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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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...
19-10-2016
Live Cam Recording Shows Apparent UFO Flying Out Of Erupting Volcano
Live Cam Recording Shows Apparent UFO Flying Out Of Erupting Volcano
The sensational claim that there are alien races maintaining bases inside volcano has surfaced once again. A footage allegedly showing a UFO zooming out the side of an erupting volcano causes this claim to come back to life anew.
The recent UFO footage was taken from the live stream on the evening when the Colima Volcano erupted.
YouTube channel Streetcap1 said in a video titled “UFO Leaves Colima Volcano Real-Time Streaming” said that it warps on out there.
The video shows an oblong object emerging from either the side or behind the volcano, before seemingly flying up at around 45-degree angle.
One UFO enthusiast viewer said that the UFO in the video is about to leave the side of the mountain when the eruption took place. The commenter described the UFO as cigar shape, much like many past UFOs seen on live cams around Mexican volcanoes.
UFO researchers, who believe that aliens have bases for their spacecraft inside volcanoes, speculated the UFO took a side path since it could not leave through the mouth because of an eruption. They claim that extraterrestrials choose the inside of volcanoes for secret bases of their equipment and UFOs as humans are likely least to explore these places.
WikiLeaks Reveals Sensitive Emails Mentioning UFOs and Roswell Crash Incident
WikiLeaks Reveals Sensitive Emails Mentioning UFOs and Roswell Crash Incident
Newly leaked emails show Blink 182 former co-lead vocalist was in recent contact with John Podesta about UFOs. Tom DeLonge sent emails to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta at least twice. He wrote about their mutual interest in more government disclosure about the UFO phenomenon that possibly involved extraterrestrials.
WikiLeaks, which recently released the emails this month, also reveals that Mr. Podesta participated in a documentary produced by Mr. DeLonge. However, it is not established whether Mr. Podesta replied to the messages.
Mr. Podesta worked at the highest levels of government during the administration of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. When Mr. Podesta left the Obama administration in 2015, he stated that his biggest failure was not securing the disclosure of American UFO files. He has long expressed interest in the subject and advocated more government disclosure on classified UFO files.
Mr. DeLonge writes in his email in 2015 that he would introduce Mr. Podesta to two people involved in their sensitive topic. Mr. DeLonge thinks Mr. Podesta would find the two very important people interesting as both were in charge of most fragile divisions handling DOD issues and Classified Science. Mr. DeLonge describes them as A-Level officials.
WikiLeaks also published another email from Mr. DeLonge in 2016 about a former military official who was in charge of all the stuff. The email reveals that the ex-military official and his men shipped the crashed UFO in Roswell to the laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of this lab for many years, according to the email.
Mr. DeLonge is yet to reply to a request for a comment.
Daytime footage of a triangular-shaped formation over Toronto, Canada
Daytime footage of a triangular-shaped formation over Toronto, Canada
Here’s one new video of an unidentified flying objects in triangle formation hovering in the daytime sky above Toronto in Canada. This was filmed on 24th September 2016.
Watch Actual Footage Of A UFO Apparently Traveling 120 Times Faster Than A Plane On Earth
Watch Actual Footage Of A UFO Apparently Traveling 120 Times Faster Than A Plane On Earth
Many UFO researchers say that a UFO sighting video in New Zealand is the best evidence that space aliens exist.
Many witnesses already filed reports of their sightings to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for investigation. In fact, some of them were featured on television series and documentaries.
Earlier articles have featured England and Colorado regarding separate UFO appearances. An unnamed witness on board a jet plane captured a photo of a UFO between the island of Ireland and England. A witness on YouTube also shared a video of a UFO appearance in Chesterfield, England.
However, recently, some UFO enthusiasts and hunters believe the video showing a UFO hovering in the sky above New Zealand could be the best proof so far of space alien life here on Earth. The actual footage of a zooming aircraft was released by a morning news TV program in New Zealand. The said aircraft was allegedly moving at 120 times faster than a typical airplane.
The report also revealed that an airline tracker’s radar caught the flying object and gave it an ID name of ZED-KG-DG. Many viewers of the video commented that it is indeed moving so fast and way faster than any known military aircraft.
One UFOlogist and blogger said that he tried to check the FAA website to look for ZED-KG-DG, but failed to find it on records. He suspected that this is one of those instances wherein the U.S. government deliberately hides substantial proof of extraterrestrial with the help of the FAA.
Here’s one really interesting footage of an unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above Bodrum, a city on the Bodrum Peninsula, Turkey. This was filmed on 7th May 2016.
Witness report:
i was sitting in the house. i have a body through the sky bright. i output balcony. i save and video. kites be called body light before thought. because there seemed to queue. kites shines i ind. frequent loss after body that, back is, that color change around that any black body of i sees through black out bodies. then i noticed that the place de light cýsmým ol. and around the ray he had gezen. i sees and sea ray of moving on de. he would cling on black sea industry bodies.video recording a difference before you begin approximately 5 minutes light i have the last 31 seconds before the cýsmý.kaybol could save video. lost and latest he did not seem to be afraid again. i ended the bender camera registration.
NASA has released images of a UFO landing on the crater edge of the moon. These pictures have increased speculations that space UFOs indeed exist.
The images were reportedly captured on July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission. However, only recently, these unique photos were noticed to show an unidentified flying object.
YouTube channel Paranormal Crucible posted a video featuring this UFO sighting.
Some viewers suggest that the said UFO is just a NASA missile released to terminate any alien base on the Moon. Others agree that this is a missile but not from NASA but coming from the space aliens.
It is still unknown who took the photos, but it could be either Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin during their mission on the moon.
If this missile is proven to be an aircraft controlled by extraterrestrial intelligence, then NASA and the people should take extra precautions in exploring further evidence of alien existence.
As of this writing, no confirmation was made about the identification of the object, buy still many have suggested that it is a UFO.
UFO & Paranormal Research Society of Australia (UFO-PRSA) gather on a regular basis to talk about UFO sightings,alien abductions, and other unexplained phenomena.
Guest speakers, including scientists, authors, ufologists, hosted the group in public meetings held once a month at the Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Members of the group are composed of students, lawyers, and retirees who share one common belief and that is the truth is out there.
Mainstream media usually disregard theories that extraterrestrials are out there.
One member said there’s evidence that ETs have already come to Earth and this evidence is publicly available. All people should do is to look for it, the member added.
The group said that people should know what is going on instead of waiting for the government to pull the cover over the eyes. It claimed that astronauts and pilots are now coming out of the woodworks.
Another member, who is a Sydney public servant, believes aliens have been visiting her since she was nine-years-old.
The anonymous UFO believer said that she saw a gray humanoid in her room behind the wardrobe with about the same height as her when she was a child. She claimed that she wasn’t afraid of it because it was her friend that just wanted to be with her.
Author of “Contact Down Under: A Century of UFO sightings in Australasia and the Western Pacific,” researcher Moira McGhee believes aliens do exist and that they even have sexual intercourse.
She said they received reports of men being abducted and women have their way with them. There are reports too of women having their eggs taken.
Former lawyer Moira believes in alien life but admits that most ET evidence is difficult to prove or explain.
Moira explains in her book that researchers don’t need to agree with everything people say, but the worst thing researchers can do is to close their mind. Moira adds that researchers should believe anything is possible, but should also have a big dose of skepticism.
Even one of alien-related reports is true; it will surely change humanity forever, says Moira.
A huge boomerang-shaped UFO was spotted and filmed in Dunedin. The witness, who doesn’t want to be named, estimated it to be about 200 to 300 feet across and appeared to be escorted by three other flying objects.
The witness reported his sighting to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which is filed as case 41685. According to the report, the sighting started at around 8:40 p.m. while driving southbound on Keene Road, just north of Sunset Boulevard. The witness was with two other persons when the incident took place.
As the reporting witness drove along, he and his companions saw mysterious lights in the sky. The witnesses got a better look of these lights as they got closer to them. It was the time they realized that the lights were coming from four large aerial objects.
The driver witness pulled over, and the two other witnesses started watching the aerial activity in amazement at the side of the road. The reporting witness managed to take a video of the spectacle, but his mobile phone video produced a poor quality result.
The witness claimed that the boomerang-shaped UFO was the largest among the four mysterious objects. It had four lights that were blinking, and others were constantly shining.
The second UFO flew about 20 feet to the left of the largest UFO in a wingman position. The third one was trailing the boomerang UFO at about half-a-mile at a distance. The fourth one appeared tethering with bright white strobe.
Moments later, the boomerang-shaped flying object started releasing orbs, which were dimly visible in the night sky and vanished a few seconds later after being launched.
Footage Shows What Looks Like A Giant UFO Traveling Across The Sky Above California
Footage Shows What Looks Like A Giant UFO Traveling Across The Sky Above California
Amazing footage has been shared online showing an apparent massive spaceship traveling in a cloud cover.
Apparently recorded on October 10, 2016, in California, the video shows a spaceship look alike object flying across the sky in a cloud formation that seems to move with it.
Many viewers see it as unidentified flying object uncloaking itself. They say it looks like a flat circular plate hiding in the cloud. Some note that the clouds are moving around the UFO and since the center is lower than the rest of the UFO, it is being exposed.
They also gave a reason why the outer edge is also exposed. They say it is because the craft itself is moving at a slightly different speed than the cloud it is in.
Other viewers further suggested a reason why the UFO becomes visible for few minutes. They say that heavy winds and the perfect angle of the sun hitting the UFO cause it to become visible.
Amazing video of UFOs over Las Vegas, Nevada 11-Oct-2016
Amazing video of UFOs over Las Vegas, Nevada 11-Oct-2016
Here’s one interesting footage of an unidentified flying object flying over Blue Diamond Hills near Las Vegas, Nevada.
Witness report:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of October 11, 2016. I was able to get both the camcorder and night vision cameras on this object. I wasn’t sure if it was on a distant mountain or if it was in the air until it began to move towards the city. It traveled in a level horizontal path which tells me it was in the air. It would be impossible for it to be on the ground because the hills back there are so uneven and there are no perfectly straight roads in that area.
UFO Expert Found Dead On A Sofa Days After Texting His Mother He Was In Trouble
UFO Expert Found Dead On A Sofa Days After Texting His Mother He Was In Trouble
Conspiracy theorist Max Spiers was discovered dead on a sofa just days before giving a talk about conspiracy theories and UFOs. The father of two, 39, sent a text message to his mother that reads “If anything happens to me, investigate” days before his death.
Max Spiers was found lifeless on a sofa in Poland, where he was scheduled to give a talk about UFOs and conspiracy theories.
Despite the absence of post-mortem examination, it was earlier ruled that he died from natural causes.
However, his mother Vanessa Bates, 63, cannot rule out the possibility that somebody wanted his son to be dead because of Max’s dark investigations into government cover-ups on the truth about UFOs.
Just days before his death he sent a text message to his mother that reads
“Your boy’s in trouble. If anything happens to me, investigate.”
Lived in America for a few years, Max had returned home in Canterbury to stay with his mother before going off to Poland.
Vanessa said that her son was becoming famous in the world of conspiracy theorists and had been invited to speak in Poland at a conference in July.
Max had made a living out of investigating alleged UFO sightings and cover-ups. He was said to be digging into the lives of well-known personalities in politics, entertainment, and business more recently.
Many online followers believe government agents have something to do with Max’s death because of his unexplained death and the subsequent treatment of it by the authorities.
Conspiracy theorists have long been suggested that secret services or popularly known as men in black tend to bump off UFO researchers who are already too close to the truth.
Online fans have requested the authorities to release the details surrounding Max’s mysterious death and called for an autopsy.
According to mother Vanessa, Max was in good health and a very fit man, and yet he just died suddenly on a sofa.
Vanessa was wondering why the Polish authorities concluded that Max died from natural causes even without conducting a post-mortem.
She further revealed in the media that Polish authorities refused to release any paperwork about it to her because she doesn’t have his writing permission. Vanessa found the reason absurd. Max was buried in Canterbury Cemetery a week after his death.
Pathologist in East Kent reportedly carried out a post-mortem examination on Max’s dead body. However, Vanessa said that she did not know the result even after two months the test was conducted or whether there will be an inquest.
She said her son had not suffered any visible physical injuries but could have been poisoned slowly, making the results of toxicology tests from post-mortem so critical.
Vanessa promised to get the truth of his son’s mysterious death as his sister Becky and brother Josh, as well as his two boys, will also continue to fight to get to the truth.
Amazing daytime UFO caught on tape over Cologne, Germany 20-Aug-2016
Amazing daytime UFO caught on tape over Cologne, Germany 20-Aug-2016
Check out this really interesting footage of a really fast unidentified flying object flying across the daytime sky above Cologne in Germany. This was taken on 20th August 2016.
What do you think about this video? Please leave your comment below.
Blue sphere in the sky above Council Bluffs, Iowa 25-Sep-2016
Blue sphere in the sky above Council Bluffs, Iowa 25-Sep-2016
Here’s one new footage of a bright blue/purple sphere hovering in the night sky above US state Iowa. This was filmed on 25th September 2016.
Witness report:
Outside with dog. Am near C.B. small airport so I know what airplanes look like at nite. Looked up and saw purple blue round object soaring across sky from east to west behind neighbors house to north of mine. Looked to be at a distance away. I thought it was a meteor, but then saw hovering in sky, so went in house to get cell phone. Recorded part of experience. The whiter colors in recording are house landscape lights of neighborhood, but the blue purple light you will see hovering then disappear. Next i saw it from behind my house at approximately same distance away, but could not get good video as was partially covered by trees. then disappeared and moved to different location back to where I saw originally from front of house. I did not see it move, just disappear, then reappear. Noise you hear on recording is traffic from Hwg 92. Twice in one spot and once in the other spot. Looked like it could have been located somewhere between Hwy 92 and Hwy 6 in C.B. I read a similar sighting in Atlantic Ia same nite and moving in my direction. Might be same?
Amazing daytime UFO sighting over Guangzhou, China
Amazing daytime UFO sighting over Guangzhou, China
Here’s one interesting UFO footage of a mass sighting that was filmed over Guangzhou, China. This happened on 11th April 2016.
What do you think about this footage? Please leave your comment below.
UFO Over China Turns The Street Into Parking Area
City people seems to stop and stare a UFO that appears in the sky above them. A dashboard camera of a car reportedly captures the entire event. It shows people stopping, staring and capturing either a photo or video of the UFO. The crowd builds up in a highway and makes the street like a parking lot. People get out of their cars and start capturing the UFO with their cameras and mobile phones.
The video is reportedly taken in Guangzhou, China back in April, but only gone viral after it was uploaded to YouTube by a UFO blogger. He says that this is a fantastic example of a huge UFO over China. The uploader suggests to the viewer to view the video in full screen to notice the UFO wobbles as it moves.
It looks like a disk UFO and perhaps spinning as it moves just like many other UFOs being reported in the past, the uploader explains.
However, some express skepticism about it being a real event.
Social media user Maverick says that it is funny that this is the only source of the video on YouTube considering so many people in the video were also recording this alleged mysterious event. Another viewer says that it looks like the video shows a part of a commercial.
Another user adds that this is very fake after noticing that the UFO bounces as the camera bounces, making it clearly composed.
Bright Lights Moving Around The UK Skies Spark UFO Claims
Bright Lights Moving Around The UK Skies Spark UFO Claims
Video of white lights in the sky gets alien hunters into a frenzy amid claims they are alien spacecraft visiting Earth.
YouTube user Wayne Austin uploaded the video to the video sharing site on September 27. He asks the viewers to help him identify the strange lights above Chesterfield in Derbyshire.
According to reports, many people around Manchester claimed to have seen the same strange phenomenon.
The YouTube video shows two lights moving in a random manner in the sky.
Houfton Road, Bolsover resident Fiona Jordan described the UFOs as little cloudy lights in the sky, and they were like dancing.
Jordan said that she noticed the UFOs when she just let her dogs out before going to bed. She claimed to have seen a total of four UFOs – one above the house of her neighbor and three over another house in her neighborhood.
Jordan observed the unidentified flying objects for around 20 minutes. She also revealed that her son in Carr Vale also saw the same things about two or three nights ago.
Some conspiracy theorists believe that these lights are UFOs, which usually perform for the witness with loops or return to observe the witness while keeping distance for 5 to 10 minutes.
However, skeptics have more conventional explanation saying that the lights were simply beams from a circus or another event for entertainment purpose.
Homeowner’s CCTV Catches a UFO Flying over Roofs in the Night Sky
Homeowner’s CCTV Catches a UFO Flying over Roofs in the Night Sky
Diane Veard was surprised to see an out of this world object through the security camera she installed in her home.
Diane was in Greece with her partner and three children for a vacation. Concerned about burglaries in their neighborhood, the couple went online to check their home from their security camera, but they were shocked to discover the device had caught what seemed to be a spaceship.
The motion-activated camera had caught an apparent intruder sneaking around outside their house with a torch. The couple kept on watching and got surprised to see an unidentified flying object. Unknown causes triggered the camera for the second time in the footage from 11:20 p.m. on August 15. The screen shows a bright white light streaking across the sky through a gap between two houses across the street.
The bright light seems to turn quickly and move fast in a different direction. Diane, 48, said that they had installed the camera to look for a thief because there has been a lot of robberies in their area.
They are not sure the reason as to why the light triggered the second time. Diane said that they have a cat, but he was in the cattery while they were away from home.
Since the couple had seen an apparent intruder, they kept watching the video. They were expecting to see someone a little later, but there was nothing. Then they saw the strange light in the sky.
According to Diane, the light has a tail, making her speculate at first that it was a meteor. But changed her mind when it turned around in the sky and set off in the other direction at high speed.
Diane’s partner Michael Smith said in jest that it was a flying saucer after watching the video from their hotel in Ixia, Rhodes. The couple’s three children, Honor 13, Alexandria, 14, and the eldest Olivia, 17, were equally astounded too.
The video had received mixed comments after Diane posted it on Facebook with some linked it to the annual celestial event, Perseid meteor shower, which peaked a few days before the video was recorded.
However, Diane of Bolton, Greater Manchester is convinced that no meteors can turn around 90 degrees in the sky.
The family also thought it could be a drone, but they know that the drone usually have a flashing light and don’t have the ability to move that fast.
NASA has been accused multiple times of hiding evidence every time it seems to cut off a live stream from the International Space Station (ISS) when an apparent UFO appears on the screen.
Recently, UFO enthusiasts noticed a blue light on the live stream from the ISS but accused the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of cutting the live feed quickly. They claim that the space agency did not want the people to watch the UFO when it appeared.
UFO hunters spotted the phenomenon while watching the live stream from the International Space Station on the 30th of September 2016. The mysterious blue light that appears to hover the Earth was circulated quickly as the latest proof of extraterrestrial life.
Critics, however, dismiss the alien speculation and suggest that the light is just a solar flare. However, believers firmly think it is a solid object reflecting sunlight and flying close to the ISS in low earth orbit.
They further speculate that the UFO is brighter on the left side because of the light from the Sun, dismissing the lens flare suggestion.
YouTube user Streetcap1 posted the video in the commercial video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. He says that the UFO was very distant but still managed to get enough framesto enlarge.
What ‘Star Trek’ May Have Right—and Wrong—About Alien Life
What ‘Star Trek’ May Have Right—and Wrong—About Alien Life
Will we ever salute Vulcans or cuddle tribbles? An astrobiologist explores the latest thinking on the forms alien life might really take.
Michael Dorn (right) played the Klingon Worf in the Star Trek franchise.
PHOTOGRAPH BY AF ARCHIVE, ALAMY
By Andrew Fazekas
Over an illustrious 50-year history, Star Trek TV shows and movies have introduced audiences to some of the most famous fictional aliens. Be they Klingons, Cardassians, Vulcans, or tribbles, the Trek universe abounds with distinct and diverse extraterrestrials.
In the past few decades, scientists have developed exquisitely sensitive equipment to search for other habitable worlds and to hunt for greetings from across the cosmos. To date, astronomers have found more than 3,500 planets beyond our solar system, and they calculate that many more remain undiscovered. (See how aliens might contact us using giant laser doodles.)
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A bright meteor streaks the sky during the annual Quadrantid meteor shower, photographed near the histroic city of Damghan, Iran.
PHOTOGRAPH BY BABAK TAFRESHI, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE
Even more exciting, we’ve found handfuls ofplanets that seem to be in the so-called habitable zone—the region around a star where the temperature is just right for liquid water to exist on a planetary surface. Water is a key ingredient for life as we know it, and its presence seems to have driven biological development right from the start.
“The fact that on Earth life emerged quickly just after conditions became habitable suggests that this could happen often in other systems, too,” says Daniel Apai, an astronomy and astrobiology researcher at the University of Arizona and the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
“Life persisted for about four billion years on Earth and survived a variety of planetary challenges, suggesting that it is very difficult to ‘sterilize’ a planet once it’s taken a foothold,” he adds. “So chances are good that life is relatively common in the galaxy.”
Spreading Seeds
If we ever do find aliens, would they be anything like the beings that populate Star Trek? While the show writers have imagined some highly unique creatures, from non-corporeal energy beings to intelligent clouds, most aliens encountered by the Enterprise crew have been carbon-based life-forms that are all too often humanoid.
The striking similarity between humans and the show’s most famous aliens, including Romulans, Vulcans, and Andorians, has been a point of contention with many fans over the years. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the franchise writers attempted to explain this convenient lack of biological diversity using a real scientific theory called panspermia.
Captain Kirk deals with troublesome tribbles in Star Trek.
COURTESY CBS
Proponents of this theory argue that life on Earth may have been seeded by hardy microbes—or at least, by raw ingredients such as amino acids—that traveled here via comets or asteroids. While there’s no direct evidence to back up this claim, missions such as the Rosetta orbiter have found the building blocks of life on comets, and we know tough organisms such as tardigrades can survive unprotected in space.
Scientists also believe early Earth was bombarded by meteors, which could have delivered a “starter kit” for life from elsewhere in the galaxy.
Building on the panspermia concept, Star Trek suggested that an ancient humanoid life-form intentionally seeded worlds around the Milky Way, creating new species that assumed their basic shape. While each of these species may have split off on its own evolutionary path, they are all essentially long-lost relatives. (Find out how Star Trek is right about almost everything.)
While there is a case for panspermia, chances are slim that we will encounter humanoid life-forms in the real universe, Apai argues. Some theories suggest that local environmental conditions and evolutionary events left to chance will most likely shape the future of any life-form, making it totally unique.
“While there are examples for parallel evolution in the terrestrial biosphere—for example, similar eyes evolving in very different, unrelated species—it seems unlikely to me that we would encounter alien life that would be humanoid,” says Apai.
It’s a Small Galaxy?
Instead, given the only example we have, some researchers suggest that the most common form of life across the galaxy may be what’s most abundant here on Earth: microbes.
“On Earth, it took only a relatively brief period for life to emerge and reach the capability to photosynthesize, but it took billions of years for complex animals to emerge, and intelligence and technical civilization have only been present for about 0.000001 percent of Earth’s past,” says Apai. In other words, our planet’s history has been dominated by a wide array of microscopic life.
There’s also a good chance that the basic molecular building blocks we see on our world will be common throughout the universe.
The horta was a silicon-based life form in Star Trek.
COURTESY CBS
“Given the availability and its chemical properties, it is a good guess that carbon may often be the key species that provides the backbone, the molecular scaffolding, for biomolecules,” says Apai.
Still, astrobiologists are trying not to be too Earth-centric in their theories about alien life—there’s always the chance that if we do manage to find extraterrestrials, we’ll stumble upon silicon-based creatures like the horta or sentient minerals like the crystalline entity.
“We are looking for everything we can find and trying to exclude no possibilities that we can conceive,” says Apai. “Of course, I am still certain that we will be surprised when we will first be able to study extraterrestrial life.”
A student working on his PhD in folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland is digging into the mystery surrounding an unidentified flying object that crashed into Shag Harbour, N.S., 49 years ago.
Noah Morritt isn't like the many UFO enthusiasts that travel to the small fishing village, he's less interested in the object itself and more in the effect the story has had on the town.
Back on Oct. 4, 1967, people in Shag Harbour saw a light drop from the sky, hover over the water then disappear into the harbour. Many eyewitnesses who saw the light assumed a plane had gone down.
RCMP officers on the scene also reported a plane had gone in the water, said Morritt. No wreckage was ever found and no planes were reported missing. Divers were sent into the harbour and also came up with nothing.
"How did we get from plane crash to UFO? What does it mean for the people in Shag Harbour? What does it mean to live in a community where there was a UFO crash?" said Morritt.
"I think there's more to Shag Harbour than just a UFO."
The Shag Harbour Incident Interpretive Centre in Shag Harbour houses information related to the UFO sighting in the community.
(shagharbourincident.wordpress.com/museum/)
The incident has led to changes in Shag Harbour — there is a volunteer group called the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society focused on promoting and preserving materials connected to the crash.
A small museum dedicated to the incident and an annual UFO symposium is held in the community.
There's also a stream of tourists who want to get a closer look at the alleged crash site.
Research almost complete
Morritt has spent five weeks in Shag Harbour researching both the incident and how residents responded to it.
He said most people accept what happened as a part of their town's history, but would still like answers about what happened.
"The object itself, the thing that crashed into the harbour always remains elusive, so I really think there's a desire for closure," said Morritt.
Laurie Wickens is one of those people who would like some answers, he was an eyewitness to what happened in 1967.
"We always thought it was an airplane, but when you stop and think about it now... there's nothing conventional that could fly that slow ... whatever it was, I ain't got no idea," said Wickens.
Bus tour offered
The UFO symposium in Shag Harbour just finished for this year, it included for the first time a bus tour that traced the route Wickens followed after spotting the UFO's lights back in 1967.
The tour ended on the harbour's shoreline where Wickens stopped to and watched the lights hover above the water.
Wickens helped organize the event, he said 28 people took part in the tour.
"If you do the tour, people can really get an understanding of really what happened and really where everything was seen," said Wickens.
He wanted to run the tour as a test for next year, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the incident in Shag Harbour and will be accompanied by an even bigger celebration.
Noah Morritt hopes to be back for the event with a rough draft of his doctoral thesis.
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