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Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun. It is the only planet known to have an atmosphere containing free oxygen, oceans of liquid water on its surface, and, of course, life.

 Earth is the fifth largest of the planets in the solar system — smaller than the four gas giants,Jupiter, Saturn, UranusandNeptune, but larger than the three other rocky planets, Mercury, Marsand Venus.

Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers), and is round because gravity pulls matter into a ball, although it is not perfectly round, instead being more of an "oblate spheroid" whose spin causes it to be squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

Roughly 71 percent of Earth's surface is covered by water, most of it in the oceans. About a fifth of Earth's atmosphereis made up of oxygen, produced by plants. While scientists have been studying our planet for centuries, much has been learned in recent decades by studying pictures of Earth from space.

Orbital characteristics

Earth spins on an imaginary line called an axis that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole, while also orbiting the sun. It takes Earth 23.439 hours to complete a rotation on its axis, and roughly 365.26 days to complete an orbit around the sun.

Earth's axis of rotation is tilted in relation to the ecliptic plane, an imaginary surface through Earth's orbit around the sun. This means the northern and southern hemispheres will sometimes point toward or away from the sun depending on the time of year, varying the amount of light they receive and causing the seasons.

Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle, but is rather an oval-shaped ellipse, like that of the orbits of all the other planets. Earth is a bit closer to the sun in early January and farther away in July, although this variation has a much smaller effect than the heating and cooling caused by the tilt of Earth's axis. Earth happens to lie within the so-called "Goldilocks zone" around its star, where temperatures are just right to maintain liquid water on its surface.

Orbit & rotation

Some statistics about Earth, according to NASA:

• Average distance from the sun: 92,956,050 miles (149,598,262 km)
• Perihelion (closest approach to the sun): 91,402,640 miles (147,098,291 km)
• Aphelion (farthest distance from the sun): 94,509,460 miles (152,098,233 km)
• Length of solar day (single rotation on its axis): 23.934 hours
• Length of year (single revolution around the sun): 365.26 days
• Equatorial inclination to orbit: 23.4393 degrees

Earth's formation and evolution

Scientists think Earth was formed at roughly the same time as the sun and other planets some 4.6 billion years ago, when the solar system coalesced from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. As the nebula collapsed because of its gravity, it spun faster and flattened into a disk. Most of the material was pulled toward the center to form the sun.

Other particles within the disk collided and stuck together to form ever-larger bodies, including Earth. The solar wind from the sun was so powerful that it swept away most of the lighter elements, such as hydrogen and helium, from the innermost worlds, rendering Earth and its siblings into small, rocky planets.

Scientists think Earth started off as a waterless mass of rock. Radioactive materials in the rock and increasing pressure deep within the Earth generated enough heat to melt Earth's interior, causing some chemicals to rise to the surface and form water, while others became the gases of the atmosphere. Recent evidence suggests that Earth's crust and oceans may have formed within about 200 million years after the planet had taken shape.

The history of Earth is divided into four eons — starting with the earliest, these are the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic. The first three eons, which together lasted nearly 4 billion years, are together known as the Precambrian. Evidence for life has been found in the Archaean about 3.8 billion years ago, but life did not become abundant until the Phanerozoic.

The Phanerozoic is divided into three eras — starting with the earliest, these are the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. The Paleozoic Era saw the development of many kinds of animals and plants in the seas and on land, the Mesozoic Era was the age of dinosaurs, and the Cenozoic Era we are in currently is the age of mammals.

Most of the fossils seen in Paleozoic rocks are invertebrate animals lacking backbones, such as corals, mollusks and trilobites. Fish are first found about 450 million years ago, while amphibians appear roughly 380 million years ago. By 300 million years ago, large forests and swamps covered the land, and the earliest fossils of reptiles appear during this period as well.

The Mesozoic saw the ascendence of dinosaurs, although mammals also appear in the fossil record about 200 million years ago. During this time, flowering plants became the dominant plant group and continue to be so today.

The Cenozoic began about 65 million years ago with the end of the age of dinosaurs, which many scientists think was caused by a cosmic impact. Mammals survived to become the dominant land animals of today.

Composition & structure

Atmosphere

Earth's atmosphere is roughly 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, with trace amounts of water, argon, carbon dioxide and other gases. Nowhere else in the solar system can one find an atmosphere loaded with free oxygen, which ultimately proved vital to one of the other unique features of Earth — us.

Air surrounds Earth and becomes thinner farther from the surface. Roughly 100 miles (160 km) above Earth, the air is so thin that satellites can zip through with little resistance. Still, traces of atmosphere can be found as high as 370 miles (600 km) above the surface.

The lowest layer of the atmosphere is known as the troposphere, which is constantly in motion, causing the weather. Sunlight heats the planet's surface, causing warm air to rise. This air ultimately expands and cools as air pressure decreases, and because this cool air is denser than its surroundings, it then sinks, only to get warmed by the Earth once again.

Above the troposphere, some 30 miles (48 km) above the Earth's surface, is the stratosphere. The still air of the stratosphere contains the ozone layer, which was created when ultraviolet light caused trios of oxygen atoms to bind together into ozone molecules. Ozone prevents most of the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching Earth's surface.

Water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun, warming Earth. Without this so-called "greenhouse effect," Earth would probably be too cold for life to exist, although a runaway greenhouse effect led to the hellish conditions now seen on Venus.

Earth-orbiting satellites have shown that the upper atmosphere actually expands during the day and contracts at night due to heating and cooling.

Magnetic field

The northern lights are more formally known as auroras, and are caused by interactions between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field.See how the northern lights work in this Space.com infographic.
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Earth's magnetic field is generated by currents flowing in Earth's outer core. The magnetic poles are always on the move, with the magnetic North Pole recently accelerating its northward motion to 24 miles (40 km) annually, likely exiting North America and reaching Siberia in a few decades.

Earth's magnetic field is changing in other ways, too — globally, the magnetic field has weakened10 percent since the 19th century, according to NASA. These changes are mild compared to what Earth's magnetic field has done in the past — sometimes the field completely flips, with the north and the south poles swapping places.

When charged particles from the sun get trapped in Earth's magnetic field, they smash into air molecules above the magnetic poles, causing them to glow, a phenomenon known as the aurorae, the northern and southern lights.

Chemical composition

Oxygen is the most abundant element in rocks in Earth's crust, composing roughly 47 percent of the weight of all rock. The second most abundant element is silicon at 27 percent, followed by aluminum at 8 percent, iron at 5 percent, calcium at 4 percent, and sodium, potassium, and magnesium at about 2 percent each.

Earth's core consists mostly of iron and nickel and potentially smaller amounts of lighter elements such as sulfur and oxygen. The mantle is made of iron and magnesium-rich silicate rocks. (The combination of silicon and oxygen is known as silica, and minerals that contain silica are known as silicate minerals.)

Internal structure

Earth's core is about 4,400 miles (7,100 km) wide, slightly larger than half the Earth's diameter and roughly the size of Mars. The outermost 1,400 miles (2,250 km) of the core are liquid, while the inner core — about four-fifths as big as Earth's moon at some 1,600 miles (2,600 km) in diameter — is solid.

Above the core is Earth's mantle, which is about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) thick. The mantle is not completely stiff, but can flow slowly. Earth's crust floats on the mantle much as a wood floats on water, and the slow motion of rock in the mantle shuffles continents around and causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and the formation of mountain ranges.

Above the mantle, Earth has two kinds of crust. The dry land of the continents consists mostly of granite and other light silicate minerals, while the ocean floors are made up mostly of a dark, dense volcanic rock called basalt. Continental crust averages some 25 miles (40 km) thick, although it can be thinner or thicker in some areas. Oceanic crust is usually only about 5 miles (8 km) thick. Water fills in low areas of the basalt crust to form the world's oceans. Earth has more than enough water to completely fill the ocean basins, and the rest of it spreads onto edges of the continents, areas known as the continental shelf.

Earth gets warmer toward its core. At the bottom of the continental crust, temperatures reach about 1,800 degrees F (1,000 degrees C), increasing about 3 degrees F per mile (1 degree C per kilometer) below the crust. Geologists think the temperature of Earth's outer core is about 6,700 to 7,800 degrees F (3,700 to 4,300 degrees C), and the inner core may reach 12,600 degrees F (7,000 degrees C), hotter than the surface of the sun. Only the enormous pressures found at the super-hot inner core keep it solid.

Recent exoplanet surveys such as NASA’s Kepler mission suggest that Earth-size planets are common throughout the Milky Way galaxy. Nearly a fourth of sun-like stars observed by Kepler have potentially habitable Earth-size planets.

Earth's moon

Earth's moon is 2,159 miles (3,474 km) wide, about one-fourth of Earth's diameter. Earth has one moon, while Mercury and Venus have none and all the other planets in our solar system have two or more.

The leading explanation for how the moon formed was that a giant impact knocked off the raw ingredients for the moon off the primitive molten Earth and into orbit. Scientists have suggested the impactor was roughly 10 percent the mass of Earth, about the size of Mars.

Species overview

Earth is the only planet in the universe known to possess life. There are several million known species of life, ranging from the bottom of the deepest ocean to a few miles into the atmosphere, and scientists think far more remain to be discovered. Scientists figure there are between 5 million and 100 million species on Earth, but science has only identified about 2 million of them.

Earth is the only body in the solar system known to host life, although scientists suspect that other candidates — such as Saturn’s moon Titan or Jupiter’s moon Europa — have the potential to house primitive living creatures. Scientists have yet to precisely nail down exactly how complex life rapidly evolved on Earth from more primitive ancestors. One solution suggests that life first evolved on the nearby planet Mars, once a habitable planet, then traveled to Earth on meteorites hurled from the Red Planet.

Additional reporting by Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor

Related:

• How Big is Earth?
• Earth's Atmosphere: Composition, Climate & Weather
• What is the Temperature on Earth?
• What is Earth Made Of?
• How Was Earth Formed?

Additional resource

• NASA's Solar System Exploration: Earth

Learn more about the solar system:

• Sun
• Mercury
• Venus
• Moon
• Mars
• Asteroids
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Pluto
• Dwarf Planets
• Comets
• Kuiper Belt

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27-11-2015 om 21:06 geschreven door peter  

Searching for Hollow Earth, Ufologists Find Underwater Skyscraper

 

Scientists, archaeologists and UFOlogists alike have been using the Google Earth software, which has proven a very competent tool, to find relics, unknown geological structures or even signs of extraterrestrial existence.

 

There have been countless theories and even tens of detailed descriptions of a place called Hollow Earth where one or more human or alien civilizations discretely make their living, far away from the savage jungle of our society. The fast growing worldwide interest made UFOlogists actually begin searching for it, using Google Earth.

 

Searching based on symmetry, they divided the globe in 3 zones and zoomed in on a spot located exactly opposite to the great Giza Pyramids. This exact spot held nothing interesting, but widening the search area and zooming in even closer, the UFOlogists discovered a massive structure, measuring approximately one mile in height, on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

 

 

Most believe this tower not to be a natural structure, simply because nothing even close to it has ever been discovered on our planet.

 

For firm believers of the Hollow Earth theory, this was the final proof they needed, not only of its existence, but also the location or pathway. They geologically inspected the tower’s surroundings, and found something looking like a layer, a very large gap somewhere deeper than the ocean floor.

 

 

This so called layer is said to be similar, more or less, to what people who claim to have visited it describe. These people also claim that the race inhabiting inner Earth don’t really hide there, but have chosen to come out very rarely, which probably means they do so in order to study us and not for resources (We didn’t believe that Earth was going to run out of resources soon anyway).

 

Hollow Earth theorists and UFO encounter believers don’t normally agree. This case is a rare exception, and for completely different reasons. UFO researchers don’t really believe in the existence of another, slightly different or more advanced human race, but they have always accepted the possibility of inner Earth.

 

More than 95% of the world’s seas and oceans are entirely unexplored and most of the globe is covered in water, so mankind only knows very little about the planet it inhabits. What geological structures or life forms lay in the vast unknown areas might be beyond human comprehension. The possibilities are endless.

 

Also, people normally think of UFOs as pure aircraft or spacecraft. But if aliens could travel through space then a UFO would have no problem whatsoever submerging and navigating the oceans just like a submarine. UFOlogists now believe this tower to be part of a global network of such gigantic structures, used by ancient advanced civilizations (human, alien, or both) to transmit and receive large amounts of energy through great distances, or as some would say, from one side of the Earth to another.

 

 

Tesla also came up with a similar theory about transmitting the energy through air, proving it possible, but researchers who believe the ancient Egyptians, Mayans or Sumerians mastered this technology are still not being taken seriously.

 

No country has yet to make an official statement on this discovery, which seems a bit odd, let alone send an exploration team (at least not officially). So here are the exact coordinates if you want to take a look yourself on Google Earth. Let us know what you think:

32 ° 30’07 .74 “S 149 ° 52’46 .51” W

 

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27-11-2015 om 20:56 geschreven door peter  

Meer mysterieuze signalen opgevangen uit de ruimte

Astronomen hebben een aantal mysterieuze signalen opgevangen uit andere sterrenstelsels. Naast vier gewone radioflitsen is ook voor het eerst een dubbele radioflits gedetecteerd. Het onderzoek over de flitsen is gepubliceerd op arXiv.org.

Snelle radioflitsen werden in 2007 voor het eerst opgepikt. Het zijn eenmalige uitbarstingen van radiostraling die slechts enkele milliseconden duren. Tot voor kort hadden astronomen buiten de Melkweg negen van dit soort uitbarstingen ontdekt. Met telescopen is tot dusver tevergeefs gezocht naar een verklaring voor de radioflitsen.

De vijf nieuwkomers zijn opgevangen met de Parkes-telescoop in Australië. Ze volgen hetzelfde patroon als alle eerder ontdekte uitbarstingen, met één uitzondering: eentje flitste twee keer. De dubbele flits was het gevolg van een radio-uitbarsting die negen miljard jaar geleden heeft plaatsgevonden in het sterrenbeeld Octant, aldus astronoom David Champion van het Max-Planck-Instituut voor Radioastronomie in Bonn.

Nu er voor het eerst een dubbele flits is gedetecteerd, kunnen astronomen uitsluiten dat ze worden veroorzaakt door een botsing tussen twee neutronensterren. Dergelijke sterren kunnen immers maar één keer met elkaar in botsing komen.

Sterrenkundigen weten nog altijd niet wat de herkomst is van deze snelle radioflitsen. Mogelijk worden ze geproduceerd door pulsars of soft gamma repeaters, een astronomisch object dat met onregelmatige intervallen grote uitbarstingen van röntgen- en gammastraling kent. Het is ook denkbaar dat ze het gevolg kunnen zijn van een hyperflare, een sterbeving waarbij de energie zo hoog is dat de korst van de ster knapt.

[Science News]

27-11-2015 om 20:37 geschreven door peter  

27-11-2015 om 20:30 geschreven door peter  

Het Botta UFO Incident

Het verhaal van het Botta UFO Incident komt van Dr. Enrique Caretenuto Botta uit Zuid-Amerika. Botta deed zijn verhaal, samen met Horacio Gonzales G., tijdens een UFO-conferentie in 1955. De beroemde UFO-onderzoeker Leon Stringfield nam het verhaal van het Botta UFO Incident op in zijn boek ‘Situation Red’. Botta was een luchtvaarttechnicus en een ex-piloot van 40 jaar oud toen hij in 1950 in Argentinië een ontmoeting had met een UFO.

Zijn verhaal begint toen hij als supervisor van een groot bouwproject in een desolaat gebied van Bahia Blanca van de ene naar de andere stad reisde. Op ongeveer 75 kilometer van zijn hotel zag hij een metalen, schijfvormig object aan de kant van weg stilstaan. Hij parkeerde zijn auto, observeerde het object op enige beweging en om gevolg te geven aan zijn toenemende nieuwsgierigheid besloot hij het mysterieuze object nader te onderzoeken.

Aan de zijkant van het mysterieuze object ontdekt Botta een opening en aarzelt geen seconde om binnen te gaan. Binnenin het object ziet hij een kamer vol van controlepanelen, schermen en instrumenten en een rood knipperend licht in de top van de koepelvormige kamer. In drie van de vier zetels op het platform zitten kleine weze

ns van circa 130 centimeter groot die een strakke grijze overall dragen.

De buitenaardse wezens maakten geen enkel geluid en bewogen niet. Botta gaat stilletjes naar ze toe en raakt een van de aliens langs achter aan. Hij voelt een levenloze textuur. Botta schrikt als hij zich realiseert dat de drie aliens vermoedelijk dood zijn en rent terug naar zijn wagen. Aangekomen in zijn hotel vertelt hij de bizarre gebeurtenis aan twee collega’s.

Het is al laat in de avond en de mannen besluiten om pas de volgende ochtend naar het mysterieuze object te gaan kijken. Op de plaats waar Botta de vliegende schotel vond is niets meer te zien. In de omgeving ontdekken ze wel een stapel as. Eén van de mannen pakt een handvol as vast waarop zijn hand onmiddellijk paars kleurt. Na een paar dagen is de paarse kleur volledig verdwenen.

Omdat de drie mannen op de locatie waar de vliegende schotel zich bevond niets speciaals meer ontdekken besluiten ze om de omgeving grondig te onderzoeken. Op dat ogenblik ontdekken de mannen 3 UFO’s boven hen in de lucht, waarvan de grootste een sigaarvorm had en de twee kleinere UFO’s de vorm van een schijf hadden. Botta neemt 5 foto’s van de UFO’s, maar slechts 2 van hen tonen een vaag vluchttracé van de vliegende objecten.

De drie mannen zien hoe de twee kleinere objecten zich verenigen met het grotere object tot één bloedrode verschijning. Daarop verdwijnt het object plotseling. Enkele dagen na dit incident werd Botta ziek. Hij had hoge koorts, blaren en een geïrriteerde huid. Artsen waren niet in staat om zijn toestand te verklaren. Een paar weken later waren alle symptomen verdwenen.

Of dit verhaal een hoax is? Mogelijk. We weten alleen dat Botta met zijn verhaal zijn reputatie op het spel zette en dat hij geen commerciële zaak van het incident maakte. Maar het ontbreken van enig bewijs, ontbrekende basisgegevens en tegenstrijdigheden wijzen in de richting van een vindingrijke journalist met veel inspiratie die wou scoren bij zijn werkgever en zijn lezers.

Oorspronkelijke bron: http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2009/07/general-acha-lp-un-accidentado-aterrizaje-primera-parte/
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27-11-2015 om 20:26 geschreven door peter  

27-11-2015 om 20:21 geschreven door peter  

Bizarre UFO waarneming vanuit vliegtuig ( update )

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27-11-2015 om 18:29 geschreven door peter  

Two Glowing UFOs Over Menifee, California On Nov 25, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 25, 2015
Location of sighting: Bay View Way, Menifee, California, USA
Source: MUFON #72768
HDphoto: http://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/72768_submitter_file2__image.jpeg

These two glowing UFOs were seen this week over Menifee, CA. The glowing orbs are seen only for a minute, but can be seen changing positions. Its just three segments of video, but its highly detailed and shows the movement. These UFOs are usually seen over the summer months around the world. I am surprised they are seen during winter...and two instead of just one. I recorded one once in Taiwan, it was in China a week earlier. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
We were in front of the house when we viewed these 2 glowing lights at a low altitude..making absolutely no noise...hovered over the community for a couple of minutes. They moved away slowly when one of the lights disappeared while the other one kept going. I took video and picture.

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27-11-2015 om 18:19 geschreven door peter  

Three Giant UFOs Over Thailand During Rush Hour, Nov 25, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 25, 2015
Location of sighting: Bangkok, Thailand

These donut shaped UFOs look solid. I see from their shadows at the point they fade in and out that the only reason they are seen is because they came to close to the lights below on the ground, which caused the bottom of the UFOs to become illuminated. Also many of the UFOs recorded observing the space station on live cam are also this exact shape and coloration. That makes me say these are real.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
Watching 3 colored circles in the form of donuts recorded in Bangkok Thailand on 25 November this year. It is estimated that each average figure about 10 meters in diameter

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27-11-2015 om 18:14 geschreven door peter  

The Great UFO Debate

by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute

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The good news is that polls continue to show that between one and two-thirds of the public thinks that extraterrestrial life exists. The weird news is that a similar fraction think that some of it is visiting Earth.

Several recent television shows have soberly addressed the possibility that alien craft are violating our air space, occasionally touching down long enough to allow their crews to conduct bizarre (and, in most states, illegal) experiments on hapless citizens. While these shows tantalize viewers by suggesting that they are finally going to get to the bottom of the so-called “UFO debate”, they never do. That bottom seems perennially out of reach.

So what are the contentious issues here? First off, despite heated discussion by all concerned, let’s admit that interstellar travel doesn’t violate physics. It’s possible. After all, the Pioneer and Voyager probes are nearly three decades into an inadvertent interstellar journey right now. The kicker, of course, is that these craft will take 70,000 years to cover the distance to even the nearest stars (and they’re not aimed that way). With the physics we know, it’s extremely difficult to substantially, and safely, shorten that travel time. Sure, it might be theoretically possible to create worm holes or some other exotic facility for high-speed cosmic cruising; but that approach is entirely speculative.

And it’s not really the point. The problem I have with the claim that strange craft are prowling our planet is not with the transportation mode, but with the evidence. I’ll worry about how they got here once I’m convinced that they’ve really made the scene.

Well, have they? How good is the evidence? In the course of a recent TV broadcast in which I participated, guest experts who have long studied UFOs argued the case for their alien nature by showing photographs of putative saucers hovering at low altitudes. Some of these objects appeared as out-of-focus lights, while others resembled hubcap-shaped Frisbees caught in mid-trajectory.

Since the former are perforce ambiguous, the latter commanded more of my attention. How can we know they’re NOT hubcaps, tossed into the air by a hoaxer with a camera? The reply from one expert: “these photographs pass muster.” When quizzed on exactly which muster was mastered, the response was that “atmospheric effects give us a limit on the distance, and careful examination has ruled out photographic trickery.” Well, the former is pretty chancy, and relies on some assumption about atmospheric conditions (was it a smoggy day in Los Angeles?), and the latter proves nothing. A real shot of an airborne hubcap would, after all, be free of photographic trickery.

Additional evidence that is endlessly cited is “expert testimony.” Pilots, astronauts, and others with experienced eyes and impressive credentials have all claimed to see odd craft in the skies. It’s safe to say that these witnesses have seen something. But just because you don’t recognize an aerial phenomenon doesn’t mean that it’s an extraterrestrial visitor. That requires additional evidence that, so far, seems to be as unconvincing as the trickery-free saucer snaps.

What about those folks who have experienced alien beings first-hand? Abduction stories are an entirely separate field of study and one which I won’t address here, although I must confess that it’s intriguing to see photos of scoop marks on the flesh of human subjects, coupled with the claim that these minor disfigurements are due to alien malfeasance. But even aside from the puzzling question of why beings from distant suns would come to Earth to melon-ball the locals, this evidence is, once again, ambiguous. The scoops might be due to aliens, and then again, they could be the consequence of spousal abuse or many other causes.

When push came to shove, and when pressed as to whether there’s real proof of extraterrestrial visitation, the experts on this show backed off by saying that “well, we don’t know where they come from. But something is definitely going on.” The latter statement is hardly controversial. The former is merely goofy. If the saucers and scoopers are not from outer space, where, exactly, are they from? Belgium?

The bottom line is that the evidence for extraterrestrial visitors has not convinced many scientists. Very few academics are writing papers for refereed journals about alien craft or their occupants. Confronted with this, the UFO experts usually take refuge in two possible explanations:

(1) The material that would be convincing proof has been collected and secreted away by the U.S. government. While endlessly appealing, this is an argument from ignorance (tantamount to saying “we can’t show you good evidence because we haven’t got it”), and perforce implies that every government in the world has efficiently squirreled away all alien artifacts. Unless, of course, the extraterrestrials only visit the U.S., where retrieval of material that falls to Earth is supposedly a perfected art form.

(2) Scientists have simply refused to look carefully at this phenomenon. In other words, the scientists should blame themselves for the fact that the visitation hypothesis has failed to sway them.

This is not only unfair, it’s misguided. Sure, rather few researchers have themselves gone into the field to sift through the stories, the videos, and the odd photos that comprise the evidence for alien presence. But they don’t have to. This complaint is akin to telling movie critics that films would be better if only they would pitch in and get behind the camera. But critics can compose excellent and accurate evaluations of a movie without being participants in the business of making films.

The burden of proof is on those making the claims, not those who find the data dubious. If there are investigators who are convinced that craft from other worlds are buzzing ours, then they should present the absolute best evidence they have, and not resort to explanations that appeal to conspiratorial cover-ups or the failure of others to be open to the idea. The UFO advocates are not asking us to believe something either trivial or peripheral, for after all, there could hardly be any discovery more dramatic or important than visitors from other worlds. If we could prove that the aliens are here, I would be as awestruck as anyone. But I await a compelling Exhibit A.

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27-11-2015 om 18:07 geschreven door peter  

A Passenger Of A Plane Films At Least Eight Mysterious UFOs

A plane’s passenger claim he has captured a strange activity involving at least eight UFOs that hover below a commercial flight to Taiwan.

The witness pulled out his iPhone to document the unusual event on video. He claimed to have seen between eight and ten bright lights in the sky below the right wing of the aircraft.
But not everyone is convinced the man records something strange.

According to the witness report submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), he was onthe Eva Airlines from Vancouver to Taipei.

The report says the witness saw a bright light flying under the aircraft thirty minutes before landing. He then claims that three more UFOs appeared for several seconds. The unidentified witness believes he sees a total of at least eight bright UFOs beneath the aircraft.

The incident took place on October 16 at 5 in the morning as the plane was travellingnortheast of Taiwan.

MUFON uploaded the video to YouTube on November 25 and had thousands of views.

But some viewers are not convinced by the footage.

One YouTube user said, “Those are reflections. MUFON, please filter your sightings so we can keep the real ones from the ones we can explain.“

But another viewer disagreed and said that it’s an excellent video and those are clearly not reflections.

27-11-2015 om 18:01 geschreven door peter  

Green orbs flying over Parker, Colorado – August 2015

This UFO sighting video was just submitted to mufon. It was taken over Parker in Douglas County, Colorado on 9th August 2015.

Witness report: 4 red and 4 green orbs, changing to one, fast right angle moves
sitting on back porch just after the sun set behind mountains. noticed 4 round green lights in a line and 4 round red lights in a line. they moved away from each other at both high speeds and low speeds. they would hovers as if facing one another. One zoomed off and then stopped and appeared as just another star. The four orbs became one. one red and one green, they would fly at various speeds and angles, many miles apart from one another.
was able to get short video of one orb moving and changing from solid green to solid red. it never lost its round shape during this change or movement. the other orbs flew away at amazing speed and vanished. just simply amazing display off ability to hover, fly at light speed and turn at any angle.

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27-11-2015 om 12:22 geschreven door peter  

Vatican: ET Exists, But an ‘Alien Jesus’ Is Too Far

The Catholic Church discloses the possibility of alien existence but at the same time maintains its traditional beliefs. Is this really progress?

 

Pope Francis has certainly been the most open minded one yet, proving it by publicly talking about things the Vatican wouldn’t dare approach or admit no more than 10 years ago.

 

First he acknowledged gay rights and then, for the first time in any church’s history, took direct and swift actions against abusive priests. This has gained him a lot of popularity, even though less people believe in God (no matter which one) every year and more and more people believe in evolution or extraterrestrial existence.

 

This could’ve been one of the reasons for the Vatican’s disclosure about their perception of other world civilizations.

 

In an official press release, the Catholic Church declared their belief that mankind is not the only intelligent species in the Universe, but the other civilization(s) haven’t had the privilege of being guided by God or receiving Jesus’ help.

 

This statement was made by Jose Fuentes, a priest representing the Vatican, after the recent discovery of far-away planets that hold life sustainability.

 

 

The fact that, in such a small amount of time, the Vatican has not only changed its opinion on space, but also employed many leading astronomers and invested considerable amounts in telescopes and other such equipment, makes us here at UFOholic.com think that the Catholic Church has even more knowledge about space or other species than anyone could’ve ever imagined.

 

 

Maybe they just had us looking the other way the whole time by treating evolutionists and UFOlogists like heretics, while they were quietly researching and finding out a hidden and probably very uncomfortable truth.

 

Jose Fuentes, who is leading the Vatican’s astronomical research, says even though the probability of life elsewhere in the universe is great, the possibility of mankind establishing contact with it is almost nonexistent. He doesn’t think that these civilizations, if existent, were visited by a divine being similar to Jesus or God :

 

"The discovery of intelligent life does not mean that there is another Jesus. The incarnation of the Son of God is a unique event in the history of mankind and the universe.”

 

 

Father Fuentes’ public statements have been fueled by the discovery of Kepler 452B, a distant planet very similar to our own, but older. He was fascinated and described the find as very important and beneficial to mankind:  “The new planet Kepler-452b revives the idea of contact and -why not- the possibility of an encounter with an alien civilization; although, personally, I am skeptical that this event of cosmic proportions will happen soon. There is no contradiction between extraterrestrial life and the Christian faith, the search for other life in the universe helps us to understand ourselves.”

 

The leading Catholic astronomer also made a similar statement, though very short and evasive, in 2008, so the Vatican could be preparing the global population for a major announcement sometime in the near future.

 

We’ll be anxiously awaiting new such views and takes on astrology by the Vatican, because we believe religion and UFOlogy just don’t fit.

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27-11-2015 om 11:48 geschreven door peter  

This artist’s illustration shows dark matter “hairs” surrounding Earth.  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech View full size image

Earth may sport a thick coat of superlong dark matter "hairs," a new study suggests.

Astronomers think dark matter — a mysterious, invisible substance that neither emits nor absorbs light, and is about six times more common than "normal" matter — forms fine-grained but incredibly long streams throughout the universe. 

"A stream can be much larger than the solar system itself, and there are many different streams crisscrossing our galactic neighborhood," study author Gary Prézeau, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. [Gallery: Dark Matter Throughout the Universe]

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Prézeau performed computer simulations that looked at what happens when such streams go through Earth and other planets in the solar system. (Dark matter doesn't interact much with normal matter, so the mysterious stuff can zoom through planets' interiors.) He found that these worlds' gravity likely bends the streams into narrow hairs, complete with dense "roots" and more diffuse "tips."

In the case of Earth, the root of such hairs would lie about 600,000 miles (1 million kilometers) from the planet's surface, while the tip would be about twice as far away — 1.2 million miles (2 million km) from Earth. (For perspective, the moon orbits Earth at an average distance of 239,000 miles, or 385,000 km).

This finding could help astronomers learn more about dark matter, whose existence has been inferred from its gravitational influence on stars and other objects composed of "normal" matter. (Dark matter is not directly detectable.)

"If we could pinpoint the location of the root of these hairs, we could potentially send a probe there and get a bonanza of data about dark matter," Prézeau said.

This artist’s illustration shows a close-up rendering of possible dark matter “hairs” surrounding Earth. 
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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The new study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, further suggests that the different layers of a planet, moon or other body should cause corresponding bends or "kinks" in these dark matter hairs, which researchers could also put to use.

"Theoretically, if it were possible to obtain this information, scientists could use hairs of cold dark matter to map out the layers of any planetary body, and even infer the depths of oceans on icy moons," NASA officials wrote inthe same statement. (Dark matter is thought to be "cold" in that it doesn't move around very much.)

While dark matter is much more abundant than regular matter, scientists think the invisible stuff makes up just 27 percent of all matter and energy in the universe. The vast majority is composed of dark energy, a mysterious force associated with the universe's accelerating expansion. "Normal" matter makes up just 5 percent of the cosmos.

Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us@Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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27-11-2015 om 11:35 geschreven door peter  

Watch the Best Collection of Skyrocketing UFOs [NIGHTVISION]

How often do we look at the sky? And how many times does the sky offer relevant sightings?

 

If you usually check for strange phenomenon in the sky and receive no feedback, it’s probably because you’re not stubborn enough. Waiting for the right sightings to appear might be tricky considering the wide expanse of the sky, but it will eventually reveal the most fascinating things.

 

From shooting stars to UFO formations, the sky can surprise even the skeptics with its fabulous appearances. Investigating on our own can bring great benefits to ourselves and to the rest of the UFO community, as is the case of UFO Lou, an UFO enthusiast and analyst. During the past few years, this guy managed to film a lot of interesting UFOs and space phenomenon using a P8079HP night vision tube.

 

As you will see in the following video, the night sky is full of activity. It reveals how different shaped UFOs fly over Earth either on their own or in full formation. Some of them have a luminous tail, while others are pulsating or performing extreme maneuvers that are impossible for our earthly crafts.

 

Even though not everything you see in the video is an actual space craft, some particularities are to be noted in order to better distinguish between the different sightings. The large group of shapes in the sky strongly resembles to a flock of birds, while the UFO with a luminous tail can be explained as a fighter jet. Apart from these distractions, the bright orbs so popular nowadays are also present in the video and also a fascinating sighting of a speeding UFO.

 

In the end of the clip, Mr. Lou highlights a few commercial planes in order to see the huge difference in shape, color and altitude between our earthly crafts and the rest of the UFOs surprised by his night vision camera. Thinking on a larger scale, the night sky is always full of such bizarre crafts.

 

 

 

They travel the world without any fear for boarders or official authorities stopping them. While it is hard to imagine that such sightings were not detected using ground radar technology by now, we tend to believe that they are intelligent and somehow manage to dodge our earthly technology.

 

 

Are these crafts coming from Earth or from outer space? From what we know, military technology is well ahead of our time, so the possibility of these coming from Earth is also considered. Do they have bases here on Earth? If we look at the vast amount of unexplored land, also desolate or hard to reach places, this idea doesn’t seem far from reality either.

 

Are we looking at physically controlled crafts or is it possible that someone is flying them using a remote? Judging by the extreme maneuvers, they could be intelligently controlled, but because we see the UFOs at a very high altitude, it’s either possible for them to be piloted or remote controlled somewhere from space or from a structure orbiting Earth.

 

The possibility for them being AI devices is also not far from reality, with the ongoing technological progress such a scenario would be quite plausible. Until we find out more details about these UFOs, we can only speculate using what we have, but each day analyzing the phenomenon is a day in the right direction. Keep your eyes on the night sky!

 

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27-11-2015 om 11:28 geschreven door peter  

Nasa : les extraterrestres auraient probablement une intelligence artificielle

A quoi pourraient ressembler ces extraterrestres tant recherchés ?
 
La science-fiction leur a souvent attribué une forme humanoïde de petits hommes verts ou d’insectes géants, mais une « étude » américaine donne une réponse bien différente.
 
Elle affirme en effet que ce ne sont pas des créatures biologiques mais bien plutôt des robots extrêmement avancés d’une intelligence infiniment supérieure à la nôtre. 

La Nasa et les extraterrestres

L’étude « Alien Minds » menée par Susan Schneider, professeur de philosophie de l’Université du Connecticut, qui devrait être publiée prochainement par la Nasa, rejoint les thèses de l’astronome Seth Shostak, directeur du Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), programme de la Nasa, de l’astrobiologiste de la Nasa Paul Davies ou encore du responsable de l’astrobiologie de la Library of Congress, Stephen Dick…
 
Tous considèrent en effet que l’intelligence dominante dans le cosmos est probablement artificielle, comme l’explique Susan Schneider : « Beaucoup de gens voient les aliens comme des icônes. Ils les imaginent comme des créatures biologiques, mais cela n’a pas de sens dans l’échelle du temps ». Seth Shostak va plus loin encore et affirme « avoir parié avec des dizaines d’astronomes que si nous recevons un signal extraterrestre, ce sera d’une vie artificielle… A partir du moment où une civilisation invente les ondes radio, elle est à 50 ans des ordinateurs et probablement ensuite à 50 ou 100 ans de l’intelligence artificielle. A ce moment-là, les cerveaux mous et spongieux deviennent un modèle obsolète ».
 
Susan Schneider précise leur pensée commune : « Je ne dis pas que nous allons rencontrer des processeurs IBM dans l’espace. En toute probabilité, cette intelligence sera bien plus sophistiquée que tout ce que comprennent les humains ».
 
Seth Shostak explique que ce raisonnement est simple « si l’on considère que tout signal radio extraterrestre que nous recevons provient d’une civilisation au moins aussi avancée que la nôtre. Disons, de façon prudente, qu’une civilisation moyenne utilise la radio pendant 10.000 ans. D’un point de vue purement statistique, la chance de rencontrer une civilisation bien plus ancienne que la nôtre est donc très élevée ».
Une belle manière de préparer les Hommes à devenir des robots, avenir présenté comme inéluctable…

L’intelligence artificielle et la fin de l’Homme

Susan Schneider pense d’ailleurs que la civilisation humaine est proche de l’étape grâce à laquelle elle va « améliorer » sa propre biologie et s’en affranchir, étape appelée laSingularité.
 
Ce rapport prépare donc les intelligences à accepter cette étape qui signe simplement la disparition de l’Homme…
 
Effectivement, pour Susan Schneider, l’Homme ne va pas simplement améliorer son cerveau grâce à la robotique mais deviendra progressivement totalement synthétique…

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27-11-2015 om 11:20 geschreven door peter  

Creepy UFO Jumps Right Out of a Lightning Storm

27-11-2015 om 11:00 geschreven door peter  

These 5 NASA Astronauts Came Together to Tell The World That We Are Not Alone

“This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since.

I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.” – Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Today, more so than ever, the topic of UFO’s and extraterrestrials is a very popular one. Although stories of aliens and UFOs have been the subject of ridicule, fantasy and science fiction for decades, recent revelations within the past few years from a number of high ranking military personnell, political personnell, defence intelligence agency personnel along with a number of academicians has shifting this topic from “conspiracy theory” to reality.

Not only has that helped, but the release of thousands of pages of documents from dozens of governments around the world has added more fuel to the flame, as a number of people are now demanding answers regarding a secret that’s been hushed up for a number of years.

“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth now; this is not a matter of  conjecture or wistful thinking.”  - Theodor C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire.

It’s also noteworthy to mention here that UFOs are commonly tracked on military radar, that’s both air and ground radar, as well as visually confirmed by the pilots who are sent out to check the objects out.

“We or at least some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.” -Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Defense Minister

To see an actual documented encounter, one out of thousands that have occurred, you can check out this Defense Intelligence Agency report.  To hear an actual description of what it’s like to be involved in this type of thing, here is a great video of a retired Air Force pilot with some experience.

The above information is just to let you know that we are dealing with a very real phenomenon, which is why Mike Gold, the Director of Bigelow Aerospace, said that this is a “serious issue that deserves serious attention. 

NASA Astronauts

Please keep in mind, these are five examples out of many X NASA perssonell to make such comments. 

These 5, and many more have all come together it what seems to be one common goal. Waking up the world to the fact that we are not alone, and never have been.

1. Dr. Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor

“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view.

That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.” 

2. Gordon Cooper, Former NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer and test pilot. One of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States.

 “In my opinion I think they were worried that it would panic the public so they started telling lies about it. And then I think they had to tell another lie to cover their first lie, now they don’t know how to get out of it. Now it’s going to be so embarrassing to admit that all these administrations have told so many untruths, it would be embarrassing getting out of it. There are a number of extraterrestrial vehicles out there cruising around.” 

3. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D., 6th man to walk on the moon, retired Captan in the US Navy, aeronautical engineer, founder of the Institute for Noetic Sciences (IONS)

“I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real…Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.”  

4. Astronaut Eugene Cernan, Former US Navy Captain, electrical engineer and aeronautical engineer.

“I’ve been asked about UFOs and I’ve said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.” 

5. Astronaut Story Musgrave

“Statistically it’s a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they’re so advanced that they’re even doing interstellar travel. I believe it’s possible that they even came here. It’s logical to presume the universe must have other life in it and by virtue of association that we could be visited at some point.”

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27-11-2015 om 10:54 geschreven door peter  

Another UFO Appearance on Mars Deepens the Mystery Even More

As time passes by, planet Mars is becoming more and more intriguing. From the countless shapes that could one day prove to be real artifacts left behind by a former Martian civilization, to bizarre shapes witnessed by Curiosity rover upon the sky of the Red Planet.

 

Newly released images reveal another UFO speeding across the sky. Could this be an authentic craft, or is it just another lens artifact? At a first analysis, the object appears to be closer to the rover than the previous recorded sightings. Because of this, its shape can be observed better, however, its interior is somehow mixed with the sky contrast, thus raising some questions of it being an actual flying object or not.

 

 

If we look at the second picture taken only moments after, the strange object disappears. Could this confirm the fact that the presumed UFO is traveling at a very high speed? Or is it just another step towards the dust/ lens artifact hypothesis? Why doesn’t it appear on the second photo as well?

 

Because it’s hard to judge from only one image, here are a few similar ones which show the activity of UFOs near NASA’ rover. In the sky and on the ground, the curious phenomenon slowly dissipates the hypothesis of a mere coincidence.

 

A black dot appeared on two consecutive images captured by Curiosity this November. Its position was different in both pictures, revealing the traveling speed of the UFO. Because of the big distance between the object and the NASA rover, its shape cannot be accurately determined, but it’s likely that it was indeed a significant discovery because the Youtube account describing the event was closed after a couple of days. Fortunately for us, the pictures still remain.

 

 

Another similar case from Mars exposes several bright orbs which appear to be attracted to the Curiosity rover. Looking like a bunch of local spirits, the strange orbs can be seen in a series of eight photos. This case is even more interesting because the UFOs are really similar to the ones seen on Earth.

 

 

Is it possible that an intelligent design is spying on us? Well, if we analyze all the manned missions in space and all the different sightings from Earth, it’s always a UFO present in sight that’s spying from afar or from a close view. Are these all coincidences that can be explained by normal phenomenon occurring in space?

 

Does this image reveal further evidence of flying objects on Mars? Or is it just another camera malfunction, a bit of dust on the lens that’s clouding our judgement?

 

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27-11-2015 om 10:37 geschreven door peter  

Airplane Passenger Captures Several Pictures of a Huge UFO Near Area 51

While on a flight heading to Houston, TX, a nameless passenger noticed that something strange was glowing on his window. What he saw left him speechless.

 

The man’s attention was drawn by this huge round and metallic shape that was releasing bright lights from it in the middle of the day. The witness was on an American Airlines flight from San Jose, CA to Houston, TX, when he was surprised by the sighting.

 

The first thing he did was to grab his phone and take as many pictures as he could. Before the strange objects got out of sight, he managed to capture 6 pictures showing what seems to be a huge craft with other small bright orbs surrounding it.

 

 

The airline passenger claims to have captured pictures of a huge disk-craft that was somehow releasing other small UFOs. He also claims that the spot where he saw the peculiar sighting was near the top-secret Area 51 military base which, as you probably know, was publically acknowledged for the first time by the US government in 2003.

 

What seems strange based on this man’s claims, is that neither the pilot of the plane nor the other passengers noticed anything out of the ordinary. After he disembarked, the man went straight to the Mutual UFO Network which investigates the UFO phenomenon in the US. He stated that:

 

I was on an American flight from San Jose, Ca to Houston, TX on October 30, 2015 when I noticed a blinding light in the desert near Luning and Gabs, NV. I saw a large silver disc that appeared to be in the middle of the desert. This disc was shooting orb like lights into the air.

 

 

 

The disc itself had multiple lights that were blinding to the eyes. I pulled out my phone and took pictures until my phone died. No other passengers seem to notice the disc or comment on it. Upon my return home, I asked multiple Air Force employees if they have ever seen anything like this and all replied never. Initially I thought it was a satellite but now leave it up to your interpretation. What the hell did I witness?

 

This particular sighting has led some UFO analysts into believing that the huge UFO from the pictures appears to be landed on the ground. As Scott C. Waring also appreciated, the pictures might reveal a cloaked craft in the Nevada desert, only 140 miles south-west of Area 51. He considers that the UFO might be partially camouflaged to look like the surrounding area, but because of its metallic design, its cover-up is partially exposed.

 

Another explanation of this bizarre sighting comes from the Mutual UFO Network who believe this to be a huge solar power farm, more precisely the Ivanpah solar farm. Even though the pictures are somehow resembling to it, the fact that the power plant is located in California’s Mojave Desert instead of Nevada, where the sighting was witnessed leaves this case unresolved.

 

 

Are we dealing with an authentic UFO phenomenon here, or is it just a solar panel conglomeration? And even though the plane was near that area only for a short while, how come nobody else seen what was happening below?

 

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27-11-2015 om 00:54 geschreven door peter