The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
Druk op onderstaande knop om te reageren in mijn forum
Zoeken in blog
Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
Een interessant adres?
UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
02-06-2018
Experience a Soyuz Spacecraft Landing with This Amazing 360-Degree, VR Video
Experience a Soyuz Spacecraft Landing with This Amazing 360-Degree, VR Video
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
When astronauts return home from space on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, you can be sure NASA will be there with live video of the landing. But what's it really like to be there when a spaceship touches down?
Wonder no more. NASA's got you covered with a new 360-degree video suitable for any virtual-reality device. The video is a great primer ahead of the next Soyuz landing, on Sunday (June 3), which will return NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Norishige Kanai home from the International Space Station.
"How'd you like to stand on the snowy ground of Kazakhstan to retrieve a crew from the International Space Station?" the video description reads. "If you'd like to do it without having to wear a parka, check out this 360 VR video captured in February 2018 and join NASA personnel on the last leg of the trip to pick up astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin at the end of Expedition 54 after five and a half months in space." [See Awesome Photos of Their Soyuz Landing!]
The 4-minute video chronicles the last leg of NASA's trip to pick up Acaba, Vande Hei and Misurkin when their Soyuz landed on the chilly steppes of Kazakhstan on Feb. 27. At the beginning of the video, recovery crews wait at an airfield to board Russian Mi-8 helicopters or all-terrain vehicles to make the trek out to the Soyuz's drop zone. Another scene shows what it's like inside one of the Mi-8 helicopters.
The scene then jumps to the Soyuz just after it's landed. Just after touchdown, recovery teams swarm to the landing site to extract the space crew. Sometimes, a Soyuz capsule rolls on its side after landing and has to be moved upright for extraction.
In the NASA video, the capsule is upright, and the recovery team has already set up a three-legged access ladder to reach the crew from the Soyuz's top hatch. You can watch as the astronauts ride a little slide off the Soyuz. (That's right, after their fiery plunge through the atmosphere, parachute descent and bumpy landing with retrorockets, space crews finally reach Earth on a little slide!)
Once the space travelers are pulled from the Soyuz, they take a break in special couches set up outside. If you explore the 360-degree view in the NASA video, you can see the crew mobbed by photographers and videographers as they sip water or make calls to family. This is the last photo op before the astronauts are moved to nearby tents for health checks to make sure they're OK after months in space.
After the medical checks, the station crewmembers begin the trip home. This means a helicopter ride back to the airfield in Kazakhstan, where the crewmembers are given a traditional Kazakh welcome ceremony and presented with gifts. This is where the Russian and U.S. crewmembers typically say farewell.
Surrounded by members of the search-and-rescue teams, NASA astronaut Joe Acaba (left), Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (center) and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei sit in reclining chairs outside the Soyuz MS-06 space capsule after their landing on Feb. 27, 2018.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
For Expedition 54, that means Acaba and Vande Hei returned home to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, while Misurkin headed back to Star City in Russia, home of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
You can watch the next Soyuz landing live on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV, this weekend. The webcast coverage begins Saturday (June 2) with a change-of-command ceremony in which NASA astronaut Drew Feustel will take charge of the orbiting laboratory as Expedition 56 commander.
Tingle, Shkaplerov and Kanai are ending their Expedition 55 mission to the space station. NASA will webcast their return to Earth Sunday starting at 1:30 a.m. EDT (0530 GMT), when they bid farewell to Feustel, NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, who will remain behind as the Expedition 56 crew.
The Soyuz returning the Expedition 55 crew to Earth is scheduled to land at 8:40 a.m. EDT (1240 GMT) on Sunday. Three new space station crewmembers are scheduled to launch June 6 to restore the Expedition 56 team to full size.
Visit Space.com Sunday for complete coverage of the Expedition 55 crew's landing.
Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him @tariqjmalik.
Un porte-avion américain suivi pendant des jours par un ovni, selon un rapport du Pentagone
Un porte-avion américain suivi pendant des jours par un ovni, selon un rapport du Pentagone
Selon un rapport du Pentagone cité par la presse américaine, un ovni de la taille d'un avion de ligne mais de la forme d'un «œuf allongé», est apparu à proximité d'un porte-avion américain, plusieurs jours durant en 2004.
Un rapport du Pentagone révélé par la chaîne de télévision américaine KLAS fin mai et amplement cité par la presse anglo-saxonne, livre de nouveaux détails sur un objet volant non identifié (ovni) qu'ont observé, plusieurs jours durant en 2004, des militaires américains au large de la côte californienne. Le New York Times avait publié une vidéo de l'incident en question en décembre dernier, dans un article traitant du programme d'étude des ovnis financé aux Etats-Unis par le Pentagone.
Selon ce rapport, l'objet, de la taille d'un avion de ligne et de forme ovale, a été repéré une première fois par le radar de l'USS Princeton, un porte-avion américain, alors qu'il volait à 60 000 pieds (plus de 18 000 mètres). Il a alors subitement plongé vers la surface de l'océan, pour l'atteindre en quelques secondes seulement. Peu après, l'ovni s'est éloigné à une vitesse si impressionnante que les membres d'équipage ont pensé qu'ils s'agissait d'un missile balistique.
Deux jours plus tard, toujours selon le rapport du Pentagone, l'objet est à nouveau apparu près de l'USS Princeton et a cette fois été pris en chasse par deux F-18. Mais les pilotes ont expliqué qu'ils avaient été incapables de l'intercepter, l'ovni s'étant brusquement rendu invisible. Il pouvait cependant toujours être détecté, à cause de l'onde visible à la surface de l'eau créée sous lui, «d'environ 50 à 100 mètres de diamètre».
L'engin a été décrit par un des pilotes comme étant «blanc uni, lisse, sans bords, uniformément coloré, sans nacelles, pylônes ou ailes» et ressemblant à «un œuf allongé ou un Tic Tac». D'après le rapport du Pentagone, un avion de surveillance E-2C Hawkeye a réussi à détecter l'objet mais sans pouvoir le «verrouiller», ce qui laisse penser qu'il était capable d'esquiver le radar.
Le rapport se conclut en confirmant que l'engin ne correspondait à «aucun avion ou véhicule aérien actuellement connu dans l'inventaire des Etats-Unis ou de toute autre nation étrangère».
Angleterre : Un OVNI se divise en deux au-dessus d’une base militaire
Angleterre : Un OVNI se divise en deux au-dessus d’une base militaire
Un OVNI se divise en deux au-dessus d'une base militaire
Un inquiétant phénomène inexpliqué et inconnu est apparu dans le ciel au-dessus d’une base militaire britannique. Les habitants de la région ont été déconcertés par ces images époustouflantes.
Lucas Budel, âgé de 19 ans, a déclaré avoir repéré cet OVNI chez lui à High Wycombe, dans le comté de Buckinghamshire. Cette ville abrite une importante base administrative de la Royal Air Force. Dans cette station militaire, on retrouve le HQ Air Command ainsi que le Groupe aérien européen (une force aérienne multinationale européenne).
Mais cette base a également été utilisée pour enquêter sur les observations d’OVNI, ce qui a donné lieu à de nombreuses théories.
Lucas a pris des séquences vidéo de ce phénomène inexplicable. Sur ces images, on peut voir cet orbe blanc effectuer une multitude de mouvements inhabituels. Derrière lui, il laisse une traînée blanche et épaisse dans les airs.
Lucas raconte : « J’étais simplement assis dans ma chambre devant mon ordinateur quand j’ai vu une lumière extrêmement brillante tomber du ciel. »
« J’ai d’abord pensé que c’était un météore qui tombait, ce qui est déjà assez inhabituel à voir, jusqu’à ce qu’il s’arrête de se mouvoir pendant quelques secondes et qu’il remonte vers le haut. »
« J’étais tellement impressionné que je n’ai pas eu le temps de le filmer. Il a ensuite disparu. »
Mais quand l’OVNI a réapparu, Lucas était prêt.
« Je suis retourné à mon bureau et j’ai pris mon téléphone portable. Dès lors, quand je l’ai revu, je l’ai utilisé pour le filmer », a-t-il ajouté.
« La meilleure façon de le décrire était qu’il ressemblait à un nuage électrique se déplaçant continuellement dans des directions alternées. »
« À un moment donné, il semblait que des étincelles rouges ou de l’électricité s’en échappaient. »
« À un autre moment, il a semblé qu’il avait perdu toutesa puissance et il a commencé à tomber en direction sol avant que ses ‘moteurs’ ne redémarrent et qu’il reprenne de l’altitude. »
Lucas prétend également avoir vu l’objet se diviser en deux.
Il a ajouté : « Je suis certain que c’était un phénomène inexpliqué. »
« Cela pourrait êtrede la foudre en boule, des essais militaires secrets ou quelque chose d’origine extraterrestre. Cela ressemblait à un nuage électrique en train de s’évaporer. »
« Quelqu’un a aussi dit que ça pourrait être un avion télécommandé mais d’après ce que j’ai vu, ça ne ressemblait pas du tout à ça. »
« Je n’ai jamais rien vu d’autre de pareil, surtout
dans ma région. »
La boule de foudre est un phénomène atmosphérique inexpliqué et dangereux. Il se présente sous la forme d’un objet sphérique lumineux pouvant atteindre plusieurs mètres de long.
EXPERT SAYS HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH — WE WERE BROUGHT ON THE PLANET BY ALIENS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
EXPERT SAYS HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH — WE WERE BROUGHT ON THE PLANET BY ALIENS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
Do you believe that maybe we are the aliens we are looking for all this time? Some experts say that people were most likely crossbred with other species. Perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri — which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth — in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
Tell Al-Uhaymirit was a modern day in Iraq, in the area of the ancient Sumerian city of Kish. Archaeologists found one of the oldest ancient documents on the planet — the tablet of Kish which is believed to date back to the year 3500 BC.
They discovered that Kish was the first city to have kings following the deluge, beginning with Yushu’s. Yushu’s successor is called Kullassina-bel. This is actually a sentence in Akkadian meaning “All of them were lord”.
This ancient document is the writing of the Sumerians and the Egyptian hieroglyphs for almost one hundred years.
The ability to write this language is one of the first ways in which man differed from the animal kingdom.
We know that humans developed electricity, divided the atom, developed computers, and led man to the moon. We have achieved things that other species still haven’s.
No other species on earth can show this good and unique achievement in such a short period of time. Interestingly, compared to other species on earth, our ‘evolution’ is relatively short.
Can you imagine, if, for some reason, mankind had to return to the jungle, and survive there? Experts say that most of them would not survive for a very long period of time.
Scientists say that people are not very capable to have a big range of environments. Humans are very limited when it comes to our planet.
People, unlike animals, have fascinating intelligence. Biologists have found the contrast between human physiology and that of other animals on earth. Experts say that compared to other species on earth, humans are rather strange. For example, a baby giraffe when is born is able to walk and function almost independently. A human baby can not, which makes us quite helpless. We are born before being neurologically ready for life.
Human beings did not evolve alongside other lifeforms on Earth.
The book called ‘Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence’ is basically a resume of theories mostly against man’s evolution on Earth. In the book written by Dr. Ellis Silver, you can see him going through an evaluation of thirteen leading hypothesis and seventeen factors which suggest HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH.
According to Dr. Ellis, humans might suffer from back pain because our species initially evolved on another planet with a lower gravity. It is strange that newborns have large heads and make it difficult for mothers to give birth, which can result in fatalities for both mother and child.
So what do you think, where do we come from?
There are millions of people around the globe who ‘feel’ that they do not belong on Earth.
Dr. Ellis says that “mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species. Maybe the Earth is a prison planet since we seem to be naturally violent species and we’re here until we learn to behave ourselves.”
Dr. Ellis thinks that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Where did Rh negative blood come from?
Is it possible to explain this by a rather controversial theory? A theory which suggests that humanity isn’t, in fact, one race, but a hybridized species.
Sepehr thinks that when one race dies, another has taken its place. With a few holding on to the memories and knowledge of the past race.
People think that we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology. We are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. Sepher thinks that we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, learning to reclaim our forgotten past.
0
1
2
3
4
5
- Gemiddelde waardering: 0/5 - (0 Stemmen) Categorie:ALIEN LIFE, UFO- CRASHES, ABDUCTIONS, MEN IN BLACK, ed ( FR. , NL; E )
POURQUOI DANS CETTE IMAGE LA NASA DIT-ELLE QUE C'EST UN FOSSILE OU UNE CRÉATURE EXTRATERRESTRE ?
POURQUOI DANS CETTE IMAGE LA NASA DIT-ELLE QUE C'EST UN FOSSILE OU UNE CRÉATURE EXTRATERRESTRE ?
Nous pensons qu'il est plus que curieux qu'une page du Jet Propulsion Laboratory de la NASA fasse de tels commentaires concernant les images obtenues de Mars. Mars a toujours été lié aux théories des civilisations extraterrestres de la part des théoriciens extraterrestres, mais jamais sur une page officielle.
L'image correspond à une image de la mission Mars Odyssey 2001. Informations sur l'image : Instrument VIS. Latitude 82,4N, longitude 314,5E. Résolution de 40 mètres / pixel.
Selon les notes techniques, cette image visuelle THEMIS n'a pas été calibrée radiométriquement ou géométriquement pour cette version préliminaire. Une correction empirique a été faite pour éliminer les effets instrumentaux. Un déplacement linéaire a été appliqué dans la direction transversale et descendante pour approcher le mouvement de l'engin spatial et planétaire. Les images entièrement calibrées et projetées géométriquement seront lancées à travers le système de données planétaires selon les politiques du projet à un moment ultérieur.
NASA sur le site officiel a mis ce qui suit
Retour à la demande populaire : THEMIS ART IMAGE # 73 Ces dunes polaires du nord semblent étranges, comme une plante, un fossile ou une créature extraterrestre. Vous pouvez le vérifier à partir d'ici
Si nous regardons plus en détail l'image ressemblerait à un fossile animal ou quelque chose de très similaire, mais même si c'était le cas, nous ne le saurons jamais.Bien que cela semble curieux, la NASA a apparemment écrit cela après les commentaires des internautes
Mais quand la NASA a ignoré les théories extraterrestres ?En saura-t-il plus ou tentera-t-il simplement d'accroître l'incertitude s'il y a de la vie sur Mars ou pas ?
The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?
The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?
We have no idea what’s behind these weird incidents because we’re not investigating.
By Christopher MellonMarch 9
Christopher Mellon served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He is a private equity investor and an adviser to the To the Stars Academy for Arts and Science.
In December, the Defense Department declassified two videos documenting encounters between U.S. Navy F-18 fighters and unidentified aircraft. The first video captures multiple pilots observing and discussing a strange, hovering, egg-shaped craft, apparently one of a “fleet” of such objects, according to cockpit audio. The second shows a similar incident involving an F-18 attached to the USS Nimitz carrier battle group in 2004.
The videos, along with observations by pilots and radar operators, appear to provide evidence of the existence of aircraft far superior to anything possessed by the United States or its allies. Defense Department officials who analyze the relevant intelligence confirm more than a dozen such incidents off the East Coast alone since 2015. In another recent case, the Air Force launched F-15 fighters last October in a failed attempt to intercept an unidentified high-speed aircraft looping over the Pacific Northwest .
A third declassified video, released by To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science , a privately owned media and scientific research company to which I’m an adviser, reveals a previously undisclosed Navy encounter that occurred off the East Coast in 2015.
Military jet video tracks high-speed UFO
(To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science)
Is it possible that America has been technologically leap-frogged by Russia or China? Or, as many people wondered after the videos were first published by the New York Times in December, might they be evidence of some alien civilization?
Unfortunately, we have no idea, because we aren’t even seeking answers.
I served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and as staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and I know from numerous discussions with Pentagon officials over the past two years that military departments and agencies treat such incidents as isolated events rather than as part of a pattern requiring serious attention and investigation. A colleague of mine at To the Stars Academy, Luis Elizondo, used to run a Pentagon intelligence program that examined evidence of “anomalous” aircraft, but he resigned last fall to protest government inattention to the growing body of empirical data.
Meanwhile, reports from different services and agencies remain largely ignored and unevaluated inside their respective bureaucratic stovepipes. There is no Pentagon process for synthesizing all the observations the military is making. The current approach is equivalent to having the Army conduct a submarine search without the Navy. It is also reminiscent of the counterterrorism efforts of the CIA and the FBI before Sept. 11, 2001, when each had information on the hijackers that they kept to themselves. In this instance, the truth may ultimately prove benign, but why leave it to chance?
(A Pentagon spokesman did not respond to requests from The Washington Post for comment, but in December, the military confirmed the existence of a program to investigate UFOs and said it had stopped funding the research in 2012.)
The military personnel who are encountering these phenomena tell remarkable stories. In one example, over the course of two weeks in November 2004, the USS Princeton, a guided-missile cruiser operating advanced naval radar, repeatedly detected unidentified aircraft operating in and around the Nimitz carrier battle group, which it was guarding off the coast of San Diego. In some cases, according to incident reports and interviews with military personnel, these vehicles descended from altitudes higher than 60,000 feet at supersonic speeds, only to suddenly stop and hover as low as 50 feet above the ocean. The United States possesses nothing capable of such feats.
On at least two occasions, F-18 fighters were guided to intercept these vehicles and were able to verify their location, appearance and performance. Notably, these encounters occurred in broad daylight and were independently monitored by radars aboard multiple ships and aircraft. According to naval aviators I have spoken with at length, the vehicles were roughly 45 feet long and white. Yet these mysterious aircraft easily sped away from and outmaneuvered America’s front-line fighters without a discernible means of propulsion.
Footage shows encounter between U.S. navy jet and unknown aircraft
Footage shows an encounter between U.S. fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles.”(To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science)
From my work with To the Stars Academy, which seeks to raise private funds to investigate incidents like the 2004 Nimitz encounter, I know they continue to occur, because we are being approached by military personnel who are concerned about national security and frustrated by how the Defense Department is handling such reports. I am also familiar with the evidence as a former Pentagon intelligence official and a consultant who began researching the issue after the Nimitz incident was brought to my attention. On several occasions, I have met with senior Pentagon officials, and at least one followed up and obtained briefings confirming incidents such as the Nimitz case. But nobody wants to be “the alien guy” in the national security bureaucracy; nobody wants to be ridiculed or sidelined for drawing attention to the issue. This is true up and down the chain of command, and it is a serious and recurring impediment to progress.
If the origin of these aircraft is a mystery, so is the paralysis of the U.S. government in the face of such evidence. Sixty years ago, when the Soviet Union put the first manmade satellite in orbit, Americans recoiled at the idea of being technologically surpassed by a dangerous rival, and the furor over Sputnik ultimately produced the space race. Americans responded vigorously, and a little more than a decade later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. If these craft mean that Russia, China or some other nation is concealing an astonishing technological breakthrough to quietly extend its lead, surely we should respond as we did then. Perhaps Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent chest-thumping claims about propulsion breakthroughs are not pure braggadocio. Or, if these craft really aren’t from Earth, then the need to figure out what they are is even more urgent.
Lately, media coverage of the issue of unidentified aerial vehicles has focused on an expired $22 million congressional earmark for Bigelow Aerospace, a contractor with ties to former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid (Nev.). The money mostly funded research and analysis by that contractor, without participation from the Air Force, NORAD or other key military organizations. The real issue, though, is not a long-gone earmark, helpful though it may have been, but numerous recent incidents involving the military and violations of U.S. airspace. It is time to set aside taboos regarding “UFOs” and instead listen to our pilots and radar operators.
Within a roughly $50 billion annual intelligence budget, money is not the issue. Existing funds would easily cover what’s needed to look into the incidents. What we lack above all is recognition that this issue warrants a serious collection and analysis effort. To make headway, the task needs to be assigned to an official with the clout to compel collaboration among disparate and often quarrelsome national security bureaucracies. A truly serious effort would involve, among other things, analysts able to review infrared satellite data, NORAD radar databases, and signals and human intelligence reporting. Congress should require an all-source study by the secretary of defense while promoting research into new forms of propulsion that might explain how these vehicles achieve such extraordinary power and maneuverability.
As with Sputnik, the national security implications of these incidents are concerning — but the scientific opportunities are thrilling. Who knows what perils we may avoid or opportunities we might identify if we follow the data? We cannot afford to avert our eyes, given the risk of strategic surprise. The future belongs to not only the physically brave but also the intellectually agile.
Fatima set a precedent for so-called sun miracles that continue into modernity. However ancient goddesses were able to "spin" the sun. This is why, in L.A, Marzulli's opinion; Fatima was a harbinger of deception!
L.A. Marzulli recently went to Portugal to investigate the event, which has been called the "Miracle of the Sun" that took place on October 13, 1917 and witnessed by 70,000 people in a field in Fatima.
Word had spread about the apparitions the children were seeing, and Lucia had been told that a sign would be presented for all to see on the 13th.
After a morning of rain, the clouds parted, and the sun came out. From out of a cloud an object appeared, spinning on its axis, as it cast vibrant colors over the crowd.
Then, the disc-shaped object descended, before flying low over the gathering.
Rather than a holy miracle, Marzulli has concluded that it was a UFO of demonic origin that the crowd witnessed. The following video shows some of these “Sun Miracles” including images of the 1917 Fatima incident.
Dwarf Ceres Index that NASA has put up for the public has been taken down. There was once hundreds of photos, but now there are only there. If you go to the link and click on Dwarf Planets, you will see only three photos. This Is NASA trying to hide the true nature of Ceres white spots from the public. Many times I have reported these white spots looking like structures, but now NASA has removed them in hopes of preventing the public from investigating this further. As I said before, the reason NASA was created 50 years go was to hide the existence of alien life from the public. They are on a mission to drip feed the public useless scientific facts that change nothing...they drip feed the public so that the public gets some satisfaction about learning about space...and keeps the public in the dark. Scott C. Waring
Aliens Are Real, But Humans Will Probably Kill Them All, New Paper Says
Aliens Are Real, But Humans Will Probably Kill Them All, New Paper Says
By Brandon Specktor, Live Science Senior Writer
If mankind is destined to meet aliens, we are probably also destined to destroy them (according to one Russian physicist).
Credit: Shutterstock
If you've ever looked up into the unfathomable night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" then you are not alone.
About 70 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi looked up into the sky and asked a similar question: "Where is everybody?"
There are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone, Fermi reckoned, and many of them are billions of years older than our sun. Even if a small fraction of these stars have planets around them that proved habitable for life (scientists now think as many as 60 billion exoplanets could fit the bill), that would leave billions of possible worlds where advanced civilizations could have already bloomed, grown and — eventually — begun exploring the stars.
Now, Alexander Berezin, a theoretical physicist at the National Research University of Electronic Technology in Russia, has proposed a new answer to Fermi's paradox — but he doesn't think you're going to like it. Because, if Berezin's hypothesis is correct, it could mean a future for humanity that's "even worse than extinction."
"What if," Berezin wrote in a new paper posted March 27 to the preprint journal arxiv.org,"the first life that reaches interstellar travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion?"
In other words, could humanity's quest to discover intelligent life be directly responsible for obliterating that life outright? What if we are, unwittingly, the universe's bad guys?
First in, last out
In the paper, Berezin called this answer to Fermi's paradox the "first in, last out" solution. Understanding it requires narrowing down the parameters of what makes "intelligent life" in the first place, Berezin wrote.
For starters, it doesn't really matter what alien life looks like; it could be a biological organism like humans, a superintelligent AI or even some sort of planet-size hive mind, he said.
But it does matter how this life behaves, Berezin wrote. To be considered relevant to Fermi's paradox, the extraterrestrial life we seek has to be able to grow, reproduce and somehow be detectable by humans. That means our theoretical aliens have to be capable of interstellar travel, or at least of transmitting messages through interstellar space. (This is assuming humans don't reach the alien planet first.)
Here's the catch: For a civilization to reach a point where it could effectively communicate across solar systems, it'd have to be on a path of unrestricted growth and expansion, Berezin wrote. And to walk this path, you'd have to step on a lot of lesser life-forms.
"I am not suggesting that a highly developed civilization would consciously wipe out other lifeforms," Berezin wrote. "Most likely, they simply won't notice, the same way a construction crew demolishes an anthill to build real estate because they lack incentive to protect it."
For example, a rogue AI's unrestricted drive for growth could lead it to populate the entire galaxy with clones of itself, "turning every solar system into a supercomputer," Berezin said. Looking for a motive in the AI's hostile takeover is useless, Berezin said — "all that matters is that it can [do it]."
A fate worse than extinction
The bad news for humans isn't that we might have to face off against a power-crazed race of intelligent beings. The bad news is, we might be that race. "We are the first to arrive at the [interstellar] stage," Berezin speculated, "and, most likely, will be the last to leave."
Stopping humans from accidentally obliterating all rival life-forms would require a total culture shift spurred by "forces far stronger than the free will of individuals," Berezin wrote. Given our species' impressive talent for expansion, however, such forces could be hard to muster.
Then again, this is all just a theory. The paper has yet to be peer-reviewed by fellow scientists, and even Berezin is rooting against his own conclusions.
"I certainly hope I am wrong," Berezin wrote. "The only way to find out is to continue exploring the universe and searching for alien life."
Are All Energy-Intensive Civilizations Doomed To Self-Destruct? Scientists Model Alien Planets To Find Out
Are All Energy-Intensive Civilizations Doomed To Self-Destruct? Scientists Model Alien Planets To Find Out
By Rosie McCall
Billions of galaxies and trillions of planets populate our universe. Yet, to the best of our knowledge, ours is the only one to host living organisms. As we hurtle down a path of climate change and possible self-destruction, some scientists are asking the question: Is it actually possible to build a sustainable energy-intensive civilization or are all doomed to fail?
Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, New York, and colleagues published a study in the journal Astrobiology looking at the various possible pathways open to alien civilizations (or "exo-civilizations") as they develop, exploit their planet's resources, and deal with the ensuing climate change.
“Given that more than 10 billion trillion planets likely exist in the cosmos, unless nature is perversely biased against civilizations like ours, we’re not the first one to appear,” he wrote in an article for The Atlantic.
"And just as most species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct, so too most civilizations that emerged (if they emerged) may have since ended.”
The study involves mathematical models built from laws in physics, chemistry, and simple population biology. In the end, they found there were three distinct trajectories a civilization may take. But be warned, it makes for rather grim reading.
The Die-Off
This "cosmic Easter Island"-type scenario was, Frank points out, disconcertingly the most common. Here, the civilization uses the energy available to it and grows exponentially as a result. However, by doing so, they change the environment. The planet can no longer sustain the population and so a "die-off" occurs, killing as much as 70 percent of the civilization until it achieves a viable – and sustainable – state.
The Soft Landing
The best possible trajectory for a civilization that has "out-grown" its host is the soft landing. As in the previous scenario, the population grows and the environment changes but together the civilization and planet reach a new equilibrium, thereby preventing a mass die-off.
The Full-Blown Collapse
As you might tell from the name, this would be the absolute worst outcome. It could happen if the planet is unable to cope with the changes to the environment and the conditions change rapidly, causing the civilization to "nose-dive" into extinction.
It's worth noting that the model is fairly simplistic. Frank says they made the equations as straightforward as possible and calls it a "first stab" at the science of exo-civilizations. However, the more accurate and detailed we can get the climate physics and the models, the more accurate and detailed we can get the results.
"[I]t’s too early to answer the question, 'Does anyone make it?'" he explains. Then adds, "Even though our initial models were simple, they still revealed a radical truth about the challenge we face as we push the Earth into its human-dominated era."
UFO disk flying in the sky over Hastings, Australia, the UFO follows a certain flight path and is clearly under intelligent control.
Witness: on May 30, 2018 I dropped my mom to work that day and on my way home saw this strange object flying in the sky, so I pulled over on the side of the road and took a video of it.
Area 51 under scanner again? Continuous UFO sightings in Nevada desert sparks alien debate
Area 51 under scanner again? Continuous UFO sightings in Nevada desert sparks alien debate
The man who shot the video speculates that the UFO might be of alien origin, and it is attracted by the Luxor lights of the sin city. The uploader has also released an enhanced version of the clip, and it clearly shows that the alleged UFO has a number of lights attached to its body.
Conspiracy theory channel 'Disclose Screen' has recently released a video featuring a UFO in the skies above Nevada desert. The object spotted in the video moves erratically before it disappears into thin air. Interestingly, the video was apparently shot somewhere near Area 51, the most confidential military site in the US. Now, conspiracy theorists have started saying that the government is testing secret alien experiments in the base, and the increasing number of UFO sightings in the area is a clear cut evidence of this.
The man who shot the video speculates that the UFO might be of alien origin, and it is attracted by the Luxor lights of the sin city. The uploader has also released an enhanced version of the clip, and it clearly shows that the alleged UFO has a number of lights attached to its body.
In the same video, the conspiracy theory channel shared the visuals of another weird sighting. In the second video, a white snake-like object is seen flying across the sky, and adding the mystery quotient, it moves in such a way that all the laws of physics have been defied.
As the video went viral, viewers started putting forward various theories explaining the weird phenomenon.
"The first group of objects certainly were strange, but without extreme zoom and clarity, we're stuck once again, without any definitive answers. As for the second one, I was expecting either someone to come rushing by, having snagged their shoot in mid-air or I was trying to figure out what other man-made objects it could be other than a long cut of fabric or paper and if it was either, where did it come from, as it was not floating but falling," commented Headon Enterprises, a YouTube user.
Most of the viewers who watched the video strongly argue that aliens are in constant touch with the government, and they used to visit military bases like Area 51. They even claim that these extraterrestrials are now gearing up for a disclosure which will reshape the entire course of humanity.
The new video was released just a few days after another clip showing an alien-like figure took the internet by a storm. The uploader of the alien video argued that the clip was shot from the S4 Base medical laboratory in Papoose Lake near AREA 51, Nevada. After watching this video, many conspiracy theorists stated that many aliens are being kept as captives in Area 51 after their UFO gets crashed.
UFO'S/Lights over the luxor light, Vegas May 20 (Disclose Screen)
How Area 51 became the center of alien conspiracy theories
Intriguing footage has emerged of a bright, circular UFO moving over Leeds last weekend.
The object had no wings, made no sound and appeared roughly 300 meters above the ground. It was described as being a pure "ball of white light" and moving with "absolute purpose" across a clear sky.
Evidence of the strange object was captured on a smartphone camera by Leeds resident James Goldman, 30, who was at a loss to explain what he was witnessing.
"It definitely wasn't a plane and it was too low to be a satellite. I know what drones look like and it just wasn't a drone either. I doubt it was a military craft because they wouldn't be flying something like that over a populated area," he told Mirror Tech.
A zoomed in image of the UFO that was spotted over Leeds last weekend(Image: James Goldman)
As the footage above shows, the UFO appears smaller and dimmer than the nearly full moon that was also present in the sky.
Gary Heseltine, a retired Detective Constable and UFO expert, verified the footage and was also unable to come to a conclusion over what it might be.
"It was an interesting piece of footage and based on the information supplied by the witness it appears to be anomalous," said Gary, who also runs UFO Truth Magazine which documents unexplained sightings.
This particular UFO was spotted at 10.30pm on Sunday night and moved at a speed Mr Goldman estimates to be around 200kph (124mph) - putting it beyond the speeds of any commercially-available drone.
"It was just a round bright white lit ball slightly metallic in nature," Mr Goldman said, likening it to the kind of light you see when metal is being welded.
It also bore a striking similarity to the Death Star space station from the Star Wars film series.
"I couldn’t believe such an object would fly so low," Mr Goldman said.
The UFO was spotted flying fast and low over Leeds
The question naturally arises whether or not the object was extra-terrestrial in nature and Mr. Goldman confirmed that he had nothing against that idea.
He told Mirror Tech that he had never seen a UFO before and had always been sceptical of mainstream media reports of alien visitors.
But witnessing the object in the sky at the weekend has made him more uncertain.
"It was much clearer with the eye than what the camera has captured," he said. "After I stopped recording it continued to move at a 45-degree angle upwards and disappeared into the distance. It didn't blink out suddenly or anything like that, it just petered out into the distance."
UFO(Image: Photographer's Choice)
They may often be sidelined as the hobby of conspiracy theorists, but the British government has actually been taking UFOs seriously for many years.
In 2008, the government started to release its UFO files to the public in the hopes of being as transparent as possible.
But while the release process was expected to take three years at most, three files still haven’t been made public, according to Nick Pope, a former employee at the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Mr Pope said: “Having worked on the Ministry of Defence's UFO project and having written many of the documents that have already been released, I'm extremely disappointed that ten years after the release of the first files, the project is still incomplete.”
Nick Pope, a former employee at the MoD
Why the Government is withholding the files remains unclear, but Mr Pope explained that the files have been sent backwards and forwards between the MoD and The National Archives at least twice, adding to people's suspicions.
Mr Pope said: “A lot of people think the government is covering up the truth about UFOs and this unfortunate situation is only adding fuel to the fire with regard to these conspiracy theories.”
Mr Pope added that while he and his colleagues took the issue of UFOs seriously, they were often forced to ‘spin’ the subject for the media, ‘disingenuously stating that the subject was of "no defence significance"'.
Do you have any idea what the Leeds UFO might be? Let us know in the comments below or get in touch on Twitter.
How The Blink 182 Guy Brought UFO News Into The Mainstream
How The Blink 182 Guy Brought UFO News Into The Mainstream
JAZZ SHAW
If you know about Tom DeLonge, you probably recognize the name first from his work as the frontman for Blink-182 and classic albums such as Enema of the State. But as the popularity of the band decreased, DeLonge began using his good fortune to pursue another interest of his. That was the paranormal, including everything from Bigfoot to the Loch Ness Monster was on the table. But what the singer was really interested in was UFOs and extraterrestrials. The odd thing is, people began taking him seriously… and that includes people in the United States government.
As I wrote about just before Christmas last year, DeLonge was part of the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science which brought forward news of a secret government program which had been studying possible extraterrestrial phenomenon and led to the release of military videos showing flying craft which nobody could quite explain. But a number of military pilots thought they had an explanation: aliens. Still, given all of the politicians, military personnel and scientists who were involved, the question still remains… how did a rock star wind up playing such an integral role in making this happen? The Washington Post dug into that curious arrangement this week and came up with at least a few answers.
At a launch event for To the Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore “the most controversial secret on Earth.”
DeLonge, who was unavailable for comment, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in “clandestine encounters” in “desert airports” and “vacant buildings deep within Washington, D.C.”
Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.
“The phenomenon is indeed real,” Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of “overwhelming evidence” that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.
Reading this story it becomes clear that there was nothing particularly magical or mysterious as to how DeLonge managed to pull this off. It was just tenaciousness. He had made a fair amount of money (and plenty of contacts) through his work in music and publishing and once he launched into the UFO question he just didn’t give up. He was willing to talk to anyone – really anyone – who claimed to have information and he gained a foothold through some people with both government and military contacts. And then he kept on digging.
The biggest barrier DeLonge faced was the fact that there’s an unspoken rule about possible UFO phenomenon. Whether you’re in the government, the military or the media, you don’t talk about it. At least not seriously. To do so is a career death sentence and you’ll be mocked for it relentlessly. But Brad DeLonge had nothing to lose on that score and he kept digging, eventually finding some people willing to share information from inside the government and also some fighter pilots who had questions they knew they weren’t supposed to be asking. What were these things that they had been seeing?
DeLonge’s group has promised that there are more videos and reports being reviewed which will be released. None of it is conclusive… at least not yet. There could still be some perfectly acceptable terrestrial explanations for what they’ve found, though it would likely mean there is technology out there which most of us can’t even imagine and aren’t being told about. Perhaps it’s all U.S. black ops work. Or worse, something from the Russians or the Chinese. Or, just maybe… from somewhere further away.
Good for Brad Delonge. We don’t know what, if anything, he’s actually found yet. But these are questions worth answering and a very improbable agent was the guy who brought the conversation out into the daylight for examination.
Pluto has had a tough few years since losing its planet status. In the years since its demotion, NASA scientists found the trans-Neptunian object to be a colder, hazier hellscape than once believed, and other researchers are actively searching for Pluto’s replacement in the elusive Planet Nine. It’s about time Pluto got some good news.
According to a new study published in the journal Science on Thursday, the surface of Pluto is more geologically diverse and dynamic than had been expected. One surprising find is that Pluto has dunes that give the demoted dwarf planet “Earth-like characteristics” rarely seen elsewhere in the Solar System. Outside of Earth, dunes only exist on Mars, Venus, Saturn’s moon Titan, and, somewhat randomly, Comet 67P.
Led by Matt W. Telfer, Ph.D., of the University of Plymouth, and the team first identified Pluto’s dunes from images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. Unlike the sandy hills found on Earth, Pluto’s dunes are made from solid methane ice grains, found on the dwarf planet’s mountainous Sputnik Planitia region.
Dunes (black lines) at the margins of western Sputnik Planitia. Prominent wind streaks are marked with orange lines.
“When we first saw the New Horizons images, we thought instantly that these were dunes but it was really surprising because we know there is not much of an atmosphere,” said Jani Radebaugh, Ph.D. and co-author from Brigham Young University. “However despite being 30 times further away from the sun as the Earth, it turns out Pluto still has Earth-like characteristics. We have been focusing on what’s close to us, but there’s a wealth of information in the distant reaches of the solar system too.”
While Pluto’s dunes, situated at the edges of mountains near visible wind streaks, certainly give off an Earthly vibe, the dwarf planet’s atmosphere is considered too thin to actually pick up the tiny grains of methane to form these dunes. Dunes normally require a lot of wind-power to form, and it’s still unclear how Pluto’s methane dunes got there. Telfer’s team posits that methane grains could have been sent into the atmosphere due to the melting of nitrogen ice, or blown down from nearby mountains in Sputnik Planitia.
The age of Pluto’s dunes is also forcing researchers to reconsider what is known about the shamed former-planet. As observed by Telfer and Radebaugh’s team, these methane dunes appear largely undisturbed, which suggests that they were formed within the past 500,000 years or earlier. If they have, indeed, formed in the recent geological past, it would mean that Pluto, at 4.5 billion years old, still hosts an active and changing atmosphere that produces geologically young landforms.
While Earth-like characteristics might not bring back Pluto’s planet status, the rarity of this find means the dwarf planet still has a lot of insight to offer scientists. This discovery means researchers now must rethink the role of a space object’s atmosphere in shaping the surface landscape.
Aside from a stray asteroid whizzing past Earth every now and then, our little corner of the Milky Way may seem pretty peaceful. But in reality, our galactic neighborhood is being held together by an army of the most destructive and mysterious beings in the universe: black holes. Now, for the first time, NASA has captured this terrifying squad in living color.
We first got a hint of how many black holes formed this squad in April, when a Naturearticle revealed estimates that the center of the Milky Way is home to tens of thousands of black holes. In April, when InverseinterviewedChuck Hailey, Ph.D.,the co-director of the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory and lead author of that paper, he explained that this mob of black holes occupies an area only three light years away from the supermassive black hole that also resides at the center of our galaxy — Sagittarius A*.
Now, thanks to NASA we no longer have to imagine what the gaping jaws of death in the Milky Way’s core look like. On Thursday, the space agency published an image of the black hole cluster it rendered from data collected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
All black holes are completely invisible to us because they don’t emit or reflect light — they just gobble it up. Luckily, the region of space shown above is also inhabited by tons of stars, gas, dust for the black holes to feed on. For us to capture images of these perplexing, insatiable life-suckers, they need to be constantly feeding on these celestial bodies.
As debris from nearby stars spiral into a black hole, they form an accretion disk, which is a rotating disk of superheated particles. The debris in these discs heat up to millions of degrees and emit powerful X-rays before disappearing into oblivion. Telescopes like Chandra can pick up on those distant X-rays, which are represented by the bright white spots in the image.
While this image, with its numerous white spots, might seem more surreal than informative, astronomers can tell the relative sizes of some of the black holes by comparing their accretion disks. This also offers insight into how these monolithically destructive forces are transforming the core of our galaxy.
It’s a sobering thought: If you’re ever feeling stressed out or sad by minor Earth things, just remember that our existence is held in the balance by 10,000 to 20,000 black holes.
Ze bestaan niet uit zand, maar uit korreltjes methaanijs.
Onderzoekers ontdekten de duintjes op foto’s die ruimtesonde New Horizons in juli 2015 maakte terwijl deze langs Pluto scheerde. De duintjes bevinden zich aan het randje van Sputnik Planitia – een gigantische gletsjer – en lopen min of meer paralel aan de bergketen al-Idrisi Montes. In totaal ontdekten de onderzoekers in een vrij klein gebied meer dan 350 van deze duintjes.
Vraagstuk In eerste instantie geloofden de onderzoekers hun eigen ogen niet. Want hoe konden in de dunne atmosfeer van Pluto krachtige winden ontstaan die in staat waren om materiaal van het oppervlak op te pakken en elders weer neer te leggen? Om dat vraagstuk op te kunnen lossen, gingen de onderzoekers aan de slag met onder meer computermodellen. En ze denken er nu uit te zijn: het materiaal wordt opgezwiept door sublimatie, waarna de zwakke winden op Pluto het alleen nog maar mee hoeven te vervoeren.
Duintjes op Pluto.
Afbeelding: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.
Methaan Volgens de onderzoekers zijn de duintjes opgebouwd uit methaanijskorrels die ongeveer net zo groot zijn als zandkorrels. En die methaanijskorrels kiezen het luchtruim door sublimatie. Je moet bedenken dat het oppervlak van Pluto bestaat uit methaan- en stikstofijskristallen. Wanneer die sterk genoeg door de zon verwarmd worden, verdampen ze. De gassen die zo ontstaan, haasten zich weg van het oppervlak en lanceren de methaanijskorrels die ze onderweg tegenkomen. Eenmaal in de lucht kunnen die methaanijskorrels – mede dankzij de beperkte zwaartekracht op de dwergplaneet – gemakkelijk door Pluto’s zwakke winden (met snelheden tussen de 30 en 40 kilometer per uur) worden meegevoerd. Waarna ze vervolgens aan de rand van de grote ijsvlakte die aan de voet van het gebergte ligt, worden afgezet.
Afgaand op onder meer de tamelijk onverstoorde vorm van de duintjes, denken de onderzoekers dat deze nog vrij jong zijn. Ze zouden in de afgelopen 500.000 jaar zijn ontstaan.
'We roeien aliens uit vóór we ze kunnen ontdekken'
'We roeien aliens uit vóór we ze kunnen ontdekken'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Met die opmerkelijke verklaring voor de Fermi Paradox komt een Russische onderzoeker op de proppen.
Voor zover we nu weten, komt er alleen op onze aarde leven voor. En heel lang werd onze planeet dan ook als heel bijzonder beschouwd. Maar hoe langer astronomen het heelal in turen, hoe duidelijker wordt dat zowel onze zon als onze planeet en de chemie die aan het leven ten grondslag ligt, helemaal niet zo bijzonder is. In andere woorden: het lijkt zeer aannemelijk dat er elders in het heelal leven te vinden is. Het roept natuurlijk de vraag op waarom we dat buitenaardse leven dan nog niet ontdekt hebben. Het wordt de Fermi Paradox genoemd.
Verschillende oplossingen Over de oplossing van die paradox hebben heel veel intelligente mensen al heel lang nagedacht. En het leidt tot verschillende visies. Zo denken sommigen dat het feit dat we nog geen aliens gevonden hebben, bewijst dat zij er niet zijn. Anderen denken weer dat we geen aliens kunnen vinden, doordat zij reeds zijn uitgestorven.
First in, last out In een nieuw paper – dat nog peer review moet ondergaan – komt de Russische onderzoeker A.A. Berezin echter met een heel andere – en ietwat teleurstellende – oplossing. Hij heeft deze de ‘first in, last out-oplossing’ gedoopt. “Wat als de levensvormen die als eerste in staat zijn tot interstellair reizen automatisch alle competitie uitroeien om hun eigen expansie mogelijk te maken?” zo vat hij de oplossing samen. “Ik suggereer niet dat een hoogontwikkelde beschaving andere levensvormen bewust uit zou roeien. Waarschijnlijk merken ze het niet eens, net zoals bouwvakkers een mierennest vernietigen om een gebouw neer te kunnen zetten en een motief om dat mierennest te beschermen, missen.”
Wij zijn de eersten In de vergelijking van Berezin zijn wij niet de mieren. Nee, wij zijn de bouwvakkers. “Wij zijn hier, onze planeet en onze ster zijn nog relatief intact en we denken reeds na over de eerste interstellaire sondes. Als we aannemen dat bovenstaande hypothese (de first in, last out-oplossing, red.) klopt, wat betekent dat dan voor onze toekomst?” Berezin gaat er vanuit dat onze aanwezigheid erop wijst dat wij de eersten zijn die het interstellair reizen onder de knie gaan krijgen – want anders waren we in lijn met zijn hypothese toch al uitgeroeid door aliens? Wij zijn de eersten die dit stadium (het stadium van interstellair reizen, red.) bereiken. En zeer waarschijnlijk ook de laatste.”
Het is een behoorlijk droevige oplossing, vindt ook Berezin. “Het voorspelt een toekomst voor onze eigen beschaving die nog erger is dan extinctie.” Hij schrijft dan ook dat hij hoopt dat hij er met zijn oplossing naast zit. “De enige manier om daar achter te komen, is door het universum te blijven verkennen en naar buitenaards leven te zoeken.”
Wetenschap onthult waar we op Mars gefossiliseerde aliens kunnen vinden
Wetenschap onthult waar we op Mars gefossiliseerde aliens kunnen vinden
Caroline Kraaijvanger
In ijzerrijke gesteenten nabij oude meren.
Die conclusie trekken onderzoekers van de universiteit van Edinburgh in het blad Journal of Geophysical Research. Ze baseren zich op een vrij uitgebreid onderzoek, waarbij eerst gekeken werd waar we hier op aarde zeer oude fossiele resten kunnen terugvinden. Vervolgens werden in het lab de omstandigheden op verschillende plaatsen op Mars nagebootst om vast te stellen waar we het beste kunnen gaan zoeken naar gefossiliseerde Martianen.
Gesteente Het onderzoek wijst uit dat sedimentaire gesteenten die bestaan uit modder of klei de grootste kans hebben om fossielen te herbergen. Deze gesteenten moeten zijn ontstaan op de bodem van meren. Ze zijn rijk aan ijzer en een mineraal dat siliciumdioxide wordt genoemd en bijdraagt aan het behoud van fossiele resten. Deze gesteenten ontstonden tussen de drie en vier miljard jaar geleden. In die tijd was er op Mars waarschijnlijk zeer veel water te vinden waarin eventuele levensvormen konden gedijen.
Goed bewaard Wanneer we in deze gesteenten op zoek gaan naar fossiele resten, hebben we één groot voordeel, zo stellen de onderzoekers. De gesteenten zijn namelijk veel beter bewaard gebleven van gesteenten van een vergelijkbare leeftijd op aarde. Dat komt doordat op Mars geen sprake is van platentektoniek die er door de tijd heen voor zorgt dat gesteenten – en eventuele fossiele resten die daarin zitten opgesloten – vernietigd worden.
Missies naar Mars Het onderzoek kan letterlijk richting geven aan toekomstige missies naar Mars. Denk dan bijvoorbeeld aan de volgende Marsrover die NASA – rond 2020 – naar de rode planeet wil sturen. Deze zal actief op zoek gaan naar sporen van leven op Mars. Daarbij is het de bedoeling dat de rover gesteenten verzamelt die in een later stadium terug kunnen worden gebracht naar de aarde. En ook de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie werkt aan een soortgelijke missie. Dit onderzoek kan de ruimtevaartorganisaties helpen bij het kiezen van een geschikte landingsplek. “Er zijn veel interessante plekken op Mars waar we op zoek zouden willen gaan naar fossielen,” stelt onderzoeker Sean McMahon. “Maar aangezien we niet naar al die plekken een rover kunnen sturen, hebben we geprobeerd om de meest veelbelovende afzettingen op basis van de beste informatie die we tot onze beschikking hebben, op een rijtje te zetten.”
Vervolgonderzoek kan dat rijtje met veelbelovende plekken mogelijk nog wat overhoop gooien. Zo wijzen de onderzoekers er in hun paper op dat er nog moet worden uitgezocht hoe eventuele Martiaanse levensvormen onder de omstandigheden waarmee de rode planeet 4 miljard jaar geleden te maken had, fossiliseerden.
Beste bezoeker, Heb je zelf al ooit een vreemde waarneming gedaan, laat dit dan even weten via email aan Frederick Delaere opwww.ufomeldpunt.be. Deze onderzoekers behandelen jouw melding in volledige anonimiteit en met alle respect voor jouw privacy. Ze zijn kritisch, objectief maar open minded aangelegd en zullen jou steeds een verklaring geven voor jouw waarneming! DUS AARZEL NIET, ALS JE EEN ANTWOORD OP JOUW VRAGEN WENST, CONTACTEER FREDERICK. BIJ VOORBAAT DANK...
Druk op onderstaande knop om je bestand , jouw artikel naar mij te verzenden. INDIEN HET DE MOEITE WAARD IS, PLAATS IK HET OP DE BLOG ONDER DIVERSEN MET JOUW NAAM...
Druk op onderstaande knop om een berichtje achter te laten in mijn gastenboek
Alvast bedankt voor al jouw bezoekjes en jouw reacties. Nog een prettige dag verder!!!
Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
