Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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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 In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
07-06-2016
Harvard Scientists Announce Plans To Create Synthetic Human Genomes
Harvard Scientists Announce Plans To Create Synthetic Human Genomes
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IN BRIEF
As a kind of follow-up to the Human Genome Project, Harvard scientists are proposing to create a synthetic human genome from scratch, with the aim of developing resistance to cancer and disease.
Humanity’s pursuit of perfection seems to be well underway. This past weekend, a group of scientists led by DNA pioneer George Church, who is a Harvard biologist, announced that they’re working on synthesizing human genes from scratch.
With the goal of addressing a number of human health challenges, scientists said that the project, dubbed the HGP-Write project, will explore growing replacement organs, engineering cancer resistance, and building new vaccinations using human cells.
In short, they could forever alter how humans respond to diseases…and even what it means to be human.
Related: What is CRISPR
However, such dramatic shifts are a long ways off. Before any of that can happen, researchers will need to start defining what a “perfect” human would look like—and that means literally making a blueprint for what such a genetic sequence would look like. Church published a paper in 2014 about “de novo synthesis,” or the creation of perfect genes from scratch, so he is no newcomer to the field.
The project is pretty similar to the current gene editing CRISPR technique, which could very well prove to be life-saving for people with a variety of terminal illnesses. The main difference is that this new endeavor will also take into account the ethics and economics of how far humans should go with gene editing in order to develop their blueprint.
We may have a new combat exoskeleton prototype in 2018. It will have body armor that makes use of a liquid that solidifies in milliseconds, and a tiny, powerful engine for recharging the suit's systems.
We’ve all seen what Iron Man can do in the movies, and it’s rather impressive—what with all the flying and absorbing bullets.
Ultimately, all of his abilities come from the incredible technology behind his suit. And it’s to this inspiration that Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is turning for their future combat exoskeleton prototypes, which are to be ready in 2018.
An initial design of the TALOS exoskeleton. Credit: Army
LIQUID ARMOR
In 2013, SOCOM expanded their development of such a suit, which they call the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS). Navy SEALs or Special Forces would use these suits for special operations.
However, unlike the metallic, clunky suit of Iron Man, these military operators need to move with great mobility; therefore, the suits will be made with a “liquid body armor” that transforms into solid within milliseconds when a magnetic field or an electric current is applied through the material.
The technology is being developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A Polish company, Moratex, is working on a similar kind of liquid body armor, using a non-Newtonian liquid called Shear-Thickening Fluid (STF).
Essentially, what’s being designed is a suit of armor that remains soft and malleable during normal operations, but hardens instantaneously at the point of contact—deflecting and dispersing the immense destructive energy produced by a hit from an enemy round or shrapnel.
POWERED BY A SMALL ENGINE
TALOS is reportedly going to be a physiological subsystem that will use various sensors on the skin to monitor the wearer’s vital signs in great detail. More than that, it will provide vastly increased strength.
And all of this added capability needs a great deal of power.
General Atomics intends to provide the TALOS suits with a tiny combustion engine, that can nevertheless run at 10,000 RPM. This technology will rely on Liquid Piston’s ‘X’ engine, which employs the High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle. According to the company, this engine has a theoretical efficiency of 75%, and can be very quiet since it only consists of two moving parts: a shaft and a rotor.
The purpose of the engine in the exoskeletal suit would be to recharge batteries, which in turn supply energy to all of the power-thirsty components which will be integrated with the TALOS suit—including computer and sensor systems, as well as robotic strength augmentation.
It’s a fascinating glimpse into the future of warfighting technology—and it brings a whole new meaning to the Army’s old recruiting slogan “Be All You Can Be.”
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Surprise! The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Scientists Thought
Surprise! The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Scientists Thought
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Hubble Space Telescope view of the galaxy UGC 9391, which contains Cepheid variable stars and supernovas that scientists studied to calculate a newly precise value for Hubble's constant.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Frattare (STScI)
The universe is expanding 5 to 9 percent faster than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests.
"This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter and dark radiation," study leader Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement.
Riess — who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating — and his colleagues used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study 2,400 Cepheid stars and 300 Type Ia supernovas. [Supernova Photos: Great Images of Star Explosions]
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Cepheid variable stars (circled in red) and a Type Ia supernova (blue "X") in the galaxy UGC 9391. Astronomers studied these and other "cosmic yardsticks" to calculate how fast the universe is expanding.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Riess (STScI/JHU)
These are two different types of "cosmic yardsticks" that allow scientists to measure distances across the universe. Cepheids pulse at rates that are related to their true brightness, and Type Ia supernovas — powerful explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars — blaze up with consistent luminosity.
This work allowed the team to determine the distances to the 300 supernovas, which lie in a number of different galaxies. Then, the researchers compared these figures to the expansion of space, which was calculated by measuring how light from faraway galaxies stretches as it moves away from Earth, to determine how fast the universe is expanding — a value known as the Hubble constant, after famed American astronomer Edwin Hubble.
The new, unprecedentedly precise value for the Hubble constant comes out to 45.5 miles (73.2 kilometers) per second per megaparsec. (One megaparsec is equivalent to 3.26 million light-years.) Therefore, the distance between cosmic objects should double 9.8 billion years from now, the researchers said.
The new figure is 5 to 9 percent higher than previous estimates of the Hubble constant, which relied on measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation — the light left over from the Big Bang that created the universe 13.8 billion years ago.
There are a number of possible explanations for this discrepancy, study team members said.
Illustration showing the three steps astronomers used to measure the universe's expansion rate to an unprecedented accuracy, reducing the total uncertainty to 2.4 percent.
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI), and A. Riess (STScI/JHU)
For example, the mysterious force known as dark energy, which is thought to be behind the universe's accelerating expansion, may be stronger than astronomers had thought. It's also possible that "dark radiation" — an unknown, superspeedy subatomic particle or particles that existed shortly after the Big Bang — could be playing a role that hasn't been taken into account, the researchers said.
Enigmatic dark matter, which is thought to be four times more abundant than "normal" matter throughout the universe, could also have some weird and unappreciated characteristics. Or maybe there's something important missing from Einstein's theory of gravity, the researchers said.
In short, there's a lot of work left to do before astronomers can fully appreciate the meaning of the new results.
"We know so little about the dark parts of the universe; it's important to measure how they push and pull on space over cosmic history," study co-author Lucas Macri, of Texas A&M University, said in the same statement.
The new study has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
Scientist says he found definitive proof that God exists.
Scientist says he found definitive proof that God exists.
One of the most respected scientists of today says he has found evidence of the action of a force "that governs everything."
The theoretical physicist Michio Kaku claims to have developed a theory that might point to the existence of God. The information has created a great stir in the scientific community because Kaku is considered one of the most important scientists of our times, one of the creators and developers of the revolutionary String Theory which is highly respected throughout the world.
To to come to his conclusions, the physicist made use of what he calls “primitive semi – radius tachyons “.
Tachyons are theoretical particles capable to “unstick ” the Universe matter or vacuum space between matter particles, leaving everything free from the influences of the surrounding universe.
After conducting the tests, Kaku came to the conclusion that we live in a “Matrix”.
“I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence”, he affirmed. “Believe me, everything that we call chance today won’t make sense anymore.”
“To me it is clear that we exists in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”
The Space Shuttle Endeavor, silhouetted on the mesosphere. (Photo: NASA/Public Domain)
If you happen to frequent the more UFO-happy corners of the internet, you'll see a lot of weird things: exploding blue lights high above the horizon, eerie white specks floating around the Space Shuttle, and something called "space dandruff".
If you don't believe your eyes, try scrolling down to the comments. You might find, sprinkled among them, the strangest sight of all: former NASA employee James Oberg, calmly explaining what is really going on.
Oberg worked at Mission Control in the late '90s, and then became a space journalist and historian. A few years ago, he picked up a new hobby: taking UFOs seriously. Unlike other debunkers, Oberg is less into dismissing theories offhand (an activity he calls "stomping on dormice") and more interested in figuring out exactly why people react so strongly to outer space images and footage.
To do this, he has combed through decades of supposed UFO sightings, reading eyewitness testimony and cross-referencing it with mission logs. In the process, he's come to an interesting conclusion: human senses, evolved in and trained on (relatively) slow-moving objects, certain light conditions, and an atmosphere, get thrown into a tizzy when those conditions change. "Our sensory system is functioning absolutely perfectly for Earth conditions," says Oberg. "But we're still a local civilization. Moving beyond our neighborhood has been visually confusing."
Here are three outer space phenomena that Oberg says tend to bamboozle the human eye, and the truth behind them.
1. Super-High Plumes
Last November 7th, Californians who happened to be out stargazing got a little more than they bargained for. Around 6 p.m., a strange object began shooting across the sky, drawing mass attention. Then, before their eyes of a freaked-out populace, it erupted, growing what looked like a huge, bright tail of blue flame. The sight sent the whole state into a frenzy. Even Julien Solomita and Jenna Marbles, rapid-talking YouTube stars whose footage of the event has been viewed nearly 10 million times, stayed quiet for several minutes as the weird thing passed overhead.
The New York Times was also on it, taking the opportunity to ask experts why people are so eager to pin such sightings on aliens. "Extraterrestrials are like deities for atheists," author Michael Shermer explained at the time. "It's almost a replacement for mainstream religion."
But you don't really need a spiritual void in order to jump to conclusions about an expanding cone of blue light high-tailing it across the sky. You just need eyes that grew up on Earth. As Oberg explains, that giant blue blast was actually a plume—a swarm of particles emitted by a rocket thruster as it shoots through space.
A more familiar contrail plume, emitted by an Air Force jet.
We're used to seeing bulbous smoke plumes, or the skinny vapor trails left by planes. Rocket plumes, though, look and act much differently. Because they're unencumbered by air, they spread out into wide-angled cones. Some of the particles even ricochet off the rocket itself, and end up in front of or alongside it, expanding the plume further. Most importantly, if the rocket is high enough above us, it might be in full sunlight, even if we, its observers, are still in the dark. This effect is most pronounced at twilight. From Earth, and to our untrained eyes, the object looks like it's shooting fire—but it's really just a plume, enjoying some solar backlight.
This particular plume was from a Navy test missile. Others have shown up inRussia, Australia, and the Canary Islands, garnering similar responses. "There were thousands of people who were absolutely processing their visual stimuli correctly if [the plume] was a mile away or ten miles away," says Oberg of the California event. "But it was 300 miles away, up in space and sunlit, which never occurred to them, because this is not something within the normal range of human experience."
2. Space Dandruff
Many NASA space shuttles went up with backward-facing cameras, which researchers used to study lightning pulses and other phenomena. Footage from these cameras, much of which can be found on YouTube, largely shows grainy views of the Earth from above. Sometimes, though, mysterious white spots will pop up and "dance" in front of the camera. (In the video above, which shows the so-called "Zig-Zag UFO" from STS-48, these spots are best visible starting around 3 minutes in.) Viewers have speculated that these lights are anything from "Star Wars testing" to rogue satellites to alien crafts.
But as Oberg points out, such theories require an Earthly frame of mind, in which the viewer is standing still. In reality, the space shuttle is hurtling at around 17,500 miles per hour. A Soviet rocket or alien craft at cross-orbits with the shuttle would only be visible on camera for a split second as it zipped by, like a car going the other direction on the highway. Because of this, anything that stays alongside a shuttle long enough to remain in a camera's field of view almost definitely comes from that shuttle. The particular dots can't be precisely identified—after all, they're just dots—but they are almost certainly ice flakes, fragments of insulation, or other bits and pieces that have peeled off the shuttle itself and are now floating alongside it. Oberg calls this stuff "space dandruff."
If there's enough dandruff out there, watching it can even be a beautiful experience. When Oberg worked at NASA, he and his coworkers would sometimes take breaks to watch these videos for fun. "The earth's still dark, the sky is full of stars, and these little snowflakes are playing out there, tumbling," he remembers.
3. Twilight Shadowing
While poring over similar videos recorded by various space shuttles, Oberg noticed that all the most convincing ones had something in common. "They tend to occur at a very special time every orbit, when the shuttle has just come up out of the Earth's shadow and is now bathed in sunlight," he says. "The camera is pointed back toward the receding horizon, and stuff suddenly appears, like it's coming up from behind the horizon, or behind a cloud." You can see this in the above video, fromthe Space Shuttle Columbia's November 1996 mission.
Extraterrestrial buffs are particularly into the part around five minutes in, when small specks of light blip in and out of sight, eventually forming a roughly circular shape.
Even if you happen to know that most shuttle-adjacent objects are just dandruff, their sudden appearance and disappearance might be cause for confusion. But as Oberg explains, the objects aren't actually jumping through a wormhole, or rising suddenly over the horizon—they're just moving in and out of the shuttle's shadow.
On Earth, when an object blocks sunlight from reaching something, like the ground, a wall, another object, it casts a shadow on its surface. Since space lacks such a surface, the Shuttle's shadow is invisible—until, suddenly, it swallows up some dandruff, and then spits it back out. Oberg calls this "twilight shadowing." "You can see things floating out of it and floating into sunlight," says Oberg. "They look like stuff that's coming up from beneath the clouds, or from beyond the edge of the Earth." Really, though, they're just coming back into our line of vision.
These various types of visibility, and how we interpret them, are endlessly fascinating to Oberg. Their very weirdness helps us remember that we're dealing with an environment that's very strange to us—even stranger, maybe, than the ideas that propagate in an Internet rabbit hole. "Everyone on YouTube just calls each other morons or sheeple," says Oberg. "But really it's just that out there, your visual assumptions are no longer valid." Once you remember that, he says, "there's often an epiphany, where you realize, wait a second—this is outer fucking space."
Mysterieuze ploffen die te horen zijn in de Batagaika krater in Siberië, doen alle alarmbellen afgaan bij experten. De lokale bevolking vreest de 'poort naar de onderwereld'. Verschillende specialisten zijn om veel wetenschappelijke redenen ernstig bezorgd: door de opwarming van de Aarde wordt de krater elk jaar 20 meter breder.
De permafrost - een aardlaag die volgens de definitie permanent bevroren blijft - is aan het smelten en daardoor zet de krater snel uit. Nu is het 'gat' al een kilometer lang en 90 meter diep. Elk jaar wordt de krater 20 meter breder. In de buurt van de kraterrand wandelen, is dan ook een risicovolle onderneming. Zeker nu luide ploffen te horen zijn.
De Batagaika krater die 25 jaar geleden ontstond, geeft aan hoe snel onze planeet aan het opwarmen is. Bovendien blijven steeds meer kleinere kraters opduiken op het noordelijk halfrond.
Het smelten van de permafrost bekijken onderzoekers met argusogen want het houdt grote gevaren in. In de bevroren bodemlaag zit namelijk een enorme hoeveelheid methaan verborgen. In niet-vaste toestand ontpopt methaan zich tot een belangrijk broeikasgas.
Indien de permafrost volledig smelt - een proces dat op een epische schaal op gang komt bij een opwarming met 4 graden - dan belandt de Aarde mogelijk in een horrorscenario dat moeilijk te beschrijven valt.
Professor Julian Murton van de universiteit van Essex is net terug van een tocht naar de krater. Hij bestudeerde er geologische lagen van meer dan 200.000 jaar oud. Dat was de laatste keer dat de Aarde warmer was dan nu.
"Batagaika geeft ons een beeld van wat er in het verleden gebeurde en wat de toekomst voor ons in petto heeft", verklaarde de expert. "Het smelten van het ijs in de bodem zal zorgen voor snelle veranderingen in de reliëfvorm van het aardoppervlak. Niet al het water kan in de poriën van het losse materiaal worden opgenomen, waardoor de bodem ontstabiel wordt."
De bodem van de Batagaika krater zit vol ravijnen en geulen. Er liggen restanten van mammoeten, muskusossen en oude boomstronken. De professor vond evenwel geen bewijs van een tunnel naar de onderwereld. "De bodem bestaat uit rotsen, ik heb geen poort gezien."
Er wordt vermoed dat de krater ontstond toen de lokale bevolking in de jaren tachtig bomen begon te kappen. "Eens je de aanwezige vegetatie verstoort die zich boven de permafrost bevindt, dan is dat het startschot van een aantal evenementen die elkaar in sneltreinvaart zullen opvolgen", aldus Murton. En probeer die trein dan maar eens te stoppen.
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SHOCK CLAIMS: Humans could be ALIENS from another galaxy brought to Earth by a comet
SHOCK CLAIMS: Humans could be ALIENS from another galaxy brought to Earth by a comet
THE DNA that created the building blocks for life and created humans could have originally been bought from space on a comet that collided with a primitive Earth.
DNA for life could have been brought to Earth on a comet.
Researchers made the staggering claim after "proving" that ribose, the basic sugar from which much of our DNA is composed, is able to form on a comet.
Scientists from the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, and the Institut de Chimie de Nice, claim to have discovered that the nucleic acids that make up our DNA, are formed primarily from ribose, and therefore may not be originally from Earth.
At the formation of our solar system, the young Sun was surrounded by a circumstellar disc of gas and dust.
Planets then formed by aggregation of these small, frozen bodies that met violently and merged, bringing many chemical compounds.
Researchers simulated these conditions to create a synthetic comet.
They said as the synthetic comet "warmed", as though it were nearing the Sun, ribose and a similarly structured family of sugars were detected.
A spokesman for the research said: "It was previously thought that ribose was the original sugar and precursor to DNA, yet the research exposed at least three others that may have been around at the same time or before.
This was the first occurrence of a prebiotic synthesis of ribose from the basic elements found in comets, without human interaction.
Study spokesperson
"This was the first occurrence of a prebiotic synthesis of ribose from the basic elements found in comets, without human interaction."
Additionally, the experiment produced a formose reaction, or the formation of sugars from formaldehyde, which was previously deemed impossible by chemists due to its complexity.
Although it was known that formaldehyde can exist on comets, it was not predicted that solvated electrons, found in the ice, could act as the necessary catalyst in the creation of ribose.
Although the existence of ribose in real comets is yet to be confirmed, scientists say the new discovery completes the list of molecular building blocks of life that can be formed in interstellar ice on a comet.
It is claimed it adds further support to a theory that comets are the source of the organic molecules that made life possible on Earth, and
One of the world’s most iconic astronomy sites, Puerto Rico’s giant Arecibo Observatory, may be facing the end of its era. The National Science Foundation (NSF), the primary funder of Arecibo—which is the largest existing radio telescope and was featured in the movies Contactand GoldenEye, among others—is holding public meetings on June 7 to “evaluate potential environmental effects of proposed changes to operations at Arecibo Observatory,” according to an NSF announcement. Because those proposed changes include the option of shutting down the 305-meter dish telescope altogether, officials will likely get an earful about more than air quality and groundwater. Defenders of the observatory will have a chance to speak their minds at two meetings—at the San Juan DoubleTree Inn and the Puerto Rico Professional College of Engineers and Land Surveyors—and can submit comments in writing through June 23.
Since its completion in 1963 the storied telescope found fame for discoveries such as the first-ever planets outside the solar system in 1992 and the first indirect evidence of gravitational waves in 1974, a finding that earned its makers a Nobel Prize, among other landmark accomplishments. But the beloved observatory now stands on a precarious threshold. The NSF has to balance the operations of new and expensive facilities such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile against older ones like Arecibo while weighing federal scientific priorities and setting aside enough money for grants to individual scientists. With the NSF’s budget essentially flat since 2010, the agency cannot afford to run all its telescopes indefinitely, continue building new ones and still pay the country’s scientists. But researchers who use Arecibo argue that it has a useful life of novel discoveries ahead of it, even if is not as shiny as the newcomers, especially in some areas where it makes a unique contribution.
The observatory’s latest announcement follows recommendations made by two committees associated with the NSF, in 2012 and earlier 2016, reevaluating the agency’s role in running the telescope and “significantly decreasing funding.” This year the NSF also did a “feasibility study” to map out various futures for Arecibo and asked potential partners to propose ways they could take over some telescope operations. The NSF currently funds Arecibo at $8.2 million a year, two thirds of the telescope’s total cost, with NASA kicking in the last third to bankroll the observatory’s study of near-Earth asteroids. But two NSF divisions—Astronomical Sciences and Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences—which split their cost equally, are reconsidering their roles.
The “environmental impact statement,” for which the upcoming meetings seek public comment, will attempt to define the earthly effects of five different hypothetical scenarios, each involving a different financial commitment from the NSF. In one, everything would stay much the same. But the agency could also team up with “interested parties” who could help fund the telescope or other interested parties who want to run it as an educational facility.
More pessimistically, the NSF could mothball the site, shutting it down in such a way that it could restart (sometime in the future). Or it could dismantle the telescope altogether and restore the area to its natural state, as required by law if the agency fully divests itself of the observatory and closes it. Previous studies have said such a process could cost around $100 million—more than a decade’s worth of its current funding for telescope operations. Jim Ulvestad, director of the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences, says the agency is still investigating, not concluding. “No alternative has been selected at this juncture,” he says. And much consideration will go into the final financial decision, whatever it may be. Some outside the agency see writing on the wall. “NSF is dead serious about offloading Arecibo funding to someone else—anyone else,” says Ellen Howell, a former staff scientist at Arecibo and now a faculty member at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) in Tucson, Arizona.
This is hardly the first time Arecibo’s future has felt precarious. A quick Google search will net you various “SaveArecibo!” campaigns from the 2007 era—for instance, after an NSF-commissioned report recommended decreasing the agency’s funding for the telescope from 2007’s $10.5 million to $4 million in 2011. Its current $8.2 million-a-year allowance is a compromise. And the observatory has company in its current crisis. The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the Very Long Baseline Array spread across the country, and several older telescopes on Kitt Peak in Arizona are wading through similar budgetary muck, trying to work out new private partnerships (with NSF assistance) after the agency decided to cut their cords. And according to documents and e-mails obtained byTheSydney Morning Herald, the Parkes radio telescope in Australia is facing similar funding shortfalls. A “likely recommendation,” according toThe Herald, will be that Parkes and another Australian facility “raise external funds by charging for access to the telescope facilities.” Green Bank, Arecibo and Parkes are three of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes—historically open to scientists who successfully submit proposals to use them—and government-based financial problems may lead them all into eventual closure or into the arms of private interests, where whoever pays gets to choose what type of science is done.
Arecibo currently is used for radio astronomy, space and atmospheric science as well as radar studies of comets, asteroids and planets. These areas are brimming with potential for the observatory to make many exciting discoveries in the future, advocates say. Xavier Siemens, an astronomer at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, is especially excited about the possibility for using Arecibo to detect gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime—coming from supermassive black holes. Because it is the largest and most sensitive single-dish radio telescope in the world, Arecibo is one of the best instruments available for detecting pulsars, the fast-spinning remnants of dead, once-huge stars. Scientists like Siemens currently use Arecibo and the also-threatened Green Bank Telescope to find and monitor a network of pulsars they hope will help detect gravitational waves.
Without Arecibo, he says, that search would be crippled. Although the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which announced the first detection of gravitational waves in February to much fanfare, will continue running, it catches different waves than pulsar studies such as Arecibo’s do. “What’s really amazing to me is that in the wake of the discovery of gravitational waves, NSF is going to shut down the world’s most sensitive radio telescope and hinder the detection—the opening of the only other gravitational-wave window that we can open in the next few years,” he says. “It’s surreal.”
It may be surreal but Howell believes it is also realistic. “I am afraid that NSF has already made up its collective mind to reduce their support to much less than the current $8 million per year or so to perhaps nothing,” Howell says. “I think this is an embarrassment after so many years of scientific achievements when so little could continue the productivity.”
Michael Nolan, now at the LPL, worked at Arecibo for 20 years and was director from 2008 to 2011. He claims the observatory used to have better friends in high places, specifically in the NSF’s Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences division. “The two main advocates are now retired, and it seems like that voice is, too,” he says. “The Astronomy division has seemed like managers rather than advocates for a long time, though, of course, I'm not privy to their internal discussions.”
And whereas the NSF’s deliberations have not yet resulted in a decision to back away from the observatory completely or at all, the delay of what may be inevitable is not doing the telescope any favors, Nolan argues. Arecibo’s leaders cannot ask new potential donors to make up for a specific shortfall because they do not know if or by how much the NSF might curb its aid. Recalling his tenure at Arecibo, and the regular jeopardy it was in even back then, Nolan wishes the facility did not have to be so often rescued from the brink: “You know that line in The Incredibles?” he asks. “‘Sometimes I just want it to stay saved, you know? For a little bit.’”
In addition to its scientific import, Arecibo also plays a concrete, down-to-earth role in the community. An economy exists around the rural facility, which provides jobs to local residents and infuses the area with cash-dispensing visitors—both touristic and scientific. The environmental statement will also evaluate those human impacts. If the NSF does decide to tighten the purse strings and no other organization steps up to fill the gap, the consequences will ripple across science and society, space and time. “If Arecibo has to close because NSF has other priorities, it will not be possible to bring it back anytime soon, when or if we come to our senses,” the LPL’s Howell says. She and many scientists would agree that an empty Arecibo site would be—as Jodie Foster says in Contact—an “awful waste of space.”
The science of bacteria in the atmosphere is getting its moment in the sun.
BY CHELSEA WALDILLUSTRATION
BY TIANHUA MAO
Rippling like a jellyfish, a helium balloon big enough to envelop the Empire State Building lofted over the New Mexico desert. Its passengers, suspended below in a boxy white gondola, were hardy specimens: millions of cells of a remarkably resilient bacterium known as Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032. NASA scientists had first collected the strain more than a decade ago in the Mars Odyssey assembly facility, where the bacteria had survived sterilization. Before sending the pill-shaped cells into the sky last October, researchers starved them until they morphed into endospores, an armored dormant state.
Higher and higher the wee wayfarers rose: to 17,000 feet, the maximum altitude at which trees grow; to 24,000 feet, the upper limit of the highest-flying migratory bird, the bar-headed goose; to 60,000 feet, where atmospheric pressure is so low that water in bodily tissues would boil away. At last, at 100,000 feet, the balloon reached its destination. Here in the stratosphere, above the troposphere and most of Earth’s protective ozone layer, conditions are extreme: cold as an Antarctic winter, drier than the driest desert, and flooded in ultraviolet rays. “Mostly, it’s eventual death,” says Cindy Morris, a microbial ecologist at the French National Institute for Agriculture Research.
A GIANT LEAP FOR LIFE: A NASA research balloon that carried bacteria to the stratosphere in October 2015.NASA / David J. Smith
Yet scientists are finding that a rich variety of life—archaea, bacteria, and single-celled eukaryotes—can thrive at high altitudes. In the troposphere, where day-to-day weather happens, each cubic meter of cloud contains on average tens of thousands of microbial cells. Even above the clouds in near space—as high as 250,000 feet, according to a 1978 Soviet study—rocket and balloon missions have collected hearty voyagers. “We’re not just finding corpses that are blown up there and preserved,” says Brent Christner, a microbiologist at the University of Florida. “Some fraction of these organisms is still alive.”
Lacking wings or pressure suits, these Lilliputian aeronauts have devised ways to protect themselves from irradiation, desiccation, and severe cellular stress, and find food in the bleakest of food deserts. Their unique set of survival skills has allowed them to soar the skies, dispersing to some of the harshest environments on Earth. And perhaps beyond: If B. pumilus cells can live through a balloon ride to the stratosphere, what’s stopping them from hitching a lift to Mars? “If organisms are blowing around in the stratosphere, and we took them and we put them on the Mars surface,” Christner says, “they wouldn’t even know the difference.”
Of course, microbes don’t need balloons to fly. Some fungal spores catapult from cannon-like structures in their parent. Wind or sea spray can similarly launch cells into the air. But most simply levitate, Mary Poppins style, in a passing updraft. “There’s always upward movement of air because the Earth is always heating the atmosphere,” Morris says. “It’s impossible for a particle that small to not get incorporated in these currents.”
Once airborne, the tiny drifters ride a complex and ever-shifting network of “highways in the sky,” says David Schmale, an aerobiologist at Virginia Tech. With engineer Shane Ross, he is developing ways to predict these turbulent routes. By pairing fluid dynamics modeling with data from air-sampling drones, the team has identified atmospheric features as large as countries, called Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs), that behave “like waves moving through the atmosphere,” Schmale says. As an LCS moves over the landscape, it morphs much like an ocean swell, shuffling microbes along various air masses, like plankton along eddies.
What would happen if hardy microbes stowed away in a dark crevice on a lander?
Depending on their size and aerodynamics, microbes can stay aloft in the atmosphere for days to weeks—long enough to jump a continent, or an ocean, in one go. Analyses of meteorological data, for instance, suggest that transatlantic winds carried fungal spores from West Africa to the Americas, spreading sugarcane and coffee leaf rusts to New World plantations in the 1970s. Bacteria kicked up by dust storms in Africa’s drought-plagued Sahel appear to be making a similar leap to the Caribbean, where they are killing coral reefs. And in China, at the start of every growing season, spores causing wheat yellow rust migrate hundreds to thousands of miles from plants in the western provinces of Sichuan and Gansu to recolonize the country’s main wheat belt farther north.
Most of this globetrotting happens in the troposphere because the air there rarely mixes with air in the stratosphere above. But there are ways to catch a lift to loftier locales, including transport via thunderstorms, volcanic eruptions, and deep tropical convection. Microbes that make it to the stratosphere get swept along in its steady horizontal currents, allowing them to sail swiftly over vast distances, Christner says. “It’s a ticket to anywhere on the planet.”
BACTERIA TRAP: The gondola of the NASA research balloon seen in the photo above. If bacteria can live in this extreme environment, they may be able to survive similar conditions on Mars.NASA / David J. Smith
No known organism can survive high altitudes indefinitely. Scientists estimate that even the fittest microbes probably last no longer than a week in the stratosphere, and around a couple of weeks in the troposphere. Eventually they “get fried by radiation,” says David J. Smith, a NASA microbiologist who led the October balloon mission testing the stamina of B. pumilus cells. As a result, some high-flying species may have evolved a method to get down fast: hijacking the weather.
Microbial matter typically falls from the sky in rain or snow. To precipitate, clouds must grow ice crystals big enough to outweigh air, but pure water vapor won’t normally freeze above -36 degrees Fahrenheit—unless it gets help from an “ice nucleator.” Most often, airborne particles such as salts or mineral dust provide this service. By supplying a seed around which water molecules can arrange themselves, a nucleator enables ice to form at temperatures up to 5 degrees. Some microorganisms produce proteins that catalyze the process in even warmer conditions, up to 28 degrees in a laboratory. Scientists have yet to prove this happens in real clouds. But if it does, it’s a handy trick: Not only have these microbes found a way to encase themselves in an icy escape capsule, but they may be able to make it drop from the sky when it otherwise wouldn’t.
According to one model, possessing these icemaking powers could help shorten a microbe’s time in the sky to about a twentieth of what it would be if it couldn’t nucleate ice at all. “The ones that are not ice-nucleation active have a little more trouble getting out,” Morris says. From a microbe’s perspective, she explains, the atmosphere is like a subway system. “There are people there all the time, but the metro is not a place to live—it’s a place to move.”
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If Earth’s atmosphere is a microbial metro, it’s an especially brutal one, and commuters have evolved various means to survive the trip. Some, like the B. pumilus cells in the NASA balloon, form endospores. “Sporulation is like hibernation for bacteria,” Smith says. “They shrivel down, dehydrate all of their innards, and wrap their DNA. They remain in that state until water and nutrients arrive, and then they flip the switch and germinate, and go on living.”
Other longest-distance travelers sequester themselves in protective dust plumes. Researchers have collected deposits of African dust from all over the world, and “they’re just loaded with microbes,” Schmale says. Shade from dust can cut UV radiation by half. And as the plumes cross water bodies, they pick up particulates such as pieces of algae or phytoplankton, which “can provide wetting, moist environments for microbial populations to sustain viability as they trek across the ocean.”
Microbes can also make a temporary home in clouds. Atop the 5,000-foot peak of Puy de Dôme, in central France, microbial ecologist Pierre Amato sucks up cloud water with a droplet impactor—“a vacuum cleaner, basically,” he says. He then takes the samples back to his lab at the National Center for Scientific Research, in Aubière, where he extracts living bacteria and cultures them in flasks. Some specimens can subsist on formaldehyde and other organic compounds commonly found in cloud water, suggesting they can metabolize, and perhaps even reproduce, in clouds. “They eat some very strange things,” he says.
The most successful cloud-squatters, Amato has found, are bacteria that spend their terrestrial lives on plants—no surprise, he says, considering that these species are well-adapted to life on the surface of a leaf, where light, temperature, and humidity change rapidly, as they do in a cloud. Many of these organisms have also evolved protections against UV radiation: pigments that act as sunscreens, for instance, or the ability to rapidly repair their own DNA.
Where these widespread adaptations first arose is an open question. Did microbes hone their survival skills on the ground and then use them to take to the skies? Or vice versa? Smith, for one, argues that the arduous conditions of the upper atmosphere likely provided a selective pressure that drove terrestrial life to be as robust as it is. “Think about trillions upon trillions of tiny cells continuously passing through the Earth’s deadly upper atmosphere for billions of years,” he says. “In that framework, evolved resistance to environmental extremes seems almost inevitable.”
Take Antarctica’s ice sheets. Some of the most hostile places on Earth, they were once thought to be devoid of life. Yet in the past decade, scientists have discovered microbial species living on and in the ice, and in lakes buried below. “These microbes might not be growing actively—they might just be frozen in suspended animation—but as the climate changes and as these places melt, and as surface water starts to form, you may well see them metabolizing and reproducing,” says David Pearce, a microbiologist at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom who is part of an international collaboration to survey microbial diversity over Antarctica. Many ice dwellers, Pearce suspects, probably arrived on the winds: When he and his colleagues analyzed microbial DNA from air samples over a remote research station, they found that almost half of the airborne explorers not associated with human activity had likely originated from soils and other terrestrial sources on other continents. (Incredibly, some of these strains have also been found in spacecraft assembly rooms.)
“The upper atmosphere acts like a pre-selection filter,” Pearce says—it ensures that only the hardiest individuals disperse to colonize Earth’s remotest and most barren outposts.
The same might be said for other worlds. If the rigors of air travel can prepare microbes to thrive in Antarctica, why not the atmosphere of Venus, where relatively mild temperatures and pressures may be able to sustain Earthly life? Or the surface of Mars, where conditions aren’t so different from Earth’s upper atmosphere? If microbes like B. pumilus can survive the stratosphere, Smith says, they may be able to persevere long enough on the Martian surface to establish themselves in a more hospitable spot, such as underground, “where it might be warmer and wetter.” His team is still analyzing results from the balloon mission, but he says they seem “consistent” with what’s already known about these super-survivors, which have endured stratospheric simulation chambers and once lived for 18 months outside the International Space Station while shaded from UV light.
How Earth life might get to other planets is a matter of much debate. Airborne cells can’t reach escape velocities great enough to break free of Earth’s gravitational pull. Nor have scientists come up with a convincing explanation of how they would survive the long transport times and lethal radiation levels in deep space. But that hasn’t stopped astrobiologists from musing about panspermia, the hypothesis that life spreads throughout the universe via meteors and other cosmic vehicles—like, say, spacecraft.
For NASA, this is a very real, and troubling, possibility. The agency has identified hundreds of bacterial strains like B. pumilus that have outlived spacecraft sterilization procedures such as peroxide baths, heat shock, and UV radiation. What would happen if these or other hardy microbes stowed away in a dark crevice on a lander, or latched on as it passed through Earth’s atmosphere?
“These organisms are really very robust,” Morris says, “and they are going places.” All they need is a lift.
Chelsea Wald is a science writer in Vienna, Austria, who writes often for Nautilus
VIDEO: “Vloeibaar kwik in Azteekse piramide mogelijk te linken aan aliens”
VIDEO: “Vloeibaar kwik in Azteekse piramide mogelijk te linken aan aliens”
Miljoenen mensen van over de hele wereld geloven dat we in het verleden zijn bezocht door buitenaardse wezens. Erich von Däniken schreef er al over in zijn boek ‘Waren de goden kosmonauten?’ (1968).
Vooral in de laatste jaren is er steeds meer bewijs verzameld waaruit men kan opmaken dat er in een ver verleden door aliens is ingegrepen op aarde, meldt History Channel.
‘Goden’
Op satellietbeelden boven Kazachstan zijn geogliefen te zien die erg lijken op de Nazcalijnen in Peru. Op radarbeelden zijn resten van een oude technologie ontdekt in Machu Picchu.
En een warmtescan onthulde dat achter de graftombe van farao Toetanchamon verborgen ruimtes liggen, waarin mogelijk resten van buitenaardse wezens liggen, aldus de zender.
Tijdens opgravingen onder een Azteekse piramide zijn verder grote hoeveelheden vloeibaar kwik gevonden in diverse oude grafkamers. Wetenschappers staan voor een raadsel, hoewel sommige onderzoekers geloven dat het kwik mogelijk kan worden gelinkt aan de wezens die de Azteken hun ‘goden’ noemden:
Ingang
De Franse ingenieur David Presley ontdekte enkele jaren geleden een verborgen kamer in Machu Picchu. Volgens sommigen is de stad gerealiseerd met de hulp van buitenaardse wezens.
Radarbeelden tonen een grote ruimte en mogelijk trappen die omlaag leiden. Presley stelt dat het gaat om een ingang die ooit is afgesloten door de Inca’s. De autoriteiten ontzegden hem de toegang tot de stad, waardoor het voor hem onmogelijk is om onderzoek te verrichten:
This is magnificent! Not because of the fact that aliens spoke to him and not because he was trying to impress the aliens, but because its just beautiful. Look at the design, the doorway, the care that went into the placement of every stone on the structure. Even if aliens didn't tell him to make it, is still many levels of awesome. This is an interesting article about aliens, a farmer, romance, and god. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states:
Raymundo Corona, a farmer from Mexico, has gone and built a 22-foot Aztec pyramid in the desert, 74 km from the Mexico-US border. When people asked him why he went through the trouble of building a pyramid in the desert, he said he was simply following the instructions of an alien who paid him a visit three decades ago. Speaking to a local newspaper, Corona described the alien as a tall man with honey-colored eyes and white hair, by the name of Herulayka. He apparently came from a planet called Nefilin, which Corona says is 20 times the size of Earth and is located in the constellation of Orion. The Mexican farmer added that Herulayka warned him that he would be taken for a drunk or a drug addict if he ever built the pyramid, but his conviction was so strong that he went ahead and did it anyway. He really believes that the alien paid him a visit in 1984, when he was 33 years old. His wife was pregnant at the time and about to give birth to their baby girl when he first saw the strange man in his dreams.
A few nights later, he heard a knock on his door and it turned out to be the same man. Corona was scared out of his wits and ran outside, but then regained his composure and got back home. He figured the strange figure might be a God, but the man, sensing his thoughts, said: “I’m not a God, I am a man like you, I have the same importance as you.”
“He told me to build the temple in the form of a pyramid,” Corona explained. “When I asked him why it had to be in the form of a pyramid, he said it was because it should be like my faith, something that winds and storms couldn’t move and was always pointing upwards.” “He told me he came from the constellation of Orion, from a place called Nefilin which is a place 20 times larger than Earth where people are similar to human beings,” he added. “He was a tall man with honey colored eyes and white hair down to the ground. He was barefoot and wore a tunic tied with a rope.”
The man supposedly warned Corona that building the temple would not be easy, telling him: “Many people will laugh at you, defame and say it was an act of insanity or something he did during a bender, it was an act of a madman or a drug addict.” The alien also said that humans were destroying their own planet and needed to look after it like a child. Building a temple in the form of a pyramid was not an easy task, especially not for Corona, who had only studied until the sixth grade. He had to make several mathematical calculations that were way beyond his understanding, and to this day, he has no idea how he managed to do it. He just believes that the knowledge was embedded in his genetic system, waiting for him to access it.
Nest Cam Catches Huge UFO Or Meteor Over Arizona (6/1/2016), Video, UFO Sighting News.
Nest Cam Catches Huge UFO Or Meteor Over Arizona (6/1/2016), Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 1, 2016 Location of sighting: Arizona This nest cam caught a UFO flying across the sky. It could be a meteor and it could also be a UFO. UFOs entering the Earths atmosphere will want to make themselves appear like a meteor...simple camouflage to confuse those who see them. Humans use mind games all the time, so its no surprise to see aliens using them. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Meteor? Or aliens? Nest Cam clips capture light show over Arizona last week.
Glowing UFO Over City Of Rudolph, Ohio - May 26, 2013, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Over City Of Rudolph, Ohio - May 26, 2013, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: May 26, 2013 Location of sighting: Rudolph, Ohio, USA Source: MUFON #47675 This is a serious video guys. I can see that this is excellent evidence that UFOs are real and observing us, and yet...and yet...MUFON.com has decided to hold it back for three long years. This concerns me. This appears to be deliberately withheld from the public until 3 years later. Did Bigelow Aerospace pay them to hold back this case file also? I see on the MUFON site, the date that this sighting was submitted was May 27, 2013. I'm just one guy, working one site, and yet MUFON has thousands of people working with them...three years to get it to the public? Really? This case is extremely significant, because of one thing over all...it was held back by MUFON for three years before they talked about it. I have two particular questions for MUFON. 1st, why wait three years? 2nd, what didn't you want the public to see in this video? There must be something that was very important and known to the US government to be flying around Rudolph, Ohio in 2013, so the final question is...was it alien or was it USAF? The more information we get, the more questions it creates. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Unedited Witness Testimony:My husband and I were sitting out in our backyard. He suddenly looked over my shoulder and said "What the hell is THAT?" The object was almost directly over us and was huge. It was a large translucent square and within the square was a very bright pulsating white light that changed to a faint glowing red and then back to white. We watched it slowly and silently float across the sky until it was out of our view due to the tree line. It moved slower than a plane. We both video taped it with our smart phones.
UFOs Return For Second Night In A Row Over Las Vegas, Nevada June 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Return For Second Night In A Row Over Las Vegas, Nevada June 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 4, 2016 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA You can see a glowing UFO in the sky and a mountain in the background far below it. This UFO is clearly flying over Vegas and must have been noticed by others in the city. Vegas actually has its own US Air Force Base. This base just happens to be Nellis AFB...which has us home to a separate base inside for the Tall Whites, an alien species that looks like us 95% as children, but as adults are unusually tall and aggressive. Its a dangerous species that only wants to interact with us to have fun, not to actually know us. Yes, they have been seen entering Vegas casinos with military escorts. Lets just say...shaking the hand of a Tall White, could be the last thing you ever do. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Steven Barone states: I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of June 4, 2016. It was over 100 degrees while I was outside last night but it was worth staying out until this event was over. I recorded the same object I did the night before in the same location only, this time, the event cleary took place in the sky above the mountain. At times, the video makes it appear as if there was only a single object, especially the night vision camera but there were at least two objects. They were so close together they appeared to be one object. Fortunately, the camcorder was able to define two objects. They didn't go through the same routine as the night before but there was a point where they became intensely bright. The brightness seemed to ebb and wane until they finally disappeared for good.
UFO activity over Joshua Tree, California 4-Jun-2016
UFO activity over Joshua Tree, California 4-Jun-2016
Here’s a new interesting UFO video of a huge objects flying over Joshua Tree in California. This was filmed on Saturday, 4th June 2016.
Witness report:Attending Contact in the Desert at Joshua Tree. My boyfriend and I signed up for possible sightings of UFO with Night Vision Glasses. Observed 4 balls of glowing light moving across the sky.
My boyfriend and I were attending “Contact in the Desert” at Joshua Tree National Park. We are both highly educated, professional people with an interest in UFOs. He is a Management Consultant and I am an attorney and previous R.N. I am also a Private Pilot.
We had signed up for the “Night Vision Experience” on Saturday evening. It involved looking at the Night Sky with Military Grade Night Vision Goggles. We got in line at approximately 9:15 pm at the outer edges of the retreat center. Our wait in line was approx. 45 minutes to an hour. While waiting, we could hear the Group Facilitator making comments as to what to look for and what not to look for: satellites, airplanes, helicopters etc. We could hear as people commented they saw “something” but they always turned out to be satellites or aircraft.
As such, were NOT expecting to see any actual UFOs at all.
When it was our turn, we put the Night Vision goggles on as instructed and started scanning. I saw a few satellites, discernible because of their smooth movement from horizon to horizon at a high altitude. I saw some aircraft, discernible by their blinking position lights: red on the left and green on the right. Being a pilot, I am aware what aircraft lights look like at night.
Suddenly, one of the group yelled out that they had seen something. We swung our goggles to look in the northerly direction. I focused on a white, glowing object which looked like a ball of light with fuzzy edges coming over the horizon rather fast, traveling west to east and then slowly disappearing. Process of elimination set in: NOT a plane, helicopter bc no blinking lights. Fuzzy edges, ball shaped. NOT a satellite because too low on the horizon and moving too fast. These objects were large enough and bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
As we were watching this white object, the second object, this time blue in color, came out of the west and traveled rapidly to the east. Ball shaped, glowing, fuzzy edges. This one slowed down.
The third object then came from the west, this time Green in color. Same shape, characteristics as above. This one slowed down also.
The fourth, object, I’m uncertain about the color as people were now very excited and many thoughts were racing through my mind. Is this real? I looked at them with my naked eye and the goggles and yes, they were there.
Now, the second, third and fourth object had slowed to a triangle formation. With the apex of the triangle facing ‘up.” They did not stop but kept moving to the east.
At his point, the group facilitator said that we needed to give the people in line a chance to see because they “were dying to see.” So we handed over the goggles and started walking back to the Center. We lost sight only because we were instructed to leave. By my guess, there were about 30 people with goggles who saw this take place and perhaps a few who saw with the naked eye.
Ever since that evening, my boyfriend and I have been processing this event. Yes, we are interested in UFOs and the nature of reality, consciousness etc.. We asked, did this predispose us to experiencing this? My answer is No. Remember, we were NOT expecting to see ANYTHING but satellites or airplanes. It was just a fun experience to sign up for. Since then, we have not stopped thinking about what we saw. We are both logical, sane people.
Neither one of us has ever experienced anything like it in our lives.
We cannot stop thinking about what we saw at Joshua Tree.
A UFO On Stunning Video Brings Life Anew To Phoenix Lights Case
A UFO On Stunning Video Brings Life Anew To Phoenix Lights Case
Phoenix Lights Incident comes to life once again after a recent video apparently shows a UFO similar to one of the most incomprehensible mass sightings.
ET enthusiasts believe it can prove once and for all space aliens visit planet Earth.
A seemingly shocked driver captured the strange object at night in Florida.
FindingUFO YouTube channel first broadcast the clip. The man who recorded the unusual aerial activity can’t contain his astonishment at it.
The unnamed witness reportedly shot the footage on Highway 46 on May 7 of this year.
In the video, he says that the object is moving then hovering before disappearing.
The man describes the thing as round in the video, but experts are convinced it is an incredible video of the unusual triangle-shaped UFOs allegedly observed during the Phoenix Lights Incident in 1997.
Witnesses described the size of it in variations from Boeing 747 to multiple football fields.
Some UFO investigators believe that the Phoenix Lights case is the most compelling evidence of alien visitation to Earth.
However, some conspiracy theorists think the triangular flying objects are just the US Government secret military planes that are part of the reported black projects to invent spy planes.
According to FindingUFO, the witness told them that he was driving on Route 46, but in the video, he reportedly got the GPS wrong, the reason he said 426. He then saw some odd looking lights on the left side of the road.
He first thought of a plane with an unusual light pattern. However, he saw it getting bigger while crossing the road. He got curious of the sight this time.
All of a sudden, the witness claimed to have seen lights flashing from the object while moving across the road and then hovering on the right side. The object then disappeared few seconds after the witness turned the camera.
Claims of an alien spacecraft have emerged after an intriguing footage appears to show strange aerial event that involves a UFO being sucked into a portal.
A swirling white vortex can be seen in the blue sky in the 45-second video. As it coils, it becomes smaller.
The background of the video produces a sound commonly heard from a large airplane or a jet flying at low altitude.
As the vortex continues to decrease in size, a small glowing ball of light apparently appears in the bottom left corner of the clip.
The UFO allegedly rises rapidly to the centre of the portal. Once it reaches there, it seems that the white formation swallows it, making the mysterious thing to disappear without a trace in the blue sky.
Misterio Canal uploaded the video to YouTube few days ago and had been viewed thousands of times.
However, it’s hard to tell where the video was shot. It is titled “Dimensional portal in the sky absorbs a UFO.”
Some viewers doubt the video’s authenticity. One suggests that it could be digital effects, and another believes it is just a plain tornado.
When a UFO is reported, or say, someone bothers and knows who, what and where to report it to, the most common ending is, these sightings turn out to be, 90%, probably more, are perfectly identifiable objects. Most UFOs are not UFOs at all. For decades now, sky and eyes have met to witness the buzzing unidentified flying objects. Termed as UFOs, they are simply flying vessels. Extraterrestrials have come a long way to revealing their colors purportedly. As the saying goes on, aliens have remained to be a riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Why? First of all, the field demands evidence, which is clear and actual. However, most people present awful video and blurry photos. However, then there are also puzzled and well-intentioned witnesses.
According to testimony in Case 76537 from the MUFON, a resident of Illinois at Spring Grove claimed to spot a massive, illuminated triangular-shaped flying object on May 22, 2016, about 9:30 p.m. The object was in proximity at that time. While driving southbound along the Wilmot Road, the witness noticed the object at an estimated height of 200 feet above the ground. As he drove closer, he was able to get ~75-80 degrees from the horizon. To find a location to turn around, the witness continued driving in less than one minute. During that time, the mysterious object traveled northwest and was seen moving slightly and slowly angled. On the side of the road, the object became obscured behind trees. Later on, it visually lost. An entire encounter took less than two minutes. The object was supported by illustrations as well as a map showing the movement of the object. Gregory Cisko, Illinois MUFON State Section Director, investigated the case. Spring Grove has a population of 5,778. It is a village in McHenry County, Illinois. While most sightings can be explained as man-made or natural, please remember that classifying as such is not an easy job.
ZAL EEN DEEL VAN DE MENSHEID GERED WORDEN DOOR ENORME MOEDERSCHEPEN ?
ZAL EEN DEEL VAN DE MENSHEID GERED WORDEN DOOR ENORME MOEDERSCHEPEN ?
Wanneer wij kijken naar de huidige instabiele toestand op de wereld en de vele tekenen die wij krijgen, is alleen maar te concluderen dat het er niet goed uit ziet voor de aarde.
Meer en meer mensen voelen dat er dingen staan te gebeuren, maar ook zijn er steeds meer mensen met wat lijkt op voorspellende dromen.
Vaak zeggen mensen die weten dat ze voorspellende dromen hebben niets om hun omgeving niet te alarmeren of om niet voor gek te worden versleten of allebei.
Feit is dat wij mensen zijn aangesloten op een soort universeel bewustzijn waar tijd niet bestaat en via waar wij soms hele nuttige boodschappen door krijgen.
Dit kan in de vorm van bijvoorbeeld een visioen, maar kan ook heel goed in een droom.
Gisteren publiceerden wij de droom van een dame die misschien wel een komend Killshot scenario voorspelt. Als reactie daarop kregen wij van een andere lezeres eveneens een droom toegestuurd (dank!).
We beginnen met het laatste deel van wat zij schrijft en dat is het volgende:
Als klein kind heb ik vaak nachtmerries gehad over een verlaten wereld , er was een grote dorre dode boom naast de boom lag een ei en verder alles was vlak stil en leeg. Dat ei werd steeds groter en groter totdat het me dreigde te bedelven waarop ik schreeuwend wakker werd. Ik probeer positief te blijven maar als ik om me heen kijk en de verhalen hoor en het nieuws begin ik me af te vragen of dit waarschuwende/voorspellende dromen waren. Het is namelijk ook nog zo dat ik verschillende keren voorspellende dromen over mensen heb gehad en die kwamen uit. dat waren geen leuke dromen.
Als toevoeging , het is zo dat ik vaak lichten (ufo's) in de lucht bij ons thuis heb waargenomen en zelfs telepathisch contact leek te hebben, onder andere dat ik naar het raam moest komen en daar was er weer éen en ook een keer twee die een soort rondedans om elkaar heen deden . Ook een keer toen ik met mijn man in de tuin stond en ik zei ;''kijk eens daarboven'' maar hij zag het niet, het was heel klein en hoog, op dat moment werden de lichten op volle sterkte als een grote felle lamp aangezet zo van;'' hier zijn we ''en weg was het weer ,hij was flabbergasted. Zo zijn er meer onverklaarbare vreemde dingen die ik gezien heb ook in huis.
Okay misschien hebben jullie wat aan dit verhaal , misschien is het een idee om mensen hun verhalen in te laten sturen? Zeker in deze tijd? Zodat we weten dat we niet gek of raar zijn. Hahhaha
We doen er waarschijnlijk verstandig aan om dromen van iemand die duidelijk gevoelig is zoals de vrouw hierboven, serieus te nemen. Zij heeft zonder enige twijfel een bepaalde verbinding met dat universeel bewustzijn. Het maakt niet uit hoe je het noemt, maar het is een speciaal lijntje zoals je die ook soms aantreft bij bepaalde gevoelige kinderen.
Hier volgt de droom:
ik las het artikel en dacht gelijk weer over 2 dromen die ik een aantal jaren geleden vrij snel achter elkaar kreeg. De eerste droom was dat er rechthoekige ufo's vanuit de lucht neerdaalden ze leken op oorlogstanks maar dan zonder loop en rupsbanden,je zag ze overal naar beneden komen, Ik had nog nooit wat gezien of gelezen over rechthoekige UFO's( dacht altijd dat ze rond waren ,had me er nooit in verdiept , na deze dromen wel ;-)
De volgende beelden in die droom waren dat ik met nog een groepje van zo'n 25 man aan het rennen waren , heel gehaast er was paniek, we kwamen bij een open veld en ik zag honderden of misschien wel duizenden mensen schreeuwend op ons afrennen van alle kanten , heel beangstigend. In die droom begreep ik niet waarom ze op ons afkwamen en dan ook nog zoveel..
Later toen ik wakker en erover na had gedacht bedacht ik dat het was natuurlijk raar was er dat zóveel mensen ONS te na zouden willen komen ,zomaar zonder reden, dus begreep ik dat ze allemaal mee wilden omdat er iets aan de hand was.
Ik wist toen nog niks over een killshot enz...
We kwamen aan bij een soort voertuig dat net boven de grond hing en we moesten een metalen trap op een soort zigzag trap ,dus eerst een stukje dan een plateautje en dan haaks daarop weer een stuk trap , .Bovenaan stond een man van een jaar of 30 /35 qua uiterlijk met een handgebaar te wijzen dat we snel naar binnen moesten Hij sprak niet. Eenmaal binnen zag ik een soort van koven /openruimten aan de zijkanten waar strakke precies erin passenden moderne lig/rust bedden zaten . Alles was grijs getint, er liep een wat dikkere man op het gangpad voor die koven en mopperde wat , ik zei nou misschien zijn we wel voer , die grap kon hij niet waarderen ,en zei nou mooi is dat. Daar hield de droom op.
Vrij snel nadien kreeg ik een droom waarop we uit een voertuig stapten en wat ik zag was zo desolaat zo verlaten dus, alles was grijs, stoffig, bergen puin ,geen bomen planten, geen huizen alleen hier en daar een muur die overeind stond. Ik zag een oude man lopen en een herdershond .We zagen een halve keuken d.w.z een muur en daarachter een keuken waar een bom ontploft leek, er waren nog stoelen en een tafel en daar gingen we, toen nog een man of 8 aan zitten,We keken elkaar aan en zaten daar maar wat , ik voelde me totaal leeg er was geen voor of achter geen heden geen toekomst gevoel een totaal niets , alleen het hier en nu en een verlaten wereld daar hield ook die droom op.
Het scenario waarbij de mensheid of een deel daarvan wordt weggehaald van deze planeet is natuurlijk niet zo vreemd.
Alleen mensen die volledig hun ogen sluiten voor alles wat zich niet in het acht uur Journaal aandient, zullen dit misschien een raar idee vinden.
Het wemelt van het leven buiten deze planeet, zoveel is zeker. Keer op keer wordt het bewijs daarvan geleverd door bijvoorbeeld instanties zoals NASA.
Het grote ruimteschip op de volgende afbeelding kwam enkele dagen geleden boven water op een foto genomen door NASA tijdens de Apollo 17 missie.
Het is een groot ruimteschip dat net boven het oppervlak van onze maan zweeft.
De maan zelf, wat waarschijnlijk ook een groot ruimteschip is mede omdat er geen enkele logische verklaring is voor een maan van dergelijke afmetingen zo dichtbij onze aarde.
Iemand die daar net zo over denkt, is David Icke.
Regelmatig worden er enorme moederschepen waargenomen in de buurt van de zon, zoals te zien in het hiernavolgende stuk uit een eerder artikel.
Op 15 juli 2015 werd er op één van SOHO afbeeldingen een enorm ruimteschip waargenomennaast onze zon.
Het zag er ongeveer als volgt uit:
Wanneer je dat schip een beetje dichterbij haalt dan zie je dat dit object een structuur heeft en dus door iets of iemand is gemaakt.
De ontdekker van dit ruimteschip, Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 zegt dan ook, “Dit object heeft een bepaalde structuur en voor NASA om dit als zijnde niets af te doen, is een belediging voor de intelligentie van het publiek.
Als zij dingen publiceren dan kunnen ze verwachten dat mensen vragen gaan stellen wanneer er vreemde objecten op hun afbeeldingen verschijnen.
Maarja, wat moet NASA zeggen? Ze zijn best slim door helemaal niet te reageren want dan hoeven ze ook niet te liegen.
Dat er zich gigantische ruimteschepen nabij onze zon bevinden, is iets dat ze nooit zullen toegeven.
Kortom, de gedachte dat er in ieder geval een aantal van ons ergens in de toekomst plaats zullen nemen in een dergelijk enorm schip is helemaal niet zo vreemd en velen van ons zullen er mogelijk dan ook naar uitkijken.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
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