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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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    23-09-2017 om 00:32 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Actor Florence Hartigan Shares The Truth Behind Found Footage Horror 'Phoenix Forgotten'

    Actor Florence Hartigan Shares The Truth Behind Found Footage Horror 'Phoenix Forgotten'

    'Phoenix Forgotten' [photo credit: Cinelou Films]

    ByRachael Rumancek, writer at CREATORS.CO
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    March 13, 1997 is a date that the residents of Phoenix, Arizona will never forget. Spanning nearly 300 miles and witnessed by thousands of people, an extraordinary formation of synchronized lights began to invade the airspace over Phoenix, Arizona all the way down to Sonora, Mexico. Although the incident, as always, was discredited by the US government with their own version of the events, the Phoenix Lights remains the largest UFO sighting in history.

    Check out the original footage from the 1997 Phoenix Lights incident that inspired found footage horror film, Phoenix Forgotten:

    Whether you find yourself standing on the side of the skeptics, with the believers or somewhere in between, promises to shed light on the chaos surrounding the infamous night with a  horror that gazes deep into the "what-ifs," that still remain.

    I was fortunate enough to sit down with Florence Hartigan, start of Phoenix Forgotten, about the upcoming found footage horror. Check out the trailer below.

    Behind The Mystery Of The Phoenix Lights With 'Phoenix Forgotten' Star Florence Hartigan:

    RR: So although the film is inspired by real events, your character (Sophie) is not. How does she fit into the chaos following the Phoenix Lights?

    "My character Sophie is a documentary filmmaker who grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. When she was a little kid her brother, Josh [Luke Spencer Roberts], went missing after going out to the desert with two of his friends, trying to find answers to mysterious lights they’d seen in the sky. 20 years later, Sophie is still haunted by her brother’s disappearance. It’s like she’s grown up in the shadow of this tragedy, so she comes back to her home town to do some digging. She’s driven to find answers, to shed any light she can on Josh’s disappearance."

    RR: Phoenix Forgotten was inspired by actual events, like so many other found footage horrors, but what made this film seem particularly promising?

    "So with this film the idea was for it to feel for the viewer, like you’re watching the actual documentary that Sophie has made. So, it was important to me that my performance felt as grounded and real as possible. I mean that’s always my goal, but particularly in this project we actually have real residents of Phoenix who aren’t actors in the film, people we interview about their real life experience and thoughts, so knowing I was going to be in scenes with people just being themselves set the bar for where I wanted my performance to land. We also did a lot of improvising in this shoot. Pretty much every scene has an improvised component, so that obviously involves a lot of thinking on your feet."

    RR: That sounds like a genuinely challenging role. With all the improv, how did you prepare yourself for taking on Sophie and making her authentic?

    "I found it really interesting to play somebody who experiences a tragedy like this. It’s such a terrible thing to lose a sibling and for parents to lose a child like Sophie’s parents did, especially in an instance where there’s no closure. They don’t know what’s happened to him so there’s no saying goodbye really, just this endless wondering. And for Sophie, not only did she lose her brother but she essentially lost both her parents too. They both never recovered from losing Josh, so there’s all these subsidiary tragedies that go along with the main loss. I actually watched a lot of documentaries preparing for this role, especially Werner Herzog docs. He’s someone who interviews a lot of people whose lives have been shaped by tragedy. I was fascinated by how people talk about really painful things that have happened a long time ago, that’s the space Sophie occupies. When tragedy happens to you, you keep on keeping on, you have to, but there’s still all this deep emotion just under the surface. So that was a pretty interesting thing to explore.

    As I mentioned before, I watched a lot of Werner Herzog documentaries. 'Grizzly Man' and 'Into The Abyss' were two that really stuck with me. I also listened to a lot of Terry Gross interviews and I revisited 'Serial' knowing I was going to be improvising and interviewing real subjects, I wanted to hone in on how really great interviewers get good material out of the people they interview. I also did a bunch of research into how missing persons cases are handled in that area, on other cases where people go missing in the desert, that kind of thing."

    RR: Being unlike the other projects you have worked on in the past, is there anything special you took away from this experience?

    "I think there are a couple of interesting things I took with me. For one, I had never really thought in detail about what a hostile environment the desert is and how vast it is in Arizona. We interviewed a real pilot for our film, Kevin Boontjer, who has been involved in this kind of search and rescue mission in missing persons cases like the one in our movie and you’ll see in the film, he told us just how easy it is to just disappear out there. There’s just so much ground to cover and so much rough terrain, it’s just so easy to lose people, even with dogs and planes and people looking. On the other hand, in a case like ours you will usually find something, especially with three people. And in our story, obviously nothing has been found for 20 years. So yeah, it was interesting talking to people with real experience about that stuff."

    RR: Before signing on to play Sophie, were you aware of the Phoenix Lights incident that occured in 1997?

    "I wasn’t, though in my research for the film I discovered it’s an incident a lot of people are really passionate about. I grew up in New Zealand, so the story didn’t quite reach me there, though it was a huge news story at the time. The 24-hour news cycle kinda picked up and ran with it and it’s the sort of story that kept getting play on its anniversary, stuff like that. That was useful in my preparation for the role too, it was so powerful for me to imagine; what if the worst thing that ever happened to you was one of the most famous things that ever happened in your town? Every time it gets brought up those old wounds get opened again. That would be devastating."

    Florence Hartigan, 'Phoenix Forgotten' [photo credit: Cinelou Films]

    Florence Hartigan, 'Phoenix Forgotten'
    [photo credit: Cinelou Films]

    RR: Next comes the big question, and this is the one I am totally asking on a personal level. Do you believe that the Phoenix Lights - the notoriously enigmatic event that inspired Phoenix Forgotten - could have extraterrestrial origins?

    "Oh sure! I think there’s so much we don’t know about the universe, so who’s to say what’s out there? I like the idea that we’re not alone in the universe.

    I think going in to the film I was more inclined to think there was something a little more supernatural about the origins of the lights, but having talked to the people I talked to at this point I feel skeptical. There’s still that aspect of the case that feels like a cover-up though and we show some of that actual footage in the film. The Arizona government at the time goes a long way to make the whole thing seem like a joke. The official press conference about the sighting at the time featured a guy in an alien suit. I just think if there’s nothing there, why bother?"

    RR: So how closely does this film follow along with the actual events that occurred?

    "One of the things I think is a cool point of difference in our film is that it’s a blend of fact and fiction. The jumping off point for our story is a real event. The Phoenix Lights were something that actually happened, the largest recorded UFO sighting in history. In terms of accuracy, we actually use real news footage from the time as well as news footage we created to serve our story about the missing kids. So in terms of accuracy I think what’s created is a really realistic, 'what if' scenario; what if a kid had been so obsessed with the Phoenix Lights that he went looking for them?

    I think it blends fact and fiction in a way I haven’t seen very often and that’s really interesting to me. I also think there are some really great performances from our cast and I think it’s a horror movie that has a really engaging, emotional heart to it...The message for me is that you should always look at where you’re getting your information from, there’s as many sides to a story as there are people to tell you that story. And don’t go wandering off into the desert at night!"

    RR: Phoenix Forgotten is quickly becoming a favorite among found footage connoisseurs. Now that it's making it's way into the homes of horror fans and cinephiles everywhere, where can fans be on the lookout for you next?

    "My next project is another horror movie, an animated feature called 'Malevolent.' It stars Morena Baccarin from 'Deadpool,' William Shatner and Ray Wise from 'Twin Peaks,' who plays my father. That was a cool experience. I feel like with horror so much is communicated with body language and facial expression so it was such a fun challenge to create a character just with my voice, as well as getting across all the physical gory horror stuff. I had a ball!"

    Phoenix Forgotten is out now on Blu-ray and DVD. It's also available through major retailers and popular streaming platforms such as  and . For real time updates on Florence's upcoming work be sure to follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

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    22-09-2017 om 23:50 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Eclipse was a time for UFO landing site, wingnuts

    Eclipse was a time for UFO landing site, wingnuts

    Is it any wonder that a place as wondrous and unique as Wyoming would be the site 40 years ago for the filming of the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind?”

    We traveled across the state last week in a grand loop which took us to Devils Tower, the country’s first national monument, which was the reason that movie was filmed there.

    This tower, called Bear Lodge by the Indians, is just plain odd.  It looks like a giant tree trunk (made of hardened lava) that juts out of the ground to over 800 feet high in the middle of the Wyoming Black Hills.  

    It was the country’s first national monument back in 1912. And of course a huge Facebook rumor went out this year where it was claimed that archeologists discovered it really was a tree trunk with petrified roots deep underground. Alas, not true. 

    But first, let me tell you about our latest road trip around the state. Our drive took us through Wind River Canyon to Thermopolis and Worland and over the Big Horn Mountains to Buffalo and Gillette before getting to Devils Tower. Our trip home was through Hulett, Moorcroft, Gillette, Wright, Casper, Shoshoni and Riverton. 

    That route took me through some of the best viewing areas of the recent solar eclipse.  

    Melissa Neylon, who works at the Washakie Museum and Culture Center in Worland, was at Boysen for the eclipse and said 39,000 cars were counted all over the park.

    Wyoming native Alan O’Hashi, who made a video on Vimeo about the eclipse, said Glendo hit that magic number of 50,000 people which they were expecting for the eclipse.

    I’m not sure if Shoshoni got the 40,000 visitors they were expecting, but they did get something permanent about the event.

    At the extreme northeast part of town is a unique monument built by some odd visitors who build these things where eclipse epicenters are located. The only other one is in Namibia, Africa.

    A fringe group with some serious money behind it built this edifice. Members believe there are actually two moons and during an eclipse, an alternate universe comes into play. The group is headed by Eames Demetrios of Greece and quite a little group gathered at the Shoshoni site during the eclipse. We don’t think they tore their clothes off or sacrificed any animals during the event, but based on seeing this concoction of strange objects — well, they must have had a really good time.

    One of Wyoming’s greatest photographers is Dewey Vanderhoff of Cody, and he was telling me about this site and he provided some of this research on it. 

    He also took some wonderful eclipse photos from his vantage point in Shoshoni.

    Dewey was also impressed by the bumper-to-bumper traffic from Shoshoni to Casper. Here is how he described it:

    “Try to imagine a solid caravan of cars all the way from Shoshoni to Casper and beyond after the eclipse. This is 100 miles of unbroken, solid traffic. If each car is a dot and the space between them a dash, it spelled out SOS over and over again. Allowing for a generous average of 50 feet per vehicle, that works out to 10,560 cars at any one time during the mass exodus from Wyoming.” The real total was probably much more than this as it went on all afternoon and early evening.  

    Huge numbers of people left the next day, which were not included in the record counts compiled by the Wyoming Department of Transpiration.

    Also on the list of eclipse oddities, there was the report of a man jumping off a cliff in central Wyoming at an abandoned uranium open pit mine.  

    Apparently there was water in the bottom, but he missed and scratched the heck out of himself. Luckily, a passer-by saw the leap and called 9-1-1.

    Meanwhile, the partying continued back at Devils Tower as they celebrated the 40th anniversary of the famous movie. Among the contests was one to see who could make the best replica of the tower out of mashed potatoes. Now that could be a real test. 

    With the country and the world focused on Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in Texas and Florida, there really is not much interest in what is happening here in Wyoming. But I thought it important to document some of the oddball events that have been going on here. 

    Check out additional columns at www.billsniffin.com. He has published six books.  His coffee table book series has sold 30,000 copies. You can find them at www.wyomingwonders.com.

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    22-09-2017 om 23:37 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO expert reveals US Navy is running a top secret programme to detect underwater UFOs

    UFO expert reveals US Navy is running a top secret programme to detect underwater UFOs

    US Navy is secretly running a top secret programme -- Fast Mover Programme to spot unidentified submerged object (USO).
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    Marc D'Antonio, a UFO expert revealed the US Navy is secretly running a programme called Fast Mover Programme to spot extra terrestrial spacecrafts, known as unidentified submerged object (USO), under the ocean waters.

    D'Antonio is also an astronomer who had worked for Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), an organisation that research aliens and UFOs.

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    He claimed he was on a US Navy submarine in the North Atlantic Ocean, where he saw a USO which travelled at an impossible speed of 700 knots.

    Torpedoes and submarines travel in a maximum speed of 40 knots.

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    "As a thank you for doing some work for the Navy, they asked me if I wanted to go for a ride in a submarine so I said yes. Once we got under I was sitting in the sonar station and the sonar operator was sitting right next to me," said D'Antonio as reported by Express.

    ALSO READ: These UFOs were spotted during the rare Total Solar Eclipse! [VIDEO]

    "Submarines are loud – people think they are very quiet and it's true they are on the outside because the sound doesn't get out. But inside you hear fans, noise - it's a constant din on a sub. I was sitting there zoning out a little because I was seasick and all of a sudden the sonar kid shouts 'fast mover, fast mover'. I'm jolted awake thinking 'what's happening? Is it a torpedo?" he said further.

    ALSO READ: Rosewell UFO Crash: More controversial revelations made! [VIDEO]

    He tried digging out more about the Fast Mover Programme by a senior naval personnel four years later, but the person refused to tell him anything about the secret project.

    D'Antonio stated: "I asked him 'Can you tell me about the Fast Mover Programme?'"

    "He looked at me and said 'sorry Marc I can't talk about that programme'.

    ALSO READ: Scientists spot a mysterious object beyond Neptune [VIDEO]

    "So he basically confirmed to me that the programme exists - he said everything without seeing anything. What that told me was that USOs are common. We even have a programme in place to classify, log and determine the speed of them and it goes into a vault," according to the Express report.

    These revelations were made by D'Antonio in a meeting hub -- Wyoming at Devil's Tower UFO Rendezvous— in Hulett. UFO hunters and UFOlogists share and research on the findings made by them regarding any alien and unidentified findings.

    http://www.ibtimes.co.in/

    22-09-2017 om 23:20 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Video that claims to show UFO at Oklahoma State Fair a hoax

    Video that claims to show UFO at Oklahoma State Fair a hoax

    A mystery has many Oklahomans baffled. Many of them reached out to KOCO 5 for an explanation.

    A video that claims to show “UFO” at the Oklahoma State Fair has gone viral, being shared on Facebook nearly 300,000 times.

    Well, we've debunked this claim. It's a total hoax. The video is actually from the Utah State Fair.

    Those alleged UFOs? They are actually skydivers jumping while holding flares.

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    22-09-2017 om 23:08 geschreven door peter  

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    Mystery in the Desert: The Shadow of Area 51

    In July of 1947, a foreman at a homestead in New Mexico found a pile of debris some miles from his home. He took his son to go look at it, finding a bright wreckage of tinfoil, rubber strips and various paper and sticks. It seemed of little consequence to him, but he returned a few days later with the rest of his family to collect the material. The next day, the foreman heard reports from an army base about a so-called “flying disk” crash and, thinking that perhaps this was the debris he had picked up, went to the Sheriff immediately. The situation was handled in a confidential but polite manner. The U.S. military assured the citizens that the crash was a simple conventional weather balloon. The residents of the small town nodded and returned to the buzz of their normal lives, the story fading to the back of any and everyone’s mind. The military had always been a little secretive and looming, but they were the government and could be trusted, of course. It wasn’t until decades later that anyone would be back asking questions about Roswell, New Mexico.

    The military base known today as Area 51 is a remote link of the Edwards Air Force base in Nevada. It is referred to by the Central Intelligence Agency as “Groom Lake” – the nickname “Area 51” originally coming from reports during the Vietnam War. It is known in popular culture to be a place of great mystery: UFO sightings, government conspiracy, and withheld information litter the history of the base. Over the decades, Area 51 has been accused of the storage and reverse engineering of alien technology, the study of those aliens alive and dead, and the development of time travel and teleportation equipment. Seeming to feed these nationwide suspicions, the current purpose of Area 51 remains unknown to the public. In fact, it wasn’t until July of 2013 that the CIA openly admitted to the existence of the base. Some history was offered to the public, and then the case was abruptly closed. It would seem that the most likely purpose of Area 51 is the development and testing of confidential air and spacecraft weapons systems, otherwise known as Black Projects. Though it has never been declared a secret base, all research conducted there is labeled Sensitive Compartmented Information.

    However, there are a great many secret bases across the nation and the world, and even more UFO sightings, so what draws theorists and government officials alike to this empty area of the desert? Surely the plain factor of mass hysteria cannot be overlooked, but it is most definitely balanced by a series of dubious occurrences. The first of which, on a mainstream scale, was a sighting in 1955. Ordinarily enough, the first UFOs spotted were not of a blatant extraterrestrial nature, but rather new weapons testing. The site was being used by the CIA for the development of the Lockheed U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft. What the locals who reported these strange aircrafts didn’t know was that three years earlier, in 1952, Project Blue Book had paid a visit to the base.

    Project Blue Book was a study conducted by the United States Air Force with two goals: the first was to determine if a unidentified flying object could be a threat to national security, and the second was to scientifically analyze said UFO data. Of course, this all seems to have a funny smell to it. A military program making judgments and final calls on the safety and legitimacy of its own operations is perhaps not the most reliable situation. Unsurprisingly, Blue Book reported no threats to national security and, interestingly enough, no UFOs that contained extraterrestrial life. In 1952, this response left no questions screaming for answers, and the matter was put to rest. Coincidentally, five years prior, in 1947, a small town foreman and his son found a pile of debris in Roswell, New Mexico. These stories become perpendicular at this point, for the wreckage of that mysterious aircraft in New Mexico was transferred to where but Area 51.

    Suspicions continued to rise following another incident, this one related less directly to the hiding of extraterrestrial technology and more to the missteps of the military. In 1994, five resident contractors (who insisted on remaining anonymous in official reports), and the widows of contractors Robert Frost and Walter Kasza sued the United States Air Force and the Environmental Protection Agency. They claimed  that immense amounts of unknown chemicals were being burned in open trenches at Area 51- more specifically, Groom Lake. Tissue samples were taken from the petitioners, and their body fat revealed high levels of dioxin (a highly toxic organic chemical), dibenzofuran (a chemical derived from coal tar), and trichloroethylene (a compound often used as an industrial solvent). They argued that these chemicals had harmed their health and, in the case of the widows, killed their husbands. They sought knowledge about the chemicals so that they could take precautions to prevent future injury. However, they were denied. Citing the State Secrets Privilege, the base claimed that releasing information would be a threat to national security and would discharge military secrets. The judge on the case rejected this argument, siding with the petitioners. At this point, dramatic measures were called for. President Bill Clinton signed a Presidential Determination protecting Area 51 from environmental disclosure laws, and the case was henceforth dismissed due to supposed lack of evidence. Whatever it was that was burning at Groom Lake, the military had just sacrificed human lives for it.

    Outside of popular culture gags about UFOs and conspiracy accounts, the deeper history of Area 51 seems to present a serious question about the power of the military in our nation and what it is exactly that they constitute as “national security”. Whether you believe in the government’s possession of extraterrestrial science or just think Groom Lake is a spooky place, one thing is clear: it is of utmost importance to the Unites States Military that we do not find out.

    Featured image courtesy of dailymail.co.uk.

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    22-09-2017 om 22:39 geschreven door peter  

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    VIDEO: 7 vuurballen en een ufo: de spectaculairste hemelfenomenen van de voorbije jaren - HLN.be

    © screenshot.

    VIDEO Boven ons land lichtte een heldere vuurbol gisteravond de hemel op. Het ging om een klein steentje dat met tienduizenden kilometer per uur in de dampkring verbrandde en zo een heel heldere 'vallende ster' werd. Hier zie je nog beelden van zeven prachtige vuurballen en een ufo die de voorbije jaren werden gefilmd!

    Afbeelding weergeven op Twitter

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    22-09-2017 om 21:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Er is nu ook mooi beeld: heldere vuurbol boven België en Nederland - HLN.be

    Er is nu ook mooi beeld: heldere vuurbol boven België en Nederland - HLN.be

    Heldere vuurbol gespot boven ons land: dit is de verklaring van het fenomeen

    Wie gisteravond rond 21 uur naar omhoog tuurde, heeft 'm misschien wel gezien: een heldere vuurbol schoot door de lucht. Veel Belgen en Nederlanders maakten er melding van op sociale media. "Het gaat om een klein steentje dat met een snelheid van tienduizenden kilometer per uur de dampkring binnenkomt. Het doet de lucht fel oplichten en wij zien het dan als een vuurbol", zegt weerman Frank Deboosere.

    OPROEP: Heeft u een foto kunnen maken van de vuurbal? Laat het ons dan weten via 3535@hln.be

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    Noodweer Benelux kreeg gisteravond heel wat meldingen binnen. De vuurbol die rond 21 uur boven vele dorpen en steden te zien was, ook in Nederland, is eigenlijk een heel heldere vallende ster. "Die is vaak niet groter dan één centimeter", zegt Deboosere. De meteoriet kan, wanneer ze in de dampkring komt, heel fel gaan schijnen. "Zo helder als de volle maan of zelfs nog helderder", vervolgt Deboosere. "Meestal is het leven van een vuurbol erg kort en dus quasi onmogelijk om op beeld vast te leggen. Na één of twee seconden is alles voorbij." Wie het verschijnsel heeft waargenomen, kan dat melden.

    Intussen is ook een prachtige foto van het fenomeen op het web verschenen. Een Nederlandse fotograaf slaagde erin om de vuurbol vast te leggen met zijn speciale camera en zette het beeld op Twitter.

    Heeft nog iemand een 

     boven  waargenomen? Vermoedelijk gaat het om een . Meldingen zijn welkom.

    Rond 21u00 was er boven België en Nederland een heldere  zichtbaar. Hoe je dit kan rapporteren, lees je op

     http://www.frankdeboosere.be/vragen/vraag213.php 

    Rond 21u00 was er boven België en Nederland een heldere  zichtbaar. Hoe je dit kan rapporteren, lees je op 

    http://www.frankdeboosere.be/vragen/vraag213.php 

    Op MIRA ondertussen al waarnemingen binnengekomen vanuit nagenoeg het ganse land, van West-Vlaanderen tot Limburg. Ideaal weer en tijdstip 🙂

    Net een vuurbol uit de lucht zien vallen boven Kuurne. Enig idee wat dit was? @lievenscheire @frankdeboosere

    Rond 21u00 was er boven België en Nederland een heldere  zichtbaar. Hoe je dit kan rapporteren, lees je op 

    http://www.frankdeboosere.be/vragen/vraag213.php 

    Ja heb het gezien! Dacht dat het een vliegtuig was😂

    Zojuist een massive vallend stuk rots uit de ruimte zien vallen!    

    Ik heb net voor het eerst in mijn leven een vallende ster gezien en het was zo magisch

    De vuurbol, vastgelegd door een camera in Noordwijk 
    FRANCOIS COLAS/DETLEF KOSCHNY

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    22-09-2017 om 21:07 geschreven door peter  

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    Wetenschappers ontdekken vreemd object in ons zonnestelsel - HLN.be

    Bron: Belga

    © afp.

    De Amerikaans-Europese Hubble-ruimtetelescoop heeft een vreemd en uniek object in ons zonnestelsel ontdekt, zo heeft het Hubble Informatie Centrum in Garching nabij München bekendgemaakt.

    Lees ook

    In september vorig jaar had planetoïde 288P zijn kleinste afstand tot de zon bereikt, en stond ze dicht genoeg tot de aarde om er in de asteroïdengordel tussen Mars en Jupiter de Hubble op te richten. 

    Het bleek dat 288P niet één object was, maar dat het uit twee bijna even grote asteroïden bestaat die op een afstand van ongeveer honderd kilometer om elkaar draaien. 

    Zeer waarschijnlijk waren ze aanvankelijk een enkelvoudig object dat zo snel om zijn as draaide dat het in stukken brak, zeggen de astronomen.

    Bovendien waren de planetoïden onder invloed van de zonnewarmte bezig waterdamp uit te stoten. Dat maakt 288P tot de eerste dubbelplanetoïde waarbij komeetachtig gedrag is waargenomen, zo staat in de mededeling. 

    Gezien 288P nog waterijs bevat, kan de dubbelplanetoïde niet ouder zijn dan pakweg 5.000 jaar.

    http://www.hln.be/ }

    22-09-2017 om 20:34 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Nieuwe studie doet vermoeden dat onze Melkweg eerder uitzondering is dan regel en dat kan alles wat we weten op zijn kop zetten - HLN.be

    Bron: Astronomy Magazine

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    Ons eigen sterrenstelsel - de Melkweg - is altijd de referentie geweest om andere sterrenstelsels in het universum te bestuderen. Maar nieuw onderzoek van enkele buurstelsels lijkt erop te wijzen dat we niet zo een typisch voorbeeld zijn als we wel dachten. En dat kan verregaande gevolgen hebben voor alles wat we menen te weten over ons universum.

    De nieuwe data staan in de Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey. Die probeert meer te weten te komen over onze Melkweg door andere, soortgelijke systemen te bestuderen. De afgelopen vijf jaar nam de studie acht andere stelsels onder de loep en daaruit blijkt dat de satellietstelsels die rond onze Melkweg draaien veel minder actief zijn dan bij onze buren. Ze zijn minder helder en produceren ook minder sterren. Als dat wordt bevestigd door onderzoek van nog andere stelsels, zou dat betekenen dat onze Melkweg minder 'normaal' is dan we dachten.

    Lees ook

    "En dat geeft een ander perspectief", aldus Marla Geha, de auteur van de studie, die gepubliceerd werd in het vaktijdschrift Astrophysical Journal. "Er komen elk jaar honderden studies uit over kosmologie, het vormen van sterren en donkere materie. En die gebruiken ons eigen sterrenstelsel als referentie. Maar het zou dus wel eens kunnen dat onze Melkweg eerder een uitzondering is. En dan gaan die redeneringen niet zomaar op, natuurlijk." 

    Modellen
    Als dat zo is, kan dat dus gevolgen hebben voor ons begrip van andere sterrenstelsels. Om te weten of onze modellen dus effectief betrouwbaar zijn en de theorie klopt, wil de SAGA Survey in totaal 100 sterrenstelsels bestuderen. Want het staal van acht dat nu werd gebruikt, is nog te klein om echt harde conclusies te trekken. De komende twee jaar zullen al 25 andere systemen aan het onderzoek worden toegevoegd en dat moet al een beter beeld geven.

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    22-09-2017 om 20:27 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Wedge-Shaped UFO Moves Slow Near Augusta, Georgia

    Wedge-Shaped UFO Moves Slow Near Augusta, Georgia

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    A resident of Grovetown, Georgia had taken a brief look skyward during a football game on a Friday night. During the match between the Grovetown Warriors and the Lincoln County Red Devils, he noticed a wedge-shaped object moving west to east at a slow rate of speed. He observed the UFO’s triangular light configuration from the stands.

    The witness, who chooses to stay anonymous, tried to record the aberration using his cell phone, but it malfunctioned. He decided to borrow the phone of a friend to take a photo of the mysterious UFO. He then sent the picture to Donnie Brooke, a member of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) – Georgia Chapter.

    Brooke confirmed that he received the picture on the night of September 1 and that the witness knows him personally. He said that the witness told him the UFO was moving eastward toward Fort Gordon Army Base. The witness revealed to him over the phone that he looked skyward while leaning back in his seat and saw a humongous object.

    Brooke called the witness after receiving the photo. He said to the witness that the image was somewhat similar to a triangle object he saw about eight months ago. The object that Brooke saw was also moving towards Fort Gordon. The story of the witness confirmed what he had encountered, according to Brooke.

    Brooke sent the photo to Georgia MUFON director Ralph O. Howard, who said that it is compelling. Howard stated that there are several witnesses of UFOs in the area but did not report them because they are afraid of what others will think. He is hoping that the witness who sent the photo logs to their site and files a report so that they can get enough information. He explained that without having those details, they could not launch an investigation and establish whether the actual event is what the witness believes he saw or not.

    { http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    22-09-2017 om 19:51 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Flying Saucers in Red, Green & Yellow Colors Spotted Hovering For Two Hours Over Military Bases In Antarctica

    Flying Saucers in Red, Green & Yellow Colors Spotted Hovering For Two Hours Over Military Bases In Antarctica

    ufo-Antarctica

    Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter once revealed via the New York Times in 1960 that high-ranking Air Force officers led many citizens to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense through official secrecy and ridicule.

    Hillenkoetter is the very first director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the third director of Central Intelligence, and the third director of the post-World War II US Central Intelligence Group.
    For so many years, people who believe in the existence of alien UFOs are perceived as crazy individuals. In the present time, however, is a much different story. Thousands of declassified documents reveal that global militaries and intelligence agencies have an extremely high interest in UFOs and intelligent extraterrestrial life.

    In 1979, General Carlos Castro Cavero stated that everything is in the process of investigation in the world as both the US and Spain, as well as the rest of the word, are working together in the UFO phenomenon studies.

    Lord Admiral Hill-Norton once said that there is a serious possibility people from outer space or other civilisations have visited or been visiting for many years here on Earth. He suggested that there should be a rigorous scientific investigation to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. He said that the possibility should not be the subject of rubbishing as these people from outer space could turn hostile.

    In one CIA document, several pieces of information can be found suggesting particular attention paid to UFO or extraterrestrial topic under the guise of national security. According to many conspiracy theories, the intelligence community has been studying the subject for years and using the term ‘national security’ to classify everything, protect the interests of the elites around the world, and enable them to do whatever they want.

    ufo-Antarctica-2

    The CIA document reveals details of the Antarctic flying saucers. It says that Argentine, Chilean and British military bases in Antarctica have seen a group of red, green, and yellow flying saucers above Deception Island for two hours. The saucer UFOs were also observed flying in formation above the South Orkney islands in quick circles. The document dates back to 1965, more than five decades old already.

    Conspiracy theorists have pointed out how other unrelated factors are inserted into the document.

    It is also important to note that the 1965 document shows the CIA have been putting tremendous effort and resources into studying such topic. Now, it makes sense to ponder what type of information do they have at present, more than 50 years later. They may have known more details as to who or what are operating these UFOs, how they work, where they come from, and what are their intentions

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    22-09-2017 om 19:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Three People From Different Areas Spot Similar UFO

    Three People From Different Areas Spot Similar UFO

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    Three people have come forward claiming that they photographed and videotaped a UFO in the skies over Plymouth. Alan Kingwell, 62, was one of the witnesses of the appearance of strange black shapes. Alan was shooting a time-lapse video in his garden in Plymouth when the UFO sighting took place. The footage shows two dark shapes hovering in the blue sky that sometimes covered with clouds.

    David Shepherd of Plymstock also noticed similar shapes on one of his photos. He believes may have spotted the same UFO.

    Earlier in the summer, Mr Shepherd photographed a block blob. He noticed a little black shape after an X shape of aeroplane contrails in the sky caught his attention. The strange UFO that was below them looked similar to what Mr Kingwell caught on video. Like what Alan described, the black shaped UFO lingered for around 10 minutes before it disappeared.

    On September 15, John Mooner of Newton Abbot also saw the same UFO. He stated that he was sky watching with his Nikon P900 camera when he spotted the unusual object hovering just above one of the clouds. Since the object was stationary, he took a photo and continued to watch as it remained in one position for around a minute before it finally started to move and flew off at incredible speed. He then lost sight of the object as it headed towards some thick cloud cover.

     

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    22-09-2017 om 19:39 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.'We saw something. Something came down': The Shag Harbour UFO sighting, 50 years later

    'We saw something. Something came down': The Shag Harbour UFO sighting, 50 years later

    Laurie Wickens, president of the Shag Harbour Incident Society, is seen in Shag Harbour, N.S. on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017. On the night of October 4, 1967, Wickens and four of his friends spotted a large object descending into the waters off the harbour. The object was never officially identified, and was therefore referred to as an unidentified flying object. The 50th anniversary of the event is being marked with a three-day festival.

    Laurie Wickens, president of the Shag Harbour Incident Society, is seen in Shag Harbour, N.S. on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017. On the night of October 4, 1967, Wickens and four of his friends spotted a large object descending into the waters off the harbour. The object was never officially identified, and was therefore referred to as an unidentified flying object. The 50th anniversary of the event is being marked with a three-day festival. Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS

    It was around 11 p.m. on the night of Oct. 4, 1967. Most witnesses thought it was a doomed aircraft

    HALIFAX — The first frantic callers to reach the RCMP were clear: something had crashed in the waters off Shag Harbour, N.S.

    It was around 11 p.m. on the night of Oct. 4, 1967. Most witnesses thought it was a doomed aircraft.

    Among those who saw the string of flashing lights on that clear, moonless night were three RCMP officers, scores of fishermen and airline pilots flying along the province’s rugged southwest coast.

    But a series of searches turned up nothing. No wreckage. No bodies. No clues as to what really happened that night 50 years ago.

    To this day, I don't know the absolute answer, but we're still finding things

    A Halifax-area man later uncovered a trove of government and police records that would make the Shag Harbour incident Canada’s best-documented and most intriguing UFO sighting.

    Hundreds of UFO sightings are reported across Canada every year, but none has the paper trail of Shag Harbour.

    In a series of RCMP reports and correspondence sent by telex between military officials in Ottawa and Halifax, there are specific references to unidentified flying objects, and no attempts were made to explain away what people were reporting.

    Chris Styles, the UFO researcher who dug up those documents, remains baffled by the case.

    “To this day, I don’t know the absolute answer, but we’re still finding things,” says Styles, the author of two books about the Shag Harbour incident.

    Next week, on the eve of the 50th anniversary, Styles will be the keynote speaker at the start of the three-day Shag Harbour UFO Festival. After 20-plus years of dogged research, he says he has new evidence to share.

    It points to an explanation that hardly seems possible, unless you have a sense of what Styles has uncovered so far.

    To be sure, the most compelling evidence comes from eyewitnesses like Laurie Wickens, now a 67-year-old former fisherman.

    There was four (lights) in a row, and they were going on and off

    Laurie Wickens, president of the Shag Harbour Incident Society, is seen in Shag Harbour, N.S. on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017. Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press

    “There was four (lights) in a row, and they were going on and off,” says Wickens, at the time a 17-year-old driving home to Shag Harbour with a friend and three young women. “One would come on, then two, three and four — and they’d all be off for a second and come back on again.”

    Sure he was about to witness an airline disaster, Wickens found a phone booth and called the local RCMP detachment. Questions were asked about his sobriety. But he wasn’t drunk, and he was sure about what he saw.

    Several other people called the Mounties that night. They all told same story.

    Soon afterwards, Wickens was among a dozen or so people gathered at the water’s edge, watching in amazement as a glowing, orange sphere — about the size of a city bus — bobbed on the waves about 300 metres from shore.

    At 11:20 p.m., it slipped beneath the surface without a sound.

    Three of those at the wharf were Mounties. One of them called the Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax. A coast guard cutter was immediately dispatched to conduct a search.

    All I know is that we saw something, and something came down. I can't prove it, but in my opinion they found something

    Before the ship arrived, volunteer searchers aboard two fishing boats soon spotted a long trail of bubbling, yellow foam on the calm waters — but no wreckage.

    A squad of Royal Canadian Navy divers later failed to turn up any clues after a three-day scan of the harbour floor, according to official military records.

    To this day, Wickens has no idea what he saw.

    “All I know is that we saw something, and something came down,” he says, adding that he believes the divers pulled something from the water.

    “I can’t prove it, but in my opinion they found something.”

    Wickens, now president of the Shag Harbour UFO Society, will take part in a panel discussion Saturday that is expected to include Ralph Loewinger, one of the pilots aboard Pan Am Flight 160, a Boeing 707 cargo aircraft that was at 33,000 feet that same night.

    They saw the same row of flashing lights over the Gulf of Maine as they approached to coast of Nova Scotia.

    Nobody reported a UFO. Everybody reported a plane crash. That gives a boost of credibility to the story

    Loewinger and the other crew members never reported their sighting. Their story came to light about six years ago when Styles tracked them down.

    “What sets this story apart is that the impact … was witnessed by several independent and very credible witnesses,” says Brock Zinck, a Nova Scotia seafood buyer and vice-president of the Shag Harbour UFO Society.

    “Nobody reported a UFO. Everybody reported a plane crash. That gives a boost of credibility to the story.”

    About 36 hours after the initial sightings, several Defence Department officials signed off on a memo that made it clear authorities had no idea what they were dealing with.

    “A preliminary investigation has been carried out by the Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax,” the memo says. “It has been determined that this UFO sighting was not caused by a flare, float, aircraft or in fact any known object.”

    A souvenir hoodie is displayed at the Shag Harbour Incident Interpretive Centre in Shag Harbour, N.S.

     Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press

    It’s worth noting the search at Shag Harbour was conducted during a highly charged period in Canada’s history.

    The space race was on and so was the Cold War. Russian submarines were known to frequent the East Coast. And the Americans were testing all manner of devices to spy on their communist foes, including crude spy satellites that ejected film canisters at high altitudes.

    While the official records provide no explanation for what happened, there are vague clues pointing to another incident about 50 kilometres north, just off the coast of Shelburne.

    In his 2001 book, Dark Object, Styles says he eventually interviewed former military insiders and members of the navy’s Fleet Diving Unit, who told him the orange orb spotted in Shag Harbour had submerged under its own power and travelled to a spot on the seabed off Shelburne.

    At the time, the area was the location for a top-secret U.S. military base, disguised as an oceanographic institute. The facility used underwater microphones and magnetic detection devices to track enemy submarines, but its true purpose wasn’t revealed until the 1980s.

    “I interviewed anybody who was still alive,” Styles says. “I tracked them down. I was a bulldog with it back then.”

    In the book, Styles’ sources talk about a secret flotilla of American and Canadian ships dispatched to the area. There was speculation about Russian submarines and, yes, extraterrestrial visitors. But there is no hard evidence to back their claims.

    But the clues keep coming.

    During a recent search of an island off Shag Harbour, Styles says he spotted a military marker that indicated it was placed there by staff from the fake institute in Shelburne, which means the U.S. military snoops had been there at some point.

    “I’m not here to make believers,” he says. “Some people say I’m a believer, but that’s a bit of an exaggeration. I want the real answers.”

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    Space travel debris clutters Earth’s orbit, putting innovation at risk

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    Nibiru Moon Swirl -19

    Let’s just get this out of the way up front: Nibiru, aka Planet X, does not exist. It is not going to collide with Earth on Saturday. And the end time is not about to begin.

    NASA helped explain this back on December 21, 2012, when people incorrectly thought the Mayan calendar foretold the end of the world, and we’re here to remind you again that the scientists at NASA who’ve dedicated their lives to enhancing human understanding of space know way more about space than you or any YouTuber do.

    The Planet X conspiracy theory has gained traction over the years as trust in public institutions has fallen and the internet has enabled amateur sleuths to amplify, legitimize, and present their “research” to a wider audience.

    Enter Planet X.

    According to a small but vocal group of conspiracy theorists, a planet called Nibiru, or Planet X, intercepts Earth’s orbit ever 3,600 years, passing within 14 million miles of Earth — the sun is 93 million miles away, so this would put Nibiru pretty close. They have some pseudoscientific reasons that supposedly explain why we can’t see this planet that’s allegedly about to crash into us, but we at Inverse find NASA’s 2012 explanations more compelling and scientifically rigorous:

    Q: Is there a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction?

    A: Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system; the closest it can come to Earth is about 4 billion miles.

    Of course, for those who subscribe to the school of thought that gives rise to such conspiracy theories as Nibiru or the flat Earth, NASA’s authority is irrelevant. NASA’s official statements simply prove the depth of the cover-up.

    But for those who believe in science and the scientific process, here’s another gem from NASA’s 2012 debunk … which went live on December 22, 2012, the day after the Earth was supposed to be destroyed. It’s as true now as it was then:

    Q: How do NASA scientists feel about claims of the world ending in 2012?

    A: For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, we cannot change that simple fact. There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012.

    Where’s the science? Where’s the evidence? There is none. Let’s put this Planet X thing to bed once and for all.


    If you liked this article, check out this video about how the flat earth movement is making a comebac

     
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    Aliens Are Real

    BY BRANDON ECOFFEY
    EDITOR • LAKOTA COUNTRY TIMES

    “Aliens are Real” was the title of the first lecture I sat in on during the first annual UFO Rendezvous held in Hullet, Wyoming, this past week.

    The UFO Rendezvous was a three-day conference held near Mato Tipila (Devil’s Tower). The event was held in conjunction with 40-year anniversary of the release of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The gathering brought together those who claimed to have been abducted, academics and ufologists, as well as curious minds like myself.

    The first lecture was a presentation about powerful figures who had either admitted to believing in extraterrestrials or who had they had first hand knowledge of their existence. The session set the stage for the next speaker who was none other than Travis Walton. Travis Walton is the inspiration behind the film Fire in the Sky. The movie has now become a cult classic and is considered to be a depiction of the most widely documented alien abduction ever.

    Mr. Walton’s talk centered around correcting inaccuracies in the movie and on debunking critics who claim that it was a hoax. According to Walton, he was abducted in the woods near his work site. The incident was witnessed by several of his coworkers who saw an object floating in the woods that resembled an extraterrestrial craft. Walton would appear five days later at a location 15-miles away from the original site where the craft was seen by his coworkers. Mr. Walton passionately, and with great detail, explained his version of the night he was abducted and his experience while he was missing from this earth. He would then provide evidence that the United States government had worked to undermine his story. I will never know for sure if he was telling the truth, but what I do know is that as a Lakota it is hard to not at least give a guy the benefit of the doubt when he says the government is up to some shady things.

    His speech would spark a discussion about the merits of disclosure. In the alien research community, the term disclosure has sort of become the Holy Grail and refers to the moment that world governments release their files on this matter. Mr. Walton believes that the general public could not handle this revelation should it occur. He feels that a steady trickling of information would be more effective and safer.

    Lakota people do have knowledge of beings from other worlds visiting this earth. That discussion however is for other people to provide details on. I never pretend to be an expert on any parts of our spiritual beliefs.

    What I know is that Lakota people would welcome disclosure. We are humble enough to recognize that as humans we know very little about the universe and that there are powers greater than us.

    When the day for disclosure comes I guarantee that there will be a Lakota sitting somewhere saying, “We told you so.”

    Brandon Ecoffey is the editor of LCT and is an award-winning journalist who was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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    MacDill chuckling as UFO website reports 'flying triangles' at base: Howard Altman

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    The Darkest Skies ... A view from Darkest Wyoming

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    A small shed on a free range outside of Hulett Wyoming. This image was taken as the Sun was getting low in the West, the ‘sweet light’ time. Visible are the red Spearfish Formation sedimentary rock at bottom, the brown Stockade Beaver Shale above it, and finally the Hulett Sandstone at the top that is yellowish tan. The colors are dramatic especially at sunrise and sunset.

    This past Sept 14-16 I received and invitation to speak at the first annual Devils Tower UFO Rendezvous. Richard Beckwith, Wyoming’s state director for the Mutual UFO Network asked if I was interested and I said sure. It seemed to be a great locale and looked to be a more scientifically based first time conference. As an astronomer, (we really DO exist), I wanted to talk on a topic that is pertinent to any conference about extraterrestrial life: Exoplanets. After all, other worlds around other stars could harbor life like us if they are in the right place and are the right atmospheric makeup. I also did a second progress report talk on the UFOTOG II project that I have been working on with Douglas Trumbull. The conference organizers, Laurie Tucker and Bob Olsen did a magnificent job for their first “rodeo” and the press attended each day including the UK Sun newspaper.

    One thing I was really looking forward to was the absolute dark skies that Wyoming offers depending on where you go. In the town of Hulett, there are a few lights, security or otherwise for some of the facilities there (cattle and lumber being the main concerns), I brought the camera that I use with our SkyTour LiveStream YouTube channel we produce on clear nights from the John Zack Memorial Observatory in CT so that I could avail myself of the incredible sensitivity of that camera. I put a lens on the camera body and off I went. I was a bit nervous flying this expensive gear so it rode with me under the seat on the flights. I was not prepared for the landscapes however. Southwestern Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah were once part of a large group of lakes that formed sedimentary rock known as the Green River Formation. Laid down 55 million years ago, this formation is rich with fossils characterized by the tan colored rock matrix and dark fossil remains.

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    Green River Fish fossil that I acquired several years ago originating from a site in southwestern Wyoming. These fossils are particularly beautiful from this formation.

    The Exoplanet talk on Friday afternoon was live streamed on my channel so if you want to see it you can go Here to the SkyTour LiveStream page and watch it. It is a lighthearted, sometimes funny look at the science behind the discovery of Exoplanets. Sunday I discussed progress on UFOTOG II which is the UFO detection system I am putting together with Douglas Trumbull (VFX genius, god, and UFO Hunter). At this point the John Zack Observatory is being used as a test site for instruments we come up with as well as a LiveStream site for the clear night tours of the sky with a moderate telescope. We can show ultra faint objects live and in real time thanks to the camera technology we employ.

    On Sunday, a free day, I went to Devils Tower, the most memorable part of the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Interestingly, Doug Trumbull did the visual effects for the movie so it was cool to visit that site even though the time spent filming there was certainly not the lion’s share of the time. The movie took the crew all over the world, from Devil’s Tower, to India to dunes in California. The process that actually made the tower is in debate but the cause is not. It is very likely an igneous intrusion, where magma from underground pushes into overlying strata and then cools there. Even though the process that made the tower still debated, it is known that the only reason we SEE the tower at all is because the surrounding shales and softer rocks were eroded away over the last 50 million years. That is to say that Devils Tower which rises over 850 feet above the landscape NOW, was actually buried deep underground before it was exposed by the relentless erosion that took place since its formation. Overall the elevation of the tower above sea level is over 5000 feet.

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    Devils Tower rises 850+ above lounging Longhorns and Bison in this view taken Sunday 9-17-2017.

    The geology of the Tower is fascinating but the sheer beauty is breathtaking. Once at the Tower you are close to 5000 feet in elevation so looking at the surrounding terrain is amazing. Sweeping valleys and large conifer trees dot the landscape so it really does make you take pause. To see what that looked like check out the image below.

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    The sweeping valley below the Tower was breathtaking.

    Just as a point of scale, check out the pictures below.

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    Devils Tower seen from the base. The many rocks and boulders, some house sized, form deep crevasses in which rattlesnakes and other animals seek refuge from the hot Sun. At least one rattler was seen this day near this spot.

    The crystallized igneous rocks that form the towers distinctive columnar structure are similar in appearance to the Devil’s Postpile in California but are a much larger diameter. Magma that cools slowly underground can crystallize into the characteristic hexagonal form. Devil’s Postpile was formed from a different type of lava than the Tower but on the outside it looks the same. A similar rock crystallization process occurs. The key item here is that the above picture doesnt give you an adequate sense of scale . Consider the picture below however!

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    The columnar lava forming the Tower is called Phonolite Porphyry which is a relatively rare type of lava. Note the CLIMBER just right of center. NOW the scale of the Tower can be fully appreciated!

    Can you see the climber just right of center? These lava columns are clearly among the largest, suggesting that the process that made Devils Tower encouraged such large crystal growth. These columns can break off and crash to the base of the tower as can be seen in the above photo as well... This makes climbing somewhat treacherous. I have NO desire to climb this decaying massif! For instance look at this photo below.

    One of the columns that weighs several tons has broken off in this photo and is resting against the body of the Tower. Note the climber ABOVE it straddling the single column.

    The Tower is decaying slowly and will eventually erode to a small hill in the far future. For no

    w it is an exciting tourist attraction.

    While there I noticed a strong acrid odor that burned the eyes and made it hard to breathe. This was the smoke from existing forest fires in Montana that was drifting down to us. In fact if you went north in Wyoming this past weekend you would have another experience too: that of ash from the fires raining down on you coating everything with a gray layer. It was like a post apocalyptic scene from a movie. I didnt witness this personally but some people there had done so. I am glad I stayed in Hulett...

    One of the things on my to do list was to photograph the night sky. It rained for the first couple of days which was disheartening until I realized that the smoke that was shrouding the Tower would be cleared out by the rain. Then Sunday it cleared impressively! I took a number of photos that night and the next. Devils Tower is actually open and accessible 24 hours so after dark I went up to the Tower and took photos of the Milky Way over the Tower and then farther away on the highway did a similar set of photos. First of all, Hulett itself, lights and all is still impressive . Note the image below showing the Dark Sky view around Hulett. It registers green on th light pollution scale which is fairly close to the darkest skies.

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    Hulett has a few lights around the center of town but even still, the Milky Way with quite a bit of complexity is easily seen even from the center of town...

    Here is an example of what the night sky looks like in Hulett. You can see the lights, but you can also see the complex Milky Way. Its stunning.

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    Hulett with lights is still stunning!
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    Milky Way with some cloudy interlopers inHulett. Note that Devil’s Tower, 9 miles away is visible in the distance just above the front of the hood on the right hand truck.

    After taking the pictures in Hulett and after seeing Devil’s Tower in the photos appearing in the distance I went to the Tower and on the way found a spot where the Milky Way was descending on the Tower. This below is that image. It looks like a scene out of Close Encounters.

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    Devil’s Tower rises like a silent sentinel above the surrounding Wyoming wilderness. The Milky Way descends through it...

    And finally after arriving at the Tower at night I was able to capture the full majesty of the Tower. The sky wasnt quite dark enough to keep me from seeing my hand in front of my face but then I realized WHY. It was the STARLIGHT that was brightly illuminating the scene as there was no light pollution worth mentioning here. In the above image you are seeing the light dome (orange yellow light causing the tower to appear in silhouette) from the town of Gillete 100 miles away.

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    The Andromeda Galaxy can be seen just above center in this image of the northeastern Milky Way as seen from the base of Devil’s Tower. The red glow on the right is due to an intrinsic characteristic of fast cameras called called amplifier glow. During final processing that color will be removed from the image.

    Of course there was other fun too... Getting personal with an Elk...

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    Awwww what a warm fuzzy... face...
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    Prairie Dogs were ever present. They are a scourge because cattle could fall into the holes and break their legs. Out here these cute guys are varmints!

    Well I hope you enjoyed coming along for the ride! If you have any questions let me know!

    Thanks and see you next time!

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    Drawings of UFOs from the Government's Archives

    BRUNO BAYLEY

    Image: 'UFO Drawings from The National Archives'

    We spoke to veteran UFO investigator Dr David Clarke about all the paintings and drawings he uncovered in the UK's real-life 'X Files'.

    After a decade of pressuring the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to release some of its 11,000 case reports on UFO sightings in the UK (having filed many FOIA requests and conducted his own investigations into Britain's UFO paperwork) Dr David Clarke's efforts paid off in 2008 when those files were made public, prior to the MoD's UFO desk closing in 2009.

    Since World War Two the government had logged – and, at times, investigated – reports of UFOs. In 2009, the MoD claimed that not one UFO sighting it had looked into had been of military or defence interest, and that the effort and resources put into monitoring the reports was no longer deemed worth it. In an about-face from "poacher to game keeper", Clarke was appointed curator for the transfer of these files into the National Archive.

    A lecturer in folklore and journalism, Clarke's years of working on Britain's UFO papers led to his new book, UFO Drawings from The National Archives, a beautiful collection of paintings, diagrams and drawings from the archive, complimented by the accounts that came with them. We spoke to Dr Clarke, of Sheffield Hallam University, about the difficulty of being a journalist working on UFOs.


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    VICE: For those not familiar, what was your route into the world of UFO research?

    David Clarke: I got into it as a journalist. Before we had the Freedom of Information Act, they used to release previously secret government documents on New Year's Day – all the documents that were over 30 years old. It used to be a big media event.

    Of course, New Year's Day is dead as a doornail for news – nothing going on. I was at The Yorkshire Post and they used to make me look through those released files to find things to run in January. Naturally you are looking for a crazy story, and the UFO files kept coming up. 
    I had an interest in the subject already, having seen Encounters of the Third Kind in the cinema aged ten. From there I went on to reading paper backs about UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle and so on. I had moved on, but got back into that area in the late-90s when The X-Files came out. And then all these files came along, and I needed a niche as a journalist…

    Once you started reading the files, was there a particular angle that hooked you, or was it just the childhood interest flooding back? 

    The thing that intrigued me was that I knew from looking over the released files that there was this mysterious Ministry of Defence department that looked at UFOs! They were looking at the subject for about 60 years and spending quite a bit of public money on it. I wanted to know why. From the mid-90s this stuff was coming out in bits and pieces, up until 2006 or 2007, when they decided to make public all this stuff that had been, until that point, largely secret. The first British government documents on UFOs were actually released to the National Archives in 1986 as part of that 30-year rule. They included the famous memo sent in 1952 by PM Winston Churchill to the Air Ministry that asked: "What's all this stuff about flying saucers? What is the truth?"

    They didn't release the secret files in 2008 on a whim. I'd spent a lot of time investigating – speaking with people who had reported sightings, as well as tracking down those I could who were involved in investigating them. From 1998 I was bombarding the government with FOIAs. The more eccentric UFO fans would write to them saying, "We know you are hiding crashed flying saucers, we know the truth!" And of course if you were one of the Ministry people you would just be like, "Please go away."

    Image: The National Archives AIR 2-17983

    I liked that aspect of the book. Your description of these supposedly hi-tech, top secret government departments, the "Men In Black"… but actually they come across more as harassed, under-resourced people in back rooms under piles of letters about god knows what who eventually effectively said, "Sod it, you can have it all." You definitely dent the glamour surrounding that side of things. 

    There's that mythic idea of a lavishly funded X-files department that rush around in black suits… it's more like Yes Minister. Or was, as it doesn't exist any more.

    It must be very hard to exist in that world for so long as a skeptic, and to balance that with spending time with so many people who believe strongly that they have seen things that can't be explained by earthly means. 

    It's not easy. I mean, where do I start? There's obviously something there – it's very hard to detach oneself and be completely objective. The first question people usually ask me is, "Do you believe in UFOs?" Which I find very odd. Why ask that? If I wrote a book about the history of Christianity, the first question wouldn't be, "Do you believe in Jesus?", would it?

    Image: The National Archives AIR 2-18961

    This crosses over to another issue you talk about in the book – that of people's assumptions and associations. You say "UFO" and people think 'aliens'. But of course the vast majority of UFO claims are explained away without getting anywhere near even a suggestion of extraterrestrial causes. 

    Well, the irony here is that when UFOs first became big, in the late-1940s, it was all about "flying saucers". A flying saucer is explicitly a craft from another world. The American air force came up with the term "UFO" to get away from that association. But that's now come full circle. The MoD actually came up with a new term – UAP, which stands for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It avoids the use of the word object, and the associations people have with UFO. They used that from around 2000 onward until they closed the desk.

    How does someone who's spent so long looking over this material, of which there's so much, go about selecting the few cases you included in the book? Is the book a shortlist of your favourites, a selection of the best images? 

    It was a balance. It's an image-led book – an art book – so I had to favour the more visually striking cases. But some of the most interesting cases, or stories, aren't particularly well illustrated. Not everyone did a painting or drawing of what they saw.

    Image: The National Archives DEFE 24-1207

    In some cases I felt that the less artful illustrations were just as revealing. The style of image, to an extent, tells you something about those making the claim. From the really matter of fact map drawn by a policeman, to the ridiculously elaborate, full-colour illustrations some sent in.

    I am glad you think that, and that that's how it comes over. People tend to think of UFOs as just one thing. You can see in the book that there are a zillion things that can be UFOs. Zillions of things that cause people to see what they think are UFOs, and these people are from all sorts of backgrounds. You get the imaginative accounts by people who claim to be in contact with aliens, and you get quite ordinary people who have no interest in the subject at all. That policeman you mentioned was just out checking doors. He felt he should report what he saw, submitted it as a standard police report. He didn't expect anyone to get back to him, and he certainly didn't imagine his report would become public.

    Another thing that comes over in the book is the different responses people have to explanations they are given. Some people clearly have no interest in being told anything that deviates from their own view. 

    But then there are others who very happily accept explanations given. It's impossible to generalise about people who see UFOs. Some do have that will to believe – it's almost a religious thing. They might not be people who go to church, but they still seem to be looking for something – something more in their lives. To them, seeing a thing they don't understand in the sky is akin to a religious experience. And of course it can become an obsession.

    The cover of 'UFO Drawings from the National Archives'

    How much of the UFO phenomenon is mass hysteria of a sort, driven by popular culture, and how much is innocent interpretation of unexplained sightings? 

    People have experiences, genuine experiences. But nobody is free from the impact of popular culture. You have people reporting sightings saying, "I have no interest in popular culture, but…" and you're like, "Come off it – you haven't ever seen Thunderbirds, or The X-Files?" Even if people genuinely don't think they are influenced by those things, they may well be. There was a famous psychology experiment where they briefly showed a group of people a picture with a flying object on it, then asked them to draw it again. People drew classic "flying saucers", with windows or flanges or whatever, but that wasn't what they were shown… where was that coming from? It was coming from that stock of sci-fi imagery.

    There are cases in the book where detailed accounts of UFO sightings, by seemingly rational people, were conclusively shown to be run of the mill aircraft sightings.

    On that psychology side, there's a case of a woman driving at night with her boyfriend in Essex, in the 70s, on the A12, I think. She saw an object overhead – a triangle shape with lots of white lights on it. She was transfixed. They pulled over and thought it was going to land on the car! She said it wasn't a plane, that it had no wings and made no sound. Her father was an RAF Group Captain who reported it officially – a pages-long account of the event and object. This agency DI55 looked into it – they are the real X-Files lot, defence intelligence staff. They got radar records and found that, without any shadow of doubt, what they had seen was an aircraft landing at Stansted airport. They traced it to the time and place.

    But even if what she saw was a plane, what she thought she saw, and what she reported, was a UFO. People see ordinary things in extraordinary circumstances, or extraordinary things in ordinary circumstances… both can lead to these sightings.

    I once saw an object in the sky that I couldn't explain; it zoomed between two tall buildings. It turned out to be a Tesco carrier bag, but I only knew that because I followed it around the building and saw it land. If I had wanted to believe maybe I would have reported it as a flying saucer.

    Image: The National Archives DEFE 24-2060

    How many of the reports sent in to the UFO desk actually led to investigations? 

    Very, very few. But it changed over the years. When the desk was first set up in the Churchill years, it was all taken very, very seriously because people really thought these might have been Soviet spy planes. The Americans had Project Blue Book at that time too. Even then the British version was, as usual, a cut-price version run by air force intelligence, but that was a golden era for UFO investigations in the UK.

    Later it was handled by civilians, and it started to attract attention from people like the Aetherius Society, who bombarded them with letters. There were protests outside Whitehall demanding "the truth" as early as 1958.

    When the Americans packed it in in the late-60s the British continued to collect and look at these reports. A lot of the earliest, and most thorough, investigations were actually destroyed – as they predated things like freedom of information, public records act and so on. Of course, the fact these were destroyed plays into the hands of the more conspiracy-minded UFO enthusiasts, even though the government destroys stuff all the time.

    By the time you get to the 1980s and 90s it's just a constant washing of hands – no one wants anything to do with it. The last time they had a real field investigation team sent out was in the late-1960s.

    What is your overriding view of the UFO world, in light of your investigations?

    One of the MoD's UFO desk officers I tracked down was an air force psychologist called Alex Cassie. He'd been investigating air crashes and their causes, focusing on why pilots made mistakes they shouldn't. He was drafted into this real life X-Files team investigating flying saucer sightings. When I spoke to him he said he had visited about half a dozen people around 1967, 68, and I distinctly remember what he said to me – he said, "I came to the conclusion that the people who see UFOs are far more interesting than the UFOs themselves." And I came to the same conclusion myself, actually.

    UFO Drawings from The National Archives is available now, on Four Corners Books.

    More on VICE:

    The Professional UFO Skeptic Who Believed in Aliens

    Watching for Aliens in the UFO Capital of Scotland

    The Strange Story of Australia's Outback UFO Capital

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    Mijn favorieten
  • Verhalen TINNY * SF
  • IFO-databank van Belgisch UFO meldpunt
  • Belgisch UFO meldpunt
  • The Black Vault
  • Terry's Theories UFO Sightings. Its a Youtube Channel thats really overlooked, but has a lot of great and recent sightings on it.
  • . UFO Institute: A cool guy who works hard
  • YOUTUBE kanaal van het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt
  • LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS

  • DES LIENS AVEC LE RESEAU FRANCOPHONE DE MUFON ET MUFONEUROP
  • BELGISCH UFO-NETWERK BUFON
  • RFacebook BUFON
  • MUFONFRANCE
  • MUFON RHÔNE-ALPES
  • MUFON MIDI-PYRÉNNÉES
  • MUFON HAUTE-NORMANDIE
  • MUFON MAROC
  • MUFON ALSACE LORRAINE
  • MUFON USA
  • Site du REUB ASBL

    Other links with friends / bloggers # not always UFOs
  • PANGRadio MarcSima
  • Blog 2 Bernward
  • Nederlandse UFO-groep
  • Ufologie Liège
  • NIBURU
  • Disclose TV
  • UFO- Sightings - HOTSPOT
  • Website van BUFON ( Belgisch UFO-Netwerk)
  • The Ciizen Hearing on Disclosure
  • Exopolitics Finland: LINKS

    LINKS OF THE BLOGS OF MY FACEBOOK-FRIENDS
  • ufologie -Guillaume Perrot
  • UFOMOTION
  • CENTRE DE RECHERCHE OVNI PARASPYCHOLOGIE SCIENCE - CROPS -
  • SOCIAL PARANORMAL Magazine
  • TJ Morris ACO Associations, Clubs, Organizations - TJ Morris ACO Social Service Club for...
  • C.E.R.P.I. BELGIQUE
  • Attaqued'un Autre Monde - Christian Macé
  • UFOSPOTTINGNEDERLAND
  • homepage UFOSPOTTINGNEDERLAND
  • PARANORMAL JOURNEY GUIDE

    WELCOME TO THIS BLOG! I HOPE THAT YOU ENJOY THE LECTURE OF ALL ISSUES. If you did see a UFO, you can always mail it to us. Best wishes.

    Beste bezoeker,
    Heb je zelf al ooit een vreemde waarneming gedaan, laat dit dan even weten via email aan Frederick Delaere op
     www.ufomeldpunt.be. Deze onderzoekers behandelen jouw melding in volledige anonimiteit en met alle respect voor jouw privacy. Ze zijn kritisch, objectief  maar open minded aangelegd en zullen jou steeds een verklaring geven voor jouw waarneming!
    DUS AARZEL NIET, ALS JE EEN ANTWOORD OP JOUW VRAGEN WENST, CONTACTEER FREDERICK.
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    Over mijzelf
    Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
    Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
    Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
    Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
    Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën... Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
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    LINKS NAAR BEKENDE UFO-VERENIGINGEN - DEEL 1
  • http://www.ufonieuws.nl/
  • http://www.grenswetenschap.nl/
  • http://www.beamsinvestigations.org.uk/
  • http://www.mufon.com/
  • http://www.ufomeldpunt.be/
  • http://www.ufowijzer.nl/
  • http://www.ufoplaza.nl/
  • http://www.ufowereld.nl/
  • http://www.stantonfriedman.com/
  • http://ufo.start.be/

    LINKS NAAR BEKENDE UFO-VERENIGINGEN - DEEL 2
  • www.ufo.be
  • www.caelestia.be
  • ufo.startpagina.nl.
  • www.wszechocean.blogspot.com.
  • AsocCivil Unifa
  • UFO DISCLOSURE PROJECT

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