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, 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...
17-09-2017
Vips zien 100 meter grote UFO die in een oogwenk 3000 meter aflegt. Deze marinecommandant was erbij
Vips zien 100 meter grote UFO die in een oogwenk 3000 meter aflegt. Deze marinecommandant was erbij
Graham Bethune is een gepensioneerde marinecommandant die toegang had tot topgeheime informatie.
Het was zijn taak om hooggeplaatste legerfunctionarissen vanuit Washington D.C. naar andere legerbases te vliegen.
Fractie van een seconde
In onderstaande video vertelt Bethune dat hij op een dag een groep vips en andere piloten naar Argentia op het eiland Newfoundland bracht, toen iedereen aan boord plotseling een UFO van 100 meter zag die in een fractie van een seconde meer dan 3000 meter omhoog schoot in de richting van het vliegtuig.
Bethune heeft het voorval uitvoerig gedocumenteerd. Het onbekende vliegende object was voorzien van een koepel met daaromheen een gele waas.
De marinecommandant zei over het voorval:
Ik vloog op dat moment admiraal McCormick, die Eisenhower had vervangen. Admiraal McCormick was de NAVO-commandant.
Goede bedoelingen
Velen van ons wisten hiervan en ik kreeg veel informatie die niet naar buiten werd gebracht. Ik weet dat we een aantal vaartuigen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog uit Duitsland hebben meegenomen.
We wisten dat de inzittenden goede bedoelingen hadden, we wisten dat zij wisten dat wij er waren, we wisten dat het ons in de gaten hield.
Nadien kreeg ik van de hoge bazen te horen waarom we verschillende kleuren zagen terwijl het vaartuig op ons afkwam. Het object was eerst geel en daarna oranje, rood en vervolgens paars.
Energie
Ze zeiden dat dat te maken had met de hoeveelheid energie die werd gebruikt. Het had te maken met de energie-instellingen van de UFO.
Toen het vlak bij ons in een fractie van een seconde afremde was het weer geel. Rond het object was een mistige plasma te zien.
Niet ver van de plek waar wij ons vliegtuig parkeerden stond iets wat op een hangar leek.
Lichamen
Iedere keer dat mijn baas en ik er langs kwamen snapte hij maar niet waarom ik niet wilde weten wat er achter die metalen muur verborgen lag.
Hij zei dat ze daar een schip hadden en dat ze daar ook lichamen bewaarden.
Op diverse plaatsen zijn er de afgelopen tijd weer vreemde objecten waargenomen, waaronder een zwerm van ongeveer 50 onbekende objecten boven Rotterdam.
Verder is er een wel heel spectaculaire opname gemaakt van een formatie van vijf UFO's die verschenen boven de Amerikaanse staat Florida ten tijde van de ramp met orkaan Irma.
Omstreeks 22.00 was ik uit het raam aan het kijken naar de maan die vrij laag stond en een mooie kleur had. Ineens naast de maan uit het niets verschenen 3 felle rode lichtbollen in een driehoek formatie. Ik pakte mijn telefoon en filmde en maakte een paar foto, s van het verschijnsel. Toen ik even stopte met filmen en op balkon ging staan verschenen er wel ongeveer 50 rode lichtbollen.
De objecten waren vrij hoog in de lucht en fel van rode kleur. Ze gingen aan en uit en verwisselde van positie maar ook hingen ze vrij stil. Alle rode bollen hadden dezelfde felheid van licht. Na ongeveer 10 minuten bewogen ze zich richting Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel. Ik heb dit nog nooit eerder gezien. Ben benieuwd of iemand weet wat dit verschijnsel is.
Afgelopen maandag veroorzaakte de orkaan Irma de nodige schade in de Amerikaanse staat Florida. En zoals je wel vaker ziet bij rampen zoals aardbevingen of vulkaanuitbarstingen duiken er UFO's op.
Zo ook in Florida waar een prachtige opname werd gemaakt van een kleine formatie UFO's die zich geluidloos door de lucht voortbewogen.
Aan de commentaren is te horen dat de getuigen erg onder de indruk zijn van wat ze in de lucht zien.
Vraag is dan natuurlijk of we hier te maken hebben met nieuwsgierige buitenaardsen of objecten van de geheime ruimtevloot die komen opnemen hoeveel schade de door hen gemaakte orkaan heeft veroorzaakt.
En vervolgens gaan we weer terug naar Nederland waar een onbekende dame op een voor ons onbekende locatie iedere keer weer opnieuw UFO's weet vast te leggen.
Het is voor ons een raadsel hoe ze dit iedere keer voor elkaar krijgt. De opnames lijken echt, dus wie weet heeft zij wel een speciaal contact met buitenaardsen.
Mochten er mensen zijn die hier meer over weten dan horen we het graag.
The five 1,700 year-old mummies are more reptilian than human. New images of the "alien mummies" were unveiled during a press conference called "The mummies of Nazca" in Peru by Mexican ufologist and journalist Jamie Maussan.
This included X-rays of the mummified remains so Maussan could banish claims that they were fake or made of plaster.
Maussan alleges that of the five bodies discovered, three of them had "characteristics that are closer to reptiles than humans."
If their findings are correct than this is yet another astonishing discovery with the potential to completely alter our shared view of history.
Secret UFO Society: Why Footage is A Proof of Alien Existence
Secret UFO Society: Why Footage is A Proof of Alien Existence
Seeing a real-life Alien is an experience you are unlikely ever to forget. In fact, it can even change one’s life. The bizarre footage shows a mysterious light hovering over the sky of Sydney, Australia. UFO & Paranormal Research Society of Australia is a secret agency that regularly meets to discuss the likes of UFO sightings, alien abductions, and other bizarre phenomena. Once a month, the group is hosted by guest speakers at the Campbelltown Arts Centre. While the members are made up of students, lawyers, and retirees, they all believed that the truth is out there.
With aliens now fully credited due to the many sightings, the real danger for the government is they pick up a clear signal. According to the secret society, instead of having to pull over their eyes by the government, humans have to know what’s going on in this world. Pilots and astronauts are now coming out of the woodworks. According to the Sydney public servant, she has been visited by aliens since nine-years-old. Even though former lawyer Moira believes in the existence of extraterrestrial life, she still admits that a proof for many extraterrestrials hard to prove.
In her book, she explains that those who are abducted by aliens are frequently chosen for their intellectual capacities. The UFO enthusiast revealed the countless reports from people about aliens and men in black with an oriental appearance. He emphasized that they need to believe that anything is possible, but they also retain a big dose of skepticism due to the lack of evidence. As a precaution against this possibility, the government pressured the community into agreements that strange objects would have to undergo prolonged scrutiny by the agencies before it could be announced to the world. Despite certain precautions, the government cannot hinder the people from presenting evidence or sharing stories.
The UFO Mystery Revelation: Astronaut Breaks With Conclusive Proof
The UFO Mystery Revelation: Astronaut Breaks With Conclusive Proof
Unidentified Flying Object has always been the most debatable subject owing to its lack of judgment. While people relate them to aliens, it does not necessarily mean extraterrestrial invasion or visitation. It simply means any type or kind of object that is not readily identifiable. For the first time, a former NASA astronaut has publicly spoken about the world’s infamous cases that took place 20 years ago, saying he has a conclusive proof to resolve the mysteries. Tom Jones is a veteran of 11 years in four space shuttle missions. Before he joined the US space agency, he pondered on alien mystery saying that he can solve such 1996 UFO Tether occurrences.
The encounter involves a satellite breaking off. This satellite was believed to be tethered to the space shuttle. When the astronauts later filmed the incident, it shows hundreds of aliens appearing like organisms in a sea. Despite his evidence, conspiracy theorists are still unsatisfied with his conclusive proof. In an interview with the Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, the discussion was about the old question about whether or not he or the astronauts has been a real alien vessel during their visitation in orbit.
Conspiracy theorists believe that there are proofs seen by NASA personnel and astronauts. In fact, there are those that blown the whistle. For those who opened spoken is Mr. Mitchell, but his testimony does not convince Jones. According to him, astronauts do not have alien proof. The reports have turned out to be pure ice crystals, lightning flashes, drifting orbital debris, or meteors streaking on the dark atmosphere underneath. It has been held that their search for extraterrestrial existence and some other civilizations ended up the proofs of alien civilizations. Many people think that aliens were a threat to the Earth, but this has not been proven at all.
Het zou zomaar kunnen, nu blijkt dat de Marskorst een veel lagere dichtheid heeft dan werd aangenomen.
Nieuw onderzoek suggereert dat de korst van Mars een gemiddelde dichtheid heeft van 2582 kilogram per kubieke meter. Daarmee is de Marskorst qua dichtheid vergelijkbaar met de korst van de maan. En dat is een verrassing. Onderzoekers dachten namelijk altijd dat de Marskorst een dichtheid had die minstens net zo groot was als die van de aarde (2900 kilogram per kubieke meter).
Het suggereert dat de Marskorst in ieder geval deels relatief poreus is. Een alternatieve optie is dat de Marskorst een andere samenstelling heeft dan gedacht of veel dunner is dan werd aangenomen. Hoe dan ook: de Marskorst verrast. En dat kan implicaties hebben voor het beeld dat we momenteel van de evolutie van de rode planeet hebben. “De korst is het eindresultaat van alles wat tijdens de geschiedenis van een planeet is gebeurd,” legt onderzoeker Sander Goossens uit. “Dus een lagere dichtheid kan belangrijke implicaties hebben voor de totstandkoming en evolutie van Mars.”
De onderzoekers hebben deze kaart vrijgegeven, die de verschillen in de dichtheid van de Marskorst aanduidt. Overigens wijst het feit dat de gemiddelde dichtheid van de planeet lager uitvalt dan gedacht, erop dat de verschillen van plek tot plek niet zo groot zijn als werd aangenomen. Dus het verschil tussen de gebieden met een dikke korst (rood op deze kaart) en een dunnere korst (blauw) is kleiner dan gedacht. Op deze afbeelding kijken we recht op het enorme klovensysteem Valles Marineris. Links – waar de rode vlek te zien is – treffen we Tharsis Montes aan. Dit is een vulkanisch plateau. Onder vulkanen is de dichtheid van de Marskorst groter.
Afbeelding: NASA / Goddard / UMBC / MIT / E. Mazarico.
De onderzoekers trekken hun conclusies op basis van een model. Daarbij lieten ze zich leiden door zwaartekrachtsmetingen die Marsorbiters door de jaren heen hebben gedaan. Of het model van Goossens en collega’s ook daadwerkelijk een goed beeld geeft van de Marskorst kan al op korte termijn duidelijk worden. Naar verwachting kan de Marslander InSight ons daar namelijk veel meer over vertellen. De lander wordt volgend jaar gelanceerd en zal op het oppervlak van Mars metingen verrichten die niet alleen meer inzicht kunnen geven in de korst van Mars, maar tevens kunnen onthullen hoe het binnenste van de planeet in elkaar steekt.
Dit zijn de allerlaatste foto's van Cassini [update]
Dit zijn de allerlaatste foto's van Cassini [update]
Tim Kraaijvanger
OP 15 september eindigde de Cassini-missie. Het ruimtevaartuig verbrandde net na het middaguur in de atmosfeer van de atmosfeer van de ringenplaneet. De allerlaatste foto’s kun je hier zien.
Naar verwachting gaat het contact om 12.31 uur verloren. De laatste kreet van de ruimtesonde zal zo’n 83 minuten later op aarde arriveren. “Het laatste signaal van de sonde is als een echo,” legt projectmanager Earl Maize uit. “Het zal bijna anderhalf uur nadat Cassini al weg is door het zonnestelsel galmen. Hoewel we weten dat het lot van Cassini dan al beslist is, is de missie hier op aarde nog niet over zolang we nog een signaal van Cassini ontvangen.” Gisteren schreef Caroline een uitgebreid artikel over de laatste dag van Cassini.
Cassini duikt met een snelheid van 113.00 kilometer per uur in de atmosfeer van Saturnus. Dertig seconden nadat Cassini het contact met de aarde verbreekt, spat de sonde – door de enorme wrijving die deze in de atmosfeer ondervindt – uiteen. Kort daarna verbrandt het ruimtevaartuig en is er dus helemaal niets meer over.
Vandaag ontvangen wetenschappers nog veel foto’s van Cassini. Wij plaatsen hieronder de mooiste beelden. Dit artikel wordt in de loop van de dag verder uitgebreid. Je kunt ook de site van NASA bezoeken en de laatste vrijgegeven beelden bekijken.
De maan Enceladus in beeld. Deze foto is 13 september gemaakt en gisteren gearriveerd.
Een ruwe foto van Titan. Woensdagmiddag gemaakt en deze kwam gisteravond binnen op aarde.
Foto van de ringen van Saturnus. Dit is een onbewerkte foto, die gistermiddag is gemaakt. Vanochtend om 5:26 uur kwam de foto binnen bij het Cassini-team.
Foto van de ringen van Saturnus. Vanochtend gedownload om 8:06 uur Nederlandse tijd. Deze foto is gisteravond door Cassini gemaakt.
Nog eentje van de ringen.
Een foto van de atmosfeer van Saturnus. Ook deze foto is gisteravond gemaakt. Er is helaas niet veel te zien.
Dit is de allerlaatste foto die gemaakt is met de camera’s op de Cassini-ruimtesonde. We zien hier de nachtkant van de planeet. Het weerkaatste licht van de ringen is nog goed te zien. De foto is gemaakt op 14 september om 22:00 uur Nederlandse tijd. Op dat moment was Cassini 634.000 kilometer van Saturnus verwijderd.
Op deze foto is te zien waar Cassini is verbrand in de atmosfeer van Saturnus.
NASA legt laatste hand aan Marslander die kijkje in de rode planeet gaat nemen
NASA legt laatste hand aan Marslander die kijkje in de rode planeet gaat nemen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Volgend jaar mei moet Marslander InSight het luchtruim kiezen.
De afgelopen zomer is er hard aan de lander gewerkt, zo laat NASA weten. En inmiddels is deze bijna klaar voor lancering. “De lander is af en de instrumenten zijn erop gemaakt,” vertelt Stu Spath, namens NASA. Dat betekent dat de lander nu uitgebreid getest kan gaan worden: de laatste grote hindernis alvorens deze gelanceerd wordt.
GEDULD
InSight heeft ons geduld aardig op de proef gesteld. Oorspronkelijk zou de lander vorig jaar al gelanceerd worden, maar problemen met de seismometer gooiden roet in het eten. Die problemen zijn nu opgelost, zo verzekert NASA. Maar dat heeft wel tijd gekost. En een hoop geld. Zo moest er meer dan 153 miljoen dollar extra in de missie worden gestopt.
Mei 2018 Enige haast was ook wel geboden. Want de lanceerdatum komt steeds dichterbij. NASA wil de lander ergens in mei naar Mars sturen. De lander zal daar dan eind november 2018 arriveren.
De missie Onderzoekers hebben hoge verwachtingen van de lander, die iets compleets nieuws gaat doen op Mars. Zo is de lander uitgerust met sensoren die straks in Mars gehamerd zullen worden, om vervolgens op drie meter diepte of meer onderzoek te doen naar de hoeveelheid energie die uit het binnenste van de planeet komt. Ook beschikt de lander over een seismometer die zelfs piepkleine ‘Marsbevingen’ kan detecteren en meer kan onthullen over de binnenste lagen van de planeet. Daarnaast moet de sonde ook verstoringen in de rotatie van de rode planeet kunnen opvangen en zo meer kunnen vertellen over de omvang van de kern van Mars.
Binnen enkele weken na de landing op Mars zal InSight zijn robotarm gebruiken om twee instrumenten op de rode planeet te plaatsen: de siesmometer en een warmtesonde die zichzelf vervolgens in de rode planeet zal hameren.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Het werk van InSight geeft niet alleen meer inzicht in Mars, maar in alle rotsachtige planeten die ons zonnestelsel rijk is, zo denkt hoofdonderzoeker Bruce Banerdt. “Omdat het binnenste van Mars in de afgelopen drie miljard jaar veel minder omgeroerd is dan dat van de aarde, is bewijs omtrent de kindertijd van rotsachtige planeten in deze planeet wellicht beter bewaard gebleven.”
Hubble suggereert dat buitenste TRAPPIST 1-planeten nog water herbergen
Hubble suggereert dat buitenste TRAPPIST 1-planeten nog water herbergen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
En dat geldt dus ook voor de drie exemplaren in de leefbare zone.
Eerder dit jaar maakten onderzoekers bekend dat rond de ster TRAPPIST-1 maar liefst zeven planeten ter grootte van de aarde cirkelen. Een unieke vondst: we kennen namelijk geen enkele andere ster die zoveel aardachtige planeten herbergt. De ontdekking spreekt enorm tot de verbeelding. Onder meer omdat maar liefst drie van de planeten zich in de leefbare zone bevinden. Er wordt direct druk gespeculeerd over de leefbaarheid van dit systeem en sommige onderzoekers fantaseren zelfs al over aliens die van de ene naar de andere TRAPPIST-1-planeet ‘hoppen’.
Hubble Maar is er daadwerkelijk leven mogelijk in dit systeem? Ook daar is al veel over gezegd en geschreven. En nu doet ook ruimtetelescoop Hubble een duit in het zakje. Met behulp van de telescoop gingen wetenschappers na hoeveel ultraviolette straling elke planeet rond TRAPPIST-1 ontvangt. “Ultraviolette straling is een belangrijke factor in de atmosferische evolutie van planeten,” vertelt onderzoeker Vincent Bourrier. “Net als in onze eigen atmosfeer – waar ultraviolet zonlicht moleculen splitst – kan ultraviolet sterrenlicht waterdamp in de atmosfeer van exoplaneten splitsen in waterstof en zuurstof.” Energierijkere ultraviolette straling kan bovendien de bovenste laag van de atmosfeer van een planeet verwarmen, waardoor de resulterende waterstof en zuurstof uit die atmosfeer kan ontsnappen.
WAT IS EEN LEEFBARE ZONE?
Een planeet bevindt zich in de leefbare zone als deze niet zo dicht bij zijn ster staat dat eventueel water op het oppervlak verdampt, maar ook niet zo ver van de moederster verwijderd is dat eventueel water op het oppervlak bevriest.
Leefbaar Waarnemingen met Hubble suggereren dat met name de binnenste planeten van het systeem aan flinke hoeveelheden UV-straling zijn blootgesteld en door de tijd heen waarschijnlijk ook gigantische hoeveelheden water zijn kwijtgeraakt. Over een periode van acht miljard jaar mogelijk meer dan twintig keer meer water dan in de aardse oceanen zit. Anders is dat voor de buitenste planeten, waaronder TRAPPIST-1e, -f en -g, die zich in de leefbare zone bevinden. De Hubble-waarnemingen suggereren dat zij veel minder water zijn kwijtgeraakt en dat op het oppervalk mogelijk nog water te vinden is.
Of deze planeten echt nog water herbergen, is met de huidige telescopen helaas niet vast te stellen. Daarvoor zullen we een beroep moeten doen op de volgende generatie telescopen, zoals de James Webb.
Zo gaan de laatste dagen van ruimtesonde Cassini eruit zien
Zo gaan de laatste dagen van ruimtesonde Cassini eruit zien
Caroline Kraaijvanger
NASA onthult draaiboek voor Cassini’s kamikazeduik in de atmosfeer van de onvergeeflijke Saturnus.
Bijna twintig jaar nadat Cassini – een missie van NASA, ESA en de Italiaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie – gelanceerd werd, zit het erop. De sonde stopt ermee. En nee, Cassini gaat niet rustig met pensioen, maar eindigt met een klapper: een duik in de atmosfeer van Saturnus. De doodsduik levert mogelijk – op de valreep – nog waardevolle informatie op, maar is vooral bedoeld om te voorkomen dat de manen van Saturnus hun ongerepte karakter verliezen (zie kader).
NASA heeft er heel bewust voor gekozen om de Cassini-missie met een duik in Saturnus’ atmosfeer te laten eindigen. De ruimtevaartorganisatie wil zo voorkomen dat de sonde stuurloos in het Saturnus-systeem gaat ronddolen en neerstort op één van Saturnus’ potentieel leefbare manen. “Zo blijven zij ongerept voor toekomstige verkenning,” aldus projectmanager Earl Maize.
Het draaiboek De laatste dagen van deze fantastische missie zijn dus aangebroken. Maar hoe zien ze er precies uit? NASA doet dat nu uit de doeken. Op 9 september zal de sonde voor de laatste keer in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen duiken. De sonde passeert de wolkentoppen van de gasreus tijdens deze snoekduik op een afstand van zo’n 1680 kilometer. Twee dagen later, op 11 september, zal Cassini een scheervlucht maken langs Saturnus’ maan Titan. Hoewel de ruimtesonde de maan op een afstand van een slordige 119.000 kilometer passeert, zal de zwaartekracht van Titan er toch voor zorgen dat Cassini iets wordt afgeremd (hierdoor zal Cassini een paar dagen later diep in de atmosfeer van Saturnus duiken). Op 14 september werpt Cassini dan een laatste blik op Saturnus en zijn manen. Het resulteert in foto’s van de manen Titan, Enceladus, de zeshoekige straalstroom op de noordpool van de planeet en de ringen. Een dag later, op 15 september, is het dan toch echt tijd voor de duik in Saturnus’ atmosfeer. Terwijl Cassini in die atmosfeer duikt, blijven de instrumenten aan boord van de sonde zo lang mogelijk data verzamelen en zolang het Cassini lukt om de antenne op de aarde gericht te houden, zal die data ook naar de aarde verstuurd worden. Heel lang houdt de sonde dat waarschijnlijk niet vol. Al snel zal de dichte atmosfeer van Saturnus de sonde in zijn greep krijgen. Waarschijnlijk gebeurt dat wanneer de sonde zo’n 1510 kilometers van Saturnus’ wolkentoppen verwijderd is. Op dat moment lukt het Cassini niet langer om de antenne op de aarde gericht te houden en zal de communicatie stilvallen. Een paar momenten later zal de sonde – door de enorme wrijving in de atmosfeer – als een meteoor uiteenvallen.
Projectmanager Earl Maize noemt het einde van Cassini “schrijnend, maar passend en nodig.” Met de duik in Saturnus’ atmosfeer komt een einde aan een missie die bijna 20 jaar geleden begon. Cassini werd in oktober 1997 gelanceerd en arriveerde in 2004 bij Saturnus. Inmiddels doet de sonde al zo’n dertien jaar onderzoek naar de gasreus en zijn manen. En dat heeft heel wat verrassende ontdekkingen opgeleverd. Bovendien trakteerde Cassini ons regelmatig op spectaculaire foto’s.
Cassini maakt geweldig filmpje tijdens snoekduik in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen
Cassini maakt geweldig filmpje tijdens snoekduik in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Oh, wat zullen we deze sonde missen wanneer deze over iets meer dan 14 dagen een kamikaze-actie onderneemt.
Op dit moment duikt Cassini herhaaldelijk in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen. En daarbij kijkt Cassini de ene keer naar Saturnus en de andere keer naar het machtige ringenstelsel van de gasreus.
Uitzicht Ongeacht welke kant Cassini ook opkijkt: het uitzicht moet fantastisch zijn. En dankzij een nieuw filmpje kunnen we een beetje van dat uitzicht meegenieten. Het filmpje is namelijk opgebouwd uit 21 foto’s die Cassini maakte terwijl deze in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen dook. Tijdens deze snoekduik had Cassini de ogen op het ringenstelsel gericht.
Afbeeldingen: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Uniek We zien de ringen hier vanuit een uniek perspectief (nog niet eerder heeft een ruimtevaartuig zich in de ruimte tussen de gasreus en zijn ringenstelsel gewaagd). En dat perspectief verandert ook nog eens. Zo zien we in eerste instantie de door de zon beschenen zijde van de ringen en later de zijde die niet door de zon beschenen wordt, maar waar wel wat zonlicht doorheen valt.
We zien op de beelden verschillende ringen. De C-ring is wat grijzig en lijkt omvangrijk, omdat deze zich op de voorgrond bevindt. Voorbij de C-ring bevindt zich de B-ring en de ietwat minder heldere A-ring. De B- en A-ring worden van elkaar gescheiden door de Cassini-scheiding. Ook de F-ring is zichtbaar.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Cassini maakte de beelden op 20 augustus, tijdens één van zijn laatste duiken in de ruimte tussen Saturnus en de ringen. Er staan nog twee snoekduiken op het programma en dan is het toch echt einde verhaal voor Cassini. De sonde zal opdracht krijgen om zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren en kan dat niet navertellen. Daarmee komt een einde aan een prachtige missie die behalve fantastische foto’s ook indrukwekkende wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen met zich meebracht.
Nog zo’n prachtige foto die NASA gisteren heeft vrijgegeven. Cassini maakte de foto op 26 april terwijl deze zich voorbereidde op de eerste duik in het gat tussen Saturnus en de ringen. We zien hier het turbulente wolkendek boven Saturnus’ noordpool. Op het moment dat Cassini de foto maakte, was deze zo’n 267.000 kilometer van Saturnus verwijderd. Op dit moment baadt de noordpool van Saturnus nog in het zonlicht, maar de winter is in aantocht en zal deze noordpool jarenlang in duisternis gaan hullen. Maar dat is niet erg: dankzij Cassini – die zag hoe de zomer zich aandiende en de noordpool liet baden in het licht – hebben we nu voor het eerst een gedetailleerd beeld van die noordpool gekregen. En daar kunnen we voorlopig wel even op teren.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
UFO hunters Tim and Tracey Doyle, who run YouTube channel UFO seekers, took them with specialist telescopic lenses from the top of 1.4-mile high Tikaboo Peak, a mountain 25 miles opposite the mysterious base.
The heavily guarded Area 51, deep in the Nevada desert, is at the centre of many alien-related conspiracy theories.
It is claimed that alien flying saucers crashed on Earth, such as the alleged 1947 Roswell incident, and that the wreckage and even corpses were taken to Area 51 for experimentation and to be analysed away from public view.
One theory suggests that USAF scientists have tried to emulate the alien technology to create their own top-secret spy craft capable of travelling into space at the base.
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Area 51 exposed? UFO hunters scaled mountain to film inside Area 51,
Area 51 has been used by American aviation authorities since 1955 and is closed off to those without top-level security clearance.
However, the US Government did not even admit the base existed until 2013, in a series of documents released as part of a Freedom of Information request, and it is heavily protected by armed guards.
The images obtained by the pair show what looks like a water tower, several complexes, and vehicles moving around.
There is no sign of any stored UFOs or alien activity in the pictures.
Thousands visit the remote area of Nevada every year in the hope of seeing ETs.
Many more sceptical people believe Area 51 is so top-secret, because it is where the USAF designed and tests experimental new spy planes and air craft.
It is accepted that the USAF does secretly test new aircraft inside Area 51, with the U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter all developed there.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: "Area 51 has always been a magnet for those who believe the US Government knows a lot more about UFOs than they are prepared to reveal to the public.”
The area is so mysterious that US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton made a shock promise that she would declassify all secret Area 51 files.
And more recently alien hunters claimed they had found a UFO inside a climate controlled hanger near Area 51 using Google Maps.
The video, filmed over Los Angeles on Saturday, shows what has been described as an LA County Sheriffs helicopter checking out a hovering spherical object
It has been shared several times on social media and UFO and conspiracy theory websites and YouTube channel.
Tyler Glockner, who runs conspiracy theory YouTube channel Secureteam10, produced a video about the sighting.
In the short video he said a lot of people recorded it and saw it, which "validated the sighting."
However, hopes that evidence of aliens may have been discovered above California, were soon dashed however, by sceptical debunkers.
The LASD aero bureau later confirmed what it was investigating.
The spherical object turned out to be an advertising helium balloon for vape company Brass Knuckles.
Scott Brando, who runs hoax busting website ufoofinterest.org, tweeted: "Object identified. As I said that #UFO filmed from #LosAngeles was an advertising balloon by "Brass Knuckles"."
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Stealth bombers, UFO rumors, test pilots among Wright-Patterson's past 100 years
Stealth bombers, UFO rumors, test pilots among Wright-Patterson's past 100 years
The F-117 Stealth Bomber with a C-5A Transport on the flight line at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, on May 10, 2003. NASA Identifier: C-2003-915
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By BARRIE BARBER | Dayton Daily News
DAYTON, Ohio (Tribune News Service) — For a century, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s legend was being the birthplace of the military test pilot, where foreign aircraft and missile technology secrets were discovered, and of long denied rumors of space aliens and UFO captivity.
But what marks Wright-Patterson’s history in the Miami Valley more than anything else as it celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, is the military installation’s decades-long output of discoveries and inventions that have had a revolutionary impact on the aerospace industry and technology used worldwide.
From stealth technology that turned military jets nearly invisible to radar to heat shields that protected a space capsule’s scorching plummet toward Earth, Wright-Patterson and its predecessors were the places where it happened, observers say.
“If you’ve ever flown on an airline or a commercial airplane there’s almost nothing on that airplane that was not affected by the labs or the technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,” said Timothy Gaffney, a Dayton area aviation history author and expert.
The cradle of aviation
The genesis of Wright-Patterson traces to 1917, when the Army carved out two Dayton airfields, Wilbur Wright Field and later McCook Field, to push the boundaries of the new science of aeronautics and flying. Wright-Patt encompasses Huffman Prairie Flying Field, where Orville and Wilbur Wright perfected the airplane.
Today, the base has targeted cutting-edge hypersonic research to developing wearable bio-technologies for soldiers on the battlefield with a push to commercialize technology produced in Air Force Research Laboratory shops.
“It’s one of the important centers for aeronautical research in the United States,” said Janet Bednarek, a University of Dayton professor who teaches aviation history. “All throughout its history, very important, fundamental research and testing work has happened at what is now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the surrounding area.”
Wright-Patterson has evolved into the state’s largest single-site employer, with more than 27,000 employees and a more than $4 billion estimated impact.
“The base I think certainly has provided a lot of stability and carried us through those times where there has been a lot of upturns and downturns in industry,” said John Leland, vice president of research and the executive director of the University of Dayton Research Institute, which has a long history of joint technology development with Wright-Patt labs.
Thousands of inventions and research discoveries have bubbled over from Wright-Patterson for decades.
According to AFRL, among the most significant are advanced gas turbine engines, aircraft electronic controls, stealth, advancements in radar and composites, precision-guided bombs, advanced telescopes, and fuels.
The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber made one pass at the 2009 Vectren Dayton AIr Show on Saturday, July 18. Staff Writer
Golf clubs to cell phones
Technology spin-offs out of Wright-Patterson research hubs have touched millions of people every day.
Wright-Patterson developed rare earth magnets that are in everything from cell phones, audio speakers, headphones to computers and cordless power tools, said Charles E. Browning, a retired Wright-Patt employee who once led the Materials & Manufacturing Directorate.
Composites, such as carbon fibers, discovered at Wright-Patterson form aircraft wings and shape sports equipment, he said.
The advancement of jet engine technology adapted in both military and civil aviation and laser-and satellite-guided bombs and missiles were two important technologies developed at Wright-Patt, said Morley O. Stone, chief technology officer at AFRL, headquartered at Wright-Patterson.
And to gain an edge in war, Wright-Patt scientists helped create and perfect precision bombing to overcome an adversary’s advantage of more troops, tanks, planes and ships in combat.
“This is really the (Department of Defense) strategy that we had for closing the numerical superiority that this nation (faced) when we were looking at things like the Soviet Union on the battlefield of Eastern Europe,” Stone said.
Radar-evading stealth allowed the U.S. “to maintain air superiority for decades,” Stone said.
Parachute testing at Dayton’s McCook Field, a forerunner of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, circa 1918. DAYTON HISTORY Staff Writer
Birthplace of the right stuff
McCook Field was the birthplace of the earliest test pilots and “cradle of aviation” experiments that pushed the frontiers of early powered flight in the military.
Along with new airplane designs and engines, the field supported a U.S. Army Air Service around the world flight in 1924 and developed free-fall parachutes.
“Airplanes were new, they were brand new, and they were still just learning about the fundamentals of how to … fly higher, faster, farther,” Bednarek said.
Earliest test pilot pioneers Jimmy Doolittle at McCook Field and Chuck Yeager at Wright Field practiced the art of “the right stuff” in Dayton.
Both later gained international fame. Doolittle led the U.S. B-25 Mitchell bombing raid against Japan in April 1942 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Yeager was the first pilot to break the sound barrier in level flight in the Bell X-1 rocket plane over California’s Mohave desert in October 1947.
Pioneer researchers often invented the technologies needed to reach higher, farther and faster.
McCook Field workers in the 1920s built the “Five-Foot Wind Tunnel,” used to design a new era of all-metal monoplanes from the earliest days of cloth and wood biplanes, according a historical narrative. . In 1995, the machine – then under the ownership of the Air Force Institute of Technology — was declared a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark. It ceased operations in 2003.
“Almost every craft that was used during the Second World War and leading up to it was tested in that tunnel,” said Brady Kress, president and CEO of Dayton History. “The basics of aeronautical research and lift and drag and all of that – the core principles of modern aviation, were all conducted on that.”
In World War II, as the base workforce swelled to 50,000, Wright Field made historic progress in pursuit, bombardment, and observation planes and auto giros and helicopters, according to the book, “Splendid Vision, Unswerving Purpose: Developing Air Power for the United States Air Force for the First Century of Powered Flight.”
Operation Paperclip brought German scientists after the end of World War II to Wright Field, among other places in the United States, to advance U.S. air and space science which was in a Cold War contest with the Soviet Union.
Many with jet engine expertise headed to Wright-Patterson after the war, Gaffney said. “It was the go-to place for aviation technology,” he said.
From the skies to the stars, Wright-Patterson has a decades-long record in spaceflight. Candidates to become the first Mercury 7 astronauts, for example, underwent a battery of psychological, physiology and biochemical tests at Wright-Patterson, testing the would-be space travelers mettle to withstand noise, vibration and heat and endure exhausting exercises before they were chosen to climb aboard a flaming rocket to be the first Americans launched into space.
“When we started to look at what it takes to actually put a human being in space the crew systems support that was required to do that basically all had to be created and invented,” Stone said.
For Ohio native John Glenn, memories of the tests at Wright-Patterson were vivid when Stone met the late Mercury astronaut and former U.S. senator a few years ago.
“He looked at me, pointed that finger at me and says, ‘The worst week of my life was spent at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,’” Stone said.
Wright-Patterson continues to lead U.S. military aerospace medical research. The 711th Human Performance Wing and the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine are headquartered at the base, which is set to launch a $34.4 million centrifuge that will test the limits of military pilots to withstand crushing g-forces.
Uncovering adversaries' secrets
The dissection of adversaries technology in secret labs fell to the Foreign Technology Division, a forerunner of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson
Under Project Blue Book, Wright-Patterson was immersed in the 1950s and 1960s in investigating reports of Unidentified Flying Objects – or flying saucers. The Air Force has long denied aliens or UFOs were hidden at Wright-Patt or that investigators found credible evidence of alien technology or life on Earth.
More commonly, Wright-Patt scientists and engineers reversed-engineered foreign missiles and planes – a task that continues today at NASIC — to discover what made them work. In recent decades, researchers dissected Soviet-era missiles and a MiG-29, one of which stands outside the secretive agency.
“They weren’t chasing aliens,” Gaffney said. “They were worrying about whether these things were threats to national security.”
The truth is in there? Secret US base in Ohio hides living and dead aliens from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash, claims retired Air Force engineer who worked there for 39 years
The truth is in there? Secret US base in Ohio hides living and dead aliens from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash, claims retired Air Force engineer who worked there for 39 years
Raymond Szymanksi says aliens from the infamous crash were bought to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Dayton, Ohio for inspection
He said the mentor told him about a system of tunnels that house living and deceased extra-terrestrial beings
Szymanski claims his mentor at the facility once asked him, 'Have you heard about our aliens?'
A secret US base in Ohio hides living and dead aliens from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash, according to a retired Air Force engineer who worked there for 39 years.
Raymond Szymanksi says aliens from the infamous crash were bought to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Dayton, Ohio for inspection.
He said a mentor told him about a system of tunnels that house living and deceased extra-terrestrial beings.
Raymond Szymanksi says aliens from the infamous crash were bought to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (pictured) in Dayton, Ohio for inspection
Szymanski claims his mentor at the facility once asked him, 'Have you heard about our aliens?', according to The Sun.
Speaking to the Sun Online, he said: 'During my first week, Al provided me with some totally unexpected and unsolicited sage advice.
'He said that in 1947 there was a crash down in Roswell and they brought the machines and the aliens here for inspection and said they keep them in secret tunnels under the base.'
The town of Roswell in New Mexico became infamous after reports that a flying saucer had crashed in the desert near a military base there on or around July 2, 1947.
Raymond Szymanksi (pictured) said a mentor told him about a system of tunnels that house living and deceased extra-terrestrial beings
The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the U.S. military, but American authorities allegedly covered the incident up.
Military authorities issued a press release, which began: 'The many rumours regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc.'
The headlines screamed: 'Flying Disc captured by Air Force.' Yet, just 24 hours later, the military changed their story and claimed the object they'd first thought was a 'flying disc' was a weather balloon that had crashed on a nearby ranch.
The Roswell incident in 1947 when autopsies were allegedly carried out on aliens who crashed in the New Mexico desert, and then covered up by American authorities. Pictured, one of the supposedly captured aliens
The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the U.S. military, but American authorities allegedly covered the incident up
The media and the public accepted the explanation without question. Roswell disappeared from the news until the late Seventies, when some of the military involved began to speak out.
In 2012, a long-serving CIA agent spoke out on the 65th anniversary of the Roswell Incident to reveal a hidden CIA file on the 'UFO' that was supposedly found at the site - and says, 'It really happened.'
Conspiracy theorists believe that alien bodies from the crashed 'disc' were autopsied - and that modern technologies have been built on discoveries from inside the craft.
The headlines screamed: 'Flying Disc captured by Air Force.' Yet, just 24 hours later, the military changed their story and claimed the object they'd first thought was a 'flying disc' was a weather balloon that had crashed on a nearby ranch
Pictured, a map of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
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Chase Brandon, an agent who served 25 years with the agency, said that the information is concealed in a hidden vault within the agency's Langley headquarters.
'It was in a vaulted area - there was one box that really caught my eye. It had one word on it: Roswell. I rummaged inside it, put the box on the shelf and said, "My God, it really happened."
Szymanski has written a book on the topic called 50 Shades of Greys.
Roswell disappeared from the news until the late Seventies, when some of the military involved began to speak out. Pictured, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base today
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Did you see the ‘UFO’ over the San Gabriel Valley last week? Local sleuths may have figured out what it was.
Did you see the ‘UFO’ over the San Gabriel Valley last week? Local sleuths may have figured out what it was.
Residents across several San Gabriel Valley cities on Sept. 3 recorded videos and snapped photos of what many described as a “UFO.” The object, which appeared on closer examniation to be a balloon advertising a store selling marijuana concentrates and vaporizer pens, was seen in West Covina and Sierra Madre.
A spherical object spotted hovering silently over the San Gabriel Valley this week had residents gazing skyward and wondering what they were witnessing.
The object appeared in the sky over the San Gabriel Valley the morning of Aug. 28.
One video, posted by YouTube user Julian Lopez, appears to show a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter circling around the object for an inspection around 7 a.m. over West Covina.
“Well, my friends, there’s a UFO over the San Gabriel Valley,” the videographer said.
UFO Over Los Angeles California
UFO Captured over Los Angeles California San Gabriel Valley 08/28/2017
“A helicopter is circling it,” he added. “It looks like a big eyeball.”
While the object resembled a large balloon, “There’s nothing holding it down, though. That’s the thing,” Lopez.
Lopez said he had just finished washing his car when he spotted the object out of the corner of his eye.
The sphere was gray in color and made no noise, he said.
“It was just weird because it didn’t budge,” Lopez said. The witnesses went into his house to tell his 6-year-old son to come take a look, as well as to retrieve his cell phone to record video.
The man and his son watched as two helicopters flew in close proximity to the object. At least one of them circled around it before leaving the area.
After sitting motionless for several minutes, the object slowly began moving toward the west, Lopez said. He had to stop recording in order to prepare his kids for school and go to work.
But another witnesses in Arcadia spotted and photographed the object several hours later, about 10 miles to the northwest.
Daniel Acosta was with his wife when they noticed the object floating motionless in the sky. Acosta estimated the object was hovering at least 1,000 feet above Altadena and appeared to be 6 to 10 feet in diameter.
“It’s the strangest thing. I have no idea,” he said.
Acosta said he initial reaction was: “That doesn’t belong there, and it doesn’t make sense.”
Officials at the sheriff’s Aero Bureau said a sheriff’s helicopter often checks out potential airborne hazards that are spotted in the sky, but no information about the object was available Sunday. The crew that manned the helicopter on Aug. 28 was not on duty Sunday.
Local police and sheriff’s officials had no information regarding the sightings, and Federal Aviation Spokesman Allen Kenitzer said he also had no information regarding the incident, which resulted in no report by the FAA.
The National UFO Reporting Centerkeeps a database of unusual sighting in the sky, however, reports from Monday were yet to be uploaded to the archive over the weekend.
As conversation and speculation about the object swirled through the community, both online and real, local sleuths offered a possible answer to the mystery: an advertising balloon.
“I noticed the UFO Monday around 10 a.m. from Monrovia,” Jon Gollihugh said in a email. “It was (hovering) over the mouth of San Gabriel Canyon. There was a large buzz about it on Facebook with residents of Sierra Madre.”
“One person took a telephoto shot of it. It appeared to be an advertisement balloon for a THC (E-cigarette) that got away.” he said. “I followed it across the foothills from above Sierra Madre towards Monrovia canyon around 11:30 a.m.”
Several witnesses reported seeing a large, white advertising balloon emblazoned with a corporate logo in the same time and vicinity of the object.
One photograph captured the logo of a company called “Brass Knuckles,” which sells marijuana extracts and vaporizing products.
It was not clear Sunday night whether the advertising balloon was the same object that triggered Monday’s UFO sighting reports.
Lopez said the incident has left him more curious.
“I’m kind of looking up more at the sky,” he said.
A pair of hikers have captured new footage of the secretive US military compound Area 51 after scaling a nearby mountain under the cover of darkness.
Calling themselves "The UFO Seekers", the pair ascended Tikaboo Peak which lies a whopping 41.8 kilometres away from Area 51 in the Nevada Desert.
They then used the strongest telescopic camera equipment available off the shelf to capture sweeping images inside the world's most talked-about military base, and uploaded it to YouTube.
Sadly, despite having the clearest footage yet, there was little sign of any extra-terrestrials – but that hasn’t stopped the conspiracy theorists from having a field day with hare-brained explanations.
First erected in 1942, Area 51 was little more than a pair of runways used to ferry miners in and out of the desert to work on nearby lead and silver refineries.
But in 1955 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) took control of the runways and implemented highly-classified security restrictions.
Their plan – if you believe it – was to use the wide open expanses of the desert to develop the Lockheed U-2, an ultra-secretive reconnaissance aircraft designed to fly at extreme heights over unknowing Soviet nations to capture intelligence.
Area 51 became the US Government's go-to facility for conducting highly-classified aerial testing, and became the birthplace for the now-infamous Lockheed Stealth Bomber.
During the Cold War the government would also ferry captured Soviet aircraft to the desert, in a bid to stealthily replicate and understand Russian technology.
The sheer absurdity of the variety of aircraft available – and likely, the aerial manoeuvres performed by the world's best pilots – made Area 51 a hotspot for UFO buffs.
Several conspiracy theories have developed over the true purpose of Area 51, with the most popular claiming that an underground lab hidden beneath Groom Lake houses the only-known crashed UFO and the bodies of aliens inside.
Part of the tin-foil brigade's reasoning is the strange occurrence of the "Cheshire airstrip", a secret runway that many claim only appears when rain sprinkles onto its camouflaged asphalt.
Although none of the conspiracy theories have ever been conclusively proven, the intense security restrictions around Area 51 have done little to silence doubters.
The base is patrolled around the clock by guards. Signage around the perimeter of the base tells visitors photography is not permitted and that deadly force will be used against trespassers.
RAF wing commander Alan Turner could not explain UFO activity he and 11 others saw on radar.
Alan Turner OBE said he and 10 others watched in amazement as "six or seven" unexplainable blips appeared on radar they were monitoring.
Mr Turner was duty military supervisor at RAF Sopley, in Hampshire, when the inexplicable events unfolded.
He said: "The duty civil supervisor drew my attention to a situation on radar the likes of which neither of us had ever encountered.
"Emanating from a point some twenty nautical miles east of the eastern extremity of the Salisbury Plain danger area were a series of six or seven blips moving on a south-easterly track each being separated from the other by about six miles."
He said that strangely, at about forty miles from the point they appeared on radar, they disappeared but were "followed almost immediately by a replacement at the point of origin”.
He established they were at 3,000 feet when they first appeared on radar, but were rising rapidly to be at 60,000 feet once they disappeared.
He said: "To climb to such a height in only forty miles was beyond the ability of any fighter aircraft at the time."
Mr Turner said the phenomenon was witnessed by four civil and six military controllers on duty at the time in other areas.
He said: "I called Heathrow radar to discover that they, also, were seeing a similar picture.
"The same situation prevailed in the fighter control operations rooms at RAF Neatishead, near Norwich, Norfolk.
To climb to such a height in only forty miles was beyond the ability of any fighter aircraft at the time.
Alan Turner
"The three units involved operated different radars from each other thus different frequencies were in use."
A baffled Mr Turner made checks with the Met Office to try to get to the bottom of what happened.
He said: "The weather forecast from the south of England was calm and sunny.
"I called the Met Office to confirm the strength of the upper winds to find that they were also relatively calm and were about fifty degrees off the south-easterly track of the blips.”
Mr Turner insisted the Met Office also confirmed there were no Met balloons or probes airborne at the time.
He said: "I am at a loss to explain what I, and many other people, saw.
"In those days aircraft could not climb at such a rate. To be seen on displays by three different ground radars, plus the airborne radar in the Canberra, is also a mystery."
Details of the case, which happened in the summer of 1971, have been revealed by veteran British UFO investigator Philip Mantle, as one of his most memorable investigations, as he prepares to retire from the UFO conference scene.
Mr Mantle will recount this and a number of other UFO cases at the Outer Limits Magazine UFO conference in Hull on September 9.
A CGI impression of the visitation seen by the family.
The bizarre sighting is said to have happened in Normanton, West Yorkshire, when one of the children ran into the kitchen and told the mum a plane had landed in a field.
Joyce Westerman and all six children were interviewed by UFO investigators and gave a similar account.
The case has been detailed by veteran British UFO investigator Philip Mantle, as his most memorable investigation, as he prepares to retire from the UFO conference scene.
He said: ”Accounts of UFOs allegedly landing and their apparent occupants being observed as well is remarkably rare, but I investigated such an account with my colleague Mark Birdsall of the Yorkshire UFO Society.
Mr Mantle said he was told it was around mid-afternoon when her eight year old daughter ran into the house shouting and crying and telling her mother to “come quick, an airplane has just landed in the field.”
He said: “Just a matter of a few hundred yards away, in the fields adjacent to her house, she saw an object on the ground.
“It was a dull grey colour and had the appearance of a “Mexican hat”.
“Around the object stood three very tall “men” all of who appeared to be dressed in silver suits.
Around the object stood three very tall 'men' all of who appeared to be dressed in silver suits.
Philip Mantle
“These men seemed to be pointing to a dark instrument on the ground.”
He said the witnesses described it as looking light a torch with no light.
Mr Mantle added: “The uniforms the men wore, were metallic silver and would crease when the men moved.”
They said the men then went to the rear of the “craft” and it “rose vertically, stopped in mid-air, and then shot off at an angle at a high rate of speed.”
Mr Mantle said: “All of the witnesses stated quite clearly that both upon landing and departure this object never made a sound.
“Needless to say they were speechless. All six of Mrs Westerman’s children related similar accounts to us.
“There were minor discrepancies but we expected to find that from different people.
“I have often been asked by people down the years which one UFO case is the ‘best’ one I have come across and I have to say that Mrs Westerman and her six children is the one that for many reasons is always at the top of my list.”
The events happened in early summer 1979.
Mr Mantle will recount this and a number of other UFO cases at the Outer Limits Magazine UFO conference in Hull on September 9.
Did aliens visit Stoke-on-Trent? This mocked up photograph shows a UFO hovering over the city.
High above the bottle kilns which littered the Potteries skyline and the crimson glow from the furnaces at Shelton Bar – dozens of strange objects were spotted hovering over North Staffordshire.
Summer was coming to an end in 1967 and the truth was certainly out there. But as to what that truth was has still not been explained some 50 years later.
That was the time when dozens of people reported seeing ‘flying saucers’ in the North Staffordshire skies. The first sighting was reported in The Evening Sentinel on August 28, 1967, but the UFO epidemic continued well into September.
It was seen by an 18-year-old man who told the newspaper in a letter: “I was crossing the canal bridge at Howard Place, Shelton, on the right hand side of the road, when I happened to glance up to my right along the direction of the canal, and to my astonishment I saw two bright orange lights hanging motionless in the sky.
“The two lights were the same size and elliptical (oval) in shape, and were somewhat separated by a distance somewhat less than the length of one of them. There was no noise.
“Living in Shelton, no-one can have failed to see the sky lit by the furnaces at Shelton Bar, but the lights I saw were unlike anything I have ever seen in my life.”
That was the first of many UFO sightings over the next few days and weeks. In fact the investigators Roger Stanway and Anthony Pace later logged more than 70 separate incidents of UFO activity over Stoke-on-Trent in their report, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable.
The day after the first letter appeared in The Sentinel, two more UFOs were witnessed over Newcastle, by a 17-year-old girl and three of her friends. She told The Sentinel: “We were motoring from Newcastle towards Nantwich and we had got outside Newcastle when we suddenly spotted two red lights which appeared to be travelling at a great speed across the country.
“We tried to follow them in the car but they gradually got smaller and smaller and then disappeared. I was quite frightened at first.”
She added that one of the lights appeared to be longer in shape than the other and both were very bright.
“At first we thought they might have been car lights, but when they disappeared suddenly, we realised they were not. We were going to report the matter to the police but thought better of it. They would probably have thought we had been drinking,” she said.
A still from the 1977 movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
On August 31, under the headline, “saucers galore”, The Sentinel reported on a number of other sightings. A Smallthorne woman saw a “bright orange light” hovering over some nearby houses.
“I am positive it was a flying saucer,” she said, “the light seemed to be revolving and there was absolutely no noise. After a few minutes the light moved off in the direction of Norton, but it stayed as bright as ever.”
A girl from Bentilee saw a UFO coming towards Hanley High School from Shelton. When her parents, and brother came out to look, they saw two more. Eventually, all three flying saucers disappeared in the direction of Longton.
More sightings were made each day, of flying saucers, domes shining red and orange, luminous cigar shapes and other UFOs. Experts at Jodrell Bank, however, were sceptical, suggesting that what had really been seen could have been a weather balloon, a satellite low on the horizon, the glance of the sun on a delta-winged bomber, or a, “more local reflection”.
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But still more reports of flying saucers arrived at The Sentinel’s offices in Foundry Street, Hanley.
The tale took a new twist on September 1, 1967, when a housewife reported three more saucers – which had landed in a field near Hanley High School. She told The Sentinel: “I saw the same objects in the same place the night before, but I waited until I could check again.
“Last night I saw one large, bright orange light and two smaller ones further away. The bright one was flashing and throwing out vertically a shower of green sparks. The objects rose slowly and disappeared.”
RAF Ternhill attempted to end the mystery by explaining that some of the sightings could have been helicopters or flares dropped by aircraft.
“On Monday and Tuesday (September 4 and 5) we were dropping flares by parachute to assist the pilots landing at night. These are bright red in colour and on a clear night they can be seen from miles around. We occasionally get calls from people saying they have spotted unidentified flying objects and it usually turns out to be the flares,” said a spokesman for the Air Traffic Control Centre.
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He added that another explanation could be helicopters: “Group Captain E.W. Deacon has been flying over the Newcastle area this week and people might have seen his helicopter which has flashing red navigation lights.”
So that explains the mystery of the flying saucers.
Except that the RAF had no idea what it was that people had seen a week earlier, when the bulk of the reports had been made.
“We had no night flights at all last week,” added the spokesman, “many of the UFO sightings are probably genuine.”
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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