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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
25-10-2017
THE REASON WHY THERE ARE SO MANY UFO SIGHTINGS NEARBY ERUPTING VOLCANOES
THE REASON WHY THERE ARE SO MANY UFO SIGHTINGS NEARBY ERUPTING VOLCANOES
Over the last decade, there have been numerous reports and sightings of UFO's flying in the vicinity of dormant or, in most cases, erupting volcanoes.
Only recently there was a large glowing orb flying over the Yellowstone volcano in the US. In September 2017 a UFO was filmed flying over the Chaparrastique volcano in El Salvador. In January 2017 a similar huge spherical object was flying over the Popocatépetl Volcano in Mexico. In 2016 there were numerous accounts of UFO's flying over active volcanoes.
Is there a reason for this increase nearby these erupting giants? Consider this, when a medium volcano erupts, it release arround 27 megatons of thermal energy. That's a lot. Could it be that these mysterious crafts have found a way to harvest the energy that is released during these events?
One way of harvesting the immense energy was shown during a volcanic eruption in 2015 in Chile. The Calbuco volcano erupted and multiple witnessed captured a UFO on video that was hoovering nearby the ash cloud. In one of these video's the object is hit with multiple lighting strikes. Is this the way these extraterrestrial craft harvest the power of erupting volcanoes? These lightning flashes are created by a process called charge seperation by the ash cloud.
This could also explain why we have seen some video's of UFO getting hit by regular lightning strikes over the last couple of years. Maybe Elon Musk can learn a trick or two from these aircraft...
VIDEO! It’s OFFICIAL! China Admits To The Existence Of UFOs And Aliens
VIDEO! It’s OFFICIAL! China Admits To The Existence Of UFOs And Aliens
We know by now that various governmental institutions have spilled the beans regarding the existence of UFOs, but the Chinese want to break the ice and expose it all.
Because of the constant pressure posed by the people willing to know the truth of what’s really happening on this planet, they had no choice other than declassify decades of thorough investigations of unidentified flying objects. The CIA, the FBI, the Navy, NASA, military officials, retired astronauts, ex-personnel of area 51, plus many other governments from which we remind Brazil and their famous Colares incident, Russia and recently China, all of these admitting in part or in full that some really messed up things are happening around us, with the cause probably being otherworldly.
Although this data has been known for quite some time by those actively investigating the UFO phenomenon, there are others who are just waking up to this reality and who deserve to know the truth.
In a recent gathering of the non-profit organization known as Citizen Hearing, Shi-Li Sun, an esteemed researcher and president of the Chinese UFO Federation has stepped forward denouncing this concealed reality of UFOs.
According to him, the UFO phenomenon not only is authentic, but it stretches back tens of thousands of years, to a time when ancient China was barely shaping its culture and traits. In his acceptance, otherworldly visitors might had impacted our entire society, and for an unknown period of time contributed to the foundation of humanity before vanishing into outer space, probably to return at a later date to check on Earth’s well-being. In Chinese culture, all these otherworldly beings personified as deities were converted into a single great cosmic beast – the Dragon.
Chinese people consider ourselves as the descendent of Dragon, and Dragon is from outer space in the Chinese culture, so in the Chinese culture we are from outer space as descendent of Dragon,” Shi-Li affirmed.
To break this short, here is what he had to say on behalf of himself, and all the prominent figures involved in the Chinese UFO Organization:
Certainly, after years of research, a large number of Chinese UFO scholars, including myself, are convinced of the authenticity of UFO, the existence of UFOs and aliens…So, we believe in the existence of UFOs, we believe in the existence of aliens and extraterrestrials.”
If you want to find all the spicy details unraveled by the Chinese, make sure to watch the official statement in the video below. Oh, and don’t forget to spread the word about these groundbreaking news, everyone deserves to know about this. [Skip to 6:50 mark for the statement]
For The First Time Ever, Scientists Verify ‘Technique To Control Your Dreams’
For The First Time Ever, Scientists Verify ‘Technique To Control Your Dreams’
t’s on! Scientists have managed to verify, for the first time, a technique to induce lucid dreaming.A technique to induce lucid dreaming has been independently verified for the first time. More than half of the participants had lucid dreams during the scientific experiment. The structures sighted through Google Earth appear to have a pyramidal shape, such as those temples that lie just over a thousand kilometers to the west, in Mayan and Aztec lands allegedly…
The structures sighted through Google Earth appear to have a pyramidal shape, such as those temples that lie just over a thousand kilometers to the west, in Mayan and Aztec lands allegedly.
Recently, Dr. Denholm Aspy, of the University of Adelaide, conducted a study with 169 participants who had to learn different techniques to induce lucid dreams.
He told IFLScience this exceeds any previous study conducted without interventions such as masks that shine lights in people’s eyes on detecting REM sleep.
One of the techniques, called “reality check,” sought to make the individuals in the experiment take the habit of making sure they were actually asleep.
In addition, it was combined with the Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (or ‘MILD’), where an alarm went off every five hours, after which the subjects were to wake up and recite the following: the next time I’m dreaming, I’ll remember that I’m dreaming “; then they went back to sleep imagining what it would be like to have a lucid dream.
These two techniques led to 53% of individuals having lucid dreams during the experiment, with a 17% who stood out for having them every night.
He told IFLScience this exceeds any previous study conducted without interventions such as masks that shine lights in people’s eyes on detecting REM sleep.
Aspy reports, these results exceed any previous studies conducted with instrumental assistance.
“The MILD technique works on what we call ‘prospective memory’ – that is, your ability to remember to do things in the future. By repeating a phrase that you will remember you’re dreaming, it forms an intention in your mind that you will, in fact, remember that you are dreaming, leading to a lucid dream,” says Dr. Aspy, Visiting Research Fellow in the University’s School of Psychology.
“Importantly, those who reported success using the MILD technique were significantly less sleep deprived the next day, indicating that lucid dreaming did not have any negative effect on sleep quality,” he says.
“These results take us one step closer to developing highly effective lucid dream induction techniques that will allow us to study the many potential benefits of lucid dreaming, such as treatment for nightmares and improvement of physical skills and abilities through rehearsal in the lucid dream environment,” Dr. Aspy says.
Approximately 55% of people have had a lucid dream at some point in their life, but for most, it is a rare occurrence. In fact, the researcher who carried out the recent experiment became interested in the subject after having had a lucid dream during his childhood and another just the night before starting his doctorate.
According to IFLScience, Aspy is looking for volunteers to do future studies that will not last more than a week. The short time of the exercises will seek that the developed techniques will be applicable later in treatments for different disorders.
-Traces of a lost civilization? Researchers find HUNDREDS of mysterious structures in the Amazon
Traces of a lost civilization? Researchers find HUNDREDS of mysterious structures in the Amazon
Geoglyph photo.
Credit: Jenny Watling
Archaeologists have uncovered hundreds of enigmatic structures located in the Amazon, believed to have been built over 2,000 years ago. These mysterious structures have remained concealed for centuries by the Amazon and reveal that the Amazon isn’t as untouched as we believed in the past.
The fascinating ancient structures were most likely built by an unknown civilization.
The traditional idea many historians share is that before the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese in the fifteenth century, and unlike conventional history in the Andes, there weren’t any advanced civilizations in the Amazon region. But, given the fact how deforestation has revealed much of the hidden secrets of the area, scholars are confident that an advanced civilization inhabited the area in the distant past. The numerous aerial and satellite images are revealing, a complex network of structures, roads, and even possibly settlements that until now had remained hidden under the impenetrable layer of the Amazon.
These remarkable earthworks have been uncovered due to rapid deforestation which has allowed experts to uncover over 450 massive geoglyphs in the rainforest.
While their size and complexity has taken archaeologists by surprise, experts are still unsure as to what their exact purpose was, however some authors speculate that the massive enclosures may have been used sporadically as ritual gathering places.
Traces of a lost civilization? Researchers find HUNDREDS of mysterious structures in the Amazon | Ancient Code
According to phys.org, the structures are unlikely to be villages as archaeologists have recovered very few artifacts during excavations. Furthermore, the layout of the structures suggests they weren’t defensive structures.
The massive structures—eerily similar to Stonehenge— occupy around 13,000 square kilometers in Acre, in the western Brazilian Amazon.
Scientists from the UK and Brazil have said that these structures prove the Amazon isn’t as untouched as we believed in the past.
“The fact that these sites lay hidden for centuries beneath mature rainforest really challenges the idea that Amazonian forests are ‘pristine ecosystems,” said Dr. Jennifer Watling, a post-doctoral researcher at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, University of Sao Paulo.
“We immediately wanted to know whether the region was already forested when the geoglyphs were built, and to what extent people impacted the landscape to build these earthworks.”
Researchers have managed to ‘look into the past’ by reconstructing 6000 years of vegetation and fire history in the vicinity of two of the archaeological sites using state of the art methods, revealing HEAVY alterations by the ancient culture that inhabited the area.
Scientists say that the ancients modified the bamboo forests for millennia, constructing small temporary clearings in order to erect these mysterious structures.
Experts found that instead of burning large parts of the forest, the ancients were able to transform their environment by concentrating on economically valuable tree species such as palms, creating a kind of ‘prehistoric supermarket’ of useful forest products.
Dr. Watling said: “Despite the huge number and density of geoglyph sites in the region, we can be certain that Acre’s forests were never cleared as extensively, or for as long, as they have been in recent years.
“Our evidence that Amazonian forests have been managed by indigenous peoples long before European Contact should not be cited as justification for the destructive, unsustainable land-use practiced today. It should instead serve to highlight the ingenuity of past subsistence regimes that did not lead to forest degradation and the importance of indigenous knowledge for finding more sustainable land-use alternatives”.
CONTROVERSIAL THEORY CLAIMS HUMANS WITH BLOOD TYPE RH NEGATIVE BELONG TO AN ALIEN LINEAGE
CONTROVERSIAL THEORY CLAIMS HUMANS WITH BLOOD TYPE RH NEGATIVE BELONG TO AN ALIEN LINEAGE
A new theory makes rather controversial claims. What if, as some researchers suggest, Rhesus Negative is connected to the Ancient Bloodline of the Gods, those who came from above, in their mighty ships which were misinterpreted thousands of years ago by early humans as deities and Gods??
HAVE YOU ASKED EVER ASKED YOURSELF WHY RHESUS NEGATIVE IS SURROUNDED BY MYSTERIES?
Well, there are some researchers and authors who believe the Rhesus Negative blood group holds an otherworldly secret. There are many who firmly oppose the theory that people with Rh Negative blood could belong to the Nephilim or the so-called Gods, offspring of the gods, a supposed parallel race of humans.
However, according to some theories, it isn’t that unlikely after all. Bare with me and keep an open mind.
Author and researcher Robert Spehr provide insight into the enigma behind RH Negativelikek no one before.
Did you know that “There are 612 primate species and subspecies which are recognized by the International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN), and mysteriously, not one has Rh negative blood”? – Robert Sepehr, Species with Amnesia: Our Forbidden History
Sepehr raises numerous questions that in turn raise countless enigmas. But what exactly is Rhesus Negative?
Rh factors or ‘Rhesus factor’ was first found in the blood of Rhesus monkey–hence the name.
According to Sepehr, if our species evolved from the same African ancestor the blood would be compatible, but for a reason, we don’t know, it is not.
As it turns out, around 85% of all human beings have RH positive blood, yet ALL royal families have Rh negative blood. Hmmm… yikes!
IS RH NEGATIVE SO RARE? According to authors like Sepehr, the enigmatic traits connected to this ‘rare’ blood type are many, yet there are very few answers. Where did Rh negative blood come from in the first place? And why is it that a Rh negative mother bearing Rh positive children tries discarding her offspring? Is it possible that this can be resolved by a rather controversial theory? A theory which suggests that humanity
WHY DOES THIS BLOOD LINE EXIST AND WHERE DID RH NEGATIVE BLOOD COME FROM?
A CGI impression of the UFO sighting arranged by UFO investigator Philip Mantle.
Philip Shepherdson has revealed the encounter he says he experienced near York in North Yorkshire.
He was driving a scooter on country lanes near Easingwold, when he turned left towards Huby, and was distracted by something.
He said: "I looked to my left and my heart flipped at what I saw. Hovering in a corner of a small field was a black triangular shaped object.
"I stopped to get a better look not believing what I was seeing."
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Triangle UFO? The witness drew his own sketch of what he says he saw.
Triangle UFOs are once of the most commonly reported, particularly in the United states where hundreds are seen each year.
Some truth seekers believe they are alien spaceships, while others believer they are top-secret craft built by governments in experimental projects.
Mr Shepherdson added: "The object was smooth with no control surfaces and no sharp edges and at the top was a cockpit with a figure inside it.
"All I could see was a black shaped helmet and a black overall of some kind.
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UFO SIGHTING? Mr Shepherdson on the site of his terrifying encounter.
"By the side of the craft I now realised there were two more slim looking figures who too wore black overalls and they were trying to push the vehicle into the next field perhaps to conceal it amongst the standing crop.
"They abruptly stopped to look in my direction; the cockpit figure too, turned to gaze at me.
"I felt transfixed with fear. I was shaking. The silence was stifling as we gazed at each other and I felt some form of contact taking place but I just don’t know what that was.
The object was smooth with no control surfaces and no sharp edges and at the top was a cockpit with a figure inside it. All I could see was a black shaped helmet and a black overall of some kind.
Philip Shepherdson
"I don’t remember getting there, in fact everything after that seemed surreal. I appeared to forget the experience as if told that this was something I shouldn’t have witnessed.
"What struck me at the time was this was nuts and bolts technology, no fuzzy lights with a smudgy image.
"I freaked at the fact that an aircraft floating like a silent kite with not a blade of grass out of place and without jets, was way beyond our technology."
The event took place in February 1979, but only now has Mr Shepherdson had the courage to come forward and seek out other witnesses.
He said: "I know it’s a long time since my encounter but I would like to take this opportunity to appeal for other possible witnesses to this event to come forward.
"I have often wished that I had approached the farmer on whose land this happened, but I never did.
"Who knows, perhaps there is someone out there who saw this like I did and they too have waited all this time and have said nothing."
If you think you saw it or have seen other triangle UFOs email jon.austin@express.co.uk.
Alan Godfrey, 70, said superiors in West Yorkshire Police tried to silence him and even get him sectioned after he detailed the terrifying encounter.
He has told his story in a new book called Who or What Were They?
He said: "This is the story of secret forces and cover-ups plus terrifying attempts to destroy a brave officer’s career."
The demise of his career began after he filed an official report to superiors that he lost time after witnessing an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) hovering overhead in Todmorden on November 28, 1980.
He attracted national headlines, even being interviewed by Frank Bough on BBC Breakfast.
However, this led to him being banned from Todmorden police station, which effectively ended his nine-year career.
He was searching for missing cattle in Burnley Road on the outskirts of the town when he claims to have seen what he thought was a bus approaching from a few hundred metres away.
But as he got nearer, he realised it was not the 5am commuter bus, but, instead, "a large mass".
He said at the time: "It was a fuzzy oval that rotated at such speed and hovered so low over the road that it was causing the bushes by the side to shake."
He claims he stopped to sketch the "UFO" on his notepad, but was overcome by a burst of light.
His initial recollection was that he was then driving his car again further up the same road - with the mysterious UFO now gone.
Once back at the police station, the officer realised it was much later than it should have been and he had lost around 15 minutes.
Mr Godfrey was not going to report the encounter for fear of ridicule but later the same day heard a lorry driver three miles further out on Burnley Road at Cliviger reported to police seeing "a brilliant white" object at around the same time.
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UFO ENCOUNTER? Alan Godfrey says there were cover up attempts after he reported the incident.
This is the story of secret forces and cover-ups plus terrifying attempts to destroy a brave officer’s career.
Alan Godfrey
And neighbouring Halifax police officers also called in reports of a "brilliant blue-white glow" descending towards Todmorden, also at the same time.
News of other witnesses made him file the official report, which was leaked to the local press, and his case was looked into by UFO investigators.
They convinced him to undergo hypnotic regression which produced a bizarre testimony of what may have unfolded.
He spoke of the bright light stopping the car engine.
The regression produced a vivid account of an odd room which included a bearded man called Yosef, who questioned him telepathically, a black dog, and strange small droids
The case led to a media storm, with front-page national news reports and TV appearances, and went on to become one of the country's most well-known alien abduction cases.
He said: "Someone was determined to stop at nothing to undermine my efforts to tell the truth. It turned into a nightmare and cost me dear but speaking about it is the right thing to do."
He has decided to write the book as a way to explain his experience to his grandchildren.
He added: "This book tells it like it is – everything that occurred but which someone did not want you to read.
"When you see something like that out of nowhere and you feel strange sensations and hear messages coming into your head then you know this is not just a routine police patrol."
Do agencies of government take note of millennia-old mysteries, tales of ancient astronauts, and archaeological anomalies? Well, yes, albeit to a degree. The CIA, for example, has taken an interest in the tales of Noah’s Ark – or as the agency refers to it, “The Ararat Anomaly.” The late Miles Copeland – who held a significant position in the Central Intelligence Agency – told an intriguing story concerning the CIA and the Dead Sea Scrolls. And, then, there’s the matter of a man named George Van Tassel.
In the early 1950s, Van Tassel claimed interaction with extraterrestrials out in the desert near Joshua Tree, California. Van Tassel’s visitors from the stars were said to have been: (a) extremely human-like and (b) highly demanding, when it came to getting across their space-laws and regulations. At the time of the encounters Van Tassel was living in the desert region of a small town called Landers – actually in a large, converted cave beneath a gigantic rock that, unsurprisingly, is called Giant Rock.
Van Tassel claimed the aliens told him that the Human Race had been molded, guided and manipulated for thousands of years – by extraterrestrials who posed as gods. Such was the fascination that the public had with his claims, Van Tassel was prompted to establish a yearly UFO conference at Giant Rock that – at its height, in the mid-1950s – attracted audiences in excess of ten thousand. The word was spreading. It even reached the FBI, who opened a file on Van Tassel in 1954.
Documentation declassified by the FBI demonstrates that George Van Tassel was periodically monitored well into the 1960s. As were Van Tassel’s statements concerning ancient aliens and the saga of the Ten Commandments. An FBI report – on a lecture Van Tassel gave at the Phipps Auditorium in Denver, Colorado, in 1960 – states the following: “The major part of his lecture was devoted to explaining the occurrences in the Bible as they related to the space people. He said that the only mention of God in the Bible is in the beginning when the universe was being made. He said that after that all references are to ‘out of the sky’ or ‘out of heaven.'”
The FBI agent present at the gig also reported: “He said that this is due to the fact that man, space people, was made by God and that in the beginning of the world the space people came to the earth and left animals here. These were the prehistoric animals which existed at a body temperature of 105 degrees; however a polar tilt occurred whereby the poles shifted and the tropical climates became covered with ice and vice versa. After the polar tilt the temperature to sustain life was 98.6 degrees, which was suitable for space people, so they established a colony and left only males here, intending to bring females at a latter date on supply ships. This is reflected in Adam not having a wife. He said that Adam was not an individual but a race of men.”
And there was more: “[Van Tassel] said that this race then inter-married with ‘intelligent, upright walking animals,’ which race was EVE. Then, when the space people came back in the supply ships they saw what had happened and did not land but ever since due to the origin of ADAM, they have watched over the people on Earth. He said that this is in the Bible many times, such as MOSES receiving the Ten Commandments. He said the Ten Commandments are the laws of the space people and men on earth only give them lip service. Also, the manna from heaven was bread supplied by the space people.”
Also contained in the FBI’s file is the following, which covers that same 1960 lecture in Denver: “[Van Tassel] also stated that this can be seen from the native stories such as the Indians in America saying that corn and potatoes, unknown in Europe were brought here by a ‘flaming canoe.’ He said that this can be shown also by the old stories of Winged Chariots and Winged white Horses, which came from out of the sky. He said that JESUS was born of MARY, who was a space person sent here already pregnant in order to show the earth people the proper way to live. He said the space people have watched over us through the years and have tried to help us. He said they have sent their agents to the earth and they appear just as we do; however, they have the power to know your thoughts just as JESUS did. He said this is their means of communication and many of the space people are mute, but they train a certain number of them to speak earth languages.”
Those reading this article and hoping to learn that the FBI has an office devoted to the secret investigation of ancient astronauts will be deeply disappointed. No such office exists. And, no such office has ever existed. Certainly, the FBI listened to what Van Tassel had to say about alleged alien visitations to Earth in the distant past, but they were not at all impressed by what they saw or heard. An April 12, 1965 FBI document refers to Van Tassel as “an eccentric, self-ordained minister of a quasi-religious organization.” A further FBI document refers to Van Tassel as – and I quote exactly – “a mental case.”
“All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist.”
Are you reading this? Good. That means the world’s greatest scientists using the world’s greatest scientific instruments are wrong. Or are they? Researchers at CERN in Switzerland recently made the most precise measurements ever of the magnetic force of protons and antiprotons and found them to be exactly the same … except for an opposite sign. The means the idea that scientists have danced around for centuries is still making them waltz – the Big Bang created equal amounts of matter and antimatter which should have annihilated each other and left nothing behind … including the universe and us. So, why are we still here?
Image: CERN, Maximilien Brice and Julien Ordan
A better question might be: “How did the CERN Physicists manage to experiment with the magnetism of matter and antimatter without annihilating the universe for real?” In a word … slowly. In 2014, they were able to measure the magnetic moment – how much a proton resists magnetic force – by trapping an individual proton in a magnetic field, then spinning it with another magnetic field.
That part was easy – at least protons don’t annihilate when they come in contact with any matter. Antiprotons are – no pun intended – another matter. After creating antiprotons in 2015, they had to create an antimatter chamber to store them in. They started with a Penning trap – a cylindrical container that traps charged particles between a magnetic field and a quadrupole electric field (apologies to physicists for this overly simple explanation). These Penning traps are imperfect and the antimatter can leak out (not a good thing – if you’ve been paying attention), so the CERN physicist used two and kept the antimatter extremely cold. This allowed them to store the antimatter for 405 days, more than enough time to do the magnetic moment measurements.
BASE Penning trap system to measure magnetic moment of the antiproton. Credit: Stefan Sellner, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan
And the answer is … −2.7928473441 μN. (μN is a nuclear magneton). Not only was this exactly the same – except for the minus sign – as the magnetic moment of a proton, it’s accurate to nine digits or nearly perfect. Would you expect any less from CERN?
Christian Smorra, the physicist at CERN’s Baryon–Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) collaboration who observed that the universe should not actually exist, was excited at the results, published this week in Nature, but still puzzled.
“An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is.”
Are we really sure these are the people we want experimenting with antimatter? As Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott once said to Mr. Spock:
“Those few seconds will not make any difference, Mr. Spock, because you and I and the rest of the crew will no longer be here to bandy it back and forth. This thing is going to blow up, and there’s nothing in the universe can stop it.”
Within the domain of the alien abduction phenomenon, there are a number of accounts of people reportedly taken on-board UFOs and submerged into mysterious liquids, or gels – as in completely submerged. Very oddly, and as the abductees state, the liquid does not prevent them from breathing normally. Researcher Helmut Lammer – in an article titled “New Evidence of Military Involvement in Abductions” – tells the story of a woman who he refers to as “Lisa,” and who found herself in just this precise situation. Lisa was an alien abductee, but she was also someone who was subjected to what have become known as Milabs – or “military abductions.” It was in this latter context that Lisa had a very traumatic experience, as Lammer shows.
Lammer says Lisa was taken against her will to what turned out to be a below-surface facility, in which she “…saw naked humans floating in tubes. Lisa claims that she was forced by humans into some type of pool filled with a golden yellow bubbly fluid, while other humans looked at her. Lisa has traumatic recollections that her kidnappers tried to make her and other victims able to breathe in the liquid. In two of the before mentioned cases the abductee was forced to breathe the liquid like Lisa. The hypnosis transcripts reveal that the liquid breathing experiences were traumatic for the abductees. Both abductees where totally immersed in the liquid and both reported that they could breathe the fluid.”
Then, there is this from another abductee: “I found myself inside a clear glass cylinder, totally submerged in some kind of warm fluid, thicker than water, thinner than oil. To my surprise, I was able to breathe this warm fluid without discomfort. I could also open my eyes without a problem. The solution was clear, of a greenish color and the container was softly lit. I remember, still fully submerged in this solution, that I slowly began to recall the abduction that had taken me away from my bedroom, minutes, maybe hours before.”
There is also this one: “…I woke up again, this timer naked in a funnel shaped pool filled with a greenish black gel type liquid. The pool had to be 20 yards wide all around. And pretty deep. The pool was made of some kind of shiny metal. With the gel it made the surface very slippery and you would slip under the gel if you tried to get out. I then realized something very odd at that time. I wasn’t alone. There were at least 15 other humans with me. All of them screaming and panicking…”
There is a good reason why I mention all of this now. Just a few days ago I received a Facebook message from a woman who I’ll call “Andrea” and who lives in Minneapolis. Andrea’s main reason for contacting me was because on several occasions, back in the 1980s, and after experiencing classic abduction phenomena – missing time, nightmares, and a sense of being subjected to stressful and terrifying medical experimentation – she was visited by a Man in Black. And, yes, it was the same MIB over and over again, which is intriguing, since such repeat visits by the very same MIB are not too common. The MIB was of the typically weird kind: tall, skinny, pale-faced, and with slightly larger than normal, staring eyes. And, of course, he was dressed in a black suit and an old style fedora. On each occasion Andrea was warned not to talk about her experiences.
It was only after recently reading my 2015 book, Men in Black, that Andrea decided to share her experiences, chiefly because one of the MIB described in the book sounded eerily like her very own Man in Black. But, there was more: I asked Andrea if we could chat via Skype and she agreed. During the course of talking with Andrea, something interesting came out: Andrea told me that on every occasion she was abducted by the familiar, dwarfish, black-eyed entities of UFO lore, she was immersed into a “bathtub”-like environment of what looked like water, but which was slightly thicker. It had an overwhelming odor that was not unlike that of nail polish.
On the first occasion, Andrea was terrified that she would drown. In seconds, though, she found she could “breathe the liquid” with no problem at all. During subsequent abductions, Andrea felt that her abductors were testing how long she was able to comfortably remain immersed. On one occasion, she felt a pressure on her body, which led her to suspect that the craft she was in had suddenly taken to the skies and that what she was experiencing were the effects of G-Forces.
Phys.org stated in March 2017: “Liquid ventilation – breathing a liquid instead of air – has long been the stuff of science fiction, and despite experimental clinical use, its potential for treating severe pulmonary or cardiac trauma, and use in deep diving and space travel, it is still not widely used or understood.” They note too that research into this area is moving ahead and in notable fashion, as you will see from this link.
Maybe unearthly creatures have developed the kinds of technology that we are still working to perfect…
Ars talks with Love & Saucers creators Matt Ralston and Brad Abrahams at Fantastic Fest 2017.
AUSTIN, Texas —Perhaps no film has ever set its tone so clearly within its first line as the new documentary Love & Saucers:
“When I was 17, I lost my virginity to a female extraterrestrial,” begins 72-year-old David Huggins. “That’s all I can say about it.”
Huggins’ voice carries no sarcasm. It doesn’t hesitate for an instant. And filmmakers Matt Ralston (producer) and Brad Abrahams (director) provide no filters. Love & Saucers ostensibly sets out to allow this man with more than 100 encounters in his lifetime to lay out his experiences detail by detail.
At times, the results can be wild. Huggins had his first encounter at eight years old when a little hairy guy with yellow eyes kept calling out “David, behind you” in the backyard. By age 18, his encounter total eclipsed 20, including meeting Crescent, the alien woman he’d have a prolonged relationship with (regarding that opening statement, Huggins later says: “I figured, if anything, I’d be losing it in the backseat of a Ford, but it didn’t work out that way at all”).
Huggins eventually got prodded inside a vacuum cleaner-like spacecraft, and he fathered a lot of possible interspecies children. Perhaps most peculiar of all, the aliens did not permit Huggins to discuss his encounters or express his feelings about them until he was nearly 50. At that point, they finally allowed Huggins to share his stories so he would have a way of dealing with his complex emotions. Their idea for how he should handle those feelings? Paintings. Huggins ran with this suggestion and has turned out a series of erotic, impressionistic oil works ever since.
“I was traumatized; I’m not saying I wasn’t,” Huggins says as he introduces his art. “But after I started doing the painting, I started calming down. I realized these things happened to me, and I was able to face it.”
So Love & Saucers sounds like an extended report from the likes of Coast to Coast AM, right? (Naturally, Huggins once appeared as a guest on the long-time, late-night radio show that believes the truth is out there.) Not quite. This film does not set out to change viewers’ minds on the existence of extraterrestrial beings; it doesn't want to parade Huggins in front of the audience as a sideshow generating lulz either. Instead, Love & Saucers stumbled into a story more about us down here on Earth—how do we react to others perceived as odd, and does it hurt to believe in something everyone else quickly turns a side-eye towards?
A loving lens
Abrahams makes a number of smart decisions throughout the film that allow Huggins’ humanity—his sincerity, his matter-of-fact acceptance of this strange life—to shine through. For instance, the entire first half of the film consists solely of Huggins talking. He walks the audience through his childhood, his hobbies (notably, his love of genre film that manifests itself through a VHS collection in the thousands), and the start of his family while pointing out the notable encounters along the way. Not only does this reveal the somewhat claustrophobic nature of Huggins’ current life (unfolding in a small Hoboken apartment where his job sits down the street); it allows his story to speak for itself without the filter of a narrator or the possibly influential reactions of others.
But as Huggins introduces more outlandish-sounding encounters, the urge to have someone else react becomes undeniable. After all, Huggins may live a small life, but he doesn’t live in isolation. Ralston and Abrahams know this sensation, too—it’s why they ultimately tracked down a handful of Huggins’ neighbors, his boss, some fellow experiencers, and even Huggins’ son to appear in Love & Saucers’ second half.
“We realized we needed a larger perspective, and so we at least tried to incorporate the world around him,” Abrahams tells Ars. “We fully expected his boss or his neighbor or the professor to be skeptical or to express disbelief, but they all just completely support him because they knowhim. And once you know him, you can’t say he’s being untrue.”
“He’s definitely not lying,” Ralston adds.
Ralston and Abrahams would know—the latter has been talking with Huggins on-and-off for more than five years now. And his first extended interactions with Huggins came when the film’s star invited the director to stay with him at his home, for three days, using his live-in ex-wife’s room. (Although she doesn’t appear on camera, Janice is mentioned often. She and Huggins split not long after he revealed his unusual upbringing. “I know that she knows something is different about me,” Huggins says. “But I didn’t know how to bring it up.”)
Talking with Ars, the production team doesn’t want to say whether or not they ultimately believe in extraterrestrial life or whether Huggins changed their minds at all. But they certainly feel confident that the man consistently speaks his truth.
Huggins’ unorthodox art ultimately brings his truth to life—to the filmmakers (who first made contact with him through a book collection of the paintings), to the audience (all the film’s promotional material, including prints for sale, revolves around them), and to others appearing in the film. In the most endearing scene within a documentary full of ‘em, Abrahams accompanies Huggins to a Manhattan gallery opening for his work. The thought of Huggins not only showcasing his intimate and offbeat paintings, but explaining them to total strangers in one of the most coolhunting areas in the world instantly generates anxiety. Then just as Huggins has done for viewers up to this point in the film, his genuine nature seems to deflate any potential conflict.
Ralston: Manhattan ended up being the perfect place. It’s just a melting pot of weirdness.
Abrahams: A lot of those people were artists and really appreciated the work. The paintings are nice, but some have a shocking amount of skill. They’re so cinematic with the lighting and staging, and the detail on the faces... you’re really struck.
Ralston: We showed some of his paintings at a screening / show in Miami and asked some of the other painters what they thought. They all said, “You know he’s not great, but his strokes are purposeful—he knows what he wants to paint and it’s vivid in his head.”
The Love & Saucers team ultimately has an interest in exploring what makes people believe in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary—what kind of person can proceed in that situation and how does society then accept or deny them? Abrahams and Ralston first worked together on a short film exploring researchers devoted to finding Florida’s mythical Skunk Ape, and they have intentions of turning that into a full-blown feature on cryptozoologist researchersonce promotion for Love & Saucers has wrapped up.
Huggins shows that even a kind, accepting grandfather-like figure may fall into one of these fringe communities. And Love & Saucers shows a true believer doesn’t have to explicitly appear unhinged or become a communal pariah. (Just this week in Florida, a city council member now running for Congress talked to press about her own childhood abduction and the reaction came swiftly.) Instead, Huggins continues on with 90 percent of a rather plain life, and his belief allows him some joy and relief from past stress. If that doesn’t negatively impact others—and it may, in fact, benefit them through some interesting genre art—where’s the harm?
Love & Saucers continues on the festival circuit with a stop in San Francisco this weekend. The most up-to-date schedule can be found on the film's Facebook page, though the filmmakers intend to release it on VOD and VHS (so Huggins can watch at home, of course). Below, you can watch the Skunk Ape short soon being turned into a feature-length documentary.
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Ik ben ontmaagd door een vrouwelijke alien. 72-jarige man deelt zijn ervaringen in deze nieuwe documentaire
Ik ben ontmaagd door een vrouwelijke alien. 72-jarige man deelt zijn ervaringen in deze nieuwe documentaire
“Toen ik 17 jaar oud was ben ik ontmaagd door een vrouwelijke alien,” begint de 72-jarige David Huggins zijn verhaal in de nieuwe documentaire Love & Saucers. “Dat is alles wat ik erover kan zeggen.”
Filmmakers Matt Ralston en Brad Abrahams geven Huggins in de film alle ruimte om te vertellen over zijn meer dan 100 ontmoetingen met buitenaardse wezens.
De allereerste ontmoeting vond plaats toen hij acht jaar oud was en een klein wezen met gele ogen in de achtertuin tegen hem zei: “David, achter je.”
Schilderijen
Toen hij 18 jaar oud was waren er al 20 ontmoetingen geweest. Hij werd naar eigen zeggen meegenomen aan boord van een ruimteschip dat eruitzag als een stofzuiger.
De aliens zeiden tegen Huggins dat hij pas rond zijn vijftigste mocht gaan vertellen over zijn ervaringen. Hij werkte ze uit in de vorm van schilderijen.
“Ik was getraumatiseerd,” zegt Huggins terwijl hij zijn werk toont. “Maar nadat ik begon te schilderen werd ik rustiger. Ik besefte wat er met me was gebeurd en kon er beter mee omgaan.”
Licht
In de film laten ook andere mensen hun licht schijnen over deze vreemde ervaringen. Zo komen onder meer zijn buren, baas en zelfs zijn zoon aan het woord.
Ralston en Abrahams hebben daarnaast mensen geïnterviewd die zeggen dat ze soortgelijke dingen hebben meegemaakt.
Steunen
“We hadden gedacht dat zijn baas, buren of de professor sceptisch of vol ongeloof zouden reageren, maar ze steunen hem allemaal volledig omdat ze hem kennen,” zei Ralston.
“Als je hem eenmaal leert kennen, kun je niet zeggen dat hij niet de waarheid spreekt,” voegde hij toe. “Hij liegt zeer zeker niet.”
Huge unknown object takes off outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico
Huge unknown object takes off outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico
While driving on the highway 15 miles outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico on October 23, 2017 the witness noticed a huge strange object standing in a field.
Surprised by what he witnessed he tried to capture the object on his camera but as soon as he started recording it took off.
According to the witness, he has no idea what he has recorded and wonders whether it was a so-called ‘dust-devil’ or something that cannot be explained?
We know our galaxy is huge, and that there’s an untold number of other galaxies out there in the unimaginably large universe. We also know that there’s bound to be plenty of planets in those galaxies, and at least a portion of them are bound to be habitable by some form of life. So, why haven’t we detected, spotted, or at least heard the faint whispers of another intelligent civilization outside of Earth? A planetary scientist from Colorado’s Southwest Research Institute believes he might have the answer, and it’s literally chilling.
Speaking at a meeting of the American Astronomy Society Division for Planetary Sciences Division, Alan Stern proposed an incredible answer to the question which has long puzzled astronomers and first contact hopefuls: aliens aren’t living outside.
It sounds like total bunk to us since humans are spread across just about every nook and cranny of planet Earth, but there’s a very real possibility that life could form, evolve, and even gain advanced intelligence without ever seeing the surface of their own planet. This would be most likely on frigid ocean worlds where underwater thermal vents would provide the heat energy to sustain life, and with the sheer number of frigid ocean worlds we already know exist, there’s no shortage of opportunities for this to happen.
If an intelligent alien civilization evolved in the depths of an icy ocean world, it would be incredibly difficult for humanity to detect it, and even harder for them to contact us. In fact, even venturing to the surface of their own planet would be an incredibly difficult task, and as Stern notes, doing so would essentially be the equivalent of mankind venturing into space — a mysterious, frigid, and dangerous place.
It’s obviously very difficult for us to imagine an entire civilization of intelligent creatures living deep within the ocean, but our understanding of the requirements for life mean that it’s entirely possible. The only question is whether or not it exists somewhere out there in the vast number of unexplored worlds.
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'NOT A HOAX' Nazca 'mummified aliens are not fake,' claims scientist
'NOT A HOAX' Nazca 'mummified aliens are not fake,' claims scientist
ALLEGED mummified remains of "non-human beings" said to have been found in Peru are not a hoax, according to a scientist who has investigated the bodies.
Dr Edson Vivanco is part of a team researching the alleged discovery of several bizarre three-fingered and three-toed corpses said to have been found in a cave in Nazca, Peru.
The bodies have been branded elaborate hoaxes by mainstream scientists in Peru, who say it appears they have been created using genuine ancient mummified human remains.
One set of DNA test results found the remains were 100 per cent human, while others were inconclusive.
Dr Vivanco, a skeletal specialist, is part of the team that announced the discovery and claims they could be aliiens of extra terrestrial origin.
He has, however, been involved in previous examinations of other body parts that have been suggested could be alien in origin.
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Nazca hoax? A scientist claims the mummified remains could be real.
He was interviewed as part of a documentary made by British ufologist Steve Meera, who travelled to Peru.
Dr Vivanco said: "They invited me to join the investigation to give my medical opinion to determine if the pieces we studied were real or just a fraud.
"There are lots of details that indicate that the bodies are real.
"To recreate a skull with these characteristics is a very difficult task.
"For example regarding the internal structure of the skull we can find the parietal sutures, occipital sutres, frontal sutures, and other anatomical characteristics that indicate it's a real skull.
"On first impression I found it odd to examine a three-fingered hand with five phalanges (finger segments) present on each finger."
Independent scientists who have looked at X-rays of the hand released by the team concluded they were made using human finger bones from a number of hands.
Dr Vivanco added: "Just three fingers with five phalanges. That caught our attention and we decided to keep investigating to determine if this is real or a fake.
"I think it's very important to investigate this no matter what the outcome.
Five alien mummies discovered in Peru
"Because a few doctors already did give their opinion on it without any kind of study, saying the bodies are assembled even though they didn't have access to them.
"If it is a fake we will be the first to say and report it. Right now we are studying the evidence.
"And so far we haven't found anything to say it is a fraud or that the bodies have been modified or altered in any way.
"We have lots of evidence that sets us on the path to prove that this is real
"If we could demonstrate that someone has modified this hand we would be speaking about a crime that should be properly punished.
"My personal point of view, I believe its real, but that's my personal opinion. the truth doesn't belong to me."
The organisers of the ninth annual World Congress on Mummy Studies, which took place in Lima, Peru, last August, are convinced it is a hoax.
The group issued an angry call on Facebook for an official inquiry into whether archaeological crimes have been committed.
The congress brings together world experts in mummies and skeletons in a new location each year.
Under the heading ‘The Fraud of Extraterrestrial Mummies’, translated from Spanish, the congress said it believed real human mummified remains had been mutated and re-arranged to create bogus alien-looking creatures.
Alien worlds covered in water might not be comfortable for living things because some will have their atmospheres stripped from them in solar storms.
Image: Artist’s impression of HD 189733b, showing the planet’s atmosphere being stripped by the radiation from its parent star.
Credit: Ron Miller.
Scientists consider an atmosphere and liquid water to be ingredients for life, but finding them existing together on a planet outside of Earth has proven challenging. A team of researchers used computer simulations to test how atmospheres composed mostly of water vapor would hold up in the face of stellar wind — the gas and charged particles blown out from a star toward the planets — and other space events, finding that certain star-planet matchups could kill off an atmosphere before life has a chance to form.
“Ocean planets, also referred to as water worlds … are anticipated to be volatile-rich, and possess oceans that are conceivably hundreds of kilometers deep,” according to a study in the Astrophysical Journal.
That’s compared to rocky planets in the habitable zones of their stars, the distance at which the temperature is just right to support water as a liquid, rather than a solid or gas. Those planets may also contain water.
In examining worlds that are completely covered in ocean, the researchers found that the ones closely orbiting certain stars could be in trouble. Although their simulations suggested that planets with “Earth-like oceans” would not have their atmospheres stripped and their water evaporated over timeframes of billions of years, exoplanets in the habitable zones of M-dwarfs, a class of red dwarf stars, would see a much more rapid change — “the escape rate (of water ions) will be 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than on Earth even without considering space weather effects,” the study says. Part of that has to do with how close in a red dwarf’s habitable zone is, putting an exoplanet in the line of fire from stellar material despite their comfortable temperatures. “Thus, planets orbiting these stars could have their oceans depleted over [billion-year] timescales, especially when extreme space weather events are taken into account.”
Exoplanets covered in ocean may not be able to survive long enough to support alien life, if the stars they orbit strip away their atmospheres.
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A billion years sounds like a long time, but it is not long at all in the grand scheme of life developing and evolving. Compared to the universe’s nearly 14 billion years, Earth is only estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old. And life is thought to have appeared on Earth about 3.8 billion years ago.
“Rapid desiccation would have important consequences for the evolution of life on such planets, especially with regard to oceanic and coastal biodiversity, productivity, and food webs,” the study says.
Red dwarf stars are the most common ones in the universe, so these simulations could potentially apply to many exoplanets and rule them out as worlds that are capable of hosting extraterrestrial life.
“One of the critical factors in determining if a planet could really be habitable is the presence of an enduring atmosphere,” the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explained in a statement. “The deep oceans on a water world offer a reservoir for water vapor for its atmosphere, and so scientists have been trying to calculate how stable an exoplanet’s ocean and atmosphere are, especially to effects like evaporation by winds from the star.”
The information from these new simulations could help scientists narrow down their search for alien life and their understanding of how planets and the water bodies on them evolve. As the study points out, water is crucial to Earth’s plate tectonic system, through which our planet’s surface and interior changes and recycles. There is also evidence that Earth was once much more covered in ocean than it is today.
Image: The Heliospheric Current Sheet results from the influence of the Sun’s rotating magnetic field on the plasma in the interplanetary medium (solar wind). The wavy spiral shape has been likened to a ballerina’s skirt. The new work uses a software modeling package called ForeCAT to study interactions between CMEs and the Astrospheric Current Sheet around the red dwarf V374 Pegasi.
Credit: NASA GSFC.
That may not be a rare case. Research has suggested that exoplanets with water may be up to 90 percent covered in ocean, compared to the 70 percent of Earth’s surface. That has to do with how much space is available in its ocean basins to store water before it floods and submerges any landmasses.
The researchers also point out that Mars and Venus are believed to have once supported oceans.
The Alien Observatory --"Strange, Saturn-Sized Alien Moon May Be a Harbinger of Habitable Worlds"
The Alien Observatory --"Strange, Saturn-Sized Alien Moon May Be a Harbinger of Habitable Worlds"
"The first exomoons that we find will be large – maybe Mars- or even Earth-sized – and therefore intrinsically more likely to be habitable than small moons," said René Heller, at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, Germany. "With Kepler finding many more giant planets than terrestrial planets in stellar habitable zones, it's really important that we try to figure out what conditions might be like on the moons of these giants to gauge if they can host extraterrestrial life."
In a series of papers published in 2013, Heller and his colleague Rory Barnes from the University of Washington and the NASA Astrobiology Institute tackled some of the big-picture problems to habitability posed by the relationship between exomoons and their host planets. Heller and Barnes have proposed a circumplanetary "habitable edge," similar to the well-established circumstellar "habitable zone." This zone is the temperature band around a star within which water neither boils off or freezes away on a planet's surface – not too hot, not too cold, thus earning it the nickname "the Goldilocks zone.
This past July, 2017 reports New Scientist, evidence emerged of the first discovery of a moon around a planet beyond our solar system that might prove Heller's 2013 prediction above correct. Although the exomoon’s existence has yet to be confirmed, new results from Kepler Data show that the world may look stranger than anyone thought and may also have been created through some unknown mechanism.
David Kipping at Columbia University, New York, has spearheaded an effort to comb through Kepler spacecraft data in search of hidden moons since 2012 sifting through data from the Kepler space telescope on more than a thousand planets and their moons orbiting distant stars. Back in July, he and his graduate student Alex Teachey announced they had found signs of the colossal exomoon that might orbit a gas giant roughly 4000 light years away. A moon, says Kipping, could also make its host planet more likely to harbor life. Some models suggest that the presence of our moon might have helped make Earth a nice place to live. The same could be true for other moon-planet partnerships.
So Kipping’s search, dubbed the "Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler," gets at the fundamental nature of our place in the universe: Are we alone? By early next spring, astronomer David Kipping hopes to know if the object he’s spent his early career searching for is really there.
In late October, 2017, Kipping and colleagues will use the Hubble Space Telescope to find out if they’ve caught their first quarry. The possible candidate is a Neptune-sized object orbiting the planet Kepler 1625b. If the candidate turns out to be a genuine exomoon (Kipping is quick to point out that similar hints have fizzled before) he will no doubt solidify his reputation as “the moon guy.”
“His signature projects are quite risky, but with obvious large payback,” says Dimitar Sasselov, director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, who worked with Kipping in his postdoc research at Harvard University.
There’s a reason Kipping’s team has found only one exomoon candidate so far: There aren’t many out there big enough for Kepler to see, according to his statistical work. “Because he’s doing such a careful job, it probably means something,” Sasselov adds. The systems the team has checked that show no moons most likely aren’t hiding any.
Although the moon is still hypothetical – and Kipping has watched many previous candidates vanish into thin air – the discovery would mark a new chapter in our search for life in the cosmos, causing many to wonder what that world would look like.
Heller, still at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, speculates that based on calculations from the Kepler data, that the moon could be anything from a small gaseous body the size of Earth to an ocean-covered rocky world as big as Saturn, but most likely scenario, is a Neptune-like world larger than any moon that exists in our solar system, which means that its formation mechanism would be A mysterY.
WORLDS AROUND WORLDS Exomoons — satellites of planets that orbit other stars — could be one of the best places to look for life outside the solar system. But first, astronomers have to find the moons.
Heller argues that it's size can’t be explained by what we currently know about how moons form in our solar system, where Earth's moon was created when a giant impact carved the satellite from our planet, and Jupiter’s moons formed around the developing planet from the thick debris of gas and dust that once persisted throughout the solar system. Neptune’s moon was actually captured by the planet’s gravity.
If Kipping's exomoon is validated, it would pose “an exquisite riddle for formation theorists to solve”, Heller says. “It is not clear to me from the Kepler data and from what we know in the solar system, which channel it would have formed through.”
“If it’s there, awesome, have at it,” Teachey says. “But if not, well, we’d feel badly about other people having spent time studying a phantom.”
“I think the conclusion is, ‘this is a strange system,’ and we agree,” Teachey says. Both he and Kipping have argued that the unusual size of the moon is reason to be agnostic about it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean astronomers should rule out its existence. “The universe is very good at surprising us,” Teachey says.
A CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
A CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
Photo: M. Kornmesser Observatory in southern Europe / Agence France-Presse
In August 2016, european researchers have announced the discovery of an exoplanet the size of Earth located in the habitable zone of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
Sara Seager has promised to devote the rest of his life to the search for a new Earth among the billions of stars in the cosmos.
“This is our goal : to find life up there,” said the astrophysicist in toronto a tone of commonplace, as if it described a single shipment up at the corner store.
The scientist of international fame believes that this goal is finally at hand — and it is well-placed to know.
“40 years ago, those who sought exoplanets were the object of ridicule, she says in reference to the planets which are outside of our solar system. It was felt that it was very marginal, so it was difficult […] But the line that demarcates what is crazy is moving ever. “
Ms. Seager teaches at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of technology and one of the world’s leading experts in the field of exoplanets. It has been the subject of reports by the New York Times, CNN and Cosmopolitan magazine, and she received a scholarship MacArthur ” genius.” In the world of astronomy, it is a feature.
Ultimately, his work could answer some of the most pressing issues of humanity. His mission to find life elsewhere in the universe, like something from a science fiction, but recent advances in astrophysics give reason for optimism in this astrophysicist.
Before the 1990s, only two planets – Uranus and Neptune – had been discovered since that the Babylonians had observed the comings and goings of the celestial bodies, there are 4400 years old. Pluto was identified in 1930, but she was demoted to the rank of dwarf planet in 2006.
A monumental breakthrough occurred in 1995, when two astronomers in switzerland have announced the discovery, outside of our solar system, a first planet in orbit around a star. The existence of 51 Pegasus B was demonstrated by its severity, which was maintained its star.
Then in 2014, the Kepler space telescope, the us space agency (NASA), has discovered Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet of a similar size to that of the Earth, inside the box, goldilocks (Goldilocks zone).
“It is when a planet is neither too hot, nor too cold, just right for life,” said Seager.
The improvement of technology has led to the discovery of more than 3600 exoplanets for the past 30 years. Only 52 of them, however, are in the habitable zone, where liquid water could exist. But an exoplanet the size of Earth that is located within this zone hosts not automatically the life.
“As long as we are not able to examine the atmosphere of the planet [ … ], we will not know really anything about it,” said Ms. Seager. It does really say nothing as we can’t take a better look. “
This is some 40 000 billion kilometers, but it is still 480 times closer than Kepler-186f.
“IT was really the next door, but very difficult to find, said Ms. Seager. In astronomy, the proximity is very important. “
But to observe a planet relatively small pasted on a star that is very large, it is necessary first of all to block the intense light given off by that star. This is why Ms. Seager collaborated on the project Starshade NASA : the top of 15 floors, the device would be deployed in space and its “petals” would block the light that aveuglerait otherwise the telescope that came with it.
“This is my favorite project, she said. One of my goals in life would be to contribute to the realization of the Starshade. “
With Starshade, Ms. Seager wants to look at the atmosphere of exoplanets in search of gas, such as oxygen, that could be evidence of the presence of life.
“When I help to find these planets, the goal is to […] look for signs of life through the use of gas [like oxygen] which should not be there,” she says. We will not be certain 100% that they are produced by the life… And if this is the case, we won’t know if these are intelligent beings or simply a deposit sticky. “
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Robert Powell – USS Nimitz UFO Encounter – October 24, 2017
Robert Powell – USS Nimitz UFO Encounter – October 24, 2017
Open Minds UFO Radio: Powell is retired from a career as a research and development lab and engineering manager. He is a co-author of UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry. For several years he served as the director of research and chair of the scientific board for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He is now part of the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU), a group of scientists, former military and law enforcement officials and other professionals, many of whom have decades of experience looking into UFOs. The SCU was founded to investigate a UFO case that included a video captured by Homeland Security over Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Now they are expanding to look into other cases.
In this episode, we are talking about a case Robert has been researching that was mentioned at the recent press conference announcing Tom DeLonge’s new UFO organization. Chris Mellon, a former CIA agent and United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, shared a shocking sighting he felt demonstrated UFOs are a genuine mystery. The case took place in November, 2004, and was witnessed by the USS Nimitz strike force. Jets were scrambled, and a “tic tac” shaped object was seen and recorded on video.
For more about the Scientific Coalition for Ufology visit: ExploreSCU.org
Former US Intelligence officer claims UFOs are REAL and we are not ALONE
Former US Intelligence officer claims UFOs are REAL and we are not ALONE
Is this another step towards disclosure? A former US Senior Intelligence officer who worked for the DoD has gone on record claiming that UFO’s are real, and we may not be alone in the universe.
A man called Luis Elizondo claims to have also worked fro the US army, the National Counter-intelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence, as well as carrying out extremity sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations around the globe.
Elizondo was revealed as a key member of a brand new organization—To The Stars Academy—founded by former Blink 182 front-man Tom DeLonge.
According to statements made from Mr. Elizondo, before he retired, he was in charge of a “sensitive aerospace threat identification” program that focuses on “unidentified aerial technologies”, aka UATs, another name for unidentified flying objects.
“By far the most exciting effort I was concerned with was the topic of advanced aerial threats. For nearly the last decade, I ran a sensitive aerospace threat classification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. It was in this position I learned that the events are indeed real,” said Mr. Elizondo.
According to Mr. Elizondo’s profile on dpo.tothestarsacademy.com, Mr. Elizondo “is a career intelligence officer whose experience includes working with the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence. As a former Special Agent-In-Charge, Luis conducted and supervised highly sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations around the world. As an intelligence Case Officer, he ran clandestine source operations throughout Latin America and the Middle East. Most recently, Luis managed the security for certain sensitive portfolios for the US Government as the Director of the National Programs Special Management Staff. For nearly the last decade, Luis also ran a sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. Luis’ academic background includes Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, with research experience in tropical diseases. Luis is also an inventor who holds several patents.”
What do you think this object is? It was photographed by the Gemini X mission.
To The Stars Academy—the leading organization perusing disclosure?
According to Mr. Elizondo, the organization will soon release never-before-seen footage of Unidentified Flying Objects recorded by the government.
Mr. Elizondo added: “We are also preparing to present never before released footage from real US government systems, not blurry amateur photos but real data and real videos.”
In the last 10 years, we’ve come a long way in our understanding of our place here in this cosmos. There are physics that we don’t quite yet understand, but that does not mean that they’re not real, it just simply means that we don’t have the ability to understand those physics. I think it’s in our nature to go out and explore and report back what we see,” added Mr. Elizondo.
But as with everyone who comes forward claiming to know something society does not, skeptics pop-up by the minute.
This also happened with Mr. Elizondo as it didn’t take long for his name and his story to appear on theparacast.com.
Luckily, Mr. Elizondo decided to join the debate and responded to those who doubt by saying:
“The fact that there are things in this universe that are beyond our understanding is indeed real.
“We have the physics and we have the scientific observations to prove the phenomena.”
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