De 10 beste dronevideo's van 2014 - HLN.be

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Video Dat de drone in is, mag duidelijk zijn. Nu de kleine vliegtuigjes steeds goedkoper en beter worden, wagen ook steeds meer fotografen en hobbyisten zich aan luchtvideografie. Stadsbeelden, landschappen, concerten, rampen en zelfs dronies duiken op het internet op. Anno 2014 zijn eindejaarslijstjes dan ook niet meer compleet zonder een selectie van deze beelden. Nieuwssite Quartz lijstte de beste dronevideo's van het jaar op. Dit is onze selectie.

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• Beckenbauer: "Drones vervangen ooit arbiter"
• Electrabel speurt naar drones boven kerncentrales

10-12-2014 om 17:24 geschreven door peter  

Electrabel speurt naar drones boven kerncentrales - HLN.be

Bron: Belga 

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De stroomproducent Electrabel houdt het luchtruim boven de kerncentrales Doel en Tihange nauwlettend in het oog om overvliegende drones (onbemande vliegtuigjes) op te sporen. De nucleaire waakhond FANC en het overkoepelende terreurorgaan OCAD hebben Electrabel per brief gevraagd extra waakzaam te zijn. Dat deden ze na aanhoudende incidenten met drones bij Franse kerncentrales, schrijven De Tijd en L'Echo.

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10-12-2014 om 17:01 geschreven door peter  

Menselijke figuur gefotografeerd op MARS ( Video )

Dat er in een verleden leven op Mars is geweest daarvan zijn in ieder geval wij zo langzamerhand wel overtuigd.

Ook duiken er steeds meer aanwijzingen op dat er ook nu, op dit moment, wel degelijk mensen op Mars aanwezig zijn.

De planeet Mars blijft ons fascineren, niet in de laatste plaats omdat er steeds meer vreemde dingen over tevoorschijn komen.

Zo zagen we eerder dit jaar de vreemde lichten op Mars. Onverklaarbaar en al zeker niet uitgelegd door de NASA die verklaart dat het reflecties van zonnestralen zijn.

Toen in september was er het verhaal van de ex NASA medewerker die tijdens één van haar diensten twee mannen zag lopen op het Marsoppervlak.

Tijdens diezelfde radio-uitzending belt er een vrouw, Jackie genaamd. Zij woont iets ten noorden van Las Vegas en vraagt of John Lear haar kan helpen met de oplossing van een raadsel waar ze al 27 jaar mee rondloopt. 

In die tijd werkte zij voor NASA en was verantwoordelijk voor de binnenkomende telemetrie gegevens. Zij vertelt dat terwijl ze op een nacht samen met haar collega’s naar de schermen kijkt waar de beelden van Mars binnenkomen, ze ineens twee mannen in een soort pak (niet echt een ruimtepak) ziet lopen op het Mars oppervlak. 

De twee mannen verschenen aan de horizon en liepen naar de Viking. De beeldverbinding werd plotseling verbroken.

Toen in oktober kregen we de merkwaardige foto's met daarop duidelijk twee menselijke figuren.

En nu is er weer iets merkwaardigs.

In 2007 was de Spirit Rover van NASA nog actief op Mars. Echter, er was een probleem ontstaan met het vele stof dat op deze planeet aanwezig is. De zonnepanelen waren bedekt met een dikke laag ervan en dit vormde een grote bedreiging voor de gevoelige elektronica van de Spirit Rover.

Wat gebeurt er? Enkele dagen later zijn de zonnepanelen volkomen schoon alsof iemand met een spons en een emmertje water aan het werk is geweest.

Dit is volgens NASA niet het geval want, zo zeggen zij, de wind heeft alle stof weggeblazen.

Wanneer je echter de volgende opname bekijkt die recentelijk is gemaakt door de Curiosity Rover dan is het misschien wel degelijk mogelijk dat er iemand met een emmertje water en een spons aan het werk is geweest.

Want, de linkerkant van de navigatiecamera legt de schaduw vast van iets dat niet anders kan worden omschreven dan als een menselijk figuur.

Je ziet duidelijk het haar en iets op de rug wat lijkt op een rugzak en onderaan benen. Dit is dan ook weer in overeenstemming met het verhaal van Jackie die zegt dat de mannen die zij zag lopen niet echt ruimtepakken droegen.

Zou hiermee dan ook gelijk de verklaring zijn gevonden voor de plots weer brandschone zonnepanelen van de Spirit Rover in 2007?

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10-12-2014 om 16:44 geschreven door peter  

Three UFOs Captured In Photo By Retired Airline Captain

Three apparent UFOs in the sky above the Lincolnshire city of Lincoln in England seemingly photographed by a man.

A retired airline captain, Paul Howard, allegedly took the photo of the beautiful sunset that time. While taking a picture, he did not notice the three strange objects that he captured until he reviewed it afterward.

In a report by Lincolnshire Echo, the witness did not notice anything unusual when he snapped a photo, but he was quite surprised to know he captured three saucer-like shape UFOs. He saw these three very interesting objects in the sky when he looked at the picture on his computer.

As an airline captain for over 30 years, Howard says he never encountered anything like them. He notes that the three UFOs are the first time in the sky that he could not explain, so he was quite chuffed to see them on his camera.

The three objects that he captured in his photo resemble UFOs that appear in many UFO photos. Skeptics would say that they are just reflections from ceiling lights behind him. Howard reveals that he had been inside when he took the picture. He also did not rule out the possibility that he might have unintentionally caught the reflection of the kitchen lights in the window.

While many UFOs in pictures and videos can be eventually identified, many still remain mysterious and can’t be explained by careful investigations. It is important to bring this kind of photo to attention to help people become more educated observers. Through familiarizing ordinary things, fewer everyday objects will be reported as extraterrestrials, and more attention will be given to those truly mysterious flying objects in the sky.

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10-12-2014 om 16:36 geschreven door peter  

Did Italian astronaut shout at sight of UFO?  (Video)

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Italy’s first woman in space can be heard calling out in shock at something she saw during the docking operation of the Soyuz spacecraft she was aboard and the International Space Station (ISS). Video of the docking operation shows a small white dot floating across the screen a few minutes prior to her exclaiming her shock, leading  some to speculate that she was shocked at the sight of a UFO. Italian news agencies have been reporting on the incident, asking, “Did she see a UFO?”

Samantha Cristoforetti (Credit: Twitter/astrosamantha)

European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is a Captain in the Italian Air Force where she was a pilot and engineer before she was chosen to be an astronaut and Italy’s first woman in space. She is currently taking part in a long duration mission aboard the ISS.

Cristoforetti’s Soyuz capsule launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the early morning of November 24, 2014. The capsule carried three astronauts, including Russian Anton Shkaplerov and NASA’s Terry Virts.

The docking operation can be seen in a video on YouTube posted by the European Space Agency (seen above). In it, you can see black and white video from the point of view of the capsule as it approaches the ISS. A little more than a minute into the YouTube video, a faint small dot can be seen crossing the screen. It makes no strange movement.

A few minutes later, at about the four and a half minute mark, Cristoforetti can be heard sounding shocked and amazed. Her Russian colleague, Shkaplerov, can also be heard saying, “tiho, tiho, tiho,” which in Russian means, “calm, calm, calm.”

Video of the alleged UFO. (Credit: ESA)

Italian news has reported that she has described what she has seen as being “almost alien,” adding to theories that what she saw was a UFO. They point out that this comments comes from her daily log in which she talked about the incident. However, reading the entire entry from her daily log on Google+ gives more detail as to what she saw and why she reacted the way she did.

Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti training for her first mission to space. (Credit: EAS)

It reads:

I had released my shoulder straps quite a bit at that point, so I was floating over my seat. As I turned to look outside, at first I looked back and saw one of our Soyuz solar panels, which I had seen before of course. Then my eyes caught something in the peripheral view. And as I slowly turned my gaze and when I realized what I was seeing, I was overcome by pure amazement and joy:  the Space Station was there, but not just any view. The huge solar panels were flooded in a blaze of orange light, vivid, warm almost alien. I couldn’t help exclaiming something aloud, which you can probably hear in the recordings of our docking, since at that point we were “hot mic”  with Mission Control. Anton reminded me of that and so I tried to contain my amazement and return to the docking monitoring. When I peaked again later, the orange glow was gone.

Butch told me later that he had heard my amazement on com when  “the Station had turned orange.”  I didn’t know, but apparently there’s only a few seconds during day-night transition that the Station is lit by that amazing orange glow. And it happened to be exactly when I peaked outside!  I feel very fortunate that I had such a unique first glimpse of our human outpost in space: such a great welcome!

While it turns out that her sighting and shocked reaction had nothing to do with extraterrestrial technology, it was still an amazing extraterrestrial experience.

Image from the ISS of the orange glow described by Cristoforetti. (Credit: ESA/Today.it)

In an OpenMinds.tv interview with astronaut Michael Massimino, he explained the experience of being overwhelmed by the sights in space: “You are prepared to do your job, but you are not prepared for the view around you. You know, what you see around you is just so magnificent it just kind of blows your mind, and the view of the earth is just incredible.”

That sense of awe and wonder was certainly heard in the shout by Cristoforetti.

She makes no mention of the white dot that is seen earlier in the video, and it is likely that it is debris that is floating around the space station. This debris is often mistaken for UFOs by earth bound YouTube viewers.

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Source: http://www.openminds.tv/italian-astronaut-shout-sight-ufo-video/31277

10-12-2014 om 16:29 geschreven door peter  

Group of 50+ UFOs Captured Over Pasadena, TX (Video)

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Witness stated: “I recorded them my self with my own phone on November 9, 2014 at around 12, the sun was out and I was at a red light staring at the sky and they appeared out of no where.”

“At first they were not moving and just standing there then I parked in a parking lot and they were making weird shapes and shining and they started moving and making triangles and shapes.”

“I didn’t get to record the whole thing but I got something, when they disappeared there was 3 jets in the sky going the same direction as the ufo’s.”

  

 

10-12-2014 om 16:15 geschreven door peter  

The Man Who Left The MOD

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Documentary (2006) 101 minutes ~ Color Reality Films presents this unprecedented documentary film release. NICK POPE The Man Who Left the MOD, The UFO Phenomena Unveiled. Nick Pope worked for the British Ministry of Defence for twenty one years. He became known as the Fox Mulder of Great Britain due to his 'special position' as the chief UFO
investigator. He has written four highly successful books on UFO's and has appeared on television and radio all over the world. In fact, Nick Pope is probably one of the best known UFO investigators on the planet. And yet, he is the only official UFO investigator employed by the British government to ever go on record. In this documentary Nick Pope for the first time since leaving the MOD goes on the record and spells out his beliefs, opinions and reveals

10-12-2014 om 13:55 geschreven door peter  

Daytime Orb filmed over San Antono, Texas 6-Dec-2014

New footage of a bright unidentified flying object slowly flying across the sky above San Antonio, TX. This was seen and recorded on Saturday, 6th December 2014.

Witness report: Variable was captured traveling over San Antonio,Texas… While Skywatching facing north,I notice this Flash…As i began to zoom in i notice this rotating object..It seemed to be traveling at a high rate of speed…Used the roof/tree top as reference point(giving the altitude/speed it was traveling).I tried my best to keep it in frame as it traveled overhead..Managed to captured as it appears to morph it shape as it travels overhead..On the Video Captures you can clearly see other orbs..In my Opinion it was clearly no aircraft,weather balloon,satellite,space debris…

Author (SAUFOTX @ Youtube)

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10-12-2014 om 12:49 geschreven door peter  

L"univers est-il unique? ou non? Et notre cerveau?

Deuxième partie. Limites de la compréhension du cosmos tenant aux insuffisances du cerveau humain

La cosmologie, aujourd'hui, considère en général que seuls de nouveaux instruments plus performants lui permettront de mieux comprendre ce qui lui demeure encore inexplicable dans l'univers. Il s'agit notamment des questions que cherche à élucider la gravitation quantique, rappelées dans cet article. Par exemple, existe-t-il un temps universel dans lequel s'inscriraient les évènements, comme le suggère les physiciens relativistes ?. Faut-il au contraire considérer que le temps, comme d'ailleurs l'espace, tels que nous les définissons dans le cadre de la physique macroscopique, sont des concepts émergents n'ayant pas de sens en terme de physique quantique? . Mais alors, comme ces deux approches sont également validées par des expériences instrumentales indiscutables, comment notre cerveau peut-il se représenter l'univers s'il essaye d'y faire simultanément appel ?

La réponse aujourd'hui la plus souvent donnée est qu'il ne le peut pas. Si bien que la plupart des scientifiques démissionnent devant la difficulté, parlant de Singularités pour la compréhension desquelles aucune théorie ne peut, pour le moment, être utilisée.

Face à de tels aveux d'incompétence, puisqu'il faut bien les appeler par leur nom, la cosmologie attend de nouvelles ouvertures, à la fois au niveau des modèles utilisés par le cerveau pour se représenter l'univers, et au niveau des expériences instrumentales susceptibles de crédibiliser ces modèles. Mais ces ouvertures tardent à venir, malgré la grande créativité des physiciens théoriciens et instrumentaux qui s'y attachent.

Or nous avions dans des articles précédents fait remarquer que ces physiciens ne semblent pas encore, tout au moins dans leur grande majorité, tenter de mieux comprendre les limites de la capacité du cerveau humain à traiter de tels problèmes, cerveau s'exprimant au niveau de l'individu comme au plan global des communautés de chercheurs. Autant ils cherchent à perfectionner, grâce à l'expérimentation, les capacités de traitement des données sensorielles par le cerveau, autant ils ne semblent pas s'intéresser aux capacités de ce que l'on appellera pour simplifier le cerveau associatif, qu'il soit individuel ou collectif.

Il s'agit pourtant du premier instrument à prendre en considération, lorsqu'il s'agit, non pas seulement d'imaginer des hypothèses, mais de tenir compte d'une façon cohérente et communicable sur le mode langagier de toutes les données fournis par les sens et utilisées dans la mise à l'épreuve de ces hypothèses. Autrement dit, le perfectionnement des capacités du cerveau, qui est l'instrument essentiel dont se servent les scientifiques, ne semble pas préoccuper les cosmologistes.

Cela tient indiscutablement à des raisons culturelles, spécialisation des connaissances et manque d'interdisciplinarité. Le Pr MacFadden, auquel nous avons donné la parole dans un précédent article, déplore que les biologistes et les neurologues n'aient pas suffisamment de compétences relatives à la physique quantique pour détecter des phénomènes biologiques ou cérébraux dans lesquels interviennent des q.bits.

Il en est de même, et sur le mode inverse, des physiciens quantiques et des cosmologistes. Ils n'ont certainement pas assez de compétences fines sur le fonctionnement en profondeur des neurones, du cortex associatif et des grands modèles cognitifs collectifs à base de traitements neuronaux, pour mesurer les limites de ces « instruments biologiques de la cosmologie » et suggérer des améliorations.

Une hypothèse pessimiste serait qu'ils ne le pourront jamais, tant du moins que le cerveau restera lié à des bases biologiques qui sont à la fois mal connues, sinon inconnaissables, et non susceptibles d'amélioration car trop liées à l'organisation génétique et aux structures sociales propres à l'animal humain.

Prenons l'exemple d'un rat. Ce mammifère dispose d'un cerveau perfectionné, dont nous ne connaissons d'ailleurs pas toutes les arcanes. Néanmoins il y a des tâches qu'il ne pourra sans doute jamais accomplir (but never say never), tenant aux limites de son cerveau dans le domaine de la construction de grands modèles cognitifs.

Il se représente son monde. Ces représentations lui servent à y naviguer à l'aise. Eventuellement, il peut faire oeuvre d'imagination, son cerveau élaborant des hypothèses sur ce monde dont il vérifiera la pertinence par l'expérience:" il y a ici un orifice qui pourrait servir d'abri, ou une éventuelle source de nourriture". Il s'instruira de plus en plus par de telles opérations.

Mais imaginons que nous placions ce rat au bord de la mer. On peut penser que son cerveau, formé pour l'aider à survivre dans un milieu terrestre ou dans des espaces liquides de faible étendue, n'imaginera jamais qu'au delà de l'horizon marin puisse se trouver des terres fertiles au sein desquelles il pourrait s'abriter et se nourrir. Il imaginerait encore moins que la Terre soit une sphère où se trouvent simultanément des côtes et des océans.

Si dans le cadre d'un processus exploratoire peu conscient fonctionnant sur le mode essais et erreurs, il se jetait à l'eau pour élargir son horizon, il en reviendrait vite afin de ne pas se noyer. De plus, si avec des dispositifs optiques adaptés à sa vision, nous lui présentions des images de rivages lointains comportant d'appétissants morceaux de fromage, il ne serait probablement jamais capable (but never say never) de rattacher ces images aux modèles du monde que son cerveau à construit dans le cours de sa vie. Il ne chercherait donc pas à fabriquer un radeau pour tenter de s'y rendre.

De même, si un rat apprenait éventuellement à jouer d'un instrument de musique, il ne pourrait sans doute pas, son cerveau n'étant pas fait pour cela, inventer des mélodies.

Il est même à craindre qu'aussi adaptatif et perfectionné à son échelle que soit son cerveau, si nous réussissions à lui greffer des copies de réseaux de neurones extraites d'un cerveau de cosmologiste et comportant des modélisations du cosmos élaborés par celui-ci, son cerveau de rat ne pourrait rien en faire. Il ne les verrait même pas. Ceci a été souvent été dit à propos d'éventuelles communications avec des intelligences extraterrestres infiniment plus complexes que les nôtres. Nous ne les remarquerions même pas.

Mutatis mutandis, nous pourrions en conclure que notre cerveau ne sera jamais capable de seulement imaginer des modèles de l'univers suffisamment riches pour apporter des réponses aux mystères que sont pour nous les Singularités. En conséquence nous pourrions jamais les mettre à l'épreuve, avec nos instruments actuels ou d'autres à inventer. Comme le rat au bord de la mer qui n'imagine pas de lointains rivages, nous sommes peut-être immergé dans un univers où les Singularités trouveraient des explications toutes simples. Mais notre cerveau ne peut se représenter un tel univers.

Pourrait-on espérer améliorer les performances de ce cerveau, soit par des modifications génétiques soit par l'appel à l'intelligence artificielle? En principe oui. En pratique non, car il faudrait auparavant savoir dans quelles directions chercher et le type d'améliorations nécessaires. Même en faisant appel à des améliorations inventées au hasard, afin de ne pas rester enfermé dans les postulats de départ, il faudrait sans doute des centaines d'années de tirage au hasard avant de trouver enfin une ouverture susceptible d'enrichir radicalement notre instrument cérébral et ses bases cognitives.

De plus, tel le rat à qui nous montrerions des images de lointains rivages et qui n'en tirerait aucune conclusion, même si une telle ouverture se produisait un jour dans nos cerveaux, serions nous capables de l'identifier et d'en tirer parti? Ne rejetterions nous pas comme parasite, voire monstrueux et relevant de l'asile, tout enrichissement dans les associations neuronales et les modélisations du monde s'écartant d'une façon un tant soit peu révolutionnaire de nos façons de penser le monde, fussent-elles mathématiques?

Faut-il en conclure que nous ne pourrons jamais nous représenter ce qu'il y a derrière les incohérences apparentes de l'univers tel que nous l'imaginons aujourd'hui, superpositions d'états, infinitudes et finitudes, indéterminations et déterminismes...Il y a bien quelque chose, tout ne peut être simplement création de nos cerveaux. Quelque chose qui nous affecte comme cette chose affecte tous les êtres vivants, y compris les rats. Mais très probablement nous ne pourrons jamais nous représenter ce quelque chose. Jamais.

Cependant il ne faut jamais dire jamais.

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10-12-2014 om 12:41 geschreven door peter  

10-12-2014 om 12:20 geschreven door peter  

'Faster Than Sound' UFO Caught Above Portsmouth

The latest UFO sighting comes courtesy of Lewis Rogers, who managed to snap the object while visiting a friend in Portsmouth.

Speaking to the Daily Star, Rogers confirmed that while he believes in UFOs he had never -- until now -- been able to get the chance of capturing one on camera.

“I was the only one who saw it who was quick enough to take the picture. I definitely believe in UFOs. I often look up at the sky in the evening wondering if there is anything or anyone else out there.”

The 26-year old is (rather conveniently?) an animation director which would have been suspicious had the sighting not been reported by an independent witness: Johnny Blackwell, a student from Southsea.

In case you're thinking it might be something meteorological the Daily Star reached out to Laura Young from the Met Office who confirmed that, “After looking at the images, I can say the object is nothing to do with the weather. It is not meteorological and is not a cloud.”

So there you have it. It's not a cloud, and it's almost certainly not a plane, so what is it?

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10-12-2014 om 12:06 geschreven door peter  

Documentary Of UFO Events At Nuclear Weapon Sites Needs Help

UFO events at nuclear weapons sites are not new to Robert Hastings. Author of “UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites,” (Amazon link) Hastings, says he has collected more than 150 interviews with military veterans from both the USSR and US who have knowledge of UFO events at nuclear weapon sites. Hastings has brought several of these witnesses to the National Press Club in Washington D.C. They shared their knowledge with the media. Their stories and the entire press conference were streamed live by CNN. Now, Hastings is making a documentary of his research, and asking the public to help him to complete it.

The full press conference can be watched below.

Hastings says that he already spent a total of $100,000 for the documentary, and he needs $25,000 more to finish it.

Hastings claims his research is different from the rest because he is the only researcher who focuses on this type of UFO activity. He further says that his data on nukes-related UFO incidents is far more than any other investigators. This data is promised to be featured throughout the film.

Hastings says that his documentary examines the ongoing UFO incursions at nuclear weapon sites, which started from the late 1940s. He reveals that the film is based on stolen Soviet and declassified American documents, backed by testimonies of military veterans from both the USSR and US. He has interviewed over 150 of them throughout the past 41 years, and twelve appear in the film.

Hastings stresses that the testimonies come from highly credible witnesses, who were trusted by the American government to launch World War III by launching their nuclear ICBMs if it had happened. Now many of those veterans decided to reveal that UFOs have been long monitored, and they even shut down those missiles.

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09-12-2014 om 23:07 geschreven door peter  

1976: UFO over Tehran

On September 19, 1976, strange aerial phenomenon happened over Iran. Watch the report from The Third Milenium in the video below!

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09-12-2014 om 21:53 geschreven door peter  

UFO and ALIEN DEBUNKERS

  by Paul Schroeder

09-12-2014 om 20:04 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 12/9/14

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• The horror of re-discovering a UFO crash from the 1960s – Gizmodo
• Saved by the cat – Sarasota Herald-Tribune
• UFOs spotted over Bay of Plenty – New Zealand Herald
• Is there intelligent life in the universe? 5 questions with astrobiologist Caleb Scharf – Phys.Org
• Did a massive asteroid impact spark life on Earth? – Los Angeles Times

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Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-12914-2/31255

09-12-2014 om 16:58 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 12/9/14

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• The horror of re-discovering a UFO crash from the 1960s – Gizmodo
• Saved by the cat – Sarasota Herald-Tribune
• UFOs spotted over Bay of Plenty – New Zealand Herald
• Is there intelligent life in the universe? 5 questions with astrobiologist Caleb Scharf – Phys.Org
• Did a massive asteroid impact spark life on Earth? – Los Angeles Times

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Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-12914-2/31255

09-12-2014 om 16:58 geschreven door peter  

Husband And Wife’s Amazing Ufo Encounter In Vermont

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DECEMBER 4, 2014    ……  FAIRFAX VERMONT
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On the evening December 4th, 2014 at approximately 9 p.m., I was exercising in our basement and noticed a very bright light which I could see through our basement window. I ran up our first flight of stairs, opened the front door and stood on the porch. Before noticing any detail I felt an intense sense of dread. I looked up toward the sky at a 45 degree angle, directly away from our house, toward Vermont’s highest mountain peak. In the near distance, perhaps a half mile from where I was standing, I saw an extremely bright object, pulsating red and blue lights, bouncing around slightly. I stood for perhaps 30 seconds or a minute watching this object, feeling transfixed but also very fearful. I recalled in that moment some of the stories of abductees who were paralyzed prior to their close encounters, and screamed at myself mentally to turn around and go back inside. I walked quickly inside, locked the door and ran up the next flight of stairs to our living room, where my wife was sitting and watching television. I turned off all the lights and then the TV and told her, “you need to see this.” I brought her to our picture window, oriented precisely eastward in the direction of the object, and asked, “WHAT IS THAT?” She leaned toward the window, squinted her eyes and her mouth dropped open. At the same moment I noticed another similar bright object to the north, but this object became a secondary consideration to us because it was partially obscured by tree branches near our window and appeared to be farther away and at a higher altitude. I asked her to stand there and continue to watch the object for unusual flight patterns if it began to change position. As she did this, I ran to my office to retrieve my Celestron Model #21035 travel telescope. When I returned, I noticed a light on the ground directly below the UFO, in a location that I know to be a patch of cow pasture void of any structures. I quickly found the UFO in my telescope lens. What I saw shocked me down to my core. The object was disc-shaped, bright, colorful, pulsating and bouncing. The pulsating red and blue lights appeared to come from within the craft, passing out through its walls. I then found the light on the ground below the craft and saw that it was cylindrical, orangish-yellow and was illuminating a white angular object which sat closer to my house on the grass. After two or three minutes, I decided that I would not see enough detail in the light and turned the telescope back toward the UFO. When my wife again examined the craft, she asked, “what is that other thing…in the air, closer to us, in the bottom right corner of the view?” I looked and saw the corner of another, mostly black and camouflaged object, perhaps two or three hundred yards closer to us.
 
I watched this object for ten minutes or longer and noticed that it was slowly rocking around and up and down. On several occasions, I could clearly see that the bright, pulsating disc was casting enough light on the angular craft to illuminate two corners of what appeared to be a triangular black craft. My wife paced around the house, communicating irritation with me for looking at these objects with such interest at first, but eventually, after at least a full hour, parked herself on a chair near me saying, “I feel weird…I’m scared…I don’t like this.” At some point, I noticed that the light on the ground had vanished. Then, I noticed that the pulsating disc was calmer – more stationary and less bright. The red light, especially, was mostly or entirely gone and the craft appeared to settle into a lower-energy state. The triangular craft remained in the same position for another thirty minutes. Immediately prior to going to bed, I saw that the disc and triangle had both changed positions. The disc was now higher, perhaps directly above the triangle, which was now oriented with a single corner pointing downward. Suddenly, I saw the full form of the triangle, which was hovering with its underside pointing directly at my window. I saw one faint, circular orange light at each of three corners. The next day, I bumped into a resident who lives on the road directly opposite my house from the previous evening’s activity. This individual informed me that she had see an object that matched my description of the bright object at 9 p.m. on December 3rd and 4th. I knew this meant that the object might return soon, and watched from my window throughout the night of December 5th. Two bright, pulsating objects appeared shortly before midnight, at least one half mile farther from my house than they had been the previous night. I watched for over an hour as they appeared to follow a grid pattern slightly above the tree tops near a river. A quick scan of the internet reveals that Vermont is currently a hotspot for these phenomena. Many people have reported similar objects in my area; MANY more have likely seen them and remained silent.  I would be willing to speak with you by phone, but I must be careful not to allow my name to be associated with my report as it is presented to the public. Thank you for all of your amazing work MUFON. 

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Case is under investigation by Chief Investigator Ken Pfeifer of MUFON Vermont.
 
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Source: http://worldufophotosandnews.org/?p=8613

09-12-2014 om 16:52 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 12/8/14

(Before It's News)

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• Space Station Astronaut ‘Squirms’ At UFO Questions – Huffington Post UK
• ‘Strange Red’ Sphere Appears Over Earth on International Space Station Camera – The Epoch Times
• Meet the Pope’s Astronomer, Who Says He’d Baptize an Alien if Given the Chance – Charisma News
• Alien Life Found? ‘Infant Earths’ Could Hold Clues To Extraterrestrial Life In Universe – International Business Times
• Intelligent life may have turned to AI by the time we make first contact, expert claims – Daily Mail

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09-12-2014 om 16:48 geschreven door peter  

08.12.14 Un groupe de recherche créé pour encadrer l’intelligence artificielle des robots

Une équipe de recherche basée au Royaume-Uni a lancé un projet collaboratif sur les robots autonomes, afin que dans le futur, leur fabrication réponde à un ensemble de critères éthiques, de lois et de normes de qualité.

De plus en plus de robots font preuve d’intelligence artificielle et savent se comporter sans avoir à faire appel à l’homme. Ces derniers sont développés pour les besoins de l’industrie aéronautique ou nucléaire, l’agriculture avec des drones qui analysent les récoltes ou encore, les voitures autonomes pour le grand public ou les aspirateurs robots pour la maison.

Un groupe de chercheurs des universités de Sheffield, Liverpool et Bristol ont lancé un nouveau projet pour répondre aux préoccupations autour de la robotique et à celles qui pourraient naître dans un futur proche avec le progrès des nouvelles technologies. Financé par l’Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council à hauteur d’1,4 millions de livres jusqu’en 2018, le projet vise à établir un cadre législatif et des normes industrielles pour le développement de la robotique.

Comme Google qui a déjà constitué un Comité d’Ethique pour la robotique en son sein, ces experts issus de plusieurs domaines (robotique, philosophie, biologie, etc.) vont chercher à développer les capacités des systèmes autonomes du futur à prendre des décisions fondées sur l’éthique, le droit et la sécurité. Ils vont participer également à l’élaboration de protocoles d’audits techniques de ces mêmes plateformes robotiques, afin qu’elles respectent les normes qui seront fixées.

Chaque université impliquée dans le projet a sa spécialité : Liverpool mettra l’accent sur les outils mathématique permettant d’auditer les plateformes robotiques, l’Université de Sheffield sera chargée d’encadrer l’intelligence artificielle des machines et leur apprentissage. L’Université de Bristol, quant à elle, s’occupera de la partie éthique et de la définition même de ce que sera un robot éthique.

Alan Winfield de l’Université de Bristol, un des professeurs chargés du projet et qui travaille sur les robots éthiques, explique :

• Si nous devions faire confiance aux robots, en particulier lors de nos interactions avec eux, ces derniers devront être plus que fiables. Nous avons déjà prouvé au laboratoire qu’un robot peu complexe peut être éthique, et suivre de manière étonnamment proche les fameuses lois d’Asimov. Nous devons maintenant prouver qu’un tel robot sera capable d’agir éthiquement de manière immuable, tout en cherchant à comprendre l’utilité de tels robots dans le monde réel.

En savoir plus sur www.sheffield.ac.uk

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09-12-2014 om 16:17 geschreven door peter  

Another UFO Sighting Video Taken Near A Volcano In Mexico

Another video shows a strange object traveling near central Mexico’s Popocatepetl, a volcano that recently erupted in 2013. In recent years, there have been several UFO sighting reports near the volcano. There are witnesses who recorded mysterious UFO on video and some of these have apparently shown UFOs coming in the volcano.

The most recent UFO video involving Popocatepetl volcano was uploaded on November 23 to YouTube. Epoch Times describes that the video shows a white and blurry UFO. The camera follows the mysterious object as it travels across the horizon.

The physical details of the object are very difficult to make out because of its blurriness. But it’s clear in the video that the behavior and flight path of the strange thing are smooth and straight as it seems to descend gradually. The distance of the object from the volcano and neighboring mountain range is still unknown.

It is also important to note that Popocatepetl volcano is surrounded with various airports, including the Hermanos Serdan International Airport. Skeptics believe that the mysterious flying object could be a conventional airplane about to land.

Due to hundreds of UFO sightings reported in the area, which are supported by videos and photos, Popocatepetl has become a UFO hotspot. It is widely reported that actress Shirley Maclaine even brought Australian Ambassador to the United States, Andrew Peacock, to the volcano for a UFO watching. MacLaine later revealed that they did witness various UFOs near the volcano.

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09-12-2014 om 14:44 geschreven door peter