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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
The subject of UFOs presents us with quite an enigma. It deals with ambiguities, in a world where certainties are not just the norm; they are requisite. Otherwise, there is little seriousness to be afforded something that, while seemingly tangible within the context of a body of data purporting to offer good evidence, remains so inescapably odd and downright unreal.
In the past, I have devoted a good bit of time to the assessment of “what a UFO is,” though honestly, there are times where I begin to question whether they can be easily defined at all. To illustrate this, the most common idea about UFOs present today addresses the subject through a lens of unreality, in which strange objects in the skies are taken to be alien spaceships. A host of conspiracy theories (yes, conspiracy theories) exist that offer “evidence” of this: crash landings in the American southwestern deserts, purported extraterrestrial assessment teams like the so-called “MJ-12”, and hosts of reports from proclaimed abductees who discuss their interactions with Star Guests that literally point to where in the universe they hail from.
Who knows. For all you or I may be able to discern, any (or all) of the above may be true. However, there appears to be so little hard evidence to substantiate such claims, despite years and years of collective research by the UFO community, that at times the silence begins to seem damning.
To be clear, my best assessment of the subject is that there is a phenomenon, though it remains ambiguous, and no conclusive data seems to exist that clearly, irrevocably indicates that the sole source is extraterrestrial visitation. My colleague Nick Redfern (who, as I write this, will soon be en route to the location where I’m staying here in Texas, for a coffee and a chat about all this), also wrote about this recently at MU, noting the way his ideas and attitudes have changed over the decades, carrying him along from a once-believer in ET or alien UFOs, to his present position as one who, like the late John Keel, thinks UFOs may be “something masquerading as aliens.”
Interestingly, the UFOs (or their occupants, if they have any) may not be the ones hiding behind the extraterrestrial meme at all. It very well could be that while some kind of phenomenon does exist, our perception of an “alien” origin is our very own creation, rather than something that is intentionally presented to for purpose of misdirection.
I nonetheless think Keel was fairly close with his assessment. It may be that Nick and I would agree on many points, or that we may not, as far as any “final conclusions” go. But I think that it is telling that so many researchers who have looked seriously at this phenomenon over the years begin to move further from the “extraterrestrial hypothesis” (ETH), which at one time had seemed the most likely conclusion.
Back in the mid to late 1980s, UFO researcher Jacques Vallee had begun to express serious doubts about an extraterrestrial component underlying the UFO phenomenon. His five primary arguments against the ETH were as follows:
Unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than required for any physical survey of the earth
the humanoid body structure of the alleged “aliens” is not likely to have originated on another planet and is not biologically adapted to space travel
the reported behavior in thousands of abduction reports contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific experimentation on humans by an advanced race
the extension of the phenomenon throughout recorded human history demonstrates that UFOs are not a contemporary phenomenon
the apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests radically different and richer alternatives
One may, for sake of argument, dispute Vallee’s assessments, just as I have (despite essentially sharing his views). One reason for this is because, if we are to make a scientific argument, we must be careful to check for whether it is falsifiable. While UFO incidents seem to exceed the amount required for an alien survey of our planet, who knows what kinds of scientific motivations, and hence what other requirements, an “alien survey” might call for? Also, with no comparison as far as life on other planets, can we be sure that extraterrestrials would not possess features very similar to humans? We could go on, but the fundamental point remains that virtually any argument presented about UFOs could be debated… while I could continue the exercise of deconstructing Vallee’s analysis here, seemingly lending support to the ETH, I will nonetheless point out again that the ETH can be deconstructed just as simply; we are left with nothing that is truly conclusive about the phenomenon at the end of the day.
For the modern skeptic, this lack of clarity on the subject is roughly equivalent to no subject at all, rather than an apparent phenomenon that remains ambiguous. In likelihood, if there is anything more to UFOs than a cultural belief system and/or a social movement built around the idea, the first step toward understanding what they may be is to start thinking outside the box.
Extraordinary claims do require extraordinary evidence, as is so often said; but maybe it’s time that a bit of ordinary thinking should be applied to the subject, rather than going to such lengths to “prove” something extraordinary, when it may be very different in the end.
Are UFOs real, and do they represent any form of tangible phenomenon? Or are UFOs merely an idea, representative of some vestige within our collective memories of a social movement, built around paranoia and international concerns following the Second World War?
To the UFO advocate, the notion that unidentified flying objects could be anything but physical, tangible aircraft would seem laughable. And yet, among the many questions we face in our study of the phenomenon, one is particularly troubling: if the UFO subject represents a single, consistent “alien” phenomenon, then why has it changed so frequently over the decades?
This question was paraphrased to me recently during a correspondence with Jason Bradley, a skeptically-minded colleague of mine. “You have discussed the idea that maybe abduction stories share some similarities between some of the other rash of paranormal claims, like the cult terror in the 70’s and 80’s,” Jason said. “I have always maintained that something glaring about the UFO phenomena is that it’s always followed patterns. Saucers to cigars, cigars to triangles, triangles to lights and so on. I’ve always found this concept interesting, and can’t think of a moment when it’s been addressed. To me this is one of those situations that belies a possible cultural and meme like experience. Ultimately tracking those patterns may help us understand where the psychological component plays into this.”
Mirroring Jason’s ideas presented above, in the past I have similarly discussed the notion that certain trends do appear to emerge, especially within memes presented in UFO literature. However, it is difficult to argue that any definite or distinct lineage emerges from these; in other words, the idea of “saucers to cigars, cigars to triangles,” and the like may not be the most accurate representation of the UFO phenomenon as it has progressed over the years. Nonetheless, there are periods of change that begin appear when looking a bit further back, which thus help to place the “modern” UFO phenomenon of the last few decades into a broader cultural context.
For instance, beginning in the 1890s we can note the prevalence of reports that involve “mystery airships”, which began to appear in many American newspapers (there are, however, similar stories that appeared elsewhere, including parts of South America, as well as Australia, around this same time). Modern UFO historians view the airship craze as a sort of “cultural predecessor” to the modern UFO phenomenon, and it is indeed interesting to note the way that such “UFOs” didn’t appear to resemble saucers, cigars, or triangles of any sort; they represented aircraft that were remarkably similar to those appearing in fiction at that time, namely the work of authors like Jules Verne. Similar to such books and stories, the prevailing theories about the origins of the mystery airships had involved some intrepid inventor who, according to many rumors, was believed to be based somewhere in California, and had managed to construct an impressive new flying machine, which he kept secret from the public.
Not to be entirely dismissive of the purported “airships” of the 1800s, my article “Airships in the 1800s: An Odd History of Aerial Phenomena” discusses a number of crude airships that were, as a matter of historical fact, actually built in California throughout the later 1800s. The most compelling of them all was (or rather, would have been) that built by a Dr. Charles Abbot Smith of San Francisco, an inventor who had garnered a large amount of publicity for his airship operation beginning in early 1896. It remains unclear whether Smith’s airship was ever able to fly, although historians Timothy Parrot and Michael Busby have been among those who have argued for the existence, and successful flight, of such a craft.
Interestingly, if one weighs the actual historical basis of the “airship craze” of the 1890s against the modern UFO era beginning in 1947, there is little similarity to be found. The most credible among the classic airship stories, ranging from inventors who actually did succeed in building crude airships, to the more far-out tales of aircraft actually observed in the sky, still seem to deal with a very earthly technology. Yes, there were some fanciful newspaper accounts that tell of the operators aboard these craft being “visitors from space”, but these were the likely concoctions of area “liars clubs”, or the occasional journalist writing on a day when legitimate news was lacking (such hoaxes were especially common during this period, and among the most famous were two penned by none other than Mark Twain).
These tales of “airships”, however, when compared with the flying saucers that would emerge after the Second World War, indeed seemed to be the stuff of very different worlds. And despite this, the early reports of “saucers” often bore little or no resemblance to any kind of disc-shaped craft at all, as I noted here of Kenneth Arnold’s famous encounter from the summer of 1947. In truth, reports of “cigar-shaped” objects preceded the era of saucers by at least a year, with the numerous reports of cigars and torpedo-like objects referred to as “ghost rockets” which purportedly swarmed the skies above Scandinavia in the summer of 1946. Similar American reports, such as that described by Captain Jack Puckett of Strategic Air Command in the summer of 1946, also predated Arnold’s sighting by several months.
Throughout the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, UFOs would appear to take every shape imaginable: some were discs, while others were rounded spheres or eggs; some were cylinders, some shaped like footballs, and some were literally described as resembling “floating houses”. By the late 80s or early 90s, reports began to emerge of odd triangle-shaped aircraft that behaved, if anything, more like blimps; like their predecessors in the 1890s, these objects first appeared mostly over California, with subsequent reports occurring in numerous other locales. In particular a “wave” of triangle-shaped UFOs were reportedly seen over Belgium during the early 1990s.
Many have opined that these modern “triangles”, rather than being some exotic alien craft, are likely to be a variety of stealth aircraft employed by the U.S. military. The benefit of a large aircraft of this sort might include the large amount of material stock or rations it could transport over a long distance in a single stop; however, the size might also be attributable, more simply, to the amount of lift required to get an object like that off the ground, again presuming that they are something akin to blimps or dirigibles.
Coming back to the notion of “trends” that emerge in UFO literature, while it may be debatable whether there are indeed “patterns” that can be attributed with any conclusiveness, it would indeed be appropriate to note the apparent changes the phenomenon seems to have undergone in decades past. Close encounters with UFO occupants were, throughout the 1950s, largely comprised of credulous-sounding occurrences espoused by individuals who, along with retelling their encounters, were equally interested in promoting their involvement in the burgeoning UFO field, and capitalizing on it if possible. Hence, stories like that of George Adamski and his meetings with “Orthon” described, rather mundanely, encounters with an “alien” that was indistinguishable from any other man… apart from his telepathic powers, and unique mode of transportation through space. However, by the early 1970s, stories of UFO contact experiences were beginning to take on a much darker tone: the abductees now told of encounters with diminutive, emotionless humanoids, replete with bug-like eyes and other insect-like features, who were focused almost solely on brief examinations of their captives.
By the 1990s, the bulk of UFO related books focused on the apparent occupants of these presumed spacecraft, as featured in the written work of authors like Budd Hopkins and others. However, today those operating within the field of UFO studies have seemed to shift focus back toward the objects themselves, rather than having such preoccupation with “beings” seen in relation to UFO encounters. And yet, even the reports of objects seen in the skies have seemingly diminished; this decline in noteworthy UFO reports is, as I have observed elsewhere, interesting for a number of reasons. It has also led a number of commentators (including those found here, here,here, and here) to believe the field of UFO research may “changing” to such an extent that it is literally dying altogether.
Looking back, an interesting trend that does emerge, rather than being related to memes present elsewhere within the field of UFOlogy, is the apparent similarity between UFO abduction cases and other, unrelated phenomena. Namely, the descriptions of hallucinatory environments described by psychedelic “experiencers”, such as those featured in the written work of researchers like Rick Strassman, M.D., come to mind. In equal measure, we find such similarities in the Satanic ritual abuse panics of the 1980s, in which horrific torture and memories of abuse are recovered through hypnosis; again, the similarities emerge in more recent claims of “super-soldiers” who argue that their memories, recovered through hypnosis, seem to indicate their secret work as a government operative, memories of which were suppressed by utilizing advanced mind control technologies.
If we look further back in the last century, hypnotic regressions have similarly facilitated belief that some may have experienced encounters with highly advanced technologies and alien environments in other ways: namely through perceived “past lives”, during which the experiencers claim to remember lives in places like the lost city of Atlantis, asdescribed by Edgar Cayce, among others.
What can be made of all this, and how might our recognition of these apparent changes or “trends” help us to reevaluate some areas of the modern study of UFOs? Perhaps, at the heart of the matter, it is still a question of how the human mind perceives UFOs, and what beliefs — whether or not founded in reality — may be built around valid observations of strange aerial objects that are collected over time.
To conclude with a final anecdote, it was the late Fortean researcher John Keel who had often reminded us that “belief is the enemy”. Much as Keel suggested, perhaps it is our belief in UFOs that informs us the most about the subject… rather than what the phenomenon itself may actually represent.
The thought that another life form could be out there is a fascinating thing to think about, but what is Aliens have already been down to see us. What if the government know about this and are keeping the public in the dark about it all? So from the mysterious case of a supposed UFO crash in Mexico where dead aliens were apparently taken away by US soldiers, to the legendary Rosewell incident. Here are five stories that could prove that extraterrestrials have already been to earth and its all been covered up over the years.
Date of video: June 2016 Maker of video:Open Minds
Here is a fantastic report of three different sightings reported to MUFON and Open Minds give a great presentation about them, not to mention a load of facts that will really weigh on your mind. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Open Minds states: An Illinois witness at Spring Grove reported watching a “large, illuminated” triangle UFO at close proximity about 9:30 p.m. on May 22, 2016, according to testimony in Case 76537 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
A Virginia witness at Charlottesville reported watching and photographing a triangle-shaped UFO that briefly hovered and moved away at a fairly low altitude, according to testimony in Case 76512 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
An Alaskan witness at Fairbanks reported watching and videotaping a pulsating, sphere-shaped UFO that appeared to emit other objects, according to testimony in Case 76358 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
It is believed that a discovery of an ancient Vimana was hidden from the public. However, based on the several reports regarding this finding, it is believed that this discovery did take place.
According to several reports, in 2012 8 soldiers allegedly participated in a top-secret mission in the desert of Afghanistan. Inside a cave, a Vimana or at least parts of the vimana were found.
The leaked report by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service created for President Putin, speaks of the discovery of a mystery craft spotted by military personnel in Afganistan. Inside a cave, 8 soldiers discovered traces of advanced technology which ultimately led them towards the mystery craft.
The Vimanas are described in ancient sacred texts called the ‘Vedas’ as incredible flying ships that visited our planet over 6000 years ago. Interestingly, ancient cultures around the globe mentioned incredible stories where visitors from the heavens came down to Earth with similar ‘crafts.’
The vimana said to have been discovered in Afghanistan is believed to be between 5,000 and 6,000 years old. It has a sophisticated energy shield that has kept it safe for thousands of years.
Researchers who visited the site allegedly described the finding as a ‘Vimana’ encased in a ‘Time Well’. According to ancient accounts in ‘The Mahabharata,’ a Vimana flying machines is said to measure twelve cubits in circumference, with four solid wheels. These ancient texts also depict sophisticated offensive mechanisms incorporated into the Vimana.
Reports indicate that the Vimana discovered in the cave belonged to one of the greatest religious leaders of ancient man. Its ‘rightful owner’ is the great prophet Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism – the official religion of Persia and its distant subdivisions.
While many people indicate the story connecting eight soldiers, the cave and an ancient vimana is beyond bizarre, many people firmly believe that numerous pieces of advanced technology can be found scattered across the desert in what is today modern-day Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and as far as the Vimana discovered in a cave in Afghanistan the evidence is nonexistent.
However, this does not necessarily mean the above is a false report. It is well-known that throughout the last couple of decades there have been a number of discoveries that have directly contradicted the strict patterns set forth by mainstream scholars. History as we know it is incomplete, and there ar countless findings which indicate, without a doubt, that in the distant past of our planet, fascinating, and extremely sophisticated ancient civilizations existed on the planet. Maybe the ancient Vimana described in ancient Hindu texts are just one of the many pieces of lost technology ancient cultures around the globe had access to.
Interestingly, Not long ago, a group of Chinese researchers came across what appear to be ‘blueprints’ for building interstellar spaceships, using ‘antigravitational propulsion methods’. The alleged manuscript written in the fourth Century BC was discovered in Lhasa Tabet by Chinese Researchers. Many believe that this ancient documents, ( now in possession of the Chinese) stretch the frontiers of modern science rewriting history along the way.
The ancient texts discovered in Tibet are believed to be part of a much larger collection of ancient Sanskrit writings describing the ancient Vimana and the different propulsion systems used by them.
In order to find out what the ancient documents meant, the Sanskrit text from the 4th century were sent to Dr. Ruth Reyna for translation. (citation needed).
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1,500 light years away from Earth, there could be alien megastructure says Dr. Michio Kaku
1,500 light years away from Earth, there could be alien megastructure says Dr. Michio Kaku
Dr. Michio Kaku revealed that an alien megastructure could be located 1,500 light years away from Earth.
He made this assumption on the basis of an anusual light that is coming from a star know as KIC 8462852.
The mystery dimming of star KIC 8462852 has fueled intensive research as dozens of scientists have desperately tried explaining what causes the mysterious light fluctuations of the star.
Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku believes that the potential alien megastructure around the mystery star could be “the biggest story in the past five-hundred years!”
According to Dr. Kaku, “this star is breaking all the rules” and “we would have to rewrite astronomy textbooks” to think anything different.
“Basically, if a planet eclipses a Mother Star, goes in front of the Mother Star, Starlight drops maybe one percent at maximum–however starlight has been dropping at twenty-two percent,” Dr. Kaku explained in an interview.
“There is a colossal, humongous, object of some sort blocking the starlight from this star. We’ve ruled out all of the usual suspects; rouge planets, comets, asteroids and the only thing left is an ‘alien superstructure’ of some type.”
“We’re talking about what’s called a Type Two Civilization that could build a gigantic [Dyson Sphere] sphere possibly bigger than Jupiter to absorb starlight, to produce energy and is right out of science fiction,” added Dr. Kaku.
So far scientists continue monitoring the mystery star which displays hundreds of anomalous dips in the star’s light. Mysteriously, these dips do not appear to be parodic at all and have strange shapes as well. Researchers agree that it’s nearly impossible that the strange dips in the Stars luminosity are caused by planets since it would cause a dip pattern which repeats itself regularly, something that is not happening at KIC 8462852.
Researchers believe that two to three years of continuous observations using the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT), could most likely enable the team to spectroscopically identify material around KIC 8462852, and solve one of the biggest astronomical mysteries of the 21st century.
Media interest in the mystery star went viral when a group of astronomers from Pennsylvania State University published a
This UFO was found in three differentness Apollo 14 photos by Streetcap1 of Youtube. This glowing blue UFO reminds me of the UFO often seen over the UK and was actually a USAF secret called the Aurora Project which was a prototype spacecraft that was made using alien technology. Awesome discovery by Streetcap1and please click this link and give him a thumbs up. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
That giant flaming star in the sky does rotate, but moves at a much slower pace than the Earth.
It takes 24 hours for the Earth to make a full rotation, but since the sun isn't a solid object like a planet, its rotation is harder to pinpoint.
"Since the sun is a ball of gas/plasma, it does not have to rotate rigidly like the solid planets and moons do,"according to NASA.
In fact, our gaseous sun is divided into different zones and layers, with each of our host star's regions moving at varying speeds. On average, the sun rotates on its axis once every 27 days. However, its equator spins the fastest and takes about 24 days to rotate, while the poles take more than 30 days. The inner parts of the sun also spin faster than the outer layers, according to NASA.
Back in 1612, Galileo Galilei noticed something odd: sunspots moved across the sun's disk over time, confirming the sun's rotation, according to Stanford University's Solar Center. Even today, researchers are able to monitor the sun's movements and rate of rotation by observing its sunspot activity.
Sunspots occur where the sun's plasma interacts with its magnetic field and can lead to solar flares and other types of solar storms.
You'd expect sunspots to be hot, but they're actually cold areas on the sun's surface, though "cold" is a relative term. Sunspots average around 5,000 to 7,500 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 to 4150 degrees Celsius), in contrast to the areas surrounding them, which average around 9,900 degrees F (5,480 C).
Editor's Note: This article was first published on Dec. 16, 2010.
The Truth Is Out There: Do Area 51 Files Hold Secrets of UFOs?
The Truth Is Out There: Do Area 51 Files Hold Secrets of UFOs?
By Taylor Kubota, Live Science Contributor
An aerial view of Area 51 and Groom Lake in Nevada.
Credit: Public domain
In her race to secure the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary Clinton has recently drawn support from an unusual voter base — alien enthusiasts. First in a radio interview, then again on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Clinton expressed interest in making public files about UFOs and the mysterious Nevada site called Area 51.
"I would like us to go into those files and hopefully make as much of that public as possible. If there's nothing there, let's tell people there's nothing there," said Clinton, speaking with Kimmel. She confirmed that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had also gone looking for extraterrestrial information during his presidency and came up empty.
"If anyone is expecting to find flying saucers or dead aliens or any of that stuff, I think they'll be very disappointed," said Jeffrey T. Richelson, senior fellow with the National Security Archive at George Washington University, of this hypothetical release, in an interview with Live Science.
The National Security Archive, a nonprofit founded in 1985 to uncover and archive government documents and release them to the public, holds the second-largest collection of declassified U.S. files (the federal government has the largest repository).
As part of the archive's efforts, Richelson edited a release of declassified Area 51 files in 2013 that included more than 60 documents. Among many other activities, these files shed some light on Area 51's role in the development of stealth programs and the test flights of covertly obtained Soviet MiG fighter jets during the Cold War.
What is Area 51?
Warning signs tell people to stay away from Area 51.
Located in Nevada about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas, Area 51 is a military base that is restricted to the public. Its official name is the Nevada Test and Training Range, which is part of the Edwards Air Force Base.
Over the years, people who have worked (and claimed to have worked) at Area 51 have added fuel to the UFO fire with claims of working with aliens or having access to alien technology gathered from spacecraft crash sites. [7 Huge Misconceptions About Aliens]
"It's important to separate [what really happened there] from what most people think of when they think of Area 51: that that's where there is alien technology, a crash that had occurred somewhere that had been picked up by the military and kept there in a super-secret base, and all that kind of stuff," said Roger D. Launius, associate director for collections and curatorial affairs at the National Air and Space Museum. "That piece of it is a folklore that has no bearing [on] and no relationship to any reality whatsoever."
The scoop on spy planes
What is real, added Launius, is the facility's involvement in highly classified aerospace research and development.
Area 51's connection to experimental aircraft may be a reason why people have connected it with extraterrestrial cover-ups. After all, it is a well-known yet super-secret base that has many strange aircraft fly in and out of it, Richelson said. By his estimation, further details about the different aircraft programs that have connections to Area 51 would be the most likely results of any actions Clinton would take to declassify documents about the facility.
Specifically, Richelson theorized that further declassification of Area 51 documents could fill us in on what has gone on there after the U-2, OXCART (the successor to the U-2), F-117 and SR-71 Blackbird secret aircraft projects, which were featured in the 2013 document release. It's a challenge to theorize about the contents of secret documents, but Richelson's best guesses were that the public might gain additional information about stealth-drone programs, such asthe RQ-170 and RQ-180, and other exotic aircraft that were tested but never produced in significant numbers.
One aircraft that he said we could learn more about is the Northrop Tacit Blue, a battlefield surveillance aircraft that, according to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, "tested advanced radar sensors and new ideas in stealth technology." This unusual plane, with curves reminiscent of a to-go box, flew 135 times before the program ended in 1985.
Regardless of whether people are invested in extraterrestrial revelations, Launius said there is an important point to be made about Clinton's declassification discussions. "I would like to think that, whoever the president is — whether it's Mrs. Clinton or it's Mr. Trump, or it's somebody else, or the current president as well — that every piece of classified information that exists inside the federal government that is no longer necessary for our national security, should be declassified," he said.
While he is in favor of openness in regard to government records, Launius also notes that declassification does require significant effort and may take several years to complete, even with a presidential push.
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OSIRIS-REx: de sonde die materiaal van planetoïde Bennu gaat 'stelen'
OSIRIS-REx: de sonde die materiaal van planetoïde Bennu gaat 'stelen'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Nog iets meer dan drie maanden en dan vertrekt OSIRIS-REx naar de machtig interessante planetoïde Bennu. De opdracht: materiaal van de planetoïde ‘pakken’ en terugbrengen op aarde.
OSIRIS-REx is een acronym dat staat voor Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer. Een mondvol en dat hoef je ook niet te onthouden. Het belangrijkste om te weten is dat OSIRIS-REx een prachtige missie belooft te worden die het meer dan waard is om op de voet te worden gevolgd. Dat hopen wij natuurlijk te gaan doen, maar eerst blikken we vooruit. Hoe steekt OSIRIS-REx in elkaar? En wat gaat de sonde precies doen?
OSIRIS REx arriveert bij Bennu.
Afbeelding: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab.
Bennu Zoals het er nu naar uitziet, wordt OSIRIS-REx op 8 september gelanceerd. De bestemming? Bennu: een planetoïde die één keer in de zes jaar bij de aarde in de buurt komt. De planetoïde is zo’n 510 meter groot en haast zich met een gemiddelde snelheid van ongeveer 100.000 kilometer per uur door de ruimte. De planetoïde heeft zo’n 1,2 jaar nodig om een rondje rond de zon te voltooien en doet er 4,3 uur over om een rondje om de eigen as te draaien. En..ook niet onbelangrijk: er is een gerede kans (ongeveer 1 op 2500, voor zover we nu weten) dat de planetoïde aan het eind van de 22e eeuw de aarde raakt.
Primitieve planetoïde Je ziet: we weten al aardig wat over deze planetoïde. En toch stuurt NASA er een ruimtesonde op af. Waarom? Bennu is een zogenoemde ‘primitieve planetoïde‘. Dat betekent dat deze sinds zijn ontstaan – zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar geleden – eigenlijk heel weinig veranderd is. Onderzoekers hopen dan ook dat deze planetoïde ons veel meer kan vertellen over de omstandigheden in het jonge zonnestelsel. Ze zijn met name nieuwsgierig welke organische moleculen – stoffen die een bijdrage hebben geleverd aan het ontstaan van het leven op aarde – in de jonge jaren van ons zonnestelsel reeds voorhanden waren. Aangenomen wordt dat planetoïden zoals Bennu deze stoffen bezaten en deze – door op aarde in te slaan – op onze planeet afleverden.
Momenteel wordt OSIRIS-REx nog uitgebreid getest.
Afbeelding: NASA / Dimitri Gerondidakis.
De instrumenten Werk aan de winkel dus voor OSIRIS-REx. Aan boord van de sonde vinden we verschillende instrumenten die een antwoord kunnen bieden op de vele vragen die wetenschappers hebben. Zo zijn aan boord van OSIRIS-REx onder meer drie camera’s te vinden. Daarnaast bevindt zich aan boord een instrument dat OLA (OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter) wordt genoemd. Dit instrument kan met behulp van laserpulsen de exacte afstand tussen OSIRIS-REx en Bennu bepalen en zo bijdragen aan topografische kaarten van de planetoïde. Daarnaast zijn er nog drie instrumenten aan boord te vinden die onder meer in staat zijn om mineralen te detecteren en identificeren.
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OSIRIS-REx wordt op 8 september gelanceerd en moet in augustus 2018 bij Bennu arriveren. In oktober 2018 start de sonde dan met het bestuderen van Bennu. Een belangrijk onderzoeksdoel is het kiezen van een plekje waar materiaal van het oppervlak kan worden verwijderd. In 2019 moet de sonde dan daadwerkelijk wat oppervlaktemateriaal van Bennu opnemen. In 2021 verlaat OSIRIS-REx Bennu en keert terug naar de aarde. In 2023 komt OSIRIS-REx bij de aarde in de buurt en zal deze de ruimtecapsule met daarin het verzamelde oppervlaktemateriaal richting de aarde sturen. OSIRIS-REx keert zelf niet terug naar onze planeet, maar zal zich in een stabiele baan rondom de zon nestelen.
De arm Maar misschien wel het meest interessante onderdeel van OSIRIS-REx is TAGSAM (Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism). Het is een arm die aan OSIRIS-REx bevestigd zit. Op een bepaald moment in de missie is het namelijk de bedoeling dat de ruimtesonde materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu verzamelt. Om dat te doen, zal de sonde de planetoïde tot op zo’n 5 meter afstand naderen en TAGSAM uitstrekken. De arm moet dan minimaal 60 gram (en maximaal zo’n 2 kilo) materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu opnemen. Als dat lukt – de arm kan dat in totaal drie keer proberen – dan wordt het verzamelde materiaal opgeslagen in SRC (Sample Return Capsule). Aan het eind van de OSIRIS-REx-missie zal deze ruimtecapsule – met aan boord het verzamelde oppervlaktemateriaal van Bennu – terugkeren naar de aarde. Daar kan het materiaal uitgebreid worden geanalyseerd. Dat neemt naar verwachting zo’n twee jaar in beslag.
Missiedoelen Materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu halen en terugbrengen naar de aarde is zonder enige twijfel het belangrijkste doel van OSIRIS-REx, maar onderzoekers hopen nog veel meer uit de missie te halen. Zo willen ze dankzij OSIRIS-REx een gedetailleerde topografische kaart van de planetoïde kunnen maken. Daarnaast willen ze achterhalen welke invloed zonne-energie op de baan van de planetoïde heeft (ook wel het Yarkovsky-effect genoemd).
Wanneer OSIRIS REx het oppervlak van Bennu nadert om materiaal van het oppervlak te halen, zullen de zonnepanelen van het ruimtevaartuig een V-vorm aannemen. Dit om te voorkomen dat stof op de zonnepanelen terecht komt. Afbeelding: NASA / Goddard / Chris Meaney.
ARM De missie kan bovendien gezien worden als een belangrijke leerschool voor toekomstige missies van NASA. Denk dan met name aan ARM (Asteroid Redirect Mission). Tijdens deze missie wil NASA een grote kei van het oppervlak van een planetoïde halen, in een baan rond de maan plaatsen en vervolgens astronauten naar de kei sturen om deze te bestuderen en stukjes ervan naar de aarde te brengen.
Het moge duidelijk zijn: OSIRIS-REx belooft een prachtige missie te worden die een schat aan informatie op kan leveren over het jonge zonnestelsel en de samenstelling van planetoïden en bovendien de opmaat vormt naar zoveel meer. En de missie start dus binnenkort. We kunnen niet wachten!
Jupiter Moon Europa's Ocean May Have Enough Energy to Support Life
Jupiter Moon Europa's Ocean May Have Enough Energy to Support Life
By Jesse Emspak, Space.com Contributor
This enhanced-color view from NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ SETI Institute
Jupiter's moon Europa might be able to support life even if there's little or no volcanic activity under the satellite's icy shell, a new study suggests.
A salty ocean of liquid water is believed to lie beneath Europa's icy exterior. Scientists think this ocean could be habitable, if it harbors the required chemical building blocks and the right proportion of elements to provide energy for biological systems — the right ratio of oxygen to hydrogen, for example.
The new study suggests that there is, indeed, enough of that energy. A research team led by Steve Vance, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, found that, even without taking possible volcanic processes into account, Europa likely produces 10 times more oxygen than hydrogen, just as Earth does.
According to the team's calculations, Europa's hydrogen is generated as seawater reacts with rock in the moon's crust. Europa has cooled slowly over the eons, forming new cracks in the crust that expose more rock to seawater, thus generating more hydrogen, the researchers said.
Meanwhile, the oxygen would come from ice on Europa's surface. Radiation from Jupiter — which is far more intense than anything experienced on Earth's surface — breaks water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen then reacts with other compounds in the water as well as the hydrogen. As the oxidants sink, they get recycled into Europa's interior, and then into the ocean, study team members said.
Until now, many planetary scientists thought that Europa, kneaded by Jupiter's gravity, would be volcanically active. After all, the neighboring moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system; Jupiter's gravity and tidal forces deform Io's crust and mantle, generating huge amounts of heat.
Something similar could be happening at Europa, but nobody knows for sure if it is. Much speculation about possible Europan life envisions a biosphere that resembles the clusters of life found near hydrothermal vents on Earth's ocean floor. But the new research suggests that volcanism isn't necessary to cycle chemicals through the ocean, and thus is probably not necessary for living things to survive, study team members said.
The study was published online last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
UFO hunters claim to have spotted yet another unidentified object passing close to the International Space Station.
The footage, posted on YouTube by SecureTeam10, appears to show a streak of light captured by the cameras on-board the ISS.
Hundreds have commented on the video, offering their thoughts on what the object could be.
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UFO hunters claim to have spotted yet another unidentified object passing close to the International Space Station. The footage, posted on YouTube by SecureTeam10 , appears to show a streak of light captured by the cameras on-board the ISS (pictured to the right of the silver module)
According to the video’s narrator, SecureTeam received the footage via email from someone who was combing through hours of recordings of ISS live streams.
‘This amazing footage of the ISS…has got me very excited,’ said Tyler from SecureTeam.
It shows a streak of light passing behind the International Space Station when the orbiting base is in the shadow of the Earth.
The burst of light appears in the background for just a few seconds, changing colour from white to red before disappearing.
‘When you look at this thing up close, it comes directly up out of nowhere, out of the darkness of space,’ explains the video's narrator.
He proclaims: ‘It can’t be a fireball, ‘cos there’s no air in space – hence there can’t be any fire,’ before adding: ‘My mind is just blown. What is this thing?’.
Fourth UFO Buzzes International Space Station Strange Object In NASA Video Feed?
A close up of the unexplained streak of light shows it appears to be a mixture of white, yellow and red light
WHY WE SEE UFOS NEAR THE ISS
Sightings of this kind are not uncommon, and Nasa has spoken out in the past to explain that the 'UFOs' and other phenomena spotted in the ISS footage often have simple explanations.
In the case of the'fireball', the object could be a meteor or space debris – such as a discarded stage of a rocket launch – burning up as it enters Earth’s atmosphere.
Other 'objects' may be a result of reflections from the space station windows, structures from the ISS itself, or lights from Earth.
The skies above the home planet are becoming increasingly busy, with communications and research satellites collecting and relaying data for modern life.
The footage comes from a recorded stream of the ISS captured on Tuesday, and can be seen by fast forwarding to 15:25 of the recorded stream.
The consensus among YouTubers is a meteor or space debris – such as a discarded stage of a rocket launch – burning up as it enters Earth’s atmosphere.
More grandiose claims reported recently by UFO hunters include evidence of secret 'missile launcher' aboard the space station.
The images captured from Nasa's live feed sent conspiracy theorists into a frenzy, claiming it shows an 'interesting UFO or missile' being released from the ISS.
However, the footage coincided with the planned release of a number of cube satellites from the station.
In possibly the most bizarre claim, UFO-hunters said they had found evidence of a trail left behind during the departure of time-travelling aliens.
A flash of light, supposedly captured by Nasa during a live stream from the International Space Station, was claimed to be hundreds of miles wide.
The footage shows a streak of light passing behind the International Space Station when the orbiting base is in the shadow of the Earth (pictured left). The burst of light appears in the background for just a few seconds (right), changing colour from white to red before disappearing.
Sightings of this kind are not uncommon, and Nasa has spoken out in the past to explain that the 'UFOs' and other phenomena spotted in the ISS footage often have simple explanations. Pictured is an illustration of the International Space Station
In two bizarre explanations, conspiracy theorists proposed that the ‘energy beam’ had come from a UFO leaving the ocean, or that it may have been a wormhole used to transport aliens through time.
In the footage, the round object can be seen just to the left of centre. It stays in one position for a short time before ascending upward and off-screen.
The phenomenon was first spotted by Nicholas D'Amario, who reported it to UFO spotting site MUFON.
It was then picked up by outspoken alien hunter Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily earlier this week.
He also points out the subsequent energy beam that ‘shot up from the Earth toward the UFO’s former location.’
Is it a missile or a UFO? Space station images cause intrigue
‘Also a UFO is seen, but its to [sic] small to be the earth, may possibly be Jupiter, since its [sic] very visible in the night sky right now.'
‘Hard call. That light however…its [sic] thickness its [sic] incredible. Covering a width of hundreds of miles. It must have come from the ocean, and left so fast it left a visible trail for a few seconds,’ Waring continues.
‘Then…it could have been a wormhole, a long tunnel to transport someone or something a far distance. We see the tunnel made then disappear. Nothing to worry about, just time traveling aliens.’
Sightings of this kind are not uncommon, and Nasa has spoken out in the past to explain that the 'UFOs' and other phenomena spotted in the ISS footage often have simple explanations.
Earlier this month, a Nasa spokesperson told MailOnline: 'Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artefacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.'
More grandiose claims reported recently by UFO hunters include evidence of a trail left behind during the departure of time-traveling aliens. The conspiracy theorist proposes that the ‘energy beam’ (pictured) has come from a UFO leaving the ocean, or that it may be a wormhole used to transport aliens through time
A mysterious object emerging just above Earth’s horizon, followed by the appearance of a glowing beam was spotted during a live Nasa UStream from the ISS. In the footage, the round object can be seen just to the left of centre. It stays in one position for some time before ascending upward and off-screen
The skies above the home planet are becoming increasingly busy, with communications and research satellites collecting and relaying data for modern life.
The most recent claim comes days after another ‘craft’ was spotted in an ISS live feed just before the transmission mysteriously went down.
It has prompted debate among conspiracy theorists who believe the feed was cut intentionally as part of an alien cover-up being conducted by Nasa.
In the clip, a glowing horseshoe-shaped object appears to be floating toward the ISS while rotating on the horizon.
The feed is then apparently cut for around an hour before it resumes and a much smaller white light can be seen in the distance.
Conspiracy theorists say this may be the same craft that has since moved away - dismissing the idea that it could be lens flare or even the moon.
But the footage that left some alien chasers doing somersaults with excitement has crashed back to Earth with a bang after being exposed as nothing more than a hoax.
The bizarre YouTube video, which clocked more than 109,000 views in just a few days, was suggested as showing a glowing UFO being pulled into a swirling cloud vortex as if being transported to another dimension.
It was initially branded the “best ever to emerge online”.
But UFO hoax busters soon rounded on the hoax, the latest in a series of CGI clips that have attempted to dupe the internet.
The video was uploaded by Misterio Canal (Mystery Channel) which appears on a number of UFO hoax blacklists.
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Hoax video: The "UFO" circled entering the vortex.
CGI over a time lapse of clouds. The spiral and object are creations made in Photoshop.
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The slatings continued with another saying: “This is so false that you could put it in a Disney movie.”
The channel has nearly 60,000 subscribers and hoax busters complain such films are being made to raise cash through YouTube advertising by conning viewers.
But, oddly, some viewers of the Spanish-language video, with a title that translates to “Dimensional portal in the sky absorbs a UFO,” thought the footage was real.
The clip starts with white clouds swirling in a double spiral pattern in the sky.
A white circular shape is then seen flying towards the shrinking heart of the vortex, before both disappear.
A cameraman is heard saying “that is just insane” on the film.
One viewer said hopefully: “It’s definitely aliens this time.”
Another said: “Sceptics always looking for proof, they want an alien to appear on your doorstep.”
In January another confirmed UFO hoax channel Section 51 2.0 uploaded a similar clip claiming to show a UFO “jumping dimension” by entering into a vortex above CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, allegedly filmed by two American tourists.
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Astronomer ‘exposes NASA cover up’, claiming second sun, and Nibiru REAL during broadcast
Astronomer ‘exposes NASA cover up’, claiming second sun, and Nibiru REAL during broadcast
A RESPECTED astronomer sensationally suggested NASA has been covering up the existence of a second sun in our solar system and the fabled Nibiru planet, during a live broadcast.
Conspiracy theory websites have gone into overload following comments made by seasoned astronomer Paul Cox during a live broadcast of Mercury transiting the sun.
Mr Cox, a presenter for the respected online Slooh Telescope channel, which broadcasts live shows to coincide with significant astronomical events, made the comments as Mercury was filmed as a tiny dot passing over the surface of our sun.
Nibiru, or Planet X, is an alleged huge planet with a vast orbit, that conspiracy theorists claim will one day pass so close to Earth that its gravitational pull could break havoc on our planet, triggering earthquakes and other catastrophic events.
Believers of the conspiracy claimed they were right earlier this year after NASA announced there was a new planet, nine times the size of Earth, lurking at the edge of our solar system.
Now, Mr Cox’s remarks have added to the belief it is real.
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Strange: Paul Cox questioning the existence of Nibiru on the Slooh channel.
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CGI image of the fabled planet Nibiru, destroying Earth.
Speaking about the view from the telescope, which showed the Sun and Mercury to the left, and part of another large glowing shape to the right, which some viewers thought was just the sun being reflected, he said: “You can see there, the sun is on the left.
“You can see the small black dot…that is Mercury.
“Now you may be asking yourself what is that large round thing to the right of our sun.
“That’s our second sun. I don’t know if you knew that we had a second sun but there it is.
“It’s normally hidden from view. NASA and other organisations, they usually hide that stuff away from us, but there it is. It is true.
A subtitle also appeared saying “second sun?” Another added “NASA cover up?”
Later, speaking about another frame which showed just a glow to the right of the sun, he added: “Oh wow, can you see that mysterious glow on the right hand side?
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Fact or fiction? Was Paul Cox just messing with us?
That’s our second sun. I don’t know if you knew that we had a second sun but there it is. It’s normally hidden from view. NASA and other organisations, they usually hide that stuff away from us.
Astronomer Paul Cox
“Do you think it is the mysterious planet Nibiru, maybe appearing in these live shots.
“We don’t cover up stuff like NASA does.”
Some viewers suggested Mr Cox and the channel were just joking with them, but others saw him as having a “David Icke moment”, like when the former BBC1 Grandstand presenter came out as “The son of Godhead” on chatshow Wogan in 1991.
Regardless of how he made the remarks, it has prompted a flurry of conspiracy theory YouTube videos suggesting Nibiru is about to make its pass.
One video was made by blogger Jacob Israel, who claims not to be a conspiracy theorist, but is investigating the existence of Nibiru after “having dreams about it”
Mr Israel said: “Was he slipping that in, when he says NASA covers stuff up is that whats going on?
“Coming from somebody who is credible in the field and professional when you say stuff like that, it is meant to be taken seriously, it’s not a joke.”
He suggested they may just have been joking, but doubted they would be able to retract it.
He said: “If they were making fun of people who believe there is life outside this planet and there is more to these myths…I find it interesting that these astronomers would say this.
“I just find it crazy that within the last month or so they found a dwarf star and with planets very similar to ours that rotate around it and we are possible in a binary sysrtem and all this crazy stuff that I dreamed about may be real.
“And, of course, the people that believe there may be a possible planet, a dwarf star that may be heading towards us that may affect climate change and make things a lot harder for us, which would explain Jade Helm and underground bunkers.
“I know I sound a lot like a conspiracy guy, but there was a reason I was brought into this..when you have a professional, someone who is respected in the field, say such a thing, what is it they are not telling us and why won’t they be frank.”
Astronoom: “Zie je die mysterieuze gloed aan de rechterkant? Dat is onze tweede zon”
Astronoom: “Zie je die mysterieuze gloed aan de rechterkant? Dat is onze tweede zon”
Een gerespecteerde astronoom heeft tijdens een webcast gesuggereerd dat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA het bestaan van een tweede zon in ons zonnestelsel verbergt. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Express vandaag.
Complotwebsites zijn in rep en roer over uitspraken die de doorgewinterde astronoom Paul Cox heeft gedaan tijdens een webcast over de Mercuriusovergang. Hij deed zijn uitspraken op het moment dat Mercurius als stipje over de zon trok.
“Zie je die mysterieuze gloed aan de rechterkant?” vroeg hij. “Denk je dat het de mysterieuze planeet Nibiru is die in deze livebeelden is te zien? We verbergen dingen niet zoals NASA. We gaan het je straks vertellen.”
Tweede zon
Sommige kijkers dachten dat Cox een grapje maakte en dat het om een reflectie ging, maar enige tijd later wees de astronoom opnieuw op de grote oplichtende vorm rechts van de zon. “Je ziet de zon aan de linkerkant,” zei hij. “De kleine zwarte stip is Mercurius. Misschien vraag je jezelf af wat dat grote ronde ding rechts van ons zon is. Dat is onze tweede zon.”
“Ik weet niet of je op de hoogte bent van het bestaan van een tweede zon,” vervolgde hij. “Die is normaal gesproken niet te zien. NASA en andere organisaties houden dat soort dingen vaak voor ons verborgen, maar je kunt hem hier zien.”
Geslaagde grap?
Of het nu een geslaagde grap was of niet, op veel complotwebsites verschenen filmpjes waarin wordt gesuggereerd dat Nibiru op het punt staat de zon te passeren, aldus de krant.
Volgens sommigen waren de Babyloniërs al op de hoogte van het bestaan van een tiende planeet, die Nibiru werd genoemd. Deze planeet zou een zeer langgerekte elliptische baan hebben en daardoor eens in de 3600 jaar in de buurt van de aarde komen.
Hieronder kun je de webcast van Slooh over de Mercuriusovergang terugkijken. Vanaf 51:20 begint Cox te praten over de mysterieuze gloed rechts van de zon. Rond 3:19:08 stelt de astronoom dat deze gloed onze tweede zon is.
Op elk werelddeel bestaan er mythische verhalen over reuzenvolkeren. Ook in de Europese mythologie spelen de reuzen een belangrijke rol. Volgens het boek Genesis bevolkten deze mythologische reuzen Kanaän en werden ze Nephilim genoemd.
In de Griekse mythologie bijvoorbeeld zijn ‘de giganten’ schepselen van Gaia, de aarde als godin. Bij de Griekse dichter en zanger Homerus (8e eeuw voor Christus) zijn de giganten een aan de goden verwant volk.
Zondvloed
De Nephilim waren ‘mannen van zeer grote gestalte’. De Israëlieten beschouwden zichzelf als sprinkhanen in vergelijking met de Enakieten, die volgens Numeri 13:33 ‘van de reuzen’ waren. De Nephilim worden voor het eerst genoemd in verband met de tijd van Noach.
Volgens schrijver Aaron Judkins, bekend van History Channel, moeten we begrijpen dat er ‘goden’ op de aarde waren voor de zondvloed uit de tijd van Noach. Hij meent dat ze in de toekomst zullen terugkeren en zich bekend zullen maken.
Belangrijke vraag
In het verleden hadden deze goden gemeenschap met aardse vrouwen en brachten ze een subras voort: de reuzen. De namen van deze oude goden zijn terug te vinden in de Griekse, Romeinse en Babylonische mythologie, aldus Judkins.
Deze goden zouden gevallen engelen zijn van wie de reuzen afstamden. Judkins probeert in deze lezing op het MUFON Symposium 2015 antwoord te geven op de belangrijke vraag waarom ze hier zijn en wat hun intenties zijn.
TR3B or UFO Seen Near Space Station As Inflatable Room Is Successfully Completed, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
TR3B or UFO Seen Near Space Station As Inflatable Room Is Successfully Completed, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 1, 2016 Location of sighting: Space Station, inflatable room. Source:Third Phase of the Moon The first three minutes of this video discusses a UFO seen near the space station just as the inflatable room successfully opens. Note, the first time it failed a few days ago. The UFO seen here is triangle in shape. I have seen similar UFOs near the ISS and this could the Bigelow Aerospace using a TR3B to observe the outside of the space station and to witness their room being successfully inflated. This is big money for their future if it is successful and useful. So why not use a top secret USAF project to observe their other creation? I really like how Third Phase of the Moon talks about this issue and considers many possibilities. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Group Of UFOs Over In Henderson Nevada On June 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Group Of UFOs Over In Henderson Nevada On June 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 3, 2016 Location of sighting: Henderson, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA These glowing lights were recorded over Las Vegas last night and there is a high probability that they are UFOs. This is an area near Nellis AFB where a Tall Whites underground base is located. Ships only come and go during the night to hide, but often use lights to avoid planes when close to an Air Force Base. Steven Barone, a UFO researcher in Las Vegas caught these UFOs and believes that aliens frequent the area right below the noses of the people of Vegas. I believe his is correct. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Steven Baronestates: I'm glad I was patient enough to stay outside just a little longer last night. Nothing happened for the first hour and a half and it was still really hot so I was getting ready to go inside and chill out. This is a good example of hanging in there because three different events happened. I got some footage of objects in the north valley which led to these ones over in Henderson. While this was happening another event started on a mountain about nine miles from my home. I really like this particular video though because it clearly shows a minimum of three UFOs together brightly lit up. In reality, there were probably quite a few more that just stayed low key. I honestly believe that UFOs are here every single day in one form or another but we just don't see them all the time. I can only imagine how much footage I would have if it were possible to catch everything that happens around here. It would truly be astonishing.
What's Hiding Below Jupiter's Clouds? New Radio Map Reveals Ammonia Swirls
What's Hiding Below Jupiter's Clouds? New Radio Map Reveals Ammonia Swirls
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
A new radio map of Jupiter, built with data from the Very Large Array in New Mexico, shows the movement of ammonia gas in the planet's atmosphere. Here, new radio measurements (above) are compared with a visible-light map from Hubble Space Telescope images, in approximate true color.
Credit: Michael H. Wong, Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Robert J. Sault (Univ. Melbourne). Optical: NASA, ESA, A.A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley), and G.S. Orton (JPL-Caltech)
Just one month before the Juno spacecraft arrives at the gas giant Jupiter, the most detailed radio-wave maps ever of the planet's atmosphere dig beneath surface-level clouds to reveal the whirling ammonia flows that help form its distinctive features.
Researchers used the upgraded Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico to probe 60 miles (100 kilometers) below the top of the gas giant's pervasive clouds — revealing a correlation between the colorful whirls and spots on the visible surface and the movement of gas below, which is driven by Jupiter's internal heat source.
"We in essence created a three-dimensional picture of ammonia gas in Jupiter's atmosphere, which reveals upward and downward motions within the turbulent atmosphere," Imke de Pater, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, and lead author on the new work, said in a statement. [Amazing Photos of Jupiter and Its Many Moons]
Transition from optical image of Jupiter to new radio map; many of the same features are visible. In the radio view, rising ammonia-rich gases are dark and sinking, ammonia-poor gases are bright. Clouds of condensed ammonia are not visible by radio.
Credit: Radio: Robert J. Sault (Univ. Melbourne), Imke de Pater and Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley). Optical: Marco Vedovato, Christopher Go, Manos Kardasis, Ian Sharp, Imke de Pater.
Those maps reveal more detail than any previous radio map, spotting features just 800 miles (1,300 km) across, UC Berkeley officials said in the statement.
The researchers saw that ammonium-rich gases rose to form the upper cloud layers — ammonium hydrosulfide at about 200 Kelvin (minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit) and a cloud of ammonia-ice at 160 K (minus 170 degrees F), both of which can be seen with optical telescopes, officials said in the statement. The map also revealed gases with less ammonia sinking back down into the planet.
The areas with less ammonia, spread in a broad band around the planet, seem to correlate with "hot spots" on the planet's surface — areas that researchers have pinpointed as particularly bright in radio and infrared images. Those "hot spots" appear as holes in the planet's cloud cover, and look hazy in optical light.
"With radio, we can peer through the clouds and see that those hotspots are interleaved with plumes of ammonia rising from deep in the planet, tracing the vertical undulations of an equatorial wave system," Michael Wong, an astronomer who is also at UC Berkeley, said in the statement.
A new radio view of Jupiter at three wavelengths: 2 cm in blue, 3 cm in gold and 6 cm in red. Researchers created this image from 10 hours of data, averaged, so instead of fine detail the features are smeared by the planet's rotation. The pink glow comes from radiation caused by electrons trapped in Jupiter's magnetic field.
Credit: Imke de Pater, Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Robert J. Sault (Univ. Melbourne)
To build the new map, the researchers observed the many different wavelengths of radio waves emitted by the planet's atmosphere over time. While visible-light telescopes can get back images from the surface quickly, the VLA radio telescope has to observe for multiple hours. The telescope's upgraded sensitivity, combined with new data-processing algorithms, let the researchers unblur the smeared images that are made by the fast-moving planetary atmosphere. Those images can be combined with the Hubble Space Telescope's visible views of the planet and others to get a fuller view of the environment.
"We now see fine structure in the 12- to 18-gigahertz band, much like we see in the visible, especially near the Great Red Spot, where we see a lot of little, curly features," Wong said, referring to the massive storm on Jupiter's surface that's two times Earth's diameter. "Those trace really complex upwelling and downwelling images there."
On July 4, NASA's Juno spacecraft will reach Jupiter and begin studying its weather, composition and magnetic environment before diving down through the planet's deep atmosphere. These new Jupiter maps will help researchers fit those findings into the bigger picture of the planet.
Gorgeous 'Twilight Zone' Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time
Gorgeous 'Twilight Zone' Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
This backlit Pluto photo was captured on July 14, 2015 by NASA’s New Horizons probe, shortly after its closest approach to the dwarf planet. Mountains, ice plains and a possible cloud are visible in the sunlit portion of the photo (top inset), while rugged topography is apparent on Pluto’s dark side (bottom inset).
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
A spectacular new image of Pluto shows rugged mountains, nitrogen-ice plains and, perhaps, a big cloud scudding through the dwarf planet's exotic skies. NASA even described the view as the "twilight zone" of Pluto.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured the photo shortly after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, when the sun was on the other side of the dwarf planet from the probe's perspective.
In the backlit twilight view, sunlight filters through Pluto's many-layered atmosphere and lights up certain features, including the towering Norgay Montes mountain range and the vast plain known as Sputnik Planum, whose surface is likely renewed every 500,000 years or so by churning convective processes.
Also illuminated is a bright wisp tens of miles across "that may be a discrete, low-lying cloud in Pluto's atmosphere; if so, it would be the only one yet identified in New Horizons imagery," NASA officials wrote in a photo description Thursday (June 2) that dubbed the image Pluto's "twilight zone." "Atmospheric models suggest that methane clouds can occasionally form in Pluto's atmosphere."
This spectacular full-view of Pluto's so-called "twilight zone" was captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its July 14, 2015 and released on June 2, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
These features — mountains, plains and possible cloud — all lie in a sliver of sunlight, at the top limb of Pluto. But intriguing landscape details are also visible near the bottom of the photo, which depicts Pluto's night side.
"The topography here appears quite rugged, and broad valleys and sharp peaks with relief totaling 3 miles (5 kilometers) are apparent," NASA officials wrote.
New Horizons took the newly released photo with its Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera about 19 minutes after closest Pluto approach, from a distance of about 13,400 miles (21,550 km). (Closest approach brought the probe within 7,800 miles, or 12,550 km, of the dwarf planet's surface.)
The photo features a resolution of about 1,400 feet (430 meters) per pixel, NASA officials said.
New Horizons is still beaming flyby data home, and will continue to do so through this coming fall. (The probe is currently about 3.2 billion miles, or 5.15 billion km, from Earth; such a vast distance makes transmission rates slow, due to the significant weakening of New Horizons' radio signal.)
The spacecraft is currently zooming toward a small object called 2014 MU69, which lies about 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km) beyond Pluto. If NASA approves and funds a proposed extended mission, New Horizons will study 2014 MU69 up close on Jan. 1, 2019.
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