Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Deze wetenschappers denken een piramide te hebben ontdekt op Mars. Lees hier over hun opmerkelijke vondst
Deze wetenschappers denken een piramide te hebben ontdekt op Mars. Lees hier over hun opmerkelijke vondst
Al lange tijd vragen wetenschappers zich af of er leven is of ooit is geweest op Mars. The Cydonia Institute heeft nu afbeeldingen gevonden van vermeende kunstmatige structuren op het Marsoppervlak.
In de kloof Candor Chasma op de rode planeet troffen de onderzoekers een driehoekige piramidevormige formatie aan, die sterk lijkt op de zogeheten Reuleaux-piramide.
De formatie is duidelijk te zien op vijf foto’s die zijn gemaakt door de Mars Global Surveyor en de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Intelligentie
Volgens de geologen en aardwetenschappers zijn er twee mogelijke verklaringen. De formatie kan zijn ontstaan als gevolg van natuurlijke mechanismen of zijn achtergelaten door een intelligentie.
(MRO/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
Het ontwerp van de driehoekige piramide is uitzonderlijk als je kijkt naar de geometrie en symmetrie, aldus de onderzoekers.
Ze merken op dat soortgelijke monumenten op aarde worden gebouwd door moderne ingenieurs en worden gevonden in landen als China.
Meer foto’s
Ondanks natuurlijke afzettingen en erosie zijn de zijden van de formatie erg symmetrisch. De onderzoekers achten de kans dan ook klein dat de piramide is ontstaan door natuurlijke processen.
De kans is groot, zo stellen ze, dat de formatie een kunstmatige oorsprong heeft. “We raden de NASA en de Universiteit van Arizona aan er meer foto’s van te maken met de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,” zeggen ze.
Belangrijke kandidaat
Als ook die foto’s wijzen in de richting van een kunstmatige oorsprong, zou de formatie een belangrijke kandidaat moeten zijn voor het onderzoek naar potentiële archeologische voorwerpen op Mars, besluit het team.
Did Ancient Mars Host an Alien Civilization? US Congressman Asks NASA Panel (Video)
Did Ancient Mars Host an Alien Civilization? US Congressman Asks NASA Panel (Video)
Is It Possible That Ancient Mars Was Host To An Alien Civilization?
This is exactly the question that Rep. Dana Rohrbacher, R-Calif., asked of a NASA panel of planetary scientists on July 18, 2017. To be clear, there is no official evidence that this is the case. Mars, as far as we know, did not host any alien civilization in the past.
Mars Was Very Different Billions of Years Ago
The Mars we know today is not the Mars of the past. Ancient Mars likely had rivers, lakes, and possibly oceans. It’s not an impossible scenario to believe that life, in some form, once existed there. That being said, the existence a full-blown intelligent civilization is another story. It took earth almost 3.8 billion years to develop intelligent life. Mars is only about 4.5 billion years old. Life would have had to begin very early in the planet’s history to have enough time to develop into something capable of meeting our definition of a ‘civilization’.
Based on what we know, ancient Mars could have looked something like this, especially if life had taken hold.
Ancient Martian Alien Civilization: Unlikely, But Not Impossible
As a rule of logic, it’s nearly impossible to disprove a negative. Though the panel of NASA scientists said it would be extremely unlikely, they didn’t quite say it was an impossibility. We understand a bit about Martian history, but our scope of research is obviously limited. If life on Mars had developed and then suffered some extinction event a few billion years ago, there would be very little evidence left today. There’s also the question as to whether humans would be able to recognize alien life at all.
What Convinced Congressman Rohrbacher to Ask This Question?
Judging from the reaction of the young man sitting behind the congressman when he finally asked the question, it’s likely that he was asking on his behalf. It’s no secret that Congressman Rohrbacher isn’t a scientist. He does, however, sit on the Committee on Science Space and Technology and has been consistently pro-NASA relative to his other Republican counterparts. He is also keen on having NASA send humans back to the moon.
The Video
You can see the congressman’s question in the video below as well as the response from NASA scientist Dr. Kenneth Farley. Farley is quick to correct Rohrbacher in that Mars was very different billions of years ago vs. thousands of years ago as the question was posed. A few billion years is a long time. If an alien civilization existed on Mars billions of years ago, the time has most likely wiped that slate clean.
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EXCLUSIF : Un Ex-agent britannique en charge d’enquêter sur les OVNIs dit que les Extraterrestres EXISTENT et qu’il y a une DISSIMULATION en cours
EXCLUSIF : Un Ex-agent britannique en charge d’enquêter sur les OVNIs dit que les Extraterrestres EXISTENT et qu’il y a une DISSIMULATION en cours
EXCLUSIF : Un Ex-agent britannique en charge d’enquêter sur les OVNIs dit que les Extraterrestres EXISTENT et qu’il y a une DISSIMULATION en cours
UN ENQUÊTEUR qui a passé des années à se pencher sur le phénomène OVNI pour le Ministère de la Défense (MoD) a parlé exclusivement à Express.co.uk sur les revendications que des aliens intelligents vivent ici sur Terre et l’histoire explosive est dissimulée par les dirigeants mondiaux.
Nick Pope a travaillé pour le ministère britannique de la Défense de 1985 à 2006, et entre 1991 et 1994, il a mené des enquêtes approfondies sur toute menace potentielle de défense posée par le phénomène des OVNI.
Le projet a été stoppé et il n’y a pas eu de menace.
Aujourd’hui basé aux Etats-Unis, M. Pope parcourt le globe en prenant la parole lors de conférences sur les ovnis et les extraterrestres, tout en décrivant dans des documentaires ce qu’il a découvert.
Cependant, lorsqu’il s’agit de révéler ses véritables croyances sur l’existence d’extraterrestres intelligents et leur présence sur Terre – mais caché par un camouflage à l’échelle planétaire, comme le pensent des milliers de théoriciens et de prétendus chercheurs de vérité – M. Pope a toujours joué un rôle de premier plan.
Pendant des années, des croyants aux extraterrestres ont affirmé que le gouvernement américain, et peut-être d’autres, ont rencontré des aliens de passage sur Terre et leur ont permis d’opérer dans des bases souterraines cachées, d’où ils effectuent des recherches sur notre planète.
En échange de cela, le gouvernement reçoit la technologie qui leur a permis d’arriver ici.
Diverses théories suggèrent même qu’une de nombreuses espèces extraterrestres vivent ici, y compris des reptiliens, des gris et des “grands blancs” ou pléiadiens de type humain.
L’astronaute de la NASA Edgar Mitchell et l’ancien ministre canadien de la Défense, Paul Hellyer, font partie des plus grands adeptes de ces théories.
Express.co.uk a demandé à M. Pope de dévoiler pour la première fois son point de vue sur cette théorie et d’autres théories, et il ne s’est pas retenu.
L’homme de 52 ans a révélé qu’il est convaincu que les extraterrestres existent, quelque part dans l’Univers.
Toutefois, dans un coup porté aux chasseurs d’ovnis, il a déclaré qu’il n’était PAS convaincu qu’il y ait eu des preuves “fumantes” qu’aucun d’entre eux n’ait jamais visité la Terre.
Et, il a catégoriquement dit qu’il ne croit AUCUNE des théories du complot que des extraterrestres secrètement cachées dans des bunkers top-secrets travaillent conjointement avec les gouvernements mondiaux.
Scientifiquement, il n’est pas convaincu que les extraterrestres pourraient même atteindre la Terre.
S’il y a des OVNIs provenant d’autres planètes, ils “ne seraient que des sondes automatisées ou des engins contrôlés par l’intelligence artificielle”, a-t-il ajouté.
Les États-Unis avaient auparavant nié tout intérêt pour les OVNI depuis les années 1960, mais le Pentagone a maintenant confirmé l’existence du Programme avancé d’identification des menaces aériennes (AATIP).
M. Pope a déclaré: “Comme la plupart des gens qui s’intéressent au phénomène OVNI, j’ai réfléchi soigneusement à mes croyances à la lumière des révélations récentes concernant le projet de surveillance des Ovnis du Pentagone.”
“L’histoire était sans doute très importante. Le gouvernement américain a constamment déclaré qu’il ne s’intéressait pas aux OVNIs et que les observations d’OVNIs n’étaient pas prises en considération.”
“Nous savons maintenant qu’il y avait un intérêt officiel et que les observations faisaient l’objet d’une enquête.”
“De plus, le projet AATIP du Pentagone avait accumulé des preuves intrigantes: témoignages de militaires, vidéos d’avions militaires poursuivant des objets non identifiés, alliages et autres matériaux qui proviennent d’incidents d’OVNIs non spécifiés.”
Il a dit que certaines personnes impliquées dans ce projet du Pentagone en sont venues à croire qu’un certain nombre de ces objets non identifiés étaient d’origine extraterrestre.
M. Pope a ajouté: “C’est une grande affaire, et cela devrait conduire à un recadrage du débat sur les OVNIs. Pour le moment, cependant, il n’y a toujours pas de preuve définitivement concluante.”
“A bien des égards, l’AATIP n’était pas différent du projet du gouvernement britannique sur les OVNIs, que j’ai dirigé dans les années 90: nous aussi avons eu de nombreux cas avec des témoins militaires; nous avons eu des photos et des vidéos et de temps à autre, nous avons discuté de la possibilité que certaines de ces observations soient d’origine extraterrestre”.
Alors, qu’en est-il de la question?
Il a dit: “Je ne peux toujours pas exclure cette possibilité, et j’aimerais que ce soit vrai: le monde serait beaucoup plus intéressant avec des extraterrestres que sans.”
“Cependant, bien que j’aie vu des preuves intrigantes, je n’ai pas encore vu de preuves définitives.”
“En fin de compte, même si je suis sûr qu’il y a de la vie ailleurs dans l’univers, je ne sais pas si on nous rend visite ou non.”
“Si c’est le cas, je soupçonne qu’il s’agit de sondes automatisées, ou d’engins exploités par une sorte d’intelligence artificielle.”
“Même s’il y a des extraterrestres de chair et de sang quelque part, le rayonnement cosmique et l’immensité du temps nécessaire pour parcourir des distances interstellaires excluent probablement les formes de vie biologique qui font de tels voyages – à moins qu’il n’y ait un moyen de contourner ce qui semble être la barrière absolue de la vitesse de la lumière.”
M. Pope a dit pour l’instant que des concepts comme la déformation de l’espace-temps ou l’utilisation de vortex “sont de la science-fiction et non des faits scientifiques, donc si nous recevons la visite d’extraterrestres, il s’agira probablement d’intelligence artificielle et non d’entités biologiques”.
A dash cam video caught the fireball as it made its way down to Earth.
Commuters and drivers had something other than the road to watch Wednesday night.
Motorists not only in the Fort but across most of northern Alberta spotted a flash of bright light in the sky around 5:22 p.m. Soon afterwards, videos of the event started to pop up online. One of those was the Fort’s own Corbet Kratko.
He was heading home from work when he spotted the fireball. Thankfully, he had his dash cam running.
“I thought it was pretty cool,” he said. “I was thinking to myself ‘I wish I had a camera on me’. I saw it and phoned my wife and said ‘I just saw a meteor. It’s pretty neat. I wish I had a picture for you’ and just as I’m saying that to her I thought ‘wait a minute, my dash cam’.”
Kratko said he’s seen a few meteorites in his lifetime or at least partially including the one that flew over Alberta back in 2008 and light up the night sky. He said he was outside at the time and caught how bright the fireball was.
Frank Florian, director, planetarium and space sciences with the TELUS World of Science in Edmonton, said the meteorite that came down was brighter than Venus when it came through the planet’s atmosphere. Despite what some might believe, Florian confirmed what people were seeing was a meteorite and not a UFO.
He believes the meteorite mostly likely landed just north of Fort McMurray.
“When you get a bright fireball like this passing through Earth’s atmosphere from space, it does create quite a stir especially when it occurs during a time when people are using transport going home,” he said. “It’s not completely rare and in fact during the spring period...there’s more fireballs seen during the spring time than any other time of the year. There was another one in Michigan the night before. You might be saying are these associated? The fact is there’s things flying down on the Earth every single day. It just so happens the Earth has a lot of water, a lot of uninhabited places so a lot this stuff gets unnoticed.”
Florian likened the meteorite coming into Earth’s atmosphere like a brick hitting a solid wall. The meteor then breaks apart and when it hits the air, it causes that streak of light. He said air that can’t get out of the way fast enough heats up and causes a flash.
With people have more access to technology like dash cams, Florian said more people are coming forward with videos of fireballs. He said more eyes on the sky only helps astronomers.
Since the metoerite fell during the winter, Florian suspected it will be difficult to get the to possible crash site. He urged anyone who might be snowmobiling in the Fort McMurray area to keep an eye out for possible meteorite fragments.
Florian also asked any witnesses to file a report at the Meteorite and Impact Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency website. Just scroll down the left side and look for the section on fireballs.
It would be quite exciting to listen to answers about aliens and UFOs from somebody who had really flown to space and had spent some time in Cosmos. When NASA astronaut Col. Jack Fischer was asked about aliens and UFOs and what other astronauts think about the extraterrestrial life and its existence, Fischer answer was quite simple but interesting. He said that he had not seen any aliens or UFOs yet. He said that he had the wish of encountering aliens or UFOs and if he would have managed to do so, then he would have taken photos. I haven’t! I wish I had. If I had, I would’ve taken pictures; I’d be rich, but I haven’t yet,” said Fischer.
But Fischer believes that there might be other worlds in the universe where there is possibility of the presence of alien life. According to him, as there are innumerable numbers of stars in the Universe, it should not be confirmed that our Earth is the only bearer of life. Fisher stated, “I definitely believe that there are others out there because when you see how many stars there are you can’t possibly think we’re the only ones.”
As Fisher has said that he believes that there is chance of the presence of alien life and UFOs in other stars systems, it can be said that like him many more astronauts might have the same belief about aliens. Astronaut Fisher told all these things at the NASA Glenn Research Centre where he addressed hundreds of people and answered many questions related to space, Mars mission as well as aliens.
When asked about his take on missions to Mars, Fischer said that astronauts will soon travel to Mars and that the path to the Red Planet runs right through Cleveland. He said that he is eagerly waiting to see the summer testing of NASA’s new and most highly advanced Orion spacecraft which will be sent to Mars in the upcoming days. Fisher has spent four and a half months in the International Space Station and came back to earth in the month of September last year.
Sovershenno Sekretno, a very popular and respected Russian newspaper, published an article in its October 2011 issue. The author is Vladimir Kucharyants, writer and journalist. The title is (in English) Worlds of Professor Ludvig.
Professor Genrikh Mavrikiyevich Ludvig was a highly educated Russian scientist, an inmate of Stalin’s concentration camps, a philosopher, a scholar of ancient languages, daring architect, a teacher, a freethinker who lived in the stifling ideological climate of Communism…a person who did not break down under enormous pressure, torture, and betrayal.
Vladimir Kucharyants was his student in the 1960s, but only in recent years has discovered the scope of Professor’s Ludvig’s knowledge, ideas, and legacy. There is much more that needs to be discovered, and the Russian writer continues his quest. He is still not sure who Genrikh Ludvig really was: a phenomenally educated scientist who possessed encyclopedic knowledge; a mystic; a person who was ordained into secret knowledge.
Those who research the UFO phenomenon and ancient astronauts hypothesis will learn from the Sovershenno Sekretno article that Professor Ludvig was able to study amazing ancient manuscripts during his sojourn in the Vatican’s library (in the 1920s). There he read about extraterrestrials who had visited the Earth in antiquity; subsequently, he began his research of Maya civilization, and interpreted their symbols to be spaceships and spacesuits. In addition, Professor Ludvig mentioned that the library contained manuscripts about alchemy and ancient codes.
The Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library.
(Credit: Maus-Trauden/Wikimedia Commons)
When the NKVD (KGB) arrested him in 1938, Professor Ludvig was accused of being a Vatican (but also Turkish, Polish, German and American) spy. He survived the concentration camps and torture, and carried his incredible knowledge, language skills (he was fluent in 20 languages, including ancient ones), ideas and beliefs with him, through the years full of suffering and ordeals. He was informed on or denounced to the secret police by his wife.
Professor Ludvig prison picture.
(Credit: Sovershenno Sekretno)
Kucharyants mentions that Professor Ludvig showed his students photocopies of the Vatican’s ancient manuscripts ( containing information about extraterrestrials that had visited our planet) with drawings, described to them the hidden essence of ancient myths; he told them of the Fiery Pillar that destroyed an advanced ancient civilization; he showed the students photos of the fortress walls discovered in Babylon, melted with the horrendous temperature and believed that nuclear blasts could cause this.
Professor Ludvig was very much interested in Sumerian civilization and possessed great knowledge about it; he discussed the esoteric meaning of pyramids in Egypt (he considered them to be sort of “energy machines”); he studied the Etruscan civilization; he knew about Cabbala.
A Gulag labor camp.
(Credit: www.gulag.eu)
Professor Ludvig was also an inventor, and designer of military technology. He helped his country, even during his imprisonment. During his days as an inmate of the GULAG, during World War II, he had at least 17 inventions to his name: such as the construction of military airfields in marshy areas; a noiseless underground station for testing aerial engines; a bomb thrower for close distance tank warfare; and many more. His reward was extension of the prison sentence in 1942 for another ten years, after he was denounced for his criticism of Stalin’s policies inside the concentration camps.
Professor Ludvig in the 20s.
(Credit: Sovershenno Sekretno)
Ludvig knew the secrets of herbs and their esoteric medicinal properties, and once this knowledge helped him survive, when he had to cure the wife of the concentration camp commander, or face death.
There is much more information in the Sovershenno Sekretno article (for example, his friendship with another great and highly talented Russian scientist Alexander Chizevsky, whose work I have described in my articles). I urge all those who are interested in the ancient astronauts hypothesis to learn more about Professor Ludvig. I will also try to discover more, although there are few sources available.
Genrikh Mavrikiyevich Ludvig who passed away in 1973, had fantastic intellect, and made incredible discoveries. I am sure his former student Vladimir Kucharyants, who was able to uncover Professor’s notes and writings from the 1930s, will find more documents and materials.
With the recent revelation by the Pentagon and their admission that there has been an ongoing program to investigate Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon; the fact that Montana has had several cases of interest within that context came to mind.
First and foremost is the Mariana UFO incident from August 1950 when Nicolas Mariana filmed 16 mm color movies of two UFOs that appeared as shiny, circular craft. It has withstood years of research conducted by a slew of investigators, including the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), the Air Force, and Dr. Robert M. L. Baker, as well as others, without being debunked, and is believed to be one of the strongest cases supporting the existence of unidentified flying objects and remains unexplained.
Another extraordinary case in Montana happened at Malmstrom Air Force base in March 1967 when two maintenance crews reported seeing UFOs in the early morning hours over the E-Flight (missile) silos. Later that morning, one of the Minuteman missiles had gone off alert; meaning it had become inoperable. This was at one of the two sites where the maintenance crews had been stationed during the night.
Thinking this to be due to the crews doing maintenance or perhaps even neglecting their duty, crew commander, Figal, looked into the incident. Just as inexplicably, the entire flight of ten ICBMS went inoperable also; with all the missiles being reported a “No-Go” at this point. After a check was conducted, it was found that each of the missiles had gone off alert status due to a guidance and control fault and not due to a power outage. It has been conjectured that perhaps the UFO had caused the missiles to become inoperable, as the cause was unknown.
Malmstrom Air Force Base missile maintenance team removes the upper section of an ICBM at a Montana missile site.
(Credit: U.S. Air Force/ John Parie)
I discovered this next case, Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Case #55741, after I became MUFON’s State Director of the Montana chapter through the Case Assistance Group. I was doing a bit of inventory and getting some background information on the types of cases that Montana had been dealing with. Even though I had been a Field Investigator for Michigan for over seven years, this was my first stint as a State Director, thus I wanted to be as prepared as I could. Montana, with its “big sky,” fewer city lights to block out the stars and breath-taking mountain ranges, is a sky-watcher’s dream and definitely different than what I was used to living in an urban area.
This incident, listed on the database as a CE-2, happened at around midnight on May 10, 2004 when an entire Army Special Forces unit saw an unknown spherical shaped object through night vision goggles while on security duty in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kabul, the largest city in Afghanistan, is the capital of Kabul Province and is located along the eastern sector of the country. It has a population of 3.3 million people and is the largest city in Afghanistan. Geographically it sits 5876 feet above sea level between the Hindu Kush Mountains along the Kabul River. The climate, which tends to be cooler than rest of the Southwest Asia due to the elevation, is semi-arid with most of the precipitation occurring in the winter months, usually as snow.
Kabul, Afghanistan
(Credit: Google Maps)
In his report, the Montana resident stated that while out on detail in Kabul, Afghanistan, he and an entire Army unit of fifteen men witnessed a UFO. The witness stated he was unsure of the exact date but felt it was around May 10th of that year. He stated that this craft was “huge” and was so close they could have thrown a rock at it and hit it. He said it seemed to come out of nowhere and floated over one of the mountains from the south which was east of the base they built. The object made no noise. The bizarre thing was that he could not see it with the naked eye, but it could be seen through his night vision goggles. He described the object has having the appearance of a light bulb but was a sphere and was about the size of the moon in comparison. He said it had a translucent appearance but was glowing, lighting up the surrounding area with its lights. When they saw it, they stopped and looked in amazement and awe.
As they watched it, it was hovering about 50-100 feet in the air, moving slowly about five to ten mph. It was about 100 yards from the outside perimeter of the base camp and as they were watching the craft, their commander was at the base camp, about a quarter of a mile to the southwest of their position. The commander could also see the object. He got on the radio and announced to the unit to “get back to work, its nothing,” meaning the craft they were looking at.
The squad leader was in the passenger seat and his friend was driving. He stated they were “pulling roaming security” from one traffic control point to the other from the south of the base to the north of their base camp. After their commander told them to go back to work, they watched this craft for about ten more minutes before they had to turn around and head back north. The craft stopped about ¼-mile northeast of their position and appeared to stop over campfire that some locals had made.
The UFO then shot out a beam at their camp, but they couldn’t see the base of the fire from where they were, just the flickering of it on the back of the mountain. They could not see what was happening down on the ground with that beam of light. In the meantime, their squad leader stopped watching and wanted to go back to work, so the specialist turned the Humvee around and they started driving north to the north T.C.P.
US Army (USA) Soldiers use a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) to cross a river during a fact-finding mission, in the Organ Province of Afghanistan, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM.
(Credit: US Department of Defense)
The witness stated he wanted to keep watching the object, but they lost sight of it when they left because a hill blocked their view; which was the same hill that blocked the beam they had seen. After a minute of driving north he observed that the object had taken off from over the local’s campsite. He stated it took off at a rapid speed, making in a 90-degree angle straight up until they could no longer see it. To him it appeared that the lights on the craft seemed to have a delayed reaction because the craft took off so fast, what he said was an alarming rate. It made dashes of light across the sky as it did, then it was gone. His report to MUFON was the first time that he had told anyone about this incident besides his family.
William Puckett, was the lead investigator for this case and did an excellent job investigating this reported sighting. He concluded at that time that this was an Unknown and closed the case on April 10, 2014. I looked over the information that was listed on the report and listened to the audio clip interview given by the witness. I felt him to be credible, giving good details in a coherent, factual manner. I didn’t detect anything in his manner of speaking that would indicate intentional deception.
Given the increased interest in cases involving military personnel with the revelation that the Pentagon has had a program to investigate UFOs, maybe this next case needs to be looked into further. One thing that stood out when listening to his interview was that he mentioned being in the Paktika Province of Afghanistan, not Kabul and that the mission was secret. Another question I had was that if the object could only be seen through infrared glasses, were they all wearing them? He states that all fifteen of them saw the object. Also notable is the fact that his commander, who was at the base camp, was seeing the object too a quarter of a mile away, so it’s possible that there were many more witnesses to this object.
As it is stands now, it is just one of the thousands of cases reported by military personnel who have either witnessed or interacted with a UFO. While doing research of the MUFON CMS database, 157 such cases were found where the military was somehow involved; either by witnesses stating UFOs were chased by military craft, usually F-16s, or former military personnel were reporting their own experiences to MUFON. Thus, like those 157 cases that I personally found amongst the files, this case remains unknown. Nevertheless, this case stands out as significant if only for the fact that these men were Special Forces Security Unit, and by virtue of their training, were excellent and reliable observers; even if they hadn’t been on duty and on high alert. While it is only the opinion of this Field Investigator, and no supporting evidence has been found, like videos or photos, it might be worthwhile to make further attempt at contacting the four others listed in the report in an effort to get a clearer picture of this sighting. While these three cases may be exceptionable, they may not be the last.
Lunar Fountain? Accessible Ice Could Lurk in Moon's Lava Tubes
Lunar Fountain? Accessible Ice Could Lurk in Moon's Lava Tubes
By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor
New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) suggest there is an underground network of lava tubes beneath the lunar surface that could offer astronauts easy access to water.
The stunning new photos show multiple small pits in a large impact crater known as the Philolaus Crater, which is located near the north pole of the moon. Researchers said these pits are likely lava tube "skylights" — entrances to underground tunnels that were once filled with lava.
Ancient volcanic deposits on the moon suggest the lunar interior has a substantial amount of water.
Credit: Olga Prilipko Huber
The underground tunnels could also provide access to subsurface ice, and in turn, water. Astronauts would therefore be able to use this water resource during future missions to the moon, said a new study from the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute and the Mars Institute. [Photos: The Search for Water on the Moon]
"The highest-resolution images available for Philolaus Crater do not allow the pits to be identified as lava tube skylights with 100 percent certainty, but we are looking at good candidates considering simultaneously their size, shape, lighting conditions and geologic setting," Pascal Lee, planetary scientist at the SETI Institute and the Mars Institute, said in a statement.
This series of images shows the location of some of the newly-discovered potential lava tube skylights at Philolaus Crater, near the moon's North Pole.
The Philolaus Crater is approximately 43 miles (70 kilometers) wide and located about 340 miles (550 km) from the moon's north pole. The pits appear to be small, rimless depressions, measuring between 50 and 100 feet across (15 to 30 meters), with completely shadowed interiors, according to the statement.
The pits identified on the floor of the Philolaus Crater are located along sections of winding channels thought to be collapsed lava tubes, also known as sinuous rilles.
Earlier research identified over 200 pits across the moon's surface, but the new images are the first to identify possible skylights located in the moon's polar region, where water ice accumulates, the study said. Therefore, the newfound skylights would offer easier access to subsurface ice, alleviating the need to excavate the lunar surface, the researchers said.
"This discovery is exciting and timely as we prepare to return to the moon with humans," Bill Diamond, president and CEO of the SETI Institute, said in the statement. "It also reminds us that our exploration of planetary worlds is not limited to their surface and must extend into their mysterious interiors."
Formed about 1.1 billion years ago, Philolaus Crater is relatively young, which makes it a great target for studying the moon's recent evolution, the researchers said in the statement.
Lava tube skylight candidates at Philolaus Crater near the moon's North Pole.
Credit: NASA/Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/SETI Institute/Mars Institute/Pascal Lee
Also, the crater is located on the nearside of the moon, which means that it would offer future lunar missions the benefit of direct communications with Earth, according to the statement.
Going forward, the researchers plan to further investigate Philolaus Crater to confirm whether or not the pits are lava tube skylights, and if the underground network of tubes actually contains water ice.
"This is an exciting possibility that a new generation of caving astronauts or robotic spelunkers could help address," Lee said. "Exploring lava tubes on the moon will also prepare us for the exploration of lava tubes on Mars. There, we will face the prospect of expanding our search for life into the deeper underground of Mars where we might find environments that are warmer, wetter and more sheltered than at the surface."
Their findings were presented Jan. 11 at NASA's Lunar Science for Landed Missions Workshop, which is held at the Ames Research Center.
Colored areas on this map show spots with elevated water content compared with surrounding terrain on the moon's surface. Yellow and red indicate the richest water content.
Credit: Milliken lab/Brown University
Editor's Note:This article was corrected to note that the potential lava tubes were sighted by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), not Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Earth Resides in Oddball Solar System, Alien Worlds Show
Earth Resides in Oddball Solar System, Alien Worlds Show
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
The Kepler-11 system has a sun-like star with six orbiting planets.
Credit: Tim Pyle/NASA
Our solar system may be an oddball in the universe. A new study using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope shows that in most cases, exoplanets orbiting the same star have similar sizes and regular spacing between their orbits.
By contrast, our own solar system has a range of planetary sizes and distances between neighbors. The smallest planet, Mercury, is about one-third the size of Earth — and the biggest planet, Jupiter, is roughly 11 times the diameter of Earth. There also are very different spacings between individual planets, particularly the inner planets.
This means our solar system may have formed differently than other solar systems did, the research team suggested, although more observations are needed to learn what the different mechanisms were. [The Most Intriguing Alien Planet Discoveries of 2017]
"The planets in a system tend to be the same size and regularly spaced, like peas in a pod. These patterns would not occur if the planet sizes or spacings were drawn at random," Lauren Weiss, the study's lead author and an astrophysicist at the University of Montreal, said in a statement.
The research team examined 355 stars that had a total of 909 planets, which periodically transit across their faces (as seen from Earth). The planets are between 1,000 and 4,000 light-years away from Earth.
After running a statistical analysis, the team found that a system with a small planet would tend to have other small planets nearby — and vice-versa, with big planets tending to have big neighbors. These extrasolar systems also had regular orbital spacing between the planets.
"The similar sizes and orbital spacing of planets have implications for how most planetary systems form," researchers said in the statement. "In classic planet-formation theory, planets form in the protoplanetary disk that surrounds a newly formed star. The planets might form in compact configurations with similar sizes and a regular orbital spacing, in a manner similar to the newly observed pattern in exoplanetary systems."
In our own solar system, however, the story is very different. The four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) are very widely spaced apart. The team pointed to evidence from other research that Jupiter and Saturn may have disrupted the structure of the young solar system. While the statement did not specify how, several other research studies have examined the movements of these giant planets and their potential impact on the solar system.
Each of the exoplanets examined in the study was originally found by Kepler, which launched in 2009 and continues to send data today. But more-detailed information was obtained with the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii; Weiss is a member of the California-Kepler Survey team there, which is examining the light signatures of thousands of planets discovered by Kepler.
Weiss said she plans a follow-up study at Keck to look for Jupiter-like planets in multiplanet systems. The aim is to better understand if the presence of a Jupiter-size planet would alter the position of other planets in the same system.
"Regardless of their outer populations, the similarity of planets in the inner regions of extrasolar systems requires an explanation," researchers said in the statement. "If the deciding factor for planet sizes can be identified, it might help determine which stars are likely to have terrestrial planets that are suitable for life."
Mars hogs the spotlight. But nearly half of all sun-like stars are predicted to harbor Venus-type planets that most likely are lurking just inside the inner edge of any given solar system’s habitable zone.
Credit: NASA
Global view of Venus captured in the ultraviolet spectrum by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft.
Trouble is, sixty years into the Space Age, planetary scientists are still largely clueless about how the temperature and pressure vary with altitude; the dynamics of its deep atmosphere as well as its planetary interior. Understanding these two key points, say astronomers, could help them explain how our own Venus morphed from what four billion years ago might have been a planetary Valhalla into a real hellhole. That is, a planet with temperatures approaching 735 degrees Kelvin at the surface, surface pressures 92 times that of Earth and an atmosphere that is 96.5 percent carbon dioxide.
Yet understanding these two key points remain crucial to interpreting data from potential extrasolar earths and super-earths at the inner edge of extrasolar habitable zones. That is, the nearest point where such terrestrial planets can maintain liquid water and surface temperatures that would foster clement conditions conducive to the onset of life as we know it.
Without a reliable research baseline for Venus, upcoming missions like NASA’s TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will produce data that researchers may not be able to accurately interpret. That is, if we are ever going to be able to say with any certainty when, why and how long any given Venus-type planet across the galaxy may have had liquid water and clement weather.
As I noted here previously, as a star’s luminosity grows over time, Venus-type planets are briefly in the habitable sweet spot early in their history. That is, before their stars’ growing luminosity drives water off its surface and out of its atmosphere and turns what may have been a promising climate into a runaway greenhouse of the sort we see on our own Venus.
It’s a problem outlined in a new paper just published on the academic physics research website arXiv.org. "Venus: The Making of an Uninhabitable World" was submitted by scientists from the U.S., Canada and NASA in response to a solicitation by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for white papers regarding the future of astrobiological research.
Stephen Kane, the paper’s lead author and a planetary astrophysicist at the University of California at Riverside and colleagues, argue that this forthcoming plethora of new data on exo-Venuses needs corroboration and verification using data on our own Venus. Trouble is, the kind of data from our solar system’s Venus doesn’t yet exist.
As the authors note, “an improved sampling of pressure, temperature, composition, and dynamics of the Venusian atmosphere as a function of latitude would aid enormously in our ability to study exoplanetary atmospheres.” They note that in particular, planetary scientists need new direct measurements of the deuterium to hydrogen ratios within and below our sister planet’s clouds in order to better constrain how much water was actually present during Venus’ storied history.
In terms of where things went wrong, Kane argues that we do have a better understanding of mars than Venus. He says that’s not just because of the amount of Martian missions, but also because the mars interior cooled relatively quickly leaving the geological history in a more preserved state.
“Venus has a complex geological history including resurfacing events that make it difficult to trace the history of the planet back without more surface data,” said Kane.
In fact, Kane says understanding Venus is more important than understanding Mars if seeking to get a handle on what makes some earth-size planets habitable and others not.
“Our sister planet provides an ideal laboratory for us to investigate an alternative Earth where a runaway greenhouse would have prevented any chance of life,” said Kane.
Does the planetary science community have a blind spot when it comes to Venus?
But he says the larger issue is that exoplanet community can often have a blind spot for planetary science. Interestingly, he says that’s because most of the exoplanet detection techniques have their origins in stellar astrophysics.
“So, we find ourselves at a point where we have stellar astronomers discovering terrestrial planets without the needed tools to interpret their data,” said Kane. “Fortunately, this is forcing a much-needed collaboration between the exoplanet and planetary science communities.”
To date, Kane cites three Venus missions as most important.
— The Soviet's Venera 9 lander because it successfully landed on the surface in 1975 and became the first mission to return pictures from the surface of another planet.
— NASA’s Magellan because it performed detailed radar mapping of the Venusian surface, giving us our first comprehensive topographical map of Venus.
— The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express provided insights into the planet’s atmospheric dynamics and presented possible direct evidence of ongoing volcanic activity at the surface.
But now, Kane says researchers really need another Venus orbiter mission with a glider and lander components in order to gather new data that would help them correctly model the transition of a habitable atmosphere to a runaway greenhouse.
Kane says at present that ability is hampered by our lack of knowledge of the atmospheric chemistry that occurs in the high-pressure environments of Venus.
“We desperately need to obtain better measurements of the Venusian surface compositions, ideally with seismic data that would allow us to model the interior,” said Kane.
He says researchers’ current ability to understand the interiors of terrestrial exoplanets is hampered by the lack of knowledge about the percentage of Venus' composition that consists of rocky materials, such as silicates and metals.
“For the Earth, these relative compositions are similar to the sun, but for Venus, we just don't know,” said Kane.
As for the best example of a true extrasolar Venus to date?
Of more than forty extrasolar Venus-type planets currently known, Kane says the one that’s most like our own Venus lies some 220 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus. There, every nine days, the roughly earth-sized planet Kepler-1649b circles its parent low-mass, Red dwarf star in a very short nine-day orbit. The incoming radiation the planet receives from its star is the same that Venus receives from the Sun, says Kane.
As for what puzzles Kane most about our own Venus?
Kane says the most obvious puzzle is Venus’ retrograde clockwise rotation, who explains that the planet’s primordial rotation rate was probably counter-clockwise, like almost everything else in the solar system.
“The fact that it now rotates slowly backward points to an interesting past that can be explained by a possible giant impact early in its history, or perhaps caused by friction with [its] incredibly dense atmosphere.”
But was Venus was ever truly habitable?
Assuming that Venus did indeed have liquid water oceans, Kane says we can hypothesize that the water evaporated and was disassociated in the upper atmosphere by ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.
Kane says Venus’ other main puzzle is the nature of the so-called "stagnant lid" surface of Venus. It doesn’t have tectonic plates like Earth, but instead has a single crust that is occasionally ruptured by volcanoes.
Venus’ surface age, now estimated to be some 500 million years old, indicates that it was rapidly resurfaced in the past. Kane says that makes it difficult to know how that process worked or what the previous (possible water-bearing) history of Venus may have been.
Earth became habitable as early as 4 billion years ago, right after it cooled and formed liquid water oceans, says Kane.
“it is very possible that Venus was similarly habitable at that time,” said Kane.
Discovering when the current surface became a stagnant lid, says Kane, would be of enormous aid in constraining just how long Venus may have been habitable.
UFO secrets SOLVED: Experts reveal if 2018 is the year of ALIEN discovery
UFO secrets SOLVED: Experts reveal if 2018 is the year of ALIEN discovery
EXPERTS have had their say on the significance of 2017's UFO sightings and whether they mean an alien breakthrough could be imminent in an exclusive chat with Daily Star Online.
It has been a fascinating year in the search for alien life.
We have seen objects appear close to the International Space Station, UFOs stalking planes in Merseyside and groundbreaking NASA discoveries.
So, with many believing 2018 could be a breakthrough year, Daily Star Online has sat down with two world-leading experts to hear their thoughts.
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UFOs: Will we see alien life in 2018?
Nick Pope is a former Ministry of Defence employee best known for the role he undertook in investigating UFO sightings for the British Government.
In an exclusive chat, Nick revealed what he thought of a clip – shown above – allegedly showing a UFO.
Observers believe the footage shows a US spy plane encountering a 130ft flying object with 20 flashing lights near Cyprus.
And Nick claims it may be genuine, admitting: “This is an absolutely fascinating video.
“This is a case from the MoD's UFO files. Not only did I work on these real life X-Files, but I've been the public face of a ten-year project to declassify and release most of this material.
“The investigation into this incident was undertaken by my predecessors, but I'm aware of the case. It was a genuine unknown.
“Incidents like this, where there were multiple military witnesses and highly classified investigations show that whatever the truth about UFOs, the mystery raises important defence, national security and air safety issues.
"It's a perfect illustration of how the media and the public were misled.”
Despite hope it could change in the year to come, there has been a lot of concern among the UFO community as to whether NASA is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life from the public.
The video below is just one of many from this year that space boffins claim are attempted cover-ups.
Nick believes these kind of clips have a lot of contributing factors as to whether they are UFOs, but also believes NASA has no reason to hide anything.
He said: “It's notoriously difficult to judge the size, distance and speed of an object in space.
“I think UFO hunters misunderstand agencies such as NASA and ESA. Far from being the sort of organisations that would cover up evidence of an extraterrestrial presence, they'd shout it from the rooftops.
“These people want to find aliens, not hide evidence of them."
Partly agreeing with Nick, Philip Mantle believes that with the technology available these days, we should be doing a better job at capturing UFOs.
Mantle, a highly regarded and active British researcher of UFOs, said: “The question is why, despite the millions of cameras that are available do we still have poor quality film and photos of alleged UFOs?
“The fact is that the percentage of UFO reports that remain unidentified is well under 1%.
"In short, genuine UFO sightings are extremely rare, therefore the chances of actually capturing one of film is almost, but not quite, impossible."
The video below – that appears to show a mysterious green orb floating above a mountain – is an example of UFO footage captured poorly, Philip believes.
He added: “In our modern society today there are CCTV cameras everywhere and countless millions of mobile phones that have as a built in feature the ability to to take still photos and videos.
“But when it comes to UFO video footage the results, and let's be honest, are poorer than ever.”
Nick agrees that while there have been an increase in the number of sightings, many of them are in fact, far from UFOs.
He said: “Firstly, there's a lot of hoaxing in this subject. However, even where we can be sure the images are genuine, they're often indistinct, and ambiguous.
“In most cases these are misidentifications of aircraft, drones, satellites, meteors, fireballs, stars and planets, Chinese lanterns, weather balloons and all sorts of other other objects and phenomena.
“In other cases, they're the result of lens flare, other reflections, dust or dirt on the lens, or a technical problem with the camera.”
In 2018, scientists hope to obtain the 1st-ever direct image of a black hole’s event horizon. They’re targeting the 4-million-solar-mass black hole at the heart of our Milky Way.
In mid-December, scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope – an international collaboration that’s created a virtual Earth-sized telescope, with the goal of capturing the first direct image of a black hole – reported on a the long-awaited shipment of hard disk drives from the South Pole. They’re now busily analyzing the data on these drives, which is expected to be a key component in giving us the first-ever direct image of a black hole sometime in 2018. As a December 19 article at news.com.au reported:
The data is in. The numbers are being crunched.
The Vox.com video above explains that nearly all images we see of black holes are artist’s illustrations. The ones that aren’t illustrations show, at best, the effects of black holes on the space around them, for example, stars in tightly bound orbits, gas heated to high temperatures, or relativistic jets.
So what are scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope expecting to see?
Sites of participating components of the Event Horizon Telescope.
As most of us know, black holes are truly black. That is, they are regions containing so much mass squeezed into so little space – regions of such powerful gravity – that no information or light or anything can escape, even if moving at the fastest speed known to exist in our universe, the speed of light.
Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope aren’t aiming to capture the black nothingness of a black hole itself (that’s not possible), but instead a black hole’s event horizon, the sphere-like point-of-no-return surrounding a black hole.
What the @ehtelescope expects to find in 2018 - a silhouette in the glow of radiation at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Simulation by 2017 Jansky Fellow Kazunori Akiyama.
Which black hole then? Naturally, they’ll want to image the black hole that appears biggest from Earth. The first logical choice is Sagittarius A* – pronounced Sagittarius A-star – a 4-million-solar-mass black hole located at the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. This supermassive black hole is about 27,000 light-years from Earth.
The secondary target of the Event Horizon Telescope is much, much farther away, some 50-60 million light-years from Earth. It’s the supermassive black hole at the center of M87: the largest galaxy in our home galaxy cluster, the Virgo cluster. How can it appear big to us, at such a great distance away? It contains over 6 billion solar masses. This black hole is so big it could swallow our solar system whole.
Artist’s concept of the Milky Way galaxy, showing the location of the supermassive black hole in relationship to our solar system’s location, via ZMEScience.
This historic image – first direct image of a black hole’s event horizon – will give scientists a chance to see what, until now, they’ve been able to explore only theoretically. An event horizon itself is, after all, just a theoretical construct. We don’t know for sure event horizons actually exist (although, clearly, scientists are confident they do). As Ethan Seigel asked in a comprehensive article on this subject, in Forbes around New Year’s:
Will it appear as General Relativity predicts? There are some incredible things to test:
– whether the black hole has the right size as predicted by general relativity, – whether the event horizon is circular (as predicted), or oblate or prolate instead, – whether the radio emissions extend farther than we thought, or – whether there are any other deviations from the expected behavior.
… For any fan of astrophysics, black holes, and General Relativity, we’re living in the golden age. What was once deemed ‘untestable’ has suddenly become real.
Stay tuned! This announcement, when it comes, will be big.
Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
A new topographic map of Titan, plus a new study showing that Titan’s seas lie at an average elevation – a sea level – just as Earth’s do.
Two new studies from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York show, once again, similarities between Earth and Saturn’s moon Titan. The first is a new global topographic map of Titan. The second, which builds on the first, shows that the liquid lakes and seas on Titan follow a constant elevation relative to Titan’s gravitational pull. In other words, just as Earth’s oceans lie at an average elevation that we call sea level, so do Titan’s seas.
Both studies are based on data from the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn – occasionally making close flybys of its large moon Titan – from 2004 to 2017. Both are published (here and here) in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Paul Corlies is first author on the topography study, which resulted in an end-of-mission map of Titan via Cassini. The map revealed several new features on Titan, including new mountains, none higher than about 2,300 feet (700 meters). Corlies said:
The main point of the work was to create a map for use by the scientific community.
And he said that, within 30 minutes of the data set being available online, he began to receive inquiries on how to use it.
New map, part of the Titan “end of mission” topography study. Only about 9 percent of Titan was observed by Cassini in a way that resulted in relatively high-resolution topography, with with another 25-30 percent of the topography imaged in lower resolution. The rest was constructed via interpolation, that is, via a method of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points. Click here for more of the study’s maps.
One of the early uses of the new topographic work came from Corlies’ professor at Cornell, Alex Hayes. His study shows that Titan’s seas follow a constant elevation relative to Titan’s gravitational pull — just as Earth’s oceans do.
This is the latest finding that shows remarkable similarities between Earth and Titan, the only other world we know of in our solar system that has stable liquid on its surface. The twist at Titan is that its lakes and seas are filled with hydrocarbonsrather than liquid water, and water ice overlain by a layer of solid organic material serves as the bedrock surrounding these lakes and seas.
… Smaller lakes on Titan, it turns out, appear at elevations several hundred feet, or meters, higher than Titan’s sea level. Lakes at high elevation are commonly found on Earth. The highest lake navigable by large ships, Lake Titicaca, is over 12,000 feet [3,700 meters] above sea level.
The new study suggests that elevation is important because Titan’s liquid bodies appear to be connected under the surface in something akin to an aquifer system at Earth. Hydrocarbons appear to be flowing underneath Titan’s surface similar to the way water flows through underground porous rock or gravel on Earth, so that nearby lakes communicate with each other and share a common liquid level.
Titan’s Ligeia Mare, shown in here in data obtained by the Cassini spacecraft, is the second-largest known body of liquid on Saturn’s moon Titan. It’s filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane, and is one of the many seas and lakes around Titan’s north polar region. Image via NASA JPL-Caltech/ ASI/ Cornell.
Bottom line: Scientists at Cornell have conducted two new studies of Saturn’s moon Titan. Both use Cassini spacecraft data. The Cassini mission ended with a plunge by the spacecraft into Saturn in September 2017. One study resulted in end-of-mission topographic maps. The other showed that Titan’s hydrocarbon-filled liquid lakes and seas maintain a constant “sea level.”
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of a massive vertical cloud formation — known to meteorologists as cumulus castellanus — above Andros Island.
These towering columnar clouds are part of the genus cumulonimbus. The cloud name castellanus comes from the similarity to the crenellated towers or turrets of medieval castles. The International Cloud Atlas (World Meteorological Organization) classifies clouds of this type as either Altocumulus castellanus or Stratocumulus castellanus, depending on the base cloud height from which they develop. Regardless of the nomenclature, these clouds develop due to strong vertical air movement typically associated with thunderstorms.
Part of the Bahamas archipelago, Andros Island is divided by large estuaries into three sections. North Andros, Central Andros, and South Andros are each comprised of several smaller islets and cays that are connected by smaller estuaries. Together, Andros Island is the largest in total area (2,300 square miles or 6,000 square kilometers) of all 700 islands in the Bahamas.
A couple of days ago I reviewed here at Mysterious Universe the newly-revised edition of David Weatherly’s book, Black Eyed Children (you can find the review here). Of the various people who commented here at MU and at my Facebook page, one of them asked me what I think the Black Eyed Children really are. Well, I have to confess that I have no firm conclusion as to what they are or where they are from. It’s tough too to figure out their agendas. But, I will say that – as I see it, at least – there is a direct connection between the Black Eyed Children and the Men in Black. No, I’m not talking about the BEC being the offspring of the MIB – it’s much more complicated than that. What I can say is that there are certain threads which weave their ways through various accounts of both phenomena. Let’s take a look.
One of the most intriguing aspects of the Black Eyed Children phenomenon is that in just about every case on record when the BEC specifically turn up at peoples’ homes, they ask to be invited in. They’re hungry. They’re lost. They want to use the phone. They’re homeless and they need somewhere to sleep. Of course, this very much parallels the old legends and tales of blood-sucking vampires, who cannot cross the threshold until given permission to do so. As for the Men in Black, there are more than a few examples of them trying to find a way into the home without resorting to force. Both groups seem to have the ability to control or manipulate the human mind, to the extent that people find themselves inviting them in, even though they know they really shouldn’t.
The clothing is not too different, either. The MIB typically wear black suits and black fedora hats. The BEC wear black hoodies. The skin of the Men in Black is often described as looking like plastic. Their skin is wax-like, lacking lines and creases. Very much the same can be said for the Black Eyed Children. In some cases, the witnesses have described the faces of the MIB as doll-like. Or mannequin-like. Animals react to both – and not in a positive way. Fear is the general response.
Disturbingly, there are those cases where people fall sick – sometimes dangerously so – when confronted by the Men in Black and by their female counterparts, the Women in Black (see this link as a perfect example). In his Black Eyed Childrenbook, David Weatherly relates the accounts of a number of people who fell ill after encountering the BEC. Both the MIB and the BEC seem to have the ability to affect electrical equipment. Bad luck hovers ominously around those who have had the misfortune to cross paths with these black-garbed characters.
Odd, weird and menacing phone calls – often in the dead of night – have been reported in the wake of a visit from the BEC or the MIB. One of the issues that I have not seen too much attention given to is that of a worrying affect on short-term memory. But, such reports do exist. Of course, this may be a side-effect of the trauma and fear surrounding the encounter, since stress can affect memory. But, I have a few cases on record where people noted problems with recall for a period of up to several weeks after the encounter. The only connection between these people was the fact that they had been confronted by either the BEC or the MIB.
None of the above gives us any real insight into the true nature and origin of the Men in Black or the Black Eyed Children. But, what I would say is that there are enough similarities to make me conclude that we’re dealing with things that are part and parcel of each other.
In Nederland is bijzonder snelle computer in gebruik genomen bij een sterrenwacht in het Drentse Westerbork. De ARTS, zoals de machine heet, heeft een rekencapaciteit van twee petaflops. Dat betekent dat hij 2 biljard (miljoen maal miljard) berekeningen per seconde kan uitvoeren. De bouw van de supercomputer kostte ongeveer een miljoen euro.
Bij Westerbork staan verspreid over drie kilometer twaalf telescoopschotels op een rij die constant beelden maken van de ruimte. De computer moet in die metingen zoeken naar zogeheten snelle radioflitsen, mysterieuze signalen van buiten onze Melkweg. Zo’n flits duurt een paar milliseconden, en de eerste werd ontdekt in 2007. Sindsdien zijn er pas enkele tientallen gezien, hoewel er mogelijk duizenden flitsen per dag plaatsvinden.
Het is niet bekend waar de flitsen vandaan komen en hoe ze worden veroorzaakt. “De flitsen zijn miljarden jaren geleden uitgezonden. In de paar millisecondes verspreiden ze net zo veel energie als onze zon in een dag. Als ze van zo ver nog zo fel kunnen flitsen, moeten ze heel fel zijn geweest”, zegt hoofdonderzoeker Joeri van Leeuwen van het wetenschappelijke instituut Astron.
Probleem
Het probleem is alleen dat wetenschappers niet weten waar ze moeten kijken. Zodra ze uitgerekend hebben dat ergens een flits is geweest, is het al veel te laat. “En als je niet weet waar je moet kijken, grijp je altijd mis. Daarom zal onze computer meteen een alarm sturen bij een signaal. Dan kunnen andere telescopen naar de bron zoeken”, zegt onderzoeksleider Joeri van Leeuwen.
De supercomputer bekijkt 20.000 afbeeldingen per seconde en leert zichzelf om daar flitsen in te herkennen. Daarvoor gebruikt hij tweehonderd grafische processoren uit spelcomputers. Wetenschappers hopen dan één flits per week te ontdekken.
ANPVorig jaar kreeg deze 50 jaar oude radiotelescoop van Astron een tweede leven.
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Burning “Impact” Crater found next to Highway Torreón – Saltillo, Mexico
Burning “Impact” Crater found next to Highway Torreón – Saltillo, Mexico
Yet another mystery, on January 17, 2018 a burning and smoking crater has been found next to the highway Torreón – Saltill, between kilometers 165 and 164, in the state of Coahuila, in the northeast of Mexico.
The media speculates that a meteorite has smashed into the ground leaving the burning crater, which measures 8 meters diameter and is 8 meters deep, however, pieces of the supposed meteorite have not been found.
So far, there is no official confirmation on this event!
UFO Activity recorded during the Taylor Michigan Incident on Jan 16, 2018 (Original Footage)
UFO Activity recorded during the Taylor Michigan Incident on Jan 16, 2018 (Original Footage)
There was a real meteor in Michigan but there was an event that was separate from the meteor. The meteor happened in New Haven and the city where the beams were coming down is Taylor on the same night and it is NOT the same event.
Interesting detail; Taylor is a very small city but was visited by presidents Bush, Obama, and Clinton. What could be the reason that 3 presidents have visited this small City?
But it gets even weirder; during that night on January 16, 2018 a security camera recorded very strange activities in the night sky over Taylor.
The footage shows at first a spacecraft flying back and forth. Then there were five different spacecraft that appeared to be friendly to each other flying back and forth at about the same altitude. They appeared to be above the atmosphere at night, with the sun reflecting off of them brightly. They faded in and out, which would indicate that they were doing maneuvers in space with the craft reflecting more or less sunlight depending on which way they were turned. It was obvious UFO activity, Jim Stone Freelance Reporter and Investigator Jeffery Pritchett wrote in their articles.
The woman who had set up the security camera published the video on her YT channel, named Lucky Puppy with the title: “Meteorite? I don’t think so…” on January 16, 2018 and wrote:
Around 8:08pm, January 16, 2018, everyone in our community and nearby communities (more than 60 mile radius) reported seeing a bright flash of light in the sky and many people heard a loud BOOM. II thought it was lightning and thunder and then I started thinking... that's silly, it's like 10 degrees outside and clear. I called my daughter, who was driving home and she saw it too and she also saw a bright light, like a beam of light in another direction. I checked our outdoor security cameras and this is what I found.... --Let me tell ya, I love living in the country but this creeped me out a little bit. I'm just glad all my kids here have 4 legs and LOTS of teeth. LOL What do you think it is. To be clear, I, personally, don't believe in aliens.
But surprisingly, after 1 day the video suddenly was removed or more likely it got banned. If you take a look at her channel Lucky Puppy then it becomes clear that this channel is not any sort of a UFO hoaxer. The video was not a hoax.
There is something going on in space right now! There is an active UFO activity going on right now!
Whether the UFOs are black budget spacecraft or alien spacecraft, the UFOs were operating in a way that made it obvious they were for deep space.
It is quite possible that the UFO activity is related to the strange beams and all other strange activities currently going on in and outside the US.
Despite the video has been removed, we have, thanks to “Romans 6:14” who has recorded the footage of Luck Puppy, the original video of the unique UFO activity over Tayler in the night of January 16, 2018.
I think it might be safe to say that there is a nuclear war on the horizon, whether in space or on earth and someone knows about it, and it won’t be happening without interference.
Mysterious UFO Appears To Show Porthole Window and Occupants
Mysterious UFO Appears To Show Porthole Window and Occupants
A photo that was reportedly taken on January 12, 2018, near Orlando, Florida appeared to show a flying saucer craft with a porthole window in a large rectangular shape and two occupants. The photographer, who uses the pseudonym JP, believed that the occupants were two Nordic human-looking aliens who he claimed were communicating with him telepathically.
JP said that while at a residence, he received a telepathic communication where he was told to go outside and look up into the sky at 6 o’clock. He believed the voice in his head that he heard was the Nordics.
He stated that the Nordics asked him if he wanted to see them. It was the time he negotiated with them if he could take a photo that he could use for Disclosure.
JP said the Nordics that contacted him are working with the US Air Force, doing missions around Antarctica in outer space, and giving an overwhelming technology to the Air Force.
He added that the technology could manipulate any point in the air and open up a wormhole to other planets. He further stressed that this technology works in flashes, which provides a flash like a lightning bolt but minus the noise.
When JP went outside after hearing the voice, he saw them. He managed to take some photos and saved them on his phone.
Unidentified flying objects appeared on camera on a live television news broadcast. The video clip shows a panel of presenters discussing the top news of the day. As they are conversing, they are not aware that something amazing is taking place in the background.
The footage shows two UFOs moving across the sky in the background before changing direction entirely and turning aside suddenly into the distance.
The hosts appear not aware and continue their broadcast.
The clip appeared on KOIN 6, a US television station, and was soon afterwards uploaded to YouTube channel The Hidden Underbelly.
Viewers were amazed to see that UFOs are now showing up on the news cameras as well. Some critics say that it was just a lens flare, but many believe that it was the real deal.
The UFO video comes following a series of reported UFO sightings recently.
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