Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
UFO over New York on Oct 5, 2025 UAP Alien sighting news, aliens want to be seen! Video.
Date of sighting: Oct 5, 2025
Location of sighting: Newburgh, New York, USA
Source: NUFORC
This is a UFO that morphs or changes shape. Shapeshifter's are actually very common and as we see in several frames, this UFO does just that. UFOs often look white or silvery from far away, however when you see one a few meters from you...the colors are totally mesmerizing. It's clear this UFO was trying to slow down on a very windy day. The wind is blowing, however the object in the sky barely moves at all, then suddenly moves away. 100% proof that this is an alien craft.
UFOs over Maxwell, New Mexico, USA on October 6, 2025, UFO UAP sighting news 👽 watch the sky!
Date of sighting: Oct 6, 2025
Location of sighting: Maxwell, New Mexico, USA
Source: NUFORC
Watch carefully and you will see not one but many glowing spheres appear and disappear in New Mexico. Person was at a rest area and noticed the dancing lights in the sky. Aliens want to be noticed and it's 100% clear that this was intentional to test the publics reactions to them. This is building up to something big soon.
Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily
Eyewitness states:
Lights on object Brights lights descending Driving north on 1-25 noticed bright lights to the east. Stopped at rest area and walked to edge of rest area to watch the lights. Watched lights seem to appear, descend, or move sideways. Sometimes one light sometimes three at once. Took photos and video with cell phone. Lights caught my attention because I had seen the same phenomena on the night of Friday October 3rd in Alamogordo NM with several other people facing west. Lights displayed same movement of appearing suddenly, growing in brightness and fading off.
After half a century, samples collected during NASA’s 1972 Apollo 17 Moon mission are still revealing new secrets about the lunar surface.
Fortunately for today’s scientists, the Apollo Moon missions had the foresight to store samples for exploitation by technologies and methodologies not yet known at the time. Because of that, a new study in JGR: Planets brings to light a surprising sulfur isotope hiding in the lunar regolith that may also provide clues to the origin of our solar system.
Apollo Sample Preservation
Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt collected these samples of volcanic material from the Taurus Littrow region, after pushing a hollow metal cylinder 60 centimeters into the regolith. Upon their return, the NASA Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) program preserved the entire tube full of material in a helium chamber for future scientists to study.
After fifty years on the shelf, NASA has finally begun allowing researchers to apply modern scientific tools to ANGSA samples. Gaining access to the precious samples is no easy feat, though. A rigorous and competitive application process is in place to ensure that ANGSA releases materials only to the most deserving projects.
One of the recipients of the lunar samples was James Dottin of Brown University, whose work proposed using ion mass spectrometry on the lunar soil for the first time, in an effort to explore the sulfur in what resembled mantle-derived volcanic rock.
“I was targeting sulfur that had a texture that would suggest it was erupted with the rock and not added through a different process,” Dottin explained.
Sulfur-33
The unexpected sulfur compounds found in the samples were strange for their high depletion of sulfur-33, which is among the four most radioactively stable sulfur isotopes. Compared to sulfur-33 samples recovered on Earth, the lunar samples are far different, as terrestrial sulfur-33 is typically far less depleted.
“Before this, it was thought that the lunar mantle had the same sulfur isotope composition as Earth,” Dottin said. “That’s what I expected to see when analyzing these samples, but instead we saw values that are very different from anything we find on Earth.”
Isotope ratios form a sort of “fingerprint” from which rocks can be identified as originating from the same source. Existing research has shown similarities between oxygen on the Moon and Earth, leaving scientists to expect a resemblance between sulfur isotopes as well.
“My first thought was, ‘Holy shmolies, that can’t be right,’” Dottin exclaimed. “So we went back to make sure we had done everything properly, and we had. These are just very surprising results.”
Exploring Lunar Origins
Dottin suggests two possibilities behind the unexpected sulfur. One is that the early moon briefly held a thin atmosphere, just enough to allow for reactions between ultraviolet light and sulfur. This could have depleted the isotope early on, carrying significant implications for lunar evolution.
“That would be evidence of ancient exchange of materials from the lunar surface to the mantle,” Dottin said. “On Earth, we have plate tectonics that does that, but the Moon doesn’t have plate tectonics. So this idea of some kind of exchange mechanism on the early Moon is exciting.”
Another possibility is that the depleted isotope arrived from the Moon’s initial formation. The most commonly accepted lunar origin story is that Theia, an object roughly the size of Mars, impacted the ancient Earth, sending off debris that eventually formed the Moon. If this were the case, the anomalous sulfur isotope may be remnants of Theia, which could have had a far different sulfur signature than the Earth.
While both theories are possible, no clear evidence from the isotopes themselves currently supports one over the other. Dottin hopes that continued analysis of sulfur isotopes from different bodies in our solar system, such as Mars, will help identify the correct explanation and provide a better understanding of how our solar system formed as a whole.
Ryan Whalen covers science and technology for The Debrief. He holds an MA in History and a Master of Library and Information Science with a certificate in Data Science. He can be contacted at ryan@thedebrief.org, and follow him on Twitter @mdntwvlf.
Scientists observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the Swift ultraviolet space telescope. With the help of this instrument, they found hydroxyl ions, indicating the presence of water on the comet. This allows us to compare it to the “cosmic icebergs” that are constantly present in our Solar System.
Comet 3I/ATLAS. Source: starwalk.space
Water on comet 3I/ATLAS
Scientists have published a study of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using NASA’s Swift space telescope. This orbital observatory operates in ultraviolet light and is capable of performing spectral analysis for this wavelength range. As a result, scientists learned something interesting about its chemical composition.
In particular, water was found on it. More precisely, the telescope captured ultraviolet light from the hydroxyl ion OH, but it cannot be anything other than the decay product of a water molecule. Thus, a safe assumption is that it is present there.
But the really important thing was that this discovery was made when 3I/ATLAS was three times farther from the Sun than Earth. At this distance, comets in the Solar System do not show any activity. But for some reason, up to 40 kg of water evaporated from the interstellar space every second.
Origin of comets
Nevertheless, scientists believe that ultraviolet research has enabled them to compare 3I/ATLAS with comets in the Solar System. Its abnormal activity can be easily explained by the existence of complex layers of ice on the surface of its core. Similar ones were observed in several objects that formed far from the Sun.
3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object that scientists have been able to study in detail. And they are all completely different. Oumuamua was completely dry, while Borisov’s comet was rich in carbon monoxide. And now 3I/ATLAS shows a large amount of water.
All this indicates their formation under different conditions. This means that the systems from which they originate have to be really different from each other. Although this conclusion is based on a small sample size, future interstellar visitors will be able to provide more information.
A new study has refuted the popular theory about the unexpected shortening of Dimorphos’ orbital period. Scientists have discovered that the proposed mechanism would actually have the opposite effect.
Asteroid Dimorphos. Source: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
In 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) vehicle deliberately collided with Dimorphos, a small satellite of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. The mission was dedicated to protecting our planet. Scientists wanted to test whether the space ram technique could be used to change the orbit of a celestial body threatening Earth.
The demonstration was quite impressive. The period of Dimorphos’s orbit around Didymos after the impact was reduced by as much as 33 minutes, which far exceeded the scientists’ expectations. However, in the following weeks, something unusual happened: observations revealed an additional reduction in the orbital period of another 30 seconds. This situation has left researchers perplexed as to its causes.
The initial hypothesis suggested a scenario known as binary system hardening. It involves debris ejected as a result of the collision interacting with Dimorphos’ gravity and ultimately being ejected from the system, causing it to lose angular momentum and acquire a tighter orbit.
Illustration of debris ejected after the collision of the DART spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorphos. Source: ESO
However, the results of a recent study conducted by scientists from Université Côte d’Azur have cast doubt on this scenario. Simulation showed that Dimorphos was too weak a “scatterer” to affect the angular momentum of the system.
If the ejected particles do not disperse, the most likely consequence will be re-accretion, in which the debris falls back onto one of the components of the binary system. Since the collision between DART and Dimorphos was head-on, most of the ejected material entered prograde orbits. This means that they are moving in the same direction as Dimorphos and Didymos in their mutual motion around the Sun. In turn, when material moving in the prograde direction re-accretes, it increases the angular momentum of the binary system. This leads not to a decrease, but to an increase in the orbital period, which contradicts the observed pattern.
All this suggests the existence of an additional mechanism that can counteract this effect and cause the observed decrease in the orbital period. Researchers suggested that the most likely alternative explanation is a change in the shape of Dimorphos after the impact. At the same time, they admitted that further research would be needed to reach a final conclusion.
Perhaps the European Hera mission will provide the answer to this question. It will reach Didymos and Dimorphos at the end of 2026.
Using a combination of 3D modelling and real–life experiments, scientists have confirmed that the statues actually 'walked' to their final destinations.
After studying nearly 1,000 of the heads – known as moai – anthropologists found that the people of Rapa Nui likely used ropes to rock the statues in a zig–zag pattern.
This technique would have allowed small teams of people to move the enormous moai over long distances with relatively little effort.
Co–author of the study Professor Carl Lipo, of Binghamton University, says: 'Once you get it moving, it isn't hard at all—people are pulling with one arm.
'It conserves energy, and it moves really quickly, the hard part is getting it rocking in the first place.'
Scientists say that they have solved the mystery of how Rapa Nui's stone heads reached their destinations. According to a new study, the stone heads 'walked' to their destinations
The origin of Easter Island's iconic head statues is one of the world's greatest archaeological puzzles
Previously, anthropologists had thought that the moai must have been laid flat and pulled all the way to their destinations.
This would have been an enormously strenuous task requiring a large number of people, and would have been almost impossible for some of the larger heads.
By attaching ropes to either side of the head and pulling back and forth, the moai can be rocked side to side and shuffled forward in a 'walking' motion.
Professor Lipo and his collaborator Professor Terry Hunt, of the University of Arizona, previously tested their walking theory on smaller models, but wanted to see how it would work for larger moai.
First, the researchers created a detailed 3D model of a moai head to investigate which features helped them walk.
They discovered that the moai appear to have been carefully designed with walking in mind.
Their large D–shaped base and forward–leaning position make them more likely to move forward in a zig–zag pattern when rocked side to side.
Scientists used computer modelling to investigate how the moai heads might have moved, and found that they were perfectly shaped to rock forwards in a zig–zag pattern
With a D–shaped base and forward–leaning position, the heads are made more likely to shuffle forward when rocked from side to side. This suggests they were walked rather than pulled
Easter Island timeline
13th century: Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is settled by Polynesian seafarers.
Construction on some parts of the island's monuments begins.
Early 14th to mid–15th centuries:Rapid increase in construction
1600: The date that was long–thought to mark the decline of Easter Island culture.
Construction was ongoing.
1770:Spanish seafarers landed on the island. The island is in good working order.
1722:Dutch seafarers land on the island for the first time.
Monuments were in use for rituals and showed no evidence of societal decay.
1774: British explorer James Cook arrives on Rapa Nui
His crew described an island in crisis, with overturned monuments.
To test this theory in the real world, Professor Lipo and Professor Hunt constructed a 4.35–tonne replica moai head based on their 3D model.
Just like the real things, this model had a D–shaped base and the distinctive forward–leaning centre of gravity.
With a team of just 18 people, the researchers were able to move the moai 100 metres in just 40 minutes – much faster than previous attempts.
The researchers argue that this is extremely strong evidence that the largest of the moai heads must have been moved by walking.
Professor Lipo says: 'The physics makes sense. What we saw experimentally actually works.
'And as it gets bigger, it still works. All the attributes that we see about moving gigantic ones only get more and more consistent the bigger and bigger they get, because it becomes the only way you could move it.'
This new scientific evidence even aligns with surviving oral traditions on the island, which describe the heads 'walking' from the quarry where they were made to their final positions.
To add even more support for the theory, the study also looked at the network of 'moai roads' which criss–cross the island.
Some moai heads found by the side of transport routes show evidence of attempts to right them by digging under their feet (pictured). The researchers believe these 'moai roads' were also shaped specifically to help support a rocking motion.
'Every time they're moving a statue, it looks like they're making a road. The road is part of moving the statue,' says Professor Lipo.
These specially prepared paths are believed to have been made specifically to enable the moai heads to be moved over long distances, and their shape is perfect for 'walking'.
Made to be around 4.5 metres wide with a concave profile, the researchers found that the specific shape of these roads helped to stabilise the heads and made them more likely to shuffle forwards.
Moai fallen by the side of the road during transport even have signs that people attempted to right them by digging underneath their 'feet'.
According to the researchers, this is another strong indication that the people of Rapa Nui knew that walking was the best way to move their large statues.
Professor Lipo says: 'It shows that the Rapa Nui people were incredibly smart. They figured this out.
'So it really gives honour to those people, saying, look at what they were able to achieve, and we have a lot to learn from them in these principles.'
The Moai are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, between 1,250 and 1,500 AD.
All the figures have overly-large heads and are thought to be living faces of deified ancestors.
The 887 statues gaze inland across the island with an average height of 13ft (four metres).
Nobody really knows how the colossal stone statues that guard Easter Island were moved into position.
Nor why during the decades following the island’s discovery by Dutch explorers in 1722, each statue was systematically toppled, or how the population of Rapa Nui islanders was decimated.
Shrouded in mystery, this tiny triangular landmass, stranded in the middle of the South Pacific and 1,289 miles from its nearest neighbour, has been the subject of endless books, articles and scientific theories.
All but 53 of the Moai were carved from tuff , compressed volcanic ash, and around 100 wear red pukao of scoria.
What do they mean?
In 1979 archaeologists said the statues were designed to hold coral eyes.
The figures are believed to be symbol of authority and power.
They may have embodied former chiefs and were repositories of spirits or 'mana'.
They are positioned so that ancient ancestors watch over the villages, while seven look out to sea to help travellers find land.
But it is a mystery as to how the vast carved stones were transported into position.
In their remote location off the coast of Chile, the ancient inhabitants of Easter Island were believed to have been wiped out by bloody warfare, as they fought over the island's dwindling resources.
All they left behind were the iconic giant stone heads and an island littered with sharp triangles of volcanic glass, which some archaeologists have long believed were used as weapons.
Earth's largest ocean current is grinding to a halt: Crucial system is now flowing three times slower than it was 130,000 years ago – and the consequences could be disastrous
Five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and 100 times larger than the Amazon River, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is by far the world's largest ocean current.
But this key system is grinding to a halt, a new study has warned.
Analysing core samples, scientists from the University of Bonn have found that the ACC has undergone a major slowdown.
In fact, the ocean current is now running three times slower than it was 130,000 years ago.
The ACC is largely driven by westerly winds, which allow the circling flow to transport heat, dissolved carbon, and nutrients from ocean to ocean.
That makes it essential for sustaining not only regional temperatures, but also the entire global climate and ecosystem.
'If this current "engine" breaks down, there could be severe consequences, including more climate variability, with greater extremes in certain regions, and accelerated global warming due to a reduction in the ocean's capacity to act as a carbon sink,' warned Dr Bishakhdatta Gayen, associate professor at the University of Melbourne, who was not involved in the study.
Scientists have found that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (illustrated), the world's largest ocean current, was over three times faster 130,000 years ago
The ACC circles the Antarctic continent from East to West, connecting the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
While it's critical for global heat transport, how it has changed through the years has remained unclear until now.
To get to the bottom of it, the University of Bonn scientists looked at sediment samples collected by a research vessel in the Scotia Sea north of Antarctica.
This allowed them to work out how the ACC has changed in speed and position over the last 160,000 years.
'The velocity in the second–to–last warm period, roughly 130,000 years ago, was more than three times greater than in the last millennia comprising the current warm period,' said expedition lead Dr Michael Weber.
While the reason for this slowdown remains unclear, the researchers suggest that most of the change can be attributed to the differences in Earth's orbit around the sun.
The Earth orbits the sun in an elliptical pattern that repeats once every 100,000 years.
At the same time, the Earth's axis changes in tilt and rotation once every 21,000 years.
Using sediment cores gathered by the research vessel Joides Resolution, researchers were able to see how the current has changed its speed and position over the last 160,000 years
What is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current?
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the world's largest ocean current.
The current transports 173 million cubic metres of water every second in an unbroken ring around the entire Antarctic continent.
The ACC flows from East to West, connecting the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
This allows it to transport heat, dissolved carbon, and nutrients from ocean to ocean.
Scientists believe the ACC plays a key role in keeping the global climate and weather system stable.
This creates a pattern of radiation intensity from the sun that has a strong influence on the speed of winds and, therefore, on the speed of wind–driven currents like the ACC.
This could explain why the current was moving so much faster 130,000 years ago – despite the climate looking largely the same as today.
Those same patterns of radiation likely forced the ACC at least 370 miles (600 km) closer to the south pole during the last warm period than it is today.
Dr Webber explained: 'Both parameters showed a simultaneous, mutually reinforcing maximum exclusively during the last warm period.'
However, research has also shown that human activity is further slowing down the ACC.
Using Australia's fastest supercomputer, researchers from the University of Melbourne recently simulated how the ACC will respond to a warming climate.
Worryingly, they found that human–caused climate change will likely cause the ACC to slow down by a further 20 per cent by 2050.
Scientists had previously thought that the current would actually get faster as the planet warmed, since warmer air produces faster winds and warm water is less dense.
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), highlighted here in green, could slow by a further 20 per cent due to the effects of human–caused climate change
However, these simulations revealed that the impacts of climate change on Antarctica's Ice shelves meant climate change was actually slowing the ACC overall.
As ice melts, it dumps vast quantities of cold, fresh water into the oceans, which fills the deep oceans and counteracts the effects of ocean warming – leading to a slower current.
If the ACC slows down further, it is likely to have dramatic and devastating effects on the global climate.
The ACC helps circulate nutrients around Antarctica that feed fish populations that global fisheries rely on.
The current also acts like a barrier, keeping warm water and invasive species like Southern Bull Kelp out of Antarctica.
That could lead to widespread disruption of global climate patterns and reduce the oceans' ability to help regulate world temperatures.
The Antarctic Ice Sheet holds around 90 per cent of all the fresh water on Earth and has the potential to cause massive increases in sea levels should it melt.
While researchers don't believe the ice sheet will vanish anytime soon, even modest accelerations in sea level rise could be catastrophic for the 230 million people who live within three feet of the high tide line today.
When it comes to regulating global climate, the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean plays a key role.
This is due to a constantly moving system of deep-water circulation often referred to as the Global Ocean Conveyor Belt which sends warm, salty Gulf Stream water to the North Atlantic where it releases heat to the atmosphere and warms Western Europe.
The cooler water then sinks to great depths and travels all the way to Antarctica and eventually circulates back up to the Gulf Stream.
When it comes to regulating global climate, the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean plays a key role
This motion is fuelled by thermohaline currents – a combination of temperature and salt.
It takes thousands of years for water to complete a continuous journey around the world.
Researchers believe that as the North Atlantic began to warm near the end of the Little Ice Age, freshwater disrupted the system, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
Arctic sea ice, and ice sheets and glaciers surrounding the Arctic began to melt, forming a huge natural tap of fresh water that gushed into the North Atlantic.
This huge influx of freshwater diluted the surface seawater, making it lighter and less able to sink deep, slowing down the AMOC system.
Researchers found the AMOC has been weakening more rapidly since 1950 in response to recent global warming.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has finally shared new details about the mysterious interstellar visitor days after its closest approach to Mars.
The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, came within 18.6 million miles of the Red Planet on October 3, and while NASA quickly uploaded images captured by its Perseverance rover on the Martian surface, ESA had remained quiet until now.
The ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) captured images of the object, appearing as a tiny, blurry white dot in a series of images.
The object's icy nucleus and its surrounding halo of gas and dust, called a coma, could not be distinguished separately, but the faint glow was clearly visible against the blackness of space.
Scientists were initially unsure whether either orbiter's cameras would detect the comet at all. Both are designed to photograph Mars' bright, rocky surface from just a few hundred to a few thousand miles away, not to capture a dim object tens of millions of miles distant.
'This was a very challenging observation for the instrument,' said Nick Thomas, principal investigator of the CaSSIS camera.
'The comet is around 10,000 to 100,000 times fainter than our usual targets.'
The visible coma suggested that 3I/ATLAS is beginning to heat up as sunlight reaches its surface, causing ice to vaporize and release dust, which gives comets their ghostly appearance.
The European Space Agency finally released images 3I/ATLAS, captured by a Mars orbiter
Originating from outside our Solar System, 3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar comet ever seen, following 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019.
'These comets are absolutely foreign,' the ESA shared on Tuesday, referring to 3I/ATLAS as a 'rare visitor.'
'Every planet, moon, asteroid, comet and lifeform in our Solar System shares a common origin.
'But interstellar comets are true outsiders, carrying clues about the formation of worlds far beyond our own.'
ExoMars TGO captured the series of images with its Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS), which was unable to distinguish the nucleus from the coma due to 3I/ATLAS being too far away.
However, the device was able to image the coma that spanned thousands of miles across.
'The full size of the coma could not be measured by CaSSIS because the brightness of the dust decreases quickly with distance from the nucleus,' the ESA report shared.
'This means that the coma fades into the noise in the image.'
3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Mars on October 3 and is set to continue through our Solar System
NASA was quick to release images of the object snapped by its Perseverance rover on Mars. The agency uploaded them over the weekend
Typically, material from the coma is swept into a long tail that can stretch for millions of miles as the comet moves closer to the sun.
'The tail is much dimmer than the coma. We can’t see the tail in the CaSSIS images, but it may become more visible in future observations as the comet continues to heat up and release more ice,' shared the ESA.
The images have flooded X, where one user posted: 'ESA Finally Releases Images of 3I/ATLAS. After days of silence, ESA finally broke the blackout.'
The ESA's report comes days after NASA released its view of the visitor.
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who has been convinced that the object could be an alien craft or probe, analyzed the Perseverance rover's photos by calculating its distance, speed, and camera settings.
According to his initial study, Loeb was not convinced 3I/ATLAS is actually a massive cylindrical object, noting that the strange shape might have been a trick of the rover's camera stretching out its shape.
He explained that the apparent cylinder from the rover's 'Navcam' was likely caused by the camera stacking hundreds of images of 3I/ATLAS over a period of about 10 minutes, making it look more like a log than a ball.
The professor added that 3I/ATLAS is likely smaller and rounder, but still massive, with a potential diameter of more than 28 miles across.
Dr Horace Drew, a retired senior researcher at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), noted that the mysterious green glow seen in some images could be a result of the object being an interstellar spacecraft coated in nickel.
Color-enhanced images shared by multiple social media users revealed a strange green glow around 3I/ATLAS
Drew explained that humans use the same practice on Earth-made space technology on a much smaller scale.
'It is not a 'comet,'' Drew declared on a post on X Monday morning.
Drew disagreed with Loeb's conclusion that the cylindrical shape was a result of the Mars rover sending back a stretched image over several minutes, claiming that an amateur astronomer on Earth captured a similar shape with their telescope.
'We can see an extended white shape, with a green coma outside. Not a small white ball,' Drew explained in a post about the astronomer's photograph.
Drew, who earned his PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, added that previous images of the interstellar object were allegedly from a 'head-on view' and didn't capture its shape from the side, like the new photos from Mars.
Loeb said he's excited about another image taken by a different Mars camera, called HiRISE, which has better resolution and could show 3I/ATLAS more clearly.
That image is being sent back to Earth by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and has yet to be released by NASA.
Brits have been left in awe after spotting what is believed to be a 'meteor' glowing through the night sky.
Lucky stargazers in Northfields and Ealing, west London, have reported seeing a blue-ish green blob race through the city's sky on Tuesday.
One onlooker described seeing the 'streak' of light dash through the clouds at around 8.10pm to 8.30pm, and initially believed it was fireworks.
'I'm used to seeing planes coming and going to Heathrow, and also helicopters coming and going; this was not that,' they wrote on Reddit.
'My next thought was fireworks but I'm 90% sure it wasn't that, and there was no explosion.
'For reference it was about the same size as the full-ish moon tonight, visible through the clouds, but as a much brighter blue-green color and, again, moving quite fast.
'It was a very odd combination of speed, size and brightness and didn't look like anything I've ever seen in the sky here before.'
Others claimed to have seen the unusual sighting from Wimbledon and Hampstead Heath, with some even catching a glimpse as far afield as Brighton and Grantham.
Lucky stargazers in Northfields and West Ealing, west London, and further afield, have reported seeing a blue-ish green blob race through the city's sky on Tuesday night
It has not yet been confirmed what the colourful 'streak' in Tuesday's sky was, however, the Daily Mail has approached the Met Office for comment.
It comes as earlier this week Jessica Lee, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich also said sky gazers could expect the Draconid meteor shower today.
But, the meteor shower, which is expected to peak Wednesday night may be difficult to see due to the moonlight, Ms Lee warned.
'The Draconids meteor shower is named after the constellation of Draco the dragon,' Ms Lee said.
'This is because, although meteors appear all over the sky, they all appear to emerge or radiate from a single point that lies within this constellation.
'The meteor shower is visible from the 6th until the 10th of October this year.
'The best time will be from around 8pm on the 8th of October.
'At this time, that radiant point within Draco will be in the north-west of the sky, slowly getting lower in the sky until sunrise.
'The moon will be almost full on this night, however, so it could make the meteors tricky to see.'
The Draconids are caused when debris from the comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner burns up in the Earth's atmosphere, Ms Lee added.
The meteor is believed to have exploded over northern Scotland, with the 'fall zone' straddling Loch Treig in Lochaber, Highland.
The aerial event was captured on some cameras and shared on social media, showing a big yellow spark soaring through the dark sky.
Members of the public have since been tasked to look for the fragments, which should appear 'black, glassy and shiny'.
Meteorites – rocks from outer space and have fallen to the surface of a planet – may have delivered essential compounds facilitating the evolution of life as we know it.
Professor Luke Daly, a planetary geoscientist and space rock hunter at the University of Glasgow, called them 'time capsules of the early solar system'.
'They hold a wealth of information about how our solar system formed and developed,' he said.
'This is a very exciting opportunity to learn more about where this rock came from and where it has been and fill in a bit more of the jigsaw of our solar system's history.'
Bob Lazar Reveals What He Saw Inside the UFO at S-4
In one of the most discussed interviews on The Joe Rogan Experience, physicist and whistleblower Bob Lazar detailed his extraordinary claim of having seen the interior of an alien spacecraft during his time working at a secret U.S. facility known as S-4, near Area 51. Lazar’s account remains one of the most detailed and controversial depictions of non-human technology ever shared publicly.
An Unworldly Interior
Lazar recalled being allowed inside the craft on only one occasion, primarily to examine how its internal components were arranged. According to him, the layout was crucial, since the craft’s systems operated without any visible wiring or connections.
The moment he stepped inside, he said the environment felt profoundly alien. Everything was one uniform color — a dark, pewter-like tone — with no sharp angles or seams. It appeared, he said, as if “someone had molded the interior from wax and then heated it just enough to let everything melt slightly together.” Every surface flowed into another, giving the sense that the structure was fused or grown, rather than built.
Designed for Smaller Beings
Inside the craft, Lazar found it too small for an average human. At 5’10”, he could not stand upright except at the very center. The seats were tiny, clearly made for beings about half his height — roughly three feet tall.
There were no familiar features such as control panels, lights, or decorations. The space was minimal and utilitarian — only a few seats, a central reactor, and several rectangular components positioned symmetrically around it. “There was nothing you could recognize as human technology,” Lazar said.
Advanced Materials and ‘Smart’ Surfaces
While exploring, Lazar noticed archways that became transparent at times. He observed another team working on one of these archways as it shifted from opaque metal to see-through material. The phenomenon reminded him of “smart glass”, a real-world technology that changes opacity, but far beyond anything publicly known.
He described the craft’s material as cold to the touch, suggesting it was metallic or perhaps a form of advanced ceramic. The smooth, continuous design reinforced his belief that the entire object was a single integrated system, not assembled from parts.
Three Levels of Technology
Lazar stated the craft contained three internal levels:
Main Deck: Contained the reactor and three seats arranged evenly around it.
Lower Level: Housed “gravity amplifiers” and “emitters” — cylindrical devices resembling trash cans attached to pipes. These, he said, were responsible for the craft’s propulsion.
Upper Level: Believed to include navigation or control systems, with dark, sensor-like panels on the outer surface used for orientation in space.
He physically entered the main deck and leaned into the lower level to observe the positioning of the gravity amplifiers firsthand.
A Fleet of Nine Different Craft
According to Lazar, the craft he entered was one of nine extraterrestrial vehicles stored and studied at S-4. Each had a different design, suggesting they came from different origins or time periods. One, he said, looked like a “Jell-O mold” with rippled sides, while another resembled a flat disc “like a straw hat.” At least one of them showed visible damage, possibly from being shot down or recovered after a crash.
The Enduring Mystery
Bob Lazar’s story has inspired decades of debate, skepticism, and fascination. Critics question his scientific background and lack of physical evidence, while supporters argue that his detailed technical descriptions of gravity manipulation and element 115 propulsion predate modern discussions of exotic energy physics.
Whether seen as revelation or fabrication, Lazar’s account remains one of the most vivid and technically specific portrayals of an alleged alien craft interior — a description that continues to shape popular culture’s image of reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology.
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