended high into the sky, eventually becoming the tiny “red star” before disappearing completely. 

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Needless to say, Boas was left extremely shaken by the ordeal and he quickly returned home. To begin with, he opted not to talk of the encounter for fear of ridicule. However, as the days and weeks went by, he began to feel apparent side-effects of the incident. He suffered with random bouts of intense nausea, for example, as well as intense headaches, and even noticed strange bruises appear on his body. As this was happening, he happened to see an advertisement about a journalist, Jose Martins, who was looking to speak with people who had encounters with UFOs. Boas contacted Martins, and he, along with several other investigators, agreed to investigate the case. One person involved in the investigation was Dr. Olavo Fontes, a medical doctor who agreed to examine Boas. Upon doing so, he concluded that he had indeed been exposed to a large amount of radiation. 

Several months after the incident, in February 1958, a report of Boas’ encounter appeared in a Brazilian newspaper. As we might imagine, there were many people who found it hard to accept Boas’s account, although it is also worth noting that he never once changed his version of events right up until his death in 1991. As the twentieth century handed off to the 2000s, new information on the incident came to light – information that suggests the alien encounter of Boas might not have been all that it seemed. 

Writing in the book Top Secret Alien Abduction Files: What the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know, Nick Redfern relayed information that came from investigator Bosco Nedelcovic (who had a background with the CIA, the Department of Defense, and the United States Agency for International Development through another researcher, Rich Reynolds. What is interesting, and a notch on the credibility post of the case, was that records do show that Nedelcovic was indeed working for the United States Agency for International Development in Brazil at the time of the Boas encounter, and the information that he passed over was remarkable, to say the least. 

He claimed that the alien abduction of Boas was, in fact, an orchestrated operation involving multiple different United States intelligence agencies, which included assistance from the United States Agency for International Development. Ultimately, the reason for this operation was to observe the manipulation of the human mind through a combination of props, mind-altering drugs and other substances. It was, as we observed earlier, an in-the-field operation of the MK Ultra program.

Nedelcovic claimed that on the night in question, the object that Boas witnessed was actually an unmarked black helicopter, which sprayed the area with chemicals as it approached, which drastically altered his perception, as well as incapacitating him somewhat so he couldn’t simply run. The crew of the helicopter, who now appeared like humanoid entities to Boas, dragged him on board the helicopter, where further mind-altering drugs were administered, further altering his sense of reality. Upon arriving at an unknown location, he was placed in different rooms, which were designed to make him believe he was inside a UFO. Moreover, the female entity with whom Boas claimed to have had sex with was, in fact, a “prostitute of Asian origin!” Following this, he was given more chemicals and then taken back to his field. Although he claimed to have seen the UFO take off high into the sky, it is most likely that what he saw was the unmarked black helicopter. 

While it isn’t clear just how it was achieved to make Boas believe he had seen a UFO and interacted with several alien creatures, the fact is, the account perhaps has much more credibility than we might think. It is known, for example, that the CIA regularly used such mind-altering drugs as LSD to severely distort a person’s sense of reality, and they regularly employed local prostitutes, mostly to place potential targets into compromising situations. Moreover, we know the MK Ultra mind control programs did happen, so it is not that much of a leap to think that the information offered by Nedelcovic is very accurate. Not only would this allow intelligence agencies the chance to test how much a person’s mind can be manipulated, but it also contributes to the widespread skepticism that many people automatically feel when discussing UFO and alien encounters. This case, though, might not be the only one. 

Just over a decade later, in the spring of 1970 in Hokkaido, Japan, we find the bizarre encounter of “Jean”. Jean’s experiences actually began several years earlier in 1967, while he was traveling in Jerusalem. During this trip, Jean claimed to have been “possessed by an entity of a Yahweh-type” force. Although he was still very much himself, he stated that following this, he was not fully in control of his decisions. In fact, over the next few years, Jean traveled to various destinations around the world, always at the instructions of this strange, possessing entity. By early 1970, he had arrived in Japan, making his way to a remote location in Hokkaido. 

Once there, he would travel to a local mountain each day, after he was told that he would have a “rendezvous with his brother, his homolog of the other cycle of terrestrial life!” After around a week of doing this, a strange, shiny metallic object shaped like an “upright cigar” with “four motors” on each side landed close to where he was waiting. Following this, a doorway opened in the craft and a metal staircase extended to the ground. Although he wasn’t told to do so, he knew that he was supposed to get on the craft, which he duly did. As soon as he stepped inside, he could feel the floor move under his feet (he eventually learned that the object was comprised of “living but not thinking matter”). 

As he made his way inside the craft, he was instructed to lie on a bed so that he could receive an “intravenous injection” that would protect him from the radiation. After he lay down, a needle-type device emerged from the wall and injected a “rosy liquid” into his arm. Moments later, three nine-foot-tall entities entered the room. Each of these entities wore “close-fitting suits, and each had green, yellow, and red-colored skin. Perhaps most bizarre, every now and then, he could see sparks fly from the humanoids' eyes, one of which landed on his arm. As soon as it touched him, his emotions changed from fear to ultra-confidence. 

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Then, things turned even stranger. The three entities introduced themselves as Irwin Ludwang, and, bizarrely, Jesus and Moses, stating they were over 7,000 years old. They then endowed Jean with “five divine powers before instructing Jean to leave the craft and await further instructions, which he duly did (although little information on what happened next is available). 

It is perhaps not surprising that many people had difficulty accepting the account as credible. However, might we consider that during his trip to Jerusalem, Jean was not possessed but placed under some form of mind control by one intelligence agency or another that allowed for a slow release of information? While it is perhaps unlikely, it is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility.

Could it be that many other UFO encounters and cases of alien abduction are continued operations of the MK Ultra program? Could it be, for example, that at least some of those people who have claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials actually have been kidnapped and experimented on by discreet and secretive military intelligence agencies? In fact, the notion of alien abduction could be as much a part of the experiments as the experiments themselves. Of course, if this were true, then we would need to ask just what the end goal of such experiments might be.

If we turn our attention to some of the better-known UFO incidents, we might ask if these were sightings of top-secret military aircraft, and if this is true, given that militaries around the world have ample open spaces to conduct such flights in secrecy, we might also have to ask if such sightings are purposeful on the part of the military, perhaps to gauge reactions or even to implant a false narrative. Many researchers, for example, state that the aerial vehicles witnessed during the Belgian Wave were, in fact, highly advanced military vehicles. Could other multi-witness sightings, such as the Phoenix Lights, also have been military aircraft? Or perhaps the sightings witnessed by hundreds of people during the Hudson Valley wave of sightings during the 1980s. 

With all of this in mind, we might ask if the recent “admissions” from the Pentagon regarding the released UFO gun-cam footage is simply to put a buffer between the public and the (speculative) reality of the MK Ultra program and top-secret advanced military vehicles.

There are also other intriguing details for us to examine regarding connections between mind control and UFO encounters and alien abductions. Perhaps one detail that particularly stands out, for example, is the consumption of strange drinks, often clear liquids, that abductees are instructed to drink, often “for their own good,” so that they do not recall their encounters. Could this be, though, part of some kind of aid to wipe an abductee’s memory, or even to plant false memories? 

There are occasions, however, where these false memories seemingly break down, often with the use of hypnotic regression, but sometimes just due to the passing of time. One particularly interesting encounter saw a witness’s memory of standing in front of “spacecraft” with “alien entities” at each side of them suddenly change to a memory of them standing in front of a large military-style truck with the aliens becoming strange men in dark suits. Yet another encounter saw a witness’s memory of a brightly lit, futurist room – that they presumed was inside a spaceship suddenly morph into them standing in a barely furnished warehouse. 

One researcher whose research suggests that mind-control techniques are more than prevalent in alien abduction encounters is Richard Sauder, who highlighted several details in his book Hidden In Plain Sight: Beyond X-Files. He stated that, as well as such details as clear drinks that possibly block memories, there is also the detail of these alien entities having almond-shaped black eyes. Sauder offered that these “eyes” likely aid in inducing trance-like states in those who happen to look into them.

There is also the detail of abductees hearing strange “whirring or humming” sounds. It is known, for example, that repetitive noise and sounds can aid in inducing hypnotic states. It is interesting to note that while many reports from people who have witnessed UFOs state these respective objects moving in complete silence, there are equally as many reports that offer witnesses hearing a strange humming sound just before these otherworldly vehicles appear or just after they have left. Could it be that these strange, often low-pitched noises are intended to put respective witnesses in a trance-like state? 

We might also highlight details from many UFO reports of bizarre and hypnotic flashing lights that accompany many of these aerial anomalies, as well as sensing a strange “pulsing” in the atmosphere, and even the presence of a strange gas-like odor in the air. Once more, each of these details could suggest some kind of mind-control technology and know-how. 

Although many people will dismiss mind-control as a valid explanation for at least some UFO and alien encounters, we should keep in mind how easy such things are to achieve. If we take your average hypnotist, for example, and how easy it is for them, generally speaking, to achieve this with little effort, or even the simple repetitive slogans and messages of advertisements. Ultimately, mind control is very real and very well could be a factor in the UFO and alien mysteries. 

There are, though, other possibilities for us to consider. What if, for example, these mysterious visitors were not from outer space, perhaps not even extraterrestrial, but human time travelers from the future? While some people dismiss such assertions unreservedly, it is a safe bet that if the ability to travel in time were achieved in the future, time-travel missions would almost certainly go ahead. To begin with, these missions would most likely be of a scientific nature, but over time, we would almost certainly see time-travel tourism take place too. Ultimately, while the notion of time-travel to us in the twenty-first century is a complex issue, for those in the future, it could simply be nothing more than a commercial sight-seeing adventure, Indeed, this could perhaps explain why there are reports of UFOs in the distant past, some of which, it appears, have been captured in paintings hundreds of years ago. It also might explain why there is little direct contact, with even encounters of alien abduction featuring reduced interaction, to not interfere with our timelines and perhaps, changing future events for the speculative time travelers. 

We might also consider that these speculative time travel missions could be for very specific purposes. Perhaps, for example, these missions are connected to altering the climate and environment, which might suggest, as some people have stated, that we are living in a tipping-point era that could see life on Earth take one course or another depending on our collective actions.

With this in mind, it is interesting to note that many people who claim to have had interactions with alien entities state that they have been told of the need to clean up our environment. Moreover, many of the “aliens” of these interactions are described as very human-like. Even more interesting, this might explain why the Modern UFO Era began in the late 1940s, almost immediately following the dropping of the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought the Second World War to an end but also began to nuclear era. 

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One researcher who believes these alien visitors are, in fact, human beings from the future is Dr. Michael Masters, a professor of Biological Anthropology at Montana Technical University, who made such claims in his 2019 book Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon.  He stated that, in his opinion, the most likely explanation for UFOs was our future selves simply mastering advanced technology. 

He stated that the “aliens” described by witnesses were often “bipedal, hairless, human-like beings!” Despite minor variations such as larger eyes and heads, their basic anatomical features resemble those of humans, including two eyes, a nose indentation, and a small mouth — some accounts even mention diminutive ear structures. 

The fact is, the suggestion that these apparent extraterrestrials are, in fact, human beings from the distant future is more in line with projected evolutionary and physical changes than many people might think. We know, for example, that the human cranial capacity has increased over the centuries in order to accommodate larger brains, certainly compared to our distant ancestors. We might ask, then, if the larger-than-normal head of the “grey alien” is simply the larger head of future humans for the same reason. Moreover, the frail, thin-like frame of these grey aliens could be a result of advanced technology reducing the need for manual labor, and so evolving humans to a more delicate, less physical physique. We might also consider if environmental conditions in the future – perhaps forcing humanity to live indoors completely, or even underground – could also contribute to this grey-alien-like appearance. 

We might also consider the fact that many close encounters with apparent aliens feature these extraterrestrials communicating with humans in their native language. If we accept for a moment that aliens are, in fact, human time-travelers, then it would perhaps make sense that they would know all the languages of the time and location they were traveling to, perhaps even mastering several of them. Many of these accounts feature some kind of device that automatically translates languages on the spot – very similar to some of the devices that are available for travelers today. In fact, Masters highlights this by pointing out that many of the advanced technologies of these alien beings appear to be more advanced versions of devices already available to us. Even our current awareness of time-travel, including the theoretical framework that supports it, makes it very likely that humanity will achieve such feats at some point in the future. 

Looking at how much we have achieved in the technological revolution of the second half of the twentieth century would appear to underscore this notion, and if consider the strides humanity has made in medicine and science over the last several hundred years – which is a small amount of time, relatively speaking – then we can only imagine where we might be in a thousand years from now.  

It is also worth noting how UFO sightings appear to increase around times of war or disaster, natural or otherwise. Could this be simply out of macabre curiosity, or even to study history up close? If this is the case, though, why are UFO sightings continuing to increase globally around the world? What is it about the first two and a half decades of the twenty-first century that draws the attention of these potential human time travelers from the future? Should we perhaps scrutinize the actions of our political leaders, for example, and speculate on the trajectory that they are collectively steering humanity? Obviously, if the intelligence behind these UFOs is from the future, then they would know exactly where our leaders are taking humanity. Are they here purely for study, or might they be looking to influence us to steer us in a different direction? Perhaps they might be looking to intervene directly, and if this last possibility is accurate, then we should perhaps consider just where humanity is heading in the 2020s. 

One last thing to consider regarding the possibility of those behind UFOs actually being human time-travelers from the future is if such events like the Roswell crash were real, then that would mean that governments, perhaps specifically the United States government, have recovered time-travel technology. Might they have been busy reverse-engineering such technology for decades? Might they have even managed to recreate this technology behind closed doors, making time travel an option for those in our modern world?

With this last point in mind, it is worth exploring the Black Forest UFO crash in Germany in 1936 and specifically claims made by an unnamed author in an online article in 2013. In it, they claimed that they had recovered a pair of field glasses that were used by one of the SS officers who was at the location on the night of the crash. According to the article, the unnamed author “channeled” through the field glasses, claiming that not only were there survivors of the crash, but that they were not aliens but humans from the future. All of the survivors, incidentally, were, according to the author, shot on sight by the SS recovery team. And once more, given that the Third Reich seemingly failed to utilize this technology for their own ends, we might ask if it was eventually transported to the United States as part of the previously mentioned Operation Paperclip. 

What if, though, the intelligence behind these UFOs is not aliens or humans, but beings from another dimension? Once more, while this might sound like the stuff of science fiction to many, many mainstream scientists today are working to prove these other dimensions exist. Moreover, although only in theory, these scientists have suggested that these dimensions might, on occasion, overlap or crash into each other, perhaps opening portals that could, in theory, allow those from these other dimensions access to our realm of existence. 

It is important to note that we are not talking of one, two, or even three other dimensions, but many, potentially thousands, perhaps even more. If this is the case, then that could mean there are thousands of different beings that exist, which also might explain why there have been many different types of “aliens” reported over the years. 

While unintentional crashing of dimensions might allow for unintended visits into our realm, that wouldn’t explain the alien abduction phenomena. So, with that in mind, and assuming that there is a dimensional aspect to the UFO and alien mysteries, we might contemplate that these portals or gateways that allow for interdimensional travel or intentionally manipulated and opened. Of course, if this were true, then we would have to ask, just why are these interdimensional entities “abducting” humans from our realm, and for what endgame?

At this point, it would be beneficial for us to examine a declassified FBI document that is dated July 8th, 1947 – the same date as the Roswell UFO crash. The document in question makes reference to “beings” from another dimension. In fact, on page 22 of the document, it goes into detail about a “very serious situation that may develop at any time with regard to the Flying saucer”. This nine-point section reads:

“1 - Part of their disks carry crews, others are under remote control

2 - Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this planet.

3 - These visitors are human-like but much larger in size.

4 - They are NOT excarnate earth people, but come from their own world.

5 - They do NOT come from any “planet” as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us.

6 - The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter.

7 - The disks possess a type of radiant energy or ray, which will easily disintergrate any attacking ship. They re-enter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision without trace.

8 - The region from which they come is not the “astral plane”, but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric matters will understand these terms.

9 - They probably can not be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar, if a signal system can be devised for that (apparatus).”

It is clear from this document that these “aliens” are “human-like” and are, in fact, from another dimension as opposed to another planet. Moreover, these other dimensions have co-existed with us since the beginning of time, suggesting a much more layered and complex situation than just extraterrestrial visitors from another world. 

With this in mind, it is interesting to note that there are many legends from ancient civilizations of portals or gateways that allow these interdimensional visitors access to our world. If we turn our attention to Native American legends, for example, they are awash with such tales. Perhaps one of these areas where these legends state these gateways exist is in the mountains of Sedona in Arizona, specifically an arch carved out of stone that is known locally as the “Doorway of the Gods,” which is said to transport anyone who walks through it to another dimension, while also allowing the “gods” themselves access to our realm of existence. 

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We can find similar locations in the legends of ancient Egypt, with one of the most intriguing located in Abu Ghurab, where an alabaster platform known as the “Place of the Gods” is said to vibrate in tune with the Earth, allowing whoever positions themselves on it to “be one” with higher vibrational energies. 

If we turn our attention to South America, we can find further alleged portals or gateways. In Tiahuanaco in Bolivia, for example, we find the “Gate of the Sun,” which is also considered a portal to the land of the gods. Similarly, in Hayu Marca in Peru, we can find a monument known as the “Gate of the Gods”. This site features two doorways carved into the rock in a T-shape, with the larger of these measuring seven meters high and seven meters across, while the smaller doorway measures two meters high. This larger doorway, according to local legend, allowed the gods access to and from our world, while the smaller doorway allowed humans who had performed heroic or noble actions access to the realm of the gods. 

In fact, there is a very specific account of the Gate of the Gods that speaks of the gateway being opened in the sixteenth century following the arrival of Spanish explorers. As these explorers looted the land, an Inca priest named Amaru Maru escaped to the doorway, taking with him a golden disc known as “The Key of the Gods of the Seven Rays”. This disc, when inserted into the smaller doorway, turned the stone into a shimmering blue light – essentially, it opened a doorway to another dimension. It is said that Maru stepped inside this shimmering blue light, never to be seen again. Incidentally, when researchers examined this smaller doorway, they discovered a round indentation that could easily fit a golden disc. 

If we turn our attention to the research of Andrew Collins, specifically, his suggestions in the book Origins of the Gods, we find the suggestion that what we understand as extraterrestrials could, in fact, be “light beings” from another dimension or realm of existence. In its most basic form, it was suggested by Collins that these “aliens” could travel as pure light through both space and time. Of course, if this were accurate, given that nothing (at least according to our current understanding) travels faster than light, it would not only upend what we know about UFOs and aliens but also force us to reevaluate the very nature of our reality. Moreover, it would perhaps explain as to how these otherworldly visitors manage to traverse the vast distances of space. This theory also proposes that these energy or light beings could communicate with humans by tapping into their consciousness, which might perhaps explain why many people who believe they have interacted with aliens have done so telepathically. 

Collins also suggested that many paranormal episodes, both those in the modern world and antiquity, could have originated from human interactions with exotic Earth-generated energies, including myths and legends about extraterrestrial gods.

It is also interesting to note that recent advancements in both quantum and theoretical physics appear to support Collins’ suggestions, especially our potential understanding of light and plasma. It is worth noting that plasma, which makes up 99 percent of the known universe, interacts with light and exhibits proto-intelligence. Plasma forms when atoms split, releasing photons of light, which is, ultimately, energy. With this in mind, it is interesting to note that the start of the Modern UFO Era began in the mid-to-late 1940s, following humanity’s advancements in nuclear capabilities. Could this have not only attracted the attention of (what we understand) as extraterrestrials, but also opened doorways or portals that allow these light or plasma-based beings to manifest in our realm? And once more, if we remind ourselves of telepathic communication, the idea of quantum entanglement might once more begin to offer scientific explanations to these mysterious encounters. 

Arguably, one of the most thought-provoking other possibilities as to what UFOs and aliens might be is that these strange objects witnessed in our skies are ghost vehicles from the distant past. Admittedly, this theory would only account for a certain percentage of sightings and wouldn’t satisfactorily explain close encounters and alien abduction, but it is still very much worth our time exploring the notion briefly here. However, many of the sightings of aerial objects and strange lights that are there one moment and then disappear the next could indeed be explained as ghost vehicles, possibly ones from an advanced ancient, long-lost civilization. Some researchers suggest, for example, that human civilization goes back much further than mainstream history tells us it does, perhaps by hundreds of thousands, even millions of years. If these assertions are accurate, then it could be entirely plausible, especially when we consider the number of out-of-place artifacts that have been discovered over the years, that an unknown advanced civilization could have been lost to history – one that perhaps had advanced aerial machines. 

While the idea that UFOs could be “ghost vehicles” is nonsensical to many, the fact is that there are numerous accounts of ghost trains, ghost cars, ghost ships, and even ghost planes on record. So, if there have been unknown advanced civilizations on Earth long before our recorded history, then it would make sense that their aerial vehicles might also be seen, on occasion, like people report seeing strange phantom vehicles that are recognizable to us.

A good example of these “ghost vehicles” might be the “Phantom Bus of London”, which was seen regularly around London, England, over the span of 60 years from the 1930s to the 1990s (although there are still sporadic sightings today). There are plenty of reports on record of this mysterious double-decker, with sightings of it almost always occurring at 1:15 am. This phantom bus is usually reported to be roaring down the road towards oncoming traffic,  with several accidents on record as a result of its ghostly presence. Arguably, the worst of these accidents occurred in 1934, when a motorist swerved to avoid the menacing bus and, as a result, crashed his car into a wall. The unfortunate motorist’s car then exploded upon impact, killing him instantly. 

There are many accounts of ghost planes, ships, and other vehicles on record, far too many for us to examine here. However, before we move on, it is perhaps worth our time looking at the legends of Vimanas, which can be found in the ancient texts of the Indus Valley civilizations, the Mahabharata. And we should also note that those who follow such texts consider them historical facts as opposed to mere myths and legends. 

According to the writings of the Mahabharata, these Vimanas could not only traverse the skies of Earth but could also travel into outer space. Moreover, these aerial vehicles were active in our skies between 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. They are described as “two-storied celestial chariots with many windows” that would “roar off into the sky until they appeared like comets” to those on the ground. These Vimanas were also said to travel to the “solar and stellar regions” and were said to be powered by “winged lightning”. Furthermore, they came in various shapes, including cigar-shaped, pyramid-shaped, and triangular. 

Even more intriguing, these advanced aerial vehicles often found themselves in aerial battles and contained weapons capable of destroying enemy aircraft, as well as devices that could “photograph” enemy aircraft, perhaps similar to modern aerial reconnaissance missions. Also similar to some advanced modern aircraft, these Vimanas could make themselves invisible, perhaps suggesting they had “cloaking” technology. Could it be that at least some of the UFOs witnessed today are ghostly representations of Vimanas from a past age? It is certainly worth considering. 

Our last possibility to consider here would be that these UFOs and the intelligence behind them are not from another planet, realm, or time, but that they come from right here on Earth, with the intelligence behind them being an unknown indigenous species, albeit an advanced one. If this is true, then we might consider that this unknown civilization resides somewhere deep under the ground, or even under the water. This last consideration is interesting in itself. There are, for example, multiple legends telling of another civilization taking refuge underground, while many UFO researchers in the modern era speak of the notion of “underwater alien bases” and suggest that these UFOs are indeed coming and going from deep under the water. 

Indeed, the notion of an inner Earth is something that has been pondered for centuries, and by such people as Edmund Halley, Sir Issac Newton, and Leonard Euler. Moreover, if we turn our attention to the legends of the Tibetan, Hindu, and Indian texts, they speak of Shambhaia, a great underground kingdom that is located “deep within inner Asia”, with the texts also mentioning the Avatar Rama, a blue-skinned entity that resided deep underground. 

If we turn our attention to Buddhist texts, we can find further accounts of underground entities, which speak of a race of supermen and women” who access the Earth’s surface via a vast underground tunnel network, with the entrance hidden somewhere deep in Tibet. This suggestion of vast underground tunnel networks can be found all over the planet, perhaps specifically, under the United States, which some researchers suggest stretches across the country from one coast to the other. Indeed, many Native American legends state that their ancient ancestors used such underground networks to escape cataclysmic disasters. 

While we won’t spend too much time on it, it is perhaps worth mentioning here the multiple accounts of reptilians, with many encounters taking place near or in cave systems. Could it be that these reptilian entities, if indeed they do exist, are the unknown indigenous civilization that also calls Earth home? Accounts with reptilians will have to wait for another article, but once more, when considering who or what is behind the UFO and alien mysteries, such considerations are equally as valid as the next. 

As we can see, then, there are many more possible explanations for UFOs other than aliens (at least as we would understand them). Moreover, compelling and convincing arguments can be made for all of the possibilities we have examined here. Even more thought-provoking, and evidence that the UFO and alien mysteries are multi-layered, nuanced, and complex, is that the truth of the matter could very well contain elements of all of the suggestions and ideas we have explored here. No single argument, for example, can explain or settle every UFO and alien encounter on record. 

It could very well be the case that once we understand one aspect of the UFO mystery – and, in turn, one part of the paranormal spectrum – we will most likely see all other areas of the unexplained and the mysterious from a new perspective, and possibly with a new light shined on them. There are many researchers who firmly believe there are genuine connections between multiple areas of the paranormal. And if we accept that aliens might not be “aliens” as we have come to culturally understand them, then that possibility begins to make more sense, and indeed strengthens.

It is also worth noting that, despite all of the considerations we have examined here, aliens – as we collectively understand them – could very well still be visiting the Earth. There are, for example, many different kinds of UFOs witnessed in the skies, as well as many different entities reported. Ultimately, right now, all considerations must remain on the table. 

Above all else, one thing is certain – that UFOs – unidentified flying objects – very much exist and are very real. What they might be, however, remains very much up for debate. Indeed, it very much appears that if we can understand UFOs and what they might be, we will shine a light on many other areas of the paranormal world and our own collective reality.   

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Britain's secret rocky past: Scientists find proof a huge asteroid smashed into the Yorkshire coast 43 million years ago

Britain's secret rocky past: Scientists find proof a huge asteroid smashed into the Yorkshire coast 43 million years ago

From its breathtaking moors to its world–famous puddings, Yorkshire already boasts a number of claims to fame. 

Now, the county has a new accolade to add to its list. 

Scientists have found proof that a huge asteroid smashed into the sea off the coast of Yorkshire 43 million years ago. 

The Silverpit Crater – around 80 miles off the coast of Yorkshire – was first discovered in 2002. 

Its origin remained a mystery, with scientists unable to agree on whether it was created by an asteroid impact, or volcanic activity. 

Now, the debate has been settled once and for all, as researchers from Heriot–Watt University have confirmed the impact crater hypothesis. 

'Our evidence shows that a 160–metre–wide asteroid hit the seabed at a low angle from the west,' xplained Dr Uisedan Nicholson, lead author of the study. 

'Within minutes, it created a 1.5–kilometre high curtain of rock and water that then collapsed into the sea, creating a tsunami over 100 metres high.'

Scientists have found proof that a huge asteroid smashed into the sea off the coast of Yorkshire 43 million years ago (AI-generated image)

Scientists have found proof that a huge asteroid smashed into the sea off the coast of Yorkshire 43 million years ago (AI–generated image) 

The Silverpit Crater – around 80 miles off the coast of Yorkshire – was first discovered in 2002. However, its origin remained a mystery, with scientists unable to agree on whether it was created by an asteroid impact, or volcanic activity

The Silverpit Crater – around 80 miles off the coast of Yorkshire – was first discovered in 2002. However, its origin remained a mystery, with scientists unable to agree on whether it was created by an asteroid impact, or volcanic activity

Since its discovery more than two decades ago, the Silverpit Crater has been at the centre of a heated debate among geologists. 

Initial studies suggested the 1.8–mile–wide crater was the result of an asteroid or comet impact. 

However, some scientists were unconvinced, and instead suggested it may have been created by salt moving deep below the crater floor, or the collapse of the seabed because of volcanic activity.

To get to the bottom of it, the Heriot–Watt team used seismic imaging data alongside evidence from below the seabed. 

'New seismic imaging has given us an unprecedented look at the crater,' Dr Nicholson explained. 

'Samples from an oil well in the area also revealed rare "shocked" quartz and feldspar crystals at the same depth as the crater floor.

'We were exceptionally lucky to find these – a real "needle–in–a–haystack" effort.

'These prove the impact crater hypothesis beyond doubt, because they have a fabric that can only be created by extreme shock pressures.'

Samples from an oil well in the area revealed rare 'shocked' quartz and feldspar crystals at the same depth as the crater floor

Samples from an oil well in the area revealed rare 'shocked' quartz and feldspar crystals at the same depth as the crater floor

The confirmation of its status as an impact crater puts Silverpit in the same category as Mexico's Chicxulub Crater – the site where the dinosaur–killing asteroid famously struck 66 million years ago. 

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'Silverpit is a rare and exceptionally preserved hypervelocity impact crater,' Dr Nicholson added. 

'These are rare because the Earth is such a dynamic planet – plate tectonics and erosion destroy almost all traces of most of these events.

'Around 200 confirmed impact craters exist on land, and only about 33 have been identified beneath the ocean.

'We can use these findings to understand how asteroid impacts shaped our planet throughout history, as well as predict what could happen should we have an asteroid collision in future.'

HOW THE DINOSAURS BECAME EXTINCT AROUND 66MILLION YEARS AGO

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth around 66million years ago, but suddenly disappeared in what is known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.

It was believed for many years that the changing climate destroyed the food chain of the huge reptiles. 

However, in the 1980s paleontologists discovered a layer of iridium - an element that is rare on Earth but found in vast quantities in space.  

When this was dated, it coincided precisely with when the dinosaurs disappeared from the fossil record. 

A decade later, scientists uncovered the massive Chicxulub Crater at the tip of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, which dates to the period in question. 

Scientific consensus now says that these two factors are linked and they were both probably caused by an enormous asteroid crashing to Earth.

With the projected size and impact velocity, the collision would have caused an enormous shock wave and is likely to have triggered seismic activity. 

The fallout would have created plumes of ash thought to have covered the whole planet, making it impossible for dinosaurs to survive. 

Other animals and plant species had a shorter time-span between generations which allowed them to survive.

There are several other theories as to what caused the demise of the dinos. 

One early theory was that small mammals ate dinosaur eggs and another proposes that toxic angiosperms (flowering plants) killed them off. 

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Inside China's secretive lab rewriting our understanding of the UNIVERSE: $300 million detector 2,300ft underground is being used to sniff out mysterious ghost particles

Inside China's secretive lab rewriting our understanding of the UNIVERSE: $300 million detector 2,300ft underground is being used to sniff out mysterious ghost particles

Deep underneath a granite hill in southern China, an enormous detector is sniffing out the secrets of the universe.

This futuristic underground observatory has been built with the sole purpose of detecting neutrinos – tiny cosmic particles with a mind–bogglingly small mass.

To date, nobody knows what these 'ghost particles' are or how they work.

But scientists hope this $300 million lab will be able to answer these questions – vital to understanding the building blocks of the universe.

Neutrinos date back to the Big Bang, and trillions zoom through our bodies every second. They spew from stars like the sun and stream out when atoms collide in a particle accelerator.

There's no way to spot the tiny particles whizzing around on their own. Instead, scientists measure what happens when they collide with other matter, producing flashes of light or charged particles.

Neutrinos bump into other particles only very rarely so to up their chances of catching a collision, physicists have to think big.

This is where the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory comes in.

The $300 million detector at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory located 2297 feet (700 meters) underground

The $300 million detector at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory located 2297 feet (700 meters) underground 

An aerial view of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in Kaiping, southern China's Guangdong province

An aerial view of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in Kaiping, southern China's Guangdong province

Workers labor on the underside of the cosmic detector. This futuristic underground observatory has been built with the sole purpose of detecting neutrinos – tiny cosmic particles with a mind-bogglingly small mass

Workers labor on the underside of the cosmic detector. This futuristic underground observatory has been built with the sole purpose of detecting neutrinos – tiny cosmic particles with a mind–bogglingly small mass

The detector, built in Kaiping in China, took over nine years to build, Its location 2,300ft (700m) underground protects it from cosmic rays and radiation that could throw off its neutrino detection abilities.

The orb–shaped structure is filled with a liquid designed to emit light when neutrinos pass through. These will flow into the detector from two nearby nuclear power stations.

The sphere – a thin bubble of acrylic – is contained within a protective cylinder containing 45,000 tonnes of pure water.

These neutrinos will 'bump' into protons in the detector, releasing tiny flashes of light at a rate of about 50 per day.

The detector is specially designed to answer a key question about a longstanding mystery.

Neutrinos switch between three 'flavours' as they zip through space, and scientists want to rank them from lightest to heaviest.

'We are going to know the hierarchy of the neutrino mass,' Wang Yifang, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told The Times.

'And by knowing this we can build up the model for particle physics, for neutrinos, for cosmology.'

Wang Yifang, chief scientist and project manager at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory

Wang Yifang, chief scientist and project manager at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory 

Scientists hope this $300 million lab will be able to answer questions vital to understanding the building blocks of the universe.

Scientists hope this $300 million lab will be able to answer questions vital to understanding the building blocks of the universe. 

Visitors take a train ride to visit the cosmic detector located deep underground. The orb-shaped structure is filled with a liquid designed to emit light when neutrinos pass through

Visitors take a train ride to visit the cosmic detector located deep underground. The orb–shaped structure is filled with a liquid designed to emit light when neutrinos pass through

Sensing these subtle shifts in the already evasive particles will be a challenge, said Kate Scholberg, a physicist at Duke University who is not involved with the project.

'It´s actually a very daring thing to even go after it,' she said.

Physicists said it will take around six years to generate the required 100,000 'flashes' that will allow for readings to be statistically significant.

Two similar neutrino detectors – Japan's Hyper–Kamiokande and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment based in the United States – are under construction.

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They are set to go online around 2027 and 2031 and will cross–check the China detector´s results using different approaches.

Though neutrinos barely interact with other particles, they have been around since the dawn of time. Studying these Big Bang relics can clue scientists into how the universe evolved and expanded billions of years ago.

'They're part of the big picture,' Professor Scholberg said.

One question researchers hope neutrinos can help answer is why the universe is overwhelmingly made up of matter with its opposing counterpart – called antimatter – was largely snuffed out.

What are ghost particles? 

  • Neutrinos are the most common matter particle in the universe. 
  • Trillions of them move through our bodies every second without ever interacting with us. 
  • They could hold the key to explaining why matter dominates the universe instead of antimatter or unify the theories of how the four major forces of the universe work. 
  • Unfortunately, neutrinos hardly ever interact with anything, making them incredibly difficult to study.
  • Scientists have known about the existence of neutrinos for almost a century, but they are still in the early stages of figuring out what the particles really are. 
  • Though neutrinos barely interact with other particles, they´ve been around since the dawn of time. Studying these Big Bang relics can clue scientists into how the universe evolved and expanded billions of years ago. 
  • One question researchers hope neutrinos can help answer is why the universe is overwhelmingly made up of matter with its opposing counterpart – called antimatter – largely snuffed out.
  • Scientists don't know how things got to be so out of balance, but they think neutrinos could have helped write the earliest rules of matter.

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Scientists are baffled by a monster black hole growing at 2.4 TIMES the theoretical limit

Scientists are baffled by a monster black hole growing at 2.4 TIMES the theoretical limit

Black holes are among the most feared objects in the universe. 

These huge concentrations of tightly–packed matter, with a gravitational pull too strong for light to escape, can gobble up entire planets. 

And according to scientists, one black hole in particular seems to have an unstoppable appetite. 

Located 12.8 billion light–years away, the black hole, called RACS J0320–35, weighs about a billion times the mass of our sun. 

Data from NASA's Chandra X–ray Observatory reveals it is growing at 2.4 times the theoretical limit – one of the fastest rates ever recorded. 

The power source of this 'glowing monster' is large amounts of matter, such as gas, dust, and other stellar debris. 

As it is rabidly consumed, the matter gives off intense radiation, which is detectable by telescopes such as Chandra. 

'It was a bit shocking to see this black hole growing by leaps and bounds,' said Luca Ighina, study author at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

An artist’s concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet containing particles moving away at close to the speed of light. New Chandra observations indicate that the black hole is growing at a rate that exceeds the usual limit for black holes, called the Eddington Limit

An artist’s concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet containing particles moving away at close to the speed of light. New Chandra observations indicate that the black hole is growing at a rate that exceeds the usual limit for black holes, called the Eddington Limit

Black holes grow by gobbling up surrounding matter – a process scientists call accretion – as well as by merging with other black holes. 

They have an incredibly bright 'accretion disk' – a hot disk of gas orbiting the black hole and its main source of light.

The accretion disk is created by material emitting energy as it falls into the black hole, whether it's gas, dust or matter. 

At about a billion times the mass of our sun, this black hole, RACS J0320–35, is officially in the upper range of the 'supermassive' classification for black holes – and it's still growing. 

Researchers theorize it is getting yet more massive at a rate of somewhere between 300 and 3,000 solar masses annually.

That means it's gobbling up the equivalent of 300 to 3,000 of our suns per year! 

Supermassive black holes exist in the centers of most large galaxies. 

For example, Sagittarius A* is the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, but its mass is only about 4.3 million times the mass of our sun. 

Black hole RACS J0320-35, captured through X-ray emissions detected by Chandra, weighs about a billion times the mass of our sun

Blk hole RACS J0320–35, captured through X–ray emissions detected by Chandra, weighs about a billion times the mass of our sun

Annotated black hole: Right at the centre is the event horizon - the point at which nothing, not even light, can escape. Note the accretion disk' - a hot disk of gas orbiting the black hole and its main source of light

Annotated black hole: Right at the centre is the event horizon – the point at which nothing, not even light, can escape. Note the accretion disk' – a hot disk of gas orbiting the black hole and its main source of light

What is the Eddington limit? 

The Eddington Limit refers to the theoretical upper limit to the rate at which a black hole can absorb matter. 

When matter is pulled toward a black hole, it is heated and produces intense radiation over a broad spectrum, including X–rays and optical light.  This radiation creates pressure on the infalling material. 

When the rate of infalling matter reaches a critical value, the radiation pressure balances the black hole’s gravity, and matter cannot normally fall inwards any more rapidly. 

That maximum is referred to as the Eddington limit. 

But what sets RACS J0320–35 apart is its high mass and unusually high growth rate.  

RACS J0320–35 was discovered two years ago using NASA's Chandra X–ray Observatory, the world's most powerful X–ray telescope.

In orbit around Earth for more than 25 years now, Chandra is specially designed to detect X–ray emission from very hot regions of the universe. 

Now, using data from the NASA telescope, researchers have been able to pinpoint the black hole's incredible growth rate. 

It is growing at 2.4 times the Eddington limit – the theoretical maximum 'speed limit' that defines how fast a black hole can consume matter.

The Eddington limit is the point where the outward force of radiation overcomes the inward pull of gravity – the same gravity that's hoovering up surrounding matter. 

According to the accepted theory, above this limit, all material falling into the black hole would be blown away because of the radiation pressure, shutting off the accretion that is feeding the black hole. 

So the fact it is still growing – at 2.4 times the Eddington limit – is leaving scientists perplexed. 

Artist rendering of the Chandra X-ray Observatory space telescope, the world's most powerful X-ray telescope, according to NASA

Artist rendering of the Chandra X–ray Observatory space telescope, the world's most powerful X–ray telescope, according to NASA

Scientists lifted the veil on the first images ever captured of a black hole in April 2019. The glowing orange ring shows the event horizon of M87, in the Virgo galaxy cluster

Scientists lifted the veil on the first images ever captured of a black hole in April 2019. The glowing orange ring shows the event horizon of M87, in the Virgo galaxy cluster

Remarkably, RACS J0320–35 is producing more X–rays than any other black hole seen in the first billion years of the universe, they say in their paper, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 

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The fact this black hole is located about 12.8 billion light–years from Earth means that its light has taken 12.8 billion years to get to us. 

Because the universe is 13.8 billion years old, astronomers are seeing this black hole only 920 million years after the universe began. 

Black holes are so far away that getting an image of one was only managed in 2019, using a massive network of Earth telescopes. 

However, we have a very good chance of seeing a black hole explosion by 2035. 

Another team of scientists recently reported there's a 90 per cent chance of at least one black hole exploding in the next 10 years. 

If and when it happens, telescopes positioned in space and here on Earth should be able to capture the event.

BLACK HOLES HAVE A GRAVITATIONAL PULL SO STRONG NOT EVEN LIGHT CAN ESCAPE

Black holes are so dense and their gravitational pull is so strong that no form of radiation can escape them - not even light.

They act as intense sources of gravity which hoover up dust and gas around them. Their intense gravitational pull is thought to be what stars in galaxies orbit around.

How they are formed is still poorly understood. Astronomers believe they may form when a large cloud of gas up to 100,000 times bigger than the sun, collapses into a black hole.

Many of these black hole seeds then merge to form much larger supermassive black holes, which are found at the centre of every known massive galaxy.

Alternatively, a supermassive black hole seed could come from a giant star, about 100 times the sun's mass, that ultimately forms into a black hole after it runs out of fuel and collapses.

When these giant stars die, they also go 'supernova', a huge explosion that expels the matter from the outer layers of the star into deep space. 

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Earliest images of mysterious interstellar object reveal alien solar system origins

Earliest images of mysterious interstellar object reveal alien solar system origins

The mysterious interstellar object traveling through our solar system has been spotted acting like no other comet ever seen before, revealing its alien origins.

Scientists from Michigan State University announced that they have uncovered new images of the object dubbed 3I/ATLAS, which were taken months before its official discovery in early July.

Those pictures revealed how 3I/ATLAS was spewing gas or dust into space long before it started approaching our sun, something highly unusual for a distant comet.

Although most scientists still believe 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet, and not an alien spacecraft, the new revelations suggested that the object formed in a totally alien solar system, giving it a chemical makeup far different from anything seen before. 

Typically, comets traveling around our solar system emit gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, and small amounts of methane and ammonia as they move closer to the sun and heat up, causing their icy surfaces to release these materials.

However, the new images showed that 3I/ATLAS was releasing a gas while it was still six times as far as Earth's distance to the sun, roughly 558 million miles.

Scientists believe this means the mystery comet could be filled with a unique collection of molecules, including carbon monoxide, an odorless gas often produced by burning wood or fossil fuels.

Adina Feinstein, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at MSU, said: '3I/ATLAS gives us an opportunity to study other solar systems up close and personal, without actually needing to visit them.'

MSU researchers combed through images from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, and found evidence of 3I/ATLAS two months before it was officially discovered

MSU researchers combed through images from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, and found evidence of 3I/ATLAS two months before it was officially discovered

3I/ATLAS won't make its closest pass by Earth until December, but scientists said it's already strange signs for a typical comet

3I/ATLAS won't make its closest pass by Earth until December, but scientists said it's already strange signs for a typical comet

Researchers used old images from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to spot 3I/ATLAS before it was officially found on July 1, 2025.

The TESS images were taken between May 7 and June 2. TESS, originally designed to find planets around other stars, takes wide pictures of the sky.

Luckily, the team realized that 3I/ATLAS's current path lined up with the same plane the planets in our solar system travel along, making it possible for researchers to go back to look for the approaching comet.

In those reexamined pictures, the object appeared brighter than expected, suggesting it might have been releasing gases into space several months ago.

Study co-author John Noonan, a postdoctoral fellow at Auburn University, said: 'Capturing as many observations from this prediscovery period, where 3I/ATLAS may be in telescope images but wasn't previously identified, is essential to our understanding of how these objects 'turn on' as they approach our sun.'

Noonan added that 3I/ATLAS may not have been warmed up in millions, if not billions, of years, meaning it may react to our sun completely differently than other comets, which regularly visit our solar system.

The new study, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, also found signs that 3I/ATLAS was already showing a tail, suggesting the object was somehow activated when it was still in the outer regions of the solar system near Saturn.

Comet tails usually form when the sun's heat causes frozen gases and dust to vaporize and escape, creating a visible trail that can stretch for millions of miles.

A new study found 3I/ATLAS was emitting gases into space long before it got close enough to our sun to melt normal gas and dust seen coming from other comets

A new study found 3I/ATLAS was emitting gases into space long before it got close enough to our sun to melt normal gas and dust seen coming from other comets

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The differences might be because 3I/ATLAS comes from a solar system which formed under very different conditions than ours.

Comets which orbit this solar system are mostly made of water ice, but 3I/ATLAS might have more carbon-based ices, which can turn into gas at colder temperatures.

This could reflect a place where the building blocks of planets and comets formed differently, possibly due to the type of star or the cosmic environment it came from.

'Learning about other solar systems places humanity into context,' Feinstein said.

'One of life's greatest questions is 'are we alone in the universe?' Each NASA mission gets us a little bit closer to answering this big, overarching question.'

3I/ATLAS is just days away from making its closest pass by Mars on October 3. It will be at its closest point to Earth on December 17, when the object will be approximately 223 million miles away.

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Overview and Analysis of the September 2025 UAP Hearing, Hellfire Missile Footage, and Dylan Borland’s Testimony

Overview and Analysis of the September 2025 UAP Hearing, Hellfire Missile Footage, and Dylan Borland’s Testimony

The UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) hearing held on September 9, 2025, marked a significant moment in U.S. government transparency regarding unidentified aerial objects and related military encounters. Central to the proceedings was the presentation of compelling footage involving a U.S. Reaper drone firing a Hellfire missile at an unidentified glowing “orb” off the coast of Yemen. The missile, however, appeared to pass through or glance off the object without causing damage. This incident sparked widespread debate among enthusiasts, skeptics, and experts about the nature of the observed phenomena and the implications of the footage.

A member of Congress has shared a video claiming to show an attempt by U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones to intercept an unidentified object in the air off the coast of Yemen last year.

The Hellfire Missile Footage: What Was Shown?

During the hearing, video footage was displayed showing a military drone targeting an unidentified luminous object. The missile involved was a Hellfire, specifically the RX9 model, which is a kinetic, non-explosive missile designed primarily for precision strikes. The footage captured the missile approaching the object, but instead of destroying or damaging it, the missile seemed to pass through or deflect from the target.

Supporters of the extraterrestrial or extraordinary hypothesis interpret this footage as suggestive of an object that can evade conventional weaponry, possibly indicating advanced or non-human technology. Conversely, skeptics and mainstream analysts have dismissed the footage as a result of optical illusions, “balloon and parallax” effects, or simple misinterpretations of visual data. Outlets such as The War Zone and TMZ have argued that the object’s behavior aligns with known phenomena like balloons or visual parallax, and that the apparent speed or movement could be explained by optical illusions or camera angles.

The Concept of Parallax and Its Role in UFO Sightings

The reference to “parallax” is not new in UFO and UAP analysis. Parallax involves apparent shifts in an object’s position due to the observer’s movement, which can mislead viewers about an object’s size, distance, or speed. In May 2024, a paper released by AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) addressed how forced perspective and parallax effects are common in UFO sightings and can even deceive airborne sensors. This approach echoes earlier comments by astronaut Scott Kelly during NASA’s UAP panel in May 2023, where he dismissed many pilot and astronaut sightings as illusions, emphasizing sensor unreliability.

Critics argue that such explanations serve as a “scientifically sounding” toolkit to dismiss difficult or inexplicable cases. They warn that framing phenomena as optical illusions or parallax effects risks dismissing potentially genuine anomalies, especially when the subject involves high-stakes military technology or encounters.

Significance of the Military Engagement Footage

What makes the Hellfire missile footage particularly noteworthy is that it depicts a direct military engagement with a suspected UAP. In typical military operations, supporting data—such as radar tracks, sensor logs, and after-action reports—are usually available to corroborate visual evidence. However, in this case, only the video has been publicly shared, with official data still withheld. This lack of transparency fuels skepticism from both believers and skeptics alike. If the government possesses classified data that explain the incident, its absence fuels questions about the true nature of the event.

Theories range from explanations involving advanced adversary technology (e.g., drone or missile jamming) to more extraordinary hypotheses involving non-human entities or unknown physics. The absence of supporting evidence beyond the footage leaves open many questions about the object’s nature, capabilities, and origin.

Analysis of the Video and Its Context

Patrick of the VETTED podcast expressed concerns over how the footage was presented and contextualized. His main critique was that the terminology used—calling the object an “orb”—and the lack of official explanation could mislead viewers into assuming an extraterrestrial origin. He pointed out that the missile used was a kinetic RX9 Hellfire without an explosive warhead, which is designed for precision strikes, not for causing spectacular explosions or damage visible on video.

Furthermore, Patrick suggested that the footage might have served a strategic purpose—to demonstrate air-to-air capabilities to adversaries—rather than providing conclusive evidence of a phenomenon beyond current understanding. This underscores the importance of how military footage is framed and the potential for it to be used for strategic messaging rather than scientific investigation.

Dylan Borland’s Role and Testimony

Among the witnesses at the hearing, Dylan Borland stood out due to his extensive background and expertise. With years of service as a USAF Geospatial Intelligence Analyst and later roles in aerospace and intelligence, Borland’s insights carry significant weight. His testimony was characterized by technical depth, integrity, and courage.

1. Background and Credentials:

- Served as a 1N1 Geospatial Intelligence Specialist in the U.S. Air Force from 2010 to 2013.

- Worked as a Senior Analyst with BAE Systems and Intrepid Solutions & Services.

-Specialized in analyzing video, radar, and electro-optical imagery related to aerial, naval, and ground objects.

Borland’s unique combination of military intelligence training and analytical skills placed him in a position to understand complex phenomena and data. Unlike other witnesses—such as former security officers or Navy personnel—Borland’s technical expertise provided him with a deeper understanding of the possible explanations and limitations of the available data.

2. Whistleblower Testimony:

Borland also delivered a detailed whistleblower statement under oath. He described credible field experiences involving a triangular-shaped UAP near Langley AFB and insights into legacy UAP programs. He claimed that his exposure to sensitive information led to retaliation and career obstructions, highlighting the potential risks faced by insiders who challenge official narratives.

His willingness to testify publicly and under oath added credibility and weight to his account, emphasizing the seriousness with which he viewed the subject. Borland’s testimony pointed to the possibility that government and military agencies possess more information than is publicly disclosed and that there may be ongoing efforts to understand or conceal certain phenomena.

Implications and Future Considerations

The hearing and the associated footage underscore several key issues:

  1. Transparency vs. Secrecy: The absence of supporting data beyond video footage fuels ongoing debates about government transparency regarding UAP encounters. While the footage provides visual evidence, it lacks detailed contextual information such as sensor data, radar logs, or corroborative intelligence reports. This ambiguity raises questions about the motives behind withholding comprehensive information. Advocates for transparency argue that open access to data would foster public trust and enable independent analysis, potentially accelerating scientific understanding. Conversely, officials often cite national security concerns, fearing that releasing certain details could compromise classified methods or reveal vulnerabilities. Moving forward, establishing protocols for declassifying and sharing relevant data—while safeguarding sensitive information—will be crucial. This could involve creating secure, accessible repositories for researchers and the public, fostering a more informed and engaged dialogue about UAP phenomena and their implications for national security and scientific inquiry.

  2. Nature of the Phenomena: The debate continues over whether these objects are advanced human-made technologies, natural phenomena, or something else entirely. The diversity of observed behaviors—such as rapid accelerations, sudden directional changes, and hovering without visible means of propulsion—complicates definitive identification. Some experts suggest these could be experimental military craft, possibly developed covertly by rival nations, designed to test new propulsion or stealth technologies. Others propose that the phenomena are natural atmospheric or optical effects, like ball lightning or mirages, though these explanations often fall short given the consistency and intelligence-like maneuvering of some sightings. An alternative hypothesis considers the possibility of extraterrestrial origin, which, while speculative, remains a subject of serious scientific inquiry. Future research should focus on collecting multi-sensor data, employing advanced detection systems, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration to better understand these phenomena's true nature.

  3. Strategic and Military Significance:  The possibility that these encounters involve foreign adversaries or unknown physics demands careful analysis and cautious interpretation. If some UAP are indeed advanced aircraft from other nations, they could represent a significant intelligence threat, capable of circumventing existing detection and defense systems. This necessitates a reassessment of current military protocols and surveillance strategies. Additionally, if the phenomena involve physics beyond our current understanding—such as gravity manipulation or anti-gravity propulsion—this could revolutionize technology and security paradigms. Such breakthroughs could render current military assets obsolete, prompting a need for rapid adaptation. Therefore, nations must invest in dedicated research units, enhance radar and sensor capabilities, and develop international cooperation frameworks to monitor and respond to these phenomena effectively. A balanced approach—one that prioritizes security without inciting undue alarm—is essential for future policy formulation.

  4. Expert Testimony and Whistleblowers:  Witnesses like Dylan Borland bolster the credibility of claims that there is more to UAP phenomena than publicly acknowledged. Their insights could guide future investigations and policy decisions. Borland’s testimony, for instance, often highlights firsthand experiences of unexplained encounters, emphasizing the importance of transparency and systematic data collection. Such whistleblowers often face significant risks, including professional repercussions or personal security concerns, yet their contributions are invaluable. Their accounts can help identify patterns, correlate sightings across different regions, and provide leads for scientific analysis. Encouraging a culture of responsible reporting and protecting whistleblowers are vital steps toward building a comprehensive database. This, in turn, could facilitate the development of predictive models and foster international cooperation. Governments and scientific institutions should establish secure channels for whistleblowers and develop protocols to evaluate and integrate their testimonies objectively, ensuring that their insights lead to meaningful advances.

  5. Media Framing and Public Perception: How footage and information are presented influences public understanding. Skeptics warn against sensationalism, fearing that exaggerated claims could undermine scientific credibility and provoke unnecessary panic. They advocate for cautious, evidence-based reporting, emphasizing the importance of peer-reviewed research and transparent methodologies. Conversely, advocates for disclosure argue that withholding information fuels conspiracy theories and public distrust. They emphasize that open communication—accompanied by rigorous scientific validation—can foster a more informed and rational discourse. The media’s framing impacts policy responses and societal attitudes toward UAP phenomena. Responsible journalism should aim to balance skepticism with curiosity, providing context and expert opinions to avoid misinformation. Public perception can be shaped positively by educational initiatives, transparent briefings, and inclusive dialogues involving scientists, policymakers, and the community. Ultimately, fostering an environment of trust and scientific integrity will be crucial for addressing future developments and ensuring societal resilience in the face of these enigmatic phenomena.

  6. In conclusion, the ongoing debates and investigations surrounding UAP phenomena highlight the importance of a multifaceted approach—combining transparency, scientific rigor, strategic security measures, and responsible communication. As new data emerges and technology advances, nations and communities must collaborate to deepen understanding, safeguard security, and foster public trust. Establishing clear protocols for data sharing, investing in advanced detection and analysis tools, protecting whistleblowers, and promoting responsible media coverage will be essential steps in navigating the complex landscape of UAP research and policy. Future efforts should aim to bridge gaps between scientific inquiry and national security, ensuring that knowledge progresses in a manner that benefits society as a whole. By doing so, humanity can better prepare for and understand these phenomena, transforming uncertainty into opportunity for technological progress and scientific discovery.

Conclusion

The September 2025 UAP hearing, highlighted by the provocative Hellfire missile footage and the impactful testimony of Dylan Borland, represents a pivotal moment in the ongoing exploration of aerial anomalies. While definitive conclusions remain elusive, the combination of military engagement footage, expert analysis, and whistleblower accounts suggests that there are still many unanswered questions about the true nature of these phenomena. Moving forward, increased transparency, rigorous scientific investigation, and open dialogue will be essential to unraveling the mysteries that continue to captivate the public and defense communities alike.

  • Note: This overview synthesizes the key themes, controversies, and implications derived from the original 1470-word report, providing a comprehensive understanding suitable for readers seeking an informed analysis of recent developments in UAP research and military encounters.

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The Clash Over UAP Transparency: Laslo, Luna, and the Fight for Visibility

The Clash Over UAP Transparency: Laslo, Luna, and the Fight for Visibility

The recent controversy surrounding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) disclosures has thrust into the spotlight a complex and contentious debate about transparency, secrecy, and political motivations within the U.S. government. At the heart of this controversy are journalist Matt Laslo and Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, whose conflicting actions and statements reflect broader tensions over how the United States handles information about UAPs. Their clash highlights issues of trust, censorship, and the potential politicization of what many hope will become a more transparent investigation into phenomena that continue to mystify the public and intelligence communities alike.

Background: The UAP Phenomenon and Government Response

UAPs have long been a subject of speculation and intrigue, often dismissed as conspiracy theories or dismissed as weather balloons and aircraft. However, in recent years, credible military and intelligence officials have acknowledged the existence of unidentified objects exhibiting capabilities beyond known technology. This acknowledgment has prompted calls for greater transparency and scientific inquiry, leading to the establishment of panels and task forces aimed at declassifying and understanding these phenomena.

One such effort is the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, which was created to oversee the release and examination of classified information related to UAPs. Led by Congresswoman Luna, this panel was supposed to serve as a bridge between government secrecy and public knowledge. Yet, critics have argued that the task force lacks the necessary resources—no budget, no staff, and no independent authority—to effectively conduct its mission. Promised hearings have been canceled, whistleblower briefings have not been scheduled, and there are even discussions among some lawmakers to dismantle the agency altogether, favoring a shift of responsibility to more secretive agencies like the FBI.

This context underscores a fundamental issue: while the government claims to want transparency, its actions suggest a reluctance or inability to fully disclose information. The establishment of a supposedly transparent panel that remains hamstrung by bureaucratic limitations raises questions about the sincerity of the government’s intentions.

Laslo’s Role as a Whistleblower and Journalist

Matt Laslo, a reporter with Ask a Pol, is one of the few journalists consistently covering UAP issues from Capitol Hill. As the only boots-on-the-ground journalist focusing on this niche, Laslo has gained access to some of the inner workings of the UAP investigation. His reporting has, at times, brought to light discrepancies and concerns about the government’s handling of the phenomenon.

Laslo alleges that whistleblowers—individuals with direct knowledge of classified UAP information—no longer trust Luna. He claims that this erosion of trust is partly due to Luna’s actions and statements, which appear to block transparency. Laslo’s reporting intensified when he uncovered information suggesting Luna told him she “can’t talk about bodies she and Matt Gaetz saw.” Although Luna did not outright confirm the existence of bodies, her cryptic response, “I cannot discuss these things, you know that,” fueled speculation.

Sources close to Laslo indicate that Luna and Congressman Matt Gaetz might have been briefed on a video showing bodies—an assertion that both Luna and Gaetz publicly deny ever having seen such bodies. Gaetz’s office acknowledged that a classified briefing took place but refused to comment on its contents. The ambiguity surrounding these claims adds to the controversy, with many viewing it as a potential cover-up or at least a sign of internal disagreements over transparency.

The Gag Rule and Suppression of the Press

As tensions mounted, Luna took an increasingly aggressive stance towards the press, particularly Laslo. She moved to restrict access to the Task Force, effectively implementing what Laslo describes as a "gag rule." This move blocks him—and by extension, the public—from following the investigation and obtaining information about UAPs through official channels. Such censorship directly contradicts Luna’s campaign promises of transparency and openness, leading critics to accuse her of undermining the very purpose of the task force.

This shift towards suppression has significant implications. If the panel designed to shed light on secretive information is actively silencing journalists and restricting access, it risks becoming a tool of secrecy rather than disclosure. The public’s right to know about phenomena that could have national security implications is being compromised, raising concerns about the politicization of UAP investigations.

Broader Reactions and Concerns

The controversy has not gone unnoticed outside Capitol Hill. Media outlets such as Psicoactivo and Down To Earth have highlighted the issues of censorship, bias, and politicization surrounding the UAP debate. Their coverage emphasizes the troubling possibility that the very institutions created to promote transparency are instead becoming enclaves of secrecy. This phenomenon reflects a broader pattern in government transparency initiatives, where the initial promise of openness is undermined by bureaucratic inertia and political self-interest.

For many, the current state of affairs signals a setback in the quest to understand UAPs. The idea that a supposedly independent task force is now operating under restrictions and possibly internal conflicts suggests that the government may be more interested in controlling the narrative than in revealing the truth. The suppression of whistleblower testimonies, the cancellation of hearings, and the reluctance to declassify information reinforce fears that UAPs remain a taboo subject within official circles.

Implications for Public Trust and Future Disclosure

The conflict between Laslo and Luna encapsulates a deeper issue: the erosion of public trust in government institutions regarding national security and scientific transparency. When representatives and officials appear to withhold information or censor journalists, it fuels suspicion and conspiracy theories. Conversely, transparency and open inquiry could foster public trust, scientific progress, and better policy responses.

The debate also raises questions about the role of Congress and the executive branch in managing sensitive information. Should panels like Luna’s be empowered with resources and independence to facilitate truthful disclosures? Or should national security concerns limit what can be shared with the public? Finding a balance between these priorities is essential for maintaining both security and transparency.

Conclusion: A Critical Juncture in UAP Discourse

The clash between journalist Matt Laslo and Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna reflects the broader struggle over the future of UAP transparency in the United States. Laslo’s expose of possible censorship and the secrecy surrounding high-level briefings highlight the challenges faced by independent journalists and concerned citizens seeking clarity. Luna’s actions, whether driven by political motives or genuine security concerns, have cast doubt on the government’s commitment to openness.

As the debate continues, it is vital for policymakers, the media, and the public to advocate for transparency, accountability, and scientific rigor in investigating UAPs. Only through honest and open discourse can society hope to understand these mysterious phenomena and address the implications they hold for national security, scientific progress, and our collective curiosity about the unknown. The current conflicts serve as a reminder that transparency should be the guiding principle—one that transcends politics and bureaucracy in the quest for truth.

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Webb Detects Complex Structures in Upper Atmosphere of Saturn

Webb Detects Complex Structures in Upper Atmosphere of Saturn

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope have detected a series of dark, bead-like and asymmetric star-shaped features in the ionosphere and stratosphere of Saturn.

Detections of near-infrared emissions in Saturn’s ionosphere (left) show dark bead-like features embedded within bright aurora; in the stratosphere (right), 500 km below, a lopsided star-pattern extends towards the equator. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / Stallard et al.

Detections of near-infrared emissions in Saturn’s ionosphere (left) show dark bead-like features embedded within bright aurora; in the stratosphere (right), 500 km below, a lopsided star-pattern extends towards the equator.

Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / Stallard et al.

“This opportunity to use Webb was the first time we have ever been able to make such detailed near-infrared observations of Saturn’s aurora and upper atmosphere. The results came as a complete surprise,” said Northumbria University’s Professor Tom Stallard.

“We anticipated seeing emissions in broad bands at the various levels.”

“Instead, we’ve seen fine-scaled patterns of beads and stars that, despite being separated by huge distances in altitude, may somehow be interconnected — and may also be linked to the famous hexagon deeper in Saturn’s clouds.”

“These features were completely unexpected and, at present, are completely unexplained.”

The researchers focused on detecting infrared emissions by a positively charged molecular form of hydrogen, H3+, which plays a key role in reactions in Saturn’s atmosphere and so can provide valuable insights into the chemical and physical processes at work.

Webb’s Near Infrared Spectrograph allowed the scientists to simultaneously observe H3+ ions from the ionosphere, 1,100 km above Saturn’s nominal surface, and methane molecules in the underlying stratosphere, at an altitude of 600 km.

In the electrically charged plasma of the ionosphere, they observed a series of dark, bead-like features embedded in bright auroral halos.

These structures remained stable over hours but appeared to drift slowly over longer periods.

Around 500 km lower, in Saturn’s stratosphere, the team discovered an asymmetric star-shaped feature.

This unusual structure extended out from Saturn’s north pole towards the equator.

Only four of the star’s six arms were visible, with two mysteriously missing, creating a lopsided pattern.

“Saturn’s upper atmosphere has proven incredibly difficult to study with missions and telescope facilities to date due to the extremely weak emissions from this region,” Professor Stallard said.

“Webb’s incredible sensitivity has revolutionized our ability to observe these atmospheric layers, revealing structures that are completely unlike anything we’ve seen before on any planet.”

The authors mapped the exact locations of the features and found that they overlaid the same region of Saturn at different levels, with the star’s arms appearing to emanate from positions directly above the points of the storm-cloud-level hexagon.

This suggests that the processes that are driving the patterns may influence a column stretching right through Saturn’s atmosphere.

“We think that the dark beads may result from complex interactions between Saturn’s magnetosphere and its rotating atmosphere, potentially providing new insights into the energy exchange that drives Saturn’s aurora,” Professor Stallard said.

“The asymmetric star pattern suggests previously unknown atmospheric processes operating in Saturn’s stratosphere, possibly linked to the hexagonal storm pattern observed deeper in Saturn’s atmosphere.”

“Tantalizingly, the darkest beads in the ionosphere appear to line up with the strongest star-arm in the stratosphere, but it’s not clear at this point whether they are actually linked or whether it’s just a coincidence.”

While both features could have significant implications for understanding atmospheric dynamics on gas giant planets, more work is needed to provide explanations for the underlying causes.

The team hopes that additional time may be granted in future to carry out follow-up observations of Saturn with Webb to further explore the features.

With the planet at its equinox, which occurs approximately every 15 Earth years, the structures may change dramatically as Saturn’s orientation to the Sun shifts and the northern hemisphere moves into autumn.

“Since neither atmospheric layer can be observed using ground-based telescopes, the need for follow-up Webb observations during this key time of seasonal change on Saturn is pressing,” said Professor Stallard, lead author of a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The authors also presented the results this month at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, Finland.

  • Tom S. Stallard et al. 2025. JWST/NIRSpec Detection of Complex Structures in Saturn’s Sub-Auroral Ionosphere and Stratosphere. Geophysical Research Letters 52 (17): e2025GL116491; doi: 10.1029/2025GL116491
  • Tom S. Stallard et al. 2025. JWST’s transformational observations of Giant Planet ionospheres. EPSC Abstracts 18: EPSC-DPS2025-817; doi: 10.5194/epsc-dps2025-1438

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Alien hunters claim they have 'solved' Roswell mystery as new 'crash site footage' emerges

Alien hunters claim they have 'solved' Roswell mystery as new 'crash site footage' emerges

Alien hunters reckon they have spotted crashed “UFO debris” and "alien bodies” in newly found footage of the Roswell incident

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Newly-found footage has emerged of the Roswell incident
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Alien hunters reckon they have spotted crashed “UFO debris” and "alien bodies” in newly found footage of the Roswell incident.

The ET obsessives claim to have made the discovery after a 22-minute video titled The Roswell Incident quietly surfaced on the US National Archives website.

It has sparked fresh speculation over one of the world’s most enduring UFO mysteries. The footage – largely composed of images from the published Roswell Report, as well as various magazines and books about UFOs – ends with a striking black-and-white image of a crater strewn with metallic debris.

Online users insist the scene resembles long-rumoured accounts of the alleged 1947 UFO crash site.

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Roswell continues to be a source of intrigue

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Some claim the footage shows an alien body, though experts remain sceptical. UFO researcher Mark Lee said: “Just because it's been added to the National Archives doesn't give it scientific validation. If it came out as a release from the military or Congress, I would take it a lot more seriously.”

A video titled 'The Roswell Incident' was uploaded to the National Archives. Social media users claim an image in the footage shows UFO debris (left) and an alien body (right)

A video titled 'The Roswell Incident' was uploaded to the National Archives. Social media users claim an image in the footage shows UFO debris (left) and an alien body (right)

He also noted the supposed “alien” is likely pareidolia – the human tendency to see faces in patterns.

Official investigations have long attributed the “UFO debris” to Project Mogul, a Cold War balloon programme designed to detect Soviet nuclear tests. But the newly posted film has reignited debate, with believers hailing it as another piece in the “slow drip” of disclosure over the Roswell mystery.

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Quest For Mu: 200,000-Year Old Sunken Pacific Continent

Quest For Mu: 200,000-Year Old Sunken Pacific Continent

Gibel Atlantidy by N.Roerich (1929) (Public Domain)

Gibel Atlantidy by N.Roerich (1929)

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In the 19th century a Hindu priest introduced British army Colonel James Churchward to ancient tablets, revealing the existence of a primordial lost civilization, which led to Churchward’s lifetime quest, spanning several continents and islands, to unravel the mysteries of Mu, a Pacific continent, which was destroyed in a cataclysmic shift of the earth’s poles. He discovered remnants and relics of this 200,000-year old civilization, and considered the great civilizations of Atlantis and the old Oriental empires, India, Egypt and Babylonia, as the ‘offspring’ or dying embers of Mu.

Colonel James Churchward (Public Domain)

Colonel James Churchward

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James Churchward Meets The Rishi

Colonel James Churchward was born in Devonshire (southern England) in 1851. The Churchwards were an old Devonshire family with a strong Masonic background. He told friends that he had been educated at Oxford and the military academy at Sandhurst. In 1868, at only 18 years of age, he was sent to India as a young military officer. As part of the British military in occupied India, Churchward eventually rose to the rank of Colonel. His first assignment brought him to Central India to assist in famine relief, and it was here that he made a contact that would change his life. A high-ranking Hindu priest, known as a rishi from a temple school monastery befriended him, and a 12-year association began. As the friendship deepened, the rishi gave Churchward access to some very rare and mystical ancient tablets which had purportedly been hidden in the temple vaults for thousands of years. The tablets were carved with arcane symbols, and the rishi began teaching Churchward how to interpret some of the simpler signs. Churchward proved an avid student, and the lessons continued until eventually Churchward had mastered the language—supposed to be the original language of mankind!

19th- Century Marichi, a Rishi and son of Brahma. (Public Domain)

19th- Century Marichi, a Rishi and son of Brahma.

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The tablets revealed facts about the origin of civilization, and the tales they told of an advanced worldwide culture that disappeared after cataclysmic earth changes in the far distant past would “fire the dullest imagination.” After 12 years of studying Mu (as this mother civilization was known) with the rishi, Churchward felt it was time to leave India. His knowledge of the primordial civilization described on the tablets of the temple, combined with a scholar-adventurer’s curiosity and wanderlust, spurred him to search for further evidence of this civilization.

Following the Trail From Asia To Egypt

About 1880, the Colonel retired from the British military and left India for the South Seas (specifically, Tonga and the Caroline Islands). Here, Churchward found evidence for the existence of Mu in the form of rock carvings, which he deciphered using the language of Mu. These carvings, which he believed were being read correctly for the first time since the fall of Mu, prompted him to continue his search in Tibet and parts of Central Asia. One would imagine that Churchward used his status and contacts as a retired Colonel to travel relatively cheaply with military convoys, sleeping in army barracks and such. His letters of introduction from other British officers would no doubt serve him well. Travel in the late 1800s and early 1900s was expensive and slow, especially in Central Asia and the vast Pacific; even today many Pacific Islands are difficult and expensive to reach. Churchward became an extremely well-traveled man for the time period, by any standard.

Facade of the Egyptian Museum, Tahrir Square, Cairo (Diego Delso/ CC BY-SA 3.0)

Facade of the Egyptian Museum, Tahrir Square, Cairo

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From Tibet, Central Asia and India, Churchward journeyed to Egypt where he explored the pyramids and visited the Bulaq Museum in the ancient city of Cairo (now the Cairo Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Egypt’s main museum). Churchward examined Egyptian hieroglyphs and papyrii in light of the symbol-language of Mu and attempted to translate some of the documents in terms of that arcane language taught to him by the rishi.

Evidence Of The Pole Shift

About 1885, Churchward found his way to Siberia and the valley of the Lena River. He was now looking for evidence of ancient cataclysms, which, if it could be found, would lend credence to the idea that an ancient, advanced civilization such as Mu could disappear. Churchward wanted to see the piles of mammoth bones and tusks washed up in tidal waves on the Lackoff Islands (The Islands of Bones) just beyond the mouth of the Lena. He was convinced by these giant piles of ivory and bones that a ‘pole shift’ phenomenon had occurred in the past, where the earth’s crust slipped several degrees toward the equator causing massive tidal waves to wash over portions of the earth and ultimately cause the sinking of entire continents such as Mu.

The Pole’s lurch (Author provided with permission © Children of Mu)

The Pole’s lurch (Author provided with permission

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From Siberia he made his way toward the Ural Mountains and what he called “the end of the Drift Line.” Here his trail in search of the cataclysms of the past ended, and Churchward felt he had the geological and historical proof that he needed to establish the existence of ancient civilizations. Churchward had been told by the rishi that an ancient civilization contemporaneous with Mu had existed in the Gobi Desert, and found evidence in the region to make him believe this was true. The local tradition of the land of Shambala (or Agartha) told that it was the remnant of an advanced ancient civilization that was also destroyed in the cataclysmic pole shift, with its attendant earthquakes, tidal waves and volcanic activity.

Map Pacific Islands Region (Public Domain)

Map Pacific Islands Region

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Australasia And The South Pacific Islands

Churchward then went to Australia where he worked for some years. Urged by relatives to visit New Zealand, Churchward there gathered some information from local Maoris that again sent him traveling for further evidence of Mu. He journeyed as a passenger on assorted tramp steamers going to various Polynesian Islands in the South Pacific. For over two years he explored numerous islands and island groups, including Samoa, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Tonga, the Gilbert Islands, the Cook Islands, Easter Island, Hawaii and others. Churchward believed the megalithic remains he found throughout the region, coupled with island legends of sunken continents, were the final evidence he needed to write his book on the ancient, sunken continent of Mu. He believed that he had at last substantiated the stories he had learned through his studies with the rishi.

Says Churchward: “That story is the story of Mu and her vast civilization which spread over the whole world 20,000 to 200,000 years ago, inclusive. It is the story, not only of how that civilization grew, but of how it was destroyed and lapsed into the savagery out of which our own modern culture has developed.”

William Niven (1850-1937), mineralogist and archaeologist (circa 1895) (Public Domain).

William Niven (1850-1937), mineralogist and archaeologist (circa 1895)

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Niven’s Tablets Of Mexico

So, James Churchward, with his extensive documentation, including photographs, personal paintings and proofs, came to America, where he settled in New York by 1888. He soon met Percy Tate Griffith, who was to become his best friend in his later years. Churchward lived in New York until his death in 1936, with the exception of two years when he joined his friend William Niven in Mexico and Central America. Niven’s discoveries of ancient buried cities in the valley of Mexico were exciting to Churchward and he joined Niven in Mexico City and traveled to the Yucatan and other areas of Central America to compare the records discovered there with those he had found the world over.

Niven’s Collection of Mesoamerican stone tablets (Author provided with permission © Children of Mu)

Niven’s Collection of Mesoamerican stone tablets

(Author provided with permission © Children of Mu)

Back in New York, Percy Tate Griffith would sit in the evenings with Churchward, and they were often joined by Augustus and Alice LePlongeon. Augustus LePlongeon was a dedicated French Mason and had done much of the early excavations at Chichen Itza in the Yucatan. His book Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphinx was published in 1900 in London and was popular among archaeologists and mystics of the time. Churchward, Griffith and the LePlongeons would sit in Churchward’s or Griffith’s study for hours talking about Atlantis, Mexico, Tiahuanaco and Churchward’s belief in his sunken continent of Mu.

The Lost Continent Of Mu

By the early 1920s and Churchward in his old age began to tell his friends of the Golden Age that had existed thousands of years ago on the sunken continent of Mu. This culminated in the self-publishing in 1926 of The Lost Continent of Mu. Churchward’s book made quite a splash at the time. It received wide attention from reviewers and became the subject of much discussion. Indeed, such groups as the Rosicrucians (AMORC) and the Lemurian Fellowship took Churchward’s books to heart and sought to elaborate on his works, with which they were largely in agreement.

Churchward's map showing how he thought Mu refugees spread out after the cataclysm through South America, along the shores of Atlantis, and into Africa (Public Domain)

Churchward's map showing how he thought Mu refugees spread out after the cataclysm through South America, along the shores of Atlantis, and into Africa

(Public Domain)

Churchward was a very good artist and filled his books with his own maps and paintings, as well as photographs he had collected in his travels. He had sketched the megalithic arch in Tonga back in 1876, probably before he ever thought he would write a book. He cut a publishing deal with the New York City publisher Ives Washburn (now defunct) for the republishing of his book, plus the publishing of his follow-up books. The Children of Mu and The Sacred Symbols of Mu came in quick succession. Said the cover blurb for The Children of Mu, a book largely about the colonization of Atlantis and the rest of the world: “When Mu, the now-lost Pacific continent, became overcrowded, colonization began... and America was one of Mu’s first colonies. From America to Atlantis to Europe and Africa the movement of colonization continued, until cataclysms destroyed Mu and Atlantis.”

The cover copy for The Sacred Symbols of Mu reads: “James Churchward continues his occult and historical explorations of the world’s most fabled lost civilization—Mu, the motherland of mankind. Stressing the common origin of all contemporary religions, Churchward’s highly unorthodox, startling theories about the ‘Sacred Inspired Writings of Mu’ suggest that this ancient text was the basis of Christianity itself! No student of the occult, comparative religion or anthropology can afford to miss the excitement.”

James Churchward’s Books (Adventures Unlimited Press)

James Churchward’s Books

(Adventures Unlimited Press)

Churchward was a popular media figure for a few short years, and in 1934 and 1935 his final books were published. The cover copy on The Cosmic Forces of Mu, Volume One reads: “The Cosmic Forces of Mu were understood perfectly as recently as 15,000 years ago. Their application brought this lost civilization to extraordinary peaks of technology—accomplishments we are only now beginning to understand and achieve. Working from ancient tablets, James Churchward has recreated this astounding science. Everyone fascinated by prehistoric times and the occult will be gripped by The Cosmic Forces of Mu.”

The cover copy on The Cosmic Forces of Mu, Volume Two reads: “In this fifth book in his amazing Mu series, James Churchward challenges many of the theories and ‘knowledge’ of modern science with a startling new interpretation of the birth of earth based on the ancient wisdom of the lost civilization of Mu. That there was no such period as the Ice Age—and he tells what happened and why. That the center of the earth is not molten lava but gas. That Man in his present form lived through all the cataclysmic changes of the earth—and he gives archaeological proof of it.”

Colonel James Churchward died approximately one year after the publication of his final book. He died satisfied that the lessons of the rishi had filled the void that had come in his life after leaving India, and the world had now heard the rishi’s message.

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Excerpt From: The Children Of Mu – The Origin of Man

The Land of Mu was a large continent situated in the Pacific Ocean between America and Asia, its center lying somewhat south of the equator. Basing its area on the remains which are still above water, it would have been about 6,000 miles from east to west, and about 3,000 from north to south. All the rocky islands, individually and in groups, scattered over the Pacific Ocean were once part of the continent of Mu. About 12,000 years ago cataclysmic earthquakes rent Mu asunder. She became a fiery vortex, and the waters of the Pacific rushed in, making a watery grave for a vast civilization and 60-million people. Easter Island, Tahiti, Samoas, Cook, Tongas, Marshall, Gilbert, Caroline, Marianas, Hawaii and the Marquesas are the pathetic fingers of that great land, standing today as sentinels to a silent grave.

Map of the location of Mu (Author provided with permission © Children of Mu)

Map of the location of Mu (Author provided with permission

© Children of Mu)

The existence of this great continent is confirmed by: Naacal tablets, books, writings, inscriptions and legends found in India, China, Burma, Tibet and Cambodia; ancient Maya books, inscriptions, symbols and legends found in Yucatan and Central America; remains, inscriptions, symbols and legends found among the Pacific Islands; stone tablets found in Mexico near Mexico City; cliff dwellers’ writings and inscriptions found in Western North America; books of old Greek philosophers; books and writings of the ancient Egyptians and legends throughout the world.

Niven’s Mexican tablets (Author provided with permission ©Children of Mu)

Niven’s Mexican tablets

(Author provided with permission©Children of Mu)

These confirmations are all given in The Lost Continent of Mu. They show that there was once a large continent of land in the Pacific Ocean called the Land of Mu. On this great continent man made his advent on earth about 200,000 years ago. The Land of Mu and the Biblical Garden of Eden were one and the same land. Both the Naacal and the Mexican tablets show clearly that man is a special creation. They also show in what way he differs from all other creations. An account of the creation is given in both sets of tablets which is very similar to the Biblical account. At the time of Mu’s destruction her people were in an exceedingly high state of civilization; as regards science she was far ahead of the present time. No wonder! She was at the end of 200,000 years of experience and development.

The great civilizations of the old Oriental empires — India, Egypt, Babylonia, etc. — were only the dying embers of Mu’s great civilization. They were her children, who withered and died without her care. All tablets, inscriptions and writings which I used in The Lost Continent of Mu are accompanied by keys for reading them. Every assertion made is accompanied by reasonable proof. The facts are there. The theories will have to take care of themselves. I wish it understood that what is revealed of the past in my writings must not be considered discoveries by me. I am simply stating what I find in writings that run from 12,000 to 70,000 years ago if the mode of keeping time was correct.

Confucius meets Lao-tzu and Buddhist Arhat (Ming Dynasty) Palace Museum, Beijing. (Public Domain)

Confucius meets Lao-tzu and Buddhist Arhat (Ming Dynasty) Palace Museum, Beijing. (Public Domain)

What is disclosed in these writings is startling, yet archaeology and geological phenomena corroborate the facts without calling to our aid legends which also confirm them. Lao Tsu, the Chinese sage of 600 BC, speaks of the great learning and advancement of his prehistoric forefathers. The ancients were wise and thoughtful for those who were to come after them. They left indestructible records written on clay and stone. This wisdom is spoken of by Souchis priests of Sais to Solon the Greek, as recorded in Plutarch. These writings have been broken up and many of them lost. As they were universal among the ancients, scraps and fragments of them are found in all quarters of the earth. When put together they supplement one another to a great extent, so that by combining them we can make a beginning towards unraveling the wonders of the earth’s First Great Civilization. For over 50 years I have been hunting these scraps and putting them together so as to form the beginning of an intelligent tale of the Creation and Man. It rests with those who come after me to complete the tale.

Sculpture of Mu as the mistress of the whole earth. (Author provided with permission © Children of Mu)

Sculpture of Mu as the mistress of the whole earth. (Author provided with permission © Children of Mu)

Ancient relics, that can be traced back as coming directly from Mu, the Motherland, are extremely rare. During the past few years, I have been singularly fortunate in finding two that are at least intimately connected with Mu. Both are symbolic figures in bronze. They were either made in the Motherland or in one of the ancient Uighur cities before the eastern half of that great empire was destroyed by the north running wave of the last magnetic cataclysm which was the ‘Biblical Flood’. This wave destroyed all the country over which it ran, the people were drowned and the cities washed away or buried under the drift. The Uighur capital city today lies under 50 feet of boulders, gravel and sand. It is situated in the Gobi Desert, which today has large areas of rock only, the soil and everything with it having been washed away by the ‘Flood’. I am using one of these relics as the frontispiece of this book. It is, without question, one of the two oldest bronzes in existence. If Uighur, it is about 18,000 or 20,000 years old. If from Mu, the age cannot be estimated. This figure is a symbol of Mu as the great ruler. The fineness of the workmanship is not to be found surpassed, and very seldom equaled in any of the prominent jewelry stores in our big cities today. Both symbols have been in America for about 150 years. I know their history, but the less said about it the better since, in the Oriental home from which they were taken, they were without question sacred relics. The British Museum has three scepters which undoubtedly were manufactured in Mu before she went down.

The Deluge by Francis Danby (1840) (Public Domain)

The Deluge by Francis Danby (1840) (Public Domain)

In Mu, the Motherland, there were ten distinct tribes. Although they were physically easily differentiated, there were few variations in language, and these only of a minor character. A greater change is seen in their glyphs or writings. In the Motherland each of her people occupied its own territory; and, when various tribes took part in the colonization of a new country, they did not settle down indiscriminately, but each tribe took its own land and built its own cities as their fathers did in Mu. They settled down adjoining each other and formed a homogeneous whole. Every letter in every word in the ancient language of Mu is pronounced. Mu is pronounced Moo; A is pronounced ah; U is pronounced oo as in moon; Ta is pronounced tah; Tau is pronounced ta-oo. This original form of isolation grew with time so that the tribes eventually became separate peoples, and finally nations. And as the isolation became greater, changes in language crept in.

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James Churchward was a fascinating man, and truly a man for all seasons. He was a military man and administrator, a mystic and student of ancient languages, an artist and mapmaker, as well as a calligrapher. He was also a salesman, an inventor and author. For many years he was that rarest of breed, ‘the professional traveler’.

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Metals Magically Repair Themselves in Breakthrough Discovery That Could Bring About An Engineering Revolution

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Metals Magically Repair Themselves in Breakthrough Discovery That Could Bring About An Engineering Revolution

Observed for the first time, a phenomenon where metals repair themselves by healing small cracks could upend our understanding of material theories, and may ultimately lead to revolutionary new engineering concepts like self-healing machines.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories studying how microscopic cracks form in metals found that under the right circumstances, metals repair themselves, conjuring imagery similar to the famous villain seen in the film Terminator 2: Judgement Day. 

Previously, scientists and engineers believed that cracks in metals only got worse over time and that the idea of these complex materials repairing themselves was impossible. If this latest finding can be applied in a practical way, future applications with more complex machines and structures like airplanes or bridges could potentially allow them to heal microscopic cracks before catastrophic failure occurs.

Crack in Metals Are Not Supposed to Repair Themselves

For decades, engineers and scientists who work with metals were confident about two things: metals form microscopic cracks after repeated loads, and over time those cracks can and will grow until they lead to catastrophic failure. Even simulation software used by engineers to develop anything from engine parts to massive structures takes these microscopic, often nanometer-in-size, cracks into account.

The Debrief previously reported on one Terminator-inspired liquid metal “robot” that researchers were able to shape-shift with a magnetic field, but that was a customized type of material and not an everyday metal.

In 2013, Michael Demkowicz, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of materials science and Engineering who is now a full professor at Texas A&M University, started to think that modern science may be wrong and that under certain circumstances, metals should be able to heal these micro fractures. After some research, theory, and simulations, he published his concept in October of that same year.

“We present a new mechanism—discovered using molecular dynamics simulations—that leads to complete healing of nanocracks,” he wrote in the paper’s abstract outlining his simulations.

Now a decade later, a team of researchers working at Sandia National Labs who were simply studying how cracks evolve in platinum stumbled on a real-world version of the phenomenon that Demkowicz had modeled in computer simulations.

MetalS Heal Thyself?

“Cracks in metals were only ever expected to get bigger, not smaller,” explained Brad Boyce, a materials scientist at Sandia Labs. “Even some of the basic equations we use to describe crack growth preclude the possibility of such healing processes.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the myriad examples of accidental discoveries throughout the history of science, Boyce said that their experiments were actually designed for another purpose altogether and that they “certainly weren’t looking for it” when they saw the cracks seem to heal themselves magically.

Instead, Khalid Hattar, currently an associate professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Chris Barr, who is now at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, was running a simple experiment that involved a specialized electron microscope technique designed to pull on the ends of metal 200 times per second. In this case, that metal was a piece of platinum that Hattar and Barr were studying to see how these microscale cracks form under this repeated stress. And then they saw something unexpected that left them stunned.

“About 40 minutes into the experiment, the damage reversed course,” the team explains in a press release announcing the unexpected finding. “One end of the crack fused back together as if it was retracing its steps, leaving no trace of the former injury.”

metal repairs itself (Credit: Sandia Labs)

Although Boyce was familiar with the theory laid out by Demkowicz, he was still shocked to see it actually happen.

“This was absolutely stunning to watch first-hand,” he said.

The stunned scientist immediately communicated the findings to Demkowicz, letting him know that his theory and simulations were right.

“I was very glad to hear it, of course,” Demkowicz said of his initial reaction before successfully confirming on his simulation software that the effect the research team working at Sandi was witnessing was indeed the same one he had theorized.

metals repair themselves Ryan Schoell works on a transmission electron microscope at Sandia Labs, analyzing how a sample of platinum gold cracks at a microscopic level on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Laboratories

Practical Application of the Self-Repair Process Offers Challenges and Hope

While the researchers involved are confident in their findings, which were published in the journal Nature, they also caution that applying it in a real-world environment will face many challenges and may not necessarily even be possible.

“The extent to which these findings are generalizable will likely become a subject of extensive research,” Boyce explained. “We show this happening in nanocrystalline metals in [a] vacuum. But we don’t know if this can also be induced in conventional metals in air.”

Still, the theorists and researchers believe it is worth more investigation, and if successful, they see a number of critical potential applications. These include helping bridges, buildings, and other pieces of critical infrastructure last longer and be safer for a longer period of time before needing traditional maintenance. The same goes for aerospace, aviation, and even automotive and maritime engineers, who would likely jump at the opportunity to help the critical components they maintain see dramatic reductions in material failures that, in some cases, end up being fatal.

“From solder joints in our electronic devices to our vehicle’s engines to the bridges that we drive over, these structures often fail unpredictably due to cyclic loading that leads to crack initiation and eventual fracture,” Boyce said. “When they do fail, we have to contend with replacement costs, lost time, and, in some cases, even injuries or loss of life. The economic impact of these failures is measured in hundreds of billions of dollars every year for the U.S.”

Fundamentally, Demkowicz says he is happy to have offered his fellow scientists dealing with the properties of materials a new way of looking at old problems.

“My hope is that this finding will encourage materials researchers to consider that, under the right circumstances, materials can do things we never expected,” Demkowicz said.

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Ex-US Army Claimed Over 100 E.T. Civilizations Have Visited Earth, One Looks Like Humans

Major Robert Dean On ET visit

Ex-US Army Claimed Over 100 E.T. Civilizations Have Visited Earth, One Looks Like Humans

The presence of non-human intelligence on Earth has long been debated by UFO enthusiasts as some claim that the US government is hiding the truth from the general public. Many officials who worked within the government have supported these claims on/off camera. Moreover, if Robert O. Dean’s claims about UFOs and extraterrestrials are true, then they have the potential to turn the world upside down.

Robert O. Dean, a former US Army Command Sergeant Major, revealed shocking information regarding extraterrestrial visitation. Drawing upon his experiences and knowledge from his time in the military, Major Dean shared intriguing details about various extraterrestrial groups and their interaction with humanity. His revelations indicate that the reality of extraterrestrial life extends far beyond what we previously imagined.

His credibility cannot be questioned as he worked at NATO headquarter from 1963 to 1967. He claimed to have come across the 1964 report called “An Assessment,” the NATO military study that acknowledged and analyzed the implications of the alien presence on Earth. After his military career, he revealed this information at the Roswell 50th anniversary celebration.

During his lecture on UFOs at Leeds University, Major Dean said that authorities were aware of the presence of four distinct extraterrestrial groups during his active service. However, by the time he retired, this knowledge expanded exponentially. He claimed that the United States military, and likely the British military as well, were aware of at least 12 different groups involved in interactions with Earth.

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Former US military retired Major Robert Dean. Image in public domain

Astonishingly, he mentioned hearing from trusted sources that there may be well over a hundred different alien groups coming and going from unknown origins. Such a revelation challenged the conventional understanding of alien visitation and suggested a complex interplay between Earth and various extraterrestrial civilizations.

Of the four alien main groups, one particular group caught the attention of high-ranking military officials in 1964 and 1967. This group resembled humans to such an extent that they could seamlessly blend into society, sitting beside people on airplanes, in restaurants, or even in theaters without arousing suspicion.

The uncanny resemblance troubled military leaders profoundly, as their natural paranoia led them to question the possibility of alien intelligence freely navigating the corridors of power, such as SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) headquarters or even the Pentagon. The notion that these beings could potentially infiltrate the White House triggered a mix of nervous laughter and concern among the military personnel present.

However, Major Dean emphasized that the resemblance between these extraterrestrial beings and humans should be interpreted differently. He proposed that it was humanity who shared a likeness with these advanced beings, suggesting a profound connection between the two. He hinted that there existed a compelling reason for this similarity, which he regrettably did not elaborate on during the lecture.

Moreover, Major Dean revealed that extraterrestrial visitation extended far beyond simple interplanetary interaction. The military, scientists, and planners learned that we were dealing with beings from interstellar and even intergalactic origins. Surprisingly, these advanced non-human intellgence exhibited multi-dimensional characteristics, which enabled them to manipulate both matter and time. The repeated demonstrations of these mind-bending capabilities were intended to capture humanity’s attention and challenge our understanding of the universe.

He emphasized that these alien visitors were not merely curious explorers from other planets, but were deeply interested in humanity itself. Their multi-dimensional nature and mastery over time and matter presented a mind-boggling challenge to traditional Newtonian and Einsteinian physics.

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Major Dean expressed that only theoretical physicists, particularly those specializing in quantum physics, were equipped to begin comprehending the intricacies of multi-dimensional visitation. He acknowledged the ongoing collaboration between quantum physicists in the United States and Great Britain, suggesting that they were at the forefront of unraveling this enigma.

As Major Dean admitted, he is not a physicist or scientist, making it difficult for him to explain the intricacies of dimensions. He said: “I’m not a physicist, I’m not a scientist. I can’t begin to tell you what a dimension is, for that matter. I’m told we live in three, and that’s quite a simple world that we have around us. I’m told that time and space is the fourth.

Theoretical physicists have told me that there are as many as ten different dimensions. I cannot, for a moment, grasp what that means. I do, however, accept that it’s probably real. The evidence that I have seen over my last 40 years has told me that this is not fantasy, this is not science fiction, this is all real. And, ladies and gentlemen, this reality, when it becomes known and when it makes an impact upon our world, is going to change our world forever. You talk about a paradigm shift, that’s an understatement. The old world we have known for so long is literally coming to an end, and it’s just around the corner.”

During the Barcelona Exopolitics Summit, on July 25, 2009, Mr. Dean released a set of amazing images. He also explained the Apollo missions and what the astronauts encountered unlike anyone before. He released to the public a set of fascinating images supposedly captured by the astronauts of the Apollo 12 mission, including an image showing some mysterious spacecraft several hundred feet in diameter.

In his 41 years of federal service to the United States, Mr. Dean heard a lot of bizarre things, but the thing that the human race is a hybrid race stunned him. He said: “I’ve learned that we are not merely alone; we have never been alone. We have had an intimate interrelationship with advanced extraterrestrial intelligence from the beginning of our history. And let me tell you that that intimate interrelationship is still going on.”

He continued: “This one race, in particular, apparently reengineered us as a species about 200,000 years ago. What we are here today is what we call homo sapien sapiens — you’re an engineered creature. Your genetics have been manipulated. You’re not the same as what you were and you are not the same as to what your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be in the next hundred years.” (Click here to read the full story)

Major Dean, a prominent figure in the field of UFOlogy, made significant contributions and was recognized with three-lifetime achievement awards. He enjoyed widespread support on the Internet, with many believing in his legitimacy. Sadly, Mr. Dean passed away on October 11, 2018, at the age of 89 in Tucson, Arizona.

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Buitenaards intelligent leven blijkt misschien nóg zeldzamer dan gedacht

Buitenaards intelligent leven blijkt misschien nóg zeldzamer dan gedacht

Andrei Stiru - Redacteur
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De kans dat we ooit een buitenaardse beschaving ontmoeten, lijkt bijzonder klein. Volgens nieuw onderzoek zouden de dichtstbijzijnde intelligente aliens wel 33.000 lichtjaar verderop kunnen zitten en bovendien miljoenen jaren ouder zijn dan wij.

Tot die conclusie komen onderzoekers Manuel Scherf en Helmut Lammer van het Oostenrijkse instituut voor ruimteonderzoek. Zij berekenden welke strikte voorwaarden een planeet moet vervullen om niet alleen leven, maar ook intelligentie en technologie mogelijk te maken. Uit hun werk blijkt dat zulke omstandigheden wellicht veel minder vaak voorkomen dan vaak wordt aangenomen.

Andere kant van de Melkweg
Om die afstand in perspectief te plaatsen: licht reist met 300.000 kilometer per seconde, maar heeft nog steeds 33.000 jaar nodig om zo ver te komen. Ons zonnestelsel staat zelf op ongeveer 27.000 lichtjaar van het centrum van de Melkweg. De dichtstbijzijnde technologische soort zou dus zomaar zo ver kunnen leven, dat we er nooit contact mee zullen hebben. 

En dan is er nog de factor tijd. Om slechts tien beschavingen tegelijkertijd in de Melkweg te hebben, zou hun gemiddelde levensduur boven de tien miljoen jaar moeten liggen, zo berekenden de onderzoekers. Als we al ooit contact maken, dan is die beschaving vrijwel zeker miljoenen jaren ouder dan de onze. In nog geen tweehonderd jaar sprong de mensheid van de stoommachine naar ruimtevluchten, het internet en kunstmatige intelligentie. Wat kan een soort bereiken met miljoenen jaren extra voorsprong, als ze zo lang weet te overleven? Zou zo’n soort niet al doorheen de Melkweg zijn verspreid? En als dat zo is, waarom zien we hen dan nergens? 

De rol van plaattektoniek
Juist het feit dat we op die vragen geen antwoord hebben, toont volgens de onderzoekers hoe uitzonderlijk de voorwaarden voor intelligent leven zijn. Een van de belangrijkste factoren is plaattektoniek, de constante verschuiving van aardplaten die ook op onze planeet plaatsvindt.

Dat systeem houdt de hoeveelheid koolstofdioxide in de atmosfeer binnen leefbare grenzen. Te weinig en fotosynthese stopt, waardoor ecosystemen instorten. Te veel en een planeet verandert in een broeikashel, zoals Venus. Elke planeet heeft bovendien een ingebouwde limiet, zeggen de onderzoekers. Op een gegeven moment wordt er zoveel koolstofdioxide uit de atmosfeer getrokken dat fotosynthese ophoudt te werken. Voor de aarde gebeurt dat naar verwachting tussen de 200 miljoen en 1 miljard jaar in de toekomst. Ter vergelijking: het duurde 4,5 miljard jaar voordat er mensen rondliepen. Waren we een half miljard jaar later, dan waren we misschien nooit op tijd geweest om een beschaving te ontwikkelen.

Zuurstof als voorwaarde voor technologie
Maar er is meer nodig dan alleen de juiste hoeveelheid koolstofdioxide. Ook zuurstof speelt een cruciale rol. Een beschaving heeft minstens 18 procent zuurstof in de atmosfeer nodig om vuur te kunnen maken. Zonder vuur geen smeltende metalen, en dus geen technologie.

Als je alle getallen naast elkaar legt, wordt het beeld pas echt ontmoedigend. Een technologische soort op een planeet met 10 procent CO2 zou volgens de berekeningen van de onderzoekers minstens 280.000 jaar moeten standhouden voordat er zelfs maar één andere beschaving tegelijkertijd in de Melkweg bestaat. Planeten met minder CO2, zoals de aarde, hebben een nog kortere levensduur als broedplaats voor intelligente soorten.

Kanttekeningen bij het onderzoek
De onderzoekers erkennen dat hun berekeningen niet het complete plaatje geven. Er zijn andere factoren die ze nog niet konden meenemen, zoals hoe vaak leven überhaupt ontstaat, hoe vaak fotosynthese evolueert, of hoe vaak intelligent leven daadwerkelijk technologie ontwikkelt.

Mocht elk van die factoren een hoge kans hebben, dan hoeft buitenaardse intelligentie helemaal niet zo zeldzaam te zijn, erkennen ze. Maar als de kans bij elk van die stappen juist laag is, dan kan een nog somberder scenario realistischer zijn. En dat betekent misschien wel dat we écht alleen zijn. Maar of dat zo is of niet, verandert niets aan wat schrijver Arthur C. Clarke ooit zei: “er zijn twee mogelijkheden: ofwel zijn we alleen in het universum, ofwel zijn we dat niet. Beide mogelijkheden zijn even beangstigend.”

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A history of human attempts to build flying saucers

A history of human attempts to build flying saucers

UFO Flying Low Over Trees

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A flying saucer might sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but for decades humans have tried to build them. The technology that allows for flying saucer-shaped aircraft to work effectively has been a challenge for scientists and engineers. Still, there have been a few occasions where such aircraft were (vaguely) successful. One attempt in particular, which took place in 2019, might just be a game changer.

In this gallery, we look back at the times when humans tried to build flying saucers. Click on.

A history of human attempts to build flying saucers

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A history of human attempts to build flying saucers
A flying saucer might sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but for decades humans have tried to build them. The technology that allows for flying saucer-shaped aircraft to work effectively has been a challenge for scientists and engineers. Still, there have been a few occasions where such aircraft were (vaguely) successful. One attempt in particular, which took place in 2019, might just be a game changer.

In this gallery, we look back at the times when humans tried to build flying saucers. Click on.

The flying saucer

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The flying saucer
Unlike a fighter jet or a bomber, the flying saucer is an aircraft design that is yet to be mastered. This, however, never stopped engineers from trying to make them.

Aerodynamics

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Aerodynamics
But first, it’s important to understand why a circular wing might not be a great idea. As far as aerodynamics is concerned, the lift-induced drag makes circular wings inefficient.

Stability and control

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Stability and control
The flying saucer poses problems when it comes to stability and control. The arm available is pretty small, making it harder to control.

Stability and control

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Stability and control
For designs like the flying saucer, keeping stable at low speeds could be an issue, unless the entire structure spins, like a frisbee.

How about spinning discs?

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How about spinning discs?
Sure, this could potentially work, but it would have to be unmanned, as a pilot is unlikely to be able to endure it.

Experiments

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Experiments
But despite all the challenges, some inventors have tried to make their own versions of flying saucers. Let’s take a look at some of them.

Lee-Richards annular monoplane

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Lee-Richards annular monoplane
The first experiments with a disc-shaped aircraft date back to 1913 with the Lee-Richards annular monoplane.

Lee-Richards annular monoplane

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Lee-Richards annular monoplane
An annual or flat ring-shaped wing aircraft was built by Cedric Lee and G. Tilghman Richards, and manufactured by James Radley (here pictured in a monoplane).

Lee-Richards annular monoplane

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Lee-Richards annular monoplane
The Lee-Richards annular monoplane was taken to Famine Point at Heysham, UK, for trials, but its performance was deemed “not particularly satisfactory.”

Arup S-2

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Arup S-2
While not a flying saucer just yet, the Arup S-2 was a low aspect ratio wing aircraft that deserves a mention. It was developed in the US and first flew in 1933.

Vought V-173

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Vought V-173
Following the events at Pearl Harbor, the US Navy started working on the Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake."

Vought V-173

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Vought V-173
The aircraft had a flat body shaped like a pancake and an "all-wing" design.

Vought V-173

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Vought V-173
The Vought V-173 was developed by aeronautical engineer Charles H. Zimmerman under World War II’s Vought XF5U program. It had its first flight in 1942 and was retired five years later.

Vought XF5U

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Vought XF5U
This US Navy fighter aircraft shared some characteristics with the Vought V-173, but it was considerably larger and heavier.

Vought XF5U

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Vought XF5U
The Vought XF5U "Flying Flapjack" was developed by Charles H. Zimmerman (pictured).

Vought XF5U

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Vought XF5U
The XF5U-1 wasn’t ready until June 1945, so its use to serve in World War II was redundant.

Nazi UFOs

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Nazi UFOs
There were rumors that German aeronautical engineers were developing a flying saucer of their own. Could these have been the foo fighters witnessed by both Allied and Axis pilots during the war?

Aerodyne RC-360

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Aerodyne RC-360
French aeronautical engineer Rene Couzinet designed the Aerodyne RC-360 in 1955.

Aerodyne RC-360

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Aerodyne RC-360
A 60% concept scale model of Couzinet’s radially symmetric aircraft was built, but the world never witnessed a full-scale one. How it would have worked, we will never know.

Projects Y and Y-2

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Projects Y and Y-2
Projects Y and Y-2 were the first steps in the development of flying saucers, first by Canada, and then by the US. Pictured is the Project Y mock-up in the Experimental Flight Hangar in 1954.

Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar

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Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar
The Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar was developed as a secret US military project during the Cold War. Developed by Avro Canada, the aircraft was first tested in 1959.

Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar

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Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar
The Avro VZ-9-A used a single "turborotor" to provide lift and thrust. It was designed to reach high speeds and altitudes, but that didn’t quite happen.

Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar

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Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar
The Avro VZ-9-A was initially intended to work as a fighter aircraft by the US Air Force, but it ended up being taken up by the US Army as a tactical combat aircraft (similar to a helicopter).

Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar

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Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar
Pictured are US Army Avrocars portrayed as "flying jeeps" in company literature.

Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar

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Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar
The concept was developed by British aircraft designer "Jack" Frost. Frost went on to register a number of patents on aircraft propulsion and control, such as the air cushion effect used in flying saucer-type aircraft.

Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar

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Avro VZ-9-A Avrocar
Pictured is an image taken from the Avro VZ-9-A manual.

Flying saucers of the 21st century

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Flying saucers of the 21st century
In 2019, Romanian inventor Razvan Sabie and scientist Iosif Taposu unveiled a new All-Directional Flying Object. "The aerodynamics behind this aircraft is the result of more than two decades of work," Sabie said.

All-Directional Flying Object

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All-Directional Flying Object
"And is very well reasoned in hundreds of pages and confirmed by computer simulations and wind tunnel tests," he added.

Is it alien technology?

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Is it alien technology?
Flying saucers are inherently linked to UFO sightings. The technology is not easy to master, and so far it hasn’t been developed on a commercial scale. This has led many ufologists to believe that such advanced technology can only come from outer space.

Sources:

  • (24/7 Wall St.)
  • (Popular Mechanics)
  • (Science Alert)
  • (Hush-Kit)

See also:The most famous UFO sightings in the world

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Roswell footage uploaded to National Archives shows crashed 'UFO debris and alien bodies'

A nearly 22-minute video titled 'The Roswell Incident' has been quietly uploaded to the National Archives, reigniting interest in the infamous 1947 crash.

The footage combines still images and motion-control camera shots sourced from the published Roswell Report, as well as various magazines and books about UFOs. 

It opens with a shot of the book 'The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert' and ends with a stark black-and-white image that appears to show a crash site, with debris scattered across a massive crater in the ground.

The video has flooded the internet, with users claiming the crater bears a striking resemblance to eyewitness reports, suggesting it could be 'the first pictures of the 1947 UFO crash site.'

Major Jesse Marcel, who recovered debris from the crash, described the scene as 'a large area heavily scattered with metallic debris from a single impact point that scarred the earth.' 

Some viewers have also pointed to a dark formation on the right side of the image, claiming it resembles an alien body. 

UFO expert Mark Lee told the Daily Mail that the crater image was likely included to add intrigue. 

'In my opinion, it's either a hoax,' he said. 'Just because it's been added to the National Archives doesn't give it scientific validation. If it came out as a release from the military or Congress, I would take it a lot more seriously.'

Lee also noted that the 'alien' in the photo is nothing more than a case of pareidolia, a psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random stimuli.

A video titled 'The Roswell Incident' was uploaded to the National Archives. Social media users claim an image in the footage shows UFO debris (left) and an alien body (right)
A video titled 'The Roswell Incident' was uploaded to the National Archives. Social media users claim an image in the footage shows UFO debris (left) and an alien body (right)

The newly uploaded video appears to focus on 'The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert,' a 1995 book that attributes the crashed 'UFO' debris to Project Mogul.

Project Mogul was a top-secret US military program from 1947 to 1949 that used high-altitude balloons equipped with microphones to detect sound waves from Soviet atomic bomb tests. 

A 1994 military investigation concluded that the debris found at the Roswell site was likely pieces of a high-altitude balloon from Project Mogul, not an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 

Despite this official explanation, the newly uploaded video has sparked debate online, with viewers offering widely differing interpretations.

'National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has uploaded a video of the Roswell 1947 UAP Crash site,' one user shared.

Another user posted on X: 'Like noted UFO researcher Grant Cameron has stated plenty of times, sometimes the disclosure of the real deal is a purposefully placed needle in the haystack. Roswell: slow drip…drip, drip, drip.'

In addition to the debris spotted in the footage, one user shared: 'Grey alien in the official video from the Roswell crash site.'

However, some social media suggested the footage 'is B-roll for the Roswell Report, and the images being posted do not show the Roswell debris site, nor does it even claim it's the actual debris site.'

Major Jesse Marcel, who recovered debris from the crash, described the scene as 'a large area heavily scattered with metallic debris from a single impact point that scarred the earth.' He said the debris could not melt or heat up and could not be punctured

Major Jesse Marcel, who recovered debris from the crash, described the scene as 'a large area heavily scattered with metallic debris from a single impact point that scarred the earth.' He said the debris could not melt or heat up and could not be punctured

One user posted: 'It’s clearly B-roll for that Roswell presentation the government put together in 1996. Someone must have found this and uploaded it in the last couple of days.'

Others have suggested a dead alien can be seen in the image, pointing to what Marcle said following the Roswell incident.

'I later found out that the pilot of the aircraft was a Captain Henderson, who apparently saw far more than just the debris from the impact site... he may in fact have seen the remains of a crew,' the now deceased major said. 

In July 1947, a rancher reported pieces of debris scattered over his land.

Authorities were called to the scene and, after investigating the wreckage, determined the pieces were from a flying saucer.

The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land

The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land

The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army Field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land.

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'The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today that the field has come into the possession of a Flying Saucer,' Roswell Daily Record reported on July 8, 1947.

The statement was given by Marcel, who was the first on the scene and led the investigation, which he determined were pieces from an extraterrestrial vehicle. 

He also said that the material spread out from this point into a triangular-shaped area 200 to 300 feet wide at the end of the field, and 3/4 of a mile long.

Shortly after the 'UFO' discovery made headlines, the War Department in Washington released a statement claiming the debris was the remains of a weather balloon.

The US Air Force stated the weather balloon was part of Project Mogul's airborne system invented by Columbia University, New York University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

It was designed to search the atmosphere for weak reverberations from nuclear-test blasts.

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Is Cleopatra's tomb UNDERWATER? Scientists discover sunken port near the ruins of Taposiris Magna that could lead to her lost grave

Is Cleopatra's tomb UNDERWATER? Scientists discover sunken port near the ruins of Taposiris Magna that could lead to her lost grave

She's remembered as one of the most powerful and seductive queens in history. 

Now, explorers say they're closer than ever to finding Cleopatra's lost tomb – and it could be underwater. 

They've found a sunken port in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea, about two miles off the coast of Alexandria, the historic ancient city. 

And the submerged port, at a depth of about 40 feet, could lead to the remains of the lost lovers. 

Cleopatra, who ruled Egypt from 51 BC to 30 BC, used her beauty and sexual allure to get what she wanted. 

She famously had a long line of lovers, including Roman dictator Julius Caesar and one of his successors, Mark Antony.

Cleopatra and Antony both died by suicide and were buried together. 

But ever since their death more than 2,000 years ago, their final resting place has been unaccounted for.

The port (pictured in this 3D rendering) was once along Egypt's coastline, but because of coastal erosion it is now out to sea

The port (pictured in this 3D rendering) was once along Egypt's coastline, but because of coastal erosion it is now out to sea

The submerged port, at a depth of about 40 feet, could lead to the remains of lost lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony

The submerged port, at a depth of about 40 feet, could lead to the remains of lost lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony

Cleopatra (pictured played by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 film) was Egypt's last pharaoh and the ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, from 51 BC until her death 30 BC, at the age of just 39Cleopatra ruled from 51 BC to 30 BC - right up until the day she died. She was the queen of Egypt and the last and most famous of the Ptolemaic dynasty

Cleopatra VII, known both as a seductress with a captivating personality, used her charms to seduce Julius Caesar to cement Egypt's alliance with Rome 

The offshore port, flooded with water, was once connected to Taposiris Magna, a historic city containing an ancient temple dedicated to Osiris, god of death. 

Taposiris Magna, whose name means 'great tomb of Osiris', is located about 30 miles from Alexandria, which was once the country's capital.

Kathleen Martínez, an explorer and long-time hunter of Cleopatra's grave, discovered the port in a fresh round of dives with Bob Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic. 

And the port, which was connected to the temple, may provide a 'crucial clue' about the tomb's whereabouts, or even lead to the location of the tomb itself. 

The newly-found structure consists of columns, polished stone floors and scattered amphora, the tall jugs historically used for carrying wine – showing there was activity there. 

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, which announced the news on Facebook, calls this potential evidence of 'ancient marine activity'. 

Now, it's just 'a matter of time' before the tomb is finally found, said Martínez, who has been searching Taposiris Magna since October 2005. 

'After 2,000 years nobody has ever been there,' Martínez told National Geographic. 'We are the first ones.' 

Seafloor map of the waters off the coast of Taposiris Magna, a historic city containing an ancient temple

Seafloor map of the waters off the coast of Taposiris Magna, a historic city containing an ancient temple

The port consists of columns, polished stone floors and scattered amphora, the tall jugs historically used for carrying wine

The port consists of columns, polished stone floors and scattered amphora, the tall jugs historically used for carrying wine

The scattering of ancient archaeological evidence helps confirm the existence of the port, now a couple of miles offshore

The scattering of ancient archaeological evidence helps confirm the existence of the port, now a couple of miles offshore

Taposiris Magna temple, whose name means 'great tomb of Osiris', is located near the ancient Egyptian capital of Alexandria. Pictured, an internal view towards south of the temple

Taposiris Magna temple, whose name means 'great tomb of Osiris', is located near the ancient Egyptian capital of Alexandria. Pictured, an internal view towards south of the temple

What is Taposiris Magna?

Taposiris Magna is a city in Egypt established by Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus between 280 and 270 BC. The name meaning 'great tomb of Osiris' likely comes from the great temple there. 

Its position on the arm of the now dried up bed of Lake Mareotis suggests it may have played a role in trade between Egypt and Libya.

Traders from the west would be able to go by water to the harbor, then take a caravan route onwards.

The temple at Taposiris Magna is widely considered by experts to be the final resting plane of pharaoh Cleopatra and her lover Mark Antony. 

Back in 2022, Martínez and her team discovered a 4,300-foot tunnel carved through layers of rock under the ruins of Taposiris Magna. 

Inside they found ceramic jars and pottery from the time of the Ptolemaic dynasty, of which Cleopatra was the last ruler. 

Martínez believes Cleopatra was transported to Taposiris Magna after her death, carried through the underground tunnel to the direction of the port, and laid to rest there.

The tunnel points 'directly' at the port, suggesting the original function of the two are related, perhaps part of a secret network. 

However, the expert can't rule out that the tomb is somewhere among the ruins of the temple, which has largely been the assumption. 

'Nobody can tell me that Cleopatra is not at Taposiris Magna,' Martínez said. 'To say that you have to excavate the whole area and not find her.' 

Cleopatra was Egypt's last pharaoh and the ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, from 51 BC until her death 30 BC, at the age of just 39, after her defeat in the Roman civil wars. 

She famously used her charms to first seduce Julius Caesar to cement Egypt's alliance with Rome, and then to seduce one of his successors, Mark Antony.

The tunnel, found in 2022, sits about 43 feet underneath Egypt's ancient Taposiris Magna Temple, or 'Great tomb of Osiris', located outside ancient Egypt's capital Alexandria

The tunnel, found in 2022, sits about 43 feet underneath Egypt's ancient Taposiris Magna Temple, or 'Great tomb of Osiris', located outside ancient Egypt's capital Alexandria

Experts can't rule out that the tomb is somewhere among the ruins of the temple, which has largely been the assumption. Pictured, the tunnel carved in rock

Experts can't rule out that the tomb is somewhere among the ruins of the temple, which has largely been the assumption. Pictured, the tunnel carved in rock

In order to fix herself and Antony as rulers in the minds of the Egyptian people, she also worked hard to associate them with the myth of Isis and Osiris.

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According to the myth, Osiris was killed and hacked into pieces that were scattered across Egypt. After finding all of the pieces and making her husband whole again, Isis was able to resurrect him for a time.

Martínez thinks that the queen actually devised a plan so that the body of her and her lover would end up in a place the Romans would not even think to look. 

She had to choose a location where she could feel safe for her afterlife with Mark Antony, Martínez told National Geographic. 

More than 2,000 years later, whatever Cleopatra's plan was still seems to be working. 

A new documentary covering the dive, 'Cleopatra’s Final Secret', will premiere on National Geographic on Thursday, September 25, and stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu. 

ANTHONY, CLEOPATRA AND THE PTOLEMAIC DYNASTY

 Cleopatra, often known as the world's first celebrity, was the last of a long line to Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt – descended from Greek general Alexander the Great. 

By the time of her birth, his empire had been reduced to a shadow of its former self, while the ruling class was prone to bitter in-fighting.

Married to her brother Ptolemy XIII in her father's will, she united with Julius Caesar against him - famously having herself smuggled to see the Roman general inside a carpet so she could strike terms with him.

After his murder in 44BC Egypt, Mark Anthony was appointed to oversee the eastern reaches of the Republic - including the independent kingdom of Egypt.

Though married to Octavian's sister, Anthony formed a relationship with Cleopatra and had three children with her.

Eventually Anthony and Octavian turned against one-another and fought for control of the Republic, which ended with defeat at the Battle of Actium.

Octavian chased Anthony and Cleopatra back to Alexandria, where they were eventually captured.

Anthony died in Cleopatra's arms after fatally stabbing himself, before she also committed suicide - reportedly by letting an asp bite her.

Octavian returned to Italy where he became the first Emperor of Rome, while Cleopatra and Anthony were buried in Egypt. 

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NASA onthult MEERDERE levensvormen die waarschijnlijk op Mars hebben geleefd

NASA onthult MEERDERE levensvormen die waarschijnlijk op Mars hebben geleefd

Sinds de landing van NASA’s Perseverance-rover op Mars in februari 2021 staat het rode planeetoppervlak volop in de schijnwerpers van wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Met de missie in het bijzonder gericht op het vinden van sporen van oud leven, heeft de rover al verschillende aanwijzingen gevonden dat Mars in het verleden gunstige omstandigheden heeft gekend voor het ontstaan en mogelijk ook het bestaan van leven. Recent wetenschappelijk onderzoek bevestigt dat Mars meerdere periodes heeft gekend waarin vloeibaar water op het oppervlak aanwezig was, met elk hun eigen chemische samenstelling en milieufactoren. Deze bevindingen brengen ons steeds dichter bij het antwoord op de vraag of Mars ooit een bewoonbare wereld was en of er mogelijk nog levensvormen hebben geleefd in het verre verleden.

De zoektocht naar water op Mars

Het belangrijkste motief achter veel van het Mars-onderzoek is de aanname dat vloeibaar water essentieel is voor het ontstaan en voortbestaan van leven zoals wij dat kennen. De afgelopen jaren heeft de Perseverance-rover talrijke bewijzen verzameld dat het oppervlak van Mars ooit gevuld was met meren, rivieren en delta’s. Zo heeft de rover onder meer sporen gevonden van oude rivierbeddingen, organische moleculen en bijzondere rotsformaties die wijzen op een rijke geologische geschiedenis.

Scientists have found strong evidence that Mars was inhabited multiple times

Wetenschappers hebben sterk bewijs gevonden dat Mars meerdere keren bewoond was.

De kern van de recente ontdekkingen ligt in de analyse van de mineralen die door de rover zijn geïdentificeerd in de Jezero-krater, een gebied dat zo’n 45 kilometer in doorsnede meet en bekend staat om zijn complexe geologische structuur. Deze krater bevat een uitgestrekte delta van een oude rivier, die zich mogelijk enkele miljarden jaren geleden heeft gevormd. Door het bestuderen van de samenstelling van de mineralen in deze regio kunnen wetenschappers inzicht krijgen in de omgeving waarin ze zijn gevormd en de geschiedenis van vloeibaar water op Mars.

Hoe mineralen ons vertellen over het verleden

Om de geschiedenis van Mars en de omstandigheden waarin de planeet ooit verkeerde te kunnen interpreteren, maken wetenschappers gebruik van geavanceerde technieken en instrumenten die inzicht geven in de chemische samenstelling van rotsen en sedimenten. Mineralen vormen daarbij belangrijke bewijzen, omdat ze vaak ontstaan onder specifieke milieuprocessen en omstandigheden. Door deze mineralen te bestuderen, kunnen onderzoekers reconstructies maken van het verleden van Mars, inclusief de aanwezigheid en het verloop van vloeibaar water, het klimaat en mogelijk zelfs de voorwaarden voor het ontstaan van leven.

Een van de belangrijkste methoden die hierbij wordt toegepast, is de Mineral Identification by Stoichiometry (MIST). Dit is een geavanceerd algoritme dat chemische gegevens verzamelt en vergelijkt met een uitgebreide database van bekende mineralen. MIST analyseert de chemische samenstelling van rotsen en sedimenten op basis van hun elementaire verhoudingen, waardoor het nauwkeurig kan bepalen om welke mineralen het gaat. Deze methode is bijzonder krachtig omdat het snel en betrouwbaar grote hoeveelheden data kan verwerken en mineralen kan identificeren die met het blote oog of met eenvoudige instrumenten moeilijk te onderscheiden zijn.

Daarnaast wordt op Mars het Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) ingezet. PIXL maakt gebruik van röntgenstraling (X-ray spectroscopie) om de chemische samenstelling van gesteenten en sedimenten in detail in kaart te brengen. Het instrument is zeer nauwkeurig en kan op microniveau bepalen welke elementen aanwezig zijn en in welke verhoudingen. Hierdoor krijgen wetenschappers een gedetailleerd chemisch beeld van de onderzochte rotsen, wat essentieel is voor het interpreteren van de milieuprocessen die ze gevormd hebben.

Door het combineren van deze technieken heeft het onderzoeksteam op Mars belangrijke ontdekkingen gedaan over de geschiedenis van vloeibaar water op de planeet. Zo zijn er twee hoofdgroepen mineralen geïdentificeerd die verschillende periodes van wateractiviteit aangeven. De eerste groep bevat mineralen zoals greenalite, hisingerite en ferroaluminoceladoniet. Deze mineralen wijzen erop dat ze gevormd zijn onder omstandigheden van hoge temperatuur en zure pH, wat wijst op een omgeving die mogelijk niet erg leefvriendelijk was. De tweede groep bestaat uit mineralen die ontstaan onder meer neutrale en matig alkalische omstandigheden. Deze omstandigheden zijn gunstiger voor het ontstaan en het onderhouden van leven, en geven aan dat er gedurende bepaalde periodes op Mars water aanwezig was in een meer leefbare staat.

Door de studie van deze mineralen krijgen wetenschappers niet alleen inzicht in de geologische geschiedenis van Mars, maar ook in de mogelijke omstandigheden waarin leven zich heeft kunnen ontwikkelen. Het onderzoek naar deze mineralen is dus niet alleen een venster op het verleden van de planeet, maar kan ook bijdragen aan de zoektocht naar bewijs voor leven buiten de aarde. De combinatie van geavanceerde chemische analysemethoden en instrumenten zoals MIST en PIXL vormt daarmee een essentieel onderdeel van de missie om de mysteries van Mars te ontrafelen.

The Perseverance rover discovered two dozen types of minerals that show a dynamic history of volcanic rocks altered by interactions with liquid water in the Jezero Crater

De Perseverance-rover ontdekte tweeëntwintig soorten mineralen die een dynamische geschiedenis van vulkanische rotsen tonen die zijn veranderd door interacties met vloeibaar water in de Jezero-krater.

Drie periodes van vloeibaar water

De belangrijkste conclusie uit het onderzoek is dat er in de geologische geschiedenis van Mars minstens drie aparte periodes waren waarin vloeibaar water op het oppervlak aanwezig was. Elke periode wordt gekenmerkt door verschillende chemische, fysische en milieufactoren die de potentie voor het ondersteunen van leven beïnvloeden. Deze periodes vormen een belangrijke schakel in het begrijpen van de evolutionaire geschiedenis van de planeet en bieden inzicht in de omstandigheden die mogelijk gunstig waren voor het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van microbieel leven. Door de chemische samenstelling, mineralogische vondsten en fysische omstandigheden te bestuderen, kunnen wetenschappers een gedetailleerd beeld schetsen van de veranderingen die Mars heeft doorgemaakt en de mogelijke habiele omgevingen die zich in de loop van de tijd hebben voorgedaan.

1. Eerste episode: Hoog-temperatuur, zure wateren
De eerste periode werd gekenmerkt door lokale, hoge-temperatuur en zure wateren, vooral geconcentreerd op de bodem van bepaalde kraters. Mineralen zoals greenalite en hisingerite die in deze fase werden aangetroffen, wijzen op een omgeving met een lage pH en hoge temperaturen. Dit wijst op agressieve chemische omstandigheden die mogelijk ontstaan zijn door vulkanische activiteit of hydrothermale systemen. Zulke omstandigheden zijn doorgaans ongeschikt voor het ontstaan van leven, omdat ze organische moleculen kunnen afbreken en ongunstige chemische reacties stimuleren. Toch is het belangrijk om deze periode te erkennen, omdat ze een eerste belangrijke fase vertegenwoordigen in de geologische geschiedenis van Mars. Het feit dat er water aanwezig was onder dergelijke omstandigheden betekent dat er vroeg in de geschiedenis van de planeet al processen plaatsvonden die de basis legden voor latere, meer gunstige milieus. Bovendien kan het bestuderen van deze zure wateren meer inzicht geven in de geochemische processen en de vulkanische geschiedenis van Mars, wat essentieel is voor het begrijpen van de evolutie van de planeet.

2. Tweede episode: Gematigde, neutrale omstandigheden
De tweede periode, ondersteund door het mineraalprofiel, vond plaats onder meer gematigde en neutrale chemische condities. In deze fase was de pH meer neutraal, en de temperaturen lager dan in de eerste periode. Mineralen zoals smectieten en chlorieten wijzen op een omgeving waarin water in grotere hoeveelheden en over langere tijd aanwezig was. Dit soort omstandigheden zijn gunstiger voor het ontstaan van leven, omdat ze stabielere chemische omstandigheden bieden en organische moleculen kunnen beschermen. De aanwezigheid van mineralen die wijzen op een neutrale pH en het bewijs voor langdurige waterfaciliteiten suggereren dat Mars in deze periode een stabiele en uitgebreide waterkringloop kende. Dit zou kunnen duiden op een klimaat dat vergelijkbaar is met dat van bepaalde aardse meren of oceanen. De mogelijkheid dat deze omstandigheden lang hebben geduurd, verhoogt de kans dat micro-organismen zich in deze omgeving konden vestigen en mogelijk evolueren. De tweede fase vertegenwoordigt dus een cruciale stap in de overgang van een agressieve, chemisch veeleisende omgeving naar een meer bewoonbare en stabiele situatie.

3. Derde episode: Laag-temperatuur, alkalische omstandigheden
De meest recente en waarschijnlijk meest leefbare periode wordt gekenmerkt door de vorming van mineralen in een omgeving met lage temperaturen en alkalische pH-waarden. Mineralen zoals carbonaten en serpenten wijzen op een chemie die stabiel is en organische moleculen kan beschermen tegen afbraak. De aanwezigheid van grote watermassa’s in deze periode suggereert dat Mars mogelijk langdurige meren of oceanen had, waarin micro-organismen zich konden ontwikkelen. Alkalische omstandigheden bieden een gunstig klimaat voor het ontstaan van leven omdat ze chemisch stabiel zijn en de afbraak van organische stoffen beperken. Bovendien kunnen deze omstandigheden een meer gevarieerd ecosysteem mogelijk maken door het bieden van een stabiele voedingsbodem voor microben. Het feit dat deze periode relatief recent zou kunnen zijn, geeft ook de mogelijkheid dat er nog steeds sporen van microbieel leven aanwezig kunnen zijn in ondergrondse wateren of mineralen die in deze periode zijn gevormd. Deze fase wordt daarom beschouwd als de meest gunstige voor het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van levensvormen op Mars.

Samenvatting en conclusie
De ontdekking van deze drie periodes benadrukt dat Mars door zijn geschiedenis heen verschillende milieus heeft gekend, elk met unieke chemische en fysische omstandigheden. Het onderzoek naar de mineralen en geochemische processen die in deze periodes plaatsvonden, helpt niet alleen bij het reconstrueren van de geologische geschiedenis van Mars, maar biedt ook belangrijke aanwijzingen voor de zoektocht naar bewijs voor voormalig leven op de planeet. De overgang van zure, hoge-temperatuur wateren naar meer stabiele, alkalische wateren wijst op een evolutie in het klimaat en de geochemie van Mars die mogelijk de voorwaarden voor het ontstaan van microbieel leven heeft gecreëerd. Het bestuderen van deze periodes biedt niet alleen inzicht in het verleden van Mars, maar vormt ook een leidraad voor toekomstige exploraties en het zoeken naar sporen van leven op Mars en mogelijk ook op andere planeten.

Curiosity nam deze selfie op een onderzoeklocatie die de naam Mary Anning heeft gekregen naar een negentiendeeeuwse Engelse paleontologe De rover heeft op deze locatie in de regio Glen Torridon drie gesteentemonsters uit een stuk rots geboord Wetenschappers denken dat de omstandigheden in dit gebied ooit geschikt waren voor levensvormen

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Curiosity nam deze selfie op een onderzoeklocatie die de naam ‘Mary Anning’ heeft gekregen, naar een negentiende-eeuwse Engelse paleontologe. De rover heeft op deze locatie, in de regio Glen Torridon, drie gesteentemonsters uit een stuk rots geboord. Wetenschappers denken dat de omstandigheden in dit gebied ooit geschikt waren voor levensvormen.

Wat betekent dit voor de mogelijkheid van leven?

De ontdekking dat Mars meerdere periodes van vloeibaar water heeft gekend met verschillende chemische eigenschappen, versterkt de hypothese dat de planeet mogelijk meerdere keer hospitaal- of leefbare omstandigheden heeft gekend. Vooral de laatste periode van alkalisch, laag-temperatuur water lijkt het meest geschikt voor het ondersteunen van microbieel leven, zoals dat op aarde voorkomt.

Eleanor Moreland, een promovenda aan Rice University en leidster van het onderzoek, benadrukt dat de mineralen die op Mars gevonden zijn, aangeven dat de planeet niet slechts één keer, maar meerdere keren, een bewoonbare omgeving heeft gekend. Volgens haar wijzen de chemische veranderingen in de mineralen op een dynamische en complexe geschiedenis van wateractiviteiten, die meerdere kansen bieden voor het ontstaan en overleven van leven.

De rol van de Perseverance-rover

De Perseverance-rover speelt een essentiële en veelzijdige rol in het verkennen van Mars en het uitbreiden van onze kennis over de rode planeet. Sinds haar succesvolle landing in februari 2021 op de Jezero-krater, een gebied dat wordt beschouwd als een van de meest veelbelovende locaties voor het vinden van bewijs voor oud leven, heeft de rover een breed scala aan wetenschappelijke taken uitgevoerd. Een van haar belangrijkste functies is het verzamelen van rots- en sedimentmonsters, die later in detail kunnen worden onderzocht om de geologische geschiedenis van Mars te ontrafelen.

De rover is uitgerust met een geavanceerd palet aan wetenschappelijke instrumenten, waaronder een chemisch analyserend apparaat genaamd SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) en een roterende boor genaamd the Sample Caching System. Hiermee kan Perseverance rotsmonsters boren, verzamelen en bewaren in speciale cacheeenheden die bedoeld zijn voor toekomstige terugkeer naar de aarde. Dit is een cruciale stap in het plan om Mars-monsters naar onze planeet te brengen, zodat ze op een veel gedetailleerder niveau kunnen worden onderzocht met de meest geavanceerde laboratoriumapparatuur.

Een van de voornaamste doelen van de missie is het detecteren van potentiële biosignaturen, oftewel tekenen van oud leven op Mars. Door het bestuderen van de chemische en mineralogische samenstelling van de monsters, probeert de rover te achterhalen of de omstandigheden ooit geschikt waren voor microbieel leven. Naast chemische analyses gebruikt Perseverance ook haar geologische en mineralogische instrumenten om de omgeving te interpreteren. Zo onderzoekt de rover bijvoorbeeld de aanwezigheid van mineralen die typisch zijn voor water, zoals clays en sulfaten, en bestudeert ze de stratificatie van de sedimenten om de historie van water op Mars te reconstrueren.

Daarnaast speelt Perseverance een belangrijke rol in het in kaart brengen van de geologische geschiedenis van de Jezero-krater en het bepalen van de beste locaties voor het verzamelen van monsters. Het onderzoeksteam streeft ernaar om te begrijpen onder welke omstandigheden water op Mars aanwezig was en hoe lang deze omstandigheden hebben geduurd. Dit is van groot belang omdat het inzicht kan geven in de potentiële leefbaarheid van Mars in het verleden en de vraag of microbieel leven mogelijk is geweest.

Het uiteindelijke doel van de missie is om gebieden te identificeren die het meest geschikt zijn voor het vinden van bewijs voor oud leven, en om deze monsters klaar te maken voor toekomstige sample-terugname missies. Door haar uitgebreide wetenschappelijke werkzaamheden en het verzamelen van waardevolle gegevens, levert Perseverance een onschatbare bijdrage aan onze zoektocht naar het ontstaan en de geschiedenis van het leven op Mars.

De impact van deze bevindingen

De bevindingen dat Mars verschillende periodes heeft gekend waarin vloeibaar water aanwezig was, elk met hun eigen unieke chemische en geologische samenstelling, hebben ingrijpende gevolgen voor onze interpretatie van de planeet en de mogelijke aanwezigheid van leven. Deze variaties in chemische profielen suggereren dat Mars gedurende zijn geschiedenis verschillende milieus heeft gekend, met mogelijk afwisselende omstandigheden die de ontwikkeling en het bestaan van micro-organismen zouden hebben kunnen ondersteunen. Het feit dat water niet slechts één keer, maar meerdere malen en onder verschillende chemische omstandigheden op Mars heeft voorkomen, vergroot de kans dat levensvormen zich onder verschillende omstandigheden hebben kunnen ontwikkelen en voortbestaan.

Deze bevindingen bieden bovendien nieuwe perspectieven voor het begrijpen van de geologische en biologisch-potentiële geschiedenis van Mars. Ze suggereren dat de planeet niet één enkele, statische omgeving was, maar een dynamisch werelddeel met diverse milieus die mogelijk verschillende stadia van habitabiliteit hebben doorgemaakt. Dit opent de deur naar het zoeken naar microfossielen of andere tekenen van vroegere leven in verschillende regio’s, afhankelijk van de chemische samenstelling en de leeftijd van de waterlagen.

Daarnaast helpt deze kennis bij het bepalen van de meest veelbelovende locaties voor het verzamelen van monsters die mogelijk terug naar de Aarde kunnen worden gebracht. Het is van groot belang dat deze monsters afkomstig zijn uit gebieden waar de omstandigheden het meest gunstig waren voor het ontstaan, de ontwikkeling en het behoud van leven. Dit kunnen bijvoorbeeld regio’s zijn met aanwijzingen voor langdurige waterbestendigheid, zoals oude rivierbeddingen, meren of ondergrondse waterlagen die mogelijk beschermende omstandigheden boden. Door gerichte bemonstering op deze locaties kunnen wetenschappers de kans vergroten op het vinden van bewijs voor vroegere leven op Mars, wat cruciaal is voor het beantwoorden van fundamentele vragen over de oorsprong van het leven in het universum.

In de Galekrater op Mars op de foto heeft de NASArover Curiosity gesteentemonsters genomen van rotsen met een verhoogd gehalte aan lichte koolstofisotopen  iets wat op aarde in verband wordt gebracht met de aanwezigheid van levensvormen

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De toekomst van Mars-onderzoek

De komende jaren wordt verwacht dat verdere analyses, nieuwe technologische ontwikkelingen en mogelijk zelfs sample terugkeermissies meer duidelijkheid zullen scheppen over de vraag of leven ooit op Mars heeft bestaan. Het sturen van robots en landers naar de Rode Planeet heeft de afgelopen decennia al veel kennis opgeleverd, maar het daadwerkelijke terughalen van monsters uit de planeetbodem biedt de ultieme mogelijkheid om de samenstelling ervan grondig te bestuderen in laboratoria op aarde. Door het analyseren van deze monsters kunnen wetenschappers onder meer de aanwezigheid van organische verbindingen en andere indicatoren van vroegere levensvormen opsporen, wat een cruciale stap is in het beantwoorden van de eeuwenoude vraag of Mars ooit bewoonbaar was.

De combinatie van mineralogische, chemische en geologische gegevens vormt daarbij een krachtig instrumentarium om de complexe geschiedenis van de Rode Planeet te ontrafelen. Zo kunnen we bijvoorbeeld inzicht krijgen in de vroegere klimaatveranderingen, de evolutie van het water op Mars, en de mogelijke omstandigheden waarin micro-organismen mogelijk hebben kunnen overleven. Geavanceerde instrumenten, zoals spectrometers en radarsystemen, worden ingezet om de samenstelling van gesteenten en mineralen te bepalen, terwijl orbiter- en lander-missies steeds meer gedetailleerde kaarten maken van het Mars-oppervlak. Deze gegevens helpen om de meest veelbelovende locaties voor verdere exploratie te identificeren en mogelijk in de toekomst ook voor menselijke aanwezigheid.

leven op mars

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De vondst van Cheyava Falls werd in 2024 voor het eerst aangekondigd door NASA. Een analyse van de kern van dit gesteente leert ons nu meer over de chemische samenstelling.

Daarnaast wordt er volop gewerkt aan technologische innovaties, zoals het ontwikkelen van autonome robots en robotarmen die in staat zijn om dieper in de bodem te boren en monsters te verzamelen. Sample terugkeermissies, zoals de geplande missie van NASA en ESA, vormen een belangrijke mijlpaal in het Mars-onderzoek. Door monsters veilig terug te brengen naar de aarde, kunnen wetenschappers ze in uitgebreide laboratoria onderzoeken met een precisie die op Mars zelf niet mogelijk is. Dit geeft niet alleen inzicht in de geologie en chemie van de planeet, maar kan ook aanwijzingen bieden over de aanwezigheid van biosignaturen.

Tot slot benadrukken deze bevindingen dat Mars nog altijd een fascinerende en dynamische wereld is, met een geologische geschiedenis die mogelijk de sporen bevat van een lang verleden vol water en misschien zelfs leven. Het onderzoek aan de Jezero-krater en andere locaties op Mars blijft van cruciaal belang voor het beantwoorden van één van de grootste vragen in de astrobiologie: waren wij niet de enige wezens in het universum? Het ontdekken van bewijs voor vroegere leven op Mars zou niet alleen de menselijke kennis over de planeten en het ontstaan van leven aanzienlijk verrijken, maar ook onze plaats in het universum herdefiniëren. De komende jaren beloven dus een spannend hoofdstuk in de menselijke verkenning van de rode planeet, waarbij elke nieuwe ontdekking ons dichter brengt bij het beantwoorden van een van de grootste mysteries van het bestaan.

leven op mars

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De Marsrover Perseverance gebruikte zijn wetenschappelijke instrument Mastcam-Z om het gebied rondom de plek waar hij het monster vandaan heeft te bekijken.

Conclusie

De recente ontdekkingen van NASA en haar partners bevestigen dat Mars in het verleden meerdere periodes van vloeibaar water heeft gekend, wat een cruciale factor is voor het ontstaan en het onderhouden van leven. Deze periodes waren niet slechts kortdurende gebeurtenissen, maar omvatten uitgebreide en mogelijk leefbare omgevingen, vooral in de latere stadia van de geologische geschiedenis van de planeet. Onderzoek door de Perseverance-rover heeft bijvoorbeeld aangetoond dat er in het verleden alkalisch, laag-temperatuur water aanwezig was, wat de kans op het ontstaan van microbieel leven significant vergroot. Alkalisch water, dat een hogere pH-waarde heeft, creëert een omgeving waarin organische stoffen en mineralen zich kunnen vormen en conserveren, wat essentieel is voor het ontstaan van leven.

De geologische bewijzen die door de rover zijn verzameld, zoals mineralen die alleen onder water kunnen vormen, vertellen een complex en dynamisch verhaal. Ze tonen aan dat Mars niet slechts een droge, roestkleurige wereld was, maar een planeet die gedurende miljoenen jaren een gevarieerd landschap kende, inclusief meren, rivieren en mogelijk ondergrondse waterreservoirs. Deze bevindingen suggereren dat de omstandigheden op Mars, zeker in bepaalde periodes, vergelijkbaar kunnen zijn geweest met die op aarde tijdens de tijd dat het leven zich daar ontwikkelde. Het feit dat mineralen zoals clays en sulfaten zijn gevonden, wijst op een rijke chemische interactie tussen water en gesteente, wat de kans op chemische evolutie en mogelijk biochemische processen vergroot.

Deze ontdekkingen brengen ons een belangrijke stap dichter bij het beantwoorden van een fundamentele vraag: heeft Mars ooit micro-organismen kunnen herbergen? Het lijkt erop dat de planeet in haar geologische geschiedenis meerdere kansen heeft gehad om levensvatbare omgevingen te bieden. Hoewel er nog geen direct bewijs van leven is gevonden, vormen deze nieuwe inzichten een stevige basis voor verder onderzoek. Wetenschappers blijven zoeken naar sporen van organische stoffen, microfossielen en andere indicatoren die kunnen wijzen op het bestaan van eenvoudig leven in het verleden.

De komende jaren zullen ongetwijfeld meer verrassingen en nieuwe ontdekkingen brengen. Met de inzet van geavanceerdere instrumenten en toekomstige missies, zoals de geplande sample-return missie, hopen we nog meer informatie te verkrijgen over de chemische samenstelling van het Marsbodem en ondergrondse waterlagen. Deze gegevens kunnen ons niet alleen helpen om de geologische geschiedenis van Mars beter te begrijpen, maar ook om te bepalen of de planeet nog steeds sporen van haar vroegere leven bewaart.

Kortom, de recente ontdekkingen versterken de hoop dat Mars ooit een leefbare wereld was en mogelijk nog steeds is. Ze onderstrepen het belang van voortdurende verkenning en onderzoek naar deze intrigerende planeet. Het zoeken naar bewijs voor oud leven op Mars is niet alleen een zoektocht naar kennis over een andere wereld, maar ook een stap in de richting van het begrijpen van onze eigen oorsprong en de universele vraag of we alleen zijn. In de toekomst kunnen deze wetenschappelijke doorbraken ons misschien wel dichter brengen bij het antwoord dat velen al lang zoeken: is er elders in het universum leven ontstaan, en heeft Mars daarin ooit een rol gespeeld?

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Destroying Asteroid 2024 YR4 Is The Best Option To Stop It From Hitting The Moon

Destroying Asteroid 2024 YR4 Is The Best Option To Stop It From Hitting The Moon

Artist's impression of an asteroid. Credit - ESA-Science Office

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of hitting Earth. Since then models have been refined and while it no longer has a chance of hitting Earth, it does have a 4% chance of hitting the Moon in December 2032. As that time gets closer, we’ll have a better idea of the probability, but engineers and scientists are also planning for what we would need to do in order to ensure it doesn’t hit our only natural satellite at all. A new paper from NASA and a bunch of other researchers details potential missions and timelines that could make sure the Moon isn’t pummeled with a decent-sized asteroid in less than a decade.

A good first question is - why do we care? There are no definitive plans to have a permanent human presence on the Moon by that point, so it wouldn’t directly affect any human activities. Except an asteroid this large could create a huge debris field that would increase the micrometeoroids hitting the Earth by up to 1,000 times the normal background average for a few days. While that would make for one of the best meteor shows of the last few hundred years, it would also pose a danger to Earth-orbiting satellites and even astronauts on the ISS and other space stations - assuming they’re still there in 2032.

Really, there are only two options to stop that eventuality, if 2024 YR4 is indeed going to hit the Moon - which to be honest is still very unlikely. One option is to deflect it. The other is to destroy it.

NASA video explaining the details of asteroid 2024 YR4

Deflection would be preferred - simply moving its orbital path slightly would ensure it would miss both the Earth and the Moon. The earlier we could do it the smaller nudge would be needed, so it’s better to do it sooner rather than later. However, in order to accurately deflect 2024 YR4, we need to know how much it weighs.

We have a relatively good estimate of its diameter - around 60m give or take 10%. But estimates of its mass depend on its density, which is hard to calculate from so far away. The asteroid’s weight could range from between 51 million kg to over 711 million kg - and the amount of energy needed to move either of those weights a very precise amount is massively different. If a mission to deflect it is based on the wrong mass calculation, it could potentially accidentally change its trajectory to make the problem even worse - including potentially redirecting it towards Earth.

Engineers could design a reconnaissance mission to try to get a better estimate of 2024 YR4’s mass, but the best time to do so would be in 2028 - only three years away. Designing and launching a purpose built mission in that tight timeframe has never been done before, and while it could be for a mission to solve something that’s a high enough threat level, 2024 YR4 probably isn’t it.

Fraser's video on how we stop asteroids from hitting Earth - or in this case the Moon.

That being said, we could repurpose existing missions that are already in space or in development. OSIRIS-APEX, the name for the extended mission for the OSIRIS-Rex mission that is currently on its way to Apophis, another near-Earth asteroid. Psyche could also be commandeered on its way to its main-belt target. But in either case, those missions would have to give up their intended targets in order to get close enough to 2024 YR4. Another option is Janus, which is currently sitting in storage, but it’s unclear how well they would do in defining its weight.

Given the uncertainties around the deflection option, the paper notes the other option is at least feasible. Destruction of an asteroid can come in one of two forms. The first is “kinetic” - basically hitting it with something big and heavy enough to break it into smaller 10m chunks. DART recently proved the idea of redirecting an asteroid by doing the same thing - but hitting it with the intention to destroy it would be a different level of difficulty, though certainly one that we could design and build in time for a launch window of sometime between April 2030 and April 2032.

The other option to destroy it will stir a feeling in the hearts of nineties kids - we could nuke it. It might not involve Bruce Willis sacrificing himself, but setting off a nuclear explosion at some height off the surface of 2024 YR4. Known as the “height of burst”, we would still need some reconnaissance to try to tailor the explosion. But, the paper calculates that a 1 megaton nuke would be enough to “disrupt” 2024 YR4 no matter what size it is - and that is well within our current nuclear arsenal.

To be fair, we’ve never tested a nuclear explosion in space before, but physics certainly says it’s possible. It's as much a political decision as a technical one as to whether that would be a viable option for this particular threat to our planetary system. We’re not even sure if 2024 YR4 is actually going to hit the Moon yet, and we won't find out until 2028. But if we find out it is, it’s best to at least have the ability to disrupt it if we want. That decision will have to be made in the next few years as the window to get missions off the ground is growing smaller every day - whether they’re nuclear or not.

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Living conditions in the Jezero crater have changed repeatedly throughout its history

Living conditions in the Jezero crater have changed repeatedly throughout its history

Jezero Crater. Source: phys.org

Water and minerals in Jezero Сrater

Jezero Crater on Mars is the very location that the Perseverance rover has been studying for many years. Thanks to its operation, scientists have long argued that at the beginning of the planet’s existence, there was a lake into which small rivers flowed and, possibly, life. But recently they have been able to discover that this place is actually quite important.

The rover is equipped with X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL). It can determine the chemical composition of minerals in the surrounding rocks. Recently, scientists have developed the MIST algorithm, which allows minerals formed in the presence of water flows with different properties to be identified. 

After all, the concept of “water” in everyday life is indeed very broad. Liquids that once flowed on the surface of Mars may have had different properties. And now, thanks to an article in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, we know exactly what happened there. 

Minerals and history of Jezero Crater

In total, scientists have discovered 24 minerals in the rocks of Jezero Crater that may reveal information about the interaction between its volcanic surface and liquids. Scientists have divided them into three main groups, reflecting different types of this interaction.

The first group includes greenalite, hisingerite, and ferroaluminoceladonite. They were formed in hot and highly acidic waters. Judging by the fact that they are only present in samples from the bottom of the crater, these were local volcanic sources that were not widespread. Life on Earth can totally exist in these conditions, but they’re pretty extreme, so the chances of finding traces of organisms in this early period of Mars’ existence are pretty low. 

The second group includes minnesotaite and clinoptilolite, which formed in water flows with significantly more moderate temperatures and acidity. They are present not only at the bottom of the crater, but also in the upper fan region — where water flowed out of it. This indicates that later this depression was much more heavily covered with water and conditions in it were more favorable for life.

The third group of minerals consists of minerals formed in low-temperature, slightly alkaline environments. These include, for example, sepiolite. It is found throughout the crater and indicates that at one time it was covered by a fairly thick layer of water that was quite suitable for life.

Thus, Mars indeed had several different episodes when bodies of water existed in Jezero Crater in one form or another. Details about them will be revealed when samples of its rocks are delivered to Earth.

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What is the Earth’s core made of: New data

What is the Earth’s core made of: New data

The Earth’s core. Source: phys.org

Earth’s core

At the center of the Earth is its hottest and densest part — the core. No one has ever seen it, but thanks to some indirect methods, it is possible to determine its condition and chemical composition. Scientists have recently made progress in this case.

At the very beginning of its cooling, the Earth’s core was rarefied and hot. But then the temperature dropped and crystallization began in the center of the planet. Gradually, the liquid part became the outer core, and the solid part became the inner core. Charged currents began to form at their boundary.

The latter are the source of our planet’s magnetic field. In fact, its source is the temperature of the solid inner core. It cools down, transfers energy to the outer layers, and the movement of those layers generates currents and magnetic fields.

Seismic waves

All this is fine, but in reality no one has ever seen a sample of the material, either from the outer or inner core. All scientists know about them is the results of research on meteorites, which have remained unchanged since the formation of the Solar System, and observations of the propagation of seismic waves through our planet.

The latter method was used to establish the modern boundaries of the outer and inner cores. And this is precisely where the new study focused its efforts. Knowing the sizes of these two spheres, their cooling times, and information about the outer layers of the Earth, it is possible to calculate what their temperatures are now and in the past.

This is a way to determine chemical composition, because different substances transition to a solid state at different temperatures. Studies have shown that the Earth’s core has to be 10% less dense than pure iron, while the outer layer, despite being liquid, has to be a bit denser, and only certain chemical compositions can make this happen.

Most likely, the core contains sulfur and carbon. It was formed due to the process of supercooling, when, due to certain factors, a substance remains in a liquid state even though the temperature is already below the crystallization point. It is quite possible that in the case of the Earth’s core, this value was 420°C lower. This leaves a very wide range for the carbon content values in it.

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Defense failed: Asteroid collision with Earth remains inevitable

Defense failed: Asteroid collision with Earth remains inevitable

In September 2022, NASA conducted an unprecedented experiment: the DART spacecraft deliberately collided with the asteroid Didymos to change its orbit. The mission was deemed a success — the trajectory of the space object really changed. It has been demonstrated that humanity already possesses the necessary technology to deflect potentially dangerous asteroids from their course toward Earth. However, new research points to an unexpected complication: such a strike may only delay the collision, rather than prevent it permanently.

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Gravitational traps

As it turns out, the main danger is gravitational traps — small areas of space where the gravity of planets can radically change the orbit of an asteroid. If, as a result of the impact, the space rock enters one of these traps, its new path could send it on a direct course toward Earth, but in the future. This makes indiscriminate use of kinetic strike technology potentially risky, merely postponing the inevitable threat.

In search of the perfect place to strike

The answer to this challenge is not to abandon the technology, but to improve it. Scientists studying data from the DART mission are proposing a new approach. Instead of simply hitting the asteroid, it is necessary to calculate the optimal point of impact with the utmost precision.To do this, detailed data about the celestial body needs to be collected in advance: its shape, mass, surface type, rotation speed, and topography.

One of the maps of the asteroid Bennu. The cross corresponds to the location on the surface that minimizes the risk of an asteroid impact after deflection. Illustration: Rahil Makadia

Based on this data, detailed probability arrays can be created that will show which part of the asteroid’s surface is safest for impact. A correctly calculated impulse in the right place will not only deflect the threat, but also ensure that the asteroid does not fall into a gravitational trap and permanently leaves its dangerous course toward Earth. Thus, future planetary defense missions will transform from brute force to precise “space billiards,” where every hit has to be calibrated.

Earlier, we reported on how the catastrophic consequences of the DART collision with an asteroid were observed from Earth.

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Senator Claims Government Still Hiding UFO Evidence & ‘Proof of Non-Human Intelligence’ in 2025

Senator Claims Government Still Hiding UFO Evidence & ‘Proof of Non-Human Intelligence’ in 2025

Introduction: A New Era of Disclosure

In 2023, the world watched with bated breath as the U.S. Congress held a groundbreaking hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), marking a significant turning point in the global conversation about extraterrestrial life and aerial anomalies. The testimonies of highly credible whistleblowers such as David Grusch, a former intelligence officer, Ryan Graves, a commercial pilot, and David Fravor, a retired Navy pilot, brought new credibility to the subject. These individuals shared detailed accounts of unexplained sightings, encounters, and classified information, igniting widespread curiosity and prompting governments and scientific communities to reevaluate long-held assumptions about aerial phenomena.

By 2025, this momentum has only intensified. Governments around the world are increasingly acknowledging the reality of UAPs, with some openly admitting that certain sightings defy conventional explanations like weather phenomena or aircraft malfunctions. High-resolution radar data, declassified footage, and sensor recordings have all contributed to the growing body of evidence suggesting that some UAPs might involve non-human intelligence. Several nations, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and France, have initiated joint research projects and open data-sharing initiatives aimed at understanding these phenomena better.

Despite these advancements, many experts and members of the public remain skeptical, suspecting that governments are still withholding vital information. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s 2023 legislation, which aimed to declassify and release UAP-related records, was a significant step forward. However, recent reports indicate that key details continue to be classified, fueling conspiracy theories and public distrust. Investigations by independent researchers and international collaborations have uncovered anomalies that challenge our understanding of physics and technology, hinting at the possibility of non-human origin or advanced extraterrestrial technology.

Moreover, recent technological developments, including the deployment of AI-driven analysis tools and international intelligence sharing, have accelerated efforts to decode these mysteries. The mounting evidence suggests that we are on the verge of a paradigm shift—moving from secrecy and skepticism toward openness and scientific inquiry. As we stand at this crossroads, humanity faces profound questions about our place in the universe, the presence of intelligent life beyond Earth, and what the future holds as we inch closer to discovering the truth behind these enigmatic phenomena.

The Current State of UAP Transparency and Government Action

Since 2023, significant strides have been made by the United States and its allied nations to enhance transparency and deepen understanding of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). These developments reflect a concerted effort to move beyond secrecy and foster scientific inquiry into phenomena that have long intrigued both the public and the scientific community.

  • Declassification and Public Reports: One of the most notable steps has been the systematic declassification of UAP-related material. The Department of Defense (DoD), along with intelligence agencies such as the CIA and NSA, has released hundreds of previously classified videos and reports. These include compelling footage captured by military pilots and sensor systems, which depict objects displaying flight characteristics that challenge current understanding of aeronautics. In late 2024, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published the “Annual UAP Report 2024,” marking a pivotal moment. This comprehensive document acknowledged over 1,200 UAP encounters since 2004, of which many remain unexplained even after rigorous analysis. The report emphasizes that these phenomena are not attributable to known aircraft, natural phenomena, or technological artifacts, thereby underscoring the need for further investigation.
  • Establishment of the UAP Oversight Committee: In 2024, the U.S. government formalized its approach by creating the UAP-Scientific and Technical Analysis Group (UAP-STAG), an interagency task force designed to unify efforts across military, intelligence, scientific, and diplomatic sectors. The primary mandate of UAP-STAG is to systematically analyze, catalog, and investigate UAP incidents, especially those exhibiting advanced flight capabilities or associated with unexplained materials and electromagnetic signatures. This committee aims to bring scientific rigor to the study of UAPs, moving away from speculation toward evidence-based understanding. It also seeks to develop standardized protocols for future investigations and to ensure that findings are transparently shared with policymakers and, where appropriate, the public.
  • International Collaboration: Recognizing the global nature of the phenomenon, the U.S. has actively engaged with international partners. Countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and NATO members have entered into data-sharing agreements and joint investigation initiatives. These collaborations facilitate a broader, more comprehensive approach to UAP research. Additionally, the European Space Agency (ESA) has launched dedicated missions to scan near-Earth space for anomalies, aiming to identify potential sources or links to UAP activity. Such international efforts underscore the importance of a coordinated response to phenomena that transcend national borders.
  • Private and Scientific Sector Engagement: Beyond government agencies, the private sector and academic institutions are increasingly involved in UAP research. Major aerospace and technology companies, including SpaceX, Blue Origin, and several university-affiliated research groups, are conducting independent studies into anomalous phenomena. These organizations often share preliminary findings with government agencies under strict confidentiality agreements, ensuring that sensitive data remains protected while fostering scientific collaboration. This engagement fosters a multidisciplinary approach, integrating aerospace engineering, physics, and atmospheric science to better understand the phenomena. The involvement of private enterprise and academia is vital in providing innovative perspectives and technological capabilities to unravel the mysteries surrounding UAPs.

Overall, these developments reflect a paradigm shift towards transparency and scientific inquiry in UAP research. While many questions remain unanswered, the increased openness and coordinated efforts mark a significant turning point in how governments and society approach the study of these enigmatic phenomena.

Recent High-Profile Incidents and Evidence

1. The “Tri-Planetary” Encounters of 2024

In early 2024, multiple UAPs were recorded simultaneously over the Pacific Ocean during joint military exercises. These objects displayed unprecedented flight characteristics: instantaneous acceleration, hovering at hypersonic speeds, and silent operation. Some of these craft appeared to communicate via electromagnetic signals, suggesting a level of sophistication far beyond current human technology.

One noteworthy incident involved a UAP that hovered near a U.S. Navy carrier for over 45 minutes before departing at incredible speeds. Analysis of recovered debris indicated exotic materials not found on Earth, with atomic structures that challenge our understanding of physics.

2. The “Lunar Anomaly” Findings

In late 2024, NASA and the European Space Agency announced the discovery of anomalous structures on the Moon’s far side, captured by new high-resolution orbiters. These structures, some resembling artificial constructs or machinery, have sparked debates about whether extraterrestrial civilizations might have visited or even established outposts on the Moon or elsewhere in the solar system.

The most compelling evidence came from a recent leak of classified images showing what appears to be a large, partially buried metallic object with geometric features inconsistent with natural geology. Scientists are calling for further investigation, but official access remains restricted.

3. Underwater UAPs and Submarine Encounters

In 2024, several allied navies reported encounters with submerged UAPs, some operating at depths beyond known human capability. These objects have been tracked traveling along undersea corridors, emitting electromagnetic signatures, and possibly interacting with undersea infrastructure. Such phenomena suggest that non-human intelligence may have mastery over both air and sea domains.

Whistleblowers and New Testimonies

  • David Grusch & the Hidden Programs

Whistleblower David Grusch has become one of the most prominent figures in the ongoing discussion about UFOs and government secrecy. His revelations in 2023 about secret retrieval programs have sparked intense debate worldwide, and his continued disclosures in 2024 deepen the mystery surrounding these clandestine activities. Grusch claims that the U.S. government has been involved in a series of highly classified projects aimed at recovering and analyzing extraterrestrial technology and biological specimens. One such operation, which he dubbed “Operation Deep Horizon,” is reportedly a large-scale initiative initiated decades ago with the primary goal of retrieving alien artifacts and reverse-engineering alien technology to gain a strategic advantage.

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David Grusch, former national reconnaissance officer representative of the UAP Task Force at the U.S. Department of Defense, testifies during a House Oversight Committee hearing. 

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According to Grusch, thousands of recovered artifacts, some nearly a hundred years old, are stored in undisclosed facilities, guarded by a complex network of agencies and contractors. These artifacts include fragments of alien spacecraft, biological samples, and possibly preserved extraterrestrial lifeforms. Some of these biological specimens are said to be kept in specially designed biocontainment units, possibly stored in underground vaults or remote military bases. Grusch emphasizes that this extensive cover-up involves numerous government agencies, including the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies such as the CIA and DIA, and private defense contractors who have been contracted to develop technology from recovered materials. He also suggests that foreign governments may have knowledge of or even participate in parts of this covert operation, complicating international relations and raising questions about global oversight.

Grusch’s assertions point to a vast and deeply hidden archive of alien-related material, which, if verified, would fundamentally alter our understanding of human history and technological development. He warns that the scope of this concealment is enormous, involving not only military and intelligence agencies but also shadowy corporate entities that profit from the technology’s secrecy. The implications of such a cover-up extend beyond national security concerns, touching on issues of transparency, ethics, and humanity’s right to know about extraterrestrial life. Grusch’s testimonies continue to fuel speculation and investigation, prompting calls for congressional hearings and independent inquiries into the existence and extent of these secret programs.

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This video grab image obtained April 28, 2020, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with "unidentified aerial phenomena".

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  • Ryan Graves & the Threat of Advanced UAPs

Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot and now a senior advisor to the Department of Defense, remains a key advocate for transparency regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). Throughout 2024, he has published detailed analyses and reports emphasizing the potential threats posed by advanced UAPs to national security and aviation safety. Graves’s extensive experience as a pilot gives him a unique perspective on the flight capabilities of these objects, which often exhibit maneuvers and speeds that defy current human technology.

His recent report highlights that many UAPs demonstrate propulsion systems and energy sources that challenge our understanding of physics. Some of these objects can accelerate rapidly, hover silently for extended periods, or perform sharp turns and sudden accelerations that suggest highly advanced propulsion technology—possibly involving anti-gravity or zero-point energy. Such capabilities indicate that these objects could be either non-human or represent a post-human technological evolution that surpasses current human engineering.

Graves advocates for the deployment of more sophisticated detection systems, including networked radar, infrared sensors, and AI-based analysis tools. He emphasizes that improving detection and tracking systems is essential for understanding the origin, purpose, and capabilities of these UAPs. Additionally, he stresses the importance of international cooperation, advocating for a global approach to UAP monitoring and data sharing. This cooperation could help identify patterns, establish early warning systems, and develop strategies to counter potential threats.

Graves also raises concerns about the potential for UAPs to interfere with military operations or commercial aviation, especially as some of these objects have demonstrated the ability to operate near sensitive military sites and airports. He warns that if these phenomena are of extraterrestrial origin, they could represent an unprecedented technological challenge that requires coordinated international research efforts. His work aims to establish a scientific and military framework that can assess and respond to this emerging threat responsibly, prioritizing safety and security while maintaining transparency with the public.

  • New Testimonies from Military Personnel

Between 2024 and 2025, a significant wave of anonymous testimonies from military personnel, radar operators, and scientists has emerged, adding new layers to the UFO mystery. These testimonies describe encounters with “intelligent” UAPs that seem to exhibit behaviors indicating purpose, coordination, and even curiosity about human activity. Many of those who have come forward recount experiences where UAPs appeared to respond to human commands or gestures, suggesting a level of awareness and possibly intelligence.

Several military pilots have reported that during their encounters, UAPs adjusted their flight paths to avoid collision, often moving in ways that suggest a calculation of human intentions and movements. Some pilots noted that these objects seemed to follow specific objects or locations, such as military bases or research facilities, raising suspicions about surveillance or reconnaissance activities. Others have described observing UAPs performing complex maneuvers, such as sudden accelerations or hovering at extreme altitudes, that current human-made aircraft cannot replicate.

Radar operators have reported detecting UAPs that appear to outmaneuver conventional aircraft and radar systems. These objects often display sudden changes in direction and velocity, making them difficult to track or predict. In some cases, radar blips have disappeared or reappeared at will, indicating a mastery of electromagnetic or stealth technology that could be of extraterrestrial origin. Scientists involved in analyzing these data sets have suggested that these UAPs show signs of purposeful behavior, such as following specific flight paths or maintaining proximity to sensitive sites, implying that some UAPs may possess a form of intelligence.

The testimonies also describe incidents where UAPs exhibit curiosity about human activity, seemingly observing or even approaching military personnel or equipment. Such behaviors suggest an interest beyond mere observation, possibly indicating a willingness to interact or communicate. These encounters have often left witnesses with a mixture of fascination and concern, as they challenge existing scientific paradigms and raise questions about the intent and origin of these objects. The consistency and detail of these testimonies have prompted calls for more systematic investigation, including the deployment of specialized sensors and the development of protocols for safe interaction.

Overall, these new testimonies underscore the complexity and potential significance of UAP phenomena. They suggest that these objects are not mere anomalies or natural phenomena but may represent an advanced form of intelligence—either extraterrestrial or highly evolved human-made technology. The reports reinforce the urgency for governments and scientific institutions to prioritize research and transparency, ensuring that these encounters are thoroughly documented and understood. As public awareness grows, the hope is that a clearer picture will emerge about the nature, purpose, and capabilities of these mysterious objects, leading to a new era of scientific discovery and security preparedness.

The Scientific Community’s Perspective

While skepticism persists within many scientific circles regarding the true nature of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), an increasing number of researchers and institutions are advocating for a more open and systematic investigation into these mysterious objects. Historically, UAPs were often dismissed or ridiculed, but recent developments have fostered a shift towards serious scientific inquiry. Notably, organizations such as the International Astrobiology Institute and the Quantum Physics Society have issued joint statements emphasizing the potential significance of unexplained aerial phenomena. They argue that these phenomena could hold the key to revolutionary breakthroughs, ranging from discovering new physics principles to understanding the existence of non-human intelligence. Such statements encourage scientists to approach UAPs without prejudice and to consider multidisciplinary research methods. They highlight the importance of transparency, data sharing, and open collaboration among nations and scientific disciplines. This movement aims to elevate UAP research from speculative fringe science to a credible field that can contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the universe. The recognition of UAPs as phenomena worthy of scientific scrutiny marks a pivotal shift in how these mysterious objects are perceived within the scientific community.

In 2024, a groundbreaking symposium held at the United Nations signified a major milestone in formalizing international cooperation on UAP research. This event brought together scientists, policymakers, military officials, and representatives from various countries to discuss strategies for investigating these phenomena. During the symposium, the proposal for establishing an official International UAP Research Consortium (IURC) was introduced and broadly supported. The IURC aims to serve as a centralized body responsible for coordinating global efforts, sharing collected data, and developing scientifically rigorous hypotheses regarding the origins, nature, and implications of UAPs. The consortium would facilitate data pooling from military, civilian, and academic sources, promoting transparency and avoiding the duplication of efforts. Furthermore, it seeks to standardize research methodologies, establish protocols for data validation, and foster international collaboration to accelerate understanding. The establishment of the IURC signals a paradigm shift in how countries approach the phenomenon—moving from secretive, compartmentalized investigations to an open, cooperative framework aimed at uncovering the truth through scientific rigor. Such an initiative underscores the urgency and global importance of deciphering UAPs, not just as a matter of national security but as a potential doorway to new scientific horizons.

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Theories and Explanations: From Secret Tech to Extraterrestrial Civilizations

Several hypotheses and explanations dominate the ongoing discussions about the nature of UAPs, reflecting the wide range of interpretations and the lack of definitive evidence so far. These theories are rooted in various scientific, technological, and speculative frameworks, each offering different perspectives on what these objects could be.

  • Advanced Human or Secret Tech: The first and perhaps most conservative hypothesis suggests that UAPs are secret prototypes or experimental technologies developed by human military or industrial entities. Known as “secret tech” or “black projects,” these could include advanced aircraft, drone systems, or other aerospace technologies that are not publicly acknowledged. Sometimes, these craft are believed to be part of clandestine programs—such as the U.S. Black Budget projects—which operate beyond the oversight of civilian authorities. Proponents argue that some sightings could be explained by highly sophisticated, covert technology designed for intelligence gathering or military advantage. These projects often involve cutting-edge materials, propulsion systems, and stealth capabilities, which might appear extraordinary to observers unaware of their existence. The challenge, however, lies in the lack of concrete evidence linking UAPs to known secret technologies, which keeps this hypothesis speculative. Nonetheless, the possibility that some UAPs represent undisclosed human technological advancements remains a significant consideration among researchers.
  • Foreign Spying and Countermeasures: The second prominent theory involves foreign espionage and countermeasures. This explanation posits that UAPs could be advanced surveillance devices operated by foreign adversaries such as China, Russia, or even lesser-known nations. These entities might deploy sophisticated craft or drone systems to probe military installations, gather intelligence, or test defenses. Such devices could be designed to mimic natural atmospheric phenomena or employ stealth technologies to evade detection. The idea is that some sightings could be the result of foreign espionage efforts aimed at understanding or countering national security measures. For example, certain anomalous objects observed near sensitive military sites could be classified as foreign reconnaissance tools, especially if they exhibit flight characteristics or technological features beyond current known capabilities. This hypothesis emphasizes the importance of intelligence, counterintelligence, and technological vigilance, as nations seek to defend against potential espionage threats. While there is limited public evidence to confirm such claims, the possibility remains plausible given the geopolitical landscape and advancements in covert surveillance technology.

PHOTO: A Navy image of a UAP captured during Naval Exercises off the East Coast of the United States in early 2022.

In an open hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) before the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Mr. Scott Bray shared this Navy image of a UAP captured during Naval Exercises off the East Coast of the United States in early 2022.

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  • Non-Human or Extraterrestrial Origins: TA highly provocative and widely debated hypothesis suggests that some UAPs originate from extraterrestrial civilizations. This theory is rooted in the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth and posits that certain unexplained phenomena are actual craft built or piloted by non-human entities visiting our planet. Proponents argue that the extraordinary flight capabilities, lack of identifiable propulsion systems, and unusual behavioral patterns observed in some UAP encounters could point to alien technology. The hypothesis is supported by anecdotal accounts, radar-visual correlations, and some declassified military footage showing objects performing maneuvers impossible with known human technology. If true, such encounters could have profound implications for science, philosophy, and our understanding of our place in the universe. Skeptics, however, call for caution, emphasizing the lack of concrete physical evidence and the need for rigorous scientific validation. Nonetheless, this hypothesis continues to inspire research efforts and public fascination, fueling the hope that UAPs might be visitors from distant worlds rather than terrestrial or natural phenomena.

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A sign in Roswell, New Mexico advertising a UFO crash site. 

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  • Interdimensional or Parallel Universe Hypotheses: Finally, an emerging fringe hypothesis involves the idea that UAPs are connected to interdimensional or parallel universe phenomena. This speculative theory suggests that UAPs could originate from other dimensions or alternate realities that coexist alongside our own. According to this perspective, these objects might be manifestations or portals linked to entities or phenomena existing outside the scope of conventional physics. Some proponents argue that the strange flight patterns, inexplicable appearances, and sudden disappearances could be explained by interactions with higher-dimensional spaces. This hypothesis challenges current scientific paradigms, as it involves concepts of multiple dimensions, quantum entanglement, and parallel universes—areas still largely theoretical and unproven. Critics regard this idea as highly speculative due to the lack of empirical evidence, but it remains intriguing for those exploring the boundaries of physics and consciousness. If validated, this theory could revolutionize our understanding of reality itself, opening new frontiers in physics and metaphysics. The interdimensional hypothesis underscores the vast uncertainty surrounding UAPs and highlights the need for open-minded scientific exploration beyond conventional frameworks.

In summary, the scientific community recognizes the complexity and mystery surrounding UAPs, with multiple competing hypotheses ranging from secret human technology to extraterrestrial and interdimensional origins. Each explanation presents unique challenges and opportunities for discovery. As international efforts such as the proposed IURC gain momentum, the hope is that systematic, open-minded research will eventually unravel the true nature of these enigmatic objects, potentially leading to revolutionary scientific breakthroughs and a deeper understanding of our univere.

The Broader Implications

The increasing acknowledgment and investigation of UAPs have profound implications across multiple domains, influencing security, scientific understanding, geopolitics, and cultural perspectives. These developments could potentially reshape our world in fundamental ways, prompting governments, scientists, and societies to rethink long-held beliefs and strategies.

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An undated government photo of "a UFO variety" that hovered for fifteen minutes near Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico. | Bettmann / Contributor/Getty/Getty

  • Security and Defense: Understanding these phenomena is critical for national security, especially as some UAPs demonstrate capabilities that could threaten military assets or civilian infrastructure. Governments are investing heavily in research, surveillance, and defense measures to identify, track, and assess these objects. The potential for hostile intent or advanced technology hidden within these phenomena raises concerns about sovereignty and safety. Military installations and aircraft are now equipped with advanced sensors to detect unusual activity, and some nations are developing specialized units to analyze UAP encounters. This focus on security extends to international cooperation and intelligence sharing, aiming to prevent possible threats while also understanding the origin and purpose of these phenomena. The implications for airspace sovereignty and defense protocols are significant, potentially leading to new treaties or regulations.
  • Scientific Paradigm Shift: Confirming non-human intelligence or new physics could revolutionize our scientific understanding and technological development. If UAPs are proven to operate on principles beyond our current knowledge, it would prompt a reevaluation of fundamental physics, such as gravity, propulsion, and energy sources. This may lead to groundbreaking innovations in transportation, energy production, and materials science. Researchers would need to develop new theories and models to explain these phenomena, challenging existing scientific paradigms that have persisted for centuries. The potential discovery of extraterrestrial technology or consciousness could accelerate scientific progress exponentially, opening entirely new fields of study and enabling humanity to harness previously unimaginable technologies. Such a shift could also influence academic institutions, funding priorities, and international scientific collaborations.
  • Global Politics: Countries are now competing and collaborating in unprecedented ways to uncover the truth, with some nations establishing dedicated agencies or task forces. These efforts reflect the strategic importance of UAPs, as access to advanced technology or intelligence could confer significant geopolitical advantages. Nations like the U.S., China, Russia, and others have increased their investments in UAP research, often leading to classified projects and secretive collaborations. International organizations may eventually play a role in establishing protocols for transparency and data sharing, fostering a new era of global cooperation or competition. Diplomatic tensions could arise if some countries are perceived as withholding information or suppressing findings. Conversely, sharing knowledge could promote peaceful exploration and collective security. The geopolitical landscape is thus being reshaped by these investigations, with new alliances forming based on technological and intelligence capabilities related to UAPs.
  • Philosophical and Cultural Impact: The realization that we are not alone challenges humanity’s worldview, religious beliefs, and our understanding of life in the universe. For centuries, many cultures and religions have maintained that humanity is unique or at the center of creation. The confirmation of extraterrestrial life or intelligence would force a reassessment of these beliefs, leading to profound existential questions. It could inspire a new sense of humility, curiosity, and interconnectedness among humans, fostering a global identity rooted in the recognition of our place in the universe. Additionally, art, literature, and popular culture are likely to be influenced, with themes of contact, discovery, and alien civilizations becoming more prominent. Religious and philosophical debates may intensify, questioning humanity’s purpose and the nature of consciousness. This paradigm shift could also influence educational curricula, encouraging a broader and more inclusive perspective on life and our universe, ultimately fostering a more open-minded and inquisitive society.
  • The Future Outlook: As research continues, the implications of UAPs will likely deepen, influencing policy, science, and cultural narratives. Increased transparency and international cooperation could lead to groundbreaking discoveries, while ongoing security concerns may result in stricter regulations and defense protocols. The possibility of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations remains a tantalizing prospect, with the potential to unify humanity or cause divisions based on how information is managed and interpreted. Public interest and curiosity are expected to grow, fueling a new era of exploration and understanding. Ultimately, these phenomena challenge us to expand our horizons, rethink our assumptions, and prepare for a future where the unknown may become known, transforming our civilization in ways we can only begin to imagine.

The Path Forward: Disclosure, Research, and Public Engagement

In 2025, the momentum toward full transparency regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) continues to grow. Governments worldwide are increasingly releasing classified materials, often prompted by mounting public pressure and a growing body of credible sightings. Many agencies are declassifying previously restricted documents, videos, and reports, providing the public and researchers with more detailed insights into encounters that have long been shrouded in secrecy. This shift aims to build trust, dispel misinformation, and foster a more open dialogue about the phenomenon.

Simultaneously, independent researchers and scientific institutions are gaining unprecedented access to data that was once tightly guarded. Collaborative efforts between government agencies, universities, and private organizations are expanding, allowing scientists to analyze UAP data more thoroughly. These efforts include advanced sensor analysis, radar tracking, and atmospheric studies, all of which contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of these phenomena. This democratization of information is crucial for moving beyond speculation and towards evidence-based conclusions.

Public interest remains high, with large-scale protests and demonstrations occurring globally. Citizens demand open access to all UAP information, asserting their right to understand what governments may have known for decades. Social media campaigns, public forums, and media coverage continue to amplify calls for transparency, pressuring authorities to release more data and participate in open discussions. Governments are increasingly acknowledging the importance of engaging with the public to foster trust and accountability.

In response to this evolving landscape, the U.S. Congress is actively considering new legislation aimed at formalizing international cooperation on UAP research. Proposed bills seek to establish protocols for sharing information across borders, encouraging a global approach to understanding these phenomena. Funding for scientific research is also on the rise, with grants allocated specifically for studying UAP-related data, atmospheric conditions, and potential technological implications.

The legislation also emphasizes the importance of safety and protocol development for future encounters. This includes establishing guidelines for military and civilian interactions, ensuring that investigations are conducted systematically and without unnecessary escalation. The overarching goal is to create an environment where transparency, scientific rigor, and safety are prioritized, ultimately paving the way for a more informed and collaborative approach to understanding UAPs. As the world moves forward, the hope is that increased openness and scientific inquiry will lead to groundbreaking discoveries and a clearer understanding of the phenomena that continue to intrigue humanity.

Conclusion: Are We Alone? The Future of UAP Research

While definitive proof of non-human intelligence remains elusive, the accumulated evidence, recent discoveries, and credible testimonies suggest that the phenomena we observe may be more than just secret technology or psychological illusions. Over the past decades, numerous eyewitness accounts from military personnel, pilots, and civilians have been documented, often corroborated by radar and sensor data. These reports point to objects exhibiting flight capabilities that surpass current human-made aircraft, with some demonstrating sudden accelerations, abrupt directional changes, and hover capabilities that defy known physics.

In recent years, advanced satellite imagery and high-resolution videos have added credibility to these phenomena, prompting governments and scientific institutions worldwide to take a more serious interest. The U.S. government, for example, has declassified several videos and established dedicated research groups to analyze UAP encounters. This shift indicates a growing recognition that understanding these phenomena could have profound implications for national security, aerospace technology, and our understanding of the universe.

As governments and scientists continue their investigations, humanity stands at the threshold of potentially the most significant scientific and philosophical revolution in history. The pressing questions are no longer if we are being visited or observed, but when and by whom. With ongoing technological advancements, increased international cooperation, and the collection of more comprehensive data, we may soon uncover the truth behind these mysterious visitors. Such discoveries could redefine our understanding of life beyond Earth and influence our future in ways we can scarcely imagine. The quest for answers continues, and the coming years may finally bring clarity to one of humanity’s most profound mysteries.

  • Note: The ongoing developments in 2025 indicate that the era of UAP mystery is giving way to one of scientific inquiry and transparency. Whether these phenomena are visitors from another world, manifestations of advanced human technology, or something else entirely, one thing is clear: we are not alone in our curiosity—and perhaps, in reality.

Sources & Further Reading:

  • UAP Annual Report 2024, ODNI
  • Official statements from NASA, ESA, and DoD
  • Whistleblower interviews and declassified documents
  • Recent congressional hearings and legislation updates
  • Scientific symposiums and international collaborations

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Science Fiction to Science Fact: Miniature Robots Crawl Inside Human Body to Perform Laser Surgery

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Science Fiction to Science Fact: Miniature Robots Crawl Inside Human Body to Perform Laser Surgery

Scientists say they have developed fully functional miniature robots that can go deep inside the human body to perform ultra-precise laser surgery, in a medical innovation similar to on-screen portrayals from science fiction.

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The robots have roughly the same dimensions as microorganisms — like the paramecium. 

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Controlled by magnetic fields, the tiny wormlike robotic surgeons were recently demonstrated traveling deeper inside a human cadaver’s lungs than is possible with current state-of-the-art surgical instruments. One of the researchers behind the achievement tells The Debrief that there are a number of organs and systems the incredible “micro-bots” can get inside to perform similar pinpoint explorations and surgeries.

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Miniature Robots Performing Surgery Has Long Been a Dream of Science Fiction

In some of the more utopian science fiction of the middle 20th century, medicine has advanced to the point that nearly all diseases and ailments have a treatment, if not an outright cure. Some of these futuristic cures involve genetically engineered super drugs, blasts of scientific-sounding rays, or even an injection of alien blood. However, seemingly the most common therapy of the future envisioned by TV writers, movie directors, and novelists involve injecting minuscule robots into the human body and letting them go to work.

Now a team of researchers says they have moved this idea from science fiction to science fact by designing the first pair of tiny surgical roots that can literally go where no surgeon has gone before.

Future tiny robots possibly upgraded with AI

More than a tiny robot army with tricked-out legs, the robots are exceptional because they employ the same fabrication techniques seen in silicon computer chips. This effectively means they may be produced en masse — researchers fit 1 million of these ultra-tiny robots onto a singular four-inch silicon wafer. This also means the robots are easily equipped with increasingly advanced technology as it progresses to smaller and smaller via Moore’s Law, reports Inverse.

Magnetic Fields, Tiny Cameras and Ultra-Precise Lasers

In an email to The Debrief, Professor Pietro Valdastri, Director of the STORM Lab and research supervisor, said that the robots themselves are made of a biocompatible plastic (silicone) with magnetic particles embedded inside them.

The first part is significant so the human body doesn’t have a negative reaction to the otherwise foreign objects operating inside of the body. However, it is the precision placement of the embedded magnet particles that allow the two wormlike robots to maneuver independently.

“Normally, two magnets placed closely together would attract each other, creating a challenge for the researchers,” the press release announcing the breakthrough procedure explains. “They overcame it by designing the bodies of the tentacles in a way that they can bend only in specific directions and by relocating the north and south poles in each magnetic robot tentacle.”

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Robotic platform for peripheral lung tumour intervention based on magnetic tentacles

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A pair of magnetic devices operating outside the human body can generate fields strong enough to cause the robots to maneuver deeper inside the lungs than even the most advanced equipment. And by moving independently, one of the robots can carry a camera to assist surgeons, while the second robot can guide a surgical laser with extreme precision.

When asked how a robot that is only 2 millimeters in diameter can carry a laser, Valdastri told The Debrief, “the source of laser is external, but the laser light is sent to the tip of the magnetic tentacle via an optical fiber. So laser energy is delivered at the tip of the tentacle directly on the target.”

In the video released by researchers (below), the pair of miniature robots are seen navigating deep into the lungs of a human cadaver. This is significant, they note, because lung cancer that often requires surgery has the highest mortality rate of any cancer worldwide. Still, when asked by The Debrief if the miniature robots can work in other areas of the body besides the lungs, they said there were a number of biological systems that would accommodate these micro-surgeons perfectly.

“The same approach can be used to reach the deep part of the brain, the pancreas, the bladder, and any other body cavity that is accessible through a narrow lumen,” Valdastri said. “The cardiovascular system is also another potential district of use.”

“Living Tissues” Clinical Trials Are the Next Proving Ground

Now that the robots have been shown to move successfully and independently in a biological environment, the team behind the exciting research effort, which was published in the journal Nature Engineering Communications, says they are working their way toward actual human trials with actual lung cancer patients. However, there is likely one more step along the way.

“For the lung cancer application, (the) next step(s) are trials in a more realistic environment that includes living tissues and respiration, so probably animal model,” Valdastri told The Debrief. “After that, human trials, possibly in 2-3 years from now.”

Given the abilities and functionality of these miniature robots, it seems that one day in the not-too-far distant future, they will actually be in medical facilities around the world exploring and repairing the deepest recesses of the human body like something right out of a movie. Plus, the researchers explain, there is a significant aspect of access for everyone and not just the rich that may make them even more successful

“The key point is that this new magnetic technology can allow us to reach way deeper into the human body than ever before in a way that doesn’t require extremely qualified surgeons (thanks to robotic guidance/assistance),” Valdastri told The Debrief. “We hope this way to democratise cancer treatment and increase access to top quality procedures.”

  •  Christopher Plain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy novelist and Head Science Writer at The Debrief. Follow and connect with him on X, learn about his books at plainfiction.com, or email him directly at christopher@thedebrief.org.

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What we learned from the UFO Congress hearing

What we learned from the UFO Congress hearing

Like something from a Hollywood sci-fi drama, on Wednesday 26 July 2023 the US Congress heard claims regarding the existence of non-human entities.

Left to right: Ryan Graves, executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force at the U.S. Department of Defense, and Retired Navy Commander David Fravor at the US Congress hearing ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency’, on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, 26 July 2023. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

BY Nick Pope

To the bemusement of the rest of the world, the House Oversight Committee in the US Congress held a hearing on UFOs this week, Wednesday 26 July.

Two of the witnesses at the hearing, David Fravor and Ryan Graves, are former US Navy pilots who say they have had UFO encounters.

Forward Looking InfraRed videos of these incidents are posted on the Department of Defense website.

They discussed how numerous military and civil pilots and radar operators see and track UFOs performing speeds and manoeuvres that seem to defy the laws of physics.

Sceptics believe such sightings are either misperceptions, sensor anomalies, or involve secret prototype aircraft, missiles or drones.

Grusch's testimony

The third witness at the hearing, David Grusch, is a former intelligence officer who served on the US government's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.

In testimony reminiscent of the infamous Roswell UFO incident, Grusch says the US government has recovered craft and bodies relating to what he calls a "non-human intelligence".

He undertook to pass specific details about this to Congressional representatives with the appropriate security clearances.

He said he blew the whistle because programs dealing with this are being run illegally, without proper Congressional oversight.

Grusch went further, talking about unspecified injuries that have befallen UFO witnesses, and threats and retribution against whistleblowers - including himself.

Separately, he filed a complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General, apparently containing specific details that were frustratingly missing from the hearing, because it was an unclassified session.

David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative

David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force at the U.S. Department of Defense, at the 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency' US Congress hearing on 26 July 2023.

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Key takeaways

Unlike pilot sightings, which are multifactorial, there's no middle ground here: Grusch's claims are either true or false.

Could he be a disgruntled former employee trying to cause trouble, or involved in a deception operation - either as a willing participant or as an unwilling dupe?

If his allegations are true, they would have profound implications for humanity.

Congress is trying to verify Grusch's claims - a process complicated by the highly classified nature of some UFO information, and by the fact that multiple committees and sub-committees, both in the Senate and the House of Representatives, are investigating.

Further Congressional hearings are likely.

In parallel, NASA is undertaking its own study into UFOs and is expected to report shortly.

And US lawmakers are drafting multiple UFO-related provisions for inclusion in next year's Defense Bill.

Whatever the truth about UFOs, there's bipartisan agreement that it's a serious national security issue.

Furthermore, the level of official engagement in the US is in stark contrast to the UK, where the Ministry of Defence terminated UFO investigations in 2009, and say they have no plans to re-engage.

You can find out more about UFO reports in the UK via the UK government website.

Watch the full UFO Congress hearing

  • Nick Pope

    Nick Pope

    Ex-MoD UFO investigator

    Nick Pope worked for the Ministry of Defence for 21 years. From 1991 to 1994 his duties included investigating UFO sightings to assess national security implications.

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Funny How The UFO Narrative Coincides With The Race To Weaponize Space

Funny How The UFO Narrative Coincides With The Race To Weaponize Space

These stories about the space militarization race aren’t getting the attention the much more entertaining UFO stories are getting, but it seems likely that those who are responsible for moving the war machinery around are paying a lot more attention to the former than the latter.

If Wednesday’s House Oversight subcommittee hearing on UFOs had happened ten years ago instead of today, it would have shaken the world. Imagine someone from 2013 hearing congressional testimonies about “routine” military pilot encounters with giant flying tic tacs, floating orbs, 300-foot red squares, and cubes in clear spheres zipping around in ways that surpass all known earthly technology by leaps and bounds, or about secret government possession of otherworldly aircraft they’re trying to reverse engineer and the dead bodies of their non-human pilots, or about the possibility that these creatures are not merely extraterrestrial but extra-dimensional. Their jaws would have hit the floor.

Now in 2023 we’ve been getting incrementally drip-fed bits and pieces of these stories for six years, so the scene on Capitol Hill on Wednesday didn’t have the impact it would’ve had in 2013. It’s making headlines and getting attention, but not as much as Sinead O’Connor’s death or people’s thoughts on Barbie and Oppenheimer. The response from the general public could be described as a collective nervous laugh and a shrug.

People scroll past the footage from the hearing on social media, go “Whoa, that’s weird,” and move on with their lives. The information’s going in, but just kind of on the periphery of mainstream consciousness. Maybe next year they’ll show us something that would’ve been even more shocking to someone in 2013 than Wednesday’s hearing would’ve been, and it will be met with the same nervous laugh and shrug by the people of 2024.

Of course in the circles I tend to interact with, the response is a bit different. People who are highly skeptical of the US war machine tend to also be highly skeptical of this UFO narrative we’ve been seeing since 2017.

“Distraction” is a word you hear a lot. “It’s just a distraction from ______”, where “______” is whatever hot story they personally happen to be fascinated by at the moment. I personally don’t buy that explanation; the new UFO narrative wasn’t just cooked up at the last minute to distract from current headlines, it’s been unfolding for six years, and people aren’t even paying that much attention to it. The empire doesn’t tend to orchestrate spectacular events as a “distraction” anyway; the adjustment of public attention tends to take the much more mundane form of agenda setting in the media, where some stories receive more attention than others based on what’s convenient for the oligarchs who own the press.

I also see people theorizing that this is all a ploy to ramp up the US military budget. There could totally be something to that, but again this narrative has been unfolding for six years and so far the military budget has just been swelling in the usual yearly increments as always.

Don’t get me wrong, though — I’m as skeptical about this thing as anyone. For one thing the origins of the mainstream UFO narrative which began in 2017 were steeped in extensive distortion, dishonesty and journalistic malpractice, and were carried forward by shady intelligence operatives like Lue Elizondo. David Grusch, who made by far the most sensational claims at Wednesday’s congressional hearing with his tales of dead aliens and reverse-engineered UFOs, is himself an insider of the US intelligence cartel.

But for me what really stinks about all this UFO stuff is the timing. Here we are in the early stages of a new cold war which features a race to militarize space, and we’re hearing congressional testimony about mysterious vehicles posing a threat to US airspace which have the ability to go up and down between earth and space very quickly. That smells off.

I mean, does it really sound like a coincidence that we’re seeing all these news stories about UFOs and aliens at the same time we’re seeing news stories about a race between the US and China and Russia to dominate space militarily? A Foreign Policy article from last year blares the headline “China and Russia Are Catching Up to U.S. in Space Capabilities, Pentagon Warns” with the subheading “The militarization of space is picking up pace.” These warnings are echoed in articles by Defense One and Time. An article on the United Nations website from last year carries the title “‘We Have Not Passed the Point of No Return’, Disarmament Committee Told, Weighing Chance Outer Space Could Become Next Battlefield.” A 2021 report from the war machine-funded Center for Strategic and International Studies titled “Defense Against the Dark Arts in Space: Protecting Space Systems from Counterspace Weapons” warns of the urgent need to build more space weapons to counter US enemies. A Global Times article from last year carries the title “Chinese experts urge avoidance of space weaponization amid commercial space capability deployment in Ukraine.”

These stories about the space militarization race aren’t getting the attention the much more entertaining UFO stories are getting, but it seems likely that those who are responsible for moving the war machinery around are paying a lot more attention to the former than the latter. The US Space Force took its first steps toward becoming a reality in 2017, the same year these mainstream UFO stories started coming out, with the explicit purpose of countering Russia and China.

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And it just seems mighty suspicious to me how we’re being slowly paced into this UFO narrative (or UAP narrative for those hip to the current jargon) right when there’s a mad rush to get weapons into space. I can’t actually think of any other point in history when the timing of something like this would have looked more suspicious.

So for me the most disturbing parts of the UFO hearing were the parts that could wind up facilitating the agenda to militarize space, like when this phenomenon was framed as a “national security” threat or when it was mentioned that they can transition from earth to space very rapidly.

When asked by congressman Glenn Grothman “do you believe UAPs pose a threat to our national security?”, former Navy commander David Fravor answered with an unequivocal yes. A few minutes later Fravor described these vehicles as being able to “come down from space, hang out for three hours and go back up.”

When asked by congressman Andy Ogles whether UFOs could be “collecting reconnaissance information” on the US military, all three witnesses — Grusch, Fravor, and former Navy pilot Ryan Graves — answered in the affirmative. Asked by Ogles if UFOs could be “probing our capabilities,” all three again said yes. Asked if UFOs could be “testing for vulnerabilities” in US military capabilities, all three again said yes. Asked if UFOs pose an existential threat to the national security of the United States, all three said they potentially do. Asked if there was any indication that UFOs are interested in US nuclear technology, all three said yes.

Ogles concluded his questioning by saying, “There clearly is a threat to the national security of the United States of America. As members of Congress, we have a responsibility to maintain oversight and be aware of these activities so that, if appropriate, we take action.”

When asked by congressman Eric Burlison if “there has been activity by alien or non-human technology, and/or beings, that has caused harm to humans,” Grusch said he couldn’t get into specifics in a public setting (a common theme throughout the hearing), but said that “what I personally witnessed, myself and my wife, was very disturbing.”

Grusch would complicate this cryptic statement a few minutes later by saying that he’s never seen a UFO. How this statement doesn’t contradict his previous statement about having witnessed harmful behavior from non-human technology and/or beings was not made clear.

So you’ve got US policymakers being told that there are vehicles using technology not of this world routinely violating US airspace and posing an existential threat to US national security, and that these craft can go from earth to space and back at will, and that they need to help make sure their nation can address this threat.

What conclusions do you come to when presented with that kind of information? If you’re a lawmaker in charge of facilitating the operation of a highly militaristic empire, you’re probably not going to conclude that it’s time to hold hands and sing Kumbaya. You’re probably eventually going to start thinking in terms of military technology.

One of the most important unanswered questions in all this UFO hullabaloo is, why now? Why are we seeing all this movement on “disclosure” after generations of zero movement? If these things are in fact real and the government has in fact been keeping them secret, why would the adamant policy of dismissal and locked doors suddenly be reversed, allowing “whistleblowers” to come forward and give testimony before congress? If they had motive to keep it a secret this entire time, why would that motive no longer be there?

If you ask the online UFO community, many will essentially take credit for the whole thing, saying the most powerful war machine ever assembled has reversed its policy of total opacity because of “pressure” applied by disclosure activists. This doesn’t pass the smell test; the most powerful empire in history isn’t reversing course on a longstanding policy of blanket secrecy because of internet forums and FOIA requests.

So why now? Why the drastic and sudden shift from UFOs and aliens being laughable tinfoil hat nonsense to the subject of serious congressional inquiries and widespread mainstream media coverage?

Well, the timing of the race to militarize space might provide an answer to the “why now?” question. Is it a coincidence that this new UFO narrative began its rollout in 2017, around the same time as the rollout of the Space Force? Are we being manipulated at mass scale about aliens and UFOs to help grease the wheels for the movement of war machinery into space? How likely is it that by pure coincidence this extraplanetary narrative timed out the way it did just as the US empire makes a last-ditch grab at unipolar planetary domination?

I don’t know. I do know that if I’m assigning degrees of probability, “Extraterrestrial or extradimensional beings are here and take a special interest in us and sometimes crash their vehicles and our government recovered them but kept them a secret but suddenly decided not to be so secretive about them anymore” ranks significantly lower than “Our rulers are lying and manipulating to advance their own interests again.”

I am 100 percent wide open to the possibility of extraterrestrials and otherworldly vehicles zipping around our atmosphere. What I am not open to is the claim that the most depraved institutions on earth have suddenly opened their mind to telling us the truth about these things, either out of the goodness of their hearts or because they were “pressured” by UFO disclosure activists.

I don’t know what the hell is going on with this UFO thing, but I do know the drivers of the US empire have an extensive history of manipulating and deceiving at mass scale to advance imperial agendas. And I do know that at this crucial juncture in history where the empire is clinging to planetary domination with the tips of its fingernails, there are a lot of imperial agendas afoot.

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Jacques Vallée: Pursuing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and ‘Impossible Futures’

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Jacques Vallée: Pursuing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and ‘Impossible Futures’

ON APRIL 17, 2013, attendees at an independently organized TEDx event in Geneva, Switzerland, were offered a glimpse at a seemingly impossible future.

Presented under the theme of “eCulture 360° and Wikinomics”, the event offered something unique even to a gathering of some of the most renowned international speakers on science and technology: the organizers billed it as a “TEDx with the opportunity to meet Jacques Vallée, one of the founder[s] of ARPANET, the first version of the Internet.”

Vallée’s lecture at the event, titled “The Age of Impossible: Anticipating Discontinuous Futures,” dealt with how the speed at which modern technology accelerates has resulted in events that would have seemed impossible to many people only years before they transpired. With examples ranging from the collapse of General Motors in 2009 to Bernie Madoff’s role in the financial crisis of 2007-2008, Vallee presented what he called a “Typology of the Impossible” that hinged on four main kinds of scenarios: events that escalated too quickly, convergences of “low-p scenarios,” events that appear to violate current cultural norms, and finally, scenarios that involve the appearance of a “completely alien concept within a particular culture.”

“There are many things in our culture today that fit that model,” Vallée said at one point during the talk, as he described historical instances where things that seemed unimaginable at one time later became technological norms. Such things, Vallee said, “are possible, but we cannot imagine them. The public is not aware that they can be done. History provides many examples, and the internet itself is an example of something that was unimaginable.”

After discussing his own part in helping create ARPANET, Vallée went on to share several more examples from recent history where unforeseen scientific advancements occurred, seemingly out of the blue.

“And finally,” the scientist said, never evincing a change in his measured tone and demeanor, “the Pentagon could not imagine that fast, erratic, mobile, oval objects in the sky were anything other than mental illusions, and they…” After a brief pause, Vallée cryptically added, “and you can fill out the answers in the next few years.”

Despite his success as a venture capitalist and “co-creator of the Internet”, most of the attendees at the 2013 TEDx event in Geneva were likely aware of what Vallée is best known for: his decades of involvement with the study of unidentified aerial phenomena. As a young computer scientist and astronomer in the 1960s, Vallee not only worked alongside Northwestern University astronomer J. Allen Hynek, the official scientific advisor to the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book but also authored Anatomy of a Phenomenon, one of the earliest popular books written on the UFO subject by a professional scientist. Though he never uttered any of the popular names or abbreviations for the phenomenon, it was obvious what Vallee had been alluding to during this brief, passing reference to “oval objects” during his talk.

At least at that time, what had not been so obvious had been why Vallée specifically referenced the Pentagon’s relationship to UAP, nor why a series of seemingly impossible future events might come to pass involving this subject “in the next few years.”

THE CALL FROM DR. VALLÉE came through earlier than I expected.

The scientist’s voice, softened by age yet still resonant with the French he learned as a youth in Pontoise before emigrating to America many decades ago, was unmistakable to me, having heard it in many interviews and documentaries over the years. Vallée, now 83, is a man whose work in the study of unidentified aerial phenomena is only one finger on the glove of his impressive resume, spanning decades of work in astronomy, physics, computer science, and venture capitalism.

As evidenced by his billing at the TEDx event in 2013, one could indeed argue that Vallée is partly responsible for the creation of the Internet, although the affable Frenchman is modest on this point, nearly to a fault. This much was evident almost immediately as we began our discussion, and I wasted no time in bringing up the talk in Geneva and some of the intriguing hints he had dropped at that time.

“I’ve seen the development and the unfolding of a number of technologies,” Vallée told me during our call. “Very often what happens is that a discovery is made, and everyone agrees that it is important, and people write papers, and so on. And then it disappears.” 

Vallée Vallée with collaborator and fellow author Chris Aubeck (Credit: Chris Aubeck).

“You know, the Arpanet was essentially dead for a while,” Vallée recalls from his years working on the project decades ago. “Until [the] National Science Foundation picked up the funding, thinking that there would be several internets.” Initially a simple matter of accounting, the NSF initially believed it would be easier to fund three separate projects that looked at using networks through which computers could connect for purposes of communication.

“And then they picked it up from the DOD, and it became the Internet, as we know it now.”

Vallée offered several similar examples of predecessors to the Internet—not all of them American innovations—a point which Vallée emphasized as he shifted back to our subject of greater mutual interest: UAP.

“When I watched the meetings in Congress recently, all they talk about is American cases,” Vallee said. “And among American cases, all they talk about is military cases.”

“I can tell you, having developed a lot of databases over the years, the U.S. is less than 2% of the habitable surface of the Earth,” Vallée said.

“So, if this is extraterrestrial, what about the other 98%?”

THE PATH THAT BROUGHT Vallée into the tempest that is the study of unidentified aerial phenomena is a long one, which stems back to his early years in Pontoise at an age when the world was still at war.

“There are things you don’t forget,” Vallée said during our call, describing his memories of seeing American aircraft being shot down over his town when he was five years old.

“I remember seeing the crew dropping out in parachutes and the Germans shooting at them.”

By 1945, the war had ended, although fears of a return to conflict lingered throughout parts of Europe. To the north, reports of ghostly “rockets” over countries like Sweden in the summer of 1946 kept many guessing whether the Soviets were conducting tests, perhaps with a form of secret new aerial weapon they had captured from the Germans. The following year, an all-new kind of paranoia would erupt across the Atlantic, as American newspapers were flooded with stories of “flying saucers” seen careening through the skies, especially in airspace around sites of importance to U.S. national security.

By the Autumn of 1954, as the wave of sightings of strange objects was cresting over North America, France was having its own torrent of reports of similar phenomena. Major newspapers like L’Aurore and France-Soir were carrying stories about unidentified flying objects almost daily, and Vallée began collecting clippings of stories like those of Marius Dewilde, a railroad worker who described his observation of a pair of diminutive “robots” next to a dark machine resting on the train tracks.

The reports seemed incredible, and very well might have remained so had it not been for what occurred the following year in May 1955, when Vallée had his own sighting.

“My mother saw it first,” he would later recall of the incident. She had been working in the garden when Vallée, sixteen at the time, heard her screaming for him and his father. Vallée made his way from the attic where his father’s woodworking shop was located, and down three flights of stairs just in time to observe a metallic disc-shaped object “with a clear bubble on top” as it hovered over the nearby church of Saint-Maclou.

Pontoise A modern view of Pontoise with the Cathédrale Saint-Maclou visible in the distance (Credit: Rozinante/CC BY-SA 4.0).

The object reminded them of the parachutists the family had watched descending from the skies during the war. His mother, who continued watching it, recalled how it sped away, leaving only a few wisps of white vapor where the object had been. Vallée would later learn that a schoolmate nearby had also noticed the object, observing it through binoculars.

Despite his father’s disapproval, Vallée maintained his interest in these unusual aerial objects. “I realized,” he would later write in his journal, “that I would forever be ashamed of the human race if we simply ignored ‘their’ presence.” The young Frenchman began to educate himself on the topic by reading the works of Aimé Michel, one of the earliest serious French researchers to undertake the study of unusual aerial phenomena. It was an interest he maintained through his college years, completing his degree in mathematics at the University of Paris in 1959 and going on to receive his M.S. from the University of Lille Nord de France two years later. By 1961, Vallée was employed at the Paris Observatory as an astronomer with its artificial satellite service, tracking space objects through theodolites by night.

“Naively, I started work here with great enthusiasm, assuming that we would be engaged in genuine research,” Vallée would recall of his years at the observatory. “That is not what I found.” In July of 1961, he and the other astronomers recalled a few instances where they observed objects passing overhead that they could not identify. “The next morning,” he recalled of one incident, his superior “simply confiscated the tape and destroyed it.” Vallée inquired as to why they hadn’t sent this seemingly important information along with their normal Telex tape dispatches to U.S. Navy officials in Paris.

“The Americans would laugh at us,” his superior scoffed.

Having his fill of the prevailing attitudes in Paris, by 1962, Vallée had emigrated to the United States, first working at the University of Texas, Austin, as a research associate in astronomy, and thereafter for a short stint at the McDonald Observatory, where he helped to compile the first informational map of the planet Mars with fellow French astronomer Gérard de Vaucouleurs. However, by the summer of 1963, Vallée was looking ahead at new opportunities, one of which arrived following a meeting in September with astronomer J. Allen Hynek, chair of Northwestern University’s astronomy department, who helped the young scientist find work as a systems analyst on campus. Hynek, at the time the scientific advisor to the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book UFO investigation, was a natural ally; not only would he serve as a mentor to Vallée, who went on to receive his Ph.D. from the institution in 1967, but for years thereafter the two would remain close colleagues in the pursuit of their mutual interest.

An undated photo of astronomer J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallée

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However, by the late 1960s, it seemed evident that scientific opinions on the UFO subject in the United States had finally begun to sour, despite the efforts of Hynek, Vallée, and a close network of like-minded scientists looking into the problem. By the end of 1968, the University of Colorado UFO Project, a U.S. Air Force-funded study headed by physicist Edward U. Condon, had delivered its findings; in an introductory summary to the lengthy report, Condon wrote that “nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge,” adding that “further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.”

Vallée, musing over the Condon study during our call, remembered his incredulity at the time he first heard about its conclusions.

“That’s an interesting chapter in science,” he said. “Or the failure of science.”

By then, Vallee had already returned to France. As he, his wife Janine, and their son, Oliver, were acclimating to life in Europe again, Vallée was quietly readjusting his approach to the UFO question.

“Once I was back in France, in a way, it served to give me the space to rethink what we had done,” Vallée told me. “I mean, I knew the Condon Committee was a joke… and that science was somewhere else. So it forced me to ask some fundamental questions that I would not have asked if I had stayed at Northwestern.”

“So I thought, where does all this come from, anyway?”

Vallée began haunting the old Paris bookshops, acquiring rare historical texts and early treatises on the sciences. An interesting question had begun to form in his mind, as he recorded in a journal entry on October 29, 1967: What about the forgotten accounts of Little People, of Elementals, of Leprechauns? If these beings are part of the same phenomenon we see now, what does that mean for their nature? Are we necessarily dealing with extraterrestrials?

“I found that the phenomenon has always been there,” Vallée says of his years spent mining observations of unusual aerial phenomena from texts that date back to classical antiquity. “Of course, they are describing it in the language of the time,” he notes, “but they are describing something that’s very, very much like what I get from witnesses today.”

The fruits of such musings culminated in Vallée’s seminal 1969 effort, Passport to Magonia, widely regarded as one of his most influential early works and, paradoxically, the effort that cast him as a pariah in the eyes of many of his ufological peers.

Magonia Mass market paperback edition of Passport to Magonia (Credit: Archives for the Unexplained)

“At first, it was completely rejected.” he says, recalling one UFO magazine that featured his likeness shortly after Magonia was published, accompanied by the headline, “Vallée has gone off the deep end.” Today, Vallée laughs about the chiding he received from his peers, and I note a hint of nostalgia about those early works behind the dry chuckle that emerges.

“Maybe the truth was in the deep end.”

OVER THE COURSE OF the ensuing decades, Vallée would continue to challenge the extraterrestrial hypothesis favored particularly among American UFO researchers. Parallel to this effort, his professional career brought him into work with the Institute for the Future in the mid-1970s, where he worked as principal investigator on the National Science Foundation computer networking project that gave rise to one of the earliest iterations of the ARPANET conferencing system. In the following decade, Vallée would become involved in venture capitalism, first as a partner at Sofinnova, then moving on to become a general partner in multiple different Silicon Valley funds, including his involvement in private investments today.

As his professional career flourished, Vallée never lost sight of his fascination with strange aerial phenomena. He authored a string of follow-ups to Magonia on the topic of UFOs throughout the 1970s and 80s, each continuing to build on the premise that the phenomenon could be far more complex than conventional opinions on UFOs would offer. His pioneering work continued to garner attention along the way, even serving as the inspiration for Claude Lacombe, a French scientist portrayed by actor François Truffaut in Stephen Spielberg’s classic film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 

Lacombe Actor François Truffaut in Stephen Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (fair use).

In the 1990s, Vallée authored a trilogy of books that focused on the prospects of alien contact. However, he always maintained a healthy distance from drawing conclusions about what any exotic technologies behind UFOs might represent. It was also during this period that Vallée began working with real estate developer Robert Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), a privately funded scientific research effort that looked at UFOs and related phenomena.

In July 2014, Vallée presented a paper at the GEIPAN International Workshop in Paris, France, titled “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: A Strategy for Research,” offering both a snapshot of what he had learned about the complexities of the phenomenon over several decades of study, as well as what he believed might be a path toward more fruitful future research.

“After years of ideological arguments based on anecdotal data the field of UAP research appears ready to emerge into a more mature phase of reliable study,” Vallée wrote in the paper’s abstract. Citing the mounting scientific interest in UAP around the world, based in part on documents conveying an official military interest in these phenomena, the scientist argued that the path forward would require the analysis of hard data, paired with intelligently informed theoretical studies.

“Without pre-judging the origin and nature of the phenomena, a range of opportunities arise for investigation,” Vallée wrote, warning that “such projects need to generate new hypotheses and test them in a rigorous way against the accumulated reports of thousands of observers.”

The problem was that in 2014, despite the existence of several notable independent catalogs containing information on historical incidents, there was no single collection of reliable UAP reports—a centralized database, in other words—upon which such studies could rely. This had been part of what prompted Vallée to assemble such a database for NIDS, work that would later carry over as Bigelow’s efforts moved out of the private sector and into the official world as part of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program (AAWSAP).

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(Credit: Jacques Vallée/fair use)

“In the United States the National Institute for Discovery Science (“NIDS”) and the Bigelow Aerospace Corporation have initiated a series of special catalogues to safeguard their own reports from public sources and from their staff,” Vallée wrote in his 2014 paper, adding that he had been asked to develop a UAP data warehouse containing 11 individual databases.

“The project is known as ‘Capella,’” it stated.

According to slides accompanying Vallée’s 2014 presentation, the Capella project focused on several areas that ranged from patterns emerging from UAP data to possible physics underlying the phenomenon and its impact on humans.

During our call, Vallée spoke candidly about the project and what he hopes it might still be used to achieve.

“There is such a database. It is the one we built as part of the AATIP/BAASS project in Las Vegas,” Vallée told me. Comprising roughly 260,000 cases from countries around the world, the scientist said during our call that the Capella database had been one of the major focal points of the program.

“Contrary to what people believe, [Capella] is the largest part of the budget that was spent on the classified project,” Vallée said. This included paying for translations of incident reports from Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, and several other languages into English, and providing funding for teams that conducted additional research on-site.

“It was a large effort for two years, Vallée said, though he added that in reality, “probably close to fifty or sixty years of work went into the database.” Although Capella constitutes what is arguably the most extensive database containing information on UAP ever built, don’t expect to see it any time soon; it remains classified as a part of the data developed under the DIA’s AAWSAP program managed by James Lackatski between 2008 and 2010.

“The database is still classified, to my knowledge,” Vallée said during our call, prompting me to ask whether such a vast amount of historical information on the UAP subject shouldn’t be made publicly available.

Speaking with The Debrief in December 2021, Mark Rodeghier, Ph.D., director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies and a longtime colleague of Vallée, expressed frustration over previous statements made by Colm Kelleher, Ph.D., another of the scientists who worked on the AAWSAP program, who noted that much of the AAWSAP data will likely remain classified.

“I mean, isn’t that discouraging, disappointing, [and] ridiculous,” Rodeghier told The Debrief. “It’s not work on how we can get a hypersonic missile. It’s UFO investigations. How can that be classified at this point? And the answer, of course, is that it shouldn’t be classified now.”

During our call, Vallée expressed similar sentiments to Rodeghier’s, although he also defended Capella’s current classified status on account of some of the information it protects.

“You make a good point,” Vallée told me. “That’s the kind of thing that should be accessible to science,” although adding that “it will be accessible to very highly competent people who can continue to look at it under the proper classification.”

“I think it’s properly classified,” Vallée added, “because it contains a lot of medical data that should be private.” However, he said that he thinks that over time, perhaps portions can be “sanitized” for release to the public, “so that we don’t invade the privacy of individuals who have reported those things, especially their medical data.”

“It’s not classified for any military or intelligence reason as far as I know,” Vallée said. “But I’m not part of the project anymore.” Vallée noted that even he no longer has access to Capella, although several longtime colleagues of his who still work in government do.

“I’m very proud to have worked on that,” Vallée said. “It’s probably the high water mark in the computer study of UFOs so far.”

“But as we know, the high water mark is going to go even higher after this.”

DESPITE HIS OWN LEVEL of involvement with government UAP studies, as well as the level of interest generated by videos of unidentified objects collected by the U.S. military—the existence of which Vallée himself hinted at in Geneva as early as 2013—the 83-year-old scientist still doesn’t necessarily hold military UAP data in higher regard than that collected by civilians.

“The military cases in the databases I know of are less than ten percent in every country,” Vallee said during our call. “They are really good because the military has radar. They have, of course, planes that can chase the objects… pilots who are very well trained and very well positioned to give a description.”

“Those are excellent reports,” Vallée concedes. “But what about the farmer in the field, who sees [an object] close to him, and has traces, and has materials? Who has felt physiological reactions?”

“What about those cases?” he asks. “They are full of information.”

Vallée’s appreciation for UAP information collected from non-governmental sources is particularly evident in his latest book, Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret, coauthored with Italian journalist Paola Leopizzi Harris. In it, they unravel the story of two men, Jose Padilla and Reme Baca, who claim to have witnessed the crash of an unusual aircraft near San Antonito, New Mexico, in August 1945. Padilla, who went on to become a State Trooper in Rowland Heights, California, maintained that as children, he and Baca had seen a large, dull-gray avocado-shaped object—along with its frantic occupants—where it had apparently crashed near his family’s ranch. The object, they say, was later recovered by the military.

ValléeVallée while conducting field research in New Mexico in advance of the publication of Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret (Credit: Jacques Vallée).

In a newly updated second edition of the book, Vallée and Harris present additional witness testimony they have gathered about the alleged incident, which includes an observation of the crash remembered by the family of Lt. Colonel William J. Brothy, who at the time had been piloting a B-25 on a training mission. According to Brothy, he and his crew had flown over the site and recalled, “There were a lot of pieces.”

In Trinity, Vallée emphasizes what he believes are undeniable similarities between descriptions of the 1945 incident and a UAP landing in New Mexico observed by police officer Lonnie Zamora in 1964. Then, the following year another strikingly similar incident occurred near Valensole, France, involving the close observation of a landed craft and its apparent pilot or occupant.

“There is a case in Valensole, in France, and the case in Socorro. The object is identical to the Trinity object,” Vallée said. “And the [occupants] are identical to the creatures that Mr. Padilla is describing to me at Trinity, that he saw.”

“I was involved in Socorro, and I was involved in Valensole. Those are cases I know very well,” Vallée said, adding that Trinity contains new information on the Socorro case, once referred to by Hector Quintanilla, director of the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book at the time of the incident, as being “the best documented case on record.”

Today, much of Vallée’s research is focused on the collection and study of material samples believed to have been collected from UAP. Compared with his earlier work, which challenged popular notions about extraterrestrials being associated with UAP, this might surprise longtime followers of the scientist’s work. For Vallée, however, it is only the next phase in the many decades he has spent working toward resolving the mystery.

“It’s all one thing,” Vallée said during our call. “The first book I wrote was Anatomy of a Phenomenon, which… I took as a study of extraterrestrial intelligence in general, and how it was I thought UFOs illustrated the idea of life elsewhere and intelligence elsewhere… that’s definitely the place from which we started.”

“Then, when I started working with Dr. Hynek, and I started working with—in those days, it was just called ‘computer catalogs,’ it wasn’t dignified as databases or data warehouses—but those catalogs held thousands of cases. My first complete catalog was donated to the Condon Committee at the University of Colorado, when they did the study funded by the Air Force.”

“Which,” Vallée notes, “to my surprise, concluded the problem didn’t exist. So, we’ve come a long way from that.”

Given his level of involvement in working to resolve the UAP question—an effort now spanning more than six decades, including his involvement in official government UAP investigations in several countries and having authored some of the most popular books ever written on the subject—perhaps the most surprising thing expressed by Vallée during our discussion had been his predictions about how he thinks his own work will be remembered by future generations.

“I think everything I’ve done, and everything my contemporaries have done, is going to be forgotten,” he said, mirroring his observations of the invention, and subsequent reinvention, of so many other innovations in science over time, not least among them the World Wide Web.

“And then in a few years, it’s going to be reinvented by, you know, great people at Stanford and Harvard in a new way,” he tells me, accompanied by the distinctive chuckle I had by now come to expect after one of his witty responses

“That’s always the way science works.”

  • Micah Hanks is Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Debrief. Follow his work at micahhanks.com and on Twitter: @MicahHanks. 

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Roswell footage uploaded to National Archives shows crashed 'UFO debris and alien bodies'

A nearly 22-minute video titled 'The Roswell Incident' has been quietly uploaded to the National Archives, reigniting interest in the infamous 1947 crash.

The footage combines still images and motion-control camera shots sourced from the published Roswell Report, as well as various magazines and books about UFOs. 

It opens with a shot of the book 'The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert' and ends with a stark black-and-white image that appears to show a crash site, with debris scattered across a massive crater in the ground.

The video has flooded the internet, with users claiming the crater bears a striking resemblance to eyewitness reports, suggesting it could be 'the first pictures of the 1947 UFO crash site.'

Major Jesse Marcel, who recovered debris from the crash, described the scene as 'a large area heavily scattered with metallic debris from a single impact point that scarred the earth.' 

Some viewers have also pointed to a dark formation on the right side of the image, claiming it resembles an alien body. 

UFO expert Mark Lee told the Daily Mail that the crater image was likely included to add intrigue. 

'In my opinion, it's either a hoax,' he said. 'Just because it's been added to the National Archives doesn't give it scientific validation. If it came out as a release from the military or Congress, I would take it a lot more seriously.'

Lee also noted that the 'alien' in the photo is nothing more than a case of pareidolia, a psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random stimuli.

A video titled 'The Roswell Incident' was uploaded to the National Archives. Social media users claim an image in the footage shows UFO debris (left) and an alien body (right)
A video titled 'The Roswell Incident' was uploaded to the National Archives. Social media users claim an image in the footage shows UFO debris (left) and an alien body (right)

The newly uploaded video appears to focus on 'The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert,' a 1995 book that attributes the crashed 'UFO' debris to Project Mogul.

Project Mogul was a top-secret US military program from 1947 to 1949 that used high-altitude balloons equipped with microphones to detect sound waves from Soviet atomic bomb tests. 

A 1994 military investigation concluded that the debris found at the Roswell site was likely pieces of a high-altitude balloon from Project Mogul, not an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 

Despite this official explanation, the newly uploaded video has sparked debate online, with viewers offering widely differing interpretations.

'National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has uploaded a video of the Roswell 1947 UAP Crash site,' one user shared.

Another user posted on X: 'Like noted UFO researcher Grant Cameron has stated plenty of times, sometimes the disclosure of the real deal is a purposefully placed needle in the haystack. Roswell: slow drip…drip, drip, drip.'

In addition to the debris spotted in the footage, one user shared: 'Grey alien in the official video from the Roswell crash site.'

However, some social media suggested the footage 'is B-roll for the Roswell Report, and the images being posted do not show the Roswell debris site, nor does it even claim it's the actual debris site.'

Major Jesse Marcel, who recovered debris from the crash, described the scene as 'a large area heavily scattered with metallic debris from a single impact point that scarred the earth.' He said the debris could not melt or heat up and could not be punctured

Major Jesse Marcel, who recovered debris from the crash, described the scene as 'a large area heavily scattered with metallic debris from a single impact point that scarred the earth.' He said the debris could not melt or heat up and could not be punctured

One user posted: 'It’s clearly B-roll for that Roswell presentation the government put together in 1996. Someone must have found this and uploaded it in the last couple of days.'

Others have suggested a dead alien can be seen in the image, pointing to what Marcle said following the Roswell incident.

'I later found out that the pilot of the aircraft was a Captain Henderson, who apparently saw far more than just the debris from the impact site... he may in fact have seen the remains of a crew,' the now deceased major said. 

In July 1947, a rancher reported pieces of debris scattered over his land.

Authorities were called to the scene and, after investigating the wreckage, determined the pieces were from a flying saucer.

The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land

The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land

The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army Field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land.

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'The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today that the field has come into the possession of a Flying Saucer,' Roswell Daily Record reported on July 8, 1947.

The statement was given by Marcel, who was the first on the scene and led the investigation, which he determined were pieces from an extraterrestrial vehicle. 

He also said that the material spread out from this point into a triangular-shaped area 200 to 300 feet wide at the end of the field, and 3/4 of a mile long.

Shortly after the 'UFO' discovery made headlines, the War Department in Washington released a statement claiming the debris was the remains of a weather balloon.

The US Air Force stated the weather balloon was part of Project Mogul's airborne system invented by Columbia University, New York University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

It was designed to search the atmosphere for weak reverberations from nuclear-test blasts.

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Evidence Suggests Bob Lazar Was Telling Truth About UFOs & Anti-Gravity Propulsion

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Evidence Suggests Bob Lazar Was Telling Truth About UFOs & Anti-Gravity Propulsion

On May 15, 1989, KLAS-5 TV did a live interview with an anonymous man who made some extraordinary claims about UFOs and anti-gravity technology. Bob Lazar, who hid his identity under the pseudonym “Dennis,” claimed that the United States military was conducting covert research on alien technology in the Nevada desert, close to a base now commonly referred to as “Area-51.” Lazar’s claims seem to be true after a 2020 New York story, “No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public,” that included some information about how astrophysicist and the Pentagon contractor Eric W. Davis gave a classified briefing to government officials in March 2020 about retrieved “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”

In an interview with Las Vegas investigative writer George Knapp in 1989, Lazar claimed unbelievable things about Area-51 that catapulted the topic into the public consciousness. Lazar said he had reverse-engineered crashed alien flying saucers at a top-secret military station called S-4 near Papoose Lake. His claims sounded like sci-fiction, but in 30 years, everything he said in his interviews seems to become quite realistic.

Knapp stated in an interview with KNPR’s State of Nevada that he was unable to verify some of the information that Lazar provided to him. For example, he asserted that Lazar studied in MIT; however, Knapp checked with the institution, and it does not have any records of Lazar there. In addition, Lazar stated that he held a position at Los Alamos National Lab; when Knapp inquired about Lazar’s employment at the lab, Los Alamos responded that Lazar did not hold a position there. (Source)

Bob lazar Original UFO sketch by Bob Lazar

On the other hand, Lazar showed Knapp and a photojournalist around the national lab after taking them there himself. Knapp reported that everyone, including the security guard at the front gate and other scientists, greeted him as if he was a familiar face there. So, if Lazar really worked at Los Alamos, is there any record of him?

Medium user SignalsIntelUFO has done great work by transcribing over 50 interviews of Bob Lazar with in-depth information. Bob claimed to have been hired as a physicist at Los Alamos in May 1982. For evidence about his employment, there is an article written by Terry England on June 30, 1982. “To Lazar, a physicist at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, the important thing is the jet engine. It’s something he’s been working on for years,” England wrote.

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In July 2020, during Joe Rogan’s podcast with Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, Corbell said he asked Terry England about Bob Lazar’s occupation as a physicist at Los Alamos. Corbell said: “Look, here’s the point, you said Bob Lazar was a physicist at Los Alamos. So how did you base that? You’re writing a paper…” and he [England] goes “yeah,” — and it got picked up by AP news — he goes “if I [England] had misrepresented that he was a physicist at Los Alamos I would have been blackballed by everybody at Los Alamos. They take that very seriously. He was a physicist. I reported it. AP News picked it up, they repeated it. Not word one from anybody saying he wasn’t a physicist at Los Alamos.”

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In July 2020, during Joe Rogan’s podcast with Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, Corbell said he asked Terry England about Bob Lazar’s occupation as a physicist at Los Alamos.  There are two former lab employees who worked directly with Bob. The first one is a physicist named John Jarmer, and the second one, according to SignalsIntelUFO, had an administrative role but remained to be unidentified. Jarmer worked at the lab for over two decades in the Polarized Proton section. Besides, Joe Vaninetti, who worked alongside Bob,is listed as an author on multiple original research papers with John Jarmer.

area 51 bob lazar John Jarmer, Bob Lazar, and Joe Vaninetti’s Lab Directory Entries.

There are other documents and accounts stating that Lazar had worked at S-4, a government laboratory near Groom lake. Richard Geldreich has done great research in connecting the dots to Bob Lazar’s mystery.

Exactly as Lazar had described it in the 1980s, a craft of unknown origin can be seen spinning and flying belly-up in one of the US Navy’s declassified UFO videos. “The craft that I worked on, that when it’s going to travel a long distance, that is how it operates. It puts its belly to the target and then brings all of the amplifiers to power, and you know it shoots off in that direction It doesn’t fly as it would in a science-fiction movie. It flies with the belly, the bottom, forward,” Lazar said. (Source )

Take a look at the so-called Gimbal UFO if the preceding description of a tilting spacecraft seems at all familiar to you. In 2017, the Pentagon made a video available online. In 2015, naval pilots flying off the coast of Florida came face to face with a fleet of unknown ships. Since then, they have had scores of further encounters of a similar nature.

“In the Gimbal video, there’s a mechanistic turn against the wind without deceleration, and so we have a craft without rotors, without heat signatures, without plums, without tail fins, and certainly no tail number, moving in a way that is counterintuitive to our aeronautics,” filmmaker Jeremy Corbell said. “When Bob saw it, he said it has to be a gravity-propelled craft. That it does mimic the propulsion system, Bob Lazar described.”

It is eerie. When Lazar initially began discussing the possibility of using Element 115 as a power source for antigravitational propulsion, the element was not even included on the periodic table. Now it is. It does not seem like much of a coincidence, does it?

“The study of UFOs did not end in 1969 with Project Blue Book. That was a lie, and it was an admitted lie by our own Pentagon,” Corbell said. “We are living in a world where it is understood that there are craft technologically advanced from an unknown origin that are performing maneuvers that far exceed human technology. It’s been going on a long time, and our government has been studying it.”

Bob Lazar further explained in his interviews that bombarding Element 115 with protons leads to it creating Element 116 (Livermorium), which immediately decays and produces antimatter. The antimatter collides with normal particles creating a massive energy burst, which can be used for propulsion. It is quite likely Element 115 could also be the famed exotic matter that is needed to create traversable wormholes that physicists such as Drs. Kip Thorne and Carl Sagan have speculated, and was the subject of a recently leaked Defense Intelligence Reference Document titled “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy.”

element 115 This image features Bob Lazar and the Aerogel that was used to package the ELEMENT 115 for transport. There has been a lot of confusion about this – and about the function of ELEMENT 115 in alien spacecraft. And this is a core aspect of what Bob Lazar has told you. Image credit: Jeremy Corbell

In September 2020, Corbell shared a photo of Lazar holding Aerogel that was used to package Element 115 for transport. He said that he could not include this part in his Netflix documentary but promised to publish the clip on his YouTube channel, discussing Element 115 and how he observed it functioning (Editor’s note: I have searched throughout Corbell’s channel but could not find a clip explaining Element 115).

“It’s reported that a distortion occurs – a gravitational distortion. This is highlighted by how these vehicles appear to negate the effects of inertia. You’ve heard it thousands of times from credible witnesses regarding their UFO encounters… ‘It shot off at an IMPOSSIBLE speed.’ Cmdr. Fravor & Cmdr. Select Underwood used those exact words to me when describing their encounters with the TIC TAC UFO. The craft displayed instantaneous acceleration – and was immediately gone from both sight and radar. Even the Princeton with it’s SPY-1 radar system confirmed this in real-time.

So what’s up with these transmedium machines – these UFOs that fly with impunity in our airspace? Maybe ELEMENT 115 can give us a glimpse into the UFO presence on Planet Earth,” Corbell wrote.

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Chinese scientists uncover strange life forms at 31,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean

Chinese scientists uncover strange life forms at 31,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean

A GIF of marine life in the Kunlun system, taken from the Fendouzhe submersible.

Researchers documented a variety of life in the newly discovered system in the Pacific northeast of Papua New Guinea. 

(Image credit: Image by Prof. SUN Weidong, et al., 2025.)

A research team led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered extraordinary deep-sea life in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. Using a manned submersible, the team explored ocean trenches in the northwest Pacific, reaching depths of over 31,000 feet. 

There, they recorded stunning footage of strange ecosystems, including beds of clams, mats of bacteria resembling ice, and fields of tube worms. The discovery, published in a study in the journal Nature, sets a new milestone in deep-sea exploration, surpassing the previous record for filmed marine vertebrate, which included a snailfish spotted at 27,350 feet deep off the coast of Japan in 2023.

The Mariana Trench

Map locating the Mariana Trench

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The study area, situated in the northwest Pacific, is demarcated by a white rectangle in the inset. Orange dots represent dive sites where chemosynthesis-based communities were observed and sampled and crosses indicate dive sites lacking such communities. Open orange circles delineate potential seep sites characterized by black sediments. White arrows illustrate the direction of subduction for the Pacific Plate beneath the Okhotsk Plate and the Bering Sea Plate. The dashed white lines indicate the transitional connection zones between the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and the Aleutian Trench. Bathymetric data were acquired using the KM-EM122 multi-beam bathymetric system during the research expedition. Scale bar, 200 km.

Credit: map created using Global Mapper 14 software, with background data sourced from GeoMapApp (http://www.geomapapp.org), under a CC BY 4.0 licence.

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a, Free-moving polychaetes Macellicephaloides grandicirra (white; reaching 6.5 cm in size) navigate among dense colonies of frenulate siboglinids, with tubes 20–30 cm in length and approximately 1 mm in diameter, at 9,532 m at The Deepest. b, Clusters of frenulate siboglinids extending red haemoglobin-filled tentacles, with small Gastropoda (white spots) on tops of the tubes near the tentacles, at 9,320 m at Wintersweet Valley. c, Tightly packed frenulate siboglinids are home to abundant free-moving polychaetes M. grandicirra (white) at 9,332 m at Cotton Field. d, Dense aggregation of vesicomyid bivalves A. phaseoliformis (reaching 23 cm in size) in the sediment, with approximately 6–8 cm of valves exposed and often hosting Actiniaria, at 5,743 m at Clam Bed. e, Tube-dwelling polychaetes Anobothrus sp. and Actiniaria are dominant at 6,870 m at Aleutian Deepest, with spots of white microbial mats. f, Dense aggregation of vesicomyid bivalves I. fossajaponicum (reaching 3 cm in size) associated with black sediments and accompanied by tube-dwelling polychaetes Anobothrus sp. at 6,928 m at Aleutian Deepest. g, Dark blue muds surrounded by clusters of frenulate siboglinids, mark methane seeps at 6,800 m at Blue Marsh. h, Large patches of white, snow-like microbial mats stretch tens of metres, accompanied by frenulate siboglinid tubeworms at 6,700 m at Icy River. The images were taken by the manned submersible equipped with a high-definition camera system. The name of each cold seep indicated in the lower left corner. The distance between laser beams is 10 cm. An expanded showcase of cold-seep fauna is given in Supplementary Video 1.

Life found where sunlight never reaches

Hadal trenches are deep-sea depressions between 19,700 and 36,100 feet, formed where one tectonic plate dives beneath another. These remote regions—among the least explored on the planet—have long been suspected of supporting life that relies on chemosynthesis rather than sunlight. 

The new findings confirm that these extreme environments do, in fact, harbor unique and resilient biological communities. The research team documented thriving species of deep-sea life fueled by chemosynthesis, clustered around abundant methane seeps in the Kuril-Kamchatka and western Aleutian Trenches. 

Bivalve mollusks discovered as part of the exploration. Source: IDSSE/CAS

As per the study’s findings, these ecosystems are sustained by methane and hydrogen sulfide–rich fluids rising through faults in deep sediment layers. Isotopic analysis suggests that the methane is generated by microbes breaking down organic material buried in the seabed. 

Because similar geological conditions exist in other hadal trenches, scientists believe such chemosynthesis-based ecosystems may be far more common than once believed. Furthermore, with the ongoing discovery of chemosynthesis-based communities in hadal zones, researchers may soon identify new species and reveal previously unknown relationships between animals and microorganisms that have adapted to survive under extreme high-pressure conditions

Fields of tube worms and mollusks discovered 

According to one of the lead researchers, Dr Xiaotong Peng, the expedition offered a rare opportunity to explore uncharted regions of the deep-sea and what the team encountered was remarkable.

As part of future research, the team aims to understand how these so-called chemosynthetic organisms convert chemical compounds into energy. Dr Megran Du, from China’s Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE), highlighted the challenge of adapting to extreme pressure, noting that uncovering the mechanisms behind their survival in such intense conditions is another key question they plan to explore.


Recent discoveries challenge long-held beliefs about life’s limits at extreme depths. Reflecting on the experience of descending into the pitch-black depths, Du added that while some might find it frightening, she encourages her students to look out the submersible’s window—where the view can be truly inspiring.

The research itself is part of the Global Hadal Exploration Programme (GHEP), a decade-long international project led by the Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering. The program focuses on exploring the Earth’s deepest oceans using advanced deep-diving technology.

You can view the full study here.

The mission on November 10 beamed up the world's first live video from Challenger Deep.

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UFO over Los Angeles, California Aug 30, 2025 UAP sighting news 👽 it’s the battle of LA again! 🛸

UFO over Los Angeles, California Aug 30, 2025 UAP sighting news 👽 it’s the battle of LA again! 🛸

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Date of sighting: Aug 30, 2025
Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA
Source: NUFORC website
 
Hey all, this UFO looks amazing. Its V shape really stands out and it has glowing lights along the whole craft. It's 100% similar in appearance to the famous Phoenix lights UFO, just smaller. This craft looks to be about 30 meters across, like that of a passenger jet. Fantastic detail and over a city with millions of people, but I have to say, I'm from LA and people have seen it all and just shrug the strange or unusual off like its just another day. But this is absolute a real alien UFO. 
Scott C. Waring - UFO sightings Daily 
 
Characteristics Observation:
  • Shape: Chevron 
  • Color: black w white lights 
  • Estimated Size: Not sure 
  • Viewed From: Land 
  • Direction from Viewer: South 
  • Angle of Elevation: 45 
  • Closest Distance: Not sure. Maybe 2-3 miles 
  • Estimated Speed: Not sure 
  • Characteristics: Lights on object V shaped craft with 9 circular white lights.  

Eyewitness states: 

While sitting on my balcony I saw a light in the sky bigger than stars usually appear. I took out my phone to zoom in to see what it was and started taking pictures and videos. It stayed in the same area for about 25–30 minutes for the first time I saw it. It moved around a little bit but didn’t go too far. At the end it just flew off in the south direction until I couldn’t see it anymore.

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UFO over Yellowknife, Canada on August 30, 2025. UFO UAP Sighting News.

UFO over Yellowknife, Canada on August 30, 2025. UFO UAP Sighting News.


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Date of sighting: Aug 30, 2025
Location of sighting: Yellowknife, Canada
Source: NUFORC website 
Guys check this out. This UFO report just came into NUFORC and it's absolutely mind boggling! This craft is huge, like football field size huge. The object is traveling slowly, so that rules out meteor and the object has a huge finlike shape...much like a fish. It's beautiful, and rare, such a great catch. I'm sure thousands of people saw it, but only one report this week came in about it so far. Yes it's a UFO...unidentified flying object...but is it an alien species flying it??? Yeah it is, because nothing on Earth is that big and can fly horizontal like that! 
Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily 
Characteristics observation
  • Shape: Triangle 
  • Color: White/Grey glowing 
  • Viewed From: Land 
  • Angle of Elevation: 13 
  • Characteristics: Aura or haze around object.
Eyewitness states: 
It was glowing white/grey and looked like the shape of a bird or beta fish. I spotted this ufo in the sky outside my apartment building as I got out of my car. The ufo was moving straight and started to fade after 2 minutes of movement. It was glowing white/grey and looked like the shape of a bird or beta fish.

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Bizarre Vanishings in the Wilderness

Bizarre Vanishings in the Wilderness

Bizarre Vanishings in the Wilderness

The wilderness seems to beckon people to join it at times. Here we see some of the most mysterious vanishings there are, with people who have just gone off into the trees to evaporate into thin air. These dark places at times have a habit of drawing the unwary in and not letting go, leaving behind vanishings with a wake of strange circumstances and bizarre clues. 

Our earliest case here brings us back to August of 1934, when 21-year-old Olga Mauger seemed to have things going pretty well for her. She had just married wealthy Wyoming oil magnate Carl Mauger after a two-week whirlwind romance and the two were madly in love. They also had an upcoming elk hunting trip in the scenic wilderness near Dubois, Wyoming, that they saw as a romantic honeymoon. It seemed as if she had her whole future ahead of her, but she was about to become the center of one of Wyoming’s oldest and strangest unsolved mysteries.

The couple made their way to a place called Floyd Stalnacker camp, at Togwotee Pass up in the remote mountains, just six days after their wedding, and at first, the trip was everything they had hoped it would be. On September 17, 1934, the sixth day of their trip, the couple headed out into the wilderness on a scout expedition for elk. At some point during their hike, Carl told his wife he wanted to go up a small ridge not too far away, but Olga said that she was tired and wanted to take a rest. It was a bit strange because Olga was an avid hunter, athletic, and in incredible shape, to the point that it was usually Carl trying to keep up with her, but at the time, he didn’t think much of it and continued up the ridge as she sat down on a rock to rest. Little did he know that this would be the last time he would ever see her again. 

When Carl returned to the same spot 20 minutes later, his wife was nowhere to be seen. A quick search around the area turned up nothing else, and his calls out to her remained unanswered. Not long after this, authorities were summoned and they would launch a massive search involving an aircraft and over 300 people, bloodhounds, and even 20 Native American trackers, but they could find no trace of her. The dogs brought in could not find a scent trail; there was nothing. The only thing they managed to turn up was an empty paper sack in which there had been three sandwiches, but no sign of the food. How is it that she could so completely vanish within 20 minutes to the point that not even dogs and expert Native trackers could pick up her trail? No one had a clue, but as night approached and the weather got very cold, it was feared that wherever she had gone, Olga, who had been lightly dressed, might not survive. 

Nevertheless, the search continued into the coming weeks, and there were some clues that would show up during this time. One was that some local campers would claim to have heard a woman screaming out in the woods of a nearby canyon three days after she had gone missing, but this could not be confirmed to have been her. There was also much excitement when a set of footprints was found at a wooded area known as Turpin Meadows, about 8 miles from where Olga had gone missing. The tracks were first thought to be hers, but it turned out that they were not. There were also some reports of seeing a woman walking along the nearby Togwotee Pass Road, but these could not be verified to have been her. The search went on into October, until a massive snowstorm hit, and it was called off for good. Rather oddly, shortly after the end of the search, a woman was found in Bridgeport, Nebraska, who allegedly looked so much like Olga that she had to be ruled out. 

At the time, it was seen as a very odd disappearance for several reasons. One was that Olga had been hunting and fishing in that same area since she was a child and was very familiar with the terrain, meaning that it seems unlikely she could have gotten lost, and even if she had, why hadn’t she called out for help or answered calls out to her? Carl had allegedly been gone for only 20 minutes, so wouldn’t she be able to hear him? Also, how could she have managed to so completely elude the dogs and trackers? Why would she have wandered off from her spot on that rock in the first place? No one knew, but there were ideas. 

One idea was that she had gone down to the road and either hitchhiked a ride or been kidnapped, but why would she have gone there? Another was that she had simply gotten lost and met with misfortune, but with her knowledge of the area, this seemed unlikely, and again, why would she have gone off into the wilderness to begin with? It could also have been a bear attack, but again, this would have made a commotion, and no body or signs of an animal attack had been found. As more information came in, there was also seen the possibility that she had run away to start a new life. It would turn out that her marriage was not as blissful as had been thought when Olga’s sister claimed that the couple had been on the rocks, arguing frequently, and that Olga had been unhappy with the marriage and had regretted having the wedding so soon. In this scenario, Olga had used the elk-hunting trip as a ruse for her escape, knowing that with her outdoor survival skills, no one would be able to follow her. After this, all she had to do was go to the nearby road and hitch a ride to a new life. This might help explain how she was able to evade the search party, and it would also explain the oddity of her wanting her husband to continue on while she took a rest. If she had run away, then it was actually a pretty good plan.

Another, more ominous possibility was that it had been foul play. It would be found that Carl had been dating a woman by the name of Ella Tchack for five or six years when he met Olga at a dance. It had apparently been serious enough that they had been considering marriage, and Ella was reported as having been very upset about Carl running off with Olga, to the point that it was claimed she had threatened to commit suicide. Yet another witness close to her claimed that Ella and Carl had continued seeing each other after Carl’s marriage to Olga, something that Carl vehemently denied. The idea here is that Carl had perhaps murdered Olga to get out of his marriage and get back with Ella, and there were some sinister clues that supported this. One was that he would later contradict his statement that he had been gone 20 minutes, giving a different figure. Even more damning is that the Native guides made the observation that Carl Mauger's path away from his wife to the spot he claimed to have gone would have kept him in full view of her sitting place from the moment he left her to the moment he claimed he had returned. An excerpt from the Casper Star-Tribune says of this:

“They also pointed out that, although the country is rugged, it is open and that Mauger was in full view of the place, where he claimed he left his wife until he reached a small path where he said he turned around and retraced his steps.”

If this is true, then she would have never been out of his line of sight at all. It seems pretty ominous, but without any real evidence of wrongdoing, there was nothing to go on, and Carl Mauger was never pursued as a suspect. In a curious aside, he would be arrested not long after and put in jail after being mistaken for a wanted criminal who just happened to be his doppelganger and had the name Carl Mager. Weird. Also, rather odd, or to be expected, depending on your stance, Carl would later remarry, this time with Ella, the one he had been dating when he married Olga. Coincidence or not? We are left to ask ourselves what happened to Olga? Was this a tragic accident or foul play? Where did she go that day, and what became of her? Considering it is one of Wisconsin's oldest cold cases and there have been no new clues in decades, we will probably never know for sure.

Moving along, Susan Adams, 42, and her husband, Tom, of Austin, Texas, had been looking forward to their next big camping trip for months. Both avid campers, hunters, and birdwatchers, their plan was to take a wilderness tour with a group called Iron Horse Outfitters, their destination being a protected wilderness area near the Idaho/Montana border called the Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness. Lying along the Bitterroot Mountain range, it is a rugged domain of thick forests and alpine parkland that spans 1.3 million acres, making it one of the largest such wilderness areas in the entire country. The couple was very excited about exploring it, they both had experience with the outdoors, and they were going in with a reputable wilderness tour company and seasoned guides in good spirits. There was no reason to suspect this would be anything other than the trip of a lifetime, but this was an excursion that only one of them would return from.

On September 22 of 1990, the couple arrived in Idaho Falls ready for their adventure and met with the owner of the tour company, Art Griffith, before heading out a few days later to take a long horseback ride through pristine wilderness to the outfitters' camp in the Battle Lake area. There they were greeted by the rest of the crew, consisting of a group of hunters, guides, and the camp’s cook. They then spent about a week leisurely exploring the area, hunting, and engaging in their hobby of birdwatching, before Tom decided to go out on September 29 with some of the camp hunters for an overnight hunting trip. Susan decided she would stay behind at camp, and after escorting her husband by horseback to a ridge, she said her goodbyes and returned to camp. No one at the time realized that this would prove to be their final goodbye.

The following day at around 9 AM, Susan decided to go do some birdwatching at a nearby meadow. The weather was clear and calm, and so she only had with her light clothing, her binoculars, and her camera. The meadow was nearby and an easy short hike away, so when she told the camp cook that she was headed over there, no one thought anything of it. She walked off, but never came back. No one in the camp seemed to really be all that alarmed, as it was a nice day, the meadow was so close, and Susan had not said anything about when she planned to return. It didn’t even cross anyone’s mind that something was amiss until Tom came back from his hunting trip in the late afternoon, and she had still not returned.

Tom waited a while, but as darkness began to creep in, he became worried. He went out towards the meadow, where he found footprints that led away down a trail. Oddly, he claims that at some point, the tracks just abruptly ended right in the middle of that dusty trail, with no sign of any leading off anywhere. According to Tom, it was unsettling, as if she had simply vanished right there on the spot, and he would say, “I followed the footprints to a place about 20 yards from the meadow, where the tracks stopped.” He looked everywhere for more footprints, but there were none, and his desperate calls out into the trees were answered by the sounds of the darkening forest. He was then joined by the camp guides and hunters, many of them experienced trackers, but they had no more success, and after some time scouring the area with no sign of Susan, night was finally upon them, forcing them to abandon their efforts and just hope that Susan made her way back.

The following morning, Susan was still gone, and so authorities were notified of the disappearance. A large-scale search was launched of the entire area for miles around, but nothing whatsoever was found, and the operation had to be suspended due to cold and snowy weather moving in, which was worrying since Susan had not brought any warm clothing or survival gear with her. The search then resumed with renewed efforts to find the woman, as it was thought that every minute lost was dangerous if Susan was still alive at all. Aircraft, dogs, and hundreds of volunteers meticulously combed the area, even walking side by side at arm’s length apart through large stretches of wilderness to leave no stone unturned. Some scattered footprints were found that indicated perhaps someone who was injured, but they were so faded and unclear that it was not positive that they had belonged to Susan Adams at all. The theory that was brewing among law enforcement officials at the time was that she must have gotten injured and died out there, and before the official search was closed for winter, Sheriff Randy Baldwin would say:

“I believe beyond any reasonable doubt that Susan Adams died from injuries or other related causes due to being lost or hurt in the wilderness area near Battle Lake. I also believe that Susan Adams' remains are still in that area, but feel that any future organized search would not be effective in locating her remains.”

The family was so desperate that they even hired a psychic, who rather eerily came to the same conclusion, predicting that Susan had sustained a head injury and perished not far from camp. Yet if this is all correct, then why hadn’t they found any trace of remains or indeed any sign of her at all, despite such a detailed search? Another idea was that a wild animal might have attacked her and dragged her off, but if this were the case, it is thought that she would have screamed out, which would have been heard at the nearby camp, and there was also no sign of blood, shredded clothing, no indication of a struggle, nor any tracks from a dangerous animal. It is hard to believe that a vicious wild animal could have swooped in to take her away completely silently, without any sign of blood or a fight, and without leaving any tracks behind. The idea of foul play was also briefly looked at, but neither Tom Adams nor any of the hunters or guides was found to have any evidence at all that they were linked to the vanishing.

What happened to Susan Adams? How did she just wander away so close to camp and then evaporate to never be found? Was she attacked by an animal or a nefarious party? Was her attention drawn by something to bring her out and get injured? Or was it something far stranger? Why is it she did not call out, and why was no trace of her remains ever found? Even more eerily, what is the meaning of those tracks that just stopped in the middle of a trail? We will probably never know, and it is another bizarre case to add to the considerable number of those like it.

Some of the strangest of these wilderness vanishing cases have been written of by missing persons researcher and author on the subject, David Paulides, in his Missing 411 series of books, and these accounts can range from the slightly odd to the full-on bizarre. One very weird case that has been much discussed and speculated upon is that of a seasoned, experienced hunter who went out with a group of friends only to step off the face of the earth and leave strange clues and mysteries that have not been solved to this day.

The setting for this strange case is the rather ominously named Crazy Mountains, in the northern part of the Rocky Mountains of Montana, in the United States, where, in September of 2014, a 38-year-old elk hunter by the name of Aaron Joseph Hedges was out on a hunting trip with friends Greg Leitner and Joe Depew. The trip started on September 3, when the group headed out from the Cottonwood Lake Trailhead along with two horses and a mule. The men were in good spirits, looking forward to their excursion, and things were going smoothly as they headed towards a place called Campfire Lake, but they hit an obstacle when their mule got spooked and Hedges’ sleeping bag was thrown off the trail and lost.

It was an unfortunate turn of events, but fortunately, the group kept another hunting camp they had used the previous year and had loaded up with an emergency cache of extra supplies just in case they ever needed it. Among these supplies were extra sleeping bags and so on. On September 5, Aaron decided to make a trek up that way, towards a place called Sunlight Lake. It wasn’t a particularly formidable distance for the experienced outdoorsman, and he had a walkie-talkie, cellphone, and was armed with a firearm and bow, so no one thought much of it, especially since he told his companions that he was just going to grab the supplies and would be back before nightfall. Little did they know that as he stalked off up that trail into the trees, it would be the last time anyone saw him alive.

Night came and went with no sign of Hedges, and the next day he still did not turn up. The group tried numerous times to call him on his walkie-talkie, but there was no response. A look at the GPS for the walkie-talkie system showed that Hedges had missed the fork in the trail that he was supposed to take to his destination, and it labelled his position as being out at the very edge of the screen. They waited around the area for several more days, hoping that he would find his way back to them, but there was no further word, and Aaron Hedges was finally reported missing on September 8. A search was mounted, and although the effort was somewhat impeded by snow that had hit the area, the surroundings were meticulously scoured using helicopters with infrared equipment, horses, and 20 tracker dog teams, all of which turned up no sign at all of the missing hunter.

It was not until the second day of the search that a clue was finally found. By a creek just east of Sunlight Lake was found a spot where someone had attempted to start a fire using a pack of cigarettes, and nearby were found the water bladder that Hedges had been carrying, the waist straps of his backpack, and his shoes sat down neatly side by side as if they had been carefully removed and placed there. Oddly, the site was found in an area the search teams had just combed the previous day without finding a thing, and it was also considered puzzling that he would have taken his shoes off and just left them behind, considering the plummeting temperatures and snow. Also unusual was that tracker dogs passing through were unable to pick up a scent trail for the missing man, which was a bit hard to explain.  This was the only trace of Hedges that would be found during the search efforts, and it was as if he had just vanished into thin air, but things would get even weirder still, a full 9 months after the disappearance.

In June 0f 2015, a hiker by the name of Roger Beslanowitch was staying with relatives at a place called the Rein Anchor Ranch, when he took a walk to the top of a nearby ridge and came across someone’s outdoor gear, including a backpack containing a cellphone, an orange hunting vest, bow, clothes, a hunting license, and some scattered wrappers from granola bars. Bizarrely, at the head of the ridge was also a thermos cup placed upon a rock, along with an open energy drink nearby. Beslanowitch would report that he had been sure there had to be a body somewhere, but he could find none, just those belongings eerily piled up against a tree. When it was found through the hunting and driver’s licenses in the pack that they had belonged to Aaron Hedges, the authorities jumped all over this new lead in their cold case, but they could find no trace of any human remains.

It would not be until the following summer that remains would finally be discovered about half a mile from where the gear had been found, which was a full 15 miles from where he had last been seen and 6 miles from where his boots had been found, meaning he had somehow traversed that snow swept wilderness without his boots all of that way, along a route that had no major trails. Making it even weirder was that the area the remains were found in was within eyesight of the nearby ranch and right next to a frequently used road, which would have meant safety, but he had never managed to reach it. How could this be? He had obviously stopped to have something to drink on that ridge, from which he would have been able to clearly see the house, so why did he just stop, strip down out of his clothes, and die so close to safety?

The whole case is permeated by strange details. The fork in the trail that Hedges was originally meant to take up to his destination was clearly delineated and visible, and he was equipped with a GPS, yet he had gone right by it. He had then managed to set up a camp that evaded a complete search of the same area, then taken his boots off in freezing weather and somehow managed to walk 6 miles over rough terrain off-trail through snow, which authorities see as highly unlikely, as it would have been an incredible feat for even the most hardened survivalist. Indeed, why had he taken his shoes off to begin with? Then there is the fact that dogs could not pick up his scent, and all of this is punctuated by the rest of his belongings and his body plopped out there practically right on top of an inhabited ranch. The cause of death could also not be determined, as neither the skull nor any of the bones exhibited any sort of trauma indicating an injury of any kind. What is going on here?

There have certainly been plenty of theories ranging from the plausible to the far out. The official explanation is that he had probably had hypothermia and disorientation, which had caused him to wander about aimlessly and display his odd behavior. He may have even intentionally avoided search party teams and that ranch to cover the fact that he and his friends may have been hunting in off-limits areas and poaching. Other theories are decidedly more fringe, including the pervasive idea that he somehow passed into another dimension or through a portal. One Reddit user on the Missing 411 forum called “DapperWinner” explains his spin on the theory and how it matches many of the stranger details as follows:

“The turn in the path: Aaron left his hunting buddies to go to a cache that was a hike away, there was a visible path and clear turn for him to ascend up and get to the cache. What I believe happened is somewhere just before that turn or on it he 'passed' over into another dimensional reality. It was getting late and his friends tried to call him over the walkie talkie and they did ping his GPS. Now at this point, somehow I think for a split minute or so he flickered back into this reality in just enough time for the GPS to go off and then flickered back out. I'm no expert on this stuff so forgive the terms.

 The boots: The SAR has been called and they comb the area for him, dogs also cannot get a scent. Now with the dogs i believe the reason why they cannot find one is because he literally is not there, he is in some other dimensional reality overlapping our own. Further in the case they find his boots and other items AFTER they combed a particular area bythe ridgeline. Similar things have happened in other cases, so we came up with a theory that what if his items have somehow re-materialzed back into our reality? Let’s say that in the dimension he is in, whatever bad weather is happening in ours (The snow) Is not happening where he is. So perhaps he has a rest and takes his boots off to rest his feet, somehow those items reappear back in our reality and he loses them. This would explain why his boots were found just set there as if someone had placed them. Because they were.

 The pack: Months pass and the somebody finds Aaron hedges backpack and drinking equipment overlooking a property with human houses and structures visible. Let’s say Aaron did make his way to this place and I think he knew where he was going expecting to find those peoples properties. But here’s the thing: They weren't physically there in that other reality! He made his way to that ridgeline expecting to find houses but did not. And again, his items have somehow re-materialized back into this reality where they were found by a neighbor. Now this is where the speculation gets a little crazy: We theorized that what if the alternate reality he stumbled in, time flows differently. As they found his pack a year or so later I believe? What if wherever he is, it’s only felt like a day or two for him being lost, but in our reality a year had passed? As I said it’s just speculation on our part, but i find it hard to believe a backpack containing food was sitting there perfectly for a year for someone to discover without it being ravaged wildlife.”

What happened to Aaron Hedges? Did he simply get lost and succumb to the stresses of the environment? Is this, as the authorities say, a case of hypothermia-induced psychosis? If so, then what are we to make of all of the weird clues orbiting the whole thing? Or is this, as some of the stranger theories have posited, something altogether more bizarre and past out ability to really grasp? Just about the only thing we really do know about this weird case is that Aaron Hedges disappeared without explanation, his remains reappeared just as mysteriously, and no one truly knows what exactly happened to him except for him and the trees.

Finally, we come to the case of Terrence Shemel Woods Jr., of Capitol Heights, Maryland, who at the age of 26 years old made a pretty good success of himself as a filmmaker. Educated in England, he had worked on numerous TV programs and documentaries, including several that had taken him out into the rugged outdoors for shoots in such far-flung places as Turkey and Alaska, making him no stranger to roughing it. In 2018, Woods was working for a London-based production company called Raw TV, which specializes in the outdoors and is perhaps best known for the Discovery Channel reality show Gold Rush. In October of that year, he was enlisted to spend a few weeks in the remote wilderness of Montana and Idaho to work on a documentary for a British show called Whitewater, in this episode about the abandoned gold mine called Penman Mine, which lies within a place called the Nez Perce Clearwater National Forest, in the heart of north-central Idaho. Terrence was there with 12 other crew members and was reportedly in good spirits at first, but things were about to take a turn for the strange.

On October 5, 2018, the crew spent the entire day out at the mine filming. It was fairly isolated, rough and mountainous terrain, but all of them were quite experienced with this sort of shoot, and it was nothing they couldn’t handle. Woods reportedly had been quieter than usual that day, which most just chalked up to tiredness. As the crew began finishing up for the day, something very strange would happen when Woods took off running for no apparent reason and just kept on running right off the face of the earth. The production manager who witnessed it all would later say in a statement to Woods’ father:

“So we were finishing up for the day and your son was talking to one of the miners. I was in one of the vehicles doing some work when your son told the miner that he had to go relieve himself. Something told me, kind of like a gut feeling, to look over near the cliff your son was at, when I looked over there all I saw was the radio lying on the ground. I originally thought your son fell off the cliff so I leaped out of the vehicle and ran over there immediately. To my shock, your son was already 15 feet down the cliff running like a hare. I’ve never seen anyone run that fast. At that point I yelled to the crew to get in a vehicle and go to the main road. I proceeded down the cliff after your son but he kept running. Due to my professional SAR training, I stopped running after him out of fear he’d be further scared. So I went back topside and the crew hadn’t found your son on the main road. At this point we found the first house with a phone and reported your son missing.”

When he made his sudden run into the wilderness, he was carrying his cell phone, but he left behind his two-way radio and a backpack containing his belongings. By the time authorities reached the area, it was getting dark, and after a preliminary patrol of the area with no sign of the missing man, the search was started in earnest the following morning. The search teams used dogs, helicopters, and infrared cameras, but were unable to find a trace of Woods, with even the dogs unable to pick up a scent. A fresh sheen of snow had also fallen, yet no footprints could be found, and it was claimed by a search team member that it was “as if he had never been there at all.” After a week of nothing, the search was called off. In the meantime, some strange clues were turned up.

It would be discovered that, although he had planned to be in Idaho until mid-November, Woods had texted his father to tell him that he would be returning on October 10th, with no elaboration whatsoever, and it was even odder in that he had never been known to cut an assignment short. Some friends and family would also say that he had been acting uncommonly anxious about this trip in the weeks leading up to the shoot, and that he had expressed his desire not to go. This was all very unusual for him, because Woods had always been very enthusiastic about his work and the adventures it took him on. Not everyone agrees with this, though, and his older sister, Sharnia Tisdale, would say:

“I talked to him before he went out there and he seemed fine. He was going to go out and do a job with the film crew and he was going to come home, nothing abnormal and he wasn't acting different. We talk all the time. He is not the type of person that would just run off or do anything like this, so it seems unusual to me but you know I wasn't there so I can only go by what they are saying. He's traveled around the world he really likes to do tv, he is a loving person and caring and an all around good person.”

Also rather weird is that on the morning of the day of his disappearance, he had sent his father creepy footage of a river flowing through a canyon without any explanation or discernible reason for doing so, and although nothing was thought of it at the time in retrospect it now seems a bit eerie. There also seemed to have been some disagreements between Woods and the production manager, although what connection this could have is unknown.

Flyers were distributed all around the region, and volunteer searches orchestrated by the family continued, but no trace was found, and with the cold, snowy weather that had moved in, there was little hope that he could have made it out of there alive. It was truly baffling because Woods’ family would insist that he had never done drugs and did not have any mental issues or personal problems, making it all the more unusual that he should just suddenly bolt like that. While it is easy to see how someone could get lost in this treacherous and hostile terrain, what is it that made this normally rational individual just decide to suddenly drop everything and go running over a cliff to keep on going into that remote landscape to vanish into thin air?

One of the ideas postulated by the family is that he may have been scared of one of the crew members for some reason, to the point that he might have felt his life was in danger, but authorities have said there is no sign at all of foul play. In their opinion, he suffered some sort of mental break and perhaps had even been planning on committing suicide out there, but this is not in keeping with his established character and mental history. Indeed, Woods’ father has accused the police of not properly pursuing the case due to racism. Another rather ominous scenario is that he was possibly murdered by one of the crew members, but there is no evidence of this at all and none of them have ever been considered a suspect. Other, more fringe ideas are that some sort of paranormal force took him after luring him out into the woods, or that he passed through some sort of portal.

What happened to Terrence Shemel Woods Jr.? Why did he just suddenly decide to run off like that to join the annals of strange vanishings? Was this foul play, suicidal tendencies, a death wish, or something perhaps even stranger? To this day, the case has never been solved, and it continues to haunt family, friends, and those who would seek answers.

What is it about the wilderness that draws so many mysterious disappearances to it? Is this just a result of the terrain and wilderness itself, or is there something else going on here? Did these people just get lost or succumb to the elements, and if so, how do we explain all of the strange details involved? There is no way to really know what is going on, and at the moment, some wild places have many strange mysteries, indeed, and people still have a habit of coming here never to return.

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Our sun has unexpectedly begun to ramp up its activity, which could lead to more severe solar storms that cause blackouts and disrupt global communications.

NASA revealed that our solar system's home star had been getting quieter and weaker for about 20 years, but that surprisingly changed in 2008 and scientists are still trying to figure out why.

Scientists found that since 2008, the sun's solar wind, which are streams of charged particles, has grown stronger, with increases in speed, density, temperature, and magnetic field strength.

This increased solar activity could lead to more powerful solar storms, which regularly hit Earth and cause disruptions.

Geomagnetic storms have the potential to damage power grids, leading to blackouts, interfere with satellites, and disrupt communication systems like GPS.

Stronger storms could also make the Northern Lights visible in more places further south of the north pole, but the risk to technology and infrastructure will require careful monitoring.

The exact timing and strength of these storms are hard to predict, but they could become more frequent as the sun's current 11-year cycle peaks between 2025 and 2026.

Lead study author Jamie Jasinski of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California said: 'All signs were pointing to the sun going into a prolonged phase of low activity. So it was a surprise to see that trend reversed. The sun is slowly waking up.'

A new study has discovered a massive shift in solar activity which scientists weren't expecting

A new study has discovered a massive shift in solar activity which scientists weren't expecting

More solar activity could cause intensified storms that disrupt power grids on Earth (Stock Image)

More solar activity could cause intensified storms that disrupt power grids on Earth (Stock Image)

More activity means more sunspots, solar flares, and potentially hazardous ejections of material from the sun.

This could make the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the heliosphere, expand as the pressure from the solar wind increases.

On Earth, this could shrink our magnetosphere, the protective magnetic bubble around our planet, exposing us to more solar particles.

The increased solar particle exposure can pose a risk for astronauts, who could face higher radiation levels during space missions, potentially leading to health issues.

It could also damage satellites and spacecraft, disrupting communications and navigation systems critical for daily life.

Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service suffered widespread issues during the peak of a strong geomagnetic storm late Sunday night.

The problems started just before midnight, with more than 50,000 reports from Starlink users as a fresh barrage of solar storms hit Earth.

Additionally, solar particles could interfere with Earth's upper atmosphere, potentially affecting ozone levels and increasing ultraviolet radiation reaching people outdoors. 

Solar storms striking Earth are often caused by coronal mass ejections sent out by the sun days before they affect our planet (Stock Image)

Solar storms striking Earth are often caused by coronal mass ejections sent out by the sun days before they affect our planet (Stock Image)

A severe solar storm could have the potential to cause power grid problems that lead to blackouts or satellite communication issues

A severe solar storm could have the potential to cause power grid problems that lead to blackouts or satellite communication issues

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The NASA team explained that the sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, marked by changes in sunspots.

After a weak cycle (number 24) from 2008 to 2019, the current cycle (number 25) is showing noticeably more activity.

The study, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggested this increase in solar activity might be part of a longer 22-year cycle, and the sun is now making up for its mysterious two-decade decline rather than entering an anticipated quiet period.

Since 2008, the solar wind's speed has increased by six percent, its density rose by 26 percent, its temperature soared by 29 percent, and pressure skyrocketed by 45 percent.

This more dynamic solar environment results in increased solar storms and enhanced interactions with Earth's magnetic field.

This isn't the first time in history that the sun has seen a mysterious quiet period before ramping back up, but the cause of these declines have baffled scientists, who also don't know when they're coming.

Records show one of the quietest solar periods in recent history was a four-decade window from 1790 to 1830.

'We don't really know why the sun went through a 40-year minimum starting in 1790,' Jasinski said in a NASA statement. 'The longer-term trends are a lot less predictable and are something we don't completely understand yet.'

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Did an Advanced Civilization Thrive 10,000 Years Ago? Mind-Blowing Evidence Is Stacking Up

Image of the lost city of Atlantis, by artist George Grie.

Did an Advanced Civilization Thrive 10,000 Years Ago? Mind-Blowing Evidence Is Stacking Up

What if everything we’ve been taught about the dawn of civilization is a lie—or at least a half-truth? Picture this: more than 10,000 years ago, while the last Ice Age glaciers retreated, a sophisticated society flourished—cities of stone rising from the earth, astronomers charting the heavens, engineers bending nature to their will. Not a ragtag band of hunter-gatherers fumbling with flint, but a lost civilization rivalling Egypt or Mesopotamia, erased by time and catastrophe.

Mainstream archaeology has long scoffed at the notion, relegating it to the realm of crackpot fantasy. Yet a cascade of recent discoveries—monuments older than history itself, submerged ruins whispering of drowned worlds, artifacts that defy explanation—is prying open the coffin of conventional wisdom. Could an advanced civilization have thrived millennia before we dared to dream? The evidence is growing, and it’s turning our past into a tantalizing enigma.

Göbekli Tepe: The Temple That Shatters Time

Göbekli Tepe’s construction secrets may be tied to the stars.

(Deriv.) (Brian Weed /Adobe Stock)

In the rolling hills of southeastern Turkey lies Göbekli Tepe, a site so revolutionary it’s been dubbed the “zero point of civilization.” Unearthed in 1994, its T-shaped limestone pillars—some towering 18 feet and weighing 16 tons—date to 9600 BCE, a staggering 7,000 years before Stonehenge and the pyramids of Giza. Carved with eerie precision, these megaliths boast reliefs of lions, foxes, and scorpions, alongside abstract symbols that hint at a cosmology we can’t yet decode. This isn’t the work of nomads with sticks; it screams organization—hundreds, perhaps thousands, of labourers hauling slabs across miles, guided by a blueprint lost to us.

Archaeologist Klaus Schmidt, who excavated the site until his death in 2014, argued it was a temple complex, a sacred hub for a society we didn’t know existed. But here’s the kicker: at a time when humans were supposedly scavenging berries and chasing mammoths, who built this? The scale suggests a hierarchy, a workforce, maybe even a priestly elite—hallmarks of civilization we peg to much later eras. Stranger still, some pillars align with constellations like Taurus, hinting at astronomical knowledge. Was Göbekli Tepe a star temple, a Stone Age observatory? And why was it deliberately buried around 8000 BCE, as if its makers wanted it hidden? The deeper we dig—only 5% of the site is exposed—the louder it whispers: we’ve missed something big.

The Sphinx’s Secret: Egypt’s Forgotten Dawn

Montage of sphinx creature representations.

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Shift your gaze to Giza, where the Great Sphinx crouches, its weathered face staring into eternity. Conventional history dates it to 2500 BCE, a monument of Pharaoh Khafre’s reign. But geologist Dr. Robert Schoch isn’t buying it. In the 1990s, he studied the Sphinx’s enclosure and found water erosion—deep, vertical fissures carved by heavy rainfall. Egypt’s last deluge like that? Around 10,000 years ago, when the Sahara was a lush savanna, not the arid waste of later millennia. If Schoch is right, the Sphinx predates dynastic Egypt by thousands of years, a relic of a forgotten people who tamed the Nile long before the pharaohs.

Sceptics howl—where’s the pottery, the tools? But consider the Giza plateau’s older quirks: megalithic blocks in the Valley Temple, cut with a precision that baffles modern engineers, and alignments with Orion’s Belt circa 10,500 BCE, as astronomer Robert Bauval argues. Could an advanced precursor civilization have laid these foundations, their traces scrubbed by floods or scavengers? The conspiracy isn’t just that Egypt’s timeline is off—it’s that an entire chapter of human genius might lie beneath the sand, waiting to rewrite the books.

Drowned Worlds: Atlantis in Plain Sight?

Yonaguni monument, Japan.

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Now plunge beneath the waves, where the ocean guards secrets too wild to ignore. Off Japan’s Yonaguni Island, divers in 1986 stumbled on a submerged enigma: a stepped pyramid, 80 feet tall, with terraces, right angles, and stairways carved into sandstone. Dated to 10,000–12,000 years ago, when rising seas swallowed coastlines after the Ice Age, it looks man-made—too perfect for nature’s chaos. Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura calls it a ceremonial complex, possibly linked to the Jomon culture. Critics say it’s a natural fluke, but the symmetry nags: did a seafaring people build this before the waters claimed it?

Then there’s Dwarka, India’s sunken jewel. Legends in the Mahabharata describe Lord Krishna’s golden city, lost to the sea. In 2001, off Gujarat’s coast, archaeologists found it—walls, pillars, and pottery 120 feet underwater, carbon-dated to 7500 BCE or earlier. Stone anchors suggest a bustling port, a hub of trade and craft. Was Dwarka a myth, or a real metropolis drowned by a post-Ice Age surge? These underwater ghosts hint at civilizations that rivaled later empires, their stories submerged until modern sonar peeled back the tide.

The Younger Dryas Cataclysm: A Cosmic Killer?

Asteroid Day is June 30th.

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What could erase such societies? Enter the Younger Dryas, a chilling mystery from 12,800 years ago. Geologists like James Kennett point to a cosmic culprit: a comet or asteroid swarm slamming into Earth, unleashing fire, floods, and a 1,000-year deep freeze. Evidence abounds—nanodiamonds from impact melt, soot layers in Greenland ice cores, and a sudden die-off of megafauna like mastodons. Graham Hancock, a maverick in these waters, ties it to Göbekli Tepe’s builders, suggesting they were survivors of a lost world, their monuments a warning to posterity.

Imagine it: a thriving culture—cities, temples, star charts—blasted apart by a skyborne apocalypse. Survivors scatter, their knowledge fading into oral tales of floods and angry gods. The Biblical deluge, the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, even Plato’s Atlantis—could these be echoes of a real collapse? The Younger Dryas hypothesis isn’t fringe anymore; it’s a peer-reviewed puzzle piece, and it’s forcing us to ask: what fell before we rose?

Tools and Treasures: Clues of Lost Mastery

Artistic reconstruction showing how throwing sticks like the Schöningen Spears would have been thrown.

(Benoit Clarys, Universität Tübingen/CC0)

The evidence isn’t just in stones—it’s in the hands that shaped them. Take the Schöningen spears, unearthed in Germany: eight wooden javelins, expertly balanced, from 300,000 years ago—far older than Homo sapiens’ supposed monopoly on such skill. Or the 12,000-year-old obsidian blades from Çatalhöyük, Turkey, sharper than surgical steel, hinting at a metallurgy precursor. Then there’s Egypt’s predynastic vases—stone vessels so thin and symmetrical, modern craftsmen struggle to replicate them without machines. Were these the work of savages, or a people with secrets we’ve lost?

Even art whispers of sophistication. In France’s Chauvet Cave, 36,000-year-old paintings of rhinos and lions rival Renaissance masters, with perspective and shading that defy “primitive” labels. In Colombia, the San Agustín statues—hulking figures from 8000 BCE—suggest a culture with tools and time to spare. These aren’t flukes; they’re breadcrumbs of a vanished expertise, taunting us to connect the dots.

The Ice Age Enigma: Why Don’t We See More?

Analysis of 23,000-year-old hunter camp shows that Ice Age Galileans thrived.

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If they existed, where’s the proof—cities, roads, records? The Ice Age is a brutal thief. Sea levels rose 400 feet after 12,000 BCE, drowning coastlines where early societies likely thrived. Earthquakes, volcanoes, and millennia of decay buried the rest. Writing wasn’t widespread; what survived was oral, warped into myths of gods and giants. Göbekli Tepe’s burial suggests intent—did they hide their works from a world they knew was ending? The gaps aren’t proof of absence; they’re a challenge to look harder.

A Past Unravelled, A Future Rewritten

Antarctica (Public Domain) and Figure 7a © William James Veall: a drawn image of the very first portrait the writer discovered on Antarctica; Deriv.

As of March 12, 2025, the clues are piling up, and they’re electric. Satellite scans reveal anomalies under Antarctica’s ice—could a temperate age hide ruins there? LiDAR in the Amazon uncovers lost cities from 10,000 BCE, their plazas and canals defying jungle logic. Even genetics chimes in: DNA from 12,000-year-old skeletons in the Americas hints at migrations from unknown origins. Each find chips at the old narrative—that civilization blinked on with Sumer and Egypt, a neat 5,000-year arc.

The conspiracy isn’t that aliens built it (though some X posts love that twist). It’s subtler, darker: we’ve underestimated our ancestors, blinded by a smug timeline. Were they astronomers mapping Sirius, engineers lifting megaliths, sailors crossing oceans? Did they fall to a comet’s wrath, their ashes seeding our myths? The evidence—Göbekli’s pillars, the Sphinx’s scars, Yonaguni’s steps—screams ‘yes.’ Yet the jury’s out, and the hunt’s on.

For every sceptic crying “where’s the smoking gun?” there’s a dreamer asking, “what if we’ve already found it?” This isn’t closure—it’s an invitation. Grab a shovel, a sonar, a star chart. The past is a locked vault, and we’re just now finding the keys. An advanced civilization 10,000 years ago? Not a fairy tale—a riddle begging to be solved. What’s your next clue?

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Het Hall of Records en het Bewijs van Geavanceerde Oude Beschavingen

Image of the lost city of Atlantis, by artist George Grie.

Het "Hall of Records" en het Bewijs van Geavanceerde Oude Beschavingen

In de zoektocht naar de geschiedenis van de mensheid en de evolutie van beschavingen, stuiten velen op mysterieuze en intrigerende theorieën die de mainstream geschiedenis vaak tegenspreken. Een van de meest fascinerende onderwerpen op dit gebied is het concept van het zogenaamde "Hall of Records" — een vermeende grote archiefkamer die bewijs zou bevatten van oude, geavanceerde beschavingen die duizenden tot honderdduizenden jaren geleden op aarde hebben bestaan. Deze theorieën roepen vragen op over de aard van onze geschiedenis, de technologische ontwikkeling van oude volkeren en zelfs over de mogelijkheid dat buitenaardse beschavingen een rol hebben gespeeld in het vormgeven van onze geschiedenis.

The Sphinx of Egypt

De Sphinx van Egypte EN De Hal van Archieven onder de Sphinx, Egypte?

Wat is het "Hall of Records"?

Het idee van het "Hall of Records" (letterlijk vertaald: hal van de archieven) is gebaseerd op het bestaan van een enorme verzameling van kennis, documenten en artefacten die de geschiedenis van de mensheid en de aarde zelf documenteren. Volgens sommige onderzoekers en spirituele tradities zou deze 'hal' zich bevinden op een geheime locatie, mogelijk onder de piramides van Egypte, onder de Sfinx, of zelfs diep onder de oceaan. Het zou een soort universeel archief bevatten dat informatie bevat over de oorsprong van de mens, de oude beschavingen, technologische kennis, en misschien zelfs over buitenaardse interventies.

Hoewel er geen concreet fysiek bewijs is voor het bestaan van zo’n archief, worden er steeds vaker aanwijzingen en legendes aangehaald die de aanwezigheid ervan suggereren. Bijvoorbeeld, oude teksten, mythes en legendes uit verschillende culturen spreken over geheime locaties vol kennis en wijsheid, die slechts door ingewijden kunnen worden gevonden of geopend. Sommige onderzoekers geloven dat het Hall of Records niet letterlijk een fysieke ruimte is, maar eerder een symbolische representatie van de sluier die onze geschiedenis bedekt.

Bewijs voor geavanceerde oude beschavingen

Het bestaan van een oude, geavanceerde beschaving vóór de bekende beschavingen zoals de Egyptenaren, de Mesopotamiërs en de Indusbeschaving, wordt ondersteund door een groeiend aantal archeologische vondsten en megalithische structuren. Deze structuren, die vaak duizenden jaren ouder blijken te zijn dan de eerste beschavingen die we kennen, suggereren dat de mensheid ooit over een niveau van technologische kennis beschikte dat niet overeenkomt met de primitieve technologieën waarmee we ze doorgaans associëren.

Een bekend voorbeeld hiervan is de piramides van Gizeh in Egypte. Hoewel deze piramides vaak worden beschouwd als symbolen van oude Egyptische beschavingen, wijzen sommige onderzoekers op de technische precisie, de grote schaal en de complexe bouwmethoden die mogelijk wijzen op kennis en technieken die verloren zijn gegaan. De Grote Piramide van Cheops, bijvoorbeeld, is zo nauwkeurig uitgelijnd dat het bijna onmogelijk is te verklaren met de technologie van die tijd, wat leidt tot speculaties dat er nog oudere en meer geavanceerde kennis achter schuilgaat.

Daarnaast zijn er de megalithische structuren zoals de Stonehenge in Engeland, de Nazca-lijnen in Peru, en de megalithische tempels in Malta. Deze structuren vertonen astronomische oriëntaties en precisie in constructie die niet eenvoudig te verklaren zijn met de technologische kennis van de tijd. Sommige onderzoekers geloven dat deze monumenten bewijs zijn van een oude, wereldwijde beschaving die beschikte over geavanceerde technologieën, mogelijk verloren gegaan door de eeuwen heen.

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De bouwgeheimen van Göbekli Tepe kunnen verbonden zijn met de sterren.

(Afgeleid) (Brian Weed /Adobe Stock)

De invloed van buitenaardse beschavingen

Een andere aantrekkelijke theorie is dat deze oude beschavingen niet volledig door de mens zelf zijn ontwikkeld, maar dat ze beïnvloed zijn of zelfs geholpen zijn door buitenaardse wezens. Volgens deze visie zouden buitenaardse intelligences, vaak aangeduid als "ancient astronauts" of "oudere hemelreizigers", contact hebben gehad met de oude mensheid en deze hebben geholpen met technologieën en kennis die toen nog niet door de mens konden worden ontwikkeld.

Deze theorie wordt ondersteund door bepaalde oude kunstwerken, mythes en symboliek die mogelijk verwijzen naar buitenaardse wezens en technologieën. Bijvoorbeeld, de beroemde tekeningen en beeldhouwwerken uit het oude Egypte en Mesopotamië bevatten mogelijk afbeeldingen van buitenaardse wezens of technologieën die niet kunnen worden verklaard met de beschikbare kennis uit die tijd. Daarnaast wijst de constructie van de piramides en andere megalithische structuren op een kennis van astronomie en geotechniek die ver boven de capaciteit van de oude volkeren zou uitstijgen.

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Montage van representaties van sphinx-wezens.

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De rol van de "Hall of Records" in het bewijzen van deze theorieën

Volgens sommige onderzoekers en spirituele tradities zou het vinden van het "Hall of Records" de ultieme bevestiging bieden dat oude beschavingen veel geavanceerder waren dan we denken, en dat zij mogelijk kennis bezaten die verloren is gegaan in de loop der eeuwen. Het zou ook kunnen bewijzen dat onze geschiedenis niet lineair is, maar complexer en verweven met buitenaardse invloeden, verloren technologieën en geheime kennis.

Het zoeken naar de "Hall of Records" is dan ook een missie geworden voor vele archeologen, esoterici en avonturiers. Ze geloven dat de sleutel tot het begrijpen van onze ware geschiedenis ligt verborgen in oude teksten, ondergrondse tunnels, verborgen kamers in piramides, of zelfs in de diepe oceanen en bergen. Sommige theorieën suggereren dat de kennis in het "Hall of Records" niet alleen over het verleden gaat, maar ook aanwijzingen bevat over de toekomst en de evolutie van de mensheid.

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Yonaguni-monument, Japan.

(nudiblue / Adobe Stock).

Bewijzen en skeptici

Hoewel de theorieën over het "Hall of Records" en oude geavanceerde beschavingen fascinerend en intrigerend zijn, blijven ze controversieel. Tot op heden is er geen onweerlegbaar archeologisch bewijs dat het bestaan van een dergelijk archief bevestigt. Veel mainstream archeologen en wetenschappers beschouwen deze ideeën als speculatief en gebaseerd op interpretaties van oude mythes en symboliek in plaats van op harde feiten.

Desalniettemin blijven de verborgen en mysterieuze kenmerken van oude structuren, samen met de consistentie van bepaalde mythologische verhalen uit verschillende culturen, de nieuwsgierigheid en het onderzoek stimuleren. Het blijft een intrigerend vraagstuk: was onze voorouderlijke geschiedenis veel complexer en technologische vooruitstrevender dan we ons kunnen voorstellen? En bestaat er misschien nog een verborgen reservoir van oude kennis dat ooit gevonden moet worden?

Conclusie

Het idee van het "Hall of Records" en de bewijzen van oude, geavanceerde beschavingen opent een fascinerend venster op de mogelijkheid dat onze geschiedenis niet volledig bekend is. Het roept vragen op over de oorsprong van de mens, de evolutie van technologie en de rol van buitenaardse invloeden in onze ontwikkeling. Hoewel er momenteel geen definitieve bewijzen zijn, blijven onderzoekers, archeologen en enthousiastelingen zoeken naar aanwijzingen die de theorie kunnen bevestigen.

Het verhaal van de oude beschavingen en het vermeende "Hall of Records" blijft een boeiend mysterie dat ons uitdaagt om verder te kijken dan de gevestigde wetenschap en onze eigen geschiedenis opnieuw te onderzoeken. Misschien ligt de sleutel tot het begrijpen van onze ware verleden in het ontrafelen van de geheimen die nog verborgen zijn onder de eeuwenoude stenen en in de legendes die door de eeuwen heen zijn doorgegeven. Het is een zoektocht die de menselijke nieuwsgierigheid en het verlangen naar kennis blijft voeden, en die misschien ooit tot verrassende ontdekkingen zal leiden.

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Meet the 'world's cutest sea monster': Scientists discover an adorable snailfish nearly 10,800ft underwater - as amazed viewers compare it to a Pokémon

When you go this deep, you'd expect any sign of life to be pretty terrifying.

So scientists were delighted to discover an adorable new species of snailfish thousands of feet below the ocean's surface.

The large–eyed pink creature was first detected in 2019 by researchers who were exploring the seafloor off California using a remotely operated vehicle at a depth of 3,268m (10,722ft).

They came across this individual, an adult female 9.2cm (3.6 inches) long, happily swimming along amongst the crushing pressure, frigid cold and perpetual darkness.

New analysis now reveals this animal was a species previously unknown to science – and has been named the bumpy snailfish (Careproctus colliculi).

The snailfish family tend to have a large head, a jelly–like body covered in loose skin, and a narrow tail. Many have a disk on their belly that allows them to grip the seafloor or hitchhike on larger animals.

Fans of the snailfish described it as 'adorable' and 'the cutest sea monster' they've ever seen.

Commenting on a YouTube video of the new species, one even compared it to a 'real life Pokémon'.

Analysis now reveals this animal was a species previously unknown to science – and has been named the bumpy snailfish

Analysis now reveals this animal was a species previously unknown to science – and has been named the bumpy snailfish

These creatures tend to have a large head, a jelly–like body covered in loose skin, and a narrow tail

These creatures tend to have a large head, a jelly–like body covered in loose skin, and a narrow tail

Some fans said the new species looked like a Pokémon. Pictured: Whiscash, a water/ground-type Pokémon

Some fans said the new species looked like a Pokémon. Pictured: Whiscash, a water/ground-type Pokémon

'The deep sea is home to an incredible diversity of organisms and a truly beautiful array of adaptations,' Mackenzie Gerringer, associate professor at the State University of New York at Geneseo said.

'Our discovery…is a reminder of how much we have yet to learn about life on Earth and of the power of curiosity and exploration.'

A team from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) first made the discovery during an expedition to the outer reaches of Monterey Canyon, approximately 100km (62 miles) offshore of Central California.

They collected this individual but noticed it had features unlike other deep–sea snailfishes they had encountered.

Scientists used microscopes, micro–CT scans and careful measurements to determine it was different from any other known species.

They also analysed two other specimens and found they, too, were new to science – the dark snailfish and the sleek snailfish.

The bumpy snailfish has a distinctive pink colour, a round head with large eyes, wide pectoral fins with long uppermost rays, and a bumpy texture.

The dark snailfish has a fully black body with a rounded head and horizontal mouth.

The robotic submersible used in the expedition which first uncovered the new species of bumpy snailfish

The robotic submersible used in the expedition which first uncovered the new species of bumpy snailfish

Many deep–sea snailfishes are hard to identify from video alone. MBARI researchers have observed a snailfish that appears to be the newly described slender snailfish, but without collecting a specimen for closer analysis, they say they can't be sure

Many deep–sea snailfishes are hard to identify from video alone. MBARI researchers have observed a snailfish that appears to be the newly described slender snailfish, but without collecting a specimen for closer analysis, they say they can't be sure

The sleek snailfish is distinguished from other snailfishes by a long, black, laterally compressed body, absence of a suction disk, and prominently angled jaw.

This encounter is the only confirmed observation of the bumpy snailfish, so further detail on their full geographic distribution and depth range are unknown.

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Steven Haddock, senior scientist at MBARI, led the research expedition that first  encountered the bumpy snailfish.

He said documenting deep–sea biodiversity is 'critical to detecting any changes that may be occurring in this environment'.

Scientists have described more than 400 different species of snailfish worldwide.

These fish make their homes in a variety of ocean habitats, from shallow tide pools to deep–sea trenches.

They also hold the record for the deepest–dwelling fish.

The new species was described in the journal Ichthyology and Herpetology. 

What is a snailfish?

  • Snailfishes belong to the family Liparidae. 
  • They typically have a large head, jelly–like body covered in loose skin, and narrow tail. 
  • Many snailfish species have a disk on their belly that allows them to grip the seafloor or hitchhike on larger animals, such as deep–sea crabs. 
  • Shallow–water snailfishes often cling to rocks and seaweed, curling up like a snail.
  • Scientists have described more than 400 different species of snailfish worldwide. 
  • These fishes make their homes in a variety of ocean habitats, from shallow tide pools to deep–sea trenches. 
  • In fact, a snailfish holds the record for the deepest–dwelling fish.

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Waarom bestaat het universum? De reden ligt in de onvriendelijke relatie tussen materie en antimaterie

Waarom bestaat het universum? De reden ligt in de onvriendelijke relatie tussen materie en antimaterie

Inleiding

De vraag waarom het universum überhaupt bestaat, is een van de meest fundamentele en intrigerende vragen uit de kosmologie en de theoretische fysica. Ondanks onze uitgebreide kennis over de natuurwetten en de kosmische geschiedenis, blijft het bestaan van het universum een mysterie dat ons uitdaagt tot diepgaande reflectie en wetenschappelijke zoektocht. Een van de meest gangbare verklaringen binnen de moderne wetenschap betreft de asymmetrie tussen materie en antimaterie. In dit essay wordt onderzocht waarom het universum bestaat vanuit het perspectief dat materie en antimaterie niet ‘goede vrienden’ zijn, en hoe deze onvriendelijkheid heeft geleid tot het bestaan van de wereld zoals wij die kennen.

An illustration of different galaxies against a blue and purple weblike background.

Het kosmische web bestaat omdat de hoeveelheden materie en antimaterie oorspronkelijk niet gelijk waren.

(Afbeelding krediet: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO BIBLIOTHEEK via Getty Images)

1. De fundamenten: Materie en antimaterie

Om te begrijpen waarom het universum bestaat zoals wij dat kennen, is het essentieel om eerst de aard van materie en antimaterie onder de loep te nemen. In de wereld van de kwantumfysica worden alle elementaire deeltjes beschreven door een aantal fundamentele eigenschappen, waaronder massa, elektrische lading en spin. Elke deeltje heeft een antimaterie-tegenhanger, die precies dezelfde massa bezit, maar tegengestelde kwantumgetallen heeft. Een duidelijk voorbeeld hiervan is het elektron en het positron: het elektron heeft een negatieve elektrische lading, terwijl het positron dezelfde massa heeft, maar een positieve lading.

Volgens de theorieën zouden, kort na de oerknal, gelijke hoeveelheden materie en antimaterie ontstaan. Bij contact tussen deze tegengestelde deeltjes zou volledige annihilatie plaatsvinden, waarbij enorme hoeveelheden energie vrijkomen. Deze energie-uitwisseling wordt beschreven door Einstein’s beroemde vergelijking E=mc², die aangeeft dat massa kan worden omgezet in energie. Als materie en antimaterie in gelijke mate zouden bestaan en volledig zouden annihileren, zou dat leiden tot een heel ander soort universum: één dat vrijwel volledig uit straling bestaat, zonder de complexe structuren zoals sterren, planeten en levende wezens.

Het feit dat ons universum niet volledig uit straling bestaat en dat er toch een lichte voorkeur lijkt te zijn voor materie, vormt een van de grootste raadsels in de fysica. Deze zogenaamde materie-antimaterie asymmetrie is de sleutel tot het bestaan van het universum zoals we dat kennen. Het begrijpen van waarom materie de overhand heeft gekregen, motiveert wetenschappers om verder te zoeken naar de fundamentele oorzaken achter deze asymmetrie, en daarmee een dieper inzicht te krijgen in het ontstaan en de evolutie van het heelal. Het is een fascinerend vraagstuk dat ons inzicht in de natuurwetten en de oorsprong van alles wat bestaat, kan veranderen.

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De stervormende nevel W51 is een van de grootste 'sterfabrieken' in het Melkweg-stelsel. 'Sterfabrieken' zoals deze kunnen miljoenen jaren operationeel zijn. De grote rode regio aan de rechterkant van W51 is ouder, wat duidelijk te zien is aan de manier waarop deze al is uitgehold door de winden van generaties zware sterren (die minimaal 10 keer de massa van onze Zon hebben). Het stof en gas in de regio worden nog meer in beweging gebracht wanneer die sterren sterven en exploderen als supernova's. Aan de jongere linkerkant van de nevel beginnen veel sterren net het gas en stof op te ruimen.

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2. De asymmetrie: Waarom bestaat er meer materie dan antimaterie?

Een van de meest intrigerende vragen in de kosmologie en de natuurkunde is waarom het universum grotendeels uit materie bestaat, terwijl de theorie ervan uitgaat dat er bij de oerknal gelijke hoeveelheden materie en antimaterie werden gevormd. Dit fenomeen wordt de materie-antimaterie asymmetrie genoemd en vormt een van de grote raadsels die wetenschappers proberen op te lossen. Als de oerknal inderdaad gelijke hoeveelheden materie en antimaterie had geproduceerd, zou je verwachten dat deze zich zouden hebben annihileerd, waardoor het heelal leeg en kaal zou zijn gebleven. Toch is dat niet het geval: er bestaat een overwicht aan materie, wat heeft geleid tot de sterren, planeten en uiteindelijk het leven zoals wij dat kennen.

Wetenschappers vermoeden dat er tijdens de allereerste momenten na de oerknal een kleine asymmetrie moet zijn geweest in de omstandigheden waarin materie en antimaterie werden gevormd. Deze kleine afwijking, die zich heeft uitgedrukt in een lichte voorkeur voor materie, is cruciaal geweest voor de evolutie van het universum. Het fenomeen dat deze asymmetrie mogelijk verklaart, wordt beschreven door de zogenaamde CP-schending (Charge-Parity-schending), een concept uit de deeltjesfysica dat aangeeft dat natuurwetten niet volledig symmetrisch zijn onder bepaalde omkeringen van ladings- en pariteitspectra.

De CP-schending betekent dat de natuur op subtiele manieren verschillen laat zien tussen materie en antimaterie. In theorie zouden de natuurwetten hetzelfde moeten zijn voor deeltjes en hun antimaterie-tegenhangers, maar experimenten tonen aan dat dit niet altijd het geval is. Deze afwijkingen, hoe klein ook, kunnen een grote impact hebben gehad tijdens de eerste momenten van het universum, waardoor een lichte overproductie van materie ten opzichte van antimaterie ontstond. Het is deze kleine, maar belangrijke, asymmetrie die zich heeft uitgebreid en uiteindelijk heeft geleid tot het materie-overschot dat wij vandaag de dag waarnemen.

De theoretische modellen die proberen deze asymmetrie te verklaren, zijn onder andere ontwikkeld door de Russische natuurkundige Andrei Sakharov in 1967. Hij formuleerde drie essentiële voorwaarden waaraan voldaan moet zijn om de materie-antimaterie asymmetrie te kunnen verklaren. Ten eerste moet er sprake zijn van CP-schending: natuurwetten moeten onder bepaalde omstandigheden symmetriebreuk vertonen. Zonder deze breuk zou er geen voorkeur ontstaan voor materie of antimaterie. Ten tweede moeten er grote kwantumfluctuaties plaatsvinden, die leiden tot kleine voorkeuren voor materie in het proces van de vroege evolutie van het universum. En ten slotte moet de asymmetrie ontstaan tijdens niet-thermische processen, zoals tijdens de oerknal, wanneer het universum niet in evenwicht was en de normale regels van thermodynamica niet volledig golden.

Dus de theoretische modellen, ontwikkeld door Andrei Sakharov, geven drie voorwaarden voor het ontstaan van deze asymmetrie:

  1. Bovengenoemde CP-schending: Natuurwetten moeten symmetriebreuk vertonen bij het ontstaan van materie.
  2. Uitgebreide kwantumfluctuaties: Er moeten processen zijn die leiden tot een kleine voorkeur voor materie.
  3. Niet-thermische processen: De asymmetrie moet ontstaan tijdens niet-evenwicht situaties, zoals tijdens de oerknal.

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Dit waar-kleurbeeld toont Noord- en Zuid-Amerika zoals ze eruit zouden zien vanuit de ruimte op 22.000 mijl (35.000 km) boven de aarde. Het beeld is een combinatie van gegevens van twee satellieten. Het Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aan boord van NASA's Terra-satelliet verzamelde de landoppervlaktegegevens gedurende 16 dagen, terwijl NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) een momentopname van de aardse wolken en de maan produceerde.

Reto Stöckli, Nazmi El Saleous en Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, NASA GSFC.

Hoewel experimenten in de deeltjesfysica, zoals in de Large Hadron Collider, aanwijzingen hebben gevonden voor CP-schending, is de mate waarin dit fenomeen plaatsvindt nog niet genoeg om volledig de materie-antimaterie asymmetrie te verklaren. De waargenomen effecten zijn te klein en er blijven vragen over waarom de asymmetrie zo subtiel is, maar toch voldoende om het materie-overschot te creëren dat wij vandaag de dag zien. Onderzoekers blijven daarom actief zoeken naar nieuwe deeltjes en processen die meer inzicht kunnen geven in deze fundamentele kwestie.

Kortom, de materie-antimaterie asymmetrie is een complex en fascinerend vraagstuk dat onze kennis over de fundamentele natuurwetten uitdaagt. Het begrijpen van waarom er meer materie bestaat dan antimaterie, kan niet alleen ons inzicht in het ontstaan van het universum verdiepen, maar ook leiden tot nieuwe ontdekkingen in de fysica en kosmologie. Ondanks de vooruitgang blijven er nog veel vragen openstaan, en het onderzoek hiernaar is een van de grootste uitdagingen van de moderne wetenschap.

3. Waarom is deze asymmetrie cruciaal voor het bestaan van het universum?

De asymmetrie die we in het universum waarnemen, is van fundamenteel belang voor het bestaan en de structuur ervan. Zonder deze kleine maar cruciale asymmetrie zou het universum er heel anders uitzien en zou het leven zoals wij dat kennen, niet mogelijk zijn. Om dit beter te begrijpen, moeten we teruggaan naar de oorsprong van het heelal en de processen die hebben geleid tot de vorming van materie en structuur.

In de eerste momenten na de oerknal was er een bijna perfecte gelijkheid tussen materie en antimaterie. Deze twee vormen van deeltjes zijn elkaars spiegelbeeld en zouden, als ze bij elkaar komen, volledig kunnen vernietigen. Als er geen asymmetrie was geweest, zouden materie en antimaterie in gelijke mate aanwezig zijn geweest, wat zou hebben geleid tot een universeel veld van straling zonder enige materiële structuur. In dat scenario zou er geen vorming van sterren, planeten of leven mogelijk zijn. De universele materie zou simpelweg zijn verdwenen in een gigantische explosie van energie en straling, waardoor een leeg en uniform heelal overbleef.

De kleine asymmetrie die daadwerkelijk heeft bestaan, gaf echter een kleine overtolligheid aan materie ten opzichte van antimaterie. Deze afwijking mag dan klein lijken, maar het was voldoende om het verschil te maken. Door deze ongelijkheid konden de meeste antimateriedeeltjes worden vernietigd, terwijl de materie overbleef en zich begon te clusteren. Deze overgebleven materie vormde uiteindelijk de eerste atomen, die later samensmolten tot sterren, melkwegstelsels en planeten. Zonder deze asymmetrie zou het heelal dus niet de complexe en gevarieerde structuur hebben ontwikkeld die wij nu zien.

Het is alsof een klein verschil in de beginvoorwaarden een kettingreactie heeft veroorzaakt die zich heeft uitgebreid tot het hele universum. Deze kleine asymmetrie fungeert als de katalysator voor alles wat wij ervaren: de sterrenhemel, de aarde en zelfs het bestaan van leven zelf. Het benadrukt ook hoe kwetsbaar en gevoelig het ontstaan van het universum was voor kleine veranderingen, die uiteindelijk grote gevolgen hadden. Zonder deze asymmetrie zou ons heelal niet de rijkdom en complexiteit bezitten die wij nu kennen. Het is dus van onschatbare waarde dat de eerste momenten van het universum niet perfect symmetrisch waren, omdat deze asymmetrie de fundamenten heeft gelegd voor alles wat wij kennen en ervaren.

A NASA spacecraft discovers antimatter bursts released by thunderstorms.

In deze grafiek wordt een antimaterie-uitbarsting die door een onweersbui in de atmosfeer van de aarde is vrijgegeven, gedetecteerd door een NASA-ruimtevaartuig.

(Afbeelding krediet: NASA)

4. Het belang van de ‘onvriendelijkheid’: materie en antimaterie als slechte vrienden

De metafoor dat materie en antimaterie ‘niet goede vrienden’ zijn, biedt een krachtige en visueel aansprekende manier om hun fundamentele interactie te begrijpen. In werkelijkheid zijn materie en antimaterie elkaars ‘tegenpolen’, die, wanneer ze elkaar ontmoeten, onmiddellijk een vernietigende reactie veroorzaken. Deze reactie resulteert in de volledige annihilatie van beide deeltjes, waarbij enorme hoeveelheden energie vrijkomen in de vorm van gammastraling. Het is deze destructieve kracht die een centrale rol speelt in de evolutie van het universum en die de basis vormt voor veel van de fundamentele processen in de kosmos.

Deze ‘onvriendelijkheid’ tussen materie en antimaterie is niet zomaar een willekeurig conflict, maar een essentieel kenmerk dat diep verweven is met de oorsprong van alles wat bestaat. Tijdens de oerknal, ongeveer 13,8 miljard jaar geleden, ontstonden gelijktijdig grote hoeveelheden materie en antimaterie. Volgens de theorieën over de vroege kosmologie was er aanvankelijk ongeveer evenveel materie als antimaterie. Echter, door een kleine asymmetrie – een minuscule onevenwichtigheid – bleef er na de annihilatie een kleine overschot aan materie over. Die overgebleven materie vormde de basis voor alle sterren, planeten, en uiteindelijk ook voor leven. Het feit dat materie en antimaterie zo ‘slechte vrienden’ waren, zorgde dus indirect voor de structuur en complexiteit van het universum zoals wij dat kennen.

Het is fascinerend om te bedenken dat deze ‘slechte relatie’ tussen materie en antimaterie essentieel was voor het ontstaan van alles. Had de natuur niet zo’n conflict tussen deze deeltjes gekend, dan had er mogelijk geen overlevende materie overgebleven na de grote vernietigingsreacties. Het zou kunnen dat het universum dan een lege, stralingsrijke ruimte was geweest zonder de complexe structuren die wij nu kennen. Deze gedachte onderstreept dat conflicten en tegenstelling niet altijd negatief hoeven te zijn; soms zijn ze juist de drijvende kracht achter ontwikkeling en evolutie.

Kortom, de ‘onvriendelijkheid’ tussen materie en antimaterie is een fundamenteel gegeven dat ons inzicht geeft in de oorsprong van het universum. Het conflict, dat op het eerste gezicht negatief lijkt, heeft juist geleid tot de schepping van alle materiële structuren en het bestaan van het heelal zoals wij dat kennen. Deze metafoor helpt ons niet alleen om de complexe fysische processen beter te begrijpen, maar benadrukt ook dat in de natuur conflicten vaak de motor zijn van verandering en groei. Zonder deze ‘slechte vriendschap’ zou er geen rijk universum zijn, geen sterrenstelsels, geen planeten en geen leven. Het is een mooi voorbeeld van hoe schijnbare tegenstellingen kunnen leiden tot het ontstaan van iets moois en waardevols.

5. De rol van de oerknal en de evolutie van het universum

De rol van de oerknal en de evolutie van het universum is essentieel om te begrijpen hoe alles begon en zich vervolgens heeft ontwikkeld tot de complexe kosmos die wij vandaag de dag waarnemen. De oerknal wordt algemeen erkend als het beginpunt van ons universum, ongeveer 13,8 miljard jaar geleden. Dit betekent dat alles wat we kennen – sterren, planeten, melkwegstelsels, en zelfs de ruimte en tijd zelf – uit deze ene gebeurtenis is voortgekomen. Het is een fascinerende en complexe theorie die onze kijk op het bestaan ingrijpend heeft veranderd.

In de allereerste fractie van een seconde na de oerknal ontstonden de eerste fundamentele deeltjes. Tijdens deze extreem korte periode, bekend als de Plancktijd, waren de omstandigheden onvoorstelbaar heet en dicht. De eerste deeltjes die gevormd werden, waren onder andere quarks en elektronen. Bovendien ontstonden antimaterie deeltjes, zoals antiprotons en positronen. Het ontstaan van antimaterie was cruciaal omdat het de basis vormde voor de latere interacties in het universum. Echter, de relatie tussen materie en antimaterie bleek niet symmetrisch. Toen de eerste deeltjes en antideeltjes elkaar ontmoetten, leidde dat tot annihilatie, waarbij enorme hoeveelheden energie vrijkwamen.

Wat deze gebeurtenissen bijzonder maakt, is dat er een kleine asymmetrie ontwikkelde tussen materie en antimaterie. Deze asymmetrie, ook wel bekend als baryon-asymmetrie, betekent dat er uiteindelijk meer materie overbleef dan antimaterie. Deze kleine maar belangrijke onevenwichtigheid was de katalysator voor de vorming van de structuren die we nu kennen. Zonder deze asymmetrie zou het universum mogelijk volledig uitgestorven zijn van materie, en zou er geen sterren, planeten of leven bestaan.

Door de tijd heen evolueerde het universum enorm. Tijdens de eerste honderden miljoenen jaren na de oerknal was het heelal nog zeer heet en dicht. Materie klonterde samen onder invloed van de zwaartekracht, waardoor er eerst gaswolken ontstonden. Deze gaswolken vormden de basis voor de eerste sterren en sterrenstelsels. Naarmate de tijd verstreek, groeiden deze structuren uit tot enorme melkwegstelsels, met daarin miljarden sterren. De complexe processen van nucleosynthese binnen sterren leidden tot de vorming van zwaardere elementen, essentieel voor de opbouw van planeten en leven.

Kortom, de oerknal en de daaropvolgende evolutie van het universum vormen de kern van onze kosmologische kennis. De asymmetrie tussen materie en antimaterie was niet zomaar een toevalligheid, maar een essentiële factor die de weg vrijmaakte voor het bestaan van alles wat we kennen. De voortdurende studie naar deze gebeurtenissen helpt ons niet alleen om onze oorsprong te begrijpen, maar ook om onze plek in het heelal beter te plaatsen. Het is een fascinerend verhaal van chaos, creatie en ontwikkeling, dat nog steeds volop in onderzoek en debat is.

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Uit praktische overwegingen categoriseren mensen groepen materie op basis van hun eigenschappen. Galaxieën, sterrenclusters, planeten, dwergplaneten, rogue-planeten, manen, ringen, ringetjes, kometen, meteorieten, wasberen - het zijn allemaal verzamelingen van materie die verschillende kenmerken vertonen, maar zich aan dezelfde natuurlijke wetten houden.

6. Conclusie: het universum als resultaat van conflict en asymmetrie

De conclusie dat het universum ontstaat uit conflict en asymmetrie is zowel fascinerend als diepgaand. Het lijkt misschien tegenintuïtief dat de schepping van alles wat bestaat voortkomt uit een soort kosmisch conflict tussen deeltjes, maar deze gedachte wordt ondersteund door de fundamentele natuurwetten en observaties. De aanwezigheid van een kleine maar belangrijke overmaat aan materie ten opzichte van antimaterie vormt namelijk de kern van ons bestaan.

In de eerste instantie waren er gelijke hoeveelheden materie en antimaterie in het vroege universum. Volgens de theorieën over de oerknal en de daaropvolgende evolutie van het heelal, zouden deze deeltjes elkaar moeten hebben vernietigd bij contact, waarbij enorme hoeveelheden energie vrijkwamen in de vorm van straling. Maar waarom bleef er dan toch een klein overschot aan materie over? Waarom was het universum niet volledig uitgewist door de antimaterie? Het antwoord ligt in een subtiele asymmetrie tussen deeltjes en antipartikels, een kleine afwijking in de symmetrie die de loop van de kosmische geschiedenis heeft veranderd.

Deze asymmetrie, ook wel bekend als CP-schending (Charge-Parity schending), betekent dat materie en antimaterie niet precies spiegelbeelden van elkaar zijn. Hierdoor ontstond er een kleine voorkeur voor materie, wat op zijn beurt leidde tot het overgrote deel van materie dat wij nu waarnemen. Zonder deze asymmetrie zou het universum er heel anders uitzien, mogelijk volledig leeg en ongeschikt voor het ontstaan van sterren en planeten.

Het conflict tussen materie en antimaterie kan dus worden gezien als een soort kosmische strijd, waarbij de onvriendelijkheid tussen deeltjes leidde tot vernietiging, maar tegelijkertijd ook tot de schepping van een complex en rijk universum. Deze strijd en asymmetrie vormden de noodzakelijke condities voor het ontstaan van de structuur van het heelal. Zonder dit conflict zou er geen sterrenstelsels, geen planeten en geen leven kunnen bestaan.

Kortom, de universele werkelijkheid is niet slechts het resultaat van een evenwichtige en harmonieuze werking van natuurwetten, maar eerder van een fundamenteel conflict en asymmetrie. Het universum zoals wij dat kennen, is ontstaan uit een delicate balans tussen vernietiging en creatie, tussen strijd en schepping. Het is juist door de onvriendelijkheid en de strijd tussen materie en antimaterie dat het mogelijk werd om een rijk en gevarieerd heelal te vormen, waarin alles bestaat. Deze inzichten maken duidelijk dat conflict en asymmetrie niet altijd negatief hoeven te zijn; ze kunnen juist de drijfveer zijn achter grote kosmische en natuurlijke ontwikkelingen.

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Met behulp van de Event Horizon Telescope hebben wetenschappers een afbeelding verkregen van het zwarte gat in het centrum van de melkweg M87. Samenwerking van de Event Horizon Telescope et al.

Eindwoord

Het begrijpen waarom het universum bestaat, blijft een fascinerende zoektocht. De rol van materie en antimaterie als onvrienden die niet goed met elkaar kunnen opschieten, blijkt cruciaal te zijn voor het ontstaan van alles. Deze onvriendelijkheid, die leidt tot vernietiging in plaats van harmonie, was daarom de ultieme voorwaarde voor ons bestaan. Het is een herinnering dat conflicten en asymmetrie in de natuur soms de voorwaarden scheppen voor complexiteit en emergentie, en dat de kosmische geschiedenis wordt geschreven door de interactie van tegengestelde krachten.

Bronnen

  • Sakharov, A. D. (1967). Violation of CP invariance, C asymmetry, and baryon asymmetry of the universe. Soviet Physics Uspekhi.
  • Riess, A. G., et al. (1998). Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant. The Astronomical Journal.
  • GDW. (2020). Materie en antimaterie: De strijd tussen deeltjes. Fysica in Perspectief.
  • Koupelis, T., & Kuhn, F. (2014). Inleiding tot de fysica.

Literatuur en verdere lezing

  • Carroll, S. M. (2004). Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity.
  • Steinhardt, P. J., & Turok, N. (2007). The Cyclic Universe: An Informal Introduction. Scientific American.

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Twee beelden van Hubble van de enorme sterrenstelselcluster Cl 0024+17 (ZwCl 0024+1652) worden getoond. Links is het zicht in zichtbaar licht met vreemde blauwe bogen die verschijnen tussen de geelachtige sterrenstelsels. Dit zijn de vergrote en vervormde beelden van sterrenstelsels die ver achter de cluster liggen. Hun licht wordt gebogen en versterkt door de immense zwaartekracht van de cluster in een proces dat gravitatiekracht lensing wordt genoemd. Rechts is er een blauwe schaduw toegevoegd om de locatie aan te geven van onzichtbaar materiaal dat donkere materie wordt genoemd, wat wiskundig vereist is om rekening te houden met de aard en plaatsing van de gravitatief gelensde sterrenstelsels die te zien zijn.

NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee en H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University)


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Skyscraper-size asteroid previously predicted to hit us in 60 years will zoom past Earth on Thursday (Sept. 18) — and you can see it live

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Lucy's Main Belt Target Has Its Features Named

Lucy's Main Belt Target Has Its Features Named

Image of asteroid Donaldjohanson with features marked. Credit - NASA Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL

When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system there are still a lot of places out there that need proper names. That means the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the non-governmental body responsible for naming astronomical objects, has its work cut out for them. Recently they tackled a relatively easy challenge by approving a series of names on the asteroid Donaldjohnson, the first and only target of NASA’s Lucy mission in the main asteroid belt. With those names come a whole new way to talk about one of the asteroids that humanity has studied most closely thus far.

Lucy the mission was named after Lucy the fossil, one of the most important paleoanthropological finds in history. Dated to 3.2 million years ago, the Lucy skeleton is part of a species we now call Australopithecus afarensis, one of the forebearers of modern day Homo sapiens. With this discovery in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 1974, American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson cemented his legacy in the annals of scientific history.

The IAU also allowed him to be etched into the history books of astronomy as well, when it agreed to name the asteroid in the main belt that the Lucy mission would pass on its way to its main mission in the Trojan asteroid belt after him. Asteroid Donaldjohanson measures about 8 km long by 3.5 km wide, and weighs about 8x1013 kg. Its shape provides some very unique places to name, and Lucy’s team tried to take full advantage of that in the names they submitted to the IAU.

Fraser discusses one of Lucy's first major discvoeries

All of the names deal somehow with paleoarchaeological history, though only some are directed related to Donald Johanson himself. The two main “lobes” of the asteroid are named Afar, after the region in Ethiopia where the Lucy fossil was discovered, and Olduvai, a river gorge in Tanzania where there were plenty of other discoveries of early humans.

Joining the two lobes is Windover Collum, named after an archeological site near Cape Canaveral Florida, where Lucy was launched, and which provide insight into the lives of humans living there over 7,000 years ago. Two flat surfaces on the collum, which can be thought of as the asteroid’s “neck”, are called Hadar, after the specific site Lucy was found in, and Minatogawa, the site of the oldest hominid remains found in Japan. While JAXA, Japan’s space agency, didn’t help with this mission in particular, they’ve been a major collaborator of NASA for decades.

Major boulders and craters received names as well. Mungo, named after the Lake Mungo archaeological site in New South Wales Australia, is a crater near the end of the Olduvai lobe. Boxgrove is a boulder nearby named after an almost 500,000 fossil from England. Narmada is another crater named after archaic remains from India, and it is near boulders named Cashel, after a 4,000 year old discovery in Ireland, and Kennewick, an 8,500 year old skeleton from Washington state near the Columbia River in the US. ALl of those are also on the Olduvai lobe, which is the larger of the two.

Another feature on the Windover section is another ridge named after Luzia, a 11,500 year old skeleton from Brazil. There are undoubtedly features on the other side of the asteroid, but unfortunately Lucy only performed a brief flyby and couldn’t capture it in its entirety.

However, that was because it's on its way to its main mission, which is to visit eight Trojan asteroids. That will give the mission team plenty more naming opportunities. We’ll see what they come up with - and what the IAU will approve - beginning in 2027 when its mission truly starts.

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