Huge UFO caught hovering in Manipur, India?

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Huge UFO caught hovering in Manipur, India?

India Edition International Business Times (International Business Times, IBT) published an ‘exclusive’ story on October 8, alleged in India Manipur a huge see-through cloud-like circle shaped object appeared in the sky.

Apparently, some boys from a students’ hostel at Mantripukhri locality, Imphal sighted a huge strange transparent disc-shaped object at around 1.30pm on Wednesday.

Witness, Lincoln Liba, while speaking to IBT, said that the photos were sent to him a day later.

Some boys from a students’ hostel at Mantripukhri locality of Manipur’s capital city Imphal saw a strange transparent circular object hovering over the neighbourhood at around 1:30 pm onWednesday (7 October), claimed Lincoln Liba.

Interestingly, the round, see-through object is seen just above the residential buildings. One of the pictures even has a rainbow in the backdrop. It appears to be a genuine photo and not photoshopped as a person is seen pointing at the object in one of the pictures.

Some people may take it as lenticular clouds but the possibility is less as it doesn’t look like lenticular clouds seen in the past. The object is also transparent with the clouds and rainbow clearly visible in the backdrop.

Read the rest here: http://www.ibtimes.co.in/exclusive-ufo-sighting-2015-huge-see-through-object-caught-hovering-manipur-photos-649730

Times believes that this seems to be a true picture, rather than treat it for what it is,…Photoshop!

Why would they not do some research and find answers before publishing obvious fake photos?

Others have picked up the story and ran with it also including http://www.ufocasebook.com/2015/huge-see-through-object.html with no mention of it being a HOAX!

Coincidentally after 10 minutes of searching, two photographs VERY SIMILAR surfaced on the internet on October 8rd, found in Malaysian media.

Is this a UFO Invasion in India and Malaysia!?

large disc-shape UFO seen hovering over residential buildings and cars parked outside. UFO rotate clockwise.

Then suddenly smaller UFO flew off in the foreground with the turbulence of the object engine kicking up dust on the ground.

Source: http://www.ufoandalientruthnetwork.com/huge-ufo-caught-hovering-in-manipur-india/

15-10-2015 om 18:19 geschreven door peter  

Disturbing Video of UFO Flotilla Caught

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Disturbing Video of UFO flotilla caught on Video

A disturbing video has caused havoc on the internet. In the footage, a flotilla of mysterious lights can be seen descending from the sky and suddenly dividing into multiple unidentified flying objects with flashing lights, floating in the air as people observed the sky in amazement.

After watching the bizarre footage, many people have claimed that we are looking at the beginning of an Alien invasion, Independence Day Reloaded, just that this time, there are no special effects, no Hollywood and no fat lady sinking.

In the video footage we see a huge bright light descending from the sky and a few seconds later, the mysterious lights splits into dozens of ‘miniature’ orbs. Ultimate evidence of extraterrestrial beings? Many people believe that this footage is one of the best pieces of recorded evidence that intelligent Alien beings exist elsewhere in the cosmos.

But what if these aren’t Alien UFO’s? What if we are looking at some kind of strange weather phenomena? Or maybe swamp gas as some users wrote on YouTube?

Well, it might not be swamp gas, but at this time we cannot exclude the possibility of some sort of military technology being tested.

What do you think? Are we looking at Alien beings visiting Earth? Or is it possible there is another more plausible explanation?

The video footage has over 200,000 views on YouTube.

Dozens of voices can be heard shouting and screaming in panic as one woman cries: “That’s f****** scary.

“This is for real. Oh my God.”

She adds: “This isn’t funny. You should be scared.”

Comments on social networks flooded the video posted on YouTube.

“These are just our brothers and sisters from out there. Showing us that they are here and helping us”.

“They’ve been here since the beginning. It’s not the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new awakening.”

Source: http://locklip.com/disturbing-video-of-ufo-flotilla-caught-on-video/

15-10-2015 om 17:59 geschreven door peter  

Hebben we rond deze mysterieuze ster buitenaardse megastructuren gevonden?

in: Universum Robin de Boer 15 oktober 2015 07:30 2793 keer bekeken

Wetenschappers hebben een ‘bizarre’ ster ontdekt die mogelijk wordt omgeven door een reusachtige buitenaardse structuur. De ster, KIC 8462852 gedoopt, staat op 1480 lichtjaar en is begin 2009 gevonden door de Kepler-ruimtetelescoop.

Onderzoekers hebben geen verklaring voor de vreemde schommelingen in de lichtkracht van de ster. Sommigen van hen beweren dat zich voor de ster een kolossale buitenaardse megastructuur schuilhoudt.

“We hebben nog nooit zoiets gezien,” zei Tabetha Boyajian van de Yale-universiteit tegenover The Atlantic. “Het is erg vreemd. We dachten eerst dat er een fout in de data zat of dat het kwam door de beweging van het ruimteschip, maar alles klopte.”

Allerlaatste mogelijkheid

Boyajian heeft onlangs een paper gepubliceerd over de mogelijke oorzaken. In 2011 werd het bizarre gedrag van de ster voor het eerst opgemerkt. De schommelingen kunnen vijf tot 80 dagen duren. Onderzoekers dachten in eerste instantie dat ze worden veroorzaakt door de passage van een aantal komeetfragmenten.

Sommige experts zeggen dat de fluctuaties worden veroorzaakt door aliens. “Je zou buitenaardsen als allerlaatste mogelijkheid moeten overwegen, maar dit ziet eruit als een bouwsel dat je verwacht van een buitenaardse beschaving,” zei astronoom Jason Wright van de Pennsylvania State University.

Zwerm megastructuren

Wright en zijn collega’s zeggen dat het ongewone lichtpatroon van de ster wijst op de aanwezigheid van een zwerm megastructuren in de buurt van de ster. Hij suggereert dat het gaat om een massa lichtcollectoren die energie van de ster opslaan.

Wright en Boyajian hebben inmiddels gesproken met directeur van het SETI Research Center Andrew Siemion. Ze willen een enorme schotelantenne op de ster gaan richten, waarmee ze eventuele radiogolven kunnen oppikken die wijzen op technologische activiteit. Als de radiogolven interessant lijken, gaan astronomen ze met de Very Large Telescope in New Mexico verder uitpluizen.

[The Atlantic]
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15-10-2015 om 17:49 geschreven door peter  

Ook groot moederschip boven China

Nadat we enkele dagen geleden zagen dat er zich boven India een groot moederschip vertoonde, blijkt er ook iets dergelijks in China te zijn gebeurd.

Een groep toeristen op een rondvaartboot zag ineens een bijzonder object in de lucht.

Eerder deze week schreven wij een artikel over een bijzonder UFO/wolk boven India. Wat duidelijk geen normale wolk was en wat wellicht een groot buitenaards moederschip is dat net bezig is om zichtbaar te worden bij aankomst vanuit een andere dimensie.

Via een lezer (dank!) werden wij er opmerkzaam op gemaakt dat op 7 oktober een vergelijkbaar incident boven China heeft plaatsgevonden.

Ook hier werd een vreemd gevormde wolk waargenomen, dit keer door een groep toeristen op een rondvaartboot in het Heilongtan Reservoir in Renshou County in het midden van China.

Volgens de getuigen bewoog het vreemde object zich door de lucht.

Zoals ieder keer, wanneer dit soort bijzonder objecten zich vertonen, wordt het afgedaan als de, ja, je raadt het al, de lenswolk.

In dat geval hebben we op dit moment te maken met een wereldwijde epidemie van lenswolken.

Alles is mogelijk, maar nu overal dit soort vreemdsoortige objecten in de lucht opduiken, lijkt er toch een patroon van iets anders te ontstaan. Zeker ook omdat er dikwijls bij dit soort grote moederschepen kleinere UFO’s in en uit schieten.

Dat de situatie in de wereld zo langzamerhand op een zeer kritiek punt aankomt, zou misschien voor buitenaardse rassen het moment kunnen zijn zich te mengen in onze earthly affairs.

Formeel zag men in China een lenswolk. Doorlopen mensen, niets aan de hand.

Er gebeuren trouwens nog meer vreemde dingen in China. Zo zagen mensen in de stad Foshan aan de zuidoost kust van het land een vreemde verschijning in de lucht.

Een vreemde wolk die de vorm had van een complete stad, inclusief wolkenkrabbers.

Het fenomeen duurde een paar seconden voordat de lucht er weer normaal uitzag.

Hebben we hier te maken met een fatamorgana of is het iets anders?

Bron:

The Sun

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15-10-2015 om 17:44 geschreven door peter  

Two UFOs Seen Over Mexico Pyramids On Oct 10, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 10, 2015
Location of sighting: Tlalnepantla, Mexico

This is a really short video, but it does show us the movement of the UFOs and their appearance so I can't complain. It also looks like the Tenayuca Pyramid is in the background on the bottom right.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
VIDEO OF 10 OCTOBER 2015 BY THE PYRAMID TENAYUCA, TLALNEPANTLA MEXICO STATE

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15-10-2015 om 17:34 geschreven door peter  

Cloud Orb Seen Over Coachella Valley, California On Oct 8, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 8, 2015
Location of sighting: Coachella Valley, California, USA

This orb was caught by Youtube user Gohstdog23, and its a nice catch of a cloud orb. The best time to look for orbs are when there is a deep blue sky. It makes seeing them much easier.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
White UFO parked for a few moments, begins to move into the clouds.

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15-10-2015 om 17:28 geschreven door peter  

Bright UFO sighting over Naples, Italy on 8th October 2015

New interesting video footage of a Bright UFO sighting recorded over Naples, Italy on 8th October 2015.

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15-10-2015 om 17:21 geschreven door peter  

Did prehistoric civilizations with advanced technology exist in the past?

We believe yes, and there are numerous incredible archaeological findings which indicate that thousands, and even millions of years ago, civilizations with extremely advanced technology existed on our planet and just like us, called Earth ‘home’. These ancient civilizations could have had far superior knowledge and technology than we have today. And what if all of mankind’s ‘modern inventions’ are nothing more than re-inventions of the past? Re-inventions from a time when a different people inhabited the planet and disappeared mysteriously from the face of the Earth.

Is it possible that all of these mysterious findings can explain, once and for all mankind’s amnesia? Because it seems that humans are a species suffering from it…

Is it possible that civilization hit 'reset' a couple of times in the distant past?
Would the existence of prehistoric civilizations explain the construction of incredible ancient sites such as Puma Punku, Tiahuanaco, Teotihuacan and the Pyramids of Egypt? Is it possible that our ancestors re-discovered this lost technology and used it in their own lifetime?

Let’s check out some of the revolutionary ancient technologies that still baffle researchers.

The Ancient Chinese seismograph

Over 1500 years before the invention of the modern-day seismograph, Chinese scientists Zhang Heng managed to record an earthquake that originate 480 kilometers away. The invention referred to as the seismoscope is incredibly surprising both by its beauty (an elegant vase with carved bronze animals) and its accuracy. Until today, no one knows exactly how the mysterious device works, but nevertheless it predates the modern-day seismograph by more than 1500 years.

The 1.8 billion year old “Nuclear Reactor”

Did you know that in Africa there is a 1.8 billion year old nuclear reactor? Although mainstream scientists argue that this is in fact a naturally occurring Nuclear Reactor, many scientists argue that this is in fact impossible suggesting that the conditions for the nuclear reactor are far too precise to have occurred by itself as the result of Mother Nature. As you can see, our planet gets mysteriously beautiful by the minute and we realize how little we know about our past and everything that happened before ‘civilization’.


The Baghdad Batteries

1938 the world was introduced to the mysterious Baghdad Batteries. An ancient device, believed to be more than 2000 years old that was used, according to some researchers, by ancient mankind to power certain electrical devices. It is proven that the Baghdad Batteries can actually generate electricity. Is it possible that the Baghdad Batteries are in fact the missing link to mankind’s ancient technology?

Piri Reis: Map Impossible

Did you know that the Piri Reis map depicts Antarctica before the continent was covered by ice? Yeah… it’s one of the most mysterious maps in the world actually. The map Created by cartographer and sailor Piri Reis, which was based on far more ancient maps shows Antarctica as we have never seen it. The map also depicts a piece of land that seems to be connected to South America, a part of land that could have corresponded to the Antarctic coast in prehistoric times.

300,000 year old Nanostructures: Advanced ancient technology

Found in the Ural Mountains in Russia, these objects have caused quite a buzz since their discovery. The tiny structures are believed to have been the product of an extremely ancient civilization that was capable of developing nanotechnology about 300,000 years ago. The age of these mysterious nanostructures have placed them in the list of “out of place artifacts” given the fact that researchers estimate them to be around 300,000 years old. The Russian Academy of sciences performed several tests on these mysterious objects and the results were quite interesting. Researchers found out that the largest pieces that were unearthed were made almost entirely out of copper and the smaller ones from tungsten and molybdenum.

The materials were submitted to a more extensive research a couple of years after their discovery to find out more about the mysterious objects and their composition and according to the Russian Academy of Science and their department for Geology; the metals have not originated in nature on their own, meaning that they are components that have a artificial technological origin, in other words they were manufactured.

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15-10-2015 om 11:48 geschreven door peter  

Kenneth Arnold’s alien UFO reflections imply time’s bidirectional arrow

Vancouver, BC – An exclusive video published to YouTube on June 18, 2014, purported to reveal alien origins behind what the Atlantic magazine had cited as a 1947 UFO incident that “introduced the world to flying saucers.” The unprecedented video report filtered pilot Kenneth Arnold’s spoken witness testimony through a lossless digital audio mirror to demonstrate his unconscious sleep talking-like narrative indicating contact with “alien UFOs” during three separate interviews recorded over a thirty year period. This new evidence emerged prior to publication of scientific research suggesting how the thermodynamic arrow of time points in two distinct directions.

Authenticating the pilot’s testimony in the absence of any photographic or other instrumental record offered significant progress in a stagnant research climate where legacy UFO scientists demanded improved methods of witness interrogation. In his evaluation of Project Blue Book as an attempt by the United States Air Force to cover up valid phenomena, astronomer and former United States government UFO scientist Dr. J. Allen Hynek once cited the absence of any Blue Book-improved method of comprehensive witness interrogation.

This critique suggested how Dr. Hynek envisioned possible witness testimony rich in additional details being overlooked by investigators intent upon enforcing an official doctrine of ignorance and denial regarding the existence of UFOs (along with implications of intelligent operators). Evidence of such doctrine can be found in the Durant Report from the CIA Robertson Panel of 1953 which recommended a policy of public smear campaigns targeting individuals claiming UFO sightings and extraterrestrial contact.

On January 12, 2015, researcher and media producer John Greenewald announced his publication of the government archives to The Black Vault website, stating “I am very excited to announce that after months of collecting, programming and converting, I’ve completed a database of 130,000 pages, consisting of more than 10,000 cases, of the Project Blue Book files (including Sign and Grudge). Although some sites exist out there with some of these files, many are not complete, nor do they have the records in a searchable, .PDF format. This new site has it all, is easily navigable, searchable, and free.”

Click here to watch “Decrypting Kenneth Arnold’s Aliens”: “Produced by a veteran Mt. Adams wilderness region UFO videographer and internationally acclaimed speech analyst, this video takes an unprecedented look at how, in the absence of any photographic or other instrumental evidence gathered in support of Kenneth Arnold’s personal UFO narrative, the authenticity of this case can be established using lossless digital mirror filtering that allows observers to study audible reflections of unconscious sleep talking-like communications.”

On June 24, 1947, private aircraft operator Kenneth Arnold told staff at an air strip in Yakima, Washington, how he saw nine supersonic UFOs traveling in formation between Mt. Rainer and Mt. Adams earlier that afternoon. He would participate in a number of subsequent media interviews over a period of thirty years, of which at least three are available online. The new video draws from his June 26, 1947, KWRC radio interview, a May, 1949, CBS Radio Special Report along with on-camera statements reportedly offered during the June 24, 1977, First International UFO Congress in Chicago.

The video subjects these recordings of Kenneth Arnold’s spoken testimony to lossless digital mirror filtering whereby portions of the audio reveal apparently intelligible phrases encrypted backwards within his speech. It is a matter of public record that this innovative analytic procedure (popularized through late-night talk radio during the 1990’s) has revealed the signatures of unconscious sleep talking-like communications disclosing verifiably factual information characterized by military, forensic and clinical precision that anticipated details of the Iraq War, identified the BTK Killer and disclosed Edward Snowden’s UFOs.

Three recurring incidents of any event can invoke notions of planned intelligent actions. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Norman Mineta has illustrated his personal plan-detecting methodology by citing the rule of three on a number of occasions as expressed in the maxim “omne trium perfectum” (Latin: “Everything that comes in groups of three is complete”).

“When you see one of something happen, it’s an accident. When you see two of the same thing happening, it’s a trend. When you see three, it’s a plan,” said the former transportation secretary.

By such a Mineta standard it can be understood that multiple incidents of the term “alien” encrypted backwards within the recorded spoken testimony of pilot and UFO witness Kenneth Arnold over a 30-year period are no accident and not simply a pattern but are in fact indicative of planned communications leading to the unfoldment of human consciousness and the integration of modern civilization with a larger cosmic society.

The publication of new evidence in support of pilot Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 UFO claims provided new and unprecedented insight into a case that evidenced the power of terrestrial media to capture the public imagination (in what has now become a meme-driven online environment). Concurrently, reported secret messages describing aliens and UFOs appear to contradict orthodox notions of time both in the production of backwards real-time encryption and in transmitting acronyms that would not be formalized until the next decade, years after their appearance in the 1947 KWRC radio interview.

While scientists including Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences Kourosh Saberi acknowledge human speech as a multidimensional stimulus, there is presently no published neurological theory that explains the existence of these communications as native to brain performance in human speech behavior. The messages also appear in defiance of the arrow of time as defined by physics, in which time and all time-dependent events flow in one direction only, from past to present to future. The notion of a past which itself originates from the future appears to evade such discussions.

Two distinct, symmetric and opposite arrows of time were recently identified in research that suggests how time’s arrow may move concurrently in two directions. Those findings published this past October in Physical Review Letters explained how a simple “big bang” computer simulation demonstrated the influence of Newtonian gravity on particles expanding outwards along two temporal pathways.

APS/Alan Stonebraker

“The authors study one of the simplest possible systems: a collection of N point particles interacting through Newtonian gravity. Their only assumptions are that the total energy (potential plus kinetic) and the total angular momentum of the system are zero. From earlier numerical simulations and analytic analysis, it is known that in the distant future, such a system tends to break up into weakly interacting subsystems—typically, pairs of masses in Keplerian orbits. Starting with such a dispersed system and running time backwards, one might expect that it would coalesce in the past into a state of high density. Barbour and his coauthors show analytically that this expectation is right: for almost every initial configuration of masses, there is a unique moment of minimum size and maximum uniformity. From this point, the system expands outward, approximately symmetrically in both directions of time.”

If the term UFO was officially created in 1953 by the United States Air Force, it also appears in the secret messages derived from a 1947 radio broadcast. This observation may represent wishful thinking and bias on the part of the observer or could provide further evidence of time-independent functions of the human brain in which the past, present and future are all perceived as elements of a singular continuum.

The filtering procedure used to mirror Kenneth Arnold’s spoken testimony has been cited above for its power to forecast future events. Perhaps the apparently time-independent nature of these communications lend themselves best to revealing information that resides beyond the horizon of conventional human time perception, disclosing now-common acronyms that would not come into usage until six years later.

The following partial transcript of Kenneth Arnold’s three interviews describing the events of June 24, 1947, was edited for clarity.

Aliens won’t attack: (1947) As I kept looking at them I kept looking for their tails. They didn’t have any tails. I thought, well, maybe something’s wrong with my eyes. I turned the plane around and opened the window and looked out the window and sure enough I couldn’t find any tails on them. The whole observation of these particular ships didn’t last more than about two and a half minutes. I could see them only plainly when they seemed to tip their wing (or whatever it was) and the sun flashed on them.

Saw my spaceship. A UFO: (1947) They looked something like a pie plate that was cut in half with sort of a convex triangle in the rear. I thought that maybe they’re jet planes with just the tails painted green or brown and didn’t think too much of it but kept on watching them. They didn’t fly in the conventional formation that’s taught in our army. They seemed to weave in and out right above the mountain tops. I would say that they even went down into the canyons in several instances probably 100 feet.

Aliens. Listen. Laugh. They’re real: (1949) They passed almost directly in front of me but at a distance of about 23 miles (which is not very great in the air). I judged the wingspan to be at least 100 feet across. The sighting did not particularly disturb me at the time except that I had never seen planes of that type.

Alien. Need the plan: (1977) Right here we’ve seen something. I’ve seen something. Hundreds of pilots have seen something in the skies. We have dutifully reported these things. And we have to have 15 million witnesses before anybody is going to look into the problem seriously? Why this is utterly fantastic. This is more fantastic than flying saucers or people from Venus or anything as far as I’m concerned.

[This article originally appeared as “Kenneth Arnold’s aliens in the mirror transcend flying saucer cover-ups” in the Vancouver UFO Examiner for June 18, 2014.]

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15-10-2015 om 11:33 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky Way

A star identified by the Kepler Space Telescope may harbour structures which could point to an adanced technological civilisation

The Milky Way Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images

A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would "expect an alien civilization to build", astronomers have said.

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish a report on the “bizarre” star system suggesting the objects could be a “swarm of megastructures”, according to a new report.

"I was fascinated by how crazy it looked," Wright told The Atlantic. "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build."

The snappily named KIC 8462852 star lies just above the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. It first attracted the attention of astronomers in 2009 when the Kepler Space Telescope identified it as a candidate for having orbiting Earth-like planets.

But KIC 8462852 was emitting a stranger light pattern than any of the other stars in Kepler’s search for habitable planets.

Kepler works by analysing light from distant places in the universe — looking for changes that take place when planets move in front of their stars. But the dip in starlight from KIC 8462852 doesn't seem to be the normal pattern for a planet.

Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale told The Atlantic: “We’d never seen anything like this star. It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”

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In 2011 the star was flagged up again by several members of Kepler’s “Planet Hunters” team – a group of ‘citizen scientists’ tasked with analysing the data from the 150,000 stars Kepler was watching.

The analysts tagged the star as “interesting “ and “bizarre” because it was surrounded by a mass of matter in tight formation.

This was consistent with the mass of debris that surrounds a young star just as it did with our sun before the planets formed. However this star wasn’t young and the debris must have been deposited around it fairly recently or it would have been clumped together by gravity – or swallowed by the star itself.

Boyajian, who oversees the Planet Hunters project, recently published a paper looking at all the possible natural explanations for the objects and found all of them wanting except one – that another star had pulled a string of comets close to KIC 8462852. But even this would involve an incredibly improbable coincidence.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html
Northern Lights from space

That’s when Wright, the astronomer from Penn State University and his colleague Andrew Siemion, the Director of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) got involved. Now the possibility that the objects were created by intelligent creatures is being taken very seriously by the team.

As civilisations become more technologically advanced, they create new and better ways of collecting energy — with the end result being the harnessing of energy directly from their star. If the speculation about a megastructure being placed around the star system is correct, it could for instance be a huge set of solar panels placed around the star, scientists say.

The three astronomers want to point a radio dish at the star to look for wavelengths associated with technological civilisations. And the first observations could be ready to take place as early as January, with follow-up observations potentially coming even quicker.

“If things go really well, the follow-up could happen sooner,” Wright told The Atlantic. “If we saw something exciting… we’d be asking to go on right away.”

More about:
Kepler space telescope
SETI
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Aliens
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15-10-2015 om 11:23 geschreven door peter  

Pebbles on Mars Shaped by Ancient Long-Gone Rivers Dozens of Miles Long

Researchers have used the shape of rounded Martian pebbles to extrapolate how far they must have traveled down an ancient riverbed on the Red Planet. The analysis suggests they moved approximately 30 miles (50 kilometers), indicating that Mars once had an extensive river system.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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The shape of some Martian pebbles suggests these rocks once rolled dozens of miles down a river, hinting that ancient Martian waterways were stable and not merely ephemeral streams, researchers say.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovered the small, round stones near its landing site in Gale Crater on the Red Planet in 2013. Researchers previously determined that these stones resemble those found in rivers on Earth, which become round as they slide, roll and hop down riverbeds and scrape other rocks.

Now, a new study suggests the Martian rocks rolled in the river for quite a while — a finding that should help scientists reconstruct what ancient Mars was like and shed light on the Red Planet's past potential to support life, study team members said. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]

"We believe liquid water is a principal ingredient for life," study co-author Douglas Jerolmack, a geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, told Space.com. "Knowing whether pebbles in a river moved 1 kilometer or 100 kilometers [0.6 miles or 62 miles] could tell us how stable water was on the surface of ancient Mars."

The researchers developed a mathematical model to deduce how blocky rocks become rounder and smoother as bits of them chip off due to erosion. Then, the investigators analyzed the shape of the Martian pebbles to estimate the amount of mass each lost due to erosion.

"An object's shape can itself tell you a lot," study co-author Gábor Domokos, an applied mathematician at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, said in a statement today (Oct. 13). "If you go to the beach, natural history is written underneath your feet. We started to understand that there is a code that you can read to begin to understand that history."

To test their model, the researchers rolled limestone fragments in a drum and recorded the changes in their shape and mass. They found that the pattern of changes in the rocks closely followed their models.

Next, the researchers went to a mountain river in Puerto Rico, to analyze the rocks there.

"We started at the headwaters, where chunks of angular rock are breaking off from the walls of the stream, and went downstream," Jerolmack said in the same statement. "Every few hundred meters, we would pull thousands of rocks out and take images of their silhouette and record their weight." The scientists again found that the trend of changes in these rocks closely followed their model.

The researchers also analyzed rocks in an alluvial fan — the fan-shaped deposit of sediment that builds up as a stream flows — at the mouth of a canyon in New Mexico. This area closely mirrors the location where the round pebbles were found on Mars. This work suggested that the shape of the rocks could help scientists estimate how far these stones traveled.

"This is the first attempt to deduce the history of a particle from its shape alone," Domokos told Space.com.

Using publicly available images of the rounded pebbles on Mars from the Curiosity rover mission, the scientists calculated that those rocks had lost about 20 percent of their volume. When they factored in the reduced Martian gravity, which is only about 40 percent of Earth's, they estimated that the pebbles had traveled about 30 miles (50 km) from their source, perhaps from the northern rim of Gale Crater.

This research could also help scientists analyze river-borne particles on other planets and moons, such as Saturn's largest satellite, Titan. "There are pebbles there made of frozen water imaged by the Huygens probe at the mouth of what looks like a river channel," Jerolmack said.

The new method the researchers developed could help analyze not only the history of pebbles in liquids, "but also sand grains in less viscous fluids like air," Jerolmack said. "Our findings can be utilized to look at windblown sediments on Mars, Earth and other planetary bodies where windblown sediments are found."

Despite the extraterrestrial applications, a better understanding of the history of particles "is probably most useful on Earth," Jerolmack said. "Gold and iron ores are often found in rivers, and gas and oil in river deposits, and people will want to know how far pebbles associated with these resources have traveled, to identify their sources."

The scientists detailed their findings online today in the journal Nature Communications.

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15-10-2015 om 11:02 geschreven door peter  

'Mysterieus licht van ster duidt mogelijk op bestaan aliens'

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Astronomen staan voor een raadsel na de ontdekking van een ster waar talloze mysterieuze objecten omheen cirkelen. Het lichtpatroon dat de ster uitstraalt, is bij geen enkele van 150.000 andere bekeken sterren te zien. Een verklaring hebben wetenschappers niet, maar ze vermoeden dat het gaat om werk van buitenaards leven.

  Aliens moeten altijd de laatste verklaring zijn waar je naar kijkt, maar dit ziet eruit als iets wat buitenaardse wezens zouden bouwen

Jason Wright

Een foto van het sterrenbeeld Lyra (Lier), een van de twee sterrenbeelden waar de bijzondere ster zich tussen bevindt.

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Je moet pas gaan denken aan buitenaardse wezens als al het andere is uitgesloten

Govert Schilling

Flauwekul
De Nederlandse wetenschapsjournalist Govert Schilling heeft al over de ster gehoord. Hij vindt het idee dat het mysterieuze licht duidt op aliens 'flauwekul'. ,,Er zijn talloze verklaringen die veel logischer zijn, bijvoorbeeld dat het om stof gaat'', zegt hij. ,,En daarvan weten we wel zeker dat het bestaat. Een Amerikaanse wetenschapper zei eens dat je voor buitengewone claims ook buitengewoon bewijs moet hebben. En het bestaan van buitenaards leven is een buitengewone claim, waarvoor geen bewijs is. Je moet pas gaan denken aan buitenaardse wezens als al het andere is uitgesloten.''

Opmerkelijke objecten die rond sterren zweven, zijn mogelijk dé indicatie voor onontdekte wezens in de ruimte. Dat roept het SETI-instituut, dat onderzoek doet naar buitenaards leven, al jaren. En het lichtpatroon van de bijzondere ster lijkt te worden veroorzaakt door, jawel, onbekende objecten.

De ster kwam aan het licht dankzij oplettende burgers. Amerikaanse wetenschappers gebruiken onder meer de zogenoemde Kepler Space Telescope om naar sterren te kijken, maar het menselijk oog kan soms beter patronen ontdekken dan apparatuur.

Daarom hadden wetenschappers de hulp van burgers ingeroepen om vanuit huis mee te kijken naar de 150.000 sterren die de Kepler Telescope observeert. Dat kan niet met het blote oog, maar wel dankzij beelden van de telescoop, die al sinds 2009 naar de hemel kijkt.

Cirkelende objecten
In 2011 viel het meerdere burgers op dat één 'bizarre' ster een heel ander lichtpatroon uitstraalde dan de andere sterren. Ook de onderzoekers hadden nog nooit zoiets gezien. Zij denken dat het lichtpatroon wordt veroorzaakt door een hoop objecten die om de ster heen cirkelt.

Dat zou niet zo raar zijn als de ster jong is. Toen het zonnestelsel ontstond, draaide er tenslotte ook een verzameling stof en andere objecten om de zon (die ook een ster is). Maar: de ster is niet jong. Als dat zo was, zou er stof omheen zweven dat infraroodlicht uitstraalt. En dat is niet zo.

Alien
Wat voor objecten zorgen dan voor het opmerkelijke lichtpatroon? Wetenschappers weten het niet zeker. Het lijkt geen normaal ruimteafval te zijn. Dat zou al lang verdwenen zijn, bijvoorbeeld door in de oppervlakte van de ster te zijn opgenomen.

Het kan gaan om resten van botsende asteroïdes. Of om een enorme groep kometen, meegekomen met een andere ster die dichtbij de bijzondere ster kwam. Of: om een aanwijzing voor buitenaards leven.

Onderzoeker Jason Wright van de Penn State Universiteit denkt dat de objecten bij de bijzondere ster mogelijk een soort lichtpanelen zijn waarmee buitenaardse wezens proberen energie op te wekken. ,,Aliens moeten altijd de laatste verklaring zijn waar je naar kijkt, maar dit ziet eruit als iets wat buitenaardse wezens zouden bouwen'', zegt hij tegen The Atlantic.

Radiostralen
Talloze onderzoekers kunnen dan ook niet wachten om te kijken wat er aan de hand is. Het plan is om een enorme radiotelescoop op de ster te richten en te zien of er radiostralen vandaan komen die duiden op technologische activiteit bij de ster. Als alles goed gaat, gebeurt dat in januari. Tot die tijd is het de vraag of er vanuit de omgeving van de mysterieuze ster wezens naar de wetenschappers terugkijken.

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15-10-2015 om 10:41 geschreven door peter  

Could mysterious KIC 8462852 star be home to an ALIEN megastructure?

Could this be the smoking gun that proves we are not alone in the universe?

Scientists are baffled by a strange mess of objects that are circling around a distant star, prompting speculation there could be an ALIEN megastructure out there in space.

The Kepler Space Telescope has picked out KIC 8462852, 1,480 light-years away from Earth, as being of particular interest.

Credit: arxiv

KIC 8462852 appears to be giving off a series of bizarre light fluctuations that are so far unexplained.

Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale, told the Atlantic that nobody has ever seen anything like the KIC 8462852 star.

Her report on KIC 8462852 goes into great detail about possible explanations for the star.

She said: “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”

Kepler Space Telescope.

Credit: NASA/Troy Cryder

The star in question appears to be mature, which means typical explanations for when a mess of matter is circling a star do not apply.

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is among those looking into the star, with investigators from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) also interested.

“When [Boyajian] showed me the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Wright said.

“Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build.”

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Author of the UFO Investigations Manual Nigel Watson agrees that aliens are a possible explanation for KIC 8462852.

He said: “This is the next best thing to getting a direct message from an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation, as it suggests some form of alien activity. Unfortunately, much like the search for alien radio communications there are plenty of alternative possibilities for these latest findings.

“The search for radio signals or Dyson spheres are based on our own human assumptions about technology, and very possibly advanced aliens are impossible for us to contact or imagine. We can only hope we will stumble on civilisations that have evolved in a similar way to us and have developed technology much like our own.

“Otherwise SETI is a futile enterprise, though KIC 8462852 does give us a glimmer of hope that we are not alone in this vast universe.”

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15-10-2015 om 10:25 geschreven door peter  

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15-10-2015 om 10:13 geschreven door peter  

George Bush Sénior réalise une étonnante déclaration sur les ovnis et extraterrestres

George Bush père, l'ancien président des États-Unis, fut occupé ces derniers jours par la campagne de candidature à présidentielle de son fils Jeb Bush, qui, cette semaine a été impliqué dans un événement de collecte de fonds à Orlando, en Floride.

Pendant l'événement, un homme dans la foule a posé une question "inhabituelle", ayant conduit à une réponse tout aussi surprenante de la part de l'ancien chef de la CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).

La question a été posée par un journaliste passionné d'ufologie au sujet du secret autour des ovnis et des extraterrestres.

George Bush sénior répondit : « Les Américains ne seraient pas en mesure de supporter la vérité. »

Suite à cette réponse, le climat a complètement changé dans la salle et toutes les personnes présentes furent extrêmement surprises.

Les organisateurs de l'événement ont immédiatement interrompu le jeu des questions/réponses.

De nombreuses voix se sont ensuite élevées pour expliquer que Bush était âgé de 91 ans et pouvait souffrir d'un trouble des fonctions cognitives ou de la maladie d'Alzheimer.

Cependant, ce n’est pas la première fois que Bush fait référence à la question OVNI.

Déclarations antérieures

Pendant la course à la présidentielle de 1988, James Adder, journaliste du Globe Arkansas, a interviewé à Bush à propos de l'existence des ovnis, et il avait répondu : « Je sais quelque chose. Je connais suffisamment le sujet », entraînant l’arrêt de la conférence.

George Bush père était, à l'époque, vice-président des États-Unis et avait donc accès à des documents classifiés.

L'ancien président américain est par conséquent le plus crédible et qualifié pour répondre à ce type de question, ayant de surcroit été directeur de la CIA entre 1976 et 1977.

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15-10-2015 om 10:07 geschreven door peter  

Quantum Equation Suggests The Big Bang Never Occurred – The Universe Has No Beginning

When it comes to the science regarding the true nature of our reality, you won’t find a shortage of theories, or a shortage of criticisms of each theory. We are like a race with amnesia, trying to discover and search for an answer that most probably exists, but has yet to be discovered. How did the universe begin?

By: Collective Evolution.

When it comes to the science regarding the true nature of our reality, you won’t find a shortage of theories, or a shortage of criticisms of each theory. We are like a race with amnesia, trying to discover and search for an answer that most probably exists, but has yet to be discovered. How did the universe begin?

According to new research, there might not have been a big bang. Instead, the universe might have existed forever. The theory was derived from the mathematics of general relativity, and compliment Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

“The Big Bang singularity is the most serious problem of general relativity because the laws of physics appear to break down there.” – Ahmed Farag Ali, Benha University, Co-Author of the study.

The big bang theory postulates that everything in existence resulted from a single event that launched the creation of the entire universe and that everything in existence today was once part of a single infinitely dense point, also known as the “singularity.”

Here is a good picture representing what the big bang theory is referring to.

So the big bang, again, postulates that the universe started out as an infinitely small point in space called a singularity, then exploded and created space where there was no space before, and that it is continually expanding. One big question regarding that expansion is; how did it happen? As you can see in the picture, “who is that guy?!”

According to Nassim Haramein, the Director of Research for the Resonance Project

    “For every action there is an equal opposite reaction.” is one of the most foundational and proven concepts in all ofphysics. Therefore, if the universe is expanding then “the guy” (or whatever “he” is), who is blowing up that balloon, has to have some huge lungs that are contracting to be able to blow it up. This a concept that Nassim Haramein began exploring when creating an alternative unified field theory to explain the universe.”

This is one out of many criticisms regarding the big bang theory. There are many considerations to be pondered. Can something come from nothing? What about quantum mechanics and the possibility that there is no moment of time at which the universe did not exist?

Again, so many considerations to be pondered.

According to Phys.org:

     “The scientists propose that this fluid might be composed of gravitons—hypoth  etical massless particles that mediate the force of gravity. If they exist, gravitons are thought to play a key role in a theory of quantum gravity.In a related paper, Das and another collaborator, Rajat Bhaduri of McMaster University, Canada, have lent further credence to this model. They show that gravitons can form a Bose-Einstein condensate (named after Einstein and another Indian physicist, Satyendranath Bose) at temperatures that were present in the universe at all epochs.”

The theory also suggests (obviously) that there are no singularities or dark matter, and that the universe is filled with a “quantum fluid.” These scientists are suggesting that this quantum fluid is filled with gravitons.

According to Phys.org:

     “In a related paper, Das and another collaborator, Rajat Bhaduri of McMaster University, Canada, have lent further credence to this model. They show that gravitons can form a Bose-Einstein condensate (named after Einstein and another Indian physicist, Satyendranath Bose) at temperatures that were present in the universe at all epochs.”

As you can see, when quantum mechanics is thrown into the equation things appear to be far different. Again, this new theory is suggesting that the universe could have always existed, that it never was what we perceive to be as “the beginning.” Perhaps it was just an event that did occur that we perceive as the beginning, perhaps the event occurred not from nothing, but something. Again, who is that guy blowing on the balloon in the picture? There is something there that has yet to be discovered.

    “As far as we can see, since different points in the universe never actually converged in the past, it did not have a beginning. It lasted forever. It will also not have an end, in other words, there is no singularity. The universe could have lasted forever. It could have gone through cycles of being small and big. or it could have been created much earlier.” – Saurya Das at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, Co-Author of the study.

What We Know Is Often Just Theory

To conclude, it’s clear that we do not yet have a solid explanation regarding what happened during the Big Bang, or if it even happened at all. This new theory is combining general relativity with quantum mechanics, and at the end of the day these are all just theories.

Not to mention the fact that theories regarding multiple dimensions, multiple universes and more have to be considered. When looking for the starting point of creation, our own universe might not even be the place to start. It might be hard given the fact that we cannot yet perceive other factors that have played a part in the make up of what we call reality. What is even harder is the fact that quantum physics is showing that the true nature and make up of the universe is not a physical material thing!

We just don’t know yet, and there are still new findings in modern day physics that delve into non-materialistic science that many mainstream materialistic scientists have yet to grasp and acknowledge.

I’ll leave you with a quote that might give you something to think about:

     “A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit thatthe universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.” (R. C. Henry, “The Mental Universe”; Nature 436:29, 2005)

    “Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension and even anger. (T. Folger, “Quantum Shmantum”; Discover 22:37-43, 2001)

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15-10-2015 om 09:52 geschreven door peter  

Back to the future: Science studies the possibility of time travel

Who doesn’t remember Marty McFly, back to the future and all the good times watching the awesome movies? Well, it seems that scientists love them as much as we and do not take movies like that lightly.

Before we start, I have to mention that no one is actually building a secret time machine and as things look, a time machine that can take you back and forth through time won’t be built anytime soon. Now, let’s get to the interesting part.

An international group of researchers led by experts from the University of Birmingham, England, opened the debate about the possibility of time travel and if it could be achieved.

Alastair Wilson, the head of scientific research raises key questions in order to investigate the phenomenon: The linear notion that we humans have about time is just our way of perceiving it. This proposes considering temporality as a dimension of the same nature as those that make up the space where we live today.

If we can travel so easily among the top three dimensions, why would it be impossible to make it through a fourth?

According to Wilson, the possibility is somewhere in the universe, near a black hole. There, we could find something physicists refer to as the gateway to the fourth dimension. The team of researchers devoted time to assess the known paradoxes about time travel and the possibility of travelling through time (The Grandfather Paradox).


Dr Nikk Effingham PhD had some interesting things to say about time travel in an interview:

“This ‘Grandfather Paradox’ seems to tell against time travel’s possibility. The most famous contribution to this debate is David Lewis’s ‘The Paradoxes of Time Travel’. We could travel in time, says Lewis, but don’t think you can thereby do the impossible.”

“If you go back in time and try to bring about a paradox, then something will get in your way. Perhaps you slip on a banana peel and miss; perhaps the gun jams; perhaps you bump into the woman of your dreams and decide romance is better than murder. Lots of things might stop you. These questions about the possibility of time travel are still live questions. What have received less attention are issues concerning the probability of time travel, and the project headed by myself and Alastair Wilson investigates just these questions.”

“Is Stephan Hawking as likely as Joey Essex to find his future self telling him how to build a time machine?”

“Am I as likely to meet myself coming from the future, telling myself how to build a time machine as I am to meet myself coming from the future telling me how to answer a tricky crossword puzzle?

"Answers to these questions are difficult to figure out. These issues feature in various attempts to reconcile quantum physics with relativity. Such theories talk about ‘closed timelike curves’ – effectively tunnels through space and time that go back to the past – and so what one says about probability and time travel will have bearing on these difficult questions in physics. So musing about people appearing from nowhere and the likelihood of slipping on banana peels is more than mere navel-gazing.”

As we can see, scientists are finally thinking outside the box which can lead to very exciting results. Despite everything, the team of experts rejects the idea that a machine that would allow mankind to travel through time can be built by ‘humans’.

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15-10-2015 om 01:16 geschreven door peter  

How NASA Plans To Protect Planets Against An Alien Invasion

NASA has an Office of Planetary Protection. Its purpose is not to protect Earth from invasion by some green skinned monsters, but rather to protect the rest of the Universe from us. With the recent evidence of liquid water on Mars , the possibility of life on the red planet has become a bit more possible, and protecting potential martians from an alien threat is a real challenge.

While Earth is the only planet for which the presence of life is certain, we know that living things can be extraordinarily hardy. We’ve seen organisms thrive in areas of extreme temperature and acid environments. Tardigrades (also known as water bears) have survived the cold vacuum of space, and bacteria have been found within nuclear waste. So it’s not unreasonable to imagine a terrestrial organism hitching a ride on a spacecraft. If that spacecraft comes into contact with a potentially habitable environment they could become an invasive species on another world.
An adult tardigrade. Photo: Schokraie E, Warnken U, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Grohme MA, Hengherr S, et al. CC BY 2.5.

An adult tardigrade. Photo: Schokraie E, Warnken U, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Grohme MA, Hengherr S, et al. CC BY 2.5.

To protect against such an event, NASA has defined different levels of risk, each requiring a different level of spacecraft decontamination. These categories are part of the Outer Space Treaty, which is in international agreement of space faring nations. Under the agreement there are four broad categories:

I – No risk of contamination. This includes orbiters and landers on Mercury and Jupiter’s moon Io, where the chance of life is (as far as we know) zero.

II – Negligible risk. Landers on the Moon and Venus, for example, where indigenous life is not likely to be found.

III – Slight risk. This typically applies to flybys and orbiters for worlds that might have life, such as Mars, Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus. These worlds are known to have liquid water and conditions that could sustain life, but the mission is not scheduled to come into direct contact with them.

IV – Possible risk. Landing on potentially habitable worlds such as Mars, Europa and Enceladus.

The last category is further differentiated into three subcategories, based upon whether a lander mission will contain experiments seeking to detect life, or whether it will enter a “special region” such as the areas of Mars where liquid water could be present.

A Viking lander being prepared for dry heat sterilization, which is currently the most stringent method. Credit: NASA

Because of these subcategories the Curiosity rover currently active on Mars is forbidden to study a region with liquid water, even though it’s less than 30 miles away from one of them. NASA’s next generation of Mars rovers scheduled to launch in 2020 cannot study the regions, since they won’t meet the most stringent of sterilization levels.

While robotic missions can be sterilized to high standards, crewed missions cannot. Currently any landing of a crewed mission must first be visited by a robotic mission to verify the region is inhospitable, and humans wouldn’t be allowed to enter special regions. But will that be enough? Our dreams of a human voyage to Mars will be an invasion of terrestrial organisms, and that could put our dreams of finding alien life at risk.

Brian Koberlein is an astrophysicist, professor and author. You can find more of his writing at One Universe at a Time.

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15-10-2015 om 01:09 geschreven door peter  

A Stone's Throw From Stonehenge Lies a Massive New Mystery

Located in Wittshire, England, Stonehenge is one of the world's most iconic man-made landmarks. Tourists flock to the raised stones to ponder their origins and meaning. Are these the marks of an alien burial site? Were ancient sacrificial rituals conducted here? How were these stones raised before the advent of modern technology? Stonehenge baffles tourists (and historians) to this day as it sits isolated in the middle of the English countryside.

Recently, a group of archaeologists from the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project uncovered the extensive remains of a 90-stone structure less than two miles from Stonehenge. Using remote sensing technologies, the archaeologists were able to detect the presence of the massive stone monument, which is currently buried under a bank of grass. Though the archaeologists aren't entirely sure when the monument was built, they are able to place its construction as contemporary to Stonehenge itself, some time between 2,000 and 3,000 BC.

This new discovery means Stonehenge is not isolated and may in fact be relatively small in comparison to its newfound neighbor. Scientists and archaeologists alike are scrambling to figure out the significance of the new monument and where it figures into the history of the area.

Luckily for them, the new monument is surprisingly well-preserved, and excavation of the stones could lead to specimens more easily researchable than Stonehenge. If full excavation occurs, the monument would form a half moon that dwarfs its sister site. Preemptive hypotheses suggest the new stones might've been used for ancient calendar purposes, as a sacred space for religious acts, or as the wall of an arena.

In a statement released to the press by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, Paul Garwood, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, reflected on the project's game-changing discovery, "The extraordinary scale, detail and novelty of the evidence produced by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project is changing fundamentally our understanding of Stonehenge and the world around it. Everything written previously about the Stonehenge landscape and the ancient monuments within it will need to be re-written."

Regardless of what scientists uncover, this story will be an important one to watch unfold. And in the near future, the discovery might also be a can't-miss addition to the English travel itinerary.

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15-10-2015 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

Three Ancient Alien Sanctuaries that scientists cannot explain

There are many places on Earth that baffle archaeologists and scholars ever since their discovery but we can probably isolate a few of them which have been built which such precision that modern-day engineers and architects cannot replicate them. Among our favorites are without a doubt Puma Punku, Tiahuanaco and Teotihuacan, our three Ancient Alien Sanctuaries.

These three majestic ancient citadels have caused quite a debate among researchers and the general population. All three defy our understanding of ancient man in every way, raising numerous questions that modern-day scholars cannot answer.

Just how did ancient mankind construct Puma Punku with such precision? Why is it that at Tiahuanaco, every race on Earth is depicted? And why did the builders of Teotihuacan use mica in their constructions? These are some of the questions that challenge mainstream understanding of ancient mankind.

We believe that ancient mankind was much more advanced than what scholars tell us today. We believe that there are lost technologies somewhere out there that allowed the builders of Teotihuacan, Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco erect such majestic buildings.

Teotihuacan, built by the Quinametzin giants?

This ancient citadel was established around 100 B.C., lasting until its fall between the seventh and eighth centuries. Teotihuacan was one of the largest cities in the ancient world, it is one of the most incredible ancient cities in America, there we can find evidence that the builders , unknown to history, had incredible knowledge in Mathematics, Geology, Astronomy and Engineering. Just as many other ancient cities, Teotihuacan was mysteriously abandoned in 700 A.D.

Among the most interesting findings at Teotihuacan we have MICA.

Mica was known to ancient Indian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman and Chinese civilizations, as well as the Aztec civilization of the New World. Mica is stable when exposed to electricity, light, moisture, and extreme temperatures. It has superior electrical properties as an insulator and as a dielectric, and can support an electrostatic field while dissipating minimal energy in the form of heat and is thermally stable to 500 °C. The question is... why did the builders of Teotihuacan use mica in their buildings? The mica used in the buildings of Teotihuacan was brought from Brazil.

Puma Punku is one of the most important places if you want to see what ancient man was capable of. These stone structures are among the biggest ever found.

Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco: Lost in space and time

Puma Punku is a large temple complex or monument group that is part of the Tiwanaku Site near Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Puma Punku is so unique in the way that it was constructed, shaped and positioned, that it is among the most intriguing ancient site on the planet. No one has been able to explain the precision found at Puma Punku. The massive stones were hewn at quarries over 60 miles away according to archaeologists... and oh just in case you did not know, Puma Punku is located at an altitude of 12,800 feet, which means it is located above the natural tree line, this means NO trees grew in that area which means that no trees were cut down in order to use wooden rollers, the question is how did they transport the stones?

As for Tiahuanaco...

The ancient citadel of Tiahuanaco is located near Puma Punku, less than a quarter-mile northeast of Puma Punku. Scientists believe Tiahuanaco was once the center of a civilization with more than 40,000 inhabitants. It’s said that Tiahuanaco displays all the races of mankind, even elongated skulls, people wearing turbans, people with broad noses, people with thin noses, people with thick lips, people with thin lips, and some of the statues are particularly unusual and are unlike the ones found in the nearby area.

One of the most important archaeological artifacts ever discovered in Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku is the famous Fuente Magna Bowl, a ceramic bowl that has Sumerian cuneiform and Proto-Sumerian hieroglyphic written on it.

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15-10-2015 om 00:30 geschreven door peter