Scientists and Academics Form A Group In Hopes To Offer Scientific Explanations On UFO Sightings

A group of academics and scientists from different parts of the world has launched a new project called UFO Detection and Tracking (UFODATA) to apply rigorous scientific research to UFO study. It’s an all-volunteer, nonprofit effort of scientists from the U.S., U.K., Italy, Chile, and the Netherlands. They’re aiming to use scientific data and research methods to offer advanced details of the subject.

Scientific president and director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago, Mark Rodeghier, says that scientific data on UFO reports and sightings is needed to make progress in understanding the causes. Rodeghier, who is also now a UFODATA board member, explains that filling out the form and telling what they saw isn’t going to help in solving the problem, which is the frequent, incomprehensible sightings of aerial activity.

The team of around 15 professors, astronomers, engineers, scientists, and a journalist plan to set up a series of advanced surveillance stations equipped with scientific research tools at various UFO hotspots, such as in Hessdalen, Norway, and the western United States. These stations will be used to capture photographs of unidentified objects and analyze the light from them to learn more about their sources of energy. The same efforts have been done in the past, but not in coordinated and scientifically rigorous method.

The sensors will feature several high-resolution cameras with a spectrographic grating, which will be used to analyze the type of light the camera is capturing, and analyze the way that energy affects the atmosphere around the light source. Other equipment includes Geiger counter, weather station, and magnetometer (measures electromagnetic radiation).

Each one of these sensors will cost between $10,000 and $20,000, which the group is hoping to raise through crowdfunding and other donations. Members of the group also want to build one prototype station, test it, and prove the concept. Rodeghier says they plan to raise more funds next year when the project is better known, and more volunteers are in place.

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21-10-2015 om 12:21 geschreven door peter  

Unknown object flying over Chesterfield, Missouri 19-Oct-2015

Here’s the latest UFO sighting that was recorded yesterday (19th October 2015) in the sky above Chesterfield, Missouri.

 Witness report: 5 objects hovered for 40 minutes then one at a time flew away in the same direction
I was walking a trail and noticed 5 objects hovering in the same spot. I watched as they stayed in the same formation for about 40 minutes. Then one at a time at a normal speed they flew west ward and disappeared in the horizon. I snapped a few pictures and videos with my phone.

 Author (source: MUFON)

Note: Watch in full screen!

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21-10-2015 om 12:11 geschreven door peter  

Blueish UFO Flies High Above Utah

A man from Sandy, Utah reported his UFO sighting to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). According to his testimony in Case 70772 of the American-based non-profit organization’s witness reporting database, he saw the blue glowing object and recorded it on video.

The witness first noticed the object at 9:30 p.m. on September 20, 2015. The object didn’t move at all and did appear very far in the distant sky. It had a blue glow color, the report said.

As the witness started to take photos, the UFO began to move across the sky, but he heard no noise coming from it. He also did not see a trail as the object moved. He noted that it was a clear night sky and stars in the sky were very visible. He said the blue object was different from a star.

Few minutes later, the witness saw the object above their house, maintaining a high altitude. It flew to the northwest sky and vanished. The witness could not locate it again. He managed to get still photos and a video of the mysterious aerial object.

MUFON closed the case as an unknown after Utah MUFON Assistant State Director Geoffrey Cox’s investigation.

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21-10-2015 om 12:05 geschreven door peter  

Major UFO Sighting over Augusta, Georgia

This interesting footage was just submitted to me. It was allegedly recorded over August in Georgia, but I’m still waiting for any additional info.

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21-10-2015 om 11:55 geschreven door peter  

India: Massive UFO Hovering Behind Clouds

Stunned eyewitnesses believed they had spotted a large circular object floated above them that looked like the craft from an alien movie.

One of the witnesses Lincoln Liba said that the massive disc surfaced from within a cloud and as a rainbow appeared. In one of theseveral pictures taken, one boy is seen pointing up at the object.
Residents and students in Imphal, India claimed to have seen the UFO last week.

Local weather experts explain that it isn’t a UFO but a lenticular cloud, which is a formation of clouds that usually mistaken for UFOs in the past as it often appears in an almost oval-shaped structure.

But other witnesses argue that the thing appears solid.

An identical mothership-look emerged from the clouds in a photo that was allegedly taken from Brazil and uploaded two days ago.
disc-shaped-ufo

Brazil flying saucer

Other pictures also featured the same image said to have taken in different parts of the world, including above a heavy traffic.

The same image was also found in pictures released by a news agency this week, which were apparently captured in Heilongtan Reservoir in Sichuan Province, China.

Other online viewers suggested that the UFO in the Indian images was created using digital editing software or a mobile phone app.

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21-10-2015 om 11:51 geschreven door peter  

UFO crash mystery: Met Police report being called to crashed UFO on fire in road
POLICE have told of their shock at arriving at the scene of a suspected flying saucer crash in west London after a mystery blazing metal object was found in a road.

By Jon Austin

Police officers were shocked by what they saw at the sceneGETTY•TWITTER•METPOLICE
Police officers were shocked by what they saw at the scene

Officers from Kingston Police thought they may have been called out to the UK's first ever Unidentified Flying Object Object crash site when an inexplicable object was seen on fire in the middle of a road at night.

Officers were so shocked they tweeted: "Have we been called to the first crash landing of a UFO in the UK?"

They also posted about the job on Facebook, stating: "Have Kingston Police recovered the first UFO?

"Last night at around midnight a concerned member of the public called us on 999 stating that there was an unknown item on fire in the middle of the road.

"Officers from Emergency Response Team A were dispatched along with the London Fire Brigade.

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When they arrived on scene they couldn't believe their eyes! The officers that arrived on scene described the item as looking like a crash landed UFO!

Kingston Police

"When they arrived on scene they couldn't believe their eyes!

"The officers that arrived on scene described the item as looking like a crash landed UFO!"

They even asked readers to post suggestions of what it was.

London Fire Brigade officers also tweeted about the experience, saying: "We attended a 'UFO crash' on Sat night with @MPSKingston."

But they added that the "UFO turned out to be a pizza oven on fire in the road".

After establishing what it was the mystery continued and police do want to know how on Earth a pizza oven ended up on fire in the middle of the road on Saturday.

The Facebook post added: "However on a serious note, anyone with information about this item and how it ended up being there please do contact us on 101"

As you do: The mystery craft turned out to be a pizza oven abalze in the street

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21-10-2015 om 01:46 geschreven door peter  

Man captures 'UFO footage' flying over Melbourne

An Australian man believes he may have captured a UFO on two cameras.

An Australian man believes he may have captured a UFO on two cameras.

Just before he started filming on October 14, 2015, Peter Slattery noticed what looked like a kite fly by the side of his home in Melbourne.

When he went to investigate he couldn’t see anything but as he returned to his back yard he saw something in the sky.

He immediately started filming the unusual light in the sky moving fast through the clouds.

UFO? Peter Slattery filmed this object flying over his home in Melbourne. Photo: Peter Slattery.

Peter following the object until it went out of view, next thing he knew it had disappeared.

It’s not the first time Mr Slattery has come across suspected alien life either.

His website shows plenty of photos of what he claims to be UFO’s dating back to 2011.

Photo: Peter Slattery February 2014. Taken in his front yard.

Taken 26 October 2013. Photo: Peter Slattery.

Photo: July 31 2012 taken near Lavington NSW by Peter Slattery.

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21-10-2015 om 01:32 geschreven door peter  

Life on Earth may have begun 300m years earlier than previously thought

Discovery, if confirmed, indicates that living organisms appeared on Earth 4.1 billion years ago, remarkably soon after its formation

Electron microscope images taken during the analysis of the graphite specks, which were trapped within immensely old zircon crystals.
Electron microscope images taken during the analysis of the graphite specks, which were trapped within immensely old zircon crystals. Photograph: Bell et al, University of California, Los Angeles

Living organisms may have existed on Earth as long as 4.1bn years ago – 300m years earlier than was previously thought, new research has shown.

If confirmed, the discovery means life emerged a remarkably short time after the Earth was formed from a primordial disc of dust and gas surrounding the sun 4.6bn years ago.
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Researchers discovered the evidence in specks of graphite trapped within immensely old zircon crystals from Jack Hills, Western Australia.

Atoms in the graphite, a crystalline form of carbon, bore the hallmark of biological origin. They were enriched with 12C, a “light” carbon isotope, or atomic strain, normally associated with living things.

It suggests that a terrestrial biosphere had emerged on Earth as early as 4.1bn years ago, said the scientists writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The US scientists, led by Dr Mark Harrison, from the University of California at Los Angeles, said the graphite was completely encased in zircon that was crack-free and could not have been contaminated despite the passing of aeons.

They wrote: “This study extends the terrestrial carbon isotope record around 300m years beyond the previously oldest-measured samples from south-west Greenland.”

Some non-biological processes could also produce the light form of carbon, notably meteorite impacts, said the researchers.

But the amount of extra-terrestrial carbon needed to account for the findings made meteorites an unlikely source.

“A biogenic origin seems at least as plausible,” the scientists added.

Confirming the connection with early life would represent “a potentially transformational scientific advance” they said.

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21-10-2015 om 01:21 geschreven door peter  

The secret story of the man who invented a Spaceship in 1861

Who do you think that invented the modern-day concept of the Spaceship?

Until recently it was believed that the scientific concept of a vehicle capable of flying outside Earth’s atmosphere propelled by ‘rockets’ was conceived by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and his American colleague Robert Goddard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. These two gentlemen were inspired by science fiction stories and the epic book "From the Earth to the Moon" written by Jules Verne. But is that the actual truth?

Well some of you would say that spaceflight as we know it was mentioned in India thousands of years ago...

Who invented the modern-day concept of a Spaceship?
Ancient Sanskrit Writings: The Vimana

Ancient India’s greatest ancient texts are called the “Vedas” and these writings literally talk about “flying ships” that visited their continent over 6000 years ago. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. According to experts, the Vedas speak about two categories of flying objects that visited ancient India in the distant past. These mysterious objects are described in Sanskrit writing, where you can find incredible devices and technologies that were not supposed to be present on our planet for thousands of years. In the Mahabharata, the Puranas, and the Ramayanas, we find more descriptions of mysterious devices that surpass technological understanding of ancient man.

But can that be scientifically proven? I believe this question could open up an extensive debate in that matter.

According to a study published by space historian Robert Godwin, in 1861, three decades earlier than in previous studies suggest, William Leitch had already successfully applied scientific principles for spaceflight in an essay entitled "A Journey Through Space", which was later published in his book God's Glory in the Heavens (1862)

According to Godwin:


There is no doubt in my mind that Leitch deserves a place of honour in the history of spaceflight.

The fact that he was a scientist is the key to this story. He wasn't just making a wild guess. Not only did he understand Newton's law of action and reaction, he almost dismissively understood that a rocket would work more efficiently in the vacuum of space; a fact that still caused Goddard and others to be subjected to ridicule almost six decades later.

And whereas Goddard and Tsiolkovsky got their first inspiration from the science fiction of Wells and Verne, Leitch seems to have been inspired by the advances in powerful telescopes, and the newly spin-stabilised military projectiles being manufactured in London, and Isaac Newton...

Godwin states that Leitech not only understood the laws of action and reaction proposed by Newton, but he also proposed that a rocket would work more efficiently in the vacuum of space.

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21-10-2015 om 01:14 geschreven door peter  

The secret story of the man who invented a Spaceship in 1861

Who do you think that invented the modern-day concept of the Spaceship?

Until recently it was believed that the scientific concept of a vehicle capable of flying outside Earth’s atmosphere propelled by ‘rockets’ was conceived by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and his American colleague Robert Goddard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. These two gentlemen were inspired by science fiction stories and the epic book "From the Earth to the Moon" written by Jules Verne. But is that the actual truth?

Well some of you would say that spaceflight as we know it was mentioned in India thousands of years ago...

Who invented the modern-day concept of a Spaceship?
Ancient Sanskrit Writings: The Vimana

Ancient India’s greatest ancient texts are called the “Vedas” and these writings literally talk about “flying ships” that visited their continent over 6000 years ago. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. According to experts, the Vedas speak about two categories of flying objects that visited ancient India in the distant past. These mysterious objects are described in Sanskrit writing, where you can find incredible devices and technologies that were not supposed to be present on our planet for thousands of years. In the Mahabharata, the Puranas, and the Ramayanas, we find more descriptions of mysterious devices that surpass technological understanding of ancient man.

But can that be scientifically proven? I believe this question could open up an extensive debate in that matter.

According to a study published by space historian Robert Godwin, in 1861, three decades earlier than in previous studies suggest, William Leitch had already successfully applied scientific principles for spaceflight in an essay entitled "A Journey Through Space", which was later published in his book God's Glory in the Heavens (1862)

According to Godwin:


There is no doubt in my mind that Leitch deserves a place of honour in the history of spaceflight.

The fact that he was a scientist is the key to this story. He wasn't just making a wild guess. Not only did he understand Newton's law of action and reaction, he almost dismissively understood that a rocket would work more efficiently in the vacuum of space; a fact that still caused Goddard and others to be subjected to ridicule almost six decades later.

And whereas Goddard and Tsiolkovsky got their first inspiration from the science fiction of Wells and Verne, Leitch seems to have been inspired by the advances in powerful telescopes, and the newly spin-stabilised military projectiles being manufactured in London, and Isaac Newton...

Godwin states that Leitech not only understood the laws of action and reaction proposed by Newton, but he also proposed that a rocket would work more efficiently in the vacuum of space.

http://www.ewao.com/

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21-10-2015 om 01:11 geschreven door peter  

Can These Sensors Scientifically Prove UFOs Exist?

This group of scientists seems to think so.

Star trails are seen in the sky over Naramata, British Columbia. Cultura/Zuma

A group of scientists and academics from around the world has launched a new effort called UFODATA, which stands for UFO Detection and Tracking, to apply some rigorous scientific research to the study of UFOs. This all-volunteer, nonprofit project that includes scientists from the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Chile intends to use scientific data and research methods to advance an issue that has largely been confined to the margins (at best) of the traditional scientific community.

"It's abundantly clear that we're not going to make progress in understanding whatever is causing the unknown UFO reports and sightings without getting the type of data we want to collect," says Mark Rodeghier, scientific director and president of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago, and now a UFODATA board member. "More witness testimony, where they fill out a form and tell you what they saw, is not going to help us solve the problem," he says. The problem that Rodeghier is referring to is the frequent, inexplicable sightings of aerial phenomena.

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The group of about 15 scientists, engineers, astronomers, professors, and a journalist intend to install a series of automated surveillance stations loaded with scientific research tools at various locations in known UFO hotspots such as those in the western United States and in Hessdalen, Norway. The stations will be used to photograph unidentified objects and analyze the light coming from them in order to learn more about the sources of energy powering them. People have done this sort of thing in the past, but never before in such a coordinated and scientifically rigorous way.

The sensors that the group hopes to build will include several high-resolution cameras fitted with spectrographic grating, which is a method for analyzing the type of light the camera is seeing, and the ways that energy might be affecting the atmosphere around the light source. Here is a video explaining the process. Other equipment includes a magnetometer, used to measure electromagnetic radiation, as well as a Geiger counter and a weather station.

"In this area of science (physics, astronomy, etc.) the best way to learn about something is to get its spectra," Rodeghier says. He compares it to a rainbow, which is a "spectra" of the sun's light. "You can see the elements it's composed of, you can also tell things about its temperature and pressure. There are many, many things that you can learn from a spectra and associated data."

These sensors aren't cheap. Each one will cost between $10,000 and $20,000, the group says, which they're hoping to raise through crowdfunding and other donations.

"UFODATA will rely on crowd funding to finance the stations, allowing the millions of people who take UFOs seriously to be involved in the effort, independent of the scientific establishment," wrote Leslie Kean, an American journalist and the author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record. After covering the issue for years, she's also now a board member for UFODATA. Kean announced the project on her Huffington Post blog earlier this week.

The all-volunteer group hopes to raise enough money to build one prototype station, test it, and prove the concept. Next year they plan to raise additional funds, Rodeghier says, after the project is better known and a more robust volunteer staff is in place.

Rodeghier says more reliable and scientific data will not only advance understanding of UFOs, but might also serve to persuade the public at large that this issue merits more serious examination. Nonetheless, the organizers appreciate that "the UFO community and the UFO problem is something that is pretty much looked down upon by what I call the establishment," Rodeghier says. "That includes scientists, big media, and politicians, Washington. All those people—and I'm speaking broadly because there's always exceptions—think the UFO problem, they laugh at it, it's to be ridiculed, and certainly shouldn't be supported and funded. And so yes, this is part of an effort, is to say, 'This problem is serious. It's like any other scientific problem.'"

But even the new organization has had to grapple internally with the taboo of scientific discussion of UFOs. The initial UFODATA team includes four "silent advisors"—two full professors, an attorney, and an astronomer—who "are prepared to lend a hand, but because of the cultural stigma attached to UFOs—or because of a personal preference for anonymity—have chosen to keep their involvement private" according to the group's website.

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21-10-2015 om 01:04 geschreven door peter  

MoD To Release Top Secret ‘British X-Files’ By 2016

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) are set to release top secret files known as the “British X-Files”.


UFO researchers and a peer from the House of Lords have campaigned for the release of 18 files about sightings that took place in the UK over 30 years ago and believe they could prove extraterrestrials have visited the UK.

The Government faced claims of a cover-up when their release was stalled at the end of 2013.

The government originally planned to declassify the files at the end of 2013, but their release was stalled due to “additional processing requirements,” prompting speculation about a possible cover-up.


After Lord Black of Brentwood pressed the matter in parliament, the MoD says the files will be released to the National Archives by March 2016.

Some UFO investigators claim the classified government files will shed light on reported sightings of unexplained lights in Rendlesham Forest on two separate occasions in December 1980.

US Army Personnel stationed in Suffolk witnessed seeing a “strange glowing” triangular metallic object, approximately two to three meters across the base and two meters high.

Lieutenant Colonel Halt described the strange events in a memo to the MoD: “It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs.”

“As the patrolmen approached the object, it maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy. The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate.”

The unexplained sighting in Rendlesham Forest is one of the most well-known cases of UFO claims in the UK and is often compared to the 1947 Roswell UFO incident in the United States.

Lord Black asked the government for an update on the release of the UFO files.

In a parliamentary question in March this year, he wrote: “In relation to the 18 Ministry of Defence files on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) that have yet to be released to the public, what is the originating division of the file reference M9/18; what is the remit of that division in relation to UAP; and what is their latest estimate of when the 18 files will be passed to the National Archives, and then released to the public?”

Minister of State for Defence Earl Howe replied: “The originating branch of file reference MO9/18 relates to ministers’ private offices. The latest estimate of when the 18 files will be delivered to the National Archives is before March 2016.”

UFO investigator Nick Pope doubts the top secret files will be a “Roswell-style UFO in a hangar cover-up.”

A former civil servant in the MoD, Pope was assigned to a section of the ministry investigating reports of UFO sightings in 1991 for a three-year period.

He told the Daily Express: “The suspicion will be that there’s a bombshell in these files and that the ministry does not know how to handle it.”

“Having worked on the MoD’s UFO project, I’m sorry to say that we don’t have any crashed spaceships hidden away in some RAF hangar, as some believe, but we do have some fascinating and unexplained cases in our files,” he added.

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21-10-2015 om 00:57 geschreven door peter  

Star-Crossed Lovers? Two Suns Caught Smooching

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It's a make-out session on a cosmic scale: Two incredibly hot stars, spinning in a tight orbit around one another, appear to be "kissing." The stellar pair are so close together that their surfaces overlap, creating a bridge between them.

The smooching stars are two of the hottest and most massive overlapping double stars ever identified, according to new research. Catching two stars in this phase of life is "extremely rare," the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said in a statement, because the stars don't remain in this state for long. Check out this video from Space.com describing how the stars might meet their demise.

Known collectively as VFTS 352, the enormous stars provide a rare look at the mixing of material from two different stellar sources, said Leonardo Almeida, at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and lead author of a study that identified the unusual pair. "As such, it's a fascinating and important discovery," he said in a statement. [Supernova Photos: Great Images of Star Explosions]

Stellar kisses

When two double stars orbit one another close enough that they share their components, they are known as "overcontact binaries," according to the statement from the ESO. Only a handful of this unusual class of stars has been identified, primarily because they inhabit this step of evolution for a brief span of time in their overall lifetimes.

Of these, VFTS 352 is the earliest-type, hottest and most massive overcontact binary known, with a combined mass of about 57 times that of the sun and surface temperatures above 40,000 degrees Celsius (72,000 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the new research paper. The kissing stars were spotted using the European Space Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT).

Located about 160,000 light-years away from Earth, in the Tarantula Nebula, the two stars in VFTS 352 orbit each other in just over one Earth day. The stellar cores are only about 7.5 million miles (12 million kilometers) apart, so close that their surfaces overlap, forming a bridge between the two.

Unlike their cousins, "vampire binaries," which have one smaller star sucking material from its larger neighbor, VFTS 352 contains two stars of almost identical size. Instead of one star stealing material from the other, the pair may share as much as 30 percent of their components.

It remains uncertain what will happen to the unlikely pair, but their future will definitely be cataclysmic. In one scenario, the two stars may merge to create a single, rapidly rotating, highly magnetic, gigantic star. This merger, the researchers say, would produce an incredible cosmic fireworks show.

"If it keeps spinning rapidly, it might end its life in one of the most energetic explosions in the universe, known as a long-duration gamma-ray burst," Hugues Sana, of the University of Leuven in Belgium, said in the same statement. Sana was the lead scientist of the VLT FLAMES Tarantula Survey, which identified the exotic pair in the process of studying over 900 stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located just outside the Milky Way (earning it the title of "satellite galaxy").

[Pin It] The location of VFTS 352 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Credit: ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey
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In a second scenario, the two stars would "both remain compact, and the VFTS 352 system may avoid merging," said the team's lead theoretical astrophysicist Selma de Mink, of the University of Amsterdam. "This would lead the objects down a new evolutionary path that is completely different from classic stellar evolution predictions."

In this case, said de Mink, the stars would end their lives in supernova explosions, producing a pair of closely orbiting black holes. If scientists can catch this event as it is happening, it provide an observational breakthrough for stellar astrophysics, because it would likely produce gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are generated by extreme variations of strong gravitational fields, and are predicted by Einstein's theory of gravity, but have never been directly observed.

The research was published online in the Astrophysical Journal.

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21-10-2015 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

Pyramid-Shaped UFO Over Sao Paulo, Brazil On June 14, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: June 14, 2015
Location of sighting: Sao Paulo, Brazil

This shape of UFO has been recorded before in the past. For example, in Oct 5, 1996 a pilot over Pelotas, Brazil recorded a similar bronze pyramid shape in the sky and even flew around it as some smaller UFOs came out its top. (Click here to view the post). An older sighting, but one I have never seen before, so had to share it.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
The UFO Presented in the video is very similar to what we show in the saga of Star Gate. It was recorded in Mogi Das Cruzes . Mogi das Cruzes is a Brazilian municipality of the state of São Paulo , in the Greater São Paulo , a distance of approximately 45 km from the center of São Paulo. The information is known about the person who registered the Images, the UFO was recorded on Sunday June 14, 2015 around 8:40 and then disappeared . Which camera used was a Nikon P600 's zoom to 60 times.

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19-10-2015 om 21:31 geschreven door peter  

Human Hybrids Are Real! SHOCKING SECRET LEAKED!

American scientists are building human and animal hybrids!
This is part of the masonic plan for 2015!

Tom Horn presents evidence that these are "codes" and symbols of high-level Freemasons, and their purpose is to evoke and welcome the coming of the

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19-10-2015 om 21:06 geschreven door peter  

A la recherche des civilisations extraterrestres avec James

Published on Oct 16, 2015

JAMES : ce n'est bien sûr pas le vrai nom de ce passionné d'ovnis qui souhaite garder l'anonymat. Ce retraité qui a travaillé dans le milieu scientifique s'intéresse tout particulièrement à l'ufologie « made in U.S.A. » et à la recherche des civilisations extraterrestres.

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19-10-2015 om 20:58 geschreven door peter  

A la recherche des civilisations extraterrestres avec James

Published on Oct 16, 2015

JAMES : ce n'est bien sûr pas le vrai nom de ce passionné d'ovnis qui souhaite garder l'anonymat. Ce retraité qui a travaillé dans le milieu scientifique s'intéresse tout particulièrement à l'ufologie « made in U.S.A. » et à la recherche des civilisations extraterrestres.

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19-10-2015 om 20:53 geschreven door peter  

What is ‘Nibiru’ – and is it really going to crash into our planet in December?

Ow! (Picture Getty)

In 1979, a NASA probe found a mysterious ‘extra’ planet in our solar system – which is set to collide with Earth and KILL US ALL in just eight weeks’ time.

Except, of course, that it’s all bollocks.

The mysterious extra planet Nibiru has no basis in scientific fact, has never been seen, cannot be seen with the naked eye, and won’t be killing us all in 2015, or ever.

Here’s the bad news: you still have to buy Christmas presents for your family.

‘Nibiru’ or ‘Planet X’ is a favourite of conspiracy theory websites, and has been around for 20 years. It has been predicted to kill us all on several occasions – and has never even shown up.

From the late Nineties on, a woman who claimed she had an alien implant in her brain said that the planet was on a collision course with Earth, to hit in 2003.

MORE: How to survive if the internet blows up – by British doomsday expertEarth colliding with a Mars-sized planet.

Woof! (Picture Getty)

It wasn’t.

In 2012, Mayan apocalypse believers went on so much about Nibiru that Professor Brian Cox snapped on Twitter, ‘If anyone else asks me about “Nibiru” the imaginary bulls**t planet I will slap them around their irrational heads.’

This year, IT’S BACK! Except, it isn’t.

Sites such as Before It’s News claim the planet is once again on a collision course with Earth – blaming it for everything from climate change to an impending doomsday collision.

NASA has thoroughly debunked the Nibiru myth via its Beyond 2012 page, saying, ‘The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth.
Earth being hit by a planet killing meteorite

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‘This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012”

‘Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye.’

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual says, ‘The concept of a Planet X is a cornerstone of Zcharia Sitchin’s ancient astronaut theories. After studying ancient Sumerian texts he concluded that the planet Nibiru exists beyond Neptune and visits our part of the Solar System every 3,600 years.

‘He claims that Nibiru collided with a planet called Tiamat that was situated between Mars and Jupiter. The result was the creation of the asteroid belt and planet Earth.’

‘Nibiru is populated by the Anunnaki, an advanced humanoid race, who visited Earth thousands of years to mine gold in Africa. As an outcome of needing workers to carry out these mining operations they used genetics to create Homo Sapians.’

‘This is a well thought-out theory based on ancient texts, but most of it cannot be proved and the concept of a planet on such a large ellipital orbit around our Sun doesn’t fit with our current scientific understanding of the Solar System.’

‘Nonetheless the popularity of these type of ideas makes it certain that every new discovery by our spaceships will be be minutely studied for any evidence of Nibiru, or any other similar body that might be populated by extraterrestrials.’

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How Long Does It Take to Get to Mars?

Mars at its closest point to Earth in 2003
[Pin It] In 2003, Mars made its closest approach to Earth in almost 60,000 years. The Hubble Space Telescope took the opportunity to observe the red planet while it was only 34,647,420 miles (55,757,930 km) from Earth.
Credit: NASA, J. Bell (Cornell U.) and M. Wolff (SSI).

If you wanted to pay a visit to the red planet, how long would it take? The answer depends on a number of things, ranging from the position of the planets to the technology that would propel you there. Let's examine a few of the most important points.

How far away is Mars?

To determine how long it will take to reach Mars, we must first know the distance between the two planets.

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun, and the second closest to Earth (Venus is the closest). But the distance between the two planets is constantly changing as they travel around the sun.

In theory, the closest that Earth and Mars would approach each other would be when Mars is at its closest point to the sun (perihelion) and Earth is at its farthest (aphelion). This would put the planets only 33.9 million miles (54.6 million kilometers) apart. However, this has never happened in recorded history. The closest approach of the two planets occurred in 2003, when they were only 34.8 million miles (56 million km) apart.

The two planets are farthest apart when they are both at their farthest from the sun, on opposite sides of the star. At this point, they can be 250 million miles (401 million km) apart.

The average distance between the two planets is 140 million miles (225 million km).

The speed of light

Light travels at approximately 186,282 miles per second (299,792 km per second). Therefore, a light shining from the surface of Mars would take the following amount of time to reach Earth (or vice versa):

Closest approach: 182 seconds, or just over 3 minutes
Farthest approach: 1,342 seconds, or just over 22 minutes
On average: 751 seconds, or just over 12.5 minutes

Fastest spacecraft so far

The fastest spacecraft launched from Earth was NASA's New Horizons mission, which is en route to Pluto. In January 2006, the probe left Earth at 36,000 mph (58,000 kph). The time it would take such a probe to get to Mars would be:

Closest approach: 942 hours (39 days)
Farthest approach: 6,944 hours (289 days)
On average: 3,888 hours (162 days)

But then things get complicated …

Of course, the problem with the previous calculations is that they measure distance between the two planets as a straight line. Traveling through the farthest passing of Earth and Mars would involve a trip directly through the sun, while spacecraft must of necessity move in orbit around the solar system's star.

Although this isn't a problem for the closest approach, when the planets are on the same side of the sun, another problem exists. The numbers also assume that the two planets remain at a constant distance; that is, when a probe is launched from Earth while the two planets are at the closest approach, Mars would remain the same distance away over the course of the 39 days it took the probe to travel. [Countdown: The Boldest Mars Missions in History]

In reality, however, the planets are continuously moving in their orbits around the sun. Engineers must calculate the ideal orbits for sending a spacecraft from Earth to Mars. Their numbers factor in not only distance but fuel efficiency. Like throwing a dart at a moving target, they must calculate where the planet will be when the spacecraft arrives, not where it is when it leaves Earth. Spaceships must also decelerate to enter orbit around a new planet to avoid overshooting it.

How long it takes to reach Mars depends on where in their orbits the two planets lie when a mission is launched. It also depends on the technological developments of propulsion systems.

Here is a list of how long it took several historical missions to reach the red planet. Their launch dates are included for perspective.

Mariner 4, the first spacecraft to go to Mars (1964 flyby): 228 days
Mariner 6 (1969 flyby): 155 days
Mariner 7 (1969 flyby): 128 days
Mariner 9, the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (1971): 168 days
Viking 1, the first U.S. craft to land on Mars (1975): 304 days
Viking 2 Orbiter/Lander (1975): 333 days
Mars Global Surveyor (1996): 308 days
Mars Pathfinder (1996): 212 days
Mars Odyssey (2001): 200 days
Mars Express Orbiter (2003): 201 days
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005): 210 days
Mars Science Laboratory (2011): 254 days

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Artist's illustration of astronauts on the surface of Mars.
Credit: NASA/JSC

Putting Astronauts on Mars: NASA Lays Out Three-Phase Plan

The path to Mars goes through the moon — or the region of space near the moon, anyway.

NASA aims to put boots on Mars in the 2030s after first gathering human-spaceflight experience and expertise in low Earth orbit and the "proving ground" of cis-lunar space near the moon.

NASA has been working on this three-stage path to the Red Planet for some time, and the space agency lays out the basic plan in a 36-page report called "Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration," which was released Thursday (Oct. 8). [5 Ideas for Manned Missions to Mars]

"This strategy charts a course toward horizon goals while delivering near-term benefits and defining a resilient architecture that can accommodate budgetary changes, political priorities, new scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs and evolving partnerships," William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA Headquarters, said in a statement.

The first step in the three-phase Mars plan is already underway; NASA astronauts and their international colleagues have been living aboard the International Space Station continuously, in roughly six-month-long crew rotations, since November 2000. (The station will keep operating through at least 2024.)

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These spaceflyers' experiences are helping researchers and mission planners better understand how spaceflight affects the human body and mind. In addition, the space station allows NASA and its partners to develop and test critical technologies in areas such as life support and space-to-ground communications, agency officials said.

The International Space Station orbits just 250 miles (400 kilometers) from Earth's surface. Robotic cargo ships bring supplies on a regular basis to the astronauts, who can be back on their home planet in a matter of hours if need be. Mars pioneers will have to be much more independent, and that's what the next step in NASA's Red Planet plan — the proving ground — is all about.

NASA aims to gain deep-space experience near the moon on a series of missions over the next decade or so. One such project is the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), in which a robotic probe — powered by advanced solar-electric propulsion, which NASA regards as a key technology for hauling big payloads to Mars — will pluck a boulder off a near-Earth asteroid and haul it to lunar orbit, where it can be visited by astronauts in the future.

Agency officials want the first astronaut visit to come by 2025. Spaceflyers will rendezvous with the asteroid chunk using NASA's Orion crew capsule and Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, both of which are in development. [Space Launch System: NASA's Giant Rocket Explained (Infographic)]

Orion's maiden flight, an uncrewed affair that used a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket, came last December. The capsule and SLS are scheduled to fly together for the first time in 2018, on a seven-day-long, uncrewed journey around the moon.

NASA also aims to test a deep-space habitation system in the proving ground, for short durations in the early 2020s and for longer missions later in the decade, according to the new report.

"A modular, pressurized volume would enable extended stays by crews arriving with Orion," the report states. "This initial habitation capability in cis-lunar space would demonstrate all the capabilities and countermeasures necessary to send humans on long-duration transit missions to Mars."

Sending astronauts to Mars is the third stage of the plan. This ambitious goal will be enabled by international cooperation, the knowledge and expertise gained by human missions to the space station and the proving ground, and by all the data gathered by robotic Red Planet explorers, according to the new report.

NASA currently has two operational Mars rovers (Opportunity and Curiosity) and three functioning orbiters circling the Red Planet — Mars Odyssey, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and MAVEN (whose name is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution). India and Europe also control active Mars orbiters, called Mangalyaan and Mars Express, respectively.

These spacecraft have already returned information of interest to the crewed Mars effort. For example, scientists analyzing MRO data announced late last month that the seasonal dark streaks on some Martian slopes are caused by liquid water.

And more robotic Mars missions are on the way. NASA plans to launch a lander called InSight next year to probe the Red Planet's interior and a highly capable rover in 2020. The Mars 2020 rover will hunt for signs of past life and cache samples for future return to Earth, among other tasks. It will also carry a technology-demonstrating instrument that generates oxygen from Mars' atmospheric carbon dioxide.

In addition, the European Space Agency's ExoMars project will send an orbiter toward the Red Planet in 2016, and a life-hunting rover in 2018.

"Robotic science pathfinder missions will continue well into the next decade to meet high-priority science objectives and prepare for future human missions to Mars," the new NASA report states. "Robotic missions after Mars 2020 are in their conceptual stages and will address key exploration questions, such as characterizing the complex gravitational environment of the Martian moons; identifying resources and areas of scientific interest; understanding the effects of space radiation; validating EDL [entry, descent and landing] techniques; and studying regolith mechanics and dust."

NASA is still working out the details about the journey to Mars. For example, astronauts may stop at one of Mars' two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, along the way. But putting boots on the Red Planet's surface, and setting up a permanent outpost, remain the ultimate goals.

"There are challenges to pioneering Mars, but we know they are solvable," the report states. "We are developing the capabilities necessary to get there, land there, and live there."

You can download the new NASA Mars report for free here:
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/journey-to-mars-next-steps-20151008_508.pdf

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