Good news, doomsday preppers: the high strangeness and military mysteries surrounding the “former” Soviet Union continue to develop. Several Russian social media users and news outlets caught dozens of photos of a mysterious, terrifying glow cloud which was visible all across Siberia on the evening of October 26th. While some eyewitnesses thought the orb had a supernatural origin, it turns out the explanation is a lot more terrifying.

In Soviet Russia, glow could sees you. 

Credit: Alexey Yakovlev

In all of the photos and eyewitness reports, the cloud appears to be a large luminous ball in the sky, sometimes blue, sometimes green. The cloud dissipated after several minutes into a wispy arc in the sky, but left terror in the minds of those who saw it. Siberian photographer Sergey Anisimov was out photographing auroras when he caught several dazzling images of the strange glowing orb:

At first I was taken aback for a few minutes, not understanding what was happening. The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction. My first thought was about the most powerful searchlight, but the speed of changing everything around changed the idea of what was happening.

Witnesses reported a feeling of dread upon seeing the glow cloud, and believed the orb could be a harbinger of the end times, a gap in the spacetime continuum, a UFO, or some sort of supernatural apparition.

Sure looks like doomsday to me.

It turns out, at least according to the Russian defense ministry, that the glow cloud was some sort of discharge from a test of Russia’s new “Satan 2” missile. Because if you’re going to develop a new nuclear missile capable of blowing up the world, you might was well name it after the Dark Lord of the Underworld.

Just exactly how a missile left such a strange apparition in the sky is unknown.

As nuclear tensions continue to rise around the world, Russia and many other of the world’s nuclear superpowers continue to develop and test new weapons which raise the bar in terms of terror and destructiveness. Russian state news claims the Satan 2 missile, which carries multiple warheads, is capable of obliterating an area the size of France. Or Texas, depending on what kind of mood Russia’s in.

As the new nuclear space race ramps up, expect more sights like this one. Credit: Alexey Yakovlev

Because, you know, it’s not enough to be able to destroy the entire world and bring humanity to a crashing halt. No, you’ve got to be able to do it several times over and ensure nothing other than irradiated supermutant cockroaches will walk the Earth for millions of years. That’s how you know we’re making progress. That’s how you know you’re in charge. See me now, daddy? Now I have the nuclear codes! Still think I’ll never amount to anything?

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27-10-2017 om 18:47 geschreven door peter  

Man kwam oog in oog te staan met bemanning van driehoekige UFO. Nu doet hij zijn verhaal

Een man zei dat het was alsof de ‘tijd stilstond’ toen hij oog in oog kwam te staan met de bemanning van een driehoekige UFO die boven een weiland hing.

Philip Shepherdson claimt dat het voorval zich voordeed in de buurt van York in het Engelse graafschap North Yorkshire.

Hij reed op zijn scooter toen iets zijn aandacht trok. “Ik keek naar links en kreeg zowat een hartverzakking,” zei hij. “In de hoek van een klein weiland zweefde een zwart driehoekig object boven de grond.”

Honderden

Schets (Flying Disk Press)

“Ik kon bijna niet geloven wat ik zag,” voegde hij toe.

Driehoekige UFO’s worden vaker gemeld. In de Verenigde Staten worden elk jaar honderden van deze objecten gezien.

Volgens sommigen zijn het buitenaardse ruimteschepen, terwijl anderen van mening zijn dat het gaat om topgeheime vaartuigen die gebouwd zijn door overheden.

Cockpit

“Het object was glad en had geen scherpe randen,” zei Shepherdson. “Bovenop zat een cockpit met daarin een figuur.”

“Ik kon alleen een zwarte helm en een zwarte overall zien,” vervolgde hij.

“Naast het vaartuig zag ik nog twee magere figuren in zwarte pakken,” aldus de man. “Ze keken naar mij, net als de figuur in de cockpit.”

Geen geluid

“Ik beefde van angst en de tijd leek stil te staan,” zei hij. Shepherdson besloot ervandoor te gaan en stapte weer op zijn scooter.

Wat hem vooral is bijgebleven is dat het object geen geluid maakte.

Dit alles speelde zich af in februari 1979, maar nu pas heeft Shepherdson de moed gehad om zich uit te spreken en andere getuigen op te sporen.

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27-10-2017 om 18:11 geschreven door peter  

Satan's Aurora Borealis in the sky over Strezhevoye, Russia

Alexey Yakovlev took some images of an odd phenomenon in the sky over Strezhevoye, Tomsk Region in Russia on October 26, 2017 at the moment he and his friends observed the aurora borealis.

Image above and images below

credit: Alexey Yakovlev - vk.com

The ball of light appeared at 22:08 local time in the west, floated to the east, then to the north before it gradually faded away.

At first he thought that it was a sort of radiance but after the unusual ball of light began to expand it became clear that it was not radiance and he became a bit scared before realizing that he probably accidentally took images of the secret launch of a rocket from Plesetsk.

And indeed, Russia did a successful test of its ‘Satan 2’ nuclear missile program. The rocket, (The RS-28 Sarmat) traveled about 5,900 kilometers before hitting its target on the Kura test range, created the odd but beautiful display in the sky.

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27-10-2017 om 18:01 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Spot First Alien Space Rock In Our Solar System

Nell Greenfieldboyce

Correspondent, Science Desk

Diagram of the path of a space rock from outside our solar system — the first ever observed.

Brooks Bays / SOEST Publication Services / UH Institute for Astronomy

Astronomers have spotted some kind of outer space rock that's the first visitor from outside of our solar system that they've ever observed.

The discovery has set off a mad scramble to point telescopes at this fast-moving object to try to learn as much as possible before it zips out of sight.

"Now we finally have a sample of something from another solar system, and I think that's really neat, " says Karen Meech, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, "and so you'd love to see if it looks like stuff in our solar system."

It's long been assumed that an interstellar object like this one should be out there, because giant planets in forming solar systems are thought to toss out bits of space crud that haven't yet glommed into anything. But this is the first time scientists have actually found one.

The mysterious object is small — less than a quarter mile in diameter — and seems to have come from the general direction of the constellation Lyra, moving through interstellar space at 15.8 miles per second, or 56,880 miles per hour.

"The orbit is very convincing. It is going so fast that it clearly came from outside the solar system," says Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "It's whipping around the Sun, it has already gone around the Sun, and it has actually gone past the Earth on its way out."

The asteroid was discovered on October 19 by Hawaii's Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, which searches the sky for near-Earth objects.

"It became clear that it didn't move like asteroids and comets normally do," says Robert Weryk of the University of Hawaii, who contacted a colleague to acquire follow-up images using another telescope owned by the European Space Agency. The combined observations made it clear that this was an interstellar visitor.

The asteroid is now speeding toward the constellation Pegasus and is fading out of sight fast. "We might have, for moderately large telescopes, another handful of days, maybe a couple of weeks. So we don't have much time to study it," says Meech, who wants to know what its shape is and what its chemical composition might be. She says the Hubble Space Telescope should spy on this object as well, in the coming weeks.

She notes that different stars have different chemical compositions, so she'd like to know if the solar system this came from produces material similar to the planet-making stuff in our own.

"We've been expecting this for decades, really," says Chodas. "We don't know enough about how much material is floating around between the stars. And so this will give us the first data point. We hope to find more of this stuff."

{ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ }

27-10-2017 om 01:37 geschreven door peter  

UFO hunter spots 'alien mothership' on the surface of Mars

Jeff Parsons

A picture of the crashed 'alien mothership' on Mars

(Image: Paranormal Crucible)

Conspiracy theorists believe they've found proof of a downed 'alien mothership' on the surface of Mars.

According to the YouTube channel Paranormal Crucible , the 1.3-mile long craft is evidence of an alien civilisation that crash-landed on the rocky planet.

The images from the video were found in footage taken from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor - which surveyed the red planet until 2006 when the space agency lost contact with it.

“I have processed, colorized and rebuilt the object and in my opinion it is a craft of some kind, possibly tens of thousands of years old," explains the description underneath the video .

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Some commentators have poured cold water on the theory, insisting it is only a piece of raised ground or a rock formation.

But the UFO hunters behind the channel are convinced of its authenticity.

"The object is too degraded to enhance totally so I have rebuilt it using the points of interest that are shown in the video," the video states.

"It's also over a mile long, so this must have been a mothership, either a Martian one or possibly an off planet alien species, but why did it crash?”

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The video has been on YouTube for a week and has amassed over 6,000 views.

However, this is far from the first time something strange has been spotted hiding in pictures of the Martian surface.

Strange domes and rock outlines resembling human-like items are often picked up on as evidence of pareidolia: when the brain is tricked into seeing familiar sights in strange objects.

{ http://www.mirror.co.uk/ }

27-10-2017 om 01:25 geschreven door peter  

Seriously, These "Reptilian Alien Mummies" Are Not Real

These three-fingered “mummies” with elongated heads were allegedly found near the Nazca lines in Peru a few months ago. Sure, they might not look very convincing – in fact, you could say they look a lot like plaster cast – but the people behind the "research" claim they are definitely not a hoax. On the other hand, scientists and mummification experts aren’t so convinced.

In a new video titled “Update: Ancient Mummies Discovered in Peru are Reptilian Not of the Earth,” Jamie Maussan and a gang of UFOlogists speak at a press conference, claiming the "mummies" are a new humanoid-reptilian species that's "never been described before.” They even brought along some laser pointers, an authoritative-looking guy in a white lab coat, and some vaguely convincing X-ray images.

“Thinking of all the characteristics we have found, we think that probably these bodies are a kind of reptile but with a humanoid shape,” one researcher told the crowd. “We can corroborate this from the skin, it’s reptilian skin, it’s porous.”

“We have to try to make a whole genetic study to determine the true biological origin of these beings.”

One impassioned YouTuber posted the comment: “I'm sure that the Smithsonian Institute would be more than happy to take the mummies off their hands... And throw it in the deepest part of the ocean so that it doesn't clash with their precious Darwinian theory!”

The World Congress on Mummy Studies has totally discredited the research involving the "mummies", saying: “We wish to express our concern on the case described below. Mummy studies is a scientific discipline and there is no space for such claims #pseudoscience."According to the fact-checking website Snopes, many of the individuals working on the project also have a “history of making false, pseudoscientific claims.” Jamie Maussan and Jesus Zalce Benitez, two researchers involved in the project, claimed another mummy was an alien in 2015. It later transpired that it was actually the body of a human child.

It remains unclear whether this is purely a hoax or actual non-alien mummified remains. Archaeologists have long-realized that elongated skulls found in the Americas and the wider world were people who had their heads bound from a young age before their cranial bones fused. That said, these “alien” specimens don’t appear to have the leathery appearance you would expect to see in a real mummy.

As we said, when the mummies first came to light in June, “this ‘discovery’ has more red flags than a bullfighters convention." Even after the latest press conference, our thoughts remain the same.

{ http://www.iflscience.com/ }

27-10-2017 om 01:05 geschreven door peter  

These are the 25 best cities for UFO sightings

By Fox News

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The sci-fi series “The X-Files” popularized the saying “the truth is out there.” And in the past 15 years, thousands of UFO sightings across the United States show a lot of people are still looking.

A new list of the top cities in the U.S. that have had UFO sightings from 2001-2015 has been published, with Phoenix topping the list, according to a story in the Syracuse New Times.

The data is pulled from the book “UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015,” written by Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa. Published in March 2017, the book compiles “data and analysis for 100,000+ sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by individuals during the first 15 years of the 21st century.”

Costa noted that Phoenix may be the most prevalent place in the U.S. for UFO sightings, perhaps due to the Phoenix Lights phenomena two decades ago.

In 1997, there were two events that occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico. Thousands of witnesses say they saw a formation of five lights in a V-shape, producing no sound and a triangular formation of lights. The US Air Force claimed the second group of lights were flares dropped from a A-10 Warthog aircraft.

In addition to Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago and Portland round out the top five cities on the list.

Below is the list of 25 most sightings across US cities.

1. Phoenix, 929 sightings
2. Las Vegas, 639 sightings
3. Seattle, 616 sightings
4. Chicago, 562 sightings
5. Portland, 528 sightings
6. Los Angeles, 525 sightings
7. Tucson, 480 sightings
8. San Diego, 477 sightings
9. Houston, 466 sightings
10. Denver, 429 sightings
11. Austin, 426 sightings
12. New York City (Manhattan), 418 sightings
13. Orlando, 390 sightings
14. Springfield, 380 sightings
15. Albuquerque, 376 sightings
16. Miami, 375 sightings
17. Philadelphia, 338 sightings
18. San Antonio, 334 sightings
19. Columbus, 327 sightings
20. Jacksonville, 326 sightings
21. Sacramento, 316 sightings
22. San Francisco, 310 sightings
23. San Jose, 308 sightings
24. Myrtle Beach, 305 sightings
25. Dallas and Kansas City, 294 sightings each

FILED UNDER

•  ALIENS ,
•   UFOS

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27-10-2017 om 00:55 geschreven door peter  

UFO hunter claims to have spotted a crashed mothership on Mars

AN alien hunter claims to have found proof of a crash-landed mothership on the surface of Mars.

By Charlotte Ikonen

The conspiracy theorist spotted the strange shape in footage taken by NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor.

Others saw the funny side, with one viewer writing: “Is that an Emperial Cruiser? Where's Luke Skywalker when you need him, lol.”

The outlandish video has been viewed more than 4,000 times.

It’s not the first time conspiracy theorists have claimed an alien civilisation is living on the red planet.

{ https://www.dailystar.co.uk/ }

27-10-2017 om 00:40 geschreven door peter  

Put on your nice clothes, comb your hair and spend more than two bucks on some wine … we have visitors from another solar system! Astronomers have spotted a previously unknown comet passing through the solar system and it doesn’t seem to belong to our Sun. If that’s true, this is the first known observation of an interstellar comet from another solar system.

The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Centerannounced that astronomers using the PanSTARRS 1 telescope in Maui (nice work if you can get it) discovered C/2017 U1 on October 18th. Further investigation showed that this tiny (diameter of 160 meters or 525 feet) dim comet had already made its closest approach to the Sun on September 9th when it was 37,600,000 km (23,400,000 miles) away from it … close enough to no longer exist. And yet … there it was pulling away at an unusually high speed (16 miles /26 km per second, or 57,600 mph) peed for a comet. Dynamicist Bill Gray from the observatory observed:

“It went past the Sun really fast and may not have had time to heat up enough to break apart.”

Dynamicist? According to Collin’s English Dictionary, that’s “a person who investigates and researches dynamics. a new kind of scientist: not primarily an astronomer, not a fluid dynamicist, not an applied mathematician, but a specialist in chaos.” “A specialist in chaos” sounds more like a staff job in Washington but Gray is using his talent for a good purpose in a great location. The “chaos” he saw was a comet passing through the solar system at a very high inclination (122°) with respect to Earth’s orbit with an extreme (very narrow and tight) hyperbolic eccentricity (1.1815 ).

(credit: Sky and Telescope)

Put C/2017 U1’s speed, high inclination and eccentricity together and you have the description of excellent rock drummer … and an interstellar comet. (Throw in ‘specialist in chaos’ and you have a great rock guitarist. ) The only other comet ever observed with these characteristics was C/1980 E1, discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1980. While it was later shown to be a regular comet, C/1980 E1 is now believed to be interstellar, having been kicked out of our solar system by Jupiter’s gravity.

Where did C/2017 U1 come from? While all other comets originate in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune or the Oort Cloud on the far edge of the solar system, this one appeared to be coming from the constellation Lyra, which means it could be orbiting Vega, the star of Carl Sagan’s novel and the movie Contact.

Unfortunately, Bill Gray kills his chances to be a character in the sequel.

“Once one of these objects gets kicked loose, it’ll roam the Milky Way for billions of years. Massive amounts of material were ejected from the solar system when it was formed; much of it is probably still wandering around, having gone around the galaxy over a hundred times. Other stars, we may assume, have similarly scattered bits all over the place.”

The Pan-STARRS observatory

In other words, it could have come from any star in any galaxy. Astronomers believe this is the only interstellar comet they’ll see in their lifetimes so they’re analyzing the heck out of it before it’s gone. The rest of us can see what it looked like using the JPL Small-Body Database Browser (requires Java).

If there’s one interstellar comet, there’s more. Will this finally legitimize the theory of panspermia? Will it convince more kids to become dynamicists?

{ http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

26-10-2017 om 23:26 geschreven door peter  

Whatever the cause is, mysterious and unexplained booming noises keep rattling the skies overhead. I can’t help but feel like something larger is brewing just beneath all of these headlines lately. Mystery booms are nothing new, yet they seem to be happening with increasing regularity lately. Couple that with the many examples of government and corporate secrecy surrounding the impending space war, and it’s enough to make you want to add a new layer to your tin foil hat, dig your bunker a few feet deeper, and restock your supply of canned goods.

“Let’s see… we each need about 1500 calories a day… that’s about 3 cans of beans each…cans last five years… carry the one… Hmm. That’s only about 20,000 cans. Honey! We need another bunker for the cans! Honey!? Where are my cans?!”

The latest in unexplained explosions in the sky comes from America’s northeast, centered around southern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Residents in several counties reported hearing a massive boom in the skies and feeling a tremor on the morning of Wednesday, October 25th, yet the U.S. Geological Survey reported detecting no earthquake activity for either New Jersey or Philadelphia on that day. Military officials in the area likewise offered no explanation for the anomalous booms and said they are unaware of any military activity which could have caused the sounds.

Unless perhaps that military activity was classified or conducted by hostile forces they don’t want us to know are right over our heads.

Several NJ residents said the boom was loud enough to shake both their homes and the ground beneath their feet, saying it felt distinctly like something large hitting the ground. Others said the shaking lasted for several minutes. One New Jersey man reported military jets flying overhead in the minutes following the boom, but it’s unclear if the events are related or if he perhaps mistook other aircraft for military planes.

Naturally, the usual meteorological anomalies like atmospheric inversions have been cited as a cause of these mystery booms, but given all of the other examples of strange noises in the sky lately, I find those explanations as hard to swallow as a weather balloon in Roswell or Lee Harvey Oswald alone in the Texas Schoolbook Repository. Unless, of course, we’re beginning to witness some of the strange and unprecedented effects of runaway climate change, which the proverbial they would likewise want to dismiss or obfuscate. Keep shopping. Watch cable TV. CONSUME.

Some of these secrets are hiding in plain sight. There is likely a lot of military or paramilitary activity going on in space we don’t yet know about.

Of course, as always, there is most likely a perfectly benign and normal explanation for these booms. On the other hand, given all of the current geopolitical tensions and military buildup around the world, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that these booms are the first glimpses of a shadowy space war going on above our heads that we don’t yet know about. If current events show us anything, it’s that we might not be able to trust our government and media outlets as much as we think. Is Oceania still at war with Eurasia? I can’t remember. But hey – there’s a new iPhone out and Pumpkin Spice Lattes® are back on sale! Who needs the news?

{ http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

26-10-2017 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

26-10-2017 om 23:02 geschreven door peter  

The Puzzle of 'Tabby's Star': 9 NASA Explanations for Star's Odd Dimming

Photo Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter

Photo Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter

Photo Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter

Photo Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter

Photo Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter

Photo Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter

Photo Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter

Photo Credit: Stephen McNally, UC Berkeley

26-10-2017 om 18:19 geschreven door peter  

Google using O3b satellites to connect Project Loon over Puerto Rico

by Caleb Henry

WASHINGTON — Google’s experimental high-altitude balloon project is using connectivity from O3b satellites to provide emergency communications in hurricane-ravished Puerto Rico.

O3b owner SES said Oct. 23 that it is providing satellite capacity and a “rapidly deployable” O3b FastConnect terminal in order to connect Google Loons over Puerto Rico to the internet, which then beam 4G/LTE mobile connectivity to people on the ground.

The majority of Puerto Rico’s cellphone towers were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Maria, which struck the U.S. island as a Category 4 storm Sept. 20. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission tallied 95.2 percent of cell sites across the island were knocked out by the storm.µ

Alphabet deployed emergency LTE to Puerto Rico w/ Project Loon in under a month

Google received permission from the FCC on Oct. 7 for the Loon trial run. At the time, 81.9 percent of cell towers on the island were still offline. The FCC’s most recent status report, released Oct. 22, said 66.6 percent of cell sites remain down.

In an interview with SpaceNews Oct. 23, SES Networks CEO Steve Collar said Puerto Rico is the satellite operator’s second time working with Google Loon, the first being in March following flooding in Peru.

“Our target as SES Networks is to have somewhere between half a gig[abit per second link] and a gig[-abit per second link] of connectivity available anywhere in the world within 24 to 48 hours,” he said.

Alastair Westgarth, head of Project Loon, wrote in an Oct. 20 blog post that Loon is working with AT&T to enable texting and internet access in Puerto Rico.

“We’ve never deployed Project Loon connectivity from scratch at such a rapid pace, and we’re grateful for the support of AT&T and the many other partners and organizations that have made this possible,” he wrote.

Collar said setting up the O3b link took slightly longer than SES Network’s stated goal because of the complexity of the disaster response and the uniqueness of pairing satellite with Google Loon.

O3b, owned by SES of Luxembourg, operates a fleet of 12 satellites in equatorial

Along with SES Networks, local telco Liberty Cablevision also assisted in establishing the ground infrastructure for Loon, Westgarth wrote.

Emergency response officials continue to use satellite communications directly in Puerto Rico and the Gulf of Mexico to support relief efforts. Fleet operator Intelsat said Oct. 23 it is donating satellite connectivity through three Kymeta-equipped vehicles with Liberty Global Puerto Rico for the next eight weeks. The FCC says satellite-connected trucks are providing communications services in 11 counties across the island, including Arecibo, home of the Arecibo radio telescope.

{ http://spacenews.com/}

26-10-2017 om 17:40 geschreven door peter  

UFO photographed with cell phone by airline passenger

Posted by: Alejandro Rojas 

A commercial airline passenger on a flight from Toronto to Edmonton spotted a strange bright object appearing to be at the same altitude. He took pictures with a Galaxy S8+ cell phone before the object flew off to the east.

Cropped witness photo.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness submitted the UFO report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) on October 24, 2017, and says the sighting took place on October 19 at around 4pm. The witness says the path of the flight took the aircraft over the U.S. border and he estimates they were over Minnesota when he spotted the object.

Cropped witness photo.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness report reads, verbatim:

I was flying West from Toronto to Edmonton on Oct 19, 2017. We took off from Toronto around 3pm and had been flying for about an hour when I looked out the window and saw this object shining in the distance. 

I took a bunch of pictures with my S8+ a few I zoomed in also. The object then disappeared to the east and that was it. No trails behind it, just gone. 

I checked our flight path and it took us down to the US Canada border so this object would have been over US airspace at 40,000 ft or so. Location Minnesota is an educated estimate of location.

The photos do show a white elongated object in the distance. It is a bit whiter and brighter than the clouds and could be a small cloud or a small bit of contrail from another aircraft. The witness stated that the object was “shining,” indicating it might be a metallic object, and if the object did fly off, that would negate the cloud theory.

Cropped closeup of witness photo.

(Credit: MUFON)

There are five pictures that can be downloaded here: picture 1, picture 2, picture 3, picture 4, picture 5.

The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on this sighting in the comments below.

{ http://www.openminds.tv/ }

26-10-2017 om 14:25 geschreven door peter  

The insect-inspired machine is about 1,000 times lighter than previous aerial-aquatic bots

BY 

MARIAH QUINTANILLA 

AIR AND WATER BENDER  This tiny, buglike machine is the lightest robot that can fly, swim and launch itself from water.

YUFENG CHEN, E. FARRELL HELBLING AND HONGQIANG WANG

A new insect-inspired tiny robot that can move between air and water is a lightweight.

Weighing the same as about six grains of rice, it is the lightest robot that can fly, swim and launch itself from water, an international team of researchers reports October 25 in Science Robotics. The bot is about 1,000 times lighter than other previously developed aerial-aquatic robots. In the future, this kind of aquatic flier could be used to perform search-and-rescue operations, sample water quality or simply explore by air or sea.

To hover, the bot flaps its translucent wings 220 to 300 times per second, somewhat faster than a housefly. Once submerged, the tiny robot surfaces by slowly flapping its wings at about nine beats per second to maintain stability underwater.

For the tricky water-to-air transition, the bot does some chemistry. After water has collected inside the machine’s central container, the bot uses a device to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gas. As the chamber fills with gas, the buoyancy lifts the vehicle high enough to hoist the wings out of the water. An onboard “sparker” then creates a miniature explosion that sends the bot rocketing about 37 centimeters — roughly the average length of a men’s shoe box — into the air. Microscopic holes at the top of the chamber release excess pressure, preventing a loss of robot limbs.

Still, the design needs work: The machine doesn’t land well, and it can only pierce the water’s surface with the help of soap, which lowers the surface tension. More importantly, the experiment points to the possibilities of incorporating different forms of locomotion into a single robot, says study coauthor Robert Wood, a bioengineer at Harvard University.

BUGGING OUT Not only can this insectlike robot fly and swim, but it also splits water into hydrogen and oxygen gas, which the bot ignites to propel itself from the water.

Citations

Y. Chen et al. A biologically inspired, flapping-wing, hybrid aerial-aquatic microrobot. Science Robotics. Published online October 25, 2017. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aao5619.

Further Reading

M. Temming. Origami outfits help these bots change tasks quickly. Science News. Vol. 192, October 28, 2017. p. 13.

M. Temming. In these bot hookups, the machines meld their minds. Science News Online, September 12, 2017.

M. Rosen. Bat robot takes wing. Science News. Vol. 191, March 4, 2017, p. 9.

S. Schwartz. Robot springs off water. Science News Online, July 30, 2015.

{ https://www.sciencenews.org/ }

26-10-2017 om 14:06 geschreven door peter  

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26-10-2017 om 13:11 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers discover Interstellar Comet or is it an Interstellar Alien Spacecraft!

Astronomers using the PanSTARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii spotted for the first time an unusual space object what they believe is a comet that does not orbit the sun. According to the Minor Planet Centerfurther observations are needed to confirm but this space object may be the first clear case of an interstellar comet.

As the astronomers never have seen a comet that did not come from somewhere within the solar system, either the Oort Cloud or the Kuiper Belt they believe, due to the highly eccentric orbit of the object, that it came from beyond the solar system, from the direction of the star Vega, in the constellation Lyra.

The space object named as Comet C.2017 U1 has a diameter of about 160 meters and was moving at an enormous speed of 26 km per second!

The object came within 38,000,000 km of our sun, passing the Earth on October 14, 2017 at a distance of 24,000,000 km, which is about half the distance to Mars, before the Sun’s gravity hurled it back outward.

Then according to the Minor Planet Center, on October 25, 2017 in very deep stacked images taken at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) the object was found to show no presence whatsoever of any cometary nature. The object was renamed A/2017 U1, becoming the first comet to ever be re-designated as an asteroid.

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26-10-2017 om 13:04 geschreven door peter  

Former Area 51 Insider Claims US Navy Recorded Video Of A UFO That Defied Physics

A strange unidentified flying object reportedly outmaneuvered many F-18 pilots, a move that apparently defied physics. The incident took place during a terrifying encounter, according to an ex-senior U.S. national security chief who had time at the mysterious Area 51 facility.

Chris Mellon further said that U.S. Navy personnel recorded the UFO on video from the USS Nimitz during the encounter that lasted for several hours.

Mellon claimed to have served the U.S. federal government for almost 20 years in a series of national security positions in the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Mellon is one of former senior government insiders who have gone on record about unidentified flying objects after joining To The Stars Academy, a truth-seeking organization set up by former frontman of Blink 182, Tom DeLonge.

Mr. Mellon, who was also claiming to have work on classified projects at Area 51 in Nevada, detailed the incredible event that took place off the coast of San Diego in broad daylight.

He said warship Nimitz with a crew of thousands was operating in the area with Aegis class cruiser USS Princeton. All of a sudden a UFO appeared on the radar heading directly towards the battlegroup. The aircraft did not respond to radio calls, so the two F-18s were getting ready to intercept the target. While the F-18s came near to the bizarre aerial thing, the pilots saw the object in question that had no wings or exhaust.

According to Mellon, it was white, oblong, around 40 feet long and about 12 feet thick. He said one pilot tried to pursue the UFO while his wingman stayed high in the sky. The pilots were reportedly astonished to see the strange object reorient itself toward the approaching F-18.

After a series of strategic maneuvers, the UFO suddenly took a position directly behind the approaching F-18. The pilots managed to get a gun camera footage and infrared imagery of the object. They were clearly outmatched by a technology they had just seen, according to Mellon.

He said the object remained in the area for several hours after the pilots returned to the Nimitz. More F18s were dispatched but with the same results. Mellon suggested the U.S. Congress should investigate the events.

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26-10-2017 om 12:48 geschreven door peter  

Bright UFO seen and filmed over Mexico

Here’s one new video of a bright unidentified object hovering in the sky above Mexico. This was filmed earlier this month (October 2017).

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26-10-2017 om 12:43 geschreven door peter