Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
Astronomen hebben een uniek systeem ontdekt van twee sterren waarbij de ene de andere "opslokt". De ontdekking is veelbelovend voor een beter begrip van het uitdoven van sterren. "Het is de eerste keer dat we een witte, supercompacte dwergster zien die gas steelt van een andere ster door ze op te slokken", zegt de Universiteit van Cambridge, die de studie leidt.
Het binaire systeem, genaamd Gaia14aae, ligt op ongeveer 730 lichtjaren in het sterrenbeeld Draak. De satelliet Gaia van het Europees Ruimtevaartagentschap stelde in augustus 2014 vast dat de twee sterren vijf keer helderder worden in 24 uur tijd.
Volgens de astronomen is de plotse helderheid te wijten aan het feit dat de witte dwerg - die zo compact is dat een koffielepel van zijn materie het gewicht heeft van een olifant - zijn tegenhanger opslokt, hoewel die groter is dan haar. Het effect van de zwaartekracht van de witte, zeer compacte dwerg is zo sterk dat het zijn tegenhanger dwingt om dichterbij te komen.
De astronomen weten niet of de witte dwerg zijn partner volledig zal verslinden. Een andere mogelijkheid is dat ze een supernova zal veroorzaken, een gigantische explosie de dood van een ster markeert.
Witness observed a huge dark object hovering high in the clouds over Morrisville in Pennsylvania on July 16, 2015.
I was in my car at work waiting for my relief to arrive so that I could leave. My shift is over at midnight. The sky was completely covered in clouds but I noticed a small spiral of clouds to left.
Nothing major, it was more of a swirl than spiral. I thought, maybe HAARP? I took my camera out, put it on the night setting, got out of my car and took pictures.
I checked the preview to make sure the camera captured it because it was so dark and there’s barely any lights in the area. I started looking around the sky and was shocked to see a huge dark shape in the clouds, high above my car.
The spiral was to the left of my car and the shape was pointing in that direction and directly above me.
It was not moving at all. There was absolutely no sound or lights. I don’t know how low the clouds were but the object seemed huge.
I don’t know anything about cloud altitude so it’s hard to make an accurate guess of how high or big it was. I want to say the width appeared to be as wide as maybe 5 passenger jets side by side.
I observed it for about 6 minutes until it seemed to slowly disappear and clouds filled in the area. Something was there, that I know. I did nothing else to the images. Mufon case 68218.
Excavations being conducted at the ancient city of Göbeklitepe in Turkey have uncovered an ancient pictograph on an obelisk which researchers say could be the earliest known pictograph ever discovered.
A pictograph is an image that conveys meaning through its resemblance to a physical object. Such images are most commonly found in pictographic writing, such as hieroglyphics or other characters used by ancient Sumerian and Chinese civilizations. Some non-literate cultures in parts of Africa, South America and Oceania still use them.
“The scene on the obelisk unearthed in Göbeklitepe could be construed as the first pictograph because it depicts an event thematically” explained Director of the Şanlıurfa Museum, Müslüm Ercan, to the Hurriyet Daily News. Ercan is leading the excavation at Göbeklitepe. “It depicts a human head in the wing of a vulture and a headless human body under the stela. There are various figures like cranes and scorpions around this figure. This is the portrayal of a moment; it could be the first example of pictograph. They are not random figures. We see this type of thing portrayal on the walls in 6,000-5,000 B.C. in Çatalhöyük [in modern-day western Turkey].”
The ‘Vulture-Stone’. Credit: Alistair Coombs
The artifacts discovered in the ancient city have provided information about ancient burial traditions in the area in which bodies were left in the open for raptors such as vultures to consume. According to Mr Ercan, this enabled the soul of the deceased to be carried into the sky. It was called “burial in the sky” and was depicted on the obelisks in Göbeklitepe. Such rituals were conducted in and around the city around 12,000 years ago. Many of the items discovered on the site have not been seen before anywhere else in the world and thus are the first of their kind to be discovered.
Göbeklitepe is situated on the top of a hill about 15 kilometres away from Sanliurfa in South-eastern Turkey. The city can be dated back to 10,000 BC and consists of a series of circular and oval shaped structures that were first excavated by Professor Klaus Schmidt supported by the German Archaeological Institute. Schmidt travelled to the site having heard about it from accounts of other previous visitsby anthropologists from the University of Chicago and Istanbul University in the 1960’s. Both institutions ignored the site, believing it to be nothing more than a medieval graveyard.
Artifacts found on the site indicate that the city was intended for ritual use only and not as a domain for human occupation. Each of the 20 structures consists of a ring of walls surrounding two T-shaped monumental pillars between 3 metres (9 feet) and 6 metres high (19 feet) and weighing between 40 and 60 tons.
Enormous T-shaped pillars at Göbeklitepe. Credit: Alistair Coombs
Archaeologists believe these pillars are stylised representations of human beings because of the human appendages carved into the stone. These images are accompanied by those of animals including foxes, snakes, wild boars, cranes and ducks.
The archaeologists believe Göbeklitepe was used as a religious centre. Geo-radar work has revealed evidence of 23 temple structures in the area. Two of the obelisks in the city were constructed in the form of a letter T and are positioned opposite each other within a circle of smaller, round obelisks.
Ercan said that the museum at Şanlıurfa contains a small sculpture of a pig that was discovered in front of the central stelas in the ‘C’ temple at Göbeklitepe. Such statues may have depicted sacred beings.
Work on the basic infrastructure of a roof to cover the site and help preserve its structures and artefacts has just been completed, ready for the construction of the roof itself. This is an EU project and the archaeologists aim to complete it in eight months’ time.
TWO HIKERS SPOT A UFO ALIEN CRAFT IN SCOTLAND AUGUST 1990 ……….. SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS SCOTLAND
Alien Cover Up is ready to showcase the very moment that many officials have refused to talk about. The Channel 5 show tells how according to the UK UFO files, in August 1990 two hikers were walking in the Scottish Highlands, close to Calvine, north of Pitlochry when suddenly they saw something incredible. A diamond shaped aircraft was hovering over the landscape before speeding off into the distance. The two hikers took pictures of the craft and immediately contacted journalists from the Scottish Daily Record Newspaper.
After viewing their photos, the journalists chose to share both pictures and negatives with the Ministry of Defence. The UK UFO Desk files say that the images were then analysed by the best team in the business. At the time Nick Pope was a junior member of the UFO team. He explains the response of the MOD’s top UFO expert in Conspiracy: Alien Cover Up. See a photo of the reconstruction above.
“The Defence Intelligence staff sent these images to JARIC that’s the Joint Air Reconnaissance and Intelligence Centre. Now this is the UK’s military centre of expertise when it comes to imagery analysis. These Intelligence personnel come to the conclusion that these photographs are real – it’s a solid craft and no one has the faintest idea what it is.”
ISS ruimtestation ontruimd vanwege UFO's ( Video )
ISS ruimtestation ontruimd vanwege UFO's ( Video )
Wanneer mensen niet de waarheid vertellen dan ontstaan soms merkwaardige situaties.
Zoals het bericht dat het ruimtestation ISS was geëvacueerd vanwege brokstukken van een oude Russische satelliet die met een snelheid van 8 meter per seconde tegen het ruimtestation dreigden te botsen.
De Russische astronauten Mikhail Kornienko en Gennady Padalka sprongen op 16 juli samen met de Amerikaanse astronaut Scott Kelly in de Soyuz ontsnappingscapsule die aan het ISS vastgemaakt zit.
Ze bleven daar enige tijd zitten totdat NASA verklaarde dat het weer veilig was omdat de rommel was gepasseerd. Zoals zij dat uitdrukten: “It was a close pass”.
En dat was het zeker, alleen was het geen rommel afkomstig van een oude Russische ruimtesatelliet, maar een paar UFO’s.
De objecten werden voor het eerst opgemerkt door Youtubegebruiker Streetcap1, de man die regelmatig merkwaardige dingen ontdekt.
Eerst kwam de gedachte bij hem op dat hij hier te maken had met een paar jets, maar gezien de snelheid waarmee deze objecten vlogen was dat uitgesloten.
De opnames zijn gemaakt door NASA en laten twee UFO’s zien die zich onder het ruimtestation bevinden. Dat niet alleen, ze bewegen sneller dan het ISS en halen het in.
Als je dan bedenkt dat het ISS per dag 15,7 keer om de aarde cirkelt dan geeft dat een goed beeld van de snelheid van die UFO’s.
Dit voorval vond plaats op dezelfde dag dat het ruimtestation moest worden geëvacueerd vanwege “het puin van de Russische satelliet” en veel mensen, waaronder ufoloog Scott Waring, geloven het verhaal van NASA niet.
Hieronder zie je een 16 minuten durende video waarbij het duidelijk is dat NASA de UFO’s volgt. Van tijd tot tijd zie je ook de camera te ver vooruit schieten en duurt het even voordat de UFO’s weer in beeld zijn.
Uiteindelijk zijn de UFO’s het ruimtestation gewoon gepasseerd, maar om het zekere voor het onzekere te nemen, werden de astronauten even tijdelijk in de Soyuz capsule geparkeerd.
NASA heeft tot nu al kapitalen uitgegeven voor de zoektocht naar Planet X.
Dat ze daarover muisstil zijn, wil niet zeggen dat ze deze onbekende planeet zijn vergeten.
Wanneer we spreken over Planet X dan spreken wij eveneens over de planeet Nibiru. Gemakshalve gaan we er dan ook meestal vanuit dat wanneer we het hebben over Planet X we ook de planeet Nibiru bedoelen zoals die wordt omschreven door Zechariah Sitchin en die iedere 3600 jaar langskomt.
Ver voordat Sitchin ten tonele verscheen, was er de Amerikaanse astronoom Percival Lowell die begin vorige eeuw driftig op zoek ging naar wat hij destijds noemde Planet X.
Lowell was ervan overtuigd dat de verstoringen die plaatsvonden bij planeten aan de buitenste rand van ons zonnestelsel werden veroorzaakt door een onbekende planeet. Ook na zijn dood in 1916 ging men nog een tijd door met zoeken naar Planet X, maar toen Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 de dwergplaneet Pluto ontdekte, ging men ervan uit dat dit was wat Lowell bedoelde. Uiteraard was dit niet het geval omdat Pluto veel te klein is om verstoringen te kunnen veroorzaken.
Rond eind jaren zeventig kwam de astronomische gemeenschap tot diezelfde conclusie en begon de zoektocht naar Planet X opnieuw.
Iemand die daar een prominente rol in speelde destijds was Dr. Harrington van het US Naval Observatory, waar wij uitgebreid over hebben geschreven.
In oktober 1988 schreef hij een document getiteld The Location of Planet X, waarin uitgebreid wordt ingegaan op de mogelijke positie van Planet X. Op dat moment heeft Harrington nog geen keihard bewijs van het bestaan, maar hij concludeert dat eigenlijk de enige manier om planeten zo te verstoren zoals dat gebeurde met Uranus en Neptunus, het bestaan van een onbekende (grote) planeet is.
Dan gaan de luiken wat verdere informatie betreft bij NASA na de jaren negentig volledig naar beneden en zijn we aangewezen op andere bronnen voor informatie.
Youtube gebruiker BPEarthwatch heeft een theorie aangaande de positie van de onbekende Planet X.
Volgens hem heeft NASA een meer dan gewone belangstelling voor een ster met een planeet die daar omheen cirkelt.
De ster heet Beta Pictoris en bevindt zich volgens de officiële berichten op een afstand van ongeveer 64 lichtjaar. Echter, volgens BPEarthwatch spreekt NASA zoals gewoonlijk niet de waarheid en bevind deze ster zich veel dichterbij. Volgens hem is de afstand tot de aarde de afgelopen 15 jaar met 30 procent afgenomen.
Om deze ster cirkelt een planeet die de naam Pictoris B heeft gekregen en die er als volgt uitziet.
“Well, Nibiru is also known as “the Ferry” or the “Planet of the crossing” or the Sumerian “Winged planet” there is also a symbol from ancient Sumeria of the winged planet.
Wanneer je de grootte van de Pictoris B planeet vergelijkt met de aarde dan schrik je toch wel even.
Hier volgen nog een aantal afbeeldingen waarop duidelijk de vleugelstructuur rond deze planeet is te zien.
De ster met bijbehorende planeet bevindt zich in het sterrenbeeld Pictor of Schilder op zijn Nederlands. Dit sterrenbeeld is vanuit ons land niet zichtbaar, maar alleen vanaf het zuidelijk halfrond.
Heeft BPEarthwatch gelijk en verbergt NASA cruciale gegevens omtrent Pictoris B?
In de volgende video legt hij uit waarom hij denkt dat hij gelijk heeft.
It is a known fact that the public rarely hears interactions between unexplained aircraft and military personnel, especially during wartime in Vietnam. As time goes on, strange stories were stuck behind red tape during the war, but are beginning to find their way outside their bureaucratic confinements. The Mutual UFO Network is the largest Unidentified Flying Object investigation group in the world. The group is created to share some light on strange stories. In doing so, they collaborated with the History Channel to recreate wartime stories in Hangar 1: The UFO Files.
In Vietnam 1968, American patrol boat allegedly reported two glowing, circular aircraft that were constantly following them. Their reports were being corroborated by a second patrol boat stating that they witness alien spacecraft over the first boat along with lights followed by an explosion, which destroyed the vessel. During his Vietnam times, Capt. George Filer, a previous Air Force intelligence officer, had top clearance. Due to the more advanced technology, he stated that the U.S. was interested in the UFOs. As a result, aircrafts would fly alongside the U.S planes. Take of speeds and do barrel rolls. The speed is three times that of a regular air force.
He also mentioned that some stories came to him, but it was unofficial. He further added that a person who focuses too much on extraterrestrial spacecraft will mess his or her career. Alien vessel stories doing battle in the skies exist throughout history, according to Hans Glaser, the artist who created a woodcut of a battle in Nuremberg, Germany 1561. Printed an April issue, the Nuremberg Gazette describes the aerial battle between massive cylindrical shapes which emerged red, black, blue-white and orange spheres that darted. The Hangar 1 episodes will air over a 12-week period, highlighting military personnel who are willing to share their stories.
The presence of strange balls of light hovering over a valley in central Norway has baffled scientists for years.
Known as the Hessdalen Phenomenon, the flashing orbs can be as large as cars and have even attracted attention from ufologists.
But now scientists think the unusual lights could be formed by a natural ‘battery’ buried deep underground, created by metallic minerals reacting with a sulphurous river running through it.
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Great balls of fire? Flashing balls of light that can be as large of cars are known as the Hessdalen Phenomenon (pictured). They have attracted attention from ufologists, but now scientists think the unusual lights could be formed by a natural 'battery'
If the theory is proven correct, it could open up a new way of storing energy.
Some of the lights drift gently through the sky for up to two hours, while others flash white or blue and streak through the valley, disappearing in seconds, New Scientist reported.
A computer engineer called Erling Strand from Ostfold University in Norway, has been looking for the physics behind the natural phenomenon since 1982, when frequent light shows captured the attention of the press and scientists alike.
HOW DOES THE 'BATTERY' WORK?
Jader Monari of the Institute of Radio Astronomy in Medicina, Italy, has studied the Hessdalen site since 1996.
He found that rocks in the valley are rich in zinc and iron on one side of the river running through it, and rich in copper on the other side.
Monari then used rock samples from the site in Oslo to create a miniature valley and dunked them in river sediment.
He found that electricity flowed between the two rocks and that this could light a lamp.
Dr Monari believes bubbles of ionised gas are created when sulphurous fumes from the River Hesja react with the humid air of the valley.
The geology also forms electromagnetic field lines in the valley, which could explain why the orbs of light move around.
He set up Project Hessdalen in a bid to unite experts trying to unravel the mystery of how the mysterious orbs are formed, and was able to quickly rule out theories that the lights came from planes, vehicles or buildings.
The researchers noticed a small fluctuation in the areas’ magnetic field before the formation of the lights, but when they measured radioactivity and seismic activity – both of which could cause such a phenomenon – there was nothing unusual at the site 248miles (400km) north of Oslo.
An international team of experts then measured the size, shape and speed of the orbs using radar and spectral analysis to examine the elements that make up the light.
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Fully charged: One expert has studied the Hessdalen site since 1996 and has found that rocks in the valley are rich in zinc and iron on one side of the river running through it, and rich in copper on the other side. The sulphurous water in the river creates a giant battery
They revealed that the lights make no sound, appear to be cool and do not leave any scorch marks on the ground, unlike ball lightning. They do however sterilise an area upon contact, killing the soil microbes.
Jader Monari of the Institute of Radio Astronomy in Medicina, Italy, has studied the Hessdalen site since 1996 and found that rocks in the valley are rich in zinc and iron on one side of the river running through it, and rich in copper on the other side.
‘If there is sulphur in the water in the middle, it makes a perfect battery’ he said.
Together with a colleague from the University of Bologna, the scientists used rock samples to create a miniature valley and dunked them in river sediment. They found that electricity flowed between the two rocks and that this could light a lamp.
Dr Monari believes that bubbles of ionised gas are created when sulphurous fumes from the River Hesja react with the humid air of the valley. The geology also forms electromagnetic field lines in the valley, which could explain why the orbs of light move around.
‘This electrical field creates a path that could be the ‘main road’ of the lights inside the valley,’ Dr Monari told Caroline Williams.
Bjorn Gitle Hauge, an electrical engineer at Ostfold University, thinks that the energy needed to make the clouds glow could come from the charge building up.
There are many other competing theories as to how the light may be formed, although the battery theory seems to be the most probable based upon current evidence.
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Scientists revealed that the lights of Hessdalen - which lies 248miles (400km) north of Oslo - make no sound, appear to be cool and do not leave any scorch marks on the ground, unlike ball lightning. They do, however, sterilise an area upon contact, killing soil microbes
Some experts think some sort of plasma causes the light as when a gas ionises it forms a cloud of ions and electrons – plasma – that produce light. Plasmas can be cool to touch and can also kill microbes, but they require incredibly high temperatures and a huge supply of energy to be produced.
Others believe the lights are a type of ball lightning because similar balls of light spotted and analysed in China showed they were formed of silicon, iron and calcium – which are present in the Hessdalen lights, along with the addition of an element called scandium.
But the Hessdalen lights do not appear when there is lightning, leading Dr Hauge to suggest another idea.
He proposed that the valley’s shape, climate and geology generate a massive electric charge and that static electricity on the mountains were whipped up by strong winds.
Other experts believe the lights are powered by radioactivity and the decay of radon in the atmosphere. They think the lights are made from ‘dusty plasma’ containing ionised dust particles.
They will search for the presence of radon in the valley to test their idea that bubbles of the gas could erupt from the ground, pick up dust and enter the air as a glowing orb.
Whatever the reason for the lights’ formation, the answer could lead to a new way of storing energy.
‘If we have some kind of installation that we could pick up charged particles and lock them inside, then you can store energy,’ Dr Hauge said.
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Un système solaire plus habitable que prévu
Un système solaire plus habitable que prévu
Tandis que New Horizon révèle que Pluton n'est pas aussi froid et inerte qu'on s'y s'attendait, la dernière décennie d'exploration spatiale a montré que plusieurs corps de notre système solaire pourraient être habitables, voire habités.
La recherche de vie extraterrestre est depuis longtemps synonyme de recherche d’eau liquide. Et pour cause : partout où il y a de l’eau liquide sur Terre, on trouve quasi-systématiquement de la vie. Ce principe a ainsi conduit les exobiologistes à lier la zone d’habitabilité des systèmes planétaires à l’éloignement de l’étoile : n’étaient habitables que les corps situés à une distance où l’énergie apportée par les radiations de l’étoile permettait le maintien d’une eau à l’état liquide. Ce qui, dans le système solaire correspond à une bande située entre les orbites de Vénus et celle de Mars.
Une planète rouge, aride mais remplie d’eau
Or, si l’on n’a pas trouvé la moindre trace d’humidité sur Vénus, les missions martiennes qui se sont succédées depuis le milieu des années 1990 ont apporté la preuve que la planète rouge regorge d’eau, que ce soit sous forme de glace, de vapeur ou de minéraux hydratés. « Si on combinait tous les dépôts de glace d’eau détectés à ce jour, ce qui inclut notamment la calotte de 1 000 kilomètres de diamètre qui recouvre le pôle Nord de Mars, note Franck Montmessin, directeur de recherche au Latmos1, on obtiendrait une masse d’eau équivalente à celle d’un océan global de 30 mètres environ de profondeur. » La découverte de formations géologiques similaires aux réseaux fluviaux terrestres indique que, par le passé, l’eau a abondamment coulé et que la planète a donc un jour été habitable, si ce n’est habitée. Malheureusement, aujourd’hui, on ne trouve plus d’eau liquide stable à la surface de Mars. En effet, la très faible pression atmosphérique martienne fait que la glace d’eau, quand elle fond, ne s’y transforme pas en liquide, mais se sublime directement en vapeur d’eau.
Vue satellite du massif Nili Fossae sur Mars où l'on pense avoir détecté des bouffées de méthane
ESA/DLR/FU BERLIN/G. NEUKUM
La piste du méthane
Les chercheurs n’ont toutefois pas abandonné la traque aux indices d’une vie martienne, présente ou passée. Surtout depuis que plusieurs équipes indépendantes ont détecté des bouffées de méthane dans l’atmosphère martienne. Or, si la présence de méthane est souvent liée à une activité biologique, elle peut aussi résulter de processus géophysiques comme le volcanisme. La sensibilité des appareils actuels ne permet pas pour l’instant de déterminer l’origine de ce gaz. « L’orbiteur de la mission européenne ExoMars-2016 sera équipé de deux spectromètres qui augmenteront les seuils de sensibilité d’un facteur 10 à 100, précise Franck Montmessin. Ils permettront d’établir un premier inventaire détaillé des gaz présents dans l’atmosphère martienne, ce qui pourra apporter des éléments pour contraindre les hypothèses sur l’origine du méthane détecté. » Les rovers des missions ExoMars-2018 et Mars 2020 se chargeront ensuite de creuser le sol et d’analyser des roches vieilles de plus de 3 milliards d’années, quand la planète disposait d’une atmosphère bien plus dense, qu’elle connaissait alors une activité volcanique importante et que l’eau liquide y abondait et y persistait. Avec l’espoir d’y trouver les traces d’une chimie prébiotique, voire d’une activité biologique.
Vue d'artiste du rover Pasteur de la mission ExoMars-2018.
ESA
De la vie sous la glace ?
Parallèlement aux efforts déployés pour autopsier notre voisine, les données collectées par les sondes Galileo et Cassini ont montré que Mars n’était peut-être pas le seul corps du système solaire à avoir pu abriter une vie extraterrestre. « De récentes découvertes sur les lunes de Jupiter et de Saturne ont complètement remis en cause nos notions d’habitabilité, avoue Athéna Coustenis, planétologue et directrice de recherche au Lésia2. Les effets de marée qu’exercent les géantes gazeuses sur leurs lunes glacées leur procurent une source d’énergie constante qui entretient leur activité géologique et permet l’existence d’océans liquides sous la glace ; ce qui les rend potentiellement habitables. » Rien qu’autour de Jupiter, si Europe apparaît comme la candidate la plus prometteuse, avec son océan de 100 kilomètres de profondeur, Callisto pourrait, elle aussi, cacher un océan sous une épaisse couche de glace. Quant à Ganymède, le plus gros satellite du système solaire, on le soupçonne d’être recouvert d’un millefeuille alternant couches glacées et liquides.
Cliché d'Europe pris par la sonde Galileo
NASA/JPL-CALTECH
C’est dans ce contexte que l’Agence spatiale européenne (ESA) a validé, en novembre dernier, la mission Juice (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer), la première grande mission du programme Cosmic Vision 2015-2025. « Juice permettra, entre autres, de déterminer l’habitabilité des satellites de Jupiter : Europa, Ganymède et Callisto, explique Athéna Coustenis. L’orbiteur emportera une dizaine d’instruments, certains dévellopés par des équipes du CNRS, destinés à l’étude de l’atmosphère et de la magnétosphère jovienne ainsi qu’à la caractérisation de ces lunes, de leur exosphère et de leur océan enfoui sous la glace. » Le lancement est prévu en 2022, pour une mise en orbite autour de Ganymède en 2030, juste après avoir survolé Europe à deux reprises.
Navy Arctic UFO photos allegedly leaked by anonymous source
Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.
Navy Arctic UFO photos allegedly leaked by anonymous source
Several impressive photos of alleged UFOs over the arctic captured on camera by the Navy in 1971 have been leaked to UFO researchers, and their discovery has been getting worldwide media attention.
UFO researcher Alex Mistretta claims that the images were originally given to him by an anonymous source in Europe. Later, he discovered that they were also published in a French paranormal magazine called Top Secret.
Two of the images from the French magazine Top Secret. The caption reads: “(Top) On this photo, we identify without a doubt a triangular-shaped UFO. It seems to be in trouble. (Bottom) If the order that we have chosen for these pictures is correct, the UFO here seems to now go sideways before plunging into the ocean…” (Credit: Top Secret/TheBlackVault.com)
To further investigate, Mistretta enlisted the help of John Greenewald, who runs the website TheBlackVault.com. He asked Greenewald to post the pictures in hopes that Greenewald and others may be able to find out more about the images.
After posting the story last week, it began getting international headlines. A Reddit user that goes by the name SqizCat was also able to find higher resolution copies of the images.
The images are fantastic. They seem to be of large objects aloft over the ocean, some, if not all, taken from the periscope of a submarine. The big question is are they real, and if so, what are they?
Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.
Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.
Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.
Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.
In his email to The Black Vault, Mistretta listed what his anonymous source told him.
The photos were taken from a United State Navy submarine.
The location was between Iceland and Jan Mayen island in the Atlantic Ocean. (Jan Mayen belongs to Norway, and is only inhabited by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian military.)
They were taken in March of 1971.
The Submarine was the Navy’s USS Trepang (SSN 674) and the Admiral on board was Dean Reynolds Sackett. Obviously, the next step is to try and locate this Admiral Dean Reynolds, if he exists.
The Submarine came upon the object by “accident,” as they were in the region on a routine joint military and scientific expedition. Officer John Klika was the one who initially spotted the object with the periscope.
Greenewald looked into these claims and he says that he found that Admiral Sackett was onboard the USS Trepang at the time listed. He also found that Officer Kilka was also aboard. Further, he found that the USS Trepang was in the area the source claimed at the time the pictures were allegedly taken.
Map of the area the photos were alegedly taken. (Credit: google Maps/TheBlackVault.com)
Image of the USS Trepang (Credit: Hullnumber.com)
Mistretta wrote: “[Kilka] found the investigation interesting reading, and doesn’t know what the pictures represent. I believe them. I feel confident in saying the Trepang was not involved in the taking of the photographs.”
Although Mistretta now believes his source’s information to be inaccurate, Greenewald found clues that indicate the images may still be real, albeit not extraterrestrial.
Greenewald says, “When I first saw these, I noted there was something very Zeppelin-like about some of the photos, but, unlike the actual Zeppelin’s, it did not have a carrier for the occupants.”
By researching the USS Trepang’s whereabouts, he also found this on the site Hullnumber.com: “From 22 February to 22 March [1971], the nuclear attack submarine operated beneath the northern ice cap, conducting extensive tests to provide data for her weapons systems, as well as carrying out scientific experiments concerning the movement, composition, and geological history of the cap itself.”
This lead him to research test balloons. He searched the Library of Congress and found images of test balloons that look very similar to what is in some of the images.
A view of the H.M.S Canning and its observation balloon. – Image discovered by TheBlackVault.com.
(Credit: National Geographic.)
Greenewald’s discovery makes it possible, if not likely, that the images are from test balloons being fired upon by Navy submarines. The images he found were from the early 1900s, so the question remains as to whether similar balloons were still being used in the 70s, or are the images colorized version of much older pictures. Given the misinformation that accompanied the images in the first place, it is also possible they are Photoshopped hoaxes.
Although the media has picked up on the story, few, if any, have mentioned the investigation work done by Mistretta, Greenewald, and Murillo. By leaving out this part of the story, they leave out the fact that many UFO researchers are more than just wild-eyed believers, as the media often portrays. Some are actually doing all they can to look for the truth.
Murillo’s UPARS organization will be hosting Mistretta to discuss this case on July 21, 2015 in Los Angeles. You can find more information on the UPARS Meetup site.
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body.
The mountains likely formed no more than 100 million years ago — mere youngsters relative to the 4.56-billion-year age of the solar system — and may still be in the process of building, says Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) team leader Jeff Moore of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.. That suggests the close-up region, which covers less than one percent of Pluto’s surface, may still be geologically active today.
Moore and his colleagues base the youthful age estimate on the lack of craters in this scene. Like the rest of Pluto, this region would presumably have been pummeled by space debris for billions of years and would have once been heavily cratered — unless recent activity had given the region a facelift, erasing those pockmarks.
“This is one of the youngest surfaces we’ve ever seen in the solar system,” says Moore.
Unlike the icy moons of giant planets, Pluto cannot be heated by gravitational interactions with a much larger planetary body. Some other process must be generating the mountainous landscape.
“This may cause us to rethink what powers geological activity on many other icy worlds,” says GGI deputy team leader John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.
The mountains are probably composed of Pluto’s water-ice “bedrock.”
Although methane and nitrogen ice covers much of the surface of Pluto, these materials are not strong enough to build the mountains. Instead, a stiffer material, most likely water-ice, created the peaks. “At Pluto’s temperatures, water-ice behaves more like rock,” said deputy GGI lead Bill McKinnon of Washington University, St. Louis.
The close-up image was taken about 1.5 hours before New Horizons closest approach to Pluto, when the craft was 47,800 miles (77,000 kilometers) from the surface of the planet. The image easily resolves structures smaller than a mile across.
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(NASA/APL/SwRI) Artist’s conception of the interaction of the solar wind with Pluto’s predominantly nitrogen atmosphere.
NASA and the team behind its New Horizons spacecraft announced today that Pluto — the dwarf planet — has a giant tail.
It’s not a physical tail like a dog’s, of course, but rather a frigid cloud of ionized gases trailing an estimated 48,000 to 68,000 miles behind Pluto, according to a NASA press release.
This giant tail is actually part of Pluto’s atmosphere. Except that the bits of atmosphere are being stripped away by solar wind, a torrent of electrically charged particles that constantly pours out of the sun in all directions.
“We see the atmosphere way far out,” Randy Gladstone, a New Horizons coinvestigator at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said during a NASA press conference on Friday. “We see it from the ground out to 1,000 miles above the surface.”
Because Pluto is such a tiny planet — it’s a fraction of a percent as massive as the Earth — its atmosphere escapes directly into space, Gladstone said.
Gladstone and others discovered the tail after examining data from the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument on the New Horizons spacecraft. The device found an anomaly in the solar wind around the dwarf planet: A depression composed of nitrogen ions. This depression is the tail, and it extends an unknown length behind the planet.
“We have actually flown through this [tail],” Fran Bagenal, a New Horizons coinvestigator from the University of Colorado at Boulder, said during the press conference.
Ionized gas forms when a bunch of energy pummels atmospheric atoms and molecules. This bombardment pops electrons off the atmospheric gas particles, allowing their electrons to freely circulate. The end result is plasma: A fourth state of matter after solids, liquids, and gases.
As far as we know, plasma is the most common state of matter in the universe. There’s simply a lot of energy pouring out of stars, and a lot of gas in space to form plasma. So while it might seem surprising, plasma tails like Pluto’s aren’t new. They even exist behind other planets in the solar system, including Venus and Mars.
The team still hasn’t determined the precise shape of Pluto’s newly discovered tail. They also don’t know exactly how the was formed.
So NASA is anxiously waiting for New Horizons to beam back more data. By August the team hopes to calculate how fast Pluto is losing its atmosphere to space — and, likewise, how quickly the icy world is shrinking.
Air Force One officer: “Obama denies ETs exist. Photos prove ETs land on Capitol & in White House base.” ET Disclosure movement directed by Rockefeller/Jesuits for New World Order world government globalist power objectives
Air Force One officer: “Obama denies ETs exist. Photos prove ETs land on Capitol & in White House base.” ET Disclosure movement directed by Rockefeller/Jesuits for New World Order world government globalist power objectives
VANCOUVER, BC – U.S. President Barack Obama was publicly called out on Extraterrestrials landing in a base under or around the White House during this NewsInsideOut.com interview with African-American veteran Wilbur “Will” Allen, a former White House employee and Air Force One engineer under U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
“Obama denies that Extraterrestrials exist,” Will Allen states. “Yet I have precision photographs of extraterrestrial craft coming in to land at an extraterrestrial base under or around the White House underneath the Potomac River.”
By contrast, an official statement on the White House website notes, “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.”[1]
In any honest court of law, to sponsor such an official misstatement of fact on the White House website would amount to perjury or willful misconduct by the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Government.
ET/UFOs fire ray of light or directed energy beam next to White House
President Obama continues officially (and personally) to deny that that he lacks evidence of extraterrestrial life. In July 2010 I reported that White House and Air Force One engineer Will Allen had produced photographs of a hyperdimensional Extraterrestrial space craft in over flight approximately one mile south east of the White House in Washington, DC. The ET craft appears to have fired a ray of light or directed energy beam in the vicinity of the White House.[2]
Mr. Allen stated, “On July 20, 2010 at 3:18:07 AM in NW Washington DC, a relatively short distance from the White House, I imaged a slow moving UFO pulse through the sky, and then [observed the UFO] fire an energy beam which extended from it.” Mr. Allan also states, “I took several stationary images of the stars as I usually do. However, there is one object I thought to be a star, moving and then discharging a beam of light!!!…. There is one frame that does not make much sense? A Star is either moving or shooting a beam of light that is ‘bent’? The motion is not registered with any of the other ‘stars’ in this sampling.”
On July 26, 2010, Mr. Allen sent a video to this reporter and added, “In the ten frames of images [in the video below] are other objects. First are the echoes of the luminous anomaly slightly in front of this object in tandem flight and maneuver. What the luminous anomaly did so did the echoes except they did not discharge a plasma beam? Secondly, it was in pursuit of another object(s). In my analysis, I discovered a luminous red object in flight, however in pursuit of energy distortion, which I have imaged may times, because it follows me? However, in the ten frames the objects mentioned all are perhaps in a tactical posture. Please take a look, the physical data does indeed show ET engagement, and the anomaly is discharging a tactical device. Ironic, it echoes the hyperdimensional UFOs on July 16, 1952/July 16, 2002/July 4, 2002/July 4, 2010/July 20, 2010, Analysis B (quadrant analysis) July 20, 2010.”
Will Allen, the Go-To Photographer of ET spacecraft overflying Washington, DC
Mr. Allen, who grew up on U.S. military bases and now resides in Washington, DC, has stated that at age five he was visited by a group of “four to five grey extraterrestrials in silver spacesuits” who implanted him with a device.
That implant device went undetected during all the years of his military and White House service, and now signals him to go to specific locations in Washington, DC where he is instructed to photograph extraterrestrial craft and personnel that enter P-56A restricted Capitol Hill airspace through hyperdimensional Star gates at extremely high speeds. Mr. Allen, who has reported some of these UFO/ET landings to the U.S. Capitol Police, states that the police have told him his photographs confirm ET/UFO landings their officers are also encountering.
Mr. Allen believes that his photographs, which are forensic in quality, document that the same intelligent hyperdimensional civilization was behind the July 16, 1952 and the July 16, 2002 flyovers of the U.S. Capitol. These UFO/ET flyovers are continuing into the present. Mr. Allen states that the civilization communicating with him and directing his photographic documentation of their hypervelocity landings on the U.S. Capitol are “grey and human-hybrid.” There is no independent evidence that the intelligent civilization behind the hyperdimensional UFOs appearing to Mr. Allen is grey of human-hybrid.
Through advanced photo-analysis, Mr. Allen has established dimensional similarities between the UFO phenomena (1) surrounding the 1944 “Foo Fighters;” (2) the UFO/ET phenomena filmed by the Walt Disney company at the Lincoln Memorial on July 26, 1952; (3) the UFO/ET phenomena overlying the U.S. Capitol on July 16, 1952 (and during the July 13-29, 1952 Washington, DC UFO flap); (4) the UFO/ET phenomena over flying the U.S. Capitol 50 years later on July 16, 2002; (5) the UFO/ET phenomena appearing over the Washington Monument (Washington, DC) on July 4, 2002; (6) (5) ET/UFO phenomena photographed at the U.S. Capitol on November 17, 2008; (7) The UFO/ET phenomenon photographed as reflected on Commander Buzz Aldrin’s visor as he walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 (April 21-24, 1972).
According to Mr. Allen’s photo-analysis, each of the UFO/ET phenomena mentioned above was capable of dimensional shift into a self-generated Star gate phenomenon
UFO ‘Ray of Light’ near the White House
It is not unreasonable to ascribe intentionality to the hyperdimensional UFO that performed a dimensional shift into a self-generated Star gate phenomenon and entered Washington DC airspace one mile south east of the White House, emitting a ray of light or directed energy beam.
Mr. Allen appears to be a selected ‘go to’ photographer’ for these advanced hyperdimensional UFO incursion events in Washington DC that have high symbolic value.
For example, Mr. Allen – on cue from hyperdimensional intelligence – photographed hyperdimensional UFOs over the U.S. Capitol in July 2002, 50 years exactly from July 1952 UFO over flights of the U.S. Capitol. Mr. Allan states that, in his opinion, the same hyperdimensional extraterrestrial civilization was responsible for both events.
ET Disclosure movement directed by Rockefellers for New World Order world government globalist power objectives
The utter transparency and public proximity of Extraterrestrial spacecraft to the White House, the seat of U.S. Executive power, is prima facie evidence that the “ET Disclosure” movement is actually a scripted meme, directed by the Rockefeller interests and U.S. clandestine services for New World Order world government globalist power objectives.
Own the Disclosure Own the Narrative Own the Earthly Power
This documentary sets forth how the “ET Disclosure” narrative was first leaked by the designated Rockefeller brother Laurance Rockefeller to the First Lady Hillary Clinton during the Clinton I Presidency in the Rockefeller Initiative in which a Rockefeller-funded asset Dr. Steven Greer participated. Following this, early in Rockefeller-funded Obama Presidency Term I, John Podesta requested Rockefeller-asset Dr. Steven Greer to provide “an extensive file for Mr. Podesta to provide to the newly- elected President Obama”
BREAKING NEWS – Obama Advisor Speaks out on Disclosure February 14, 2015 BREAKING NEWS: “Senior Obama Advisor and Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta regrets that he has not been able to effect official UFO Disclosure.
Dr. Greer states: ” An attorney working with Mr. Podesta requested the briefing and we assembled an extensive file for Mr. Podesta to provide to the newly- elected President Obama. There was also support for this process from a senior CIA official who is friendly to Disclosure and the briefing was also provided to then-CIA Director Leon Panetta . Mr. Podesta came out publicly in support of Disclosure the year after the historic 2001 National Press Club Disclosure Project event, organized by Dr. Greer.
Dr. Greer continues, ” We are encouraged that Mr. Podesta remains a stalwart supporter of Disclosure and we continue to advocate for the release of illegally classified information and technology related to UFOs.” [3]
The extensive role of Laurance Rockefeller, assisted by Rockefeller asset Dr. Steven Greer and Adviser/operative John Podesta, in scripting and launching the “Disclosure movement” around First Lady Hillary Clinton during the First Clinton administration, nursing the “Disclosure movement” during the Bush and Obama years, and now positioning to “Disclosure Initiation Stage” around the Hillary Clinton Presidency [or perhaps a false flag around the Barack Obama-Pope Francis connection?] is treated in a humorous, albeit telling way in the following documentary.
One operating conclusion of the above analysis is that any ET Disclosure that occurs under the auspices of a United States government administration that is part of the Rockefeller CIA time-travel pre-identified US Presidencies as identified by Chrononaut whistleblower Andrew D. Basiago [So far, Bush Sr.; Clinton I; Bush II; Obama] is actually part of a meme scheme to preserve or enhance global and cosmic power by the Jesuit, Rockefeller and Trilateralists group.[4]
Hidden Rockefeller agenda explains why Rockefeller Disclosure Initiative, Citizen Hearing by lobbyist Stephen Bassett, intentionally excluded Life on Mars witnesses, another Rockefeller project
This reporter, who was one of the original co-architects of the so-called Citizen Hearing process that was funded by a $1 million grant from a Canadian oil industry [Rockefeller, anyone] fortune, could not fully understand why one or more of the five living witnesses of the U.S. program on Mars who had been to Mars and interacted with Martians [of various Exophenotypes] were not only not vetted to present to the five former members of Congress but were actively turned away by the Citizen Hearing organizer, Rockefeller Disclosure operative Stephen Bassett.[5]
Colonizing Mars was David Rockefeller project’s not Laurence Rockefeller’s project (which was “ET Disclosure”). We now know that Richard B. Cheney was the black ops CEO of the Mars Colony Corporation, and Dick Cheney is David Rockefeller’s man. You can discover that in our NewsInsideOut.com Mars Round Table
VIDEO – Roundtable with USMCss Capt Randy Cramer & UK Town Councilor Simon Parkes: Pleiadian nuke destroyed Mars ecology? Cheney ran Mars Colony Corporation
In the world of “meme management”, the meme of “ET Disclosure” apparently differs from “Life on Mars”.
That is, the Rockefeller-CIA-Trilateralist interests want to control the information that is being “disclosed” so as to maximize control over the human population so they can continue as an elite to exploit them.
The Rockefeller interests want to keep the Life on Mars information secret, because that means resources and wealth owned by them. Hence the Rockefeller Disclosure organizer, Stephen Bassett, could not allow of the Mars witnesses to testify.
As a reporter, I even contacted a former US Senator from Alaska who was on the Citizen Hearing Panel beforehand who I had been on a PressTV Panel with. I informed the US Senator that US Life on Mars witnesses, highly trained personnel who had been on Mars multiple times and interacted with Martians, were being excluded. The U.S. Senator acknowledged the information and did nothing. So when asked in a media context, I stated that the U.S. Congress Persons had each been bribed with $20,000. They had been literally functionally been bribed to stay silent about a class of witnesses and extraterrestrials from our nearest neighbor Mars, all because of the Rockefeller family that is sculpting this “ET Disclosure” meme for their and other controllers benefit.[6]
March 12, 2015 – Obama Humorous “Leak” Strategy about Extraterrestrial Presence
U.S. President Barack Obama engaged in a “humor” strategy earlier in 2015 when asked about the Extraterrestrial presence on Jimmy Kimmel Live, acting oblivious that Extraterrestrial spacecraft are landing at a base adjacent to the White House and atop the U.S. Capitol and Congressional buildings (which are the highest U.S. national security air space). The LA Times reported:
[Kimmel] wanted to know whether Obama had tried to get to the bottom of the “UFO files” about the mysterious desert region known as Area 51.
“The aliens won’t let it happen,” Obama joked. “You’d reveal all their secrets. They exercise strict control over us.”
But President Clinton once said he’d checked on the matter and found nothing, Kimmel protested. “That’s what we’re instructed to say,” Obama responded.
The above is typical of the deception that Mr. Obama, a facile actor and comedian, is engaging in.
Obama has visited Mars, using ET-gifted technology
As this reporter has reported, corroborated by multiple witnesses, President Barack Obama, under his then name Barry Soetoro, participated in the Mars jump room training program at the College of the Siskyous, CA. in Summer, 1980 and subsequently visited Mars several times via jump room, an advanced quantum technology gifted to CIA by a specific species of grey extraterrestrials. [7]
What impact does Will Allen’s Disclosure have?
At one point during our interaction, Will Allen turned to this reporter and stated, “Once he had seen my material, John Podesta told me, ‘This is the most powerful secret that exists and you must keep it secret because if it were made public, everything would fall apart.’ That is John Podesta, the Adviser to the President.”
So now you and I and all who read this and whom you let know are aware that Extraterrestial spacecraft land in a base adjacent to the White House, as well as on the U.S. Capitol and Congressional office buildings.
And you have just read what those in charge are thinking!
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HDST will locate Earth-like exoplanets within the habitable zones of stars
HDST will locate Earth-like exoplanets within the habitable zones of stars
Hundreds of years have passed since the time Galileo confirmed that the planet Earth doesn’t form the center of the universe. A long time has gone by even since the Hubble Space Telescope came up with evidence confirming that the universe is home to billions of other galaxies besides our home galaxy Milky Way. We might see scientists making another such ground-breaking discovery within the next fifteen years.
For the first time, space scientists have proposed a new technology capable of aiding discovery of life on Earth-like planets. It’s a powerful telescope that’s still in its conceptual stages.
The scientists are planning to place the telescope over 1 million miles away from the Earth, from where it will be locating and capturing high definition images of Earth-like planets or exoplanets and thereby find out whether any of them hosts life.
The AURA report detailed the High Definition Space Telescope’s potential technological advancements as compared to its predecessors. The Hubble Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope mirrors were much smaller than that of what the HDSP could have.
Astrophysicist Mario Livio, a representative of the Space telescope Science Institute, said that he feels finding life beyond earth would constitute a bigger revolution than the Darwinian and Copernican revolutions combined.
He added that this new technology will either show that there’s indeed life in several other places besides our home planet, or will reveal that life is extremely rare and is even more valuable than what we perceive it to be. According to Livio, both these findings have far-fetched implications.
This newly proposed high-definition telescope will actually be refining work that has already been completed by the Kepler mission.
For those who don’t know: NASA launched its Kepler space observatory in 2009. It was designed for locating Earth-like planets within the boundaries of our home Galaxy Milky Way. Here, the term “Earth-like planets” refers to planets that orbit other stars in the same manner as the Earth orbits the sun.
In the past six years i.e. since the launch of the Kepler space observatory, we have come to know about almost 2,000 exoplanets. However, scientists have not succeeded in obtaining a clear view of the majority of those planets. The high-definition space telescope proposed by scientists will be solving this problem effectively.
The new telescope, other than locating exoplanets orbiting different stars will also be able to dim down the powerful light emitted by those stars. This will make the exoplanets visible enough to allow scientists get a clear view of their atmosphere.
How a planet could survive a collision between its two suns
How a planet could survive a collision between its two suns
While searching for Earth-like planets, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has come across 10 that share one very un-Earth-like quality: They orbit two stars, instead of one. The worlds are aptly named “circumbinary planets” (“circum” meaning around, and “binary” referring to two objects), and in this type of binary system, the two stars orbit each other while the planet orbits the two stars (pictured above). But only the lucky binaries seem to have planets that orbit them; some stellar binaries that lack orbiting bodies have a different third party—a distant star that’s so massive, its gravitational fluxes actually change the orbit of the stellar binary, causing the two stars to shrink together in a process called orbital decay.
If left uninterrupted, the stars will eventually collide together in a violent, calamitous explosion. Now, astronomers have asked a new question: What would happen if a circumbinary planet were in the mix? Naturally, one assumes its inevitable, fiery demise. But findings, published online 9 July in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal that may not be the case. Using a combination of theoretical and numerical formulas, astronomers calculated that the planet may actually be able to survive the blast.
The difference between life and death depends on that third, distant body. The researchers mathematically showed that the same mechanism that forces the binary together shifts the alignment of the circumbinary planet, potentially allowing it to sneak far enough away to escape incineration. Even so, surviving without a home base is a bit of a lonely swap.
Astronomy is weird. Everything we study is really, really far away. So far away really, that for most of history we didn’t know how far away they were. It was impossible to measure.
But then some Greeks decided to figure out how big the Earth is, and then how far away the Moon is, and the Sun, and before you know it (well, a few thousand years later) we’re measuring the distances to objects clear across the known Universe!
It’s always a good day when I can squeeze in a Fonzie reference. And poke fun at Star Wars.
I really enjoyed writing this and the past few episodes, because they lay the groundwork we’ll need for all the rest. Using what we know about light and about distances, the Universe unfolds before us. In the episodes coming up, we’ll leave the solar system behind and start to examine the cosmos around us.
Starting next week, we’ll be taking a Very Big Leap. Get ready, there’s a whole Universe we’ll be exploring from here.
Ufology is full of whistleblowers. There’s the one who worked on the alien spaceship at Area 51, the one who was involved in a gunfight with extraterrestrials, the one who rescued an alien and was able to send him back home, and the one who went on an exchange trip to an alien planet. Then there’s the one who did an interview in a hotel room, and the one who did an interview in a darkened room, so as to disguise his identity. Oh, and let’s not forget the one who was assassinated by the government. Ufology is full of whistleblowers, right? Wrong! Ufology is not full of whistleblowers. Ufology is full of bogus whistleblowers.
At first sight, this may strike some people as being overly-harsh. You might be thinking about leaked government UFO documents that you’ve read, and recalling UFO documentaries or conferences where some of these whistleblowers have appeared. Surely, you might say, a fair proportion of what we know about UFOs comes from various courageous whistleblowers who have taken the decision to violate their secrecy oaths, because they believe they have a higher moral responsibility to the truth. The people have a right to know, as the saying goes. It all sounds great in theory, but the truth is somewhat different, and can be easily demonstrated with a bit of critical thinking.
Ask yourself what happens – outside the field of ufology – to people who leak highly classified information. I’m not talking about traitors who pass classified information to foreign powers, but people who have made such information public, citing the public’s right to know. Some well-known names spring to mind: Former CIA employee Edward Snowden and US Army intelligence specialist Chelsea Manning are two such people. In the UK, ex-MI5 officer David Shayler and former MI6 employee Richard Tomlinson are good examples. There are others. Now, ask yourself, what did the government do in all of those cases? The answer is this: they went after the individuals concerned, proactively, aggressively and relentlessly, using the full resources available to them. And no, I don’t mean they tried to kill them, I mean that where the state was able to do so, the full weight of the criminal justice system (police, prosecutors, courts, etc.) was brought to bear upon them. In real life, that’s what happens to people who leak classified information. So why doesn’t this happen with ufology’s whistleblowers? Why would the government leave such people alone?
The answer is obvious. Ufology’s so-called whistleblowers aren’t leaking classified information at all. They’re making up stories. If any of these people were genuinely leaking classified information they’d be arrested in an instant. I know this not because of my time on the MoD’s UFO project, but because of a later job that I did in the Directorate of Defence Security, where I had some peripheral involvement with Official Secrets Act cases. That, along with my 21 years in a government department where top secret information is commonplace, taught me a lot about the reality of how allegations of security breaches are handled.
Incidentally, at risk of being labelled a government lackey, I don’t approve of whistleblowers anyway, even genuine ones. That’s because such people leak information after deciding that they know better than anyone else whether or not something should be released. However, what I’ve learned from my own work on classified information is that the information owner – usually the subject matter expert – is best-placed to make judgements on whether or not something can safely be declassified. So it’s a mistake for someone else to see such documents pass across their desk and, without knowing the full story, decide for themselves that something should be public knowledge. It’s arrogant and ignorant. That’s not to say that there’s no place for responsible whistleblowing in a free, open and democratic society, but that’s a discussion for another day.
Returning to UFOs and whistleblowing, what of the verifiable government and military personnel who have spoken out about UFOs? People like Edward Ruppelt, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, myself, Dr. John Alexander, Charles Halt, John Burroughs, Jim Penniston and others? The key point is, they’re not whistleblowers. Such people fall into two categories. Witnesses such as Halt, Burroughs and Penniston are simply describing experiences they’ve had. Unless someone specifically instructed them not to talk about things, they aren’t divulging classified information by describing what they saw and experienced. When I collaborated with Burroughs and Penniston on the bestselling book “Encounter in Rendlesham Forest”, the manuscript was pre-submitted to both the UK MoD and the US DOD, because we treat our respective secrecy oaths seriously. When Charles Halt is asked about nuclear issues, he declines to comment, neither confirming nor denying the presence of nuclear weapons in any particular location at any particular time (I answer such questions in exactly the same way). As for those of us who aren’t witnesses, but who have genuinely investigated UFOs for the government, we take our secrecy oaths seriously too, and would never release classified information without proper authorisation. We’re not whistleblowers either. When people see me on TV talking about the MoD’s UFO files, I’m discussing material that’s already been declassified and released by the British Government.
This brings me to the final irony concerning people in ufology who claim to have inside knowledge about secret government UFO projects. You know the ones I mean. The ones making fantastic but totally unverifiable claims about vast underground bases, secret exchange deals between Presidents and extraterrestrials, moon bases, Mars colonies, and much more besides. Such people are absolutely certain about UFOs, extraterrestrials, etc. They’ll give you chapter and verse on anything from UFO propulsion systems and alien agendas, through to the geography of various alien planets. This mirrors the way that many ufologists at the extreme ends of the belief spectrum (i.e. the most devout true believers and die-hard debunkers) are absolutely certain about the true nature of the UFO phenomenon. And here’s the ultimate irony: those of us who have genuinely researched and investigated the UFO mystery for the government are much less sure about things!
Nick Pope is a former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence. From 1991 to 1994 he ran the British Government's UFO project and he is now the public face of the ongoing project to declassify and release the entire archive of these UFO files. Nick Pope held a number of other fascinating posts in the course of his 21-year government career, which culminated in his serving as an acting Deputy Director in the Directorate of Defence Security. He now works as a broadcaster and journalist, covering subjects including space, fringe science, defence and intelligence. Nick Pope’s latest book, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, co-written with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, was published in paperback by Thomas Dunne Books on 3rd March 2015, and has also been published by Thistle Publishing. It’s available on Amazon and in all good bookstores.
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